# TV Shows We Really, Really Miss. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 3, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116 "2003-07-03T21:34:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/41 "2003-07-04T13:26:57Z")
\*\* Bosom Buddies \*\*. A show that had a cast of unknowns that would go on to stardom and, in the case of one, super-stardom. I consider it the TV equivalent of \*\* American Graffiti \*\* and the Original London Cast of \*\* Godspell \*\* (which had Elaine Paige, Julie Covington, Marti Webb, Gay Saper, and David Essex, who all went on to musicals stardom, and the unknown Jeremy Irons). ---
**Author:** ![aleong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@aleong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aleong)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/42 "2003-07-04T14:42:44Z")
“Space: Above & Beyond” - recontextualized WWII into an all-out war between humanity and an unknown alien species “Harsh Realm” - Chris Carter’s “Matrix”-like series had some interesting ideas… too bad it was cut short after only a few episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_The\_Diver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Buck\_The\_Diver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_The_Diver)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/43 "2003-07-04T15:05:49Z")
**Parker Lewis Can’t Lose** ---
**Author:** ![Vanyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Vanyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vanyel)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/44 "2003-07-04T16:38:38Z")
MST3K Firefly ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/45 "2003-07-04T17:06:21Z")
**Freaks and Geeks** and **Undeclared**. Possibly **Andy Richter Controls the Universe** …anybody know the status of this one? ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/46 "2003-07-04T18:20:55Z")
Anamaniacs. Hill Street Blues. M_A_S\*H. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/47 "2003-07-04T18:49:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cicero \* > \*\*Baa Baa Black Sheep. Also Peter Gunn > > 😛 \*\* Do you know why _Baa Baa Black Sheep_ was cancelled in the first place? “Pappy” Boyington still had some control over the rights of the story (it’s based on his autobiography, BTW), and he got pissed over the way they were “embellishing” the story and told 'em “no more.” (I heard this from a friend of his, BTW.) The pity is, that Boyington was a really modest guy, and his autobiography doesn’t detail _half_ the things he did in WW II. (For example, since he was an engineer, they’d make massive modifications to their airplanes in the field in order to improve their killing power. They replaced the bubble on the front of a B-24 [IIRC] with a mass of machine guns to improve it’s strafing ability.) ---
**Author:** ![shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/48 "2003-07-04T19:25:45Z")
Big Valley ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/49 "2003-07-04T23:39:51Z")
I will second Quantum Leap and Sapphire & Steel and Dinosaurs. I also miss **China Beach** , I adored that show and had huge, huge crushes on both Dana Delaney and Marg Helenburger. Good god I want the whole series on DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/50 "2003-07-05T03:28:22Z")
What happened to new episodes of Behind the Music? ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/51 "2003-07-05T06:13:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Blonde \* > \*\ ***Dallas** > > Oh, come on, you know you loved it! Good news, bad news. They are making a feature film of Dallas, but with an entire new cast. Hmm…so what was my good news? Oh yeah…Liz Smith put out a suggestion that Jack Nichelson would be a good J.R. Ewing…now THAT could be interesting. ---
**Author:** ![lurker\_anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@lurker\_anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurker_anonymous)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/52 "2003-07-05T16:25:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by interface2x \* > \*\ ***Freaks and Geeks** and **Undeclared**. > > Possibly **Andy Richter Controls the Universe** …anybody know the status of this one? \*\* I have e mailed FOX several times with no reply. Man, that was one funny show!!! Stoopid Beane…:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![lurker\_anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@lurker\_anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurker_anonymous)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/53 "2003-07-05T16:37:52Z")
Oh, yeah, the show “Fear” on MTV. The first year was really great and scary. I wonder if someone wigged out because they toned it down after that and now I don’t see it at all. ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/54 "2003-07-05T17:21:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DMark \* > \*\*Good news, bad news. > > They are making a feature film of Dallas, but with an entire new cast. > > Hmm…so what was my good news? > > Oh yeah…Liz Smith put out a suggestion that Jack Nichelson would be a good J.R. Ewing…now THAT could be interesting. \*\* Oh, come on. ONLY Larry Hagman can play J.R. Ewing and you know it! Anyway, Nicholson would make a better Cliff Barnes than a J.R. Cliff always had the funnier lines. **Fibber McGee** , are you sure **Alien Nation** was cancelled after only one season??? That was alot of stuff to have happened for only one run of shows. Didn’t it run on Fox for awhile? I agree, great show, I do miss that one. And I had totally forgotten about **Parker Lewis Can’t Lose** –loved it!! One of the greatest Sunday mornings in local channel programming history had the shows I miss the most: **Maverick** - the original in black and white, followed by **Wild, Wild West** and to top it all off **Star Trek** Boy I really miss that Sunday morning line up, I would get up early (Maverick came on at 8 AM) and camp out in front of the TV every week with the Sunday paper and a big cup of coffee. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/55 "2003-07-05T17:22:50Z")
A third for **My so-called Life** , seconds for both **M_A_S\*H** , **Barney Miller** and **China Beach**. And just newly, _sob_, **Buffy**. Oh the dread of life _after_! ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/56 "2003-07-05T22:29:16Z")
batman hee haw porter wagoner show (even though i hate country music) man from uncle monkees sky king gene autrey theater all 60s stuff, it seems. ---
**Author:** ![ZebWalton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/fbc32d/32.png) [@ZebWalton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebWalton)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/57 "2003-07-06T00:51:16Z")
Why, \*\*“The Waltons,” \*\*of course. But I have every episode taped, even when Earl Hamner started turning it into “Snots Landing” meets backwoods Virginny. (And to think this is all thanks to TNN, before it became the adolescent male network. :rolleyes: ) Also **“Sisters”** and \*\*“thirtysomething.” \*\* Melodramatic, but you’d think I’d be able to catch them on Lifetime once in a while, huh? And I’m a guy (but, ohh, Polly Draper and Sela Ward!)😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/58 "2003-07-06T00:57:20Z")
My two biggies are _McGuyver_ and _Voltron_. I spent many an enjoyable hour on both of those, as a kid. I don’t necessarily ask for new episodes (nobody but Richard Dean Anderson could possibly do McGuyver), but I’d love to at least see reruns. And since **Fibber** mentioned it, _Voyagers_ should be on my list, as well. I never saw the first episode, and always sort of wondered how it started… ---
**Author:** ![jeanster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@jeanster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeanster)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/59 "2003-07-06T02:11:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by HelloKitty \* > \*\ ***Wild, Wild West** > > \*\* I used to watch The Wild Wild West when it was run in syndicated reruns. Great series. A few years when a younger friend and I sat in the movie theatre watching previews before the feature presentation, they showed a preview of the movie The Wild Wild West. When I whispered to my younger friend that the tv series was pretty good, she whispered back, “There was a tv series?” Boy, did I feel old. ---
**Author:** ![Delly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Delly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delly)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/60 "2003-07-06T03:47:18Z")
I miss My So Called Life and Popular, both are already mentioned though, [Eve- any ideas what actually happened Popular?] But I also miss the cartoons that were on when I was little, Care Bears, My Little Pony, Gummi Bears, Cities of Gold, etc etc. So much better then all that drivel thats on nowadays! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116.md?page=4)