Okay, I couldn’t stand it and went out to find it myself. The show was called Run, Joe, Run and there’s little info about it.
There’s a picture.
And a really amusing synopsis.
I was apparently wrong about the background – Joe, the dog, was a persecuted Vietnam Vet that is hunted as a terrible weapon by authorities, while helping people along the way.
Really, wouldn’t you have loved to have heard that pitch?
Well, it never sold. That’s the first thing. I do remember the name was a mixture of “Pooch” and a Jewish last name.
Now that I think about it, “ini” is more of an Italian suffix, isn’t it?
And speaking of Jews, I don’t think Askance pointed out the name of the Hitler show: Heil Honey, I’m Home!
Anyone remember the Scottish show Super Gran? I watched that when I was a kid. The episodes weren’t much, but it had a killer theme song. From recollection it went something like:
Stand back Superman, Iceman, Spiderman,
Batman and Robin, too
Don’t want to cause a ruckus, but BA Baracus,
Have I got a match for you!
She makes them look like a bunch of babies,
She’s got more bottle than United Dairies
Hang about! Watch out! It’s Super Gran!
I notice on the IMDB that someone’s credited Billy Connolly with singing the theme song - well, that’d explain how they managed to rhyme ‘babies’ with ‘dairies’, I guess! 
One series with an implausible premise that I just can’t take to, however, is Law & Order: Criminal Intent. A cop show where they spend 25 minutes thinking about evidence, realize they don’t have enough, but it never matters because they can always force a confession from the most hardened criminal by sympathising with their traumatic childhood and discovering that said criminal is just a poor wretch tortured by his bad upbringing. (Where’s a pukey smiley when you need one?)
L&O:CI is on right before something I actually want to watch, so I frequently catch the last 10 mins or so, and it seems that they never really deviate from that single premise.
Re: Manimal - I remember I loved that show when it came out. In my defence, I was a kid and what I really loved were the special effects (which were quite impressive for the time, although having done the man-to-panther thing once, they reused the same footage for every other time…) - plus, who doesn’t think that being able to turn into an animal is cool? 
Barbara poses naked! Thank you for shattering my last illusion :D.
It was a great show, but you could make a case that it was the opposite of the ones mentioned here that are good premises poorly executed. That is, the idea of a guy leaving the rat race to persue self sufficency is a good premise, but anyone who did that would have sold their house and bought a farm somewhere. The idea of trying to farm in Surbiton is a bit silly. But of course if they had moved it wouldn’t have been funny.
Poochinski
I give you
Salvage One…
Andy Griffith stars as a junkyard owner who builds a space ship from his scrap pile in order to retreive valuable parts left on the moon by American Astronauts.
Well, it does star Vincent D’Onofrio, after all. I’m hoping in the last episode, the suspect will be played by R. Lee Ermey and when D’Onofrio gets to the part about alienation of parental affection (i.e. some variant on “What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn’t Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?”), Ermey should grab a gun, shoot D’Onofrio and then himself.
There is no way this is worse than attempting to bring a bowdlerized Blazing Saddles to the small screen. Dear Og, that is painful to watch.
No, no, as a made-for-TV movie, it was fine. Where it really began to suck was when they made a series out of it. I mean, you go to the freakin’ Moon, and what do you do for an encore? You land on some island and are attacked by Bigfoot! :rolleyes:
That’s because I was replying to a post that DID have the name, and a link to the IMDB entry. I just thought it needed a boost as it seemed a clear winner to me.
Maybe so, but the **premise **is not nearly as deranged as HH,IH.
Could I be the only one to remember It’s About Time, a silly Sherwood Schwartz comedy of the 60’s? Here’s a stupid premise for you: two astronauts in their capsule get entangled in some sort of space-time continuum dipsy-doodle and end up in prehistorical times. It starred, IIRC, Imogene Coca and Joe E. Ross as grotesque cavemen. Oy, what a stupid show. And I was ten years old at the time and liked stupid shows!
UK: Pets Win Prizes, and that was it, in a nutshell.
Certainly nt! Pepper and I remember it well. Mac and Hec, from “other side of Hill”, land in prehistoric times and enconter a hanful of cavemen, along with a few dinosaurs in clips stolen from the movie Dinosaurus.
What really was pathetic was when they realized the show wouldn’t make it, and switched to Mac and Hec bringing the cavemen back to modern-day Cape Canaveral.
It’s about Time
It’s about Space!
It’s about (your enemy’s name here)
Ugly Face!
Not the real lyrics, but cloe enough.
I didn’t mention it because, although it is, in fact , monumentally stupid, it’s not even in the running against the shows listed here.
**Giligan’s Planet. ** Apparently the Professor still can’t fix the hole in the damn boat, but he can build a rocket out of Bamboo…and Giligan gets them lost in space.
Hell, the money is lagniappe. They’ll go through all that just to get on television.
Doogie Howser became a doctor at 14 – no such thing IRL, but Balamurali Ambati became a doctor at 17, in 1995. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balamurali_Ambati Like Howser, he was not only a child prodigy but a doctor’s son. (That story could not, however, have inspired Doogie Howser, M.D., which ran 1989-93.)
Indeed. Starlost was based on a brilliant premise. Its botched execution was one of the worst tragifarces in the history of TV and SF alike.
You know, I’d like to see a network take another stab at it. If Battlestar Galactica can be reconceived and remade, why not Starlost? At least they couldn’t do it worse.
I remember when DS9 came out, the producers said they conceived of it as an SF version of a Western set in some frontier outpost in a lawless territory. Nothing boring about that, is there? I mean, living in a frontier town would probably be really boring IRL, but it’s not bad as an action-packed TV show premise. Most of the action on Gunsmoke took place in Dodge City, most of the action on Bonanza took place on or near the Ponderosa. But the public, on the evidence, did not find those shows boring. Same with HBO’s Deadwood.
