I said lunch not lauch!!
Wasn’t their alien companion named Zonk, because of the honking sound it made?
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.
“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
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.
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 …
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
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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.
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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.
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.
ZOOM was (and is) produced for public television by that most prolific of public television stations, WGBH Boston.
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(This has been a geniune Bilingual Post™, translated by hand without the assistance of online translation tools.)
Freaks and Geeks. Anyone?
Great show, of course, cancelled right away.
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/
Anyone watch that?
How about The Weekenders? Great show still shown on Toon Disney. Great cartoon but no one I talk ot seems to know of it.
Flying Blind 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/
(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
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!
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.
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.
Aaaaah! Aaaaah! I saw that one! Aaaaaaah!
“All outsiders are diiirty!”
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
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.
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.
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!”