I was in the audience for the taping of a science-themed quiz show called Qubit that ran for one season on Canada’s Discovery Channel. Instead of picking questions from a video screen like Jeopardy, it used a holographic “Qube”. I remember they had a number of technical difficulties and so they had to reshoot things several times.
Alex Trebek’s first game show (that I remember) was a game show called The Wizard of Odds (1973). It dealt with number games. For example, he might present a list with:
Number of or on:
Joe Namath’s Jersey
Supreme Court Justices
Number of Countries in South America
And he would for example give you the number 10, and ask you to pick which thing in the list is below the number 10.
But. . .
The first list he ever presented was a list of actresses, and the game was to predict. . . their bust measurement. I remember the first guy, bless his heart. He picked Sophia Loren, and commented “Well, she was kinda skinny. . . 31.”
But, needless to say, that introductory game was enough to hook me for the run of the program!
Anyone else remember the daytime show that David Letterman did on NBC in 1980? My brother and I watched it and thought it was hilarious particularly after it was cancelled but new shows were still being produced.
Speaking of daytime shows, does anyone else remember an old favorite of mine, The Wil Shriner Show(1987-88)? I liked his sense of humor and interview style. Bit O’ Trivia- He is the twin brother of Kin Shriner, the dude that plays “Scotty Baldwin” on General Hospital.
Still better than January Jones in X-Men: First Class. A masterclass in how to make a character as naturally alluring as Emma Frost give off all the sex appeal of wet cornflakes.
You’re both wrong. The notable thing about The Interns was Sandra Smith, who was coming off her role as Dr. Janice Lester in the memorable Turnabout Intruder episode of Star Trek. Each week I waited to see if her character would steal Broderick Crawford’s essence and try to take over as Chief of Staff.
Was he fully or just partially blind? 
Well don’t keep me in suspense!
I just remembered one that I don’t thin was brought up yet in this thread (but I think did get discussed in previous versions of this idea in thread form)
“The War Next Door”
American super spy retires to suburbia with the wife and kids…his supervillain arch enemy decides to move next door and continue their “dance of death!”
Sadly, no. But the show only lasted one season. If it had gone to three seasons, who knows.
Not that people don’t remember it, but “Scarecrow and Mrs. King” has pretty much fallen off the radar screen. Decent portrayal of tradecraft there.
I think the actual message of that series was completely opposite of what people took from it. It wasn’t about an exceptional housewife that turned out to have incredible natural abilities when it came to spycraft-It was about the fact that the supposedly complicated world of spying was actually so easy that any common housewife could do it.
I remember an episode where Nick was trying to repair a miniature television but due to his age he no longer had the dexterity necessary. So the younger man he didn’t really like was able to fix the television by following Nick’s instructions.
Even though the casting of Bruce Boxleitner in the series Chuck was a clear nod to Tron, it was also a nod to Scarecrow and Mrs King, which was the same plot (a civilian stumbles into being a spy).
Thank you. My memory is of a white man with a missing hand. I must have confused two characters in the same show or different actors in different shows together. It was a long time ago.
But he was a killer on Hawaii 5-0.
Had to look this up since I had never seen the movie, and your post was an understatement. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a woman in bra, panties and garter belt look so completely unsexy. Even her hairstyle was bad. Was this movie set in the 1950s?
Mostly it’s set during the Cuban Missile Crisis, so the early 1960s.
The New Adventures of Beans Baxter aired on the nascent Fox network in 1987. It was about a teenager who becomes a spy after he witnesses his father’s murder. His father was also a spy. It had both Kurtwood Smith and Taylor Negron as the bad guys.
Mysteries from Beyond the Other Dominion hosted by Dr. Franklin Ruehl aired on the Sci-Fi Channel in the early 1990s. It was a rather odd show featuring UFOs, faces on Mars, cryptozoology, and that kind of thing. According to Wikipedia, it was the Sci Fi channel’s first original program.
Sci-Fi Buzz was another one on the Sci-Fi channel in the early 1990s. It was a news magazine style show that featured interviews/news about, well, science fiction. They interviewed people like Ray Harryhausen, some dude who had the most extensive private collection of sci-fi movie props, and Harlan Ellison was a regular contributor and had a segment of his own. I remember one of Ellison’s segments where he spoke with high regard for the series Quantum Leap.