Pre-Rockford James Garner with an incredibly young Margot Kidder (who has 50-star US flags in her salloon):
Toma and Carter Country are two shows that I’ve brought up from time to time, and few people remember them.
Toma has an interesting history, Tony Musante said he was only going to do one season, and it turns out he meant it. So they hired Robert Blake to continue it, and then reworked it into Baretta.
I loved Brooklyn Bridge about a Jewish family in the1950s.
In 1956, 14-year-old Alan Silver’s life revolves around family, the synagogue and the Dodgers. Grandparents Jules and Sophie live in the same brownstone as Alan, his brother Nate, and their parents Phyllis and George.
Also Frank’s Place:
Frank Parish is a professor from Boston, who has not seen his father since he was two. 35 years later, he is told that his father died and that he owned a restaurant in New Orleans, which is now legally Frank’s. Frank goes there and was going to go back and sell the restaurant to the employees, but Miss Marie feels that the restaurant is his legacy, so she has a curse placed on him that would take effect when he returns to Boston.
Frank (Tim Reid) decides to run the restaurant and as time goes by, he learns about the deliciously rich culture of the Black community in New Orleans and comes to love it.
From IMDB trivia-
According to Tim Reid, Walter Cronkite, who was a member of the board of directors at CBS, told him that the series was cancelled because of the final episode. In “The King of Wall Street”, a Wall Street tycoon condemns junk bonds. Laurence Tisch, the CEO of CBS, was offended by this episode because he had bought the network with junk bonds. He demanded that the series be cancelled despite the objections of Cronkite and other board members.
That was a fabulous show.
I remember Toma fondly, but Carter Country was just awful – “Handle it! Handle it!” (Didn’t that guy end up on, “Will & Grace”?)
speaking of Bearcats! anyone remember the adventurer shows
The Barbary Coast with William Shatner?
QED with Sam Waterston
Probe with Parker Stevenson
Search
and on the lighter side
Pistols and Petticoats
The Texas Wheelers
I remember all of those except the sixth.
I remember this series mainly because Glenn Ford is one of my favorite actors, and I like Henri Mancini’s theme music:
Mark Hamill mentioned The Texas Wheelers on his Instagram page today – he was in that show, and he noted that, had the series been picked up for a second season, he wouldn’t have been available to play Luke Skywalker in Star Wars. 
The New DVD Show lasted three years because CBS purchased that many episodes, sure that a new Dick Van Dyke/Carl Reiner sitcom would be a smash.
I remember Black Sheep Squadron as being the coolest show EVER!
Sadly, thanks to Hero and Icon Channel re-runs, I realize I am so sadly wrong. Jeez, they were BAD!
The only episode I remember watching was the one where Dick went into survival mode and delivered a monologue about all possible uses of a can of peas.
The only episode of that series I watched was the one where there was a fly-off between the Marines and the AAF to determine who would go after Yamamoto. Instead of P-38s, the Army jocks had P-51s. The AAF in the Pacific would have killed for those (so to speak) in April 1943.
the john laroquote show…the original premise was the character was a blackout drunk who one day decided to get sober lives in a former crackhouse and finagled a job in a dive of a bus depot with other assorted characters who were sort of down and out…
The humor was acidic and it was a rather dark show so in the 2nd season they "brightened " it up and didn’t get to finish the second
drew carey wrote about that show in his book… he hated the character and asked to be in the show as little as possible which he only did as a favor to mike mc donald who helped him get his showtime specials …
Absolutely! I had a big crush on Paul Sand.
Anyone else remember “The Powers That Be”? It was a sitcom about a Washington politician and his odd family, centered around Senator Powers, played by John Forsythe. A truly great cast, including pre-Frasier David Hyde Pierce, and others who went on to greater fame. My favorite episode was about the senator having been accidentally shot in his ass, and his wife wanting to re-shoot him in a more respectable body part.
Sadly, the show lasted only 21 episodes, in the early '90s.
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. Its IMDB entry:
Even in sixth grade it was painful for me to watch Pistols ‘n’ Petticoats because star Ann Sheridan was so obviously dying from lung cancer.
I suppose I’d argue that “cult classic” implies at least some degree of obscurity, but you’re probably right. I did a quick search of the SDMB for the show, and it comes up rather frequently–but more often than not in threads about shows that only you remember. I’m not sure whose argument that supports 
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A show called State of Grace ran for 2 seasons 2001-2002, starring 2 future actresses from Arrested Development, Alia Shawkat and Mae Whitman, as 13-year-old friends Hannah and Grace, a Jew and a Catholic in the 1960’s. Also starred Dinah Manoff and was narrated by Frances McDormand. I remember an episode where Hannah’s parents, who own a furniture store, have to figure out how to promote the new mystifying bean bag chairs, and they keep pronouncing them “bean BAG chairs”. It was a sweet and funny show, but I’ve forgotten everything except that scene.
My obscure contributions are Space Precinct. A show about a cop, but he’s in space for some reason. It was syndicated in the 90s, like Xena or Hercules, but unlike those I’m not sure anybody else ever watched it.
The other is Fridays, a knockoff of SNL in the 80s, but, you know, airing on Friday night. The only skit I remember is the men who hum between words.
I liked some shows that are remembered by some, they’ve just had almost no cultural impact, and aren’t ever talked about by people who weren’t there to watch them when they aired. Examples of those are Flying Blind, Herman’s Head, and Parker Lewis Can’t Lose.
I think that was my favorite show ever. I still remember every episode clear as day. And the BJ & The Bear crossover was legendary!
I don’t think I ever watched that but I remember the show. I could have sworn that ran for a couple of years.
That and that Courtney Cox was in it. Like you, I couldn’t tell you what a single episode was about.
Yes, she is actually much better looking after the surgery. The rumors that the surgery ended her career are pretty much a joke. Many actors fail to maintain stardom, which is what I think happened to her.
I was disappointed when this was cancelled. I was hoping Natalie Morales would go on to better things but no such luck.
She TV. Women-focused, mostly female cast sketch comedy show. I thought it was hilarious. There were 5 episodes. It was nominated for an Emmy, but seems to have very little online existence.