Wonder Years
ALF
Perfect Strangers
Mr. Belvedere
Charles In Charge
Out Of This World
And The Weakest Link.
Both of which you can watch several times a day on the game show network.
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
OOOH!
quite true.
It was discussed, protested against, banned in several States, & everybody wanted to watch it.
Now? Poof.
Sic transit gloria mundi.
Northern Exposure - I’d love to see reruns.
Really? Repeats are becoming more numerous here in the UK of late, I never thought it had dropped.
There were remakes of these series? When?
Well, for almost completely forgotten, how about “Peyton Place”? I’ve never even seen the show myself., although I did have to read the book for a college class (and like Douglas Sirk’s movie adaptation), but the TV show seems to just not exist. Apparently it was so popular in the 1960s it was aired three times a week (this was a primetime series).
Most likely, it’s “racy” storylines probably look tame today, but just a brief rundown of it’s cast - Dorothy Malone, Mia Farrow, Ryan O’Neill, Lee Grant, Ruth Warrick, Gena Rowland - still makes me curious to see it.
I think this depends on how you define cultural radar. If you’re allowing internet, it’s like Due South just went off the air yesterday. The ds_meta community on LiveJournal is active, the fic community is huge, and there’s vidders and shippers and fandom analysis galore.
(Of course, my perspective is screwed; over the past year my family went from having never seen it to having two entire sets of it, one at home and one in my dorm room, plus an extra DVD version of Call of the Wild because Dad bought that for Mom before we had the final season on DVD. My mom is writing fic for it, I’m getting everything C6D I can just because I’ve watched all of Due South and need something else Canadian to see, and even my brother doesn’t mind the show too much.)
ACTUALLY ON TOPIC: I feel like basically everything on ABC’s TGIF lineup, except for a few quotes and the character of Urkel, has been entirely forgotten. With many shows, this is for the best.
I have three words for you: The Olsen Twins.
St. Elsewhere was an Emmy Machine for its actors, winner of best drama one and and 5 time Golden Globe nominee for best drama. Launched Mark Harmon, Denzel, Ed Begley, Howie Mandel, David Morse into the mainstream to mention a few …
It doesn’t play on the Comcast system for the next 7 days.
I dunno about Lucy. It’s still on TV, and still being marketed. My best friend’s daughter has been a Lucy fan since she was a toddler. She’s 18 now, and she still wants Lucy stuff for Christmas and birthdays. My friend has no trouble finding new Lucy stuff for her. And we still see people referring to scenes from Lucy classics, like the candy assembly line, Vetamitavegamin (sp?), and Lucy trying to keep secrets from Ricky.
I am still pissed off Hill Street Blues has only seasons 1 and 2 out on DVD, St Elsewhere only season 1.
Nah, he’s probably too busy counting his money.
Ditto. My 12-year-old niece has been into ILL for a couple of years now, and is enabled because it’s on several times a day over at TV Land (not to mention marathons). And because it rocks, of course. It’s a treat to watch this thoroughly modern tween laughing to gags I loved myself as a kid watching reruns.
MAS*H is repeated three or four times on Hallmark and/or TV Land. I’d say it’s still got plenty of life yet. Same with All in the Family. And also, somewhat bizarrely, Beverly Hillbillies, the charms of which have always eluded me.
It’s too bad about Andromeda, but I don’t think it ever had much of a pop culture impact even when it was on. Reruns probably don’t fly very well perhaps because there were only two terrific seasons before it devolved into dreck for the final three. Bloody Tribune! Another Trib show that I don’t think had much of a shelf life was Earth: Final Conflict.
Xena is still shown on Oxygen, I believe, and seemed pretty popular for the network. Hercules was there too, but I don’t think lasted as long. I kinda miss all those schlocky Renaissance / Tribune action shows – stuff like Jack of All Trades, Tarzan, and what was that show that was a total ripoff of the X-Men? Mutant-X maybe? They definitely never permeated the zeitgeist though.
Ally McBeal is actually the best example and you cited it in the OP. That show was ubiquitous, but faded fast. The only time I’m reminded of it is when I watch reruns of the “When Aliens Attack” episode of Futurama and its parody, Single Female Lawyer.
TVLand runs TOS daily. TOS with the new special effects airs weekly in syndication. Spike TV runs Voyager and DS9 several nights a week. SciFi airs Enterprise and TNG at some regular frequency. And for all I know some or all of the above may still be airing in that horrible 2.0 format on G4 (I don’t really watch that channel anymore so I couldn’t say for certain.) Hardly a drop in profile, other than nothing NEW. But the old stuff, there’s more of that to watch regularly each week than probably at any point in history.
Many people have mentioned ALF, well, thanks to WGN that one is back from the graveyard, too. Actually, WGN’s showing a lot of older stuff these days. Newhart, WKRP, Honeymooners, and more. If you check their listings, you might be surprised and find something you haven’t seen in a while and want to see again.
And yeah, choie, the X-Men ripoff syndicated show was Mutant X. The real kicker is that the property was actually owned by Marvel, ripping itself off. They took the name from one of the X-Men spinoff comics that had zip zero nada in common with the show. It was about Havok being transplanted into an alternate universe. Then they gave the title to that crummy (IMO) show and canceled the comic to prevent confusion or some such. :rolleyes:
No, it isn’t. I like it, but to think it’s still “tremendously popular” would be willfully ignorant.
‘Lost’ Season 4 Suffers Ratings Decline
‘Lost’ finale ratings: Good enough for the win, but it’s no season 1
It’s lost almost half its season 1 audience, which would seem to merit a mention in this thread. To put it another way, it’s not drawing that many more viewers than ER, which seems to be unanimously agreed upon as a good fit for this thread. (Despite TNT running repeats every day, and during the day, too; not even banished to 3am.)
There was an animated series called Project GKR that was smart and funny and lasted about 5 episodes and was seen no more. It’s probably been ten years since I watched an episode, but I remembered the name of the show, the premise, and the two main characters, that’s how well it stuck in my mind. I don’t think it was ever released on video or DVD, but there’s a few clips on Youtube somebody got from god knows where.
These things are “hot” then “not” all the time.
Beavis & Butthead.
Celebrity Deathmatch.
And I thought **The State **was brilliant, far beyond Mad TV.
Anyone remember Dead at 21?
That’s what I thought…
Keep in mind, I’m 27, so all these shows popped up when I was in Middle & High School, so MTV was sorta big on the cultural radar for my peer group at the time.
Say, wasn’t 21 Jump Street pretty big back in the day?