# 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:** 20
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/381 "2017-04-14T07:34:01Z")
Has anyone mentioned [Ensign O’Toole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensign_O%27Toole)? Ran for one season back in 1962-63. We watched it because my dad loved it. ---
**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 14, 2017, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/382 "2017-04-14T12:16:18Z")
> [@Jamesaz](#): > > 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. _ **The Questor Tapes** _ (Mike Farrell, Robert Foxworth) was a Roddenberry pilot around 1973–74. It was rejected for being “too much like The Six Million Dollar Man.” _ **Genesis II** _ (Alex Cord, Mariette Hartley) was another Roddenberry pilot rejected around the same time. A huge pity, since they both had great promise. Jackie Cooper and the basset hound (“Cleo”) was \*\*\*The People’s Choice \*\*\*. This was on my watch list along with _ **Topper** _, _ **Love That Bob** _ and _ **My Little Margie** _ when I was three or four. ---
**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 14, 2017, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/383 "2017-04-14T12:20:52Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Has anyone mentioned [Ensign O’Toole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensign_O%27Toole)? Ran for one season back in 1962-63. We watched it because my dad loved it. There was also a _ **Mister Roberts** _ series on NBC in the early-to-mid '60s. ---
**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 14, 2017, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/384 "2017-04-14T12:30:46Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > _ **The Questor Tapes** _ (Mike Farrell, Robert Foxworth) was a Roddenberry pilot around 1973–74. It was rejected for being “too much like The Six Million Dollar Man.” _ **Genesis II** _ (Alex Cord, Mariette Hartley) was another Roddenberry pilot rejected around the same time. A huge pity, since they both had great promise. > > . I kinda liked **Genesis II** , the pilot in which Mariette Hartley’s character had _two_ navels (which they showed on-camera, to make up for all the times NBC wouldn’t let them show even one on Star Trek – not to mention I Dream of Jeannie). They gave it another try, entitled **Planet Earth** , starring John Saxon instead of that Mark Spitz lookalike Alex Cord. > **[Planet Earth (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Earth_(film))** > > Planet Earth is a 1974 American made-for-television science fiction film that was created by Gene Roddenberry, written by Roddenberry and Juanita Bartlett (from a story by Roddenberry). It first aired on April 23, 1974 on the ABC network, and stars John Saxon as Dylan Hunt. It was presented as a pilot for what was hoped to be a new weekly television series. The pilot focused on gender relations from an early 1970s perspective. Dylan Hunt, confronted with a post-apocalyptic matriarchal society, It... They gave it one more shot, with Saxon again, as **Strange New World** in 1975: > **[Strange New World (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_New_World_(TV_program))** > > Strange New World is an American made-for-television science fiction film which first aired on July 13, 1975 on ABC. It stars John Saxon as Captain Anthony Vico (PAX team leader), Kathleen Miller as Dr. Allison Crowley (team navigator and communications expert), and Keene Curtis as Dr. William Scott (team physician/medical doctor). The title of the film was borrowed from the famous opening monologue of Roddenberry's Star Trek. > The TV Movie was originally a TV pilot and the third attempt to creat... But none of these caught on. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/385 "2017-04-14T15:55:38Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I watched \*\*\*Hennesey \*\*\*when I was in second grade. My mother hated it, but I loved it! > > Abby Dalton, mmmmmmmmmmmm! :o > > I also watched _ **I’m Dickens, He’s Fenster** _ in second grade: > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyEtysg0Euw&list=PLE5952D9802DECF17](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyEtysg0Euw&list=PLE5952D9802DECF17) > > A pre-\*\*\*Addams \*\*\*\*\*\*Family \*\*\*John Astin. Had me rolling on the floor! Holy crap-Dickens and Fenster–loved it! Haven’t thought of that in YEARS!! ---
**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 14, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/386 "2017-04-14T18:45:44Z")
“Goodnight, Beantown” — Boston news anchor Bill Bixby’s world is upset when his neighbor Mariette Hartley is hired as his co-anchor to improve his ratings ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/387 "2017-04-14T20:41:48Z")
We liked [The Young Rebels](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065358/), which was an early 1970’s take on young rebels helping the American Revolution. I’m surprised to see Louis Gosset Jr was the obligatory African American. ---
**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 14, 2017, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/388 "2017-04-14T21:02:47Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > “Goodnight, Beantown” — Boston news anchor Bill Bixby’s world is upset when his neighbor Mariette Hartley is hired as his co-anchor to improve his ratings I had completely forgotten about that one until I saw the title again. ---
**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 14, 2017, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/389 "2017-04-14T23:44:25Z")
What was this one? A single guy can’t get ahead in his corporate job unless he’s married, so he hires the girl upstairs to pose as his wife. ---
**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 15, 2017, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/390 "2017-04-15T00:03:21Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > What was this one? A single guy can’t get ahead in his corporate job unless he’s married, so he hires the girl upstairs to pose as his wife. _ **Occasional Wife** _ (NBC), the opposite of _ **The Cara Williams Show** _ (CBS), about a couple who pretended they weren’t married in order to keep their jobs. ---
**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 15, 2017, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/391 "2017-04-15T00:04:33Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > We liked [The Young Rebels](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065358/), which was an early 1970’s take on young rebels helping the American Revolution. I’m surprised to see Louis Gosset Jr was the obligatory African American. It was a clone of _ **The Mod Squad** _, but set in the 1770s. ---
**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 15, 2017, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/392 "2017-04-15T00:31:37Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > This is a great site! I actually remember watching an episode of _ **The Baileys of Balboa** _ back in 1964 or '65; it was CBS President **Bill Paley** ’s answer to _ **Gilligan’s Island** _, which he loathed. The plot was, everybody wanted to know how a very young Clint Howard was able to catch so many fish off the pier. The answer was, he used bits of peanut butter sandwiches as bait! My mistake: Jim Aubrey was President of CBS at the time. He was the one who hated Gilligan. ---
**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 15, 2017, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/393 "2017-04-15T00:52:27Z")
Speaking of Gilligan, was _Dusty’s Trail_ a memorable show in America? A western sitcom starring Bob Denver and Forrest Tucker. It played frequently in New Zealand when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2017, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/394 "2017-04-15T00:52:35Z")
> [@Jamesaz](#): > > a different show, the cowboys time warped to the present. I remember this show in the mid 80s so it was on between 86-88 too they got hit by lightning as they were taking a picture it was a group and some of them were bandits being chased and others were the posse but they ended up helping people who were wrongfully wanted because the former marshalls girlfriend owned a bail place or something close to it … and it was on cbs on Saturdays but maybe lasted a half to a full season… I think it had lee horsley (80s tvs answer to sam Elliott ) ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2017, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/395 "2017-04-15T00:53:38Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > My mistake: Jim Aubrey was President of CBS at the time. He was the one who hated Gilligan. is that the same Aubrey that helped kill off mgm in the 50’s and 60’s ? ---
**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 15, 2017, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/396 "2017-04-15T02:06:57Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Speaking of Gilligan, was _Dusty’s Trail_ a memorable show in America? A western sitcom starring Bob Denver and Forrest Tucker. It played frequently in New Zealand when I was a kid. It ran for six months, 1973–74, and then disappeared ignominiously. Four episodes were cobbled together for theatrical release. I think I watched it once and then forgot about it completely. ---
**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 15, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/397 "2017-04-15T02:09:13Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > is that the same Aubrey that helped kill off mgm in the 50’s and 60’s ? Evidently. > **[James T. Aubrey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_T._Aubrey)** > > James Thomas Aubrey Jr. (December 14, 1918 – September 3, 1994) was an American television and film executive. As president of the CBS television network from 1959 to 1965, with his "smell for the blue-collar," he produced some of television's most enduring series on the air, including Gilligan's Island and The Beverly Hillbillies. > Under Aubrey's leadership, CBS dominated American television, leading the other networks NBC and ABC, by nine points and seeing its profits rise from $25 million in... ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2017, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/398 "2017-04-15T02:28:57Z")
I don’t think anyone has yet mentioned [Brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_(1984_TV_series)), a 1983 cable sitcom. Quite progressive for its time, and in some ways predated _Will and Grace_. The networks were certainly quivering with courage in those days: > [@](#): > > Lloyd, Antonacci and Nardino then offered Brothers to ABC, who instantly shot it down because of its dealings of gay themes. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2017, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/399 "2017-04-15T07:05:59Z")
One reason that I remember _Brothers_ because it and the program _Soap_ used the same joke. There’s a conversation between two characters. One of them is gay. The other one isn’t very smart. The second one says something like “You know, back in the old days, there weren’t any gay people.” The first one says something like “No, there have always been gay people, even back in the time of the ancient Greeks. Alexander the Great was gay. Plato was gay.” The second one says something like “Mickey Mouse’s dog was gay?” The first one says something like “Oh, you didn’t know?” ---
**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 15, 2017, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/400 "2017-04-15T07:17:14Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > One reason that I remember _Brothers_ because it and the program _Soap_ used the same joke. There’s a conversation between two characters. One of them is gay. The other one isn’t very smart. The second one says something like “You know, back in the old days, there weren’t any gay people.” The first one says something like “No, there have always been gay people, even back in the time of the ancient Greeks. Alexander the Great was gay. Plato was gay.” The second one says something like “Mickey Mouse’s dog was gay?” The first one says something like “Oh, you didn’t know?” Goofy was his lover. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=21)