# TV Shows which have almost completely dropped off the cultural radar screen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 24, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303 "2008-10-24T03:46:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/121 "2008-10-27T01:16:12Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > Yes, but that doesn’t mean it’s bigger on the cultural radar. Quite the opposite, actually; all scripted network television has dropped off in cultural impact. Name one television show that looms larger on the cultural landscape. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/122 "2008-10-27T02:18:16Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > Yes, but that doesn’t mean it’s bigger on the cultural radar. Quite the opposite, actually; all scripted network television has dropped off in cultural impact. Dudes are just watching it through their computers, etc. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/123 "2008-10-27T02:38:48Z")
Anyone mentioned _Dawson’s Creek_ yet? Does _Parker Lewis Can’t Lose_ count? ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/124 "2008-10-27T03:30:46Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Name one television show that looms larger on the cultural landscape. American Idol. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/125 "2008-10-27T07:10:38Z")
The Almighty Isis show–I swear, I used to throw fits if I couldn’t watch the show where the woman went on a rescue mission after invoking an ancient goddess. I loved seeing Isis go through the air. Years later, I got Isidore, the ringneck parrot. Isidore roughly translates as “Gift of Isis.” However, Izzy’s flying skills were a bit poor and it led to me screaming (after he hit the lamp) “What the @#$% hijacked you?” > **[The Secrets of Isis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secrets_of_Isis)** > > The Secrets of Isis, originally broadcast as Isis, is an American live-action superhero television series produced by Filmation from 1975 to 1976 for CBS's Saturday morning lineup. The series was renamed The Secrets of Isis in syndication. > The program was the first weekly American live-action television series with a female superhero lead character, debuting on September 6, 1975, predating the weekly debuts of both The Bionic Woman (January 14, 1976) and Wonder Woman (April 21, 1976). In the ser... ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/126 "2008-10-27T08:24:05Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Name one television show that looms larger on the cultural landscape. Lately? Heroes, from what I understand. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/127 "2008-10-27T08:32:17Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > Wildly popular MTV “buzz” shows like **Remote Control** and **The Real World**. The Real World is still apparently on , but has moved on from placing a bunch of “real world” demographics that resonate with kids’ peers into a house and is now solely about sequestering street/skank/emotional-problem kids to create conflict. > > Remote Control I just miss, and would watch reruns of. > > Also, > > Sadly, I think **Kids in the Hall** is suffering from cultural loss, it deserves immortality but it isn’t played in reruns as far as I know. I remember Remote Control. Colin Quinn, who I remember from that show, went on to Saturday Night Live. Adam Sandler, who went on to greater fame on SNL and in movies, also was on Remote Control, although I don’t remember him as clearly. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/128 "2008-10-27T08:46:13Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > I disagree about _The Six Million Dollar Man_ and _The Bionic Woman_. Both of them have entered the public consciousness. There were recently movie remakes of them, and you hear references to them in shows all the time. I think people will remember those shows for quite a long time (maybe not so much the Bionic Woman). > [@The New and Improved Superman](#): > > There were remakes of these series? When? You must have mercifully blocked the horrendous series remake of the Bionic Woman, which debuted last year, from your memory. As for movies, there were 3 made for TV movies, in 1987, 1989, and 1994, but they weren’t issued for theatrical run, and weren’t all that recent. > **[List of The Six Million Dollar Man episodes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Six_Million_Dollar_Man_Episodes#Later_TV_movies)** > > The Six Million Dollar Man is an American science fiction and action television series, running from 1973 to 1978, about a former astronaut, USAF Colonel Steve Austin, portrayed by Lee Majors. After being seriously injured in a NASA test flight crash, Austin is rebuilt (at considerable expense, hence the title of the series) with bionic implants that give him superhuman strength, speed and vision. Austin is then employed as a secret agent by a fictional American government office titled OSI.\[... ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/129 "2008-10-27T09:30:32Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > I remember **Dead at 21**. Did we ever find out what happened to that guy? Did I quit watching or did it die? It ended rather quickly, actually. IIRC: the feds capture him and his girlfriend, and either shoot them both or he ends up dying of the weird chip in his head and they just shoot her. The ending credits had a fountain that was made of the statutes of two doves… except the water was colored red. What was more interesting to me was that, at around the same time the show was canceled, some lunatic (on Long Island I think) actually took his college classroom hostage while claiming that the government had inserted a chip in his brain that would kill him when he was 21 year old, and he needed help. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/130 "2008-10-27T14:54:53Z")
> [@KRC](#): > > The Almighty Isis show–I swear, I used to throw fits if I couldn’t watch the show where the woman went on a rescue mission after invoking an ancient goddess. I loved seeing Isis go through the air. > > Years later, I got Isidore, the ringneck parrot. Isidore roughly translates as “Gift of Isis.” However, Izzy’s flying skills were a bit poor and it led to me screaming (after he hit the lamp) “What the @#$% hijacked you?” > > [The Secrets of Isis - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secrets_of_Isis) One of the reasons why you don’t see Isis is that Hallmark (which owns the rights to the show) _refuses_ to put it into syndication or DVD. According to one of the fansites for the show a VP of Hallmark declared he’d let the company go under before he released them on DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/131 "2008-10-27T19:38:20Z")
Elimidate- God, I loved that show! Guiltiest pleasure evah! Husbands and Wives and Lovers Open all Nite The Kroft Supershow (Mighty Isis, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, Dr. Shrinker, Sigmund the Sea Monster, etc.) Big John, Little John ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/132 "2008-10-27T19:43:48Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > The Kroft Supershow (Mighty Isis, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, Dr. Shrinker, Sigmund the Sea Monster, etc.) Mighty Isis and Sigmund weren’t Krofft Supershow segments. Mighty Isis had her own half-hour within an hour she shared with Captain Marvel (remember how Billy Batson rode around the country in a Winnebago with an old guy?). Neither Isis nor Shazam were Krofft at all. Sigmund, while a Krofft production, was a separate half-hour show completely. Krofft Supershow segments included EW and DG, Dr. Shrinker, Wonder Bug, Magic Mongo, and a couple of others I can’t remember off the top of my head. “Pufnstuf & Other Stuff” is at home on the bookshelf. I’ll have to check after work. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/133 "2008-10-27T20:24:02Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > Say, wasn’t 21 Jump Street pretty big back in the day? I remember thinking, “Johnny Depp is stupid to leave; he’ll never be heard from again. Now that Richard Grieco kid, he’s going places…” > [@GuanoLad](#): > > Does _Parker Lewis Can’t Lose_ count? I LOVED Parker Lewis, and I’d forgotten all about it! Now, for the rest of the day, I’m going to be hearing a “whoosh” every time I turn my head. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/134 "2008-10-27T20:41:02Z")
**Night Visions** was a short-lived series hosted by Henry Rollins (really) which I remember mainly for its freaky and rather gory pilot ep. Also: **Nowhere Man** , anyone? Or **John Doe**? **Bakersfield, PD**? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/135 "2008-10-27T21:21:23Z")
In the first episode after _Family Guy_ was revived, Peter lists all the quality shows that would have to disappear from the Fox schedule to give them a hope of coming back. > [@Peter Griffin](#): > > Well, unfortunately, Lois, there’s just no more room on the schedule. We’ve just got to accept the fact that Fox has to make room for terrific shows, like “Dark Angel”, “Titus”, “Undeclared”, “Action”, “That '80s Show”, “Wonder Falls”, “Fastlane”, “Andy Richter Controls the Universe”, “Skin”, “Girls Club”, “Cracking Up”, “The Pitts”, “Firefly”, “Get Real”, “Freaky Links”, “Wanda at Large”, “Costello”, “The Lone Gunmen”, “A Minute with Stan Hooper”, “Normal, Ohio”, “Pasadena”, “Harsh Realm”, “Keen Eddie”, “The Street”, “American Embassy”, “Cedric the Entertainer”, “The Tick”, “Louie”, and “Greg the Bunny”. (The joke being that they had all been cancelled already.) And I recognized most (but not all) of them, but had no reason to remember them. The vast majority of TV shows fade from cultural memory. Any show that is even mentioned in this thread is probably ahead of the curve, memorabilitywise. For example, does anyone else even remember **Johnny Bago** (1993, 8 episodes)? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/136 "2008-10-27T22:26:25Z")
> [@KRC](#): > > Years later, I got Isidore, the ringneck parrot. Isidore roughly translates as “Gift of Isis.” However, Izzy’s flying skills were a bit poor and it led to me screaming (after he hit the lamp) “What the @#$% hijacked you?” Did Polly every learn to say: “What the @#$% hijacked you?” ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/137 "2008-10-28T00:04:32Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > _Hogan’s Heroes_ for years it was a popular show, then suddenly everyone decided it was in poor taste to make fun of a bunch of Jewish guys who fled Nazi Germany and were spending the post-war years dressing up as Nazis for laughs. Or it got caught up in CBS’s rural purge along with The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Mayberry R.F.D., Ed Sullivan, and Hee Haw. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/138 "2008-10-28T00:08:57Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > CBS’s rural purge … Hee Haw. I was all set to point out that _Hee Haw_ was a syndicated show and lived to see the 90s, but [it turns out](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hee_Haw) it was indeed a CBS show originally, and did go down in the Rural Purge, only to find life again in syndication. So, for fighting my ignorance: Saaaaaaa-lute! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/139 "2008-10-28T00:15:47Z")
The Man From Atlantis ---
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Westerns and 80’s prime time soaps. Gunsmoke was on for 20 years, and it’s on TV Land, but I’ve never seen it discussed here. Dallas and Knot’s Landing were both on almost as long, but I’ve never seen a thread titled “Who’s your favorite Ewing?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303.md?page=8)