# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Sublata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@Sublata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublata)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/141 "2008-10-28T15:36:39Z")
_Laugh-In_, maybe? I don’t have cable, so I don’t know if this gets re-run. I don’t hear people saying “Sock it to me” or “You bet your sweet bippy” these days. ---
**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 28, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/142 "2008-10-28T15:40:56Z")
> [@Sublata](#): > > _Laugh-In_, maybe? I don’t have cable, so I don’t know if this gets re-run. I don’t hear people saying “Sock it to me” or “You bet your sweet bippy” these days. Well, except that Ruth Buzzi is still a household name if your household demographics skew old enough. And Goldie Hawn is a megastar. And Lily Tomlin is still famous enough to be recognized by most people. And the Emmys this year had an onstage reunion of some of the cast. ---
**Author:** ![Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Licentious_Ectomorph)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/143 "2008-10-28T16:12:36Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > 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. Huh? “Isis” _is_ on DVD. Honest. I have it - the complete series. Not bootlegs, an official release. I don’t know why I seem to have lost the ability to hide links behind text, but here’s a link: [http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Isis-Complete-JoAnna-Cameron/dp/B000QQDEZG/ref=sr\_1\_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1225210192&sr=1-1](http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Isis-Complete-JoAnna-Cameron/dp/B000QQDEZG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1225210192&sr=1-1) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/144 "2008-10-28T20:10:23Z")
> [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](#): > > Huh? “Isis” _is_ on DVD. Honest. I have it - the complete series. Not bootlegs, an official release. I don’t know why I seem to have lost the ability to hide links behind text, but here’s a link: [http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Isis-Complete-JoAnna-Cameron/dp/B000QQDEZG/ref=sr\_1\_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1225210192&sr=1-1](http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Isis-Complete-JoAnna-Cameron/dp/B000QQDEZG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1225210192&sr=1-1) I notice that its only been out for about a year. The last time I checked the fan sites about the show was several years ago, so I guess one of them finally got Hallmark to release it from their clutches. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/145 "2008-10-28T20:28:43Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Magnum P.I.? Magnum was rerun on A&E for a while but they stopped a few years ago. However, there’s going to be a movie next year, with Matthew McConaughey rumored to be taking the lead role. Tom Selleck has said he’d disown it. As will I. For the OP: How about **NYPD Blue**? Big out of the gate, some decent “naked butt” controversy, then it stayed on too long, and Sipowicz having everyone in his life die turned into a joke / meme…and now it’s seemed to have vanished completely. Plus, they seem to have replaced it in syndication with some form of Law & Order. ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/146 "2008-10-28T20:47:27Z")
_Moonlighting_ was very big and did wondrous things for the careers of Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis, but it did not seem to make serious inroads into the public cultural consciousness\*. RR \*If there is any such thing. ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/147 "2008-10-28T21:10:51Z")
Batman (TV series 1966-1968) … the hottest show at the time. Same Bat Channel, Same Bat Time! Now a faint memory and only brought to mind because of the Batman movie franchise. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/148 "2008-10-28T21:36:38Z")
> [@nivlac](#): > > Batman (TV series 1966-1968) … the hottest show at the time. Same Bat Channel, Same Bat Time! Now a faint memory and only brought to mind because of the Batman movie franchise. You’re not serious? Everyone knows what the original Batman was like if only to contrast it to the modern films and the cartoon series. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/149 "2008-10-28T21:41:58Z")
_NewRadio_ ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/150 "2008-10-28T21:47:46Z")
[Fridays](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fridays_%28TV_series%29). Not even available on DVD. Do you eat it? No no nooooo no! Do you drink it? No no nooooo no! Do you _smoke_ it? Yes yes yesssss yes! ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/151 "2008-10-28T22:06:18Z")
> [@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. So true. I always said that a good indicator of when a Generation Xer or Yer begins to feel “old” is when they can no longer relate to that year’s group of Real World Housemates. For me, I could really identify with the San Francisco group, but not London. That means I became “old” around 1994-1995. I can’t even name the Real World cities in order anymore: New York, LA, San Francisco, London, Miami … uhh, someplace else hip like Seattle or Portland or whatever, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/152 "2008-10-29T00:27:05Z")
[OP back again] There were any number of very late 60’s/early 70’s films which (even as a tween) I recall as getting tons of press at the time of their release. Stuff like _Jesus Christ Superstar_, _The Last Picture Show_, _Paper Moon_ (tons more but IMDb’s search engine sucks) really have no pop culture weight or visibility at all anymore, while others of the same time period are still touchstones to this day (_Patton_, _The Godfather_, _Deliverance_). The 60’s were weird I guess. ---
**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 29, 2008, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/153 "2008-10-29T22:41:20Z")
Ooh, ooh…The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd! My Dad and I LOVED that show! ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/154 "2008-10-30T00:11:36Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > [OP back again] > > There were any number of very late 60’s/early 70’s films which (even as a tween) I recall as getting tons of press at the time of their release. Stuff like _Jesus Christ Superstar_, _The Last Picture Show_, _Paper Moon_ (tons more but IMDb’s search engine sucks) really have no pop culture weight or visibility at all anymore, while others of the same time period are still touchstones to this day (_Patton_, _The Godfather_, _Deliverance_). The 60’s were weird I guess. I think with **The Last Picture Show** and **Paper Moon,** their apparent lack of present-day of visibility has a lot to do with the fortunes of their director, [Peter Bogdanovich.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bogdanovich) For a time in the early 70s, Bogdanovich was the hottest director in Hollywood after he helmed a string of critically-acclaimed and financially successful movies. Then his touch suddenly went cold and, aside from 1985’s **Mask** , he has not directed a successful film since. As a result, his 70s movies don’t get as much play today as the earlier works of his “New Hollywood” contemporaries like Coppola, Scorsese or Spielberg. Also, in the case of **The Last Picture Show** , another reason it doesn’t seem to be a still-popular old favorite like **Patton** or **The Godfather** is that it’s unremittingly depressing. The B-W cinematography, while perfectly matching the movie’s tone, only makes it even more bleak. No matter how good they are, people tend not to repeatedly view downer movies. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-which-have-almost-completely-dropped-off-the-cultural-radar-screen/469303/155 "2008-10-30T01:41:25Z")
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