# TV Shows Only You Remember

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\
**Created:** [July 8, 2021, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022 "2021-07-08T20:36:23Z")\
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The Quest (1982) - The king of a small European country dies and there are 4 possible heirs. So John Rhys-Davies travels to America to put the group through a new quest each week to determine who will ultimately win. I don’t know how many episodes actually aired but only 9 were made.

> **[The Quest (TV Series 1982) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083469/)**
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> The Quest: With Perry King, Noah Beery Jr., Ray Vitte, Karen Austin. The sovereign state of Glendorra has a problem. It seems that through an old agreement with France, unless there's a monarch, the country would revert to France. And the king has no...

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**Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/122 "2021-07-09T17:20:42Z")

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That was _The Bradys_, which only lasted six episodes. It was the Brady Bunch as an hourlong drama. Despite dealing with things like infidelity, alcoholism, infertility, and Bobby being paralyzed in a racing car crash, it also had a laugh track. Just can’t have the Bradys without one, I guess.

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**Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/123 "2021-07-09T17:23:25Z")

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> [@joebuck20](#):
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> I seem to recall a sitcom in the late '80s that featured a kid who was a huge fan of Rodney Dangerfield - knew all his routines, had his bedroom walls covered in posters of Dangerfield’s movies - and developed the power to magically summon Dangerfield whenever he needed advice on something. It may only have been a pilot, as I remember seeing it just once. Really bizarre.

“Where’s Rodney?” Discused here

> **[Failed TV Shows That (Somehow) Actually Existed](https://www.cracked.com/article_23958_dog-police-most-insane-tv-show-ideas-ever-filmed.html)**
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> We forced ourselves to watch a whole bunch of nutty stuff for this article.

> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#):
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> The Quest (1982) - The king of a small European country dies and there are 4 possible heirs. So John Rhys-Davies travels to America to put the group through a new quest each week to determine who will ultimately win. I don’t know how many episodes actually aired but only 9 were made.

I watched every episode that was aired.

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**Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/124 "2021-07-09T17:50:14Z")

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> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> Anyone remember _[Salvage 1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvage_1)_, starring Andy Griffith as a scrap dealer who builds a rocket ship out of scrap to go to the Moon and recover what the Apollo missions left behind?

Absolutely! My dad and I watched it every week. I rewatched the first couple of episodes a year or so ago. Still pretty cool.

Anybody remember Lucan, the show about a boy who had been raised by wolves? He got caught in a hunter’s trap and grows up to become a detective, using his wolf skills to solve crimes and protect the innocent. I couldn’t get enough of that show as a kid.

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**Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/125 "2021-07-09T18:00:04Z")

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How about “Q.E.D.”? [Q.E.D. (American TV series) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q.E.D._(American_TV_series))

or “Otherworld”? [Otherworld (TV series) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherworld_(TV_series)) Occasionally featured Jonathan Banks as "Zone commander Nuveen Kroll.

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**Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/126 "2021-07-09T18:01:52Z")

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> [@MrAtoz](#):
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> **The Adventures of Sinbad** , which was actually mentioned on an episode of _Hercules_ .
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> **Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World**. They made sure to get Doyle’s name in the title, probably to avoid legal action from Michael Crichton and/or Steven Spielberg related to the _Jurassic Park_ sequel. One of the actors ended up doing the voiceovers in those Outback Steakhouse commercials.
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> **Relic Hunter** , starring Tia Carrere, a fairly blatant rip-off of the _Tomb Raider_ video game franchise.

Yep, I remember all of those. What I mainly remember is that unlike _Hercules: The Legendary Journeys_ and _Xena: Warrior Princess_, they just weren’t much _fun_. They were just kind of bland, low-budget action-adventure shows. Except due to the low budgets, there wasn’t much action or adventure. And there was none of the meta-humor of Hercules and Xena - or much if any humor of any sort, really.

I particularly remember the _Lost World_ for the pretty blonde who I think was supposed to be a survivor of an shipwreck or something who had lived in the Lost World since she was a child. She dressed in fairly skimpy leather outfits rather the proper pseudo-Victorian outfits of the rest of the characters. But her mannerisms, speech, personality, and everything else about her character, were just bland, late 20th Century American.

Also around the same time, there was a live-action Conan series, for which the big gimmick was that Arnold Schwarzenegger had supposedly hand-picked bodybuilder Ralf Moeller as his successor as Conan. I remember Conan, the show and the character as portrayed by Moeller, as being just kind of bland and grim and unimaginitive.

The creators of Hercules and Xena also created a couple of half-hour syndicated shows with similar sensibilities that aired as a block, but never achieved anything like the success of their predecessors. If I recall correctly, _Cleopatra 2525_ was about a female stripper who somehow wound up in the year 2525, and teamed up with a group of female…rebels? I think? I remember it being not very good, and even the cheesecake couldn’t keep me interested. _Jack of All Trades_ starred Bruce Campbell as an American agent teamed with a British agent on a fictional Pacific island c. 1800 who fought Napolean’s schemes, which somehow revolved around an obscure Pacific island. I actually recently tried to re-watch it, and…I remembered why I didn’t really remember it. It tried, it really tried, for the mix of humor and action of Hercules and Xena, but I just didn’t think it managed it.

And then there was _Young Hercules_, which I think is only remembered now if at all for being Ryan Gosling’s first starring role. Another one that seemed to try to replicate Hercules’ formula, but that didn’t quite make it.

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> [@E-DUB](#):
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> How about “Q.E.D.”? [Q.E.D. (American TV series) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q.E.D._(American_TV_series))

I have only a very vague memory that it existed, that the main character was some sort of science detective or something?, and that I really liked it at the time and was disappointed it didn’t last.

> [@E-DUB](#):
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> or “Otherworld”? [Otherworld (TV series) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherworld_(TV_series)) Occasionally featured Jonathan Banks as "Zone commander Nuveen Kroll.

Was that the one about the family that somehow gets transported to an alternate universe, where America (or some close analogue) is ruled by a tyrannical government, and they are on the run from the government’s agents and trying to find a way home, and kind of accidentally inspire rebellions along the way with their fantastical tales of a free and democratic America? The main thing I remember is that the bad guys’ guns for some reason (because parallel universe, I guess) had the hand grips on top, and they all shot underhanded.

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**Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/128 "2021-07-09T18:12:25Z")

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Don Adams’ Screen Test.

Syndicated show where an amateur would rehearse, then film, a scene, with guidance from Don Adams. The scene was usually played for laughs, something was exaggerated or one of the props would go wrong or something.

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**Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/129 "2021-07-09T18:16:38Z")

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> [@MrAtoz](#):
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> That was _The Bradys_ , which only lasted six episodes. It was the Brady Bunch as an hourlong drama. Despite dealing with things like infidelity, alcoholism, infertility, and Bobby being paralyzed in a racing car crash, it also had a laugh track. Just can’t have the Bradys without one, I guess.

Did they still live in a big house with a maid’s suite but all of the (presumably now adult) kids have to squeeze into two bedrooms with a shared bath?

Who remembers [_Manimal_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085051/), a show about a guy who can shape-shift into various animals to fight crime? For all of that fantastical premise it was pretty dull, and all I really recall is is that his love interest was in a tv movie imaginatively titled _Policewoman Centerfold_ and was about as generic and untitilating as you might expect from an early ‘Eighties tv movie.

Stranger

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**Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/130 "2021-07-09T18:34:51Z")

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> [@WildaBeast](#):
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> It’s just a one-off comedy special rather than an actual series, but [The Bert Fershners TV Special](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1249293/). The Bert Fershners were a comedy troupe that was briefly successful in the mid-to-late 1990s, and then it seemed like they just disappeared… I always wondered what happened to them.

I know those guys!

Anyone from Madison, WI might remember the amazing troupe of improv guys who worked for ComedySportz (on State Street). Well, a half dozen of them became the Bert Fershners. And then moved away and went on to become Doctors and Programmers and Regular People. Though one of them worked on the [excellent documentary](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5591236/) on [Smart Studios](https://pbswisconsin.org/article/directors-cut-the-smart-studios-story/) in Madison, where Butch Vig recorded and produced Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, Death Cab For Cutie and other bands.

I can find out more about the Fershners through friends we have in common, if anyone wants…

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**Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/131 "2021-07-09T18:38:52Z")

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I’m flabbergasted to find these on YouTube, though I suppose I shouldn’t be. There’s an incredible number of failed TV shows posted there, most of which have no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zXM6yyd-Zp8/hqdefault.jpg ""Paris 7000" TV Intro") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXM6yyd-Zp8)

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mtUicQ8Ow-I/hqdefault.jpg ""Leg Work" TV Intro") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtUicQ8Ow-I)

I remember this vehicle for Robert Conrad, who played an ex-boxer turned private eye in his native Chicago. He caught pneumonia filming outdoors in the dead of winter wearing nothing but a skimpy bathrobe.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/JH-0aN4h484/maxresdefault.jpg "The Duke (1979) - boxing drama TV pilot") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH-0aN4h484)

I really wanted to watch **this show** , but it came and went so fast (only four episodes) I never got a chance:

> **[Khan! (TV Series 1975– ) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072528/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1)**
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> Khan!: With Evan C. Kim, Irene Yah-Ling Sun, Vic Tayback, Scott Glenn. Chinese-American private detective Khan investigates crimes from his home base in San Francisco's Chinatown.

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Described in _ **TV Guide** _ as “Four Americans racing around Europe in search of a plot.” 😆

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> [@Author\_Balk](#):
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> I remember liking My World… and Welcome to It.

This show started my lifelong appreciation of Thurber, and William Windom did a great job of playing him.

One of my high points was seeing him doing his one-man Thurber show on a nationwide tour, reading a lot of classics.

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**Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/134 "2021-07-09T19:05:02Z")

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Sue Ane Langdon, who played Arnie’s inexplicably hot wife. She was also a bone of contention (so to speak) between Rob and Laura in an episode of _ **DvD** _ and a Soviet naval officer on _ **McHale’s Navy** _ (“No Sherman tank is built like _that_!”)

[![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/8461/7918484572_02b3871456_b.jpg "sue ane langdon") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/33158682@N06/7918484572)

Grrrooowr! 🥰

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**Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/135 "2021-07-09T19:15:36Z")

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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> I think this show was in 1979. It only lasted a few weeks, but I thought it was really cool. I don’t remember the title. It was an interactive detective show of sorts. It was hosted by Ed McMahon and had three contestants. It would open with a post-murder scene, with all the suspects gathered in the room. McMahon would tell the audience about each suspect, and each of the contestants got a chance to question the suspects detective style.
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> There would be videos of the suspects interacting with the victim before they were discovered, and viewers would have to keep a sharp eye for objects that were in the video but don’t appear in the final scene. In one episode, the killer had disguised himself as one of the other suspects, but there were slight differences that would give him away, like differing heights or slightly different hairstyles. It was a really fascinating game show, but I guess it lacked the spectacle of typical game shows, so sayonara.
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> It’s not showing up in McMahon’s IMDB page, but I assure you I really saw it!
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> ETA: Found it! It was called **Whodunnit?**

It changed its format in the last episode. The first few had contestants playing for cash (and one of them had an obvious solution I’m surprised all three contestants didn’t catch - “look for the left-handed suspect”), with three celebrities (I think F. Lee Bailey was one of them) to help; the last one was just the celebrities.

> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> I loved Ficus the Vegeton. Betty 1 and Betty 2 did add a certain je ne sais quoi, too.

I think they were the Doublemint Twins at one point as well.

> [@terentii](#):
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> **Funny Face** , with Sandy Duncan as the titular character. So far as I remember, it was a _ **That Girl** _ clone about a young woman (and aspiring actress?) on her own in the big city.

The title was quickly changed to **The Sandy Duncan Show**

> [@gdave](#):
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> I don’t think **Misfits of Science** is all that obscure - it’s something of a cult classic. I’d actually be a bit surprised if someone who was a sci-fi fan in the 80s didn’t remember it. Even outside of geekdom, I think there’s some awareness of it, if only because it was an early role for Courtney Cox.

I remember the pilot had a character who was frozen in the 1930s and then thawed; pretty much the only thing he could say was, “Amelia?!”, as he was searching for Amelia Earhart. They drove around in an ice cream truck to keep him cold (and alive); the character was removed, but the truck stayed.

> [@Spoons](#):
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> **Almost Anything Goes**. A nighttime game show where teams representing various American towns would compete for some sort of prize money that would go to the town they represented (presumably, for civic projects that benefited the town in some way). The competitions were crazy stunts–think Wipeout, MXC, and similar. While some of the AAG competitions were like the ones on those shows, not all the AAG competitions were as difficult and as physical–there were simpler ones, like pie fights, as I recall.

I don’t think there was prize money. Also, under the rules, each town had to (a) have a population under 20,000, and (b) be within 200 miles of the other two cities in its first game - which seriously limited the possibilities in the first season, which had only one team per state.

Here’s my entry: **Lie Detector** - F. Lee Bailey hosted a syndicated weekday show where people would be hooked up to a lie detector to prove (or disprove) statements about them. The most famous contestant was Evel Knievel, who wanted to prove that he didn’t “chicken out” and release the parachute early on his Snake River Canyon jump.

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> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#):
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> I remember the pilot had a character who was frozen in the 1930s and then thawed; pretty much the only thing he could say was, “Amelia?!”, as he was searching for Amelia Earhart. They drove around in an ice cream truck to keep him cold (and alive); the character was removed, but the truck stayed.

Yep. He was nicknamed “Iceman”, and would freeze anything or anyone he touched. Apparently Marvel Comics objected due to the similarity in name and powers to their own Iceman character, so he was memory holed, and the ice cream truck went from a whimsical but logical gimmick in the pilot to just being odd for no reason in the rest of the series.

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> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#):
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> I remember the pilot had a character who was frozen in the 1930s and then thawed; pretty much the only thing he could say was, “Amelia?!”, as he was searching for Amelia Earhart. They drove around in an ice cream truck to keep him cold (and alive); the character was removed, but the truck stayed.

> [@Re-watching Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-watching-friends/712251/73):
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> “Misfits of Science” was a drama! A serious drama about people with bizarre powers working together to fight evil… in some way. In the first episode there’s a monster obsessed with Amelia Earhart, for some reason. There were other episodes with characteristics, too!

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> [@terentii](#):
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> I really wanted to watch **this show** , but it came and went so fast (only four episodes) I never got a chance:

I loved Khan! (Of course, I was a younger, more simple boy then). When I looked it up recently I was surprised at how few episodes there were. When you only get one a week (or one every 3-4 weeks like Cool Million and the Snoop Sisters) it seems there are a lot more than there actually were.

For a newer show people seemed to have forgotten, how about Raines? Jeff Goldblum as a detective that hallucinates murder victims. Another “quirky genius detective” show, but I liked it. (I was older and less simple by then. FWIW). Nine episodes only. It really wasn’t a show that could last - Raines was so troubled by his hallucinations that he was either going to admit it and get treatment, thus ending the quirky defining characteristic of the show, or eat his gun. I voted for the latter. We’ll never know.

How about Strange Luck. I wish it would come out in some home media format so I could see it again.

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In 2014 when Indy Niedell started his incredible WWI weekly centennial Youtube channel, I wrote in asking if the opening riff was from that. Soon a different intro was in use. Was it “if some nudnik on the internet hears a similarity, what about the estate of Morton Gould?”

My mom allowed **Shenanigans** with Stubby Kaye, and **Captain Kangaroo** to be my electronic babysitters, but _Soupy Sales_ was too subversive. However, my absolute favorite, flying miles over my head, was **Fractured Flickers** with Hans Conried.

ETA: I’m sure I’m not the only one here who noted the recent passing of Arlene Golonka.

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I haven’t seen “Kay O’Brien” mentioned here. It was a one-season series about a female surgeon, played by Patricia Kalember (who most recently was a senator on “Madam Secretary” and her best friend, an ER nurse, and the various dramas that take place in the big-city hospital where Dr. O’Brien was doing her residency. It, and “Skag” re-ran on cable for several years afterwards; “Skag” was about a blue-collar man in IIRC Chicago and his family, which also ran for one season. The single episode I remember was when his obese (part of the plot) teenage daughter got pregnant and had no idea who the father might be, and had an abortion. When she woke up in the recovery room, her parents were there, reading her some poetry. Weird.

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