# 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:** 12
**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 2, 2004, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/221 "2004-03-02T00:37:33Z")
> [@DirkGntly](#): > > Well, so far no one else has mentioned **Far Out Space Nuts** …so I guess I’m all alone there… I said lunch not lauch!! Wasn’t their alien companion named Zonk, because of the honking sound it made? ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/222 "2004-03-02T00:41:43Z")
> [@Evil Death](#): > > You Yanks really like cancelling anything that even remotely challenges the norm, don’t you? Don’t blame me. I don’t watch enough TV to affect anything. In part because the norm is so low. Besides, I figure we still owe you for Survivor and all the similar rip offs. Derned Limeys. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/223 "2004-03-02T02:01:53Z")
“some cartoon whose name I cannot remember about these flaky teen in Beverly Hills. Lark and Troy were boyfriend and girlfriend” I’ts called beverly hills teens and that and gen was the only two girl cartoons i watched as a child Also the ghostbusters tv show I remeber as a cartoon … and they were sued for it … they have an extremely rare toy set thats supposedly work a grand or two if anyone can find if it was ever released It’s why the real ghostbuster cartoon used to emphatise the “REAL” ghostbusters… and also had the voice of garfield until he left for the garfield tc series I remeber the show brothers wwith the two gay guys one of whom ran a bar with his brother called i think one of thenm was joe penny ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/224 "2004-03-02T02:37:31Z")
My contribution: _Highwayman_, which lasted for some fraction of a season probably in the early-mid-80’s or so. Set in a vaguely Road Warrior-esque post-apocalypse near-future, the US hanging on by a thread, held together by the diligent efforts of two dudes who drove around in goofy sci-fi eighteen-wheelers. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/225 "2004-03-02T03:16:47Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > “some cartoon whose name I cannot remember about these flaky teen in Beverly Hills. Lark and Troy were boyfriend and girlfriend” > > I’ts called beverly hills teens and that and gen was the only two girl cartoons i watched as a child > > Also the ghostbusters tv show I remeber as a cartoon … and they were sued for it … they have an extremely rare toy set thats supposedly work a grand or two if anyone can find if it was ever released It’s why the real ghostbuster cartoon used to emphatise the “REAL” ghostbusters… and also had the voice of garfield until he left for the garfield tc series > I remeber the show brothers wwith the two gay guys one of whom ran a bar with his brother called i think one of thenm was joe penny bleh i meant to say the real ghostbuster cartoon had the voice of garfield Also about beans baxter the story was “beans” was a secret agent but almost no one knew it He was always looking for his father who was a secret agent mailman type who was captured by the evil agency everyone thought was dead but his handler and him In fact every so often the dad would figure in an episode but they never managed to free him … The highwayman which was cool series when i was a kid was notable for the fact the president was a woman Viper was gool until they decided to make it a syndicated series … and made it on no budget But most of these are early fox shows before the simpsons made it huge… Fox still has the “throw it out and see if it sticks” attitude … ---
**Author:** ![Ee-At-Oes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Ee-At-Oes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ee-At-Oes)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/226 "2004-03-02T03:41:40Z")
Northern Exposure is my all time fave show and its not on anymore. I used to watch Duckman. Another great one gone by the way is Dr Katz I seen Empty Nest many times. MST3K is no longer one…great show. There was a show I used to watch in the 80s…was on for maybe one season and I do not recall the name but it was about this teenager named ross who lived in this filthy bedroom and never took his robe off. I have been trying to remember the name of that for years now. -Mocara ---
**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 2, 2004, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/227 "2004-03-02T11:24:47Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Death] The five Dark is Rising novels are legendary over here in the UK, but I don’t recall it ever being adapted - and you’d think I would. [QUOTE] Oops, I completely mixed things up in my head. The Dark is Rising was the Susan Cooper series of books and you’re right, no series was ever made. :smack: I also agree that someone probably will after they have exhausted Potter and Narnia. This still leaves me with the series I was on about. I think there were two “normal” kids teaming up with a new girl at their school. This is the one who always seemed to be wearing fluffy cardigans and boss the other kids around. I think she was psychic as well. It all revolved around the baddies trying to raise a “behemoth” and the kids running around trying to prevent it. There was a sequel as well and it was made by the BBC. Anyone know what this was, because I’d like to know now. ---
**Author:** ![bat312](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@bat312](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bat312)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/228 "2004-03-02T13:35:46Z")
A show called Profit. It was on Fox I think. I was about a serial killer who grew up in a cardboard box that had the logo for some big company on it and then got a job for the company and killed his co-workers in new and unusual ways each week. It lasted about three weeks. Has anyone seen this? I thought I was hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/229 "2004-03-02T14:44:00Z")
> [@Bomzaway](#): > > Nope, ZOOM was a national show…and it’s back. There is a new ZOOM on certain kids networks. _ZOOM_ was (and is) produced for public television by that most prolific of public television stations, WGBH Boston. _ZUBOOM_ wubas (uband ubis) prubodubuced fubor pubublubic tubelubevubisubion buby thubat mubost prubolubifubic ubof pubublubic tubelubevubisubion stubatubions, WGBH Bubostubon. (This has been a geniune Bilingual Post™, translated by hand without the assistance of [online translation tools](http://pbskids.org/cgi-registry/zoom/ubbidubbi.cgi).) ---
**Author:** ![doomraisin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d78d45/32.png) [@doomraisin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doomraisin)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/230 "2004-03-02T14:50:58Z")
Freaks and Geeks. Anyone? Great show, of course, cancelled right away. ---
**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 2, 2004, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/231 "2004-03-02T15:35:02Z")
> [@PookahMacPhellimey](#): > > [ > This still leaves me with the series I was on about. I think there were two “normal” kids teaming up with a new girl at their school. This is the one who always seemed to be wearing fluffy cardigans and boss the other kids around. I think she was psychic as well. It all revolved around the baddies trying to raise a “behemoth” and the kids running around trying to prevent it. There was a sequel as well and it was made by the BBC. Anyone know what this was, because I’d like to know now. Thought about this all afternoon and came up with the answer myself. This was The Dark Season. Link; [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/tv/darkseason/](http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/tv/darkseason/) Anyone watch that? ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/232 "2004-03-02T15:36:16Z")
How about **The Weekenders**? Great show still shown on Toon Disney. Great cartoon but no one I talk ot seems to know of it. ---
**Author:** ![MMI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@MMI](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MMI)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/233 "2004-03-02T17:24:39Z")
**Flying Blind** [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103415/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103415/) This show was on for maybe a season on Fox sundays way way back. Tea Leoni as the free-spirited hottie who was in love with an ordinary schlub. **EZ Streets** [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116161/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116161/) (less than one season) Series about gangster (played by joey pants, of course), an undercover cop, an ex-con trying to go straight. I liked this series, though everyone was so self-destructive it was painful to watch at times. **CBS Crimetime after Primetime** I can’t even remember the names of all of these shows, which ranged from decent to horrendous, that CBS played in the wee hours pre-Dave. There was the vigilante justice one (with the complete cast change between seasons), the ensemble cast one, the tropical detective agency one, and i think **silk stalkings** got its start as crimetime after primetime ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/234 "2004-03-02T17:49:12Z")
> [@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.) LOVED that show! It reunited the two leads from F-Troop, Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker. All the ghosts conveniently took up residence in a decrepit castle at the edge of town, thus saving on set costs. I distinctly recall one episode where two cowboy ghosts are wondering what to have for dinner Ghost1: I’m tired of eating Angel-Food Cake all the time! Ghost2 (leering): Well, we could have some _Devil’s_ food cake! ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/235 "2004-03-02T17:52:49Z")
> [@Phouchg](#): > > Our local ABC station WCVB-TV in Boston produced an interesting program in the 1970s called “The Baxters”. The first half of the show was a standard sitcom (including perennial B-level actress Anita Gillette) that would end right at the cusp of the actors making a decision about some moral issue or action to take. At that point the action switched to the studio audience who would then discuss what just happened and how the characters should resolve it. I remember it tackled some serious topics for the mid-70s and was hosted by a rather avuncular fellow with a great name: Hubert Jessup. WCVB also produced “Miller’s Court” with Harvard Law Prof Arthur Miller leading a similar discussion about a fictional case that was dramatized in the first few minutes of the show. > > Phouchg > Lovable Rogue I remember about those shows but I never watched them. WCVB has always been into social relevance. I actually appeared on a special about discrimination they did called “What’s in a name?” in early 1986. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/236 "2004-03-02T18:05:27Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > Another Quark viewer here 🙂 > > the Krofft series brings back nightmares from my youth, what were Sid and Marty Krofft _on_ when they made those shows, there’s no way they could have been sober, they _had_ to have been on some sort of controlled substance… > > another late 70’s show, “Project Blue Book”, a show about a governmental UFO investigation wing, i guess you could say it was the precursor to “The X-Files” Actually, they did an E! True Hollywood Story about the Kroffts, who still have a production company. One (I can’t remember if it’s Sid or Marty) is the brains and business sense behind the operation, and the other is the somewhat queer visionary, who seems to have these ideas without the benefit of chemical enhancement. It’s a great ep, if you catch it. What I didn’t know (and apparently no one else did either, since it folded very quickly) was that they created a theme park in the seventies, kind of a Krofft version of Disneyland, where you could meet their characters, and walk through a giant pinball machine. The other show was “Project UFO”, which was ABOUT the FBI’s Project Blue Book. If the creators of “The X-Files” were not rabid fans of this show, then someone must have propped their eyes open to watch it in their sleep, because they basically packed the atmosphere of this show in a truck and brought it over to the later series. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/237 "2004-03-02T18:08:55Z")
> [@meow meow](#): > > Does anyone remember Vegetable Soup? I think it was aired around the same time as Villa Allegro and the Big Blue Marble. The intro was psychedelic – swirling cartoon musicians singing about soup…The show consisted of several different segments. The most memorable one to me was “Outerscope”. The characters were puppet kids (eerie ones. with human hands) that created a spaceship out of old boards and a bicycle wheel. They once landed on a planet inhabited by cleaning utensils that attacked them because the puppet kids made a mess when they landed. Aaaaah! Aaaaah! I saw that one! Aaaaaaah! “All outsiders are _diiirty_!” ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/238 "2004-03-02T18:15:09Z")
> [@winterhawk11](#): > > Here are a few I didn’t see mentioned yet: > > _Pixanne_: This was on when I was a kid in the mid to late '60s. It was a low-budget show featuring a lady dressed up in Peter Pan type costume. The only thing I remember about it was being fascinated by her “magic paintbrush,” where she would “paint” on a blank canvas and make it look like the brushstrokes were creating a real photographic image. > > _Hodgepodge Lodge_: Another low-budget PBS-type show. I think it focused on doing crafts, and the host was a tall lady IIRC. > > Two bits of drek from the early Fox network: _Beans Baxter_, about some kind of secret agent kid (the only thing I remember about this was a scene with two Canadian guys on a dam, and one said to the other, “Time to flood the St. George, eh?”), and _Beanpole_, about a tall thin girl who towered over her peers. I don’t think I actually _watched_ that one, but it was on right after _Beans Baxter_. > > _MANIMAL_ > > Anybody else remember these? I remember being a huge Pixanne fan when I was very young. I hvae never liked crafts much, but I remember the existence of HodgePodge Lodge. I saw one episode of Beans Baxter, where apparently his 8-year-old brother was in prison breaking rocks. Never watched Manimal, heard it sucked. In his recollection of the Reagan era, The Clothes Have No Emperor , Paul Slansky jokes there should have been a show called _Maneral_ , about a guy who could change into a sedimentary rock ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/239 "2004-03-02T18:21:24Z")
> [@Bomzaway](#): > > Nope, ZOOM was a national show…and it’s back. There is a new ZOOM on certain kids networks. All the girls in my fourth grade class could speak Zoom talk - we could never figure it out. I _think_ it was called ubay-wubbay. A pig latin deritive where you insert the ‘UB’ sound in the middle of each word. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/240 "2004-03-02T18:22:48Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > Okay, I’m going to mention several shows that I’ve not seen mentioned anywhere on this thread, yet. > > First: Two shows that were done in the 70’s by WCVB TV-5 in Boston - Capt. Bob’s drawing show, always nature/ocean related, and kind of fun. I think it was simply called **Capt. Bob** but I won’t swear to it. It was called _Drawing From Nature with Captain Bob_ . He was as hypnotic to my five-year-old mind as the _Joy of Painting_ hippy was to my college brain. > [@OtakuLoki](#): > > Then there was something called **Jabberwocky** which as best as I can recall was Monty Python for kids - with some educational value, too. It also had a Muppet look-a-like in a rock, but i can’t recall the name. Whichever it was a shock for me to discover in HS the poem ‘Jabberwocky’ since I thought they’d made up the name for the show. The puppet was called Dirty Frank. The show was semi-educational, but VERY psechedelic. “Brothers and Sisters, Laughing and Glowing, Hammers and Blisters, Things you’ll be knowing” “I have a feeling in my mind, that I have BEEN here before!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383.md?page=13)