I fully support bringing back the following:
Eerie, Indiana
American Gothic
Freaks and Geeks
Sledge Hammer!
Parker Lewis Can’t Lose (*Remember Larry Kubiak, played by Abraham Benrubi? He’d do something right, then say “Eat now?” and they would throw him a fish.)
And does anyone remember Nowhere Man, with Bruce Greenwood?
Or Bakersfield P.D. ?
I miss the Lone Gunmen already…
Babylon 5 and Crusade
WKRP in Cincinnati.
Remember the main characters? Arthur “Big Guy” Carlson, Herbert R. Tarlek III, Les Nessman, Andy Travis, Bailey Quarters, Johnny Fever, Venus Flytrap. And the secondary players, called in as necessary: station owner Mama Carlson, engineer Bucky Dornster, and the butler Hirsch.
The classic episodes are still remembered: the Thanksgiving turkey giveaway, the “sting” to get the photos of Jennifer, Johnny’s time in Gone with the Wind Estates, Jennifer’s moving day, the softball game with WPIG, the phone cops, the Scum of the Earth concert, and so many more.
It’s been almost twenty years since WKRP has been produced, but I still catch the reruns if I can.
In Germany they are rerunninig Hogan’s Heroes but with the epsiodes redubbed. The episodes are being rewritten - same scenes but new dialogue.
That I want to see. But they’d have to redub the redubbing!
By the way, a friend of the family, a POW in WWII loved that series. His favorite personal Hogan’s Heros type story was when his POW transport train stopped and prisoners were allowed to use the train station latrine. Since he had a broken leg in a cast he was the last in line. As he came out the German Guard handed his machine gun over for him to hold while the guard took his turn.
Nightmare Cafe, which lasted, what, half a season? Anyone else remember that show? It had Robert Englund and two people who I can’t remember.
YES! YES! YES!
A HUGE amen to that one. Intelligent, funny and with a heart. Great characters and with a core of (dare I say it) message. In addition to the above-mentioned episodes, I was particularly partial to “Jennifer and the Will” from the forth season (1981) in which guest star Pat O’Brien playing “Colonel Buchanan” croaks while having dinner with Jennifer. He names Jennifer as executor in a video will and asks that she use his money be used for a parade for the veterans of his old outfut. O’Brien does a wonderful job, addressing each of his heirs in turn via the tape. It also had a scene that revealed a positive side to the Herb Tarleck character. Everyone else in the office is pussyfooting around Jennifer, being oversolicitous or afraid to bring up the subject. Herb comes in and says something like (paraphrasing from memory) “Hey, heard about you and the old guy. What a way to go! Out eating dinner in a fancy restaraunt with the best-looking lady in town.” For which Jennifer thanks him in some surprise. Very, very well done.
Of course, I was sales manager of a local radio station when the series first came out. One of my first reactions after seing Herb was to lose my white belt and white shoes…
another vote for WKRP - I recall the show they did shortly after several fans were crushed at a Who concert in Cinncinatti - very sensitive, very well done.
The Prisoner
The Avengers - with Mrs. Peel !!
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour - yes, the anti-war references would be dated, but I think worthwhile
that’s all I can think of for now
Sounds like Nanny and the Professor, but that was early 1970s. Juliet Mills… mmmmm…
– Bob
The ex-con in EZ Streets was played by Jason Patrick, who IIRC also played Joe Falcone/Joe Pistone in Falcone.
And it’s Joe Pantoliano.
I liked Stingray, with Nick Mancuso as a guy named Ray, who drove a Stingray, and solved problems for people, taking his payment in favors instead of money.
And Doctor Doctor, with Matt Frewer, was a laugh riot.
Second Noah was a good family show, or show about a family, rather. It was sweet, but willing to deal with pretty serious stuff.
Two: The protagonist was framed for his wife’s murder by a twin brother the law didn’t realize existed. People thought they were the same person. It got pretty surreal sometimes.
Mann and Machine: My first exposure to Yancy Butler.
Moon Over Miami: Light P.I. show with Bill Campbell and Ally Walker.
Brooklyn South: Dylan Walsh was great in that.
I remember that I watched an episode of Nightmare Cafe. Speaking of quickly aborted NBC shows, anyone else remember The Fifth Corner? Not that it was great, but it was suspense, so I watched it.
Oh, yeah… I loved that show, for the five or ten minutes it was on. And she had exactly the right way of holding her face – the open-just-a-bit-too-wide eyes, the slightly-too-tense muscles – that managed to say convincingly “I look human, but I’m not”.
– Bob
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
(guilty admission, I don’t remember how long I thought the agency actually existed, after all, they had that “thank you” to the U.N.C.L.E. in the credits at the end of the show… anyway I was, what, about 12 when it first came on?)
Sports Night
I’d like to see more/new episodes of The Young Ones, a dreadfully vulgar and hideously funny English comedy that played on MTV in the 80s.
Although I know it’s impossible, I’d like to see more Monty Python. Graham Chapman (rest his soul) was hilarious.
I thoroughly enjoyed The Kids in the Hall. Apparently Canadians are funny.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. comes (or came) on late at night on TNT, I don’t know if it still does or not. Flying Circus still comes on A&E from time to time. God I LOVED Sledge Hammer! I know MST3K just left and all, and is in reruns on scifi, but I miss it just the same. And Airwolf was coming on TVLand for a while, but I’m not sure if it still is. I would love to see My So-Called Life again (Claire Danes is so friggin’ hot) I get my MAS*H fix from F/X, so that’s okay. Does anyone remember the Greatest American Hero? (I think that’s what it was called…“Would you believe it or not? I’m walkin’ on air…”) The hero’s powers only worked on occasion, and I always loved that even though I was just a wee tyke at the time it aired. There was also this really cool show that had this guy from inside a computer (I think) and he had an intelligent cursor for his sidekick that would make stuff for him. It also liked to get into mischief, IIRC. Does anyone remember this one?
Sure, with William Katt back in the early eighties… I remember Greatest American Hero.
Thanks for the guess, Bob, but I wasn’t born until the late 70’s, so I don’t think ithat could be it 
Wonder what it could be, then. Anyone else have a clue?
Automan – came out not long after Tron hit the theatres. If I remember right, Desi Arnaz Jr. was the computer expert who wrote the program which summoned Automan – the show definitely hinted that he was more than just a construct, but rather something that came from somewhere else to take the form of Automan.
– Bob
First, for those who said “Yes, yes!” to Babylon 5 and Crusade, there is Legend of the Rangers, the TV movie coming to the Sci Fi channel this fall. The word is that if the ratings are any where near respectable, this will be made a series. So there is more from the Babylon 5 universe in your future.
Second, Nanny and the Professor was rerun time and time again, so it almost has to be the show that has been described; I can’t think of anything else that fits. Richard Long was the professor.
Speaking of Stingray, my favorite show that no one else in the world has heard of is Matrix, also staring Nick Mancuso, as a hit man (Steven Matrix) who was shot himself, and almost died. He goes to the World In Between, and instead of dying gets assignments from the people of that world (devils? angels? we are never sure) to help others rather than being sent to hell. It was a Canadian import that had its own charm for me (for one thing, Eartha Kitt as a motorcycle riding nun — sublime!). Mancuso made the show, as always, mainly because he let the character grow over the short time that the show lasted. You could see a dawning realization that he had actually hurt people being born inside him, and it was almost painful to watch.
Another really guilty pleasure is She Wolf of London, which started out in England and came over to Los Angeles. Camp, camp, camp, but wonderful fun. Kate Hodges is a doll.
Quasimodem, the third of rotating Warner Bros western shows was “Bronco Lane” starring Ty Hardin
Another that I’d like to see again is Renegade. Anybody else remember that one? It was a good adventure series produced and written by Stephen J. Cannell, who also occasionally appeared in it as well.
Reno Raines (Lorenzo Lamas) worked for Bobby Sixkiller’s (Branscombe Richmond) bounty-hunting service. Problem was, Lamas was himself running from Lt. Dixon (Cannell), for the usual “crime he did not commit” plot twist. Both of these situations provided plenty of opportunities to construct various plot lines. Bobby’s adopted sister Cheyenne (Kathleen Kinmont) helped out also, and provided a little sexual tension.
Since it seems unlikely that they will rerun the series, I’ll post a summary of one of my favorite episodes, which includes a spoiler:
Sixkiller has a lead on where legendary hijacker D.B. Cooper might be. The lead led Raines, Sixkiller, and Cheyenne to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, where the locals in the town bar have all kinds of information, most of which turns up nothing. Only at the end of the show do our heroes realize that they have been sent deliberately on wild-goose chases, and go home…
…as D.B. Cooper wipes down his bar, and his daughter serves up another round to their friends.
Good show. I’d like to see it again.