# 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:** 13
**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, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/241 "2004-03-02T18:27:46Z")
> [@Skeezix](#): > > And a show that just leapt unbidden into my forebrain: Anyone else ever watch **Man From Atlantis** , with a pre-Dallas Patrick Duffy? Only detail I can recall right offhand was the fact that the guy swam like a dolphin, with his arms tucked against his sides. And he had webbed fingers. Never watched it, but I remembe that it was there ---
**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, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/242 "2004-03-02T18:36:36Z")
> [@DirkGntly](#): > > Well, so far no one else has mentioned **Far Out Space Nuts** …so I guess I’m all alone there… Not at all. I just assumed it was too popular to count. It has its own section in the definitive volume, Saturday Morning Fever ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/243 "2004-03-02T18:42:31Z")
There’s this show, I’m pretty sure it’s syndicated, called “Maximum Exposure”, or “MaxEx”. It doesn’t have a network or a time slot but it’s hilarious. Think a mean-spirited mix of “Real TV” and the home video shows. Each episode has a theme to it. My all-time favorite was the one about the world’s greatest explosions caught on tape. There were some excellent tanker truck explosions, a fireworks factory, even a _rocket fuel depot_ out in the desert that produced a rippling shockwave. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/244 "2004-03-02T18:48:10Z")
> [@scotandrsn](#): > > 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. Does anyone remember a guy (definitely not a hippy) on PBS who began every episode with a canvas covered in Magic White and ended with a forest scene of “happy little trees” and “mighty mountains”? ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/245 "2004-03-02T19:34:51Z")
I loved **Parker Lewis Can’t Lose**. Of those mentioned above, my favorites were The Powers That Be, Duckman, The Fall Guy, It’s Like, You Know, Herman’s Head, and Duet. ---
**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, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/246 "2004-03-02T19:42:11Z")
> [@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 remember 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 What happened, IIRC, was: Someone noticed that kid ratings for reruns of F-Troop were huge, and figured a reteaming of Storch and Tucker would be a hit. Hence, “The Ghost Busters”. Then the movie “Ghostbusters” in the 1980s. Then, some genius bought the rights to the old TV series, and made a vaguely similar cartoon with 2 guys and a gorilla hunting ghosts. Then, the people with the rights to the movie made “The REAL Ghostbusters” cartoon and sues the other camp. I don’t know who won. The “Garfield” voice is Lorenzo Music, who was previously known as Carlton the Doorman on “Rhoda” ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/247 "2004-03-02T20:56:43Z")
> [@ElwoodCuse](#): > > There’s this show, I’m pretty sure it’s syndicated, called “Maximum Exposure”, or “MaxEx”. It doesn’t have a network or a time slot but it’s hilarious. Think a mean-spirited mix of “Real TV” and the home video shows. It’s still around; my wife channel-surfed onto MaxEx a few weeks ago. Coincidentally, I also did some development work for their web site back in 2000. Had to test the back-end “what clips are availablle on the site?” controls and the “view this clip” controls, so I was watching the same high-speed pursuit-cum-car crash a hundred times… ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/248 "2004-03-02T21:12:39Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > Does anyone remember a guy (definitely not a hippy) on PBS who began every episode with a canvas covered in Magic White and ended with a forest scene of “happy little trees” and “mighty mountains”? Bob Ross! _The Joy of Painting_! This man taught me how to paint - not well, mind you, but good enough for Christmas gifts. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/249 "2004-03-02T21:14:58Z")
> [@scotandrsn](#): > > The “Garfield” voice is Lorenzo Music, who was previously known as Carlton the Doorman on “Rhoda” And he was the voice of Venkman. Ever notice the cartoon switched Venkman and Stantz? They made Venkman look like Dan Aykroyd and Stantz like Bill Murray for some strange reason. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/250 "2004-03-02T23:03:15Z")
> [@Jeff Olsen](#): > > And he was the voice of Venkman. Which is why it’s so interesting that Bill Murray has taken over the voice duties for Garfield in the forthcoming movie. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/251 "2004-03-02T23:52:57Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I just looked up [Coronet Blue](http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-1015/) and even found that “ginchy” theme song! I remember there _being_ a Coronet Blue, but apparently I don’t remember much about it. I thought it starred Robert Goulet – but I was confusing it with [Blue Light](http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-9745/). But I can still sing/hum the theme to **Fractured Flickers**. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/252 "2004-03-03T00:06:34Z")
…And then I’m refusing to ever open this highly addictive thread once and for all: Picture it, the year 1972. NYC - Glendale, Queens to be more specific. A young, kindergarten aged boy who at that time was an aspiring zookeeper… Every Sunday night, glued to: [Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom](http://www.wildkingdom.com/history/brief.html) ---
**Author:** ![sliv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@sliv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sliv)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/253 "2004-03-03T01:41:19Z")
I got one for all of you. A recent one, like from only a few years back, 2000, staring Lauren Graham, Lorelei of Gilmore Girls, called “Mind Your Own Business”. A summer replacement that was, sadly, quickly cancelled. ---
**Author:** ![International\_Playboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/48db29/32.png) [@International\_Playboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/International_Playboy)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/254 "2004-03-03T02:48:56Z")
> [@Ee-At-Oes](#): > > 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 That was [Day by Day](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094446/), which featured Courtney Thorne-Smith and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. My favorite episode was where Ross dreamnt that he was part of the Brady family after watching a Brady Bunch marathon. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/255 "2004-03-04T01:35:44Z")
I don’t recall seeing anyone mention [Shadow Chasers](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090004/), Trevor Eve (yum) and Dennis Dugan in an X-Files type precursor. I have some episodes on video … unfortuantley it’s on Beta. ---
**Author:** ![Yborg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/c57346/32.png) [@Yborg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yborg)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2004, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/256 "2004-03-04T03:29:43Z")
> [@Uvula Donor](#): > > Over and over again I tell you, Tooter: > _Be just vat you iss > Not vat you iss not. > Folks vat do zis > Has der happiest lot._ > > Yeah, I remember Tooter the Turtle and Mr. Wizard the Lizard. Used to run with other Jay Ward cartoons like Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo, and Go Go Gophers. I remember Tooter (Tutor?) Turtle being a one segment cartoon feature within another cartoon show by Jay Ward called “The Hunter”. The Hunter was a private-eye dog who always ended up solving the case and capturing the villain (the villain was always “The Fox”) by accident and in spite of his own ineptitude. The Hunter talked a lot like Foghorn Leghorn, wore a trench coat and blew a hunting horn. Corny but funny. I loved Duckman and used to tape episodes each week. Didn’t save any of them though. I’m an old guy, and I remember a show from the late 50’s called “Supercar”. It was about this vehicle that was an automobile, an airplane, a boat, and a submarine. The characters were marionettes (puppets operated by strings - like Howdy Doody). Absolutely no one my age (54) or older to whom I’ve described this show has ever heard of it. My favorite show no one else seems to have watched was “The Secret Life of Machines” which ran for one season on the Discovery channel about 10 or 12 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Kingspades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecae2f/32.png) [@Kingspades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kingspades)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2004, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/257 "2004-03-04T04:39:10Z")
> [@](#): > > Ah yes, back when the Comedy Channel had 12 employees, and all of them had their own shows. The Higgens Boys and Gruber, anyone? My favorite HB&G skit was a parody of the $100,000 Pyramid: Category: “Things in the universe” Player A: “Everything you have ever seen, touched, felt, experience, everything!” Player B: “Umm…things in a Sears?” Speaking of the Comedy Channel, I’ve always been a gameshow nut. Ha!, the competitor to Comedy Channel (both of which became Comedy Central when they merged) had a great little gameshow called Clash. It featured two teams of “mortal enemies” (e.g. former teachers vs. former class-clowns), fun questions, and a hilarious bonus round. The winning contestant spun a wheel divided into six wedges. Five of these wedges were labeled with categories along the lines of “Nearly Unanswerable Literature,” “It Is Rocket Science,” “Impossible ZIP Codes,” while one was labeled “Easy Question.” Easy questions were things like “What did you have for breakfast?” or “So, how ya’ doin?,” leading to a fabulous vacation. > [@](#): > > Does anyone remember a guy (definitely not a hippy) on PBS who began every episode with a canvas covered in Magic White and ended with a forest scene of “happy little trees” and “mighty mountains”? Now, there was another PBS artist who wasn’t Bob Ross. It was hosted by a stout man with a German accent, who mercilessly wielded his “mighty brush.” I remember him being a guest on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. I also recall being fascinated in high school by a six-episode series on ABC called “The Marshall Chronicles.” Anyone else remember it? ---
**Author:** ![cheesepickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/57b2e6/32.png) [@cheesepickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheesepickles)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2004, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/258 "2004-03-04T13:48:26Z")
I have a number of shows I didn’t see mentioned… Wuhbout ‘Tales from the Darkside’. Don’t remember any episodes, just the spooky opening music and images of birch trees in washed out b&w. I remember Danger Mouse-he lived in a fire hydrant. But what about Grape Ape? HBO had weird, interesting stuff in its early years…‘Not necessarily the News?’ Rich Hall’s sniglets were a highlight. One newscast told us the new stealth bomber comes in two varieties: the stealth bomber and the stealth bomber with raisins. HBO also had Emmet Otter’s jug band, about a little furry animal playing wierd instruments and skating on ice in wintertime. Nickelodeon’s ‘You can’t do that on television’ was cool. It was a little bit like monty python for kids. Off-kilter, semi-abstract sketch comedy with lots of that green slime crap whenever anybody said certian words or phrases. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2004, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/259 "2004-03-04T15:42:19Z")
> [@Yborg](#): > > I’m an old guy, and I remember a show from the late 50’s called “Supercar”. It was about this vehicle that was an automobile, an airplane, a boat, and a submarine. The characters were marionettes (puppets operated by strings - like Howdy Doody). Absolutely no one my age (54) or older to whom I’ve described this show has ever heard of it. I remember Supercar…I can even hum a little of its theme song. It was one of those marionette shows, like “Thunderbirds” and “Fireball XL-5”, and the Orbitz commercials. And I’m 50. ---
**Author:** ![Kingspades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecae2f/32.png) [@Kingspades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kingspades)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2004, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/260 "2004-03-04T16:26:38Z")
> [@](#): > > I remember Danger Mouse-he lived in a fire hydrant. Nope, “an ordinary London pillar box,” or mailbox for us Yanks. DM’s sidekick was a glasses-and-suit-wearing hamster named Penfold. They worked for some sort of mammal with a large mustache named Colonel K. They frequently foiled the plans of archnemesis toad Baron Silas Greenback, his crow-henchman Stiletto, and his Blofeldesque pet caterpillar Nero. Ah, evenings spent in front of Nickelodeon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383.md?page=14)