I’d say there’s a good chance I’m the only one here who remembers The Johnny Downs Show. I was a “guest” one day (several kids from my school were invited to be on the show) and I showed off my papier mâché hand puppet.
I remember that one. For some reason I thought there was one single show featuring a crime-fighting duo of Isis, Shazam, and Captain Marvel, and the latter 2 were somehow the same guy, except when it was a girl.
The Secrets of Isis was a spin-off from Shazam!, and they aired as a single block, The Shazam!/Isis Hour. They also had several cross-overs where Captain Marvel and Isis appeared on each others’ show. So, your memory is actually not far off.
Captain Marvel and Shazam are the same guy, sort of. Captain Marvel has a rather convoluted IP history. The upshot is, the name “Captain Marvel” could be used for the character but not for the title of the show. Shazam was the magic word teenager Billy Batson said to transform into the adult superhero Captain Marvel (the characters were played by different actors, so they were kind of the same guy but not).
Due to the title of the show and the weird rules about how the name Captain Marvel could be used, and the fact that Marvel Comics also had a completely unrelated character also named Captain Marvel, a lot of people got confused about what the character’s name was. A decade or so ago, DC Comics gave up and just officially changed his name to Shazam.
My older brother was in a somewhat similar situation on The Howdy Doody Show (if I remember correctly). He was in the Peanut Gallery, sitting right next to Buffalo Bob. He and my parents were visiting New York at the time for some reason.
My wife (along with other Chinese people) has fond memories of “Man from Atlantis”, which was one of the first Western TV shows to be shown on Chinese TV.
I remember The Edge as it was my introduction to Jennifer Aniston, and where I developed my crush on her.
Does anyone remember Nearly Departed, in which Eric Idle played the ghost of a man killed in a rockslide? He and his wife return home to find a family living in their house. Only the grandfather can see or hear them, and hilarity ensues.
I was in the Peanut Gallery on WCCO’s (MPS/SP) Cap’n Dale Show when I was four. When I was 12, I was on WCCO’s Clancy and Company and WTCN’s Popeye ‘n’ Pete. Had to wait five years for tickets to that last one!
Listening to Wilson Pickett on another thread just reminded me of this show, which I quite enjoyed but fear now is largely forgotten:
I loved Midnight Caller! My then-girlfriend and I looked forward to it every week. I haven’t been able to find it on DVD, but I wish I could.
My grandmother watched Midnight Caller religiously. She was totally in love with Gary Cole.
Patricia Keith was mentioned upthread, and that reminded me of a Brian Keith series. All I remember really is a bunch of annoying kids and nurses who kept running to Keith’s character in panic.
As an American, this is something I always found fun about watching TV outside the US. Lot of commercial flops (mostly bad, some good), that found new life in new viewing markets, and some things that are hilarious when dubbed.
Forgive me if these have been mentioned. I remember two 70’s shows about invisible men.
Gemini Man
The Invisible Man
The Second Hundred Years. A guy goes into suspended animation in the 18somethings, only to wake up in the 60s, where he’s a young man, and his son is an old man.
Another one I remembered: Sue Thomas FBEye, about a deaf FBI agent and her gkrgeous golkden retreiver.
I couldn’t get enough science fiction in my youth, so I watched every episode of Man From Atlantis, Gemini Man, Invisible Man, Otherworld, Logan’s Run and probably a lot more I forgot.
I remember that one, not due to the not especially unique on the 60’s premise, but because of the cast: Monte Markham (a crush of Eve’s), a poor-mans’s Jimmy Stewart somewhat interchangable with Marjoe Gortner; Arthur O’Connell, the most hanged-dog of all hangdog character actors; and Frank Maxwell, a standard stocky hard guy who could be swapped mid-scene with Ed Binns, Frank Lovejoy, etc. without anyone noticing.
The Fanelli Boys aired on NBC for about six months in the early 90s. A one-note Italian stereotype parade, Letterman had a running gag on how long until it would be cancelled (and they were on the same network!) Ann Morgan Guilbert played the mother of a bunch of hapless boys who’d moved back home.
Once they reconnected with a classmate who had been voted ‘Most Likely to Succeed’. Upon learning that he had become an insurance salesman in Cheboygan, one of the brothers remarked, “Wow! Spooky!”
The mother announced one day that she’d had the phone company block those expensive calls to 900 numbers, which seemed to be leading to a phone sex joke, until she added: “From now on, if you want to contact José Canseco, you’re going to have to write to him”.
…hang on a second; I just looked this up; the brothers were Joe Pantoliano and Christopher Meloni?