# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Survivor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@Survivor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Survivor)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/121 "2004-02-28T02:41:56Z")
> [@PookahMacPhellimey](#): > > No more than a few years ago there was this brilliant British sitcom called _Spaced_ on Channel Four. I’ve never met anyone who watched that, except the one person who was made to watch it by me. The press seemed to ignore it too. And it was absolutely hilarious. There’s at least a few of us on the other side of the Atlantic that have seen Spaced too… I have a DVD that plays all regions, and heard about Spaced… I actually have Series One on DVD, and Series TWO on DVD… I’ve turned alot of friends onto that show… I especially love all the strange characters - the Landlord, the depressed artist who lives in the basement, the friend who is totally into war games… I’ve seen each episode at least five or six times… I really need to get a life :eek: ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/122 "2004-02-28T03:28:02Z")
> [@quietman1920](#): > > I remember an early 80s one (title missing) where the widower father with two children hires a goofy(but cute) witch as a nanny. Can’t think of her name, but she’s definately a Central Casting regular. I believe this is Nanny and the Professor (which actually aired 1970-71) with Juliet Mills playing Phoebe Figalilly (which has to be one of the best character names of all times). Juliet Mills did indeed make frequent appearances on various TV shows, among them _Hotel_ and _The Love Boat_; she was also Hayley mills’ older sister. Every obscure TV show that I remember has already been mentioned, so I really don’t have anything else to add at this time. ---
**Author:** ![Ultraviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c77e96/32.png) [@Ultraviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ultraviolet)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/123 "2004-02-28T05:02:42Z")
I think I win! No one yet remembers _Nearly Departed_, which I mentioned in an earlier post. What’s my prize? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/124 "2004-02-28T05:05:24Z")
> [@Skeezix](#): > > Anyone recall the name of the thankfully short lived show that ran right after it for a while? It was something about seven people (or at least I think it was seven, for some reason) stuck in a bomb shelter after the apocalyptic end of civilization? And being in that time slot, it was ostensibly a sit-com. Can’t _imagine_ why it tanked as fast as it did… > > (Honestly, what programming genius greenlit that thing as a comedy?) Sounds like “Whoops, Apocalypse,” which was based on a Brit film of the same name which was mildly funny. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/125 "2004-02-28T05:09:22Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > [UFO](http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0063962/) apparently was pretty popular in the UK, but my brother and I seem to have been the only people in the US who ever watched a whole episode. I don’t remember it as being very good. I used to love UFO. There was a round-faced bird with giant breasts who lived on the moon and wore tight silvery mesh shirts a lot. I liked her a lot. A lot of the birds on that show had giant breasts. And it was also very, um, dramatic. Yeah, dramatic! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/126 "2004-02-28T05:24:01Z")
I remember SO many of these (and often more fondly than the more mainstream shows). Thanks, all, for getting me to look them up. I just looked up [Coronet Blue](http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-1015/) and even found that “ginchy” theme song! And I finally found a web site dedicated to [The Champions](http://www.thechampionsfan.homestead.com/) — three British secret agents with psychic powers (as a result of crash landing near a lost civilization in Tibet). BTW, does anyone think that “Nowhere Man” was the love child of “The Prisoner” and “Coronet Blue”? The first thirty seconds of N.M. was all it took for me to start singing: “Coronet Bluuue/Coronet Bluuuuuue… Deep inside my brain/ I keep hearing that wild refrain…” ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/127 "2004-02-28T05:24:22Z")
> [@JeanLinen](#): > > Bigfoot and Wildboy - late 70’s Saturday morning show > > Voyagers - show where a time traveler and a stowaway he accidentally picked up travel through time using an ‘Omni’, I believe, to make sure history occurs the way it is supposed to. You are the first person I’ve ever met that actually remembers Wildboy. It came on right after Shazam! if IIRC. Do you also remember _Isis_? Voyagers was one of my favorites too. Along that same cheesy Sci-Fi vein, does anyone remember a show in the late 80’s called something like _Otherworld_? It came on Saturday nights. It was about this time-traveling (or dimension jumping) family. In one episode they all jumped into a lake to travel somewhere else. I know that description was about as clear as mud but I remember this show (albeit vaguely). _Marblehead Manor_–Goofy sitcom about wacky maids and butlers in a mansion. _Paradise_–A Western that starred that guy that looks like Tom Selleck but isn’t, Lee Horsely maybe? He was a widower who moved to a new town named Paradise with his children. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/128 "2004-02-28T17:02:00Z")
_A boooomerang (a boooomerang) What does it do? (what does it do?) It comes back to you (it comes back to you)_ Oh, oh, oh! And what about _Manimal?_ It had the same three stock sequences of the hero turning into… um… let’s see, a snake, a bird and… a black panther? Then he would go kick some butt. Well, the _snake_ wouldn’t kick butt. The snake was _lame._ Which… well, I guess if snakes don’t have legs, they can’t kick, so they can’t walk either, so maybe he was _lame_ but that’s not what I meant. I remember _Automan._ He had one sweet ride. I’m not sure how obscure this was, but I’ve never really heard anybody else talking about it, and it’s never really come up in conversation: Lee Majors in _The Fall Guy._ Who else remembers the stuntman-actor-crimefighter guy who went around… um, doing stunts and blowing stuff up and fighting bad guys? ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/129 "2004-02-28T17:19:05Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > It was basically a parody of Star Trek, with references to other sci-fi series and movies tossed in. It had its moments. Captain Quark was an interplanetary garbage collector. He had two identical crew members named Betty (“the pretty one’s the clone”). The science officer was a plant named Ficus. Oh, sure, he looked like an ordinary human, but everyone knew he was a plant. > Hot chick: Now what? > Ficus: We wait for the bee. > > I’ve never found anyone in real life who remembers Tooter Turtle, even though Neo channels him in The Matrix (“Help me, Mr. Wizard!”) > _Mr. Wizard the science guy_ > No, this was a cartoon about a turtle that traveled through time. > _Wait, was there a dog with a bow tie?_ > No, it was a lizard with a hat. > _“Lizard”? I thought you said “wizard”!_ > Never mind. Ah, what was the line? Something like, “Trizzle, troozle, trazzle, trome! Time fo this one to come home!” ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/130 "2004-02-28T17:20:49Z")
> [@scotandrsn](#): > > Ah, what was the line? Something like, “Trizzle, troozle, trazzle, trome! Time fo this one to come home!” I was also a big fan of Quark. I remember Gene/Jean, the man with a female alternate personality, and a multi-armed videophone operator called “Interface”. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/131 "2004-02-28T17:23:05Z")
> [@Eva Luna](#): > > I am apparently the only person who remembers two PBS kids’ shows: a sort of trip-around-the-world show called _Big Blue Marble,_ and a bilingual sort of Sesame Street-type show called _Villa Alegre._ I can still hear the damn theme song to _Villa Alegre_ in my head; it’ll take me a week to get rid of it now. God I remember both those shows. Bug Blue marble was a sort of hodgepodge about geography, and Villa Allegre was a like a spanish-oriented Sesame Street ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/132 "2004-02-28T17:24:53Z")
> [@Thea Logica](#): > > Anybody else remember _Holmes and Yo-Yo_ Shit yes! John Schuck as a Robot police detective! ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/133 "2004-02-28T17:30:32Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > My own unknown favorite: > _Probe_ An arrogant former child prodigy (and current genius), played by Parker Stevenson, solves science-related mysteries. As a junior high student hooked on science and sci-fi, this show was gold. I don’t think it lasted half a season. Loved the hell outa that show! Way before John Heim coined “Jump the Shark”, I had my own set of criteria by which a show was about to leave. I remember probe did an episode that sucked, which focused on an orangutan. “Not long for this world, out of ideas” I thought. I think the show didn’t even last two more episodes. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/134 "2004-02-28T17:33:13Z")
> [@Dijon Warlock](#): > > I remember most of these (_Empty Nest_ had Kristy McNichol on it, with whom I was in love when she was on _Family_). > > Anyone remember _The Kids from C.A.P.E.R._? Five “kids” (although they always looked in their 20s to me) who comprised The Civilian Authority for the Protection of Everyone, Regardless. They lived in some funky apartment and rescued people every week from nefarious bad-doers (I remember one hapless waif was named “Dunga Gin” because she wore dungarees and her name was Ginny). > > Their secret weapon? One of the guys would always go crazy if someone said the word “banana.” There was also usually some faux-music-video sequence. > > Mindless Saturday morning fun. Yes! The guy who played Mr. Peterson in the old Bob Newhart show played a villain who put post-hypnotic messages into his late-night auto dealer commercials and convinced the entire city that one of the main bridges into town wasn’t there anymore. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/135 "2004-02-28T17:41:18Z")
> [@aahala](#): > > I remember very slightly this gameshow hosted by Jackie Gleason. The next week in the same time slot Gleason came out and said the first episode was so awful we’re not having another one them. I remember reading about that one in my dearly departed copy of Total Television . It was called “You’re in the Picture”, and I once saw a clipof his apology episode the next week. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2004, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/136 "2004-02-28T17:45:49Z")
There was a kids show where two or three kids and a guide, or something, were in a jungle or something. Whenever they were captured by bad guys the “guide” would yell out “uh oh Chongo” and a screaming native would show up and beat up the bad guys. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/137 "2004-02-28T17:54:29Z")
OK, I guess I should contribute a few of my own: A Saturday Morning live-action called “Monster Squad”, with Fred Grandy. Another SM live-action gritty teen drama called “Muggsy”. A cartoon called “The Robonic Stooges”. A PBS British import, perhaps science-related, may have been called “Visions”, that had, as a very small part of the show, a guy who was obssessed with a sort of living orange feather boa that would dash around the walls of the room from time to time. One time they wrote the name of the show in lime powder on a grassy field, then the mirror image of it, and they animated it to hop around like a bug. And let’s not forget the later, genius episodes of “Muppets Tonight!” ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/138 "2004-02-28T17:58:12Z")
> [@Zap\_Rowsdower](#): > > There was a kids show where two or three kids and a guide, or something, were in a jungle or something. Whenever they were captured by bad guys the “guide” would yell out “uh oh Chongo” and a screaming native would show up and beat up the bad guys. That was “Danger Island”, a live-action segment on the “Banana Splits” show. Morgan and Chongo (who spoke his own monkey-chatter language) lived on a tropical isand and were joined by Link (played by a very young Jan-Michael Vincent) and a professor and his duaghter, and had many adventure’s together. My favorite part of the show was a tribe called the Skeleton People. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/139 "2004-02-28T18:03:36Z")
> [@Greywolf73](#): > > You are the first person I’ve ever met that actually remembers Wildboy. It came on right after Shazam! if IIRC. Do you also remember _Isis_? I remember Isis, and some cable channel re-ran an episode of Shazam late last night. Bigfoot and Wildboy was, IIRC, originally a part of the Krofft Supershow, that also featured Wonder Bug, Dr. Shrinker, and Electra-Woman and Dyna-Girl. It may, like the Lost Saucer, been spun off from that show after a season to a full half hour on its own. I think the idea for BF & WB came from the ratings sucess of the Bigfoot-oriented episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man. ---
**Author:** ![gerb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3bc359/32.png) [@gerb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gerb)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383/140 "2004-02-28T18:12:17Z")
> [@quietman1920](#): > > Misfits of Science!!! God, Courtney Cox was sooo hot then. I remember ‘Switch’ with Robert Conrad as a con man swindling crooks. It seemed to fit after ‘It Takes A Thief’. > > I remember a show called ‘The Stutz Bearcats’, a western with an old car instead of horses. > > I remember an early 80s one (title missing) where the widower father with two children hires a goofy(but cute) witch as a nanny. Can’t think of her name, but she’s definately a Central Casting regular. > > I remember GIGANTOR, where the kid with the remote control box was constantly beating up the North Korea…errr…Ping-Pangians with his Giant robot. > > I remember a space show where 3 people living in an agricultural society open a doorway by mistake & find their entire world has been put aboard a giant super-ship…but that a meteor destroyed the bridge, killing all the command crew and the super ship was slowly heading towards a comet > > I remember a cartoon that was Pre- Fractured Fairy Tails that was in black-and white. It had Col. Bleep, a robot cowboy named Squeek, and a caveman called Scratch…all in a place called ‘Zero-Zero-Island’ > > I remember lusting after the girl in ‘Eight Is Enough’ who later got the dancing part in ‘1941’. Speaking of Robert Conrad, does anyone remember an NBC show called " A Man Called Slone" staring R.C. as a Bond type secret agent. A ninja show called “The Master” starring Lee Van Cleaf? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-that-apparently-youre-the-only-person-ever-to-watch/231383.md?page=8)