# 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:** 22
**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 19, 2017, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/421 "2017-04-19T18:50:09Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > God, I remember most of these. “Arnie” starred Herschel Bernardi – the original voice of Charlie the Tuna (from Star-Kist commercials) as Arnie Nuvo, a blue-collar worker who got promoted to a white-collar job. Mad did a two-page parody of it. …And his wife was played by Sue Ane Langdon. Sue Ane Langdon, mmmmmmmmmmmmm! :o [![](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f1/cd/56/f1cd563661f9696c0ce491fe06e57d54.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f1/cd/56/f1cd563661f9696c0ce491fe06e57d54.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/422 "2017-04-19T18:56:08Z")
[Fingerbobs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sBCJ7KQ7I0), a short run kids show that I loved as a little tyke. I can still sing the theme song to this day. ---
**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 19, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/423 "2017-04-19T19:14:15Z")
> [@PeteShepherd](#): > > How about “Operation Petticoat?” \*\*John Astin plays the skipper of a World War II submarine \*\*tasked with ferrying 5 WAC nurses from point A to point B, but, then, for some reason, is unable to disembark his passengers. It was based on an earlier movie starring Tony Curtis, and, in additon to John Astin, had a young, unkown Jamie Lee Curtis as one of the nurses. Which is a bit strange, since he was played in the movie by Cary Grant. :dubious: > [@](#): > > Anyone remember “Longstreet?” IIRC, James Franciscus played a blind insurance investigator, and every episode involved him getting into some situation that a sighted person could handle with ease, but everyone was surprised when he handled it well. The same year, George Kennedy played _ **Sarge** _, a cop who became a priest. _ **MAD Magazine** _ then came up with _ **Longsarge** _, a series about a handicapped detective who became a Zen Buddhist and rode a motorcycle. ---
**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 19, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/424 "2017-04-19T19:17:08Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > [Fingerbobs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sBCJ7KQ7I0), a short run kids show that I loved as a little tyke. I can still sing the theme song to this day. Speaking of kid’s shows, everybody knows _Bill Nye the Science Guy_, but I’ve always preferred [_Beakman’s World_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beakman's_World). Anyone remember [_The Math Patrol_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehUVYZkpTXc), [_The Letter People_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtnuCz91SBA), or [_Science Court_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI79_lvR6tc)? ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/425 "2017-04-19T20:08:02Z")
Johnny Socko and his Flying Robot From Japan. ---
**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 19, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/426 "2017-04-19T23:50:28Z")
_Michael Bentine’s Potty Time_. You should google it. You will be confused. ---
**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 20, 2017, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/427 "2017-04-20T00:04:24Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > Johnny Socko and his Flying Robot > > From Japan. Do you get the cable station COMET? They air Johnny Socko episodes on Sunday nights ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/428 "2017-04-20T05:46:34Z")
> [@Thuringwethil](#): > > _Midnight Caller_ - an overnight talk show DJ listens to people’s problems and solves them. Gary Cole starred. It had a great jazzy theme song. I remember _Midnight Caller_–and I remember enjoying it, too. Sadly, I’ve never seen it on DVD. Wish it was; it was a show I looked forward to every week, and I’d like to see it again. ---
**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 20, 2017, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/429 "2017-04-20T11:26:24Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Speaking of kid’s shows, everybody knows _Bill Nye the Science Guy_, but I’ve always preferred [_Beakman’s World_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beakman's_World). Me too, but Bill had a catchier theme tune. ---
**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 20, 2017, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/430 "2017-04-20T11:52:23Z")
So many 1960s sitcoms not mentioned yet **Hank** – comedy about a “college drop-in”, who did various odd jobs in disguise around a college, using the opportunities to sneak in and take classes he couldn’t pay for. Exactly how he was supposed to amass credits if he was attending on the sly was never clear to me. The show is notable to me because it’s one of the very few series of that era that had acdefinite ending – Hank did finally graduate. **Camp Runamuck** – comedy set in a kid’s camp **the Smother Brothers Show** – no, not the controversial variety show. Before that ever aired they had a sitcom where Tom Smothers had died and re-appeared as a somewhat dim angel helping his brother out. **The Bill Cosby Show** – Two of these, actually, both long before he was Dr. Huxtable. Right after _I, Spy_ left the air, he returned as a high school gym teacher in a show of his own. After that went off the air, he had a variety show. That one is memorable to me because one of his guests was Groucho Marx, in what was probably his last TV appearance. Groucho “riffed” through the closing credits of the show a la _MST3K_. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/431 "2017-04-20T13:49:30Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > [_Frank’s Place_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092354/?ref_=nv_sr_1) > > Only ran for one season in 1987-88-- 22 episodes, which is what constituted a season back then. Fabulous program starring Tim Reid, who had played Venus Flytrap on WKRP in Cincinnati. He was also the Executive Producer. > > The premise: “Frank Parish is a professor from Boston, who has not seen his father since he was two. 35 years later, he is told that his father died and that he owned a restaurant in New Orleans, which is now legally Frank’s.” > > But there was so much more to the show than this brief description conveys. Frank moves to New Orleans with the intention of shutting down and selling the restaurant. But instead he learns the ways, manners, stories of New Orleans, along with its quirky denizens. The cast was 90% black. God, this was a great program–one of those “too good to last.” It had humor, heart, understanding, and some great writing. > > I also loved _Memphis Beat_, which someone else mentioned. I’ve been trying to place the name of Frank’s Place for years! Thanks for mentioning it! Anybody remember a show about a woman, a Darryl Hannah look a like, who would wear a Virtual Reality mask and dive deep into VR world, as a sleuth or something her name might’ve been Sydney, it hooked me but I’ve lost the thread of 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 20, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/432 "2017-04-20T14:08:15Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > **Hank** – comedy about a “college drop-in”, who did various odd jobs in disguise around a college, using the opportunities to sneak in and take classes he couldn’t pay for. Exactly how he was supposed to amass credits if he was attending on the sly was never clear to me. The show is notable to me because it’s one of the very few series of that era that had acdefinite ending – Hank did finally graduate. Wasn’t he also using the money from his odd jobs to help his sister through college? > [@](#): > > **The Bill Cosby Show** – Two of these, actually, both long before he was Dr. Huxtable. Right after _I, Spy_ left the air, he returned as a high school gym teacher in a show of his own. This was on at the same time as _ **The Jimmy Stewart Show** _. For some reason, a whole slew of big names were roped into doing series (usually sitcoms) around 1970, like Jimmy and the aforementioned Doris Day. I guess their movie careers had wound down and they had lots of free time on their hands. ---
**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 20, 2017, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/433 "2017-04-20T15:34:01Z")
Not too long ago, Rebecca Romijn had a brief show as a smart-ass girl reporter named “[Pepper Dennis](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460669/).” It was cute (so was she). In one episode, she decided to model a teeny, purple bikini, for some reason. Had a catchy theme song. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/434 "2017-04-20T21:40:00Z")
> [@PeteShepherd](#): > > One of my favorite sitcoms as a kid was called “Arnie.” Arnie worked for a company being run by the son of its late founder. Son gets tired of vice-presidents that want to do things the way they learned in college, instead of the way dad taught him, so, in the pilot episode, promotes Arnie, the loading dock foreman, to VP. Hilarity ensues, as Arnie tries to adjust to his new responsibilites, and to do his job using common sense, and every other VP tells him how that will never work. Quite possibly not as funny as I remember it… I remember it. In particular it had Sue Ane Langdon in it as his wife which alone made it totally memorable. Great actress for a role like this. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/435 "2017-04-20T22:36:58Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > VR.5 had Lori Singer in it. And I didn’t watch it, so that’s all I know. That’s it! VR.5 - a mash of old tech and new, she used a telephone handset and a dial up modem to slip into an alter reality with the people she called. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/436 "2017-04-20T22:44:49Z")
mary hartman mary hartman springs to mind springs to mind saturday night babysitting line up starsky and hutch Mcmillan and wife Love american style ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/437 "2017-04-21T00:19:51Z")
> [@chela](#): > > That’s it! VR.5 - a mash of old tech and new, she used a telephone handset and a dial up modem to slip into an alter reality with the people she called. 'Lag musta been killer. ---
**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 21, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/438 "2017-04-21T00:21:23Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > I remember it. In particular it had Sue Ane Langdon in it as his wife which alone made it totally memorable. Great actress for a role like this. Arnie’s daughter was incredibly hot too, especially to an overhormonal fifteen-year-old like me. :o [![](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/2e/be/14/2ebe146db3c1df9af92f3c89dd9a7f4b.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/2e/be/14/2ebe146db3c1df9af92f3c89dd9a7f4b.jpg) [![](https://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/1531/STEPHANIE_STEELE_CBS_TV_ARNIE_STILL.JPG) ](https://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/1531/STEPHANIE_STEELE_CBS_TV_ARNIE_STILL.JPG) [![](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a3/f7/e6/a3f7e6b568d32712c7351976b2f99dcd.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a3/f7/e6/a3f7e6b568d32712c7351976b2f99dcd.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![pmwgreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@pmwgreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pmwgreen)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/439 "2017-04-22T02:13:26Z")
Just came back to mention [Invisible Man](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220238/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_76). Starring Vincent Ventresca (what ever happened to him) and Paul Ben-Victor. Loved V.R. Featured a practically unknown Anthony Stewart Head. Alias Smith and Jones is a bit before my time, but I watched it in reruns and I thought it was brilliant. The name you have remember is Roy Huggins who wrote most of it and also The Fugitive and some Rockford Files. ---
**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 22, 2017, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/440 "2017-04-22T02:18:49Z")
> [@pmwgreen](#): > > Just came back to mention [Invisible Man](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220238/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_76). Starring Vincent Ventresca (what ever happened to him) and Paul Ben-Victor. I was expecting David McCallum… :o > **[THE INVISIBLE MAN (1975) DVD Review](http://space1970.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-invisible-man-1975-dvd-review.html)** > > In response to 1974's smash-hit ABC sci-fi adventure series, The Six Million Dollar Man - which chronicled the adventures of a former-... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=23)