# 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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**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-only-you-remember/946022/174 "2021-07-10T20:08:51Z")

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I’ve brought this one up before, so I’ll just quote my self from:

> [@shows canceled first season- that should not have been canceled.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-canceled-first-season-that-should-not-have-been-canceled/822738/78):
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> One I think no one will remember, because I was probably one of the about half a dozen people in the weekly audience: [\*\*United States \*\*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080300/?ref_=ttep_ep_tt)(1980) lasted only six weeks. Starring Beau Bridges and Helen Shaver. Nominally a family comedy (husband, wife, two kids in suburbia), it didn’t have gags and pratfalls so much as situations and reactions, with observational humor dominating (in my recollection). The reason I call it ahead of its time is that it was a boundary pushing sitcom about 35 years b…

I dug up the prom for the show, which doesn’t quite capture just how dark the show was.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-GEmkl7W9ts/hqdefault.jpg "NBC United States promo 1980") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GEmkl7W9ts)

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