# 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:** 13
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/241 "2017-04-11T00:29:32Z")
> [@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?. Kubiac. I think he’s the only reason I remember that show, as the actor is distinctive looking and has kept working through the years, so every couple years I see him in something and am reminded of Parker Lewis. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/242 "2017-04-11T00:47:45Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Kubiac. I think he’s the only reason I remember that show, as the actor is distinctive looking and has kept working through the years, so every couple years I see him in something and am reminded of Parker Lewis. On a talk show once, Melanie (Principal Grace Musso) Chartoff said she would get stopped constantly by people asking her to do the “thumb thing.” In the show, she would cock her thumb over her shoulder, indicating “to my office,” or “to detention,” and there would be this “whoosh” sound. People wanted to see/hear that. She had to disappoint them. At the end of the last episode of Parker Lewis, they’re all on stage (?) and the camera pulls back beyond two dudes in the seats, one of whom says, “Come on, Ferris, let’s go,” and the two get up and leave. ---
**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 11, 2017, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/243 "2017-04-11T01:44:20Z")
_ **The Whirlybirds** _. A couple of guys and their helicopter. Every week they would be chasing a bad guy, swooping down on bad guys’ car. Bad guys always ducked down, as though a fragile helicopter could actually force a 50’s road hog off the highway. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/244 "2017-04-11T01:49:50Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > _ **The Whirlybirds** _. A couple of guys and their helicopter. Every week they would be chasing a bad guy, swooping down on bad guys’ car. Bad guys always ducked down, as though a fragile helicopter could actually force a 50’s road hog off the highway. **Chopper One** – A couple of cops and their helicopter. The first line of the first episode was like “On the ground, you’re just another cop. In the air, you’re ten.” And it went nowhere after that. Dullsville. ---
**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 11, 2017, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/245 "2017-04-11T02:13:39Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > _ **The Whirlybirds** _. A couple of guys and their helicopter. Every week they would be chasing a bad guy, swooping down on bad guys’ car. Bad guys always ducked down, as though a fragile helicopter could actually force a 50’s road hog off the highway. A Desilu production. Chuck and PT in the chopper, Helen manning the phones at the office. :o ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/246 "2017-04-11T02:18:49Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > You had a crush on Kristy McNichol when the young and achingly beautiful Meredith Baxter (Birney) was in the same cast??? That’s like watching Petticoat Junction and having a crush on Kate. Eh, i liked [Marlo Thomas](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/2b/9d/86/2b9d867bc36bd41b8c390b90a16deefb.jpg) Or [Mariska Veres](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Mariska_Veres_923-8078.jpg/220px-Mariska_Veres_923-8078.jpg) I was a weird kid, what can i say. ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/247 "2017-04-11T02:47:19Z")
I remember watching a rather odd show that was actually for deaf kids Called VisionOn, and some goofy spider looking thing named Otto Mona Pia ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/248 "2017-04-11T02:53:31Z")
> [@Lee\_Q](#): > > 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. I vaguely remember “Jot” as well. They were 4-minute segments produced by the Southern Baptist Church. > **[JOT (TV series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JOT_(TV_series))** > > JOT (also known as JOT the Dot) is an American animated children's television program that ran from 1965 to 1974, and 1980 to 1981. The series consisted of 30 four-minute episodes, which were syndicated between 1965 and the 1980s. JOT was executive produced by the Southern Baptist Radio and Television Commission (RATC) as a Baptist version of Davey and Goliath. > Not only the first Christian animated series, but presumably the first preschool-aimed animated television series, it was created by Ru... ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/249 "2017-04-11T03:24:21Z")
> [@ruh-roh](#): > > _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. I remember both. Most or all of the latter’s episodes are on YouTube. > [@](#): > > _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. I remember the original black-and-white series. > [@blondebear](#): > > [NatureScene](http://video.scetv.org/show/naturescene/) was on for 32 years but I’ve never met anyone else who’s ever seen it. It was 30 minutes of a naturalist and his buddy checking out the flora and fauna of whatever location they were in that week. To say it was low-key would be a major understatement, but I liked the laid back vibe. It was just nice spending a half hour with Rudy and Jim while they explored and enjoyed the natural world around them. I watched it on channel 56 in San Jose around 1990. I also liked the laid-back vibe. Loved the theme - a slow version of Tarrega’s Study in A Major with a small instrumental backing. I wish I had bought the CD. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/250 "2017-04-11T03:31:20Z")
> [@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. It was pretty well known in the United States, as it ran for three seasons. In it’s initial season, it was up against an actual Ferris Bueller TV Show, which was poorly received and short lived. ---
**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 11, 2017, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/251 "2017-04-11T03:31:53Z")
_ **Fury** _. The adventures of Lassie in horse-form. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2017, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/252 "2017-04-11T04:05:29Z")
I have a very early memory of watching some mystery on TV, for the longest time I didn’t remember if it was a from a series or a movie. A star football player disappears during the middle of a game. He’s tackled by four other players, and when the refs pull everyone off the pile only the guy’s helmet and the ball remain.The player who disappeared was in on the scheme. He had the other team’s jersey on under his own. The tackle was near the sideline. While everyone was piled up the other players ripped of his jersey, and as the bodies got untangled he slipped quietly to the sideline. There’s more to it than that, but that’s what stuck in my head for four decades.Well, MeTV was, for a while, showing reruns of **Banacek** , and my memory was pretty accurate. George Peppard starred as an insurance investigator who gets called in to solve the most impossible crimes. There were only about 20 episodes, and I haven’t managed to catch them all, but I want to see the rest. The crimes were incredibly clever and there are some good shots of early-'70s Boston. > [@Acsenray](#): > > “Twenty Twelve” (2011-2012) — a mockumentary about the preparations for the London Olympics starting Hugh Bonneville of “Downton Abbey” I came to this thread to mention **The Games** , a mockumentary about the preparations for the Sydney Olympics staring John Clarke. There seems to have been a bit of controversy that _Twenty Twelve_ copied the subject and format rather blatantly; if it’s half as good it would still be brilliant. Sadly, Clarke died just yesterday. There’s a RIP thread in CS. > [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > I remember _We Interrupt This Week_ - it was _That Was The Week That Was_ turned into a game show, with a team of celebrities against a team of recurring panelists. I think one of the rules was that the host’s decisions on how many points a team earned were “arbitrary, capricious, and final.” How many people remember **That Was the Week that Was**? I found a CD some years ago that collected some of the skits and songs, and I watched a couple episodes at a museum once, but it seems like a lot of it has been lost. Seems to have been absolutely vicious satire, and taking on topics that no TV networks would touch these days. > [@smokey78](#): > > Actually a show I think nobody if few heard of? I woke up one night and couldn’t sleep so I randomly turned onto MeTV? or AntennaTv? and saw “Land of the Giants” I was stunned I’d never heard of this series, but then I realized why, at just two seasons it never landed in syndication. MeTV or whatever broadcasting company it airs on, manages to I assume show 1-2 episodes a week to stretch the series to 26 weeks to a year. I remember _Land of the Giants_, vaguely. I think that after it’s original run it ran in afternoon syndication in the mid-'70s, which is probably where I saw it. That show, along with _The Time Tunnel_, and _Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea_ were all produced by Irwin Allen and all had a similar life span; a short network run, syndication, and then decades of obscurity. And they’re all in a late-night-weekend block on MeTV. > [@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 remember _St. Elsewhere_, although my brother was a bigger fan than I was. I decided a few months ago to look up where the building was that was shown in the opening credits and supposed to be the hospital. Turns out it was only a couple blocks from where I’ve been getting my hair cut for years. I don’t think it was ever a hospital; started as a hotel and is now apartments. > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Did anyone else watch “Space: 1999”? I can do one better than that. A friend on Facebook had a post about the best SF TV show theme songs, and it didn’t include [**UFO**](https://youtu.be/5TQUdcYk82U). It was a Gerry and Sylvia Anderson show after _Thunderbirds_ (and the other Supermarionation stuff), but before _Space: 1999_. I was pretty young during its first run and remember the theme songs and spaceships better than anything else, but I watched it on Youtube a while ago and it’s rather surprisingly intense at times. And one more than hasn’t been mentioned, **Eyes**. Tim Daly (of _Wings_) as the head of a private surveillance company. And I don’t remember a whole lot more about it, except that I liked it. Someone upthread mentioned A.J. Langer, which reminded me of it. According to IMDb, 12 episodes were made, and only 5 aired. ---
**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 11, 2017, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/253 "2017-04-11T05:10:10Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I can do one better than that. A friend on Facebook had a post about the best SF TV show theme songs, and it didn’t include [**UFO**](https://youtu.be/5TQUdcYk82U). It was a Gerry and Sylvia Anderson show after _Thunderbirds_ (and the other Supermarionation stuff), but before _Space: 1999_. I was pretty young during its first run and remember the theme songs and spaceships better than anything else, but I watched it on Youtube a while ago and it’s rather surprisingly intense at times. Interestingly, the first game in the X-Com series was known as _UFO: Enemy Unknown_ in everywhere that wasn’t the US, as a homage to that series. ---
**Author:** ![Grey4791](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grey4791/32/4042_2.png) [@Grey4791](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey4791)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/254 "2017-04-11T07:27:00Z")
Marblehead Manor, Throb, She’s the Sheriff, Easy Street, i recall watching and liking. There was The New Adventures of Bean Baxter, Some show with Linda Carter and Loni Anderson as detectives and The Adventures of the Golden ??? with a plane called the Spruce Goose that came on Saturday afternoons, were these mentioned or am i blind? In my defense I can blame chemo but just barely,lol, Anyone else think “Voyagers” would be great revamped on Netflix? That show was awesome…cheesy in hindsight but with modern day tweaks it retains a great premise IMHO. 🙂 ---
**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:** [April 11, 2017, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/255 "2017-04-11T07:33:46Z")
> [@Grey4791](#): > > …and The Adventures of the Golden ??? with a plane called the Spruce Goose that came on Saturday afternoons,… [Tales of the Gold Monkey](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083488/?ref_=nm_knf_t3), perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/256 "2017-04-11T08:18:46Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > … Sometimes it would be a comic about two babies named Sugar and Spike… Sugar and Spike. That takes me back. There was a time when DC Comics wasn’t just superheroes. They had superheroes, of course, but they also had romance comics, “real people” comics (with the two most prominent being Jerry Lewis and Bob Hope), and kid comics. “Stanley and his Monster” was one such, and so were “Sugar and Spike.” Two babies, Sugar (female) and Spike (male) could talk to each other in baby talk, which was unintelligible to adults, but helpfully translated for us readers through voice balloons. Usually, the kids were smarter than the adults, and somehow or other, Sugar and Spike would win the day, in spite of the bumbling adults who were supposedly in charge of them. A little off-topic, as these were comics, not TV shows; but I hope that it is a fun and informative aside. ---
**Author:** ![Grey4791](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grey4791/32/4042_2.png) [@Grey4791](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey4791)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/257 "2017-04-11T08:24:48Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > [Tales of the Gold Monkey](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083488/?ref_=nm_knf_t3), perhaps? That’s it!..I wanted to say Gold Baboon but don’t know why…lol. Thanks for jogging my memory! ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/258 "2017-04-11T11:45:07Z")
Another set of these that just sprung to mind were some weird foreign kids cartoons that I was obsessed with as a nipper, but no one else seems to have heard of. Although I did realize at the time they were obviously not English originally, I had no idea where they were from (and could never really place the style, even when I got older). It turns out they were Japanese-Spanish or Japanese-French productions. [The Mysterious Cities of Gold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Cities_of_Gold) [Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogtanian_and_the_Three_Muskehounds) [Space Legend Ulysses 31](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_31) The series were incredibly long and (in my memory at least) seemed to last my entire childhood. ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/259 "2017-04-11T11:59:21Z")
> [@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. Kube eat now? ---
**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 11, 2017, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/260 "2017-04-11T12:07:28Z")
I enjoyed _[Andy Richter Controls the Universe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Richter_Controls_the_Universe)_. Also, there was another short-lived series on Fox at around the same time as Andy Richter, a science-fictiony show about cowboys in space. I think it was called _Lightning Bug_? Anyone remember that one? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=14)