Apparently so. I had drifted out of watching much TV by the time those actors became known, so I was not familiar with either of them until I wiki’ed the Fanelli Boys today.
I remember both of those!
Olivia Wilde, Kirk Acevedo, and others in The Black Donnellys, about a family of Irish-American Roman Catholics in Hell’s Kitchen and their involvement in petty and organized crime. It ran for about 3 months in 2007.
In the late 80s or early 90s I saw a made-for-TV movie about a man who I believe was half human, half alien, who set off on a quest to find his human mother.
In the one scene I remember somewhat clearly, he arrives at a motel somewhere in the Southwestern U.S. where his mother had once stayed back in the day, and finds the manager fiddling with an aerial TV antenna outside. The guy lends him a hand and does some supernatural alien stuff to the antenna. When he checks on the manager later, he’s watching a TV show from Japan and mentions that he can now watch channels from all over the world.
It may have been a pilot, because I seem to recall the movie ends with him getting a clue about his mother’s whereabouts and setting off once again in search of her.
Sounds a bit like Starman with Robert Hays.
How about Auto Man. I remember liking it in spite of the cheesy 90’s CGI. They really ought to reboot it.
NITPICK: Auto Man with Desi Arnaz Jr was on in the '80s.
So it was really good CGI for its time!
I forgot Desi Arnaz Jr. was in it. There was a “What ever happened to Little Ricky?” video on YouTube and I didn’t have a clue.
Sorry @furryman. Little Ricky was not Desi Arnaz, Jr. He was actually played by Keith Thibodeaux.
The only person I remember from it, playing a stereotypical street-wise jive-talkin’ black dude, was the fellow who went on to play Isaac the bartender on Love Boat.
Most of these are from my childhood.
Live Action:
Far Out Space Nuts-Bob Denver and some other guy play bumbling janitors who get launched into space.
Tales of The Gold Monkey-Couldn’t have tried any harder to go for the Indiana Jones vibe.
The Powers of Matthew Star-A teenaged exiled alien prince with psychic powers tried to hide on Earth. Features a slumming Louis Gossett Jr as the prince’s mentor.
Animated:
Marine Boy-One of the lesser-known Japanese imports of the 60s/70s. We used to get a UHF station out of Philly that had Space Giants, Marine Boy, Ultraman, and Speed Racer as their after-school block.
Chuck McCann was the other guy (embarrassingly, I knew that off the top of my head).
I thought of that one, but thought it wasn’t obscure enough.
Cast solely for his fleeting resemblance to Alan Hale Jr., I suspect.
“I said ‘lunch’, not ‘launch’!”
Definitely.
New Zoo Revue. Damn, that Emmy Jo was gorgeous.
“Every day’s a different show!”
I preferred “The Magic Garden”
Hey, I watched “Marlo”!