Ducks have been mentioned several times in this thread, so I’ll add one: The Duck Factory (1984).
Jim Carrey (before being discovered), Jack Gilford (long after being discovered), Theresa Ganzel (va-va-voom). About the antics of a fictional animation studio that produced the “Dippy Duck Show”.
Friends and Lovers, with Paul Sand, Steve Landesberg, Penny Marshall, Craig Nelson and Jack Gilford again.
Amazing how many now-big names are in these old shows, eh? What cancelled them couldn’t have been a lack of talent – that they had a-plenty.
BTW, many of these old shows can now be had on VHS or DVD, and I imagine more will be released in the future; it’s pure gravy for old vault titles. Check Amazon or imdb.com.
“Starhunter”. I loved that show for it’s B0grade flavor and the cute captian from Aaron Spellings soap “Sunset Beach”, but it went off the air in Chicago. I think they stll show new episodes in Canada. Lucky Cannucks.
When I was a kid there was “Captain Bucky O’Hare”, and some cartoon whose name I cannot remember about these flaky teen in Beverly Hills. Lark and Troy were boyfriend and girlfriend. No else seems to have heard of this cartoon. And does anyone else remeber “James Bond Jr.”, or did I just hallucinate that too?
Yes, I remember that cartoon. Tooter Turtle
Hey, widdershins! I remember watching Today’s Special, what a curious show that was!
I used to be a real Nickelodeon junkie. I still remember the Hattytown sketches from Pinwheel, from days home sick from gradeschool. I liked Clarissa Explains It All, which some people remember. But nobody in my peer group seems to remember The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Salute Your Shorts, or Hey Dude, all of which I was addicted to.
That title made me think of a Disney syndicated show I used to watch during the late afternoon/early evening on Saturdays for a summer or two in the early 70s, The Mouse Factory. Used to watch Mouse Factory along with an Ozzie and Harriet show, Ozzy’s Girls and another Bob Denver show (and Gilligan’s Island ripoff), Dusty’s Trail.
I’ve got another one where the name of the show has escaped me for decades. I can remember being about 4 years old (1964) and watching a show about some boys in military school. I think it was a rerun at that time as I would watch it in the daytime. I remember wanting to go to military school because the guys on the show would wear pants with a stripe down the side, just like my dad did. (He was an Army officer.)
Was that the one about the Cello player, set in Boston?
That brings to mind “Doc” and “The Montefuscos”, from around the same period.
I tried one of those too… wasn’t too bad, but just wasn’t the same.
I remember Bucky O’Hare! Okay, actually, I only remember that he was a space-faring green rabbit guy, and one of his crewmen was a four-armed duck. I also remember hearing of James Bond Jr. when it was out, though I never watched it. I have no clue about that other show you mention.
I remember that one. If the mannequin’s hat comes off he freezed again.
Okay, this goes back to the time when Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman was popular, so I guess mid to late 70’s? It was called All That Glitters, and the premise was it was a parallel world where women were in charge, and men were cute little sex bunnies. The guy who played the program director on WKRP was the male lead, I think, but that’s all I remember.
I remember the pilot movie of A Man Called Sloane being really good for a TV action movie. Then the actual episodes being very cheap looking.
I watched The Master because I was at that age when I thought anything having to do with ninjas was cool.
When Cartoon Network showed Sitting Ducks early in the morning I watched it. It was a cute show, I’m sorry they quit showing when I could watch it, although it still turns up at times.
A little googling reveals that Dusty’s Treehouse is the show I remember (from reruns on Nickelodeon) for twisted reasons. One episode was about the dangers of smoking. After cautioning the kids watching not to imitate him, Dusty lit up a cigarette on the show to demonstrate how awful smoking was. But he lit up and took a drag like an experienced smoker (I had seen my dad do it enough), and was trying too hard to cough and wheeze like someone who wasn’t used to smoking, so I wasn’t buying it.
The other episode I remember was a very serious episode about child molestation. At first I couldn’t believe Nickelodeon would be playing this in the early afternoon with no parental warnings or anything. The “victim” of an attempted kidnapping and fondling was Dusty’s baseball loving blue squirrel buddy Scooter. As the puppet was recounting all of this I kept thinking “The guy was trying to molest a squirrel?” I know they had serious and noble intentions with both of these episodes, but they were so different from the light and innocent tone of most of the episodes that it crossed the line into creepy.
Speaking as someone who rarely watches the tube & and has never seen an episode of Friends or Will & Grace…
As a kid:
**Lancelot Link Secret Chimp**: We’re gonna have a really big show-ow-ow-ow.
**James at 15 (16)**: I know – Corny. Probably cuz I didn’t have an older sibling.
**C H I L L E R**: A local Channel 11 WPIX-NYC horror movie fest (ala Creature Feature) – The 6-fingered hand in the quicksand is still memorable. The link has audio in QuickTime.
More recently:
Dangerous Women: Syndicated ‘soap opera’ set in a women’s prison
**G L O W**: Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling – there were quite a few exceptions to the ‘gorgeous’ tag.
**Cooking With Floyd**: This BBC ‘chef’ slays me.
**A Year In The Life**Dramatic mini-series a decade before Sarah Jessica Parker hit it big on HBO
**What’s Alan Watching Now? (Pilot) **: One of the funniest things I ever saw on TV.
That would be “George and Leo”. I really liked that show too. Mostly it got by on two famous old pros doing their usual schtick…Bob Newhart was the button down Middle American straight man, Judd Hirsch did his ethnic Noo Yawker thing, with a little bit of Vegas thrown in. Kind of a variation on the Odd Couple (I think their kids in the show were married to each other).
Ooh! Ooh!
Just remembered a couple more! “Marlo and the Magic Movie Machine” and “Barbapapa”
Now why has THAT never been released as a DVD box set?!?
Damn, the floodagates have opened…
How about a Saturday morning game show called “Runaround”? With an in-house vocal trio called the “Tokens”, who also did the vocal for Schoolhouse Rock’s “Gravity” segment?
I fondly remember the sitcom, “He & She,” starring husband and wife team Richard Benjamin ans Paula Prentiss. They were the ringleaders and much put upon hosts to some very strange neighbors and co-workers. The dialogue appeared to be very sophisticated, at least to a seventeen year old, lots of in-jokes, much stream of consciousness stuff and very quirky characters that obviously never caught on. Does anyone remember “Hank,”, a young man who “dropped in” on college classes in order to get an education. He was aided and abetted by a young woman who let him know which students would be absent on any given day, he’d then go to classes in different disguises. Sounds very hokey as I type this, but it was a simpler time.
OOOOOoo, don’t know if anyone has mentioned this one…
The Internet Movie Data Base, www.imdb.com, includes a brief history of practically every TV show ever, including ones cancelled in the middle of their first season – and there’s a discussion board for every single one!
I was disappointed when Profit was pulled after just a few episodes in 1996. This story about an abused child who grows up to be a Machiavellian schemer struggling up the ladder of a multinational corporation – brilliant! What a deserved skewering of American biz ethics in the '80s! And Adrian Pasdar was perfect in the role!