# 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:** 14
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/261 "2017-04-11T12:22:52Z")
About 25 years back, my wife and I used to regularly watch [I’ll Fly Away](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'll_Fly_Away_%28TV_series%29) and [Reasonable Doubts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_Doubts). They both ran for only two seasons. ---
**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 11, 2017, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/262 "2017-04-11T13:02:32Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > “real people” comics (with the two most prominent being Jerry Lewis and Bob Hope) _The Adventures of Jerry Lewis_ was funnier than the real Jerry Lewis. It built up a great cast of characters (nephew Renfrew, housekeeper Witch Kraft, the monster school faculty, and the Nazi summer camp director at Camp Wack-A-Boy), and you didn’t have to listen to Jerry Lewis’s voice. ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/263 "2017-04-11T13:10:59Z")
Here’s one that has not been mentioned that I remember. Mr. Merlin: A story of Merlin the magician who is still living in modern times as an auto mechanic, and his 15 year old apprentice (who became so by being the only one to pull a crowbar out from a bucket of hardened cement). ---
**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 11, 2017, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/264 "2017-04-11T13:30:13Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > _The Adventures of Jerry Lewis_ was funnier than the real Jerry Lewis. It built up a great cast of characters (nephew Renfrew, housekeeper Witch Kraft, the monster school faculty, and the Nazi summer camp director at Camp Wack-A-Boy), and you didn’t have to listen to Jerry Lewis’s voice. I’ll second this. You also got the “Letter from Jerry” that wasn’t actually written by Jerry. The Jerry Lewis comic actually started as Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. They dropped Dean after the split-up. ---
**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, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/265 "2017-04-11T14:07:35Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Lord, you must really be old. _Old_? You want _old_?!? _ **Sheriff of Cochise** _, a modern-day (1950s) western \*\*\*Topper \*\*\*with Leo G Carrol _ **Love That Bob** _ with Bob Cummings and Ann B Davis _ **My Little Margie** _ with Gale Storm \*\*\*Checkmate \*\*\*with Sebastian Cabot _ **The Roy Rogers Show** _ with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans _ **Sky King** _ who flew the Songbird _ **Sea Hunt** _ with Lloyd Bridges The abovementioned _ **Ruff and Reddy** _ The very first episode of _ **Rocky and Bullwinkle** _ with the scrooch-gunning Moonmen I watched all of these in my dad’s TV shop when I was three or four. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/266 "2017-04-11T14:12:06Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > _ **The Roy Rogers Show** _ with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans > > _ **Sky King** _ who flew the Songbird > > _ **Sea Hunt** _ with Lloyd Bridges > > The abovementioned _ **Ruff and Reddy** _ I remember these shows, but not the others you mentioned. In the DC area in the early 1960s, _Sky King_ would come on right after the Saturday morning cartoons. ---
**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, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/267 "2017-04-11T14:26:18Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > I remember these shows, but not the others you mentioned. In the DC area in the early 1960s, _Sky King_ would come on right after the Saturday morning cartoons. And on Sunday nights it was _ **The Rebel** _ (with Nick Adams as Johnny Yuma) and \*\*\*Rin-Tin-Tin \*\*\*(with “Rusty”). ---
**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, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/268 "2017-04-11T14:27:44Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > _ **My Little Margie** _ with Gale Storm This one still airs occasionally on one of my local (used to be) UHF stations. Along with _I Married Joan_, _Date With the Angels_, _The Trouble With Father_, and others. (It is the channel that I mentioned running across _Voyagers!_ on a few days ago.) ---
**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, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/269 "2017-04-11T14:31:37Z")
Here’s a trivia question for you: Alan Hale, Jr, (aka “The Skipper” on _ **Gilligan’s Island** _) starred in a series based on an American folk hero. It had a famous song as its theme. Name the series. (I watched this one too when I was three or four.) ---
**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, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/270 "2017-04-11T14:31:52Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I watched all of these in my dad’s TV shop when I was three or four. Mommy, what’s a TV shop? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/271 "2017-04-11T14:40:06Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > 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=_).) far as George costanza, I know he was on Seinfeld, hard not to, but I found that show to be utterly unwatchable the few times I tried, so didn’t know that. Regarding Sheldon, well, huh! I like the show, but don’t watch all that often(Mrs. Guest is the main tv watcher), I’ve only ever seen him wearing something Green Lantern related to the best of my recollection. Found out something new. ---
**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, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/272 "2017-04-11T15:03:28Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Mommy, what’s a TV shop? 😃 Well, son, believe it or not, there was a time when people brought their TVs in to be repaired when they broke, instead of just chucking them into the trash… Ah, nostalgia! :o ---
**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 11, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/273 "2017-04-11T15:05:07Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > _The Adventures of Jerry Lewis_ was funnier than the real Jerry Lewis. It built up a great cast of characters (nephew Renfrew, housekeeper Witch Kraft, the monster school faculty, and the Nazi summer camp director at Camp Wack-A-Boy), and you didn’t have to listen to Jerry Lewis’s voice. Oops, actually the monster faculty was in the Bob Hope comic…though the Jerry Lewis series did at least have one with mummies. ---
**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, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/274 "2017-04-11T15:16:41Z")
> [@Fleetwood](#): > > Kube eat now? > [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Oops, actually the monster faculty was in the Bob Hope comic…though the Jerry Lewis series did at least have one with mummies. I doubt getting wrong the details of Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis comics was going to get you called out by anyone 😛 ---
**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 11, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/275 "2017-04-11T15:20:05Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Well, son, believe it or not, there was a time when people brought their TVs in to be repaired when they broke, instead of just chucking them into the trash… > > Ah, nostalgia! :o Sadly, the TV repair shop in the town where I live closed down, but only a year or two ago. Before that, people were still bringing in their enormous flatscreen units to be fixed, rather than replaced. ---
**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, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/276 "2017-04-11T15:30:16Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Sadly, the TV repair shop in the town where I live closed down, but only a year or two ago. Before that, people were still bringing in their enormous flatscreen units to be fixed, rather than replaced. Back in 2009, when they switched broadcasting systems in Ontario (and, I assume, the rest of Canada as well), the streets were littered with perfectly good TVs that could still be used, but nooooooooooo! They were left out for the trashman to collect… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/277 "2017-04-11T15:30:37Z")
I was home sick a lot when I was in the single digits. I remember watching ‘I Married Joan’ with my grandma (I can still sing the theme song), ‘Pete and Gladys’, and ‘The Offy Goffy Show’ (Arthur Godfrey, how a’ya, how a’ya, how a’ya). There was some comedy on at night about a French girl? Angel? and ‘Love on a Rooftop’ a few years later. Was ‘My Friend Flicka’ mentioned, after ‘Sky King’ on Saturday mornings? I didn’t watch much of that, it was noon and time to go out and play or something. I did read the book and was shocked to the core at the sad, gritty reality of life on a ranch. The tv show never showed the bad, sad things! ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/278 "2017-04-11T16:35:10Z")
My brothers and I loved the show _Secret Agent_ (1964-1967) starring Patrick McGoohan. [Secret Agent](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058846/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl) It had a kickass theme song, sung by Johnny Rivers. [Secret Agent Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvY3kRWuyIM) Probably more people remember the song than the show. ---
**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, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/279 "2017-04-11T16:37:48Z")
> [@ioioio](#): > > My brothers and I loved the show _Secret Agent_ (1964-1967) starring Patrick McGoohan. [Secret Agent](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058846/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl) > > It had a kickass theme song, sung by Johnny Rivers. > [Secret Agent Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvY3kRWuyIM) > Probably more people remember the song than the show. Known as _ **Danger Man** _ in the UK. Its kick-ass theme (played on a harpsichord) is on YouTube. I think some full episodes are on YouTube as well, all in B&W. ---
**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 11, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/280 "2017-04-11T16:43:52Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Known as _ **Danger Man** _ in the UK. Its kick-ass theme (played on a harpsichord) is on YouTube. > > I think some full episodes are on YouTube as well, all in B&W. One of the lines from the US theme fits in so very well with McGoohan’s next series (which many people saw as a continuation of secret Agent/Danger man, although McGoohan denied it), _The Prisoner_: > [@](#): > > They’ve given you a number > and taken away your name… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=15)