# Your favorite show nobody but you remembers. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 7, 2017, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006 "2017-04-07T20:30:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Cugel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cugel/32/1199_2.png) [@Cugel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cugel)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/181 "2017-04-10T08:11:02Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > It was very popular in New Zealand in the early-mid 1990s (all my friends and I watched it) but I don’t think it was ever on TV in Australia; I’ve never met anyone in this country who has ever heard of the show, much less considered themselves a fan. It was, for I have seen it. From memory, I think I liked his teacher/principal and there was this chunky bloke called Kubochek? My entry is Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/182 "2017-04-10T08:42:24Z")
[The Mary Whitehouse Experience](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mary_Whitehouse_Experience) early 90s British sketch comedy show: A big influence on the slightly more influential Fast Show (known as Brilliant in the US). In the fine tradition of British telly, only ran for two series. I’ve not met anyone who wasn’t a teenager or young-ish adult in the UK at the time who remembers it at all. But those (like myself) who were still have the catchphrases ingrained on my brain… ---
**Author:** ![JacobSwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@JacobSwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobSwan)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/183 "2017-04-10T14:05:23Z")
> [@griffin1977](#): > > [The Mary Whitehouse Experience](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mary_Whitehouse_Experience) early 90s British sketch comedy show: > > > A big influence on the slightly more influential Fast Show (known as Brilliant in the US). In the fine tradition of British telly, only ran for two series. > > I’ve not met anyone who wasn’t a teenager or young-ish adult in the UK at the time who remembers it at all. But those (like myself) who were still have the catchphrases ingrained on my brain… I remember it well, and the Radio One show that it came from. They went through a period of playing comedy shows at midnight on a friday. ---
**Author:** ![JacobSwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@JacobSwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobSwan)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/184 "2017-04-10T14:06:59Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > If we’re talking about shows nobody but me remembers, here’s one that’s so obscure, that even I don’t remember its title - I thought it was _Vaudeville_, but IMDB has no reference to it. It was a syndicated hour-long show in the 1970s that was a variety show that was staged like a vaudeville show, with acts performing on a stage. (Imagine _America’s Got Talent_ without the judges.) Was it ‘The good old Days’? > **[Good Old Days (disambiguation)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Old_Days)** > > The good old days is a term used when referring to better times in the past. > Good Old Days may also refer to: It’s being repeated on BBC4 these days. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/185 "2017-04-10T14:10:58Z")
If anyone besides me remembers _ **McKeever and the Colonel** _, I’ll buy them a lobster dinner at Scott’s in London! > **[McKeever and the Colonel (TV Series 1962–1963) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055690/)** > > McKeever and the Colonel: With Allyn Joslyn, Scott Lane, Jackie Coogan, Johnny Eimen. A young cadet at a boys' military academy is always getting into trouble and driving his superior officer crazy. Some episodes are on YouTube. Looking at the cast lists of these old shows on IMDB is pretty amazing, when you see who was in what. So many of the actors I remember guest starred on them. F’rinstance, Jericho (1966) not only had Walter Koenig but James Doohan, Lawrence Montaigne, Malachi Throne, and a whole slew of others. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2017, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/186 "2017-04-10T14:20:45Z")
I remember many of these, including **Search**. Someone (IK thought it weas James Lileks, but, if so, he’s taken it down) did a pretty good reminiscence on the show. My contribution: **My World, and Welcome To It** , a show based on the writings and cartoons of James Thurber, with animated sequences. It starred William Windom (Captain Decker in the Star Trek episode with the World Destroyer). It was utterly unlike anything else on television, and I suspect that most people had no idea how to classify it. It had animation, but wasn’t directed to kids or to easy sitcom or slapstick humor. It frequently referenced the New Yorker (as “The Manhattanite”). > **[My World and Welcome to It](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_World_and_Welcome_to_It)** > > My World ... and Welcome to It is an American half-hour television sitcom based on the humor and cartoons of James Thurber. > It starred William Windom as John Monroe, a Thurber-like writer and cartoonist who works for a magazine closely resembling The New Yorker called The Manhattanite. Wry, fanciful and curmudgeonly, Monroe observes and comments on life, to the bemusement of his wife Ellen (Joan Hotchkis) and daughter Lydia (Lisa Gerritsen). Monroe's frequent daydreams and fantasies are usually ... > **[My World and Welcome to It (TV Series 1969–1970) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063934/)** > > My World and Welcome to It: Created by Melville Shavelson. With William Windom, Joan Hotchkis, Lisa Gerritsen, Harold J. Stone. John Monroe observes and comments on life, to the bemusement of his sensible wife Ellen (Joan Hotchkis) and intelligent,... It had two pilots ten years before the show finally made the air, and won two Emmys during its one season run, but it never got good ratings. ---
**Author:** ![ruh-roh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ruh-roh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruh-roh)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/187 "2017-04-10T15:46:00Z")
A few mentioned above… _Blake’s 7_ - remember liking it, also remember the special effects were pretty cheesy. _John Larroquette Show_ - A great show. Made me realize just how good he was in Night Court (“hhmmm… those are new.”). _Days and Nights of Molly Dodd_ - Had a whole different feel to it. Something about being filmed with the camera work of a movie instead of a television show. A few of my own… (all from the 1960’s) _Hoppity Hooper_ - animated, a younger half-sibling to Rocky and Bullwinkle. _Doctor in the House_ - A British sitcom following the antics of a group of medical students. _The 21st Century_ - a more documentary type of show that tried to show where technology would take the planet “30 minutes into the future”. I remember the Walter Cronkite was tied in with it somehow (narrator ?). _Mr Wizard_ - Maybe not quite so obscure except in name only. The (original ?) science guy does experiments on T.V. show. Lasted for quite a number of years. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/188 "2017-04-10T15:58:55Z")
I used to love to watch [_The Computer Chronicles_](https://archive.org/details/computerchronicles) with Stewart Cheifet. (Even though he always hogged the couch.) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/189 "2017-04-10T16:08:09Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > Their other two shows, however, while of similar quality, are all but forgotten. I don’t think I’ve heard either one even mentioned in a decade aside from discussions like this: > > _Once and Again_, (1999) was about two divorcees falling in love, and their families. It ran for three seasons, then seems to have been completely forgotten. > > And even more obscure is _Relativity_, (1996), about 20-somethings. It only ran for one season. I’m not sure I’ve ever met anyone else who watched it. I watched both of these! This kind of show is right up my alley. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/190 "2017-04-10T16:16:38Z")
Previously mentioned shows that I remember fondly (though I will admit they were bad): The Phoenix The Fantastic Journey Logan’s Run Some that I don’t think have been mentioned: Husbands, Wives, & Lovers The Kids from C.A.P.E.R. The Sword of Justice ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/191 "2017-04-10T16:50:46Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > **My World, and Welcome To It** , a show based on the writings and cartoons of James Thurber, with animated sequences. I always associate this one with the fully animated **Wait Till Your Father Gets Home** , which was actually a couple of years later. It was a Hanna-Barbera production, so there was a whiff of _The Flintstones_ to it, but it was an attempt at being “relevant,” a la a milder _All in the Family_. Mild-mannered middle-of-the-road dad, voiced by Tom Bosley, is confused by the antics of his hippie kids, but is equally wary of the rhetoric spewed by his ultra-conservative neighbor. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/192 "2017-04-10T17:00:57Z")
Way back when my family first got cable TV, I discovered a show called [Not Necessarily the News](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Necessarily_the_News) which ran for a long time but I never hear mentioned. It introduced the world to Rich Hall and Snigglets. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/193 "2017-04-10T17:22:07Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > Way back when my family first got cable TV, I discovered a show called [Not Necessarily the News](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Necessarily_the_News) which ran for a long time but I never hear mentioned. It introduced the world to Rich Hall and Snigglets. Yes! And to the Eric Clapton version of [the song “Motherless Children”,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLDDxfFKd9Y)which they would play during wordless skits. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2017, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/194 "2017-04-10T17:36:02Z")
A few others: **Ruff and Ready** – the first Hanna-Barbera cartoon for TV, predating even _Huckleberry Hound_. **Crusader Rabbit** – sort of the proto-Rocky and Bullwinkle. The first series was actually made by Jay Ward and co., before Rocky, back around 1950 (making it one of the first cartoons made for TV). I saw a later series, circa 1958, made by someone else, but still with the Jay Ward writing and sensibility (and incredibly cheap animation). The titular hero was diminutive (like Rocky) and his companion, Ragland “Rags” T. Tiger, was big and dumb, like Bullwinkle (I wonder if Bill Waterston was influenced in his character Hobbes by Rags?). One of their adversaries was Dudley Nightshade, a top-hatted and handlebar mustachioed villain that looked like a taller version of Snidely Whiplash. **Beany and Cecil** – Warner Brothers cartoonist Bob Clampett left animation to create an incredibly successful TV puppet show called “Time for Beany” that featured Beany (a boy in a propeller beany), Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent, and others. It was the MST3K of its day, appealing to kids and adults alike with its witty writing that went over the heads of kids. Albert Einstein was reportedly a fan. A decade later he revived the show as an animated cartoon, with Captain Huffn’Puff and his ship the Leakin’ Lena and villain Dishonest John (who looked like Dudley Nightshade and Snidely Whiplash). ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/195 "2017-04-10T17:58:11Z")
Does anyone else remember _[Gigglesnort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigglesnort_Hotel) [Hotel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnHhXxCOc7A)_? ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/196 "2017-04-10T18:09:12Z")
I used to watch the _ **Nancy Dussault Show** _ just because she was so cute. The only thing I remember about it is that she used a pair of sneakers on her mantelpiece as candle holders. ---
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> [@ruh-roh](#): > > _The 21st Century_ - a more documentary type of show that tried to show where technology would take the planet “30 minutes into the future”. I remember the Walter Cronkite was tied in with it somehow (narrator ?). This was sort of a follow-up to an earlier CBS documentary series _ **The Twentieth Century** _. It was indeed hosted and narrated by Walter Cronkite. The episode I remember best was the one that tried to show what motoring would be like in the 21st century. Almost every car looked like the 1966 Batmobile. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/198 "2017-04-10T18:15:30Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Does anyone else remember _[Gigglesnort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigglesnort_Hotel) [Hotel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnHhXxCOc7A)_? No, but I remember Bill Jackson’s previous show with some of the same characters. I think it was called “Cartoon Town.” ---
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Well, it looks like I’m the third “Strange Luck” fan. Maybe we should get hats. I might be the only [“Strange World”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_World), fan, though. At least, from what little I remember it. I do remember _Cybersix_—a Japanese/Canadian animated series based on a gritty Argentinian graphic novel—much more clearly. I certainly couldn’t ever [forget the opening sequence](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArgbE7O-_pk). ---
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