# 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:** 17
**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, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/321 "2017-04-11T19:58:28Z")
> [@PAjoe](#): > > Also the British marionette show “Captain Scarlet” as well as “Fireball XL5” which had a really snappy theme [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrK0rmeSlTk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrK0rmeSlTk) I’d have used [this link](https://youtu.be/Tsjj-_NB3es). ---
**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, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/322 "2017-04-11T20:28:36Z")
My brother loved this show on Fox called, “Get a Life,” with Chris Elliott, his father Bob, and Eleanor Donahue. I’d watch it, too, but CE was an acquired taste and I didn’t like it as much as m’bro. ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/323 "2017-04-11T20:36:41Z")
I also nth “The Wizard” with David Rappaport. I remember the sidekick thinking he’d found the boss’s secret about where he’d been when he had disappeared. The Wizard had just smiled and said, “Yes, that’s right - but that was only for a week. Where do you think I’ve been for the last year?” I also loved, “Quark”, “Land of the Giants”, “Honey West”, “Kolchak”, “Man from Atlantis”, “Nanny and the Professor”, “Salvage 1”, “My World, And Welcome To It”, and many more mentioned here. Many, like “Police Squad!” I wouldn’t have categorized as “shows nobody else remembered”. I remember the total confusion when the last episode of “The Powers of Matthew Star” aired and suddenly the character relationships, premise, and environment changed with no explanation. They just aired the alternate pilot episode as the last episode and didn’t mention it! I remember SNL’s properly titled take on the all-star sports craze called, “Network Battle of the T’s and A’s” 😃 In the British show, “Allo, Allo”, they had an episode where the star of the show gets killed - and comes back as his here-to-fore unknown identical twin. 😉 I addition the “The Greatest American Hero”, do you remember the one episode of [“The Greatest American Herione”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0592601/)? I’ll add, [“The Champions”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062551/) to the list. They crashed in the Himalayas, were rescued by an unknown civilization, and came back with superhuman powers. Also, [“The Magician”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069606/) with Bill Bixby. A fun show and I seem to remember him having a motorcycle that could deploy out of a hatch in his airplane {_while it was parked_}. And I second a favorite - [“The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105932/)! ---
**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 11, 2017, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/324 "2017-04-11T20:37:32Z")
I just realized we’ve gone seven pages and nobody’s mentioned [Pink Lady and Jeff.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Lady_and_Jeff) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/325 "2017-04-11T20:38:17Z")
I remember very little about it, but we watched _Caroline in the City_ religiously. ---
**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, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/326 "2017-04-11T20:51:21Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > I just realized we’ve gone seven pages and nobody’s mentioned [Pink Lady and Jeff.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Lady_and_Jeff) Because people remember it but nobody really liked it. ---
**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, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/327 "2017-04-11T20:53:36Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Because people remember it but nobody really liked it. True about so many of the shows here. Often, even the person posting about it didnt actually like it. \*Pink Lady and Jeff \*was truly, horribly bad. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/328 "2017-04-11T20:57:54Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > [Tales of the Gold Monkey](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083488/?ref_=nm_knf_t3), perhaps? Got the series on DVD. ---
**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, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/329 "2017-04-11T21:01:26Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Got the series on DVD. So do I. Still good, but not as good as I remember it. ---
**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 11, 2017, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/330 "2017-04-11T21:03:58Z")
> [@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! While I would agree with you , that a show running for ten years wouldn’t be considered obscure, _Mannix_ could still fit. It’s first season '67-68 was really different from the other 9 seasons. He worked for a high tech (high tech for late 1960’s) detective firm (which is why they used that specific font for the logo) but played by his own rules. It wasn’t until the second season that Mannix went out on his own and had a black secretary, Peggy, played by Gail Fisher. When the show went into syndication that first season wasn’t included, so I’d consider the first season of Mannix as obscure. > [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > My brother loved this show on Fox called, “Get a Life,” with Chris Elliott, his father Bob, and Eleanor Donahue. I’d watch it, too, but CE was an acquired taste and I didn’t like it as much as m’bro. _“Get A Life”_ like many TV series went in different directions after it’s initial season. Yes, Chris lived with his parents (played by Bob Elliott and Eleanor Donahue) in the first season, but in the second season he lived with a cantankerous man (played by Brian Doyle Murray) and many years before _“South Park”_, at the end of every second season episode Chris would either die or be seriously maimed, only to return unscathed next week. ---
**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, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/331 "2017-04-11T22:38:19Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > \*\*\*Julia \*\*\*I remember mainly because of the hilarious satire of it in _ **MAD Magazine** _. I’ll mention _The Incredible Hulk_. Not because nobody has heard of it, but because of a _Mad Magazine_ parody I remember or it. Over at TV Tropes there is a category called [Harsher in Hindsight](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HarsherInHindsight), where "\*a serious event, plotline, or comment where a later event (in the story or real life[) comes up and only serves to amplify the already bitter-tasting effect\*." Well, for some reason I have a memory of a specific joke where Banner is explaining why he is called David on the TV show and not Bruce like in the comics was because the TV execs thought “Bruce” wasn’t masculine enough. Meanwhile in the background the TV was reporting news about Bruce Jenner being one of the world’s greatest athletes. Ooops. (It might arguably be a better fit as a [URL=“http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FunnyAneurysmMoment/ComicBooks”]Funny Aneurysm Moment](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealLife).) (And yes, the TV execs really did make the change for that reason, and yes, [I found the comic on line](https://bigglee.blogspot.com/2009/10/dont-make-me-mad-hulk-in-79-drucker.html).) ---
**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, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/332 "2017-04-11T22:59:01Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > I remember very little about it, but we watched _Caroline in the City_ religiously. Lea Thompson, mmmmmmmmmmm! :o ---
**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, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/333 "2017-04-11T23:04:29Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Ah, gotcha. Tried looking it up but, man, was Mike Connors in a lot of early TV! _ **Tightrope** _! That was the name! No wonder I confused it with \*\*\*Checkmate\*\*\*! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3d7HGEl07Xc/hqdefault.jpg "CHECKMATE: "Waiting for Jocko" (1961)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d7HGEl07Xc) ---
**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 11, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/334 "2017-04-11T23:11:18Z")
> [@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) I knew the guy who played the gorilla, Tracy. He got the job because he could provide his own gorilla suit. ---
**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, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/335 "2017-04-11T23:24:39Z")
Wow! _ **Sheriff of Cochise** _ (with **John Bromfield**!) is on YouTube too! [Sheriff of Cochise - 1957 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C0C1_AHW4M)🆒 With _ **Yancy Derringer** _ (with **Jock Mahoney**!): \*\*\*Wanted: Dead or Alive\*\*\* (with \*\*Steve McQueen\*\*!): (The 1980s movie with Rutger Hauer was an \*homage \* to this series!) And\*\*\* Broken Arrow\*\*\* (with **Michael Ansara**!): (Brought to you by \*\*\*General Electric\*\*\*)! I’m reliving my childhood here! :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, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/336 "2017-04-11T23:26:22Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Mommy, what’s a TV shop? 😃 Well billy, once upon a time, in your great great grandpappy’s day, A TV set was actually an expensive piece of combined electronics and furniture. They were also made with replaceable and repairable components, and men went to school to learn how to service and fix them. People had them fixed. They didn’t throw them away like we did the 42" plasma screen when you threw the damned baseball through the screen!@!@!! Come back Billy, why are you running?? LOL ---
**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, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/337 "2017-04-11T23:30:51Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > As far as old goes, I love the Burns and Allen Show. George stepped through the fourth wall regularly and it was truly the original show about nothing. But I discovered this gem as an adult, not a kid. Say good night Gracie 😃 ---
**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, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/338 "2017-04-11T23:32:04Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Car 54, where are you? > > They tried that as a movie, which bombed. In fact most films made from TV sitcoms have bombed. You can \*never \*recapture the feeling of the original, especially when you have actors identified with iconic roles! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/S5MkCAwupe0/hqdefault.jpg "Car 54, Where Are You (Intro) S1 (1961)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5MkCAwupe0) ---
**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 11, 2017, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/339 "2017-04-11T23:36:40Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I vaguely remember “Jot” as well. They were 4-minute segments produced by the Southern Baptist Church. > > [JOT (TV series) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JOT_(TV_series)) Ah, makes perfect sense! Should’ve used the old googlefu myself. Thanks! ---
**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, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/340 "2017-04-11T23:44:26Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I’d have used [this link](https://youtu.be/Tsjj-_NB3es). **This one** is the best! 🆒 Did Airfix or some other company actually release a kit of the ship, or was that gorgeous model scratch built? (Maybe it was the one used in the series?) :dubious: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=18)