Name one television show that looms larger on the cultural landscape.
Dudes are just watching it through their computers, etc.
Anyone mentioned Dawson’s Creek yet?
Does Parker Lewis Can’t Lose count?
American Idol.
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?”
Lately? Heroes, from what I understand.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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…”
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.
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?
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.
(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)?
Did Polly every learn to say: “What the @#$% hijacked you?”
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.
I was all set to point out that Hee Haw was a syndicated show and lived to see the 90s, but it turns out 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!
The Man From Atlantis
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?”