# TV Shows that apparently, you're the only person ever to watch **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 27, 2004, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383 "2004-02-27T00:29:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/181 "2004-02-29T23:19:58Z")
> [@Zap\_Rowsdower](#): > > I much preferred Newhart’s _Bob_ series that came before _George and Leo_. The first season was excellent, then the network basically killed it. G&L had potential but lacked something. Was that the one where he was the creator of a formerly Batman-like comic strip but had been forced to become a hack greeting cards artist? That one had potential too. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/182 "2004-02-29T23:20:16Z")
> [@Zap\_Rowsdower](#): > > I much preferred Newhart’s _Bob_ series that came before _George and Leo_. The first season was excellent, then the network basically killed it. G&L had potential but lacked something. Was that the one where he was the creator of a Batman-like comic strip but had been forced to become a hack greeting cards artist? That one had potential too. ---
**Author:** ![gooti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eb8c5e/32.png) [@gooti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gooti)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/183 "2004-02-29T23:47:25Z")
> [@tremorviolet](#): > > _Space Giants_! It ran on TBS (back when Ted Turner owned just the one station) in the late 70’s as part of their afternoon kids block, SuperStationFunTime. It was a poorly dubbed 1960s Japanese kids show about a boy and his friendship with a family of robots: the little kid sized robot, his mom (Silvar), and Goldar, the fifty foot dad who got to fight all sorts of monsters a la Godzilla. > > My friends and I loved it. We’d all watch it at my house everyday 'cause we had the color TV. We’d even made up skits about it and performed them in the back yard. Man, _nobody_ has ever heard of this one… > > OMG, I just looked up the show and not only is there a [website](http://www.alphalink.com.au/~roglen/space_giants.htm) you can get it on _video and DVD_! :eek: I’m not alone! I was actually planning on posting this one but I got around to it too late. My husband thought I was crazy when I first told him about this show. The only other person I know who ever watched it is his brother-in-law. ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/184 "2004-03-01T00:11:54Z")
> [@gooti](#): > > :eek: I’m not alone! I was actually planning on posting this one but I got around to it too late. > > My husband thought I was crazy when I first told him about this show. The only other person I know who ever watched it is his brother-in-law. Ummmm, your name isn’t Mary Jo, is it? 🙂 If not, I know a huge _Space Giants_ fan who probably lives real near you… ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/185 "2004-03-01T00:21:49Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > Curse you, JohnBckWLD, for bringing back long-submerged memories of “Thriller”, an anthology series hosted by Boris Karloff. I can’t give you details about any single episode because I think I was too freaked out by the show’s opening to watch all the way through. I just remember being scared of this show. (I wonder if it messed up Michael Jackson.) I don’t know what it was that affected me that way, and I’m not sure I want to. Let me help you. 🙂 I remember two episodes of “Thriller”. One was a remake of Poe’s “Premature Burial.” The other was “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper”, based on a Robert Bloch story. For having seen this episode only once at the age of about 8 when it was originally broadcast, I’m amazed how vividly I remember parts of it. The murders of a modern-day Jack the Ripper are being investigated. In an early scene, someone mentions a superstition that the dead body of a murder victim will open its eyes to look at the murderer if he’s nearby. Later the investigators attend the funeral of the latest victim. The pallbearers are carrying the coffin on their shoulders, but one of them is struggling. We then see the onlookers as they react to off-scene events. Someone says, “They’ve dropped the coffin! It’s opened!” Then a woman screams, “SHE’S LOOKING AT US!!! SHE’S LOOKING AT US!!!” In my young memory the scene is incredibly dramatic and terrifying. The series theme music was reminiscent of the “Psycho” shower scene and scared me, although the graphic is basically abstract lines. A few years ago the Sci-fi Channel showed the series. My memories of that episode were pretty accurate. But from my adult perspective none of the episodes were all that good. The series did come out on video. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/186 "2004-03-01T03:16:30Z")
Oh, oh! I’ve got one that nobody’s mentioned yet: [Morton And Hayes](http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-2490/). It was a comedy about two detectives, set in the '30s, I believe. There were only 6 episodes in July and August 1991. I have four of them on videotape. I’ve never met anybody else who’s seen it. And I also loved **The Charmings**. So did my mom. We were both disappointed when it was cancelled. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/187 "2004-03-01T03:22:30Z")
> [@Laughing Lagomorph](#): > > Was that the one where he was the creator of a Batman-like comic strip but had been forced to become a hack greeting cards artist? That one had potential too. He drew a 50’s comic book _Mad Dog_. They tried to update for the 90’s. There was actually six issues of \*Mad Dog[/] presented as flipbooks. One side was the 50s version and the other the 90s. ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/188 "2004-03-01T05:39:24Z")
Thom Bray played the nerd. I don’t know anyone who has heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/189 "2004-03-01T06:13:22Z")
Hate to break it to whoever posted about it earlier, but I too remember **Nearly Departed**. I even remember bits of the theme song, sung by Eric Idle and his “wife” while dancing around. I admit that I’ve only skimmed the thread, so sorry if these have been mentioned before: **UnSub**. Basically, CSI before there was a CSI. The show was about a team of forensic specialists who solved major crime cases, usually involving serial killers. A damn fine show, lasted one fall season. **Freakylinks**. More people should have given this one a chance. Put together by the guys who made _The Blair Witch Project_. It has some really good, scary moments, and it seemed pretty fresh, but it got yanked around from timeslot to timeslot, and was unjustly yanked. ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/190 "2004-03-01T06:23:28Z")
**Doctor, Doctor** with Matt Frewer. Funny, funny, funny show, but didn’t last more than one season, IRC…I think the gags came too swiftly for the typical audience. And kids’ shows: **The Far-out Space Nuts** with, I think, Bob Denver, or someone that looked very much like him. Two not-so-very-bright rocket maintenance guys who get launched into space…wackiness ensues… **The Ghost Busters** No, not the cartoon or the movies - this was live action, two guys and a gorilla (or more accurately, a guy in a gorilla suit). I remember their names from the theme song. The two guys were Spencer and Kong, the GORILLA was named Tracy… (I’ll bet NO ONE has seen/heard of this one.) ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/191 "2004-03-01T06:26:08Z")
**brian\_ax** I remember **Riptide** and used to watch it nearly every week. I think, for a while, it came on after **The A-Team**. IRC, it also had Perry King in it… ---
**Author:** ![gerb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3bc359/32.png) [@gerb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gerb)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/192 "2004-03-01T06:31:22Z")
> [@brian\_ax](#): > > Thom Bray played the nerd. > > I don’t know anyone who has heard of it. Joe Penny and some other guy had a boat and solved crimes, I’ve seen it. Murrey Bozinski was the computer geek side kick played by Thom Bray. I think they had a large pink helocopter called the screaming mimi. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/193 "2004-03-01T06:40:21Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > I’m the other person who watched that! > > They used to have all the cool Bond-like gadgets. Doug McClure was an agent, IIRC. [James Lileks knows all.](http://www.lileks.com/institute/jetsam/7/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Reepicheep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@Reepicheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reepicheep)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/194 "2004-03-01T07:38:31Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > Anyone remember a short lived series called Raven? Had Lee Majors as a side kick? I thought I was the only one who remembered Raven. I’ve still got all the episodes on tape – even the one they didn’t show in the US. “See how easy life can be?” ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/195 "2004-03-01T07:49:42Z")
_Re:_ “I Married Dora” > [@JohnBckWLD](#): > > …And the last scene of the final episode. > _The father at an LAX departure gate_: “It’s been canceled.” > _Dora, the nanny_: “The flight?” > _The father_: “No, our series.” That’s the _only_ thing I remember from that sitcom – the wall-breaking “goodbye, everyone!” wave at the end, as the camera pans back to reveal the set and everyone takes the final curtain call. It might not have been much of a sitcom, but that ending was definitely memorable. ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/196 "2004-03-01T11:56:44Z")
Oh, I forgot. There was this Sci-fi kids’ show called _The Girl from the Year 3000_ or something very similar. It was either Ozzie or Kiwi. The girl in question was called Allanah and she travelled back to our time hotly persued by baddies from some chaotic inbetween time where everything was war and chaos. Much taken with it at the time. Then there was an English on called _The Dark is Rising_ featuring a bossy girl in fluffu cardigans and people chanting Behemoth Behemoth in scary voices. That was fun, too. P.s. Glad there is at least one other fan of _Spaced_. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/197 "2004-03-01T12:02:53Z")
> [@DirkGntly](#): > > … > **The Ghost Busters** > No, not the cartoon or the movies - this was live action, two guys and a gorilla (or more accurately, a guy in a gorilla suit). I remember their names from the theme song. The two guys were Spencer and Kong, the GORILLA was named Tracy… > (I’ll bet NO ONE has seen/heard of this one.) Yes. Spencer and Kong were played by the two guys who played Sgt. O’Rourke and Cpl. Agarn on _F-Troop._ ---
**Author:** ![Zap\_Rowsdower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3da27b/32.png) [@Zap\_Rowsdower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zap_Rowsdower)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/198 "2004-03-01T15:59:29Z")
> [@Laughing Lagomorph](#): > > Was that the one where he was the creator of a Batman-like comic strip but had been forced to become a hack greeting cards artist? That one had potential too. Yes, thats it. The first season he had left the greeting cards to re-do the comic he did years before. The second season had him go back to the card company. I remember the _Ghost Busters_ series. In fact I was surprised there was no lawsuit because of the use of the name. I never heard if it was purchase or anything. ---
**Author:** ![jeevwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@jeevwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeevwoman)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/199 "2004-03-01T16:19:38Z")
I also watched _A Year in the Life_; in fact, my friend Kathleen and I still talk about Sunny and Gus. God, we loved that show. \*Northern Exposure \* once referenced it in an episode–I think it was Maurice talking about father/son relationships and showed a clip of what was obviously _AYITL_. Anyone remember \*A Call to Glory \* with Craig T. Nelson? About an airforce father and his wife and kids in the 60s? I remember faking illness one night so I could skip dinner and watch the episode where JFK was killed. Along the same lines, how about _I’ll Fly Away_, with Sam Waterston and one of the London brothers? ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/200 "2004-03-01T16:39:34Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > I remember that one! > > A couple of PBS shows I recall watching in my 5th grade class (1973) that I can’t find any info on: > > Mulligan’s Stew - a group of kids doing something that I cannot remember right off hand > > Inside Out - you were presented with a problem and the story would end unresolved and you’d discuss the options with your class. The only one I remember was the kid in the show wanted to fit in with a certain group and had to go through an initiation (in this case, running out into traffic at the last minute WITHOUT getting run over). The show ended with the girl getting ready to do this. You had to decide whether or not you thought she would. Definitely remember both of these. Mulligan Stew had the 4-4-3-2 song about the four food groups. For some reason, I have a very distinct memory of the open sequence for Inside Out. There were lots of great educational TV shows from the 70’s. I especially remember one where the host would read an excerpt from a book while someone did an illustration of the scene he was reading. I can remember John Christopher’s _The White Mountains_ being done as well as S.E. Hinton’s _The Outsiders_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383.md?page=11)