# 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:** 16
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/301 "2017-04-11T17:51:05Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 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 - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_World_and_Welcome_to_It) > > [My World and Welcome to It (TV Series 1969–1970) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063934/) > 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. It was too smart for TV, I loved it. Speaking of well known to our Brit members but almost unknown here on this side of the Atlantic: QI. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/302 "2017-04-11T17:54:28Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I actually remember that show too, and I was barely in school at the time. > > Did anyone else watch “Space: 1999”? I loved the costumes for the girls. Those who complain about Star trek ToS Miniskirts need to see these! [https://www.google.com/search?q=Space:+1999+girls&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiYkcaf\_JzTAhUSxGMKHfi9CagQsAQIIg&biw=1262&bih=682](https://www.google.com/search?q=Space:+1999+girls&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiYkcaf_JzTAhUSxGMKHfi9CagQsAQIIg&biw=1262&bih=682) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/303 "2017-04-11T17:56:05Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > L > > 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: > > I remember that the word “livelong” didn’t make any sense to me. Yes, and Engineer Bill. > **[Engineer Bill: LA TV Kid Shows: TVparty!](http://www.tvparty.com/lostlabill.html)** > > Engineer Bill ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/304 "2017-04-11T17:57:26Z")
I thought of another one. “When Things were Rotten” A Robin Hood parody from the late 1970s. I recall it as being quite clever. ---
**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, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/305 "2017-04-11T18:02:52Z")
\*There’s a holdup in the Bronx, Brooklyn’s broken out in fights! There’s a traffic jam in Harlem that’s backed up to Jackson Heights! There’s a Scout troop short a child, Khrushchev’s due at Idlewild! \_\_\_ \_\_, \_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_ \_\_\_?\* ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/306 "2017-04-11T18:08:05Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > \*There’s a holdup in the Bronx, > Brooklyn’s broken out in fights! > There’s a traffic jam in Harlem > that’s backed up to Jackson Heights! > There’s a Scout troop short a child, > Khrushchev’s due at Idlewild! > > \_\_\_ \_\_, \_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_ \_\_\_?\* Car 54, where are you? They tried that as a movie, which bombed. In fact most films made from TV sitcoms have bombed. ---
**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, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/307 "2017-04-11T18:08:34Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > \*There’s a holdup in the Bronx, > Brooklyn’s broken out in fights! > There’s a traffic jam in Harlem > that’s backed up to Jackson Heights! > There’s a Scout troop short a child, > Khrushchev’s due at Idlewild! > > \_\_\_ \_\_, \_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_ \_\_\_?\* Car 54 Where are you? ---
**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 11, 2017, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/308 "2017-04-11T18:11:15Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I wasn’t even a _kid_, just a babe-in-arms! 😃 > > What was the series with Mike “Mannix” Connors, who drew his concealed .38 at the start of each show? (I could Google this, but I’m having connectivity problems at the moment. ☹ ) I remember Mannix, not because I watched it-- cop/detective shows were not my cuppa. But I remember tuning in just to hear the asskicking theme song by the same guy who did the more famous Mission: Impossible theme song. [Theme from Mannix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLTb3_-pdU4) P.S., this show ran for almost ten years, so it can’t be that obscure. I checked this out because, in looking for the theme song, I saw that it debuted in 1967, so there was no way I could have watched this on TV. Only it ran until 1975. My family watched it because of the black secretary? Receptionist? The same reason they watched Julia with Diane Carol. I wouldn’t say no one remembers Julia only because people may not have watched but a show staring a black lady who wasn’t a maid? Wow, groundbreaking! ---
**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, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/309 "2017-04-11T18:14:25Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I remember Mannix, not because I watched it-- cop/detective shows were not my cuppa. But I remember tuning in just to hear the asskicking theme song by the same guy who did the more famous Mission: Impossible theme song. > > [Theme from Mannix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLTb3_-pdU4) The show I’m thinking of was on about ten years earlier than _ **Mannix** _. For a long time, I confused it with _ **Checkmate** _, but I’m sure it had a different title. I just can’t think of it right now, and I can’t Google it. ---
**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, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/310 "2017-04-11T18:14:49Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I remember Mannix, not because I watched it-- cop/detective shows were not my cuppa. But I remember tuning in just to hear the asskicking theme song by the same guy who did the more famous Mission: Impossible theme song. > > [Theme from Mannix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLTb3_-pdU4) > > P.S., this show ran for almost ten years, so it can’t be that obscure. I checked this out because, in looking for the theme song, I saw that it debuted in 1967, so there was no way I could have watched this on TV. Only it ran until 1975. My family watched it because of the black secretary? Receptionist? The same reason they watched Julia with Diane Carol. > > I wouldn’t say no one remembers Julia only because people may not have watched but a show staring a black lady who wasn’t a maid? Wow, groundbreaking! The theme writer was Lalo Schifrin, who was a sociologist by training (!!) My mother’s boss, another sociologist, knew him. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/311 "2017-04-11T18:17:35Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > As a child I loved the Saturday morning live shows "Ghost Busters"and “Space Nuts” I remembered the live action “Ghost Busters” but none of my friends did. Now the Internet has vindicated me. There were only 15 episodes apparently: [The Ghost Busters - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Busters) ---
**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 11, 2017, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/312 "2017-04-11T18:26:54Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > The show I’m thinking of was on about ten years earlier than _ **Mannix** _. For a long time, I confused it with _ **Checkmate** _, but I’m sure it had a different title. I just can’t think of it right now, and I can’t Google it. Ah, gotcha. Tried looking it up but, man, was Mike Connors in a lot of early TV! ---
**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 11, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/313 "2017-04-11T18:27:56Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > I remembered the live action “Ghost Busters” but none of my friends did. Now the Internet has vindicated me. There were only 15 episodes apparently: [The Ghost Busters - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Busters) Filmation did a cartoon version of this show after the Ghostbusters movie came out. So there was a Ghostbusters show and a _Real_ Ghostbusters show featuring the movie characters. ---
**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 11, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/314 "2017-04-11T18:29:21Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Filmation did a cartoon version of this show after the Ghostbusters movie came out. So there was a Ghostbusters show and a _Real_ Ghostbusters show featuring the movie characters. One of them was your run-of-the-mill animated show and one was really good. But I don’t remember which was which. ---
**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, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/315 "2017-04-11T18:29:21Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I wouldn’t say no one remembers Julia only because people may not have watched but a show staring a black lady who wasn’t a maid? Wow, groundbreaking! \*\*\*Julia \*\*\*I remember mainly because of the hilarious satire of it in _ **MAD Magazine** _. Toward the end, she goes out on a date with Bill Cosby: **JULIA:** I’ll have caviar, filet mignon, and champagne. **BILL:** I thought you wanted “soul food.” **JULIA:** To me, that \*\*IS \*\*“soul food.” **BILL:** Would you like to **dance**? **JULIA:** I’d love to, but I have no **rhythm**. Do you believe **that**? **BILL:** After tonight, I’ll believe **anything**! ---
**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, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/316 "2017-04-11T18:47:05Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > My family watched it because of the black secretary? Receptionist? The same reason they watched Julia with Diane Carol. Nitpick: Dihanne Carroll. Gail Fisher was Peggy Fair, Mannix’s secretary/receptionist. Both Peggy and Julia were single black mothers. _ **MAD Magazine** _ again: Jewelia’s son Corny (Corey) is playing in the middle of the freeway, carrying a picket sign advertising for a new father: **TRUCK DRIVER:** Hey, kid! Don’t you have a **father**? **CORNY:** Nope. A **good fairy** came and carried him **away**. **TRUCK DRIVER:** Oh, yeah? What was he, a **hairdresser**? **CORNY:** Nope. A **pilot**. He was killed in **Vietnam**. **TRUCK DRIVER:** Oh, yeah? On a mission against the **Vietnamese**? **CORNY:** Nope, against the **Americans**. He may have been **straight** , but he wasn’t very **bright**! ---
**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, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/317 "2017-04-11T19:07:11Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Ah, gotcha. Tried looking it up but, man, was Mike Connors in a lot of early TV! He was the star of this series. ---
**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, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/318 "2017-04-11T19:33:49Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Nitpick: Dihanne Carroll. Nitpick^2: _Diahann_ Carroll. 😃 ---
**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, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/319 "2017-04-11T19:35:36Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > \*There’s a holdup in the Bronx, > Brooklyn’s broken out in fights! > There’s a traffic jam in Harlem > that’s backed up to Jackson Heights! > There’s a Scout troop short a child, > Khrushchev’s due at Idlewild! > > \_\_\_ \_\_, \_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_ \_\_\_?\* I think _every_ Baby Boomer remembers that one! 🙂 ---
**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, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/320 "2017-04-11T19:40:23Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Nitpick^2: _Diahann_ Carroll. 😃 Oh, me! :eek: I stand corrected! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=17)