Anyone remember this series? I doubt it, since it was on opposite My Three Sons and Bachelor Father in 1960–61:
Brothers & Sisters, NBC’s Animal House rip-off. I remember thinking it funny back then. A re-watching on Youtube disabused me of that notion.
Sweepstakes, also on NBC in 1979 (they were sucking concrete that year…), A re-working of the old series The Millionaire, having somebody win the sweepstakes and then watching their life unravel. Hilarity tried to ensure, but often failed.
Sacre Bleu!!! I DO remember this! I was 10 or 11 and on a night my mother was out working, the babysitter would let me sit up and we’d watch tv and I remember this!
I’ve only seen it on line, and that was a while ago. For some reason, I thought Frank Aletter was the husband. Watching that clip, I realized it was Marshall “Daktari” Thompson.
Episode, not clip.
A HBO show sort of a twilight zone with nudity.
I grew up on the color Crusader Rabbit cartoon from the late 1950s. Even though the new series wasn’t directly by Jay Ward, they certainly tried to keep his absurdist and subversive sense of humor. Like the earlier series and the later Rocky and Bullwinkle, there were a lot of sophisticated gags and wordplay meant for adults. (I still remember being bewildered when Dudley Nightshade, the handlebar-mustached villain – who looked like a stretched version of Snidely Whiplash – is wandering through the desert, trying to escape our heroes, and comes upon a building labeled “AFL” – “American Federation of Labor!” he shouts, “I’m saved”. What? younger me asked. Dudley was mistaken, of course it was (as I first thought) the Arabian Foreign Legion, and he had signed up for a hitch unknowingly.
“Nothing Atoll”, “Belly Acres”, “Robbing Hoodlum”, and more. Great suff.
It was pretty clear that the diminutive clever hero with dim-witted musclebound companion recipe they used for both incarnations of Crusader Rabbit and Ragland T. Tiger was repeated for Rocket J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose.
I distinctly remember the theme song for the Tony Randall Show, but really can’t remember anything else apart from that except that he was a judge.
I guess I was the one person who liked Emily’s Reasons Why Not.
It was cancelled after the pilot episode aired.
Attempting to cash-in on the corn pone humor of “Hee Haw” was a short-lived syndicated variety program titled. . . “Corn Pone.” Info on it pretty much non-existent, although you can see listings for in in newspaper archives from 1970. The only character I recall from the program was ‘Laff-ee-o the Clown,’ who wore Slinky-eyeball glasses and had this very distinctive laugh.
That was one of the shows I saw at The Preview House on Sunset Blvd, where they run shows by test audiences. They judge audience reaction and comments to determine whether a show should be broadcast.
Despite my best efforts, it still made it on the air.
I thought that was required, by law or something.
Help me remember this. Circa 1968–1969, there was an animated children’s show with children trapped in a wintery fantasy world and menaced by a snow queen/ice witch. I only caught one episode and later browsed a novelization of it in a store. The white witch pulls up to the kids in her sleigh and tells them she’s out to get them. She grabs one kid by the wrist and her ring leaves a white mark on his skin. That’s the only detail I remember.
If this sounds just like Narnia, well, it sure does. But I saw this show before I’d heard of the Narnia books. There were Narnia productions in the late '60s, but they were all live-action. Maybe this was a ripoff of Narnia?
I’ve searched but could find no confirmation that this show existed. Please reassure me I’m not imagining things.
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe(1967), ten episodes, each one 30 minutes. It was on the British ABC Network, and only two episodes are thought to have survived(the first and the eighth). Unfortunately, I believe it was a live action show. There wasn’t an animated version done until 1979.
Yep, like I said. So it must not have been really Narnia but a look-alike. It was a cartoon about a group of kids transported to a fantasy land of magic and derring-do, or something like that. It involved snow, sleighs, and a witch in at least one episode, but I think the snow witch was the main antagonist.
Were the voices English, American, or Russian?
There was a Russian animated film of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen, released in the USSR in 1957. It was dubbed into English and released in the US in 1959. It might conceivably have turned up on TV in the late 60s.
I have read that it was a traditional New Years Day broadcast during the 60’s and early 70’s in the U.S.
Mr T and Tina was a show that aired only five episodes back during the bicentennial year. I (mistakenly) assumed like others that because Pat Morita’s character had the same surname (Takahashi) as he did on the show Happy Days, that the show was a spinoff.
I’ve never seen this series, but that plot is really familiar. Was there an earlier series or movie with a similar plot?