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:
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.
I think I win! No one yet remembers Nearly Departed, which I mentioned in an earlier post. What’s my prize?
Sounds like “Whoops, Apocalypse,” which was based on a Brit film of the same name which was mildly funny.
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!
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 and even found that “ginchy” theme song!
And I finally found a web site dedicated to The Champions — 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…”
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.
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?
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”.
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
Shit yes! John Schuck as a Robot police detective!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!”
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.
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.
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?