# 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:** 11
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/201 "2017-04-10T18:41:13Z")
Lord, I remember **Best of the West**. I can even still sing some of the theme song. A few years after that came an hour-long drama called **Wildside** , which I remember liking. Only lasted about 5 episodes, although IMDb says there were six. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/202 "2017-04-10T18:44:11Z")
[Here’s Boomer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here%27s_Boomer) which sort of glommed off the Benji movies with a cute, small dog solving people’s problems then leaving them like the frigging Hulk does at the end of every episode. [St. Elsewhere](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elsewhere) a medical drama in the vein of Hill Street Blues. Known mostly for its ludicrous ending than anything else. But it was also amusing because the cast was huge and quirky, and most went on to better things. Mark Harmon seemed like he was set up to be the hot young lead of the show but was drowned out by the more bizarre ensemble cast and merely became another doctor on the show. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/203 "2017-04-10T18:49:43Z")
wow, what a walk down memory lane this thread has been. (I don’t care what anyone else says, Kristy McNichol was _ **FOXY!** _ to my young eyes) My contribution is [The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075525/) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/204 "2017-04-10T18:59:11Z")
> [@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 ?). I actually remember that show too, and I was barely in school at the time. Did anyone else watch “Space: 1999”? I also remember a cartoon called “Bob and Margaret” that aired on the Cartoon Network in the evenings, because while it didn’t really have adult content, it wasn’t for children. I mainly remember it because at the time, I worked with a woman who looked a lot like Margaret. > **[Bob and Margaret](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_and_Margaret)** > > Bob and Margaret is an adult animated sitcom created by David Fine and Alison Snowden and co-produced by Nelvana and Channel 4 as a collaboration, both financial and artistic, between the United Kingdom and Canada. The last two seasons were produced without Channel 4 (i.e. Nelvana and Philippine Animators Group Inc.) but with continuing British involvement in the animation, cast, and screenwriting. The series was based on the Academy Award-winning short film Bob's Birthday, featuring the same How about “Wait Till Your Father Gets Home”? Our local station aired it on weekend afternoons; I got the DVDs through Netflix a while back, and it’s still relevant today. I could, however, see how it was considered edgy at the time. > **[Wait Till Your Father Gets Home](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait_Till_Your_Father_Gets_Home)** > > Wait Till Your Father Gets Home is an animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that aired in first-run syndication in the United States from 1972 to 1974. The show originated as a one-time segment on Love, American Style called "Love and the Old-Fashioned Father". The same pilot was later produced with a live cast (starring Van Johnson), but with no success. The show was the first primetime animated sitcom to run for more than a single season since fellow Hanna-Barbera show The The s... ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/205 "2017-04-10T19:00:41Z")
Wow, you’re all giving me blasts from the past. _Lucan_(I can still picture the title sequence) _Nanny and the Professor_ (Phoebe Figalilly is a silly name!). Does anyone remember [Three for the Road](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072576/) ? It starred one of my first sweet babies, Leif Garrett. How about [Homefront](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101121/) ? Now that was a quality show. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/206 "2017-04-10T19:01:57Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > [St. Elsewhere](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elsewhere) a medical drama in the vein of Hill Street Blues. Known mostly for its ludicrous ending than anything else. But it was also amusing because the cast was huge and quirky, and most went on to better things. Mark Harmon seemed like he was set up to be the hot young lead of the show but was drowned out by the more bizarre ensemble cast and merely became another doctor on the show. I wouldn’t classify _St. Elsewhere_ as a favorite show that nobody but you remembers. It ran for 6 seasons at over 130 episodes, while never a ratings success it was a huge critical success, winning over 20 awards including 13 Emmy awards. It was one of my favorites . Now, if you wanted to name an ensemble drama show, from the early 1980’s with a huge, quirky cast (and also aired on NBC) then I’d go with [_ **Bay City Blues** _](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_City_Blues) It only ran 13 episodes and IMO had a lot of potential, and since it was a series about a Minor League Baseball team and the community where it was set, there not only could have been lots of additions to the cast but it could have been diverse as well. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/207 "2017-04-10T19:10:23Z")
On a related note, do you all remember the theme songs? I just noticed **nearwildheaven’s** mention of _Wait Til Your Father Get’s Home_ and I immediately started singing it (in my head, of course :p) "I love my mom and dad and my brothers too . . . ". Even those that were only instrumental are stuck in my brain. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/208 "2017-04-10T19:11:34Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > Lord, I remember **Best of the West**. I can even still sing some of the theme song. I remember one of the jokes and to 10 year old me it was just funny and wacky enough to somehow be reserved a parking spot in my brain forever. The female trapper holds up a pelt, “We call this a ‘Whatyuck.’ you take one look at say ‘what?’ then you take a taste and say ‘yuck.’” Two cartoons in the mid 80s that I thought were pretty good were Adventures of the Galaxy Ranger and Spiral Zone. [Galaxy Rangers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_the_Galaxy_Rangers) had a team of space cowboys who had special implants activated by touching their badges. The show had a pretty deep list of secondary characters, aliens, and wacky robots. It also had a bit of a bleak premise despite the good the Rangers did. The team leader’s wife’s mind is trapped in the evil Queen’s psychocrystal and he’s working on saving her. [Spiral Zone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Zone) has part of the Earth covered in a spiral-like zone and anyone trapped in the zone becomes a zombie-like “Zoner.” The good guys have suits that resist the Zone influence and they fight free the zones bit by bit. Another series that’s a little darker than its peers though I recall it didn’t really have much depth beyond the good guys always winning despite being in a losing situation. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/209 "2017-04-10T19:25:58Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > [St. Elsewhere](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elsewhere) a medical drama in the vein of Hill Street Blues. Known mostly for its ludicrous ending than anything else. But it was also amusing because the cast was huge and quirky, and most went on to better things. Mark Harmon seemed like he was set up to be the hot young lead of the show but was drowned out by the more bizarre ensemble cast and merely became another doctor on the show. St. Elsewhere is where Ed Begley, Jr – the guy mentioned in the OP–is from. Even if people didn’t watch it, it does have the famous Snow Globe Finale. ---
**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, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/210 "2017-04-10T19:40:16Z")
Nobody has mentioned _[The Charmings](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRLYJHUeoFE)_ yet… ---
**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:** [April 10, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/211 "2017-04-10T19:44:24Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > [Salvage 1](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078681/?ref_=nv_sr_1) with Andy Griffith. Man builds a rocket out of spare parts and earns a living salvaging dead satellites from orbit, or something. > > [Man from Atlantis](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075533/?ref_=nv_sr_1) with TV’s Patrick Duffy as a man with “amphibious abilities.” > > And who could ever forget [Manimal](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085051/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)? Believe it or not Salvage 1 was based on a story by Robert Heinlein. “Have Rocket, Will Travel.” ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/212 "2017-04-10T19:44:28Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 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). Lord, you must really be old. I remember Crusader Rabbit. I can even sing the theme song… “Watch for a-no-ther-er episode…” I also remember Beany and Cecil, but since I was a kid (about 6), the humor probably went over my head. Do you remember [_Sheriff John_](http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/07/local/la-me-sheriff-john-rovick-20121007)? An Andy-Griffith-ish guy sat behind a desk and hosted cartoons. This was California in the early 1950s–KTTV. I also remember all the words to his theme song: > [@](#): > > Laugh and be happy > With a merry melody. > A song can make a hatrack > Look like a Christmas tree. > Get rid of worry > In a hurry > Chase those blues away– > Just laugh and be happy all the livelong day! I remember that the word “livelong” didn’t make any sense to me. ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/213 "2017-04-10T19:56:53Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Also **Sledge Hammer!** , another cop procedural spoof, starring David Rasche. I have this on DVD, and just watched several episodes last weekend. ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/214 "2017-04-10T20:00:52Z")
> [@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. I remember this. I have sitting on my desk right now a copy of the NNTN board game, never been played. And for years I got the ‘sniglet a day’ wall calendar, until they stopped making them. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/215 "2017-04-10T20:09:06Z")
I won’t go over all of the other already posted shows that I remember. Here are a few I didn’t notice… Apple’s Way The Ghost & Mrs Muir My Life & Welcome To It Bugaloos Night Gallery Midnight Special Mothers In Law (I think that was the title) There was one with Doris Day - she was a widow with kids and an Old English Sheepdog. For some reason I keep thinking of daisies! ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/216 "2017-04-10T20:12:55Z")
came back because I forgot [The Greatest American Superhero](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_American_Hero):smack: (not Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom that I almost posted the first time) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/217 "2017-04-10T20:17:33Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > I won’t go over all of the other already posted shows that I remember. Here are a few I didn’t notice… > > Apple’s Way > The Ghost & Mrs Muir > My Life & Welcome To It > Bugaloos > Night Gallery > Midnight Special > Mothers In Law (I think that was the title) > There was one with Doris Day - she was a widow with kids and an Old English Sheepdog. For some reason I keep thinking of daisies! These aren’t really unknown. And you’re thinking of daisies because the show was called Please don’t Eat the Daisies. Doris Day was in the movie but I don’t think she was on the TV show. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/218 "2017-04-10T20:19:03Z")
[Fridays](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fridays_(TV_series)) was ABC’s attempt to capitalize on the success of Saturday Night Live. It faded away after two seasons, and is only remembered nowadays for the fight that broke out between Andy Kaufman & Michael Richards (which, of course, later turned out to be staged.) [Clubhouse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clubhouse_(TV_series)) was a drama series about a teenager who gets his dream job working as a batboy for a major league baseball team. It was meant as a star vehicle for that kid from Peter Pan, but instead it bombed horribly, and was cancelled after only 5 episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Delainey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@Delainey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delainey)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/219 "2017-04-10T20:23:15Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > There was a show called _Cafe Americain_ in the early 90s with Valerie Bertinelli as an American divorcee named Holly who takes a vacation to Paris, and decides to stay there, so she gets a job in a place called “Cafe Americain.” I suspect it was inspired by the play and later movie _Shirley Valentine_, but I have no proof. > > I loved it, but I’d been to Paris, and there were lots of references to European people and places that were part of its humor-- it was a very funny show. It also occasionally had subtitles when people were speaking something other than English, and Americans don’t like subtitles (or, according to some movie patrons whose money I gladly returned they “like, can’t get into subtitles.”) > > I think that’s why the show failed. As far as I know, it’s only one of two attempts the US has ever made to set a show in a non-English speaking country, with the exceptions of shows on military bases, where everyone spoke English, and the other show was another show I liked that didn’t last past the first season, called _Outsourced_, which was set in India, which yes, is technically English-speaking, and all the characters on it spoke English, so, no subtitles. There was a show I vaguely remember watching as a little kid, “To Rome with Love.” A widowed father moved his young family to Rome in order to take a teaching position. Just looked it up - it starred John Forsythe. Only lasted a few seasons. ---
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> [@guestchaz](#): > > came back because I forgot [The Greatest American Superhero](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_American_Hero):smack: But how can something be obscure if it makes it to [George Costanza’s answering machine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ria37d9mInY)? (Not to mention [Sheldon Cooper’s chest](https://www.google.com/search?q=sheldon+greatest+american+hero&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiu9L-v3JrTAhVM7oMKHRcGBAkQ_AUIBigB&biw=1408&bih=690#imgrc=_).) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=12)