# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 23
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/441 "2017-07-21T07:12:17Z")
> [@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. > [@terentii](#): > > Which is a bit strange, since he was played in the movie by Cary Grant. :dubious: Astin’s character, the sub’s captain, was indeed played by Grant in the movie, but the movie also stared Tony Curtis. Technically, PeteShepherd’s comment is accurate (he doesn’t say Curtis and Astin played the same character) and Curtis’s character did end up commanding the sub for the postwar scenes set in 1959 that formed the framing device for the wartime adventures. > [@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) He disappeared, obviously. I was quite a fan of _Mighty Orbots_, a short-lived Japanese-style super robot cartoon. Watching it now is painful, but my teenage self was less particular. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2017, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/442 "2017-07-21T08:31:57Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Astin’s character, the sub’s captain, was indeed played by Grant in the movie, but the movie also stared Tony Curtis. Technically, PeteShepherd’s comment is accurate (he doesn’t say Curtis and Astin played the same character) and Curtis’s character did end up commanding the sub for the postwar scenes set in 1959 that formed the framing device for the wartime adventures. Good point; but looking back at my original post (with the red bolding), I think I was contrasting Grant and Astin, not ignoring Curtis. I mean, Gomez Addams (or The Riddler) in command of the same boat as suave, cool, sophisticated Cary Grant? Come on! :dubious: **Fun Fact:** Under the terms of his studio contract, Curtis could choose any project he wished for his next movie. Having served in the Navy during WWII, and being a lifelong fan of Cary Grant, he insisted it be a service comedy about submarines, and that Grant be his co-star. _ **Operation: Petticoat** _ was the result. **Another Fun Fact:** Tony Curtis and Cary Grant are the only two actors ever to have starred opposite both Mae West and Marilyn Monroe. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2017, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/443 "2017-07-21T08:40:40Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > 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. I believe it’s on YouTube. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2017, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/444 "2017-07-21T08:45:01Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I remember liking a little thing called Mission: Impossible. **Nothing like the Tom Cruise movies.** It didn’t even HAVE Ethan – I wanna say – Frome? And there was a character called Jim Phelps, but he was – get this – the GOOD guy! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I mean, can you IMAGINE? Yes, it relied neither on improbable fast-action sequences nor hokey CGI, and you actually had to concentrate on what was happening on the screen in order to follow the plot. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2017, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/445 "2017-07-21T10:49:03Z")
And then there was the 1975 Invisible Man series. I recall a long sequence of the invisible man undressing in order to disappear. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2017, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/446 "2017-07-21T11:18:17Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > And then there was the 1975 Invisible Man series. I recall a long sequence of the invisible man undressing in order to disappear. David McCallum. See post no. 440. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=22)