Pink Lady and Jeff
A musical variety show starring a popular Japanese musical duo and their comedian sidekick/translator (Jeff Altman). Six fun-packed episodes from 1980.
There was a spy show about a spy without a hand. I saw it a few times, good writing. No idea about at all about its title. And does anyone remember Mann and Machine? A cop show about a human detective, and a robot detective partner. Way ahead of its time.
I think it was a spin-off… of Welcome Back, Kotter. Morita’s character did some kind of presentation to the Sweathogs…I don’t remember the episode that well. It was soon after that that he got Mr. T and Tina.
I vaguely remember that. Someone, perhaps TV Guide, pointed out that the show was approved before anyone realized the Japanese duo spoke no English.
I have a book named Bad TV that counts down the worst shows that ever aired and Pink Lady and Jeff was their number 1
Adderly?
Possibly A Man Called Sloane.
“Mr. T and Tina”? Hold my beer.
I give you “T And T”, Starring Mr. T and Alexandra Amini. The storyline reads “T.S. Turner is a former boxer who is accused of a murder he didn’t commit. All was lost but, thanks to public defender Amanda Taler, he was proven innocent. Now he works as private eye and, along side Taler, sets out to help those who can’t defend themselves in and out of the justice system.”
As far as I know nobody (except me) has even heard of this series, and it ran for three full seasons!
Ninja-ed repeatedly.
I believe there were a number of such cartoons, all produced by the Maxim Gorkii Studio in Moscow and dubbed into English. I watched them on a Chicago TV station (WGN, I think) during my summer vacations. IIRC, they were marketed as “Tales from the Brothers Grimm,” though the one I remember best was about the greedy wife of a fisherman who caught a magic fish, which I think is a Russian folk tale.
(I could be wrong about this, since I haven’t read such stories or seen the cartoons for ages now.)
I actually watched two of those episodes.
Anyone remember (or more likely try to forget) Working Stiffs? Remarkably unfunny show that introduced us to Jim Belushi and Michael Keaton. Aired only 4 shows.
I vaguely remember watching at least part of one episode during my Freshman year of college (I was a late bloomer!) and thinking “What the fuck?!?”
I had basically the same reaction watching this show at around the same time :
Legends of the Superheroes! I loved that show. (Granted, I was 7 years old at the time.) It has an interesting imdb page. The script is credited to a number of well-known comic-book artists. (No, not writers. Artists.)
I remember Legends of the Superheroes quite well. There were only two episodes. The first was a fairly standard (albeit silly) superhero adventure story. The second was a “roast” episode, in which the various characters did weak comedy bits. And that was it. Notable by their absence are Superman and Wonder Woman, whose rights were tied up elsewhere at the time.
Kids today don’t know how good they have it, with the MCU and the DC movies and TV shows, and all the high-quality animated stuff. This is what we had to settle for if we wanted to see comic-book stuff on TV. Why when I was a kid…
Yeah, I watched this - and I also saw the “Doctor Strange” TV movie from the same era
Was that the one where the hero literally dodged a bullet in the opening montage? I remember my brother and I had a good laugh at that one. (In a good way, not bad.)
Right about this time, I remember we watched Gene Roddenberry’s Spectre, which had one helluva* cast that included John Hurt as the Personification of Evil. (I guess he was typecast after playing Caligula in I, Claudius.)
It should have become a series, but (of course!) it wasn’t picked up. 
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*Pun intended.
I am reminded of an animated version of A Connecticut Yankee… that I saw decades ago. I remember Sir Boss “invented” motorcycles for King Arthur, but in the end of the movie, when he returns to his own time, he checks an encyclopedia, and sho’ nuff, the entry on Arthur has him riding a motorcycle.
For years I couldn’t find any evidence that it existed. The ending is so different that the book or other adaptations.
I found it on youtube. Boy, the animation is way cruder than I remembered!
I only saw it re-runs sometime in the 80s (I was just a bit too young when it premiered), but I remember liking it at the time, and being a bit disappointed it had never made it to series. I still remember a line Wong had, after Stephen Strange (not yet a sorcerer) tells him he doesn’t believe in magic, something to the effect of, “If you go outside in a rainstorm without an umbrella, you’ll get wet whether or not you believe in the rain.”
Speaking of Marvel TV movies, anyone else remember The Hoff as Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD?
Or the failed pilot for Generation X? I actually remember kind of liking that one, but that was in good measure because there just wasn’t much out there in terms of live action superheroes. I also distinctly remember that Finola Hughes’ Emma Frost wig was remarkably terrible-looking (although I thought she did about as good a job as she could have with the material she was given, vamping it up enjoyably).
Saw that too - the evil Matt Frewer shows off his powers by making businessfolk fart at a meeting
Now that I think about it, it may have been this movie where we saw the hero dodge a bullet. It’s been so long, I’d have to see it to make sure.
Turns out it was a full-length feature film. I’ve always thought it was just another unsold pilot.