# What great lost shows do you want to see? which do you want to stay lost? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [July 25, 2022, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-great-lost-shows-do-you-want-to-see-which-do-you-want-to-stay-lost/968535 "2022-07-25T16:37:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-great-lost-shows-do-you-want-to-see-which-do-you-want-to-stay-lost/968535/21 "2022-07-25T23:28:43Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Well then, I have a clear TV example, the much missed [Korgoth of Barbaria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korgoth_of_Barbaria) which was an animated episode / pilot which was stated to have been picked up as a series, then not mentioned, then officially stated that it was dropped as too expensive. Oh yeah, good example. I also remember seeing that and being pissed they never made more. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-great-lost-shows-do-you-want-to-see-which-do-you-want-to-stay-lost/968535/22 "2022-07-25T23:43:40Z")
Thinking that this is shows not readily available, as opposed to new episodes of canceled shows, I will go with New Amsterdam, the 2008 one with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Only one season. Or _Forever_ (2014 TV series), also one season. Of course, sure more seasons would be nice. For a Film- the sequel to _Doc Savage, Man of Bronze,_ where the rumor is a lot was shot, but dumped. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-great-lost-shows-do-you-want-to-see-which-do-you-want-to-stay-lost/968535/23 "2022-07-26T00:15:52Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > I want House back. House isn’t a lost show. It airs on the Pop network in the US and streams for free on Peacock as well as on H&I. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-great-lost-shows-do-you-want-to-see-which-do-you-want-to-stay-lost/968535/24 "2022-07-26T00:36:47Z")
> [@salinqmind1](#): > > ‘Here Come The Brides’ was a HUGE thing when I was in high school. Bobby Sherman, Joan Blondell were the ‘names’ - mail order brides brought to Seattle logging country. Again, just to see it for old times sake. “Here Come the Brides” is shown on getTV. I was a fan when it was current. I was recently scrolling the listings and was shocked to find it available for me to watch. Well, I sat through about ten minutes of an episode and had enough. Some things are best left in our memories. Although it was cool to see the opening and hear Bobby Sherman’s title song again. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-great-lost-shows-do-you-want-to-see-which-do-you-want-to-stay-lost/968535/25 "2022-07-26T01:07:16Z")
I’d like to see the American version of **That Was the Week that Was**. I gather that not much of it survives, but the bits I’ve seen (and heard) were viciously satirical. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-great-lost-shows-do-you-want-to-see-which-do-you-want-to-stay-lost/968535/26 "2022-07-27T18:13:36Z")
Astro Boy: They have the compete set on Rightstuf. I personally think it holds up. YMMV ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-great-lost-shows-do-you-want-to-see-which-do-you-want-to-stay-lost/968535/27 "2022-07-27T18:20:35Z")
Anime _Minki Momo_ _The Amazing Three_ ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-great-lost-shows-do-you-want-to-see-which-do-you-want-to-stay-lost/968535/28 "2022-07-28T13:13:44Z")
The British science fiction TV series **Out of this World** , which adapted several sf stories. Apparently only Asimov’s Little Lost Robot survives (and I’ve never seen it) > **[Out of This World (TV Series 1962) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163475/)** > > Out of This World: With Boris Karloff, Piers Keelan, Raymond Adamson, Bill Mills. A British science-fiction anthology television series. > **[Out of This World (TV Series 1962) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163475/episodes)** [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/LhWWABp1BJ4/maxresdefault.jpg "Out of This World Little Lost Robot 1962") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhWWABp1BJ4) [http://www.britishtelevisiondrama.org.uk/?p=213](http://www.britishtelevisiondrama.org.uk/?p=213) Similarly, the British TV series **Out of the Unknown** , which also did adaptations of classic SF. Apparently a couple of episodes survive > **[Out of the Unknown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_the_Unknown)** > > Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction horror anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971. Most episodes of the first three series were a dramatisation of a science fiction short story. Some were written directly for the series, but most were adaptations of already-published stories. > The first three years were exclusively science fiction, but that genre was mostly abandoned in the final year in favour of horror-fant... > **[Out of the Unknown (TV Series 1965–1971) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058836/)** > > Out of the Unknown: With John Gabriel, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Erik Chitty, Peter Copley. A classic anthology science fiction series which features adaptations of stories by famous authors including Isaac Asimov, J.G. Ballard, Frederik Pohl and John... And, while we’re on the topic of British TV science fiction, it’d be nice to see the other episodes of **The Quatermass Experiment**. Only two of the original dsix survive (I’ve seen them). The original TV serial versions of the 1950s Quatermass series were different from the movie adaptations that followed. > **[The Quatermass Experiment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quatermass_Experiment)** > > The Quatermass Experiment is a British science fiction serial broadcast by BBC Television during the summer of 1953 and re-staged by BBC Four in 2005. Set in the near future against the background of a British space programme, it tells the story of the first crewed flight into space, supervised by Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group. > When the spaceship that carries the first successful crew returns to Earth, two of the three astronauts are missing, and the thi... ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-great-lost-shows-do-you-want-to-see-which-do-you-want-to-stay-lost/968535/29 "2022-07-28T13:26:50Z")
That might be fun. I would like to see _The Strange Report_ with Anthony Quayle (all 15 episodes) and _Night Heat_. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-great-lost-shows-do-you-want-to-see-which-do-you-want-to-stay-lost/968535/30 "2022-07-28T13:38:08Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I’d like to see the American version of **That Was the Week that Was**. I gather that not much of it survives, but the bits I’ve seen (and heard) were viciously satirical. Many years ago I went to the Museum of Broadcasting in New York (Now the Paley Media Center), because they had a large collection of TV shows that were not then (or even now, for that matter) available on home media, including several episodes of **That Was The Week That Was** , and I requested and watched some of them there (you had to watch in their playback center – no taking out videotapes). I just checked their site – they’ve got at least a dozen of the original shows – [Search Paley’s permanent media collection of television and radio programs and advertisements](https://www.paleycenter.org/collection-2/CollectionSearchForm/?Query=That+was+the+Week+that+Was&Category=tv&Field=title&action_doSearch=Search) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-great-lost-shows-do-you-want-to-see-which-do-you-want-to-stay-lost/968535/31 "2022-07-28T13:53:40Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Many years ago I went to the Museum of Broadcasting in New York (Now the Paley Media Center), because they had a large collection of TV shows that were not then (or even now, for that matter) available on home media, including several episodes of **That Was The Week That Was** , and I requested and watched some of them there (you had to watch in their playback center – no taking out videotapes). That’s the same place I watched it; think it may have been called the Museum of Television and Radio at the time. As I remember, they only had a few episodes, which makes me think that the ones they don’t have are probably lost. I also bought a CD of some highlights from the series. It’s edited as if it were two distinct episodes, but it’s really selections from through the show’s run. > **[Amazon.com: That Was the Week That Was: CDs & Vinyl](https://www.amazon.com/That-Was-Week/dp/B00873KDMC)** > > Label: Radiola – MR-1123Series: Comedy Series – No. 38Format: Vinyl, LP, AlbumCountry: USReleased: 1981Genre: Non-Music, PopStyle: ComedyTracklist1 The Best Of TW32 The Best Of TW3 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-great-lost-shows-do-you-want-to-see-which-do-you-want-to-stay-lost/968535/32 "2022-07-28T14:07:18Z")
I’d love to be able to see episodes of _Captain Video._ It’s a landmark in TV science fiction, but all the tapes are at the bottom of the East River in NY. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-great-lost-shows-do-you-want-to-see-which-do-you-want-to-stay-lost/968535/33 "2022-07-29T15:22:26Z")
This is hardly “great,” but is something I’d like to see just out of curiosity: Attempting to cash in on the corn-pone humor of “Hee Haw,” someone came up with a syndicated series called. . . “Corn Pone” (1970). There’s basically no information on that series, other than my memory, though. Lots of old variety shows I’d like seeing again. Jim Stafford and Jerry Reed both had summer replacement series for (probably) Dean Martin. ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-great-lost-shows-do-you-want-to-see-which-do-you-want-to-stay-lost/968535/34 "2022-07-29T15:34:23Z")
There are a ton of shows that appealed to 9-to-13-year-old me that I’m sure don’t hold up even in the slightest, but I’d love to watch for the nostalgic dopamine rush someday. _Misfits of Science_, _Automan_, _Tales of the Gold Monkey_ and the like. About ten years ago I frequented a shady streaming site (yeah, yeah) where I found the complete run of _Voyagers_, that time travel show starring the actor who shot himself accidentally with a blank round on his next TV gig. There was a cop show called _Broken Badges_ that lasted seven episodes, which starred Miguel Ferrer and Don S. Davis while they were both on _Twin Peaks_ at the same time. I remember thinking it wasn’t bad, but it vanished. Speaking of David Lynch, I thought _On The Air_ was a blast, but even watching the existing episodes on an SLP-speed VHS tape, I recognize that the concept couldn’t possibly be sustained for a proper season length. I think the _Skins_ is one of the best British TV shows of the past couple of decades, and it had an American (yet shot here in Toronto) remake that got axed due to content complaints and advertiser boycott threats. I’d like to be able to see that, just out of curiosity. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-great-lost-shows-do-you-want-to-see-which-do-you-want-to-stay-lost/968535/35 "2022-07-29T15:39:55Z")
The original UK Skins was an awesome show (particularly the first generation, or the first two series/seasons). I never liked the subsequent series/seasons as much. The US adaptation was OK (not great), but it was unfortunate that it got canceled. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-great-lost-shows-do-you-want-to-see-which-do-you-want-to-stay-lost/968535/36 "2022-07-29T16:57:28Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Attempting to cash in on the corn-pone humor of “Hee Haw,” someone came up with a syndicated series called. . . “Corn Pone” (1970). There’s basically no information on that series, other than my memory, though. I don’t recall that show but in the 70’s I ran across a couple of UHF country music shows that looked to follow the Hee-Haw pattern. These shows would appear late at night, at least after 1AM, apparently sponsored by Ron Popeil and other early telemarketers, somebody had to be paying the channel to stay on the air that late. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-great-lost-shows-do-you-want-to-see-which-do-you-want-to-stay-lost/968535/37 "2022-07-29T17:41:31Z")
For sheer horrific curiosity I always wished that Saturday Morning Cartoon version of Aliens dubbed Operation: Aliens came out. You can see animation they made intended to air to hype a kids action figure line on YouTube (similar to how GI Joe’s first animation was for you commercials) that was supposed to be their way of pitching the series to Fox but Fox outright rejected them because they felt it would hurt the actual Aliens brand by having a crappy kids cartoon. They were right, but I would love to see it. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-great-lost-shows-do-you-want-to-see-which-do-you-want-to-stay-lost/968535/38 "2022-07-29T18:38:40Z")
Speaking of Saturday morning shows… When I was a wee one, in the late 1960s, my favorite TV show was _[The Banana Splits Adventure Hour](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Banana_Splits)_. It was a sort of a variety show; the “Banana Splits” was a fictional rock band, consisting of four costumed characters (anthropomorphic animals), and the show featured those characters in live-action segments, and several unrelated cartoons (plus one live-action adventure series). The live-action segments with the Banana Splits were sort of a cross between the Monkees’ TV show, and Three Stooges-style slaptstick humor. I loved that show so much as a little kid that I got my parents to mail away for a membership for me in the Banana Splits Fan Club, and I named my stuffed dog Fleegle, after the dog character in the group. Sometime in the 1990s, I caught a couple of episodes of it, when reruns were being shown on either Cartoon Network or Boomerang…and I was crushed when I discovered that, to my adult eyes, it was a really, really terrible show. In particular, the segments with the Banana Splits themselves, which I had loved so much, were incredibly cheesy, as well as being really poorly filmed. I also realized that my parents must have really loved me, to allow me to watch that show that I loved so much, because I’m sure that they hated it. At any rate, it’s not available on any streaming service, and has never been issued on DVD or Blu-Ray in the U.S. So, it’s “lost,” and probably should stay that way. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-great-lost-shows-do-you-want-to-see-which-do-you-want-to-stay-lost/968535/39 "2022-07-29T18:43:43Z")
La la la, la la la la ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-great-lost-shows-do-you-want-to-see-which-do-you-want-to-stay-lost/968535/40 "2022-07-29T18:46:54Z")
After the Banana Splits went nuts and went on an axe murdering spree, that ship has probably sailed. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/NlgFo_Q9fE4/maxresdefault.jpg "THE BANANA SPLITS Official Trailer (2019) Horror Movie HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlgFo_Q9fE4) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-great-lost-shows-do-you-want-to-see-which-do-you-want-to-stay-lost/968535.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-great-lost-shows-do-you-want-to-see-which-do-you-want-to-stay-lost/968535.md?page=3)