# 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:** 12
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/221 "2017-04-10T20:27:52Z")
My contributions: [Honey West](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058814/?ref_=nv_sr_1) I was maybe 6 years old? But I still carry the image of Honey West in a black turtleneck as a standard of female hotness. Around the same time, a young Robert Loggia starred in [T.H.E. Cat](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060030/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_186). Not a favorite, but for some reason memorable, there was a show I recall [The Corner Bar](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068061/?ref_=nv_sr_1). It was memorable because of a regular character being portrayed as flamboyantly gay, in all the repugnant stereotypical ways you might imagine. It turns out the actor was [Vincent Schiavelli](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001704/?ref_=tt_cl_t7), before he made his name as the go-to freaky looking guy. But, my favorite was [Kolchak: The Night Stalker](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071003/?ref_=nv_sr_1), spun off of the TV movie (remember those?) Granted, this was not an obscure show, and they have tried to remake it dozens of times since then, but I haven’t heard it mentioned in this thread? ---
**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, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/222 "2017-04-10T20:30:56Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > [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.) I watched this and remember a re-occuring skit about a Jamaican cooking show. “Should I put basil? No, no, no, no, no. Should I put parsley? No, no, no, no, no. Should I put ganja? Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya!” He smoked a chicken and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. And by smoke, I mean he put ganja on it, stuck one end in his mouth and let the other end. ---
**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, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/223 "2017-04-10T20:52:04Z")
> [@Delainey](#): > > There was a show I vaguely remember watching as a little kid, “To Rome with Love.” And that title brings to mind [_Love, Sydney._](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X-ssO62rn4) (It was a very early occurrence of a show with an “out” gay main character, but I didn’t really notice or even see the big deal about it when I was a kid, and don’t really remember much more about the show than the theme song.) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/224 "2017-04-10T21:00:01Z")
Anyone remember [Woops!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103583/?ref_=nv_sr_2)? Or [It’s Like, You Know](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168340/?ref_=nv_sr_5)? Now that I think about it, both of those shows featured [Evan Handler](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0359577/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm). He may have given Ted McGinley a run for his money as far as ending TV shows. However, since _It’s Like, You Know_ also featured the delicious [A.J. Langer](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0486277/?ref_=tt_cl_t4), it reminds me of an older show she was on, [Drexell’s Class](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101085/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_33), which had Brittany Murphy and Langer playing the daughters of Dabney Coleman. ---
**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, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/225 "2017-04-10T21:00:13Z")
Did anyone watch “Cop Rock”? j/k “Lime Street” was best known for casting Samantha Smith, who made worldwide headlines for writing to Yuri Andropov asking why he wanted to go to war with the U.S. and then he invited her to visit the Soviet Union; the show tanked with her untimely death and probably would have been a ratings disaster anyway. > **[Lime Street (TV series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime_Street_(TV_series))** > > Lime Street is an American action/drama series that aired on the ABC television network during the 1985 television season. The series was created by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, who also served as executive producer alongside husband Harry Thomason, and series star Robert Wagner. > James Culver (Robert Wagner), a widower, raises his two daughters, Elizabeth (Samantha Smith) and Margaret Ann (Maia Brewton) with his father, Henry (Lew Ayres), and investigates insurance cases with the British Edward Wi... ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/226 "2017-04-10T21:01:48Z")
I _liked Cop Rock_. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/227 "2017-04-10T21:14:18Z")
> [@Brodi](#): > > [Wild West C.O.W-Boys of Moo Mesa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_West_C.O.W.-Boys_of_Moo_Mesa): An early 90s cartoon no one but me seems to remember. Mutated anthropomorphic cows fighting baddies in the old west. You a football fan? Ever heard of Cowboys QB Dak Prescott? Dak is short for Dakota. His mom was a big fan of the show that she named him after her favorite character, so at least two other people know the show 😛 While we’re on the cartoon kick… **Sheep in the Big City** : A Cartoon Network original that was about a sheep in a city. It had very Airplane! like humor, was absolutely hilarious, and no one seems to remember it but me… Even more obscure is **Dinosaucers** an old cartoon about anthropomorphic dinosaurs (who are aliens) that…fight crime? I guess? I only vaguely remember the show now, but I loved it when I was young. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/228 "2017-04-10T21:17:20Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > _Parker Lewis Can’t Lose_ - it was a surreal, almost live-action cartoon-type show about [a Ferris Bueller-like high schooler and the stuff he and his friends get up to](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Lewis_Can%27t_Lose). > > 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. I was a huge fan of this show, and in fact just recently downloaded and watched a bunch of episodes. To my surprise, it was still good! Of course I’m in the US so I think it was “regular popular” here. Someone else mentioned the **Life and Times of Grizzly Adams** show. I have always had this memory of some kind of mountain-man-friends-with-animals show I saw when I was little. Except that show was on in 1977 and I was born in 1979. Anyone know if that show had any reruns? It’s possible we did see the TV movie in 1982 but I remember being excited to see it each week. I also remember another that somebody mentioned - **The Charmings**! Also **Bob & Margret** was a favorite of mine when I moved to college and had Comedy Central for the first time. Was **Sledgehammer!** all that rare? My brother and I \*loved \*it! ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/229 "2017-04-10T21:25:52Z")
[The Jackie Thomas Show](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103450/reviews?ref_=tt_urv) Starred Tom Arnold as the jerkish star of a TV sitcom. He had a team of writers that didn’t like him much and they got as much or more screen time as Arnold. I remember thinking it was hilarious at the time but I haven’t seen it since it ran in prime time. [Allison LaPlaca](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0478844/?ref_=tt_cl_t3) costarred as one of the writers and I remember crushing on her. Arnold was getting divorced from Roseanne Barr at the time. Her show was big at the same network and rumor was she got The Jackie Thomas show axed. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/230 "2017-04-10T21:30:33Z")
> [@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 I read thru 4 pages thinking I’d be the first to mention this one. Because Kristy McNichol. ---
**Author:** ![Lee\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/aeb1de/32.png) [@Lee\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lee_Q)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/231 "2017-04-10T21:50:57Z")
> [@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). I remember Crusader Rabbit and a few years ago looked it up. Man, it looks so crude compared to cartoons that came later! Around that same period was a show called Jot. Not sure if that one was regional to the South, as I think it was semi-religious. I vaguely recall there either being bible verses or that Jot, a circular entity with feet IIRC, would teach kids lessons or morals. Memory’s hazy on that one, but I definitely remember it. ---
**Author:** ![Lee\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/aeb1de/32.png) [@Lee\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lee_Q)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/232 "2017-04-10T21:56:00Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > [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. I remember Here’s Boomer and hadn’t thought of it in yeeeeaars! I loved St. Elsewhere. If I’m not mistaken it was on around the same period as thirtysomething and LA Law, which I also loved even though I was barely 20-something at the time. Howie Mandel, when he had hair! on St. Elsewhere. Blair Underwood on LA Law, suh-wooon. I must’ve gotten those types of shows out of my system back then because even though cop/hospital/angsty hipster drama shows are a dime a dozen now, I very rarely watch any. Back in the day, I never missed an episode of these. ---
**Author:** ![Lee\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/aeb1de/32.png) [@Lee\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lee_Q)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/233 "2017-04-10T21:57:21Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > 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. Don’t remember Three for the Road, but I had a 16-magazine (or maybe it was Tiger Beat!) pull-out poster of Leif on my wall for the longest time, does that count?! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lee\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/aeb1de/32.png) [@Lee\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lee_Q)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/234 "2017-04-10T21:59:01Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > 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. I remember theme songs from many of the shows mentioned. For some weird reason the one I recall the most lyrics to so far is When Things Were Rotten. What a great campy show that was! I wasn’t old enough to know what camp was at the time but it still tickled me to pieces. Must’ve been all the clean, green cotton… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/235 "2017-04-10T22:47:21Z")
As a kid, I used to like the high-tech stuff in [“What Will They Think Of Next?” a.k.a. “Science International”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF8vLUEp29E). ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/236 "2017-04-10T23:33:34Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I watched this and remember a re-occuring skit about a Jamaican cooking show. “Should I put basil? No, no, no, no, no. Should I put parsley? No, no, no, no, no. Should I put ganja? Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya!” He smoked a chicken and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. And by smoke, I mean he put ganja on it, stuck one end in his mouth and let the other end. The one recurring sketch I remember was The Pharmacist, a pill-popping schmuck who would try to do some mundane task while higher than a kite, mumbling, “I can handle it, I can handle it.” _Fridays_ was a classic case of television mitosis, a SNL copy produced on the idea that if enough of the audience was drunk/stoned/busy having sex enough, nobody would notice the difference. > [@Lee\_Q](#): > > Don’t remember Three for the Road, but I had a 16-magazine (or maybe it was Tiger Beat!) pull-out poster of Leif on my wall for the longest time, does that count?! 😉 Only thing I remember about _Three For The Road:_ thinking as a grade school kid “How come these guys get to travel all over the place and never once set foot in a classroom!”:dubious: * * * My pick: _Alien Nation._ The rare (at that time) example of a television series based on a movie that improved on the source. ---
**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, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/237 "2017-04-10T23:41:44Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > 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. Doris Day did have her own show in the late '60s or early '70s. It was a “gentle” comedy and I think she played a widow. McLean Stevenson was her boss in at least one season, and I’m pretty sure Denver Pyle played her father. Her other boss was some dude with a mustache; can’t think of his name right offhand. The actress in _ **Please Don’t Eat the Daisies** _ was, IIRC, Patricia Crowley. ---
**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, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/238 "2017-04-10T23:47:26Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > And that title brings to mind [_Love, Sydney._](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X-ssO62rn4) (It was a very early occurrence of a show with an “out” gay main character, but I didn’t really notice or even see the big deal about it when I was a kid, and don’t really remember much more about the show than the theme song.) His gayness was greatly underplayed, to the point where he became just another sensitive guy. After three or four episodes, he was more like Felix Unger. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/239 "2017-04-10T23:53:24Z")
> [@Cugel](#): > > It was, for I have seen it. From memory, I think I liked his teacher/principal and there was this chunky bloke called Kubochek? That’s the one! 😃 I always loved the “Parker Excuse File”, a Rolodex full of outlandish excuses for the main character not having done whatever thing they were supposed to have been doing. I remember _Dr Katz_ - it was one of the earlier “adult animation” cartoons that wasn’t weird anime. MTV NZ aired it and we didn’t have Sky (Pay TV) at home so I only saw the odd episode when visiting friends, but I recall it being quite good. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/240 "2017-04-11T00:25:00Z")
The post about What Will They Think of Next reminded me of another one: when I was a kid there was a show on very early in the morning on Nickelodeon. The credits were kids on bikes buying comics to the tune of Ride of the Valkyries and the show was basically someone reading the comics while a camera panned from panel to panel. Sometimes it would be a comic about two babies named Sugar and Spike and sometimes it would Swamp Thing. I loved that show as a kid but it never seemed to be on consistently. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=13)