What about Now And Again? (I loved that program. It’s a travesty it never got a 2nd series. )
Mary Hartman Mary Hartman and/ or Fernwood Tonight…
Headline making shows in their day, and now dusty memories
FML
I remember that clearly. 3 main characters: GKR, a talking dinosaur, & a cyborg girl named Lady Mac Beth. Though everybody just called her Becky. She hated that.
I wish it was out myself.
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It has not lost almost half its season 1 audience. From your own link, the articles say that the season 1 finale of Lost received 21 million viewers while the season 4 finale received 13 million viewers. Yes, that is a drop. But the season 1 finale was also the best episode the show ever did. Everything looks like a drop when compared to the best.
Also from your cite:
While it may not be as popular as it was in the first season, saying it’s dropped off the cultural radar is ridiculous. Season 4 also earned the show it’s highest place ever in the overall ratings:
Just because people around here like to bitch about Lost doesn’t mean it is no longer a major part of the television landscape.
In Living Color. We talked about the show for days afterwards.
Jamie Foxx
Jennifer Lopez
Damon Wayans
Jim Carrey
David Alan Grier
…all graduates of the show.
I’ll leave my response although I see that Comedy Central will begin reruns next year.
Ooh - The Smothers Brothers Show.
Magnum P.I.?
Was going to say Kolchak, but they tried to remake it, so I guess it wasn’t that forgotten.
I don’t think too many of the Germans portrayed in Hogan’s Heroes were Nazis. They were officers of the German army, and therefore prohibited from membership in any political party.
St. Elsewhere. It was on tv when I was a very small child, and despite years of religiously watching TVLand and other syndication-filled networks, I never managed to see the show (though I’ve seen a lot of the shows mentioned here, including Picket Fences, though I agree it’s obscure). For a show that had enough cultural impact to inspire this, I’m shocked that it isn’t replayed.
Some of this is time lag, though, because shows like Mad About You and **Night Court **are just now getting play again.
Daria, No play no DVDs.
Tell me about it. :mad:
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 concur with your opinion of The State, which was pure comic good. Remember Young God?
Remember The Adventures of Brisco County Jr? It had Bruce Campbell in it, and in retrospect it reminds me of Joss Whedon stuff. It kinda seems like Fox pulled a Firefly with that one about 8 years before Firefly even existed.
I remember Dead at 21. Did we ever find out what happened to that guy? Did I quit watching or did it die?
Hah, brilliant show, now available on DVD. Sci-Fi Western, but with the emphasis on the Western rather than the sci-fi. Dixie Cousins was unbelievably hot.
I just discovered that one of the freshest & most innovative animated shows ever is on DVD–6Teen.
Its severe nosedive in the ratings is pretty conclusive evidence that it has indeed dropped off the cultural radar.
Did you miss my cite? Lost’s ratings have gone down in total viewers, but so have all broadcast shows. It’s overall ranking among all broadcast shows has actually gone up.
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.