# 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:** 19
**Author:** ![HyacinthBucket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hyacinthbucket/32/3063_2.png) [@HyacinthBucket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HyacinthBucket)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/361 "2017-04-13T04:01:50Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > 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.) Was it **“Casey Jones”?** Just going from memory here so please excuse any flubs _Casey Jones, steamin’ and a’rollin’ Casey Jones, you never have to guess Casey Jones, you can hear the thunder rollin’ When it’s Casey at the throttle of the Cannonball Express_ Two more I remember - **“My Friend Tony”** , a short-lived detective seres with James Whitmore as an American professor teaming up with a now-grown Italian orphan he’d supposedly met when he was a GI in Italy during WW2. (Even in my tender teens I think my eyes rolled a bit over that explanation. But hey, I’m a sucker for Italian accents.) Enzo Cerusico played the sidekick. And this may have been more of a Chicago thing, but does anyone remember \*\*“Super Circus” \*\*with Mary Hartline? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/362 "2017-04-13T04:22:06Z")
> [@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. The only episode I remember was the one where they killed ET. Then ate him. Then he spontaneously regenerated from the leftover bones. ---
**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 13, 2017, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/363 "2017-04-13T04:30:05Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > The only episode I remember was the one where they killed ET. Then ate him. Then he spontaneously regenerated from the leftover bones. Spewey! ---
**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 13, 2017, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/364 "2017-04-13T10:35:38Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > And if you couldn’t afford the repair shop, you pulled glass tubes out of the back of the TV and took them to the drugstore or hardware store where there was a [device](https://3v6x691yvn532gp2411ezrib-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/default/files/story_images/20050414_fg4.jpg) you could stick them into and it would test them to see if they were bad. I remember those from when I was a child. It was the transitional time between tube TVs and transistor TVs, but there was one of those testing units by the door at my local drug store, a few feet away from the L’eggs display (another piece of history.) ---
**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 13, 2017, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/365 "2017-04-13T10:43:38Z")
> [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](#): > > Spewey! Wow, I’d forgotten about Spewey. I have a DVD with a something like 3 or 4 episodes ([this](https://www.amazon.com/Get-Life-Vol-Chris-Elliott/dp/B00003PE9I) one) but I don’t think that the Spewey one is on that. I see that (apparently all of) the episodes are on Youtube. [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nhVhXZtT5Q) is _Spewey and Me_. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/366 "2017-04-13T11:43:16Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I’ve mentioned it before: **[Covington Cross](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103391/)**; the first episode was a hoot. And used up all the good jokes. > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > When “Lost” was at the height of its popularity, ABC aired a one-season series called “Invasion” that was very good. I seem to have been the only person who watched it. Count me as another one who enjoyed this and was surprised it got canned. Very well written. > [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > _The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Hour._ > > Saturday morning watching three stoner brothers and an emu-puppet. I think I was nine or ten when that was on. It obviously guided my worldview to this day. Same here - definitely my favorite show of the Saturday morning. > [@Acsenray](#): > > Riptide - with Thom Bray, Joe Penny, and Perry King Yep. Two handsome burly guys competing to see who could get their nose broken more, and a nerd who couldn’t make a fist. > [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](#): > > Every time this subject comes up I always have to chime in with this show. > From 1975, the sit-com [_ **“Hot L Baltimore”** _](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072512/?ref_=nv_sr_1) Another good one. As I recall it was mostly a one-room show (the hotel lobby) and was very theatrical in nature. > [@pmwgreen](#): > > 1995 was a good year. I liked [Strange Luck](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112182/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_76) and [VR.5](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112209/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_77) > > They filled the hole left by some bastard cancelling [Brisco County](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105932/) anyway. I was going to mention Strange Luck. I liked Brisco County a lot but by the end it was very much running out of ideas. > [@Acsenray](#): > > These are much more recent, but nobody I talk to in real life has seen them — British comedies > > “The Thick of It” (2005-2012) - with a blindingly foul-mouthed Peter Capaldi as a political mastermind for the Labor party (unnamed but obvious) at the end of Gordon Brown’s premiership. Really? “The Thick of It” is _legendary_ - mostly for Capaldi’s epic swearing but the writing was amazingly good. So good, in fact, that Blair and Campbell were worried someone was bugging their offices. > [@xizor](#): > > Way back when my family first got cable TV, I discovered a show called [Not Necessarily the News](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Necessarily_the_News) which ran for a long time but I never hear mentioned. It introduced the world to Rich Hall and Snigglets. I remember that from the early HBO days. A few more for the pile: [Grapevine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapevine_(TV_series)), a six-episode 1992 summer series for CBS. Cleverly told via multiple narrators and always ending with the line “That’s all I heard” (which has different meanings dependent on context). I note from the wiki it had a brief revival, which I haven’t seen. [Wizards and Warriors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizards_and_Warriors_(TV_series)), starring Jeff Conaway in a D&D parody show. Watching clips of it now show it to be incredibly cheesy, but still funny. Only lasted eight episodes. ---
**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 13, 2017, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/367 "2017-04-13T12:14:25Z")
> [@HyacinthBucket](#): > > And this may have been more of a Chicago thing, but does anyone remember \*\*“Super Circus” \*\*with Mary Hartline? Super Circus was, indeed, a Chicago show that debuted in 1949, starring Claude Kirchner. But Kirchner later showed up in similar shows elsewhere. I knew him from Terrytoon Circus and others that played in the New York metropolitan era circa 1960. No Mary Hartline, though – his sidekick was a puppet clown named – highly original here – “Clowny” > **[Super Circus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Circus)** > > Super Circus is an American television program that aired live on Sunday afternoons from 5 to 6pm Eastern Time from 1949 to 1956 on ABC. The show was produced in Chicago by WENR-TV, continuing through its call letter change to WBKB (today's WLS-TV) through 1955, and its production moved to New York City and WABC-TV for its final season. The award-winning show featured circus and clown acts performing in front of a studio audience. Mary Hartline and Claude Kirchner were the hosts (Jerry Colonna Ha... > **[TV Acres](https://www.tvacres.com/)** > > Best General News Website 2024 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/368 "2017-04-13T12:24:29Z")
Hands up who else remembers [Crossbow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa182cCzzCI), the adventure series about William Tell. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/369 "2017-04-13T12:25:05Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Really? “The Thick of It” is _legendary_ - mostly for Capaldi’s epic swearing but the writing was amazingly good. So good, in fact, that Blair and Campbell were worried someone was bugging their offices. Yep really. It’s not well known in the U.S. even though it’s the template for “Veep.” Nobody I know has seen it and I haven’t been able to persuade anyone I know to watch it. I guess the idea of British political comedy just doesn’t appeal. ---
**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 13, 2017, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/370 "2017-04-13T14:29:31Z")
> [@HyacinthBucket](#): > > Was it **“Casey Jones”?** > > Just going from memory here so please excuse any flubs > > _Casey Jones, steamin’ and a’rollin’ > Casey Jones, you never have to guess > Casey Jones, you can hear the thunder rollin’ > When it’s Casey at the throttle of the Cannonball Express_ _ **DING DING DING** _ We have a winner! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/371 "2017-04-13T15:01:05Z")
> [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](#): > > Spewey! That’s the only episode I remember, and I thought I dreamed it. It’s…weird. ---
**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 13, 2017, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/372 "2017-04-13T20:30:18Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > The only episode I remember was the one where they killed ET. Then ate him. Then he spontaneously regenerated from the leftover bones. I only remember one where CE is in combat with a neighbor (?) and the arena and music are from “Gamesters of Triskelion.” 😕 > [@Gyrate](#): > > And used up all the good jokes. \ No argument here. I kept watching for the novelty of the casting: "Excalibur’"s Nigel Terry _and_ Cherie Lunghi. A dash of Ione Skye and I was good for 13 episodes. But yeah, ran out of material quick. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/373 "2017-04-13T20:42:09Z")
In the mid to late 1990s, there was a channel that would sometimes show short films on the weekends. I think it was A&E. Anyway, there was a autobiographical documentary that consisted mainly of old home movies from the 1940s or 1950s that was fascinating, and I cannot find its title, who made it, etc. The narrator showed a lot of snowy landscapes, and talked about the towns of Brandon, Clear Lake, and Pilot Mound. There are two areas that have towns with these names in relatively close proximity: one is in Iowa, and the other is in Manitoba; this turned out to be the latter, and any effort to find it could best be described as something that could prompt the formation of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Google Users. 😛 Anyone know what this might be? ---
**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 14, 2017, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/374 "2017-04-14T02:24:28Z")
[All Is Forgiven](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmXUJZUOHaQ) 1986. One season or less. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/375 "2017-04-14T02:51:35Z")
> [@Lee\_Q](#): > > CE’s kind of ‘funny’ doesn’t lend itself very well to a sitcom, though I recall Get a Life (REM’s ‘Stand’ was the theme song, remember?). As you may know, Chris Elliott got his start playing weird bit characters on David Letterman’s show waaaaay back, including ‘the guy under the seats.’ Bizarre, surreal stuff, which is sort of what he does best. Much like his dad. The YouTube version of Bob and Ray’s SNL version of “Do you think I’m sexy” is probably the West Coast feed, as they are wearing different slacks and not pointing at their junk. The most appalling three minutes in TV history. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/376 "2017-04-14T03:26:43Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Not sure what you are thinking of, but the US version of the show [lasted 85 episodes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Planets). Well it’s sure hard to speak to definitively 35+ years later, but maybe it was just my local channel that opted to only show one season. I seem to recall it ended in a cliffhanger and I was desperately waiting for the next season that never came. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/377 "2017-04-14T03:47:24Z")
> [@ElderSign](#): > > American Gothic “Someone’s at the door.” Great, spooky show. [Nowhere Man](https://youtu.be/FXhDOA0CnBc?list=FLJycDRzuf69G9Wl6yEZwGxA) was one of UPN’s first shows. It got good ratings for the UPN, but was cancelled anyway so they could turn UPN into the Star Trek network. It was filmed in my hometown of Portland, OR (although it is set all over the place), so for me, it’s like going on a time travel trip to the mid 90s. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/378 "2017-04-14T04:10:02Z")
Nowhere Man, that’s another good one. In still impressed someone besides me remembers VR.5. IIRC it came on late night Saturday on UPN or something. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/379 "2017-04-14T06:19:15Z")
VR.5 had Lori Singer in it. And I didn’t watch it, so that’s all I know. ---
**Author:** ![Jamesaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecd19e/32.png) [@Jamesaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamesaz)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/380 "2017-04-14T07:04:52Z")
There was “Questor”, a human shaped robot. I believe it was from Gene Roddenbury. It may have just been a pilot. Also can’t remember names but the show where Jackie Cooper had the Bassett hound and, different show, the cowboys time warped to the present. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=20)