The Adventures Of Mark And Brian(1991), starring a couple of KLOS radio personalities attempting some of the same types of stunts they did on the radio.
Q.E.D.(1982), starring Sam Waterston as “Professor Quentin Everett Deverill”. It was an action/adventure show set in Edwardian England, and it only lasted six episodes.
No Soap, Radio(1982), a strange combination of sitcom and sketch comedy, starring Steve Gutenberg and Hillary B. Smith. Six episodes, only five broadcast.
And almost as many mentions in this thread as it had episodes (see posts 65 and 470).
Another possibility: a theatrical film called One-Armed Executioner.
This is the story of an Interpol agent turned restaurateur, out for revenge against the gangsters that cut off his arm and killed his bride.
It probably showed up a lot on late-night cable.
I did a search, but perhaps no hits came up because I spelled it properly with the periods between the letters (“Q.E.D.” instead of “QED”, the way those previous mentions did).
I loved Sci Fi Buzz! My memory is it was killed around the time the channel changed to SyFy and people grumbled that the latter change helped begat the former.
A show truly ahead of its time, given that it predates the rise of reality television.
Seymour’s Monster Rally - early 1970s. A late night monster movie host in the Los Angeles area on KTLA 5. What made him stand out was his proto-MST3K popping up in the corner and heckling the movie while it was in progress. Sometime he would even insert himself into the movie via blue screen to rip on the characters in the movie.
Lots of people remember Vampira and Elvira and Svenghoulie, but Seymour doesn’t seem to get a lot of love.
I remember Seymour! I thought it was called Fright Night Theatre, but I’m probably confusing it with another late-night horror-movie host. There was a time you couldn’t swing a cat without hitting one of them.
After looking him up on Wikipedia, it turns out he did both. Fright Night was on KHJ-TV 9, then he moved to KTLA 5 for Monster Rally for one year, then went back to Channel 9, then died of stomach cancer. He was also the host for the very first Knott’s Scary Farm makeover.
The BBC did a very short lived series in the 1970s called Moonbase 3, involving the lives of inhabitants of a moonbase run by a consortium of European nations. I assume it was Moonbase 3 because 1 and 2 were USA and Russia. I think it only lasted one series.
There was a Canadian sitcom called Satisfaction that ran for 13 episodes in 2013. It had a cynical married couple sharing an apartment with their cynical single friend and it was actually quite funny at times.
These two shows were highly influential on me. Sci-Fi Buzz is why Harlan Ellison is my favorite author. It’s how I first heard of him and started reading his stuff (although I loved Boy and His Dog the movie having grown up on the tv edit).
And Mysteries from Beyond the Other Dominion was like weirdo Weekly World News as a show. I thought it was a blast. I remember a segment about ectoplasm from some haunting in Europe that had been studied and found to include goat urine… I thought that was the funniest thing.
My father used to watch it with me and mutter “bullshit” under his breath and ask, “What kind of doctor did they say he was?”