# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/61 "2017-04-08T03:04:32Z")
“The Defenders”, an early 60’s show featuring E G Marshall and Robert Reed as father/son lawyers who defended socially liberal causes. Sadly, the show has never aired in syndication, to this day. I think it should be required viewing for everyone, to see the legal struggles and suffering endured by people who were denied the rights that people take for granted today. I think one or two episodes can be seen on YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/62 "2017-04-08T03:14:34Z")
I have a really vague memory of this show, _Best of the West_, starring the guy from Silver Spoons. > **[Best of the West](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_the_West)** > > Best of the West is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 1981 through August 1982. > The Old West spoof featured the misadventures of Sam Best (Joel Higgins), a Civil War veteran who becomes a marshal in Copper Creek after accidentally scaring off an incompetent gunfighter called the Calico Kid (Christopher Lloyd). > Sam's family was made up of his Southern-belle wife Elvira (Carlene Watkins) and his smart-mouthed son Daniel (Meeno Peluce). The cast also included Leonard Frey as vil... Apparently I was six when it was cancelled. I don’t know whether it was good or not, but I must have liked it a little bit to (sort of) remember it after all these years. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/63 "2017-04-08T03:16:48Z")
I too came in to mention _All’s Fair_. I used to watch it because Bernadette Peters was at her height of hotness then. I also remember a goofy ham named Michael Keaton in it. ---
**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 8, 2017, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/64 "2017-04-08T03:19:43Z")
I have a vague recollection of a variety show with a name something along the lines of “\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ and \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Together at Last!” And it didn’t make any sense and the two hosts, who I can’t remember, were not two people that the public was clamoring to see together, especially since the female half was a fashion model and not really a performer of any kind. I haven’t been able to track down this show online. Anyone have an idea? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/65 "2017-04-08T03:30:32Z")
Shout out to [_The Brothers Grunt_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t7pylCz_KM) ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/66 "2017-04-08T03:46:07Z")
Today I was at a comic con and some guy had a set of TigerSharks figurines for $650 a piece. My friend, who is a few years younger, never heard of these TigerSharks. The guy selling them said they were a Thunder Cats spinoff that only had one run and was never re-aired. I totally knew these TigerSharks. I recognized every character. My friend pulled up the show theme song on his phone. Recognized that too. Then I had a memory of watching this bad block of cartoons every day after school, by myself, without my brother or parents, on the spare tv in mom’s bedroom. They weren’t particularly good but I was happy to finally be able to watch tv by myself and choose the shows. I checked Wikipedia and sure enough: “The series lasted one season with 26 episodes and was part of The Comic Strip show, which consisted of four animated shorts: TigerSharks, Street Frogs, The Mini Monsters, and Karate Kat.” My brother, a couple years older, has no recollection of TigerSharks or this block of cartoons either. I decided that only a handful of us must have seen them at all. Timely thread! > **[TigerSharks](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TigerSharks)** > > TigerSharks is an American animated children's television series developed by Rankin/Bass and distributed by Lorimar-Telepictures in 1987. The series involved a team of heroes that could transform into amalgams of human and marine animals and resembled the series ThunderCats and SilverHawks, also developed by Rankin/Bass. > The series lasted one season with 26 episodes and was part of the show The Comic Strip, which consisted of four animated shorts: TigerSharks, Street Frogs, The Mini-Monsters, ... ---
**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 8, 2017, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/67 "2017-04-08T03:54:21Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > I get that one confused with _The Governor and J.J._ which aired at the same time. I remember _ **The Governor and JJ** _ and _ **He & She** _. > **[He & She](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_%26_She)** > > He & She is an American sitcom that aired on CBS as part of its 1967–68 lineup, originally sponsored by General Foods and Lever Brothers. > He & She is widely considered by broadcast historians to have been ahead of its time. Its sophisticated approach to comedy was viewed as opening doors to the groundbreaking MTM family of sitcoms of the 1970s, beginning with The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970. The character of Oscar was openly the pattern for the Ted Baxter character, for which creator Leonard 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 8, 2017, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/68 "2017-04-08T04:13:35Z")
\*\*\*Paris 7000 \*\*\*was a good show that really should have run longer. It came on in midseason and lasted only through the spring: > **[Paris 7000 (TV Series 1970) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065332/)** > > Paris 7000: Created by Gene L. Coon, Richard Michaels. With George Hamilton, Jacques Aubuchon, Brenda Benet, Barbara Anderson. Jack Brennan is a troubleshooter for the U.S. State Department based in Paris helping American citizens. Jack is assisted... I really wanted to watch _ **Jericho** _ but never managed to, probably because it was on opposite _ **Batman** _ or some other show; I don’t remember exactly. Walter Koenig guest starred as a Resistance fighter in one episode. > **[Jericho (TV Series 1966–1967) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059999/)** > > Jericho: Created by Richard Levinson, William Link. With Don Francks, Marino Masé, John Leyton, Peter Mark Richman. The Jericho team is a trio of Allied specialists who operate as intelligence agents and saboteurs behind German lines. Franklin... _ **Blue Light** _ was another good show that deserved a longer run. Lawrence Montaigne and Bruce Mars were among the Nazis who were featured: > **[Blue Light (TV Series 1966) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059971/)** > > Blue Light: Created by Larry Cohen, Walter Grauman. With Robert Goulet, Christine Carère, John Van Dreelen, Eva Pflug. An American correspondent pretends to go over to the Nazis in World War II but is instead working for the officially neutral United... ---
**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 8, 2017, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/69 "2017-04-08T04:16:36Z")
\*\*\*SEARCH \*\*\*was a lot like an Earthbound version of _ **Star Trek** _; not surprising, since Bob Justman was one of the producers. ---
**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 8, 2017, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/70 "2017-04-08T04:24:00Z")
> [@antechinus](#): > > Benson and **Bosom Buddies** were on about the same time. I pegged Peter Scolari as the one who would happen. Shows what I know. > [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Nanny (and the Prof) was Juliet Mills. OMG, I didn’t know she was still alive; NATP was 45+ years ago! At the same time I rethought my crush on her sister. > [@california\_jobcase](#): > > I too came in to mention _All’s Fair_. I used to watch it because Bernadette Peters was at her height of hotness then. I also remember a goofy ham named Michael Keaton in it. Ditto for Bernie and Keaton’s performance explained his choice as Burton’s Batman: more than a little insane. > [@terentii](#): > > _ **He & She** _. I couldn’t understand Paula Prentiss’s attraction to Richard Benjamin then, and 50-some years after their marriage I still don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/71 "2017-04-08T04:27:12Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > I remember from weekend fox: beans baxter werewolf women in prison Ah, yes, good ol’ _Werewolf Women in Prison_. Good stuff! 😃 ---
**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 8, 2017, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/72 "2017-04-08T04:35:22Z")
I watched _ **Strange Report** _ when I was in high school. I especially liked the theme music. > **[Strange Report](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Report)** > > Strange Report is a British television crime drama series starring Anthony Quayle as Adam Strange. It was produced by ITC Entertainment and first broadcast in 1969 on ITV > In the United States, NBC broadcast Strange Report between 8 January and 10 September 1971. It aired on Fridays from 10:00 to 11:00 p.m. Eastern Time throughout its American run. > Adam Strange, a retired Home Office criminologist, solves bizarre cases with the help of Hamlyn Gynt (Kaz Garas), Evelyn McClean (Anneke Wills) an... [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5Fnp6zb4RnM/hqdefault.jpg "Theme From Strange Report") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fnp6zb4RnM) ---
**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 8, 2017, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/73 "2017-04-08T04:59:05Z")
[Any reboot of Battle of the Network Stars will need the participants to wear classic single-layer-of-nylon Speedos, wet, and shown on the high dive. It’s what made it Must See TV back then. Hello, Erin Gray! ---
**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 8, 2017, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/74 "2017-04-08T05:24:28Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I have a vague recollection of a variety show with a name something along the lines of “\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ and \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Together at Last!” And it didn’t make any sense and the two hosts, who I can’t remember, were not two people that the public was clamoring to see together, especially since the female half was a fashion model and not really a performer of any kind. > > I haven’t been able to track down this show online. Anyone have an idea? I too have a \*very \*vague recollection of this, but cannot remember who the two stars were either. IIRC, it made sense in that there was some “connection” between them, like the “marriage” everyone assumed existed between James Garner and Mariette Hartley back in the early '80s. (Hell, maybe it was them!) I’ve been going through lists of US TV series arranged according to decade and can’t seem to find it either. Is it possible this was a one-off special? ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/75 "2017-04-08T05:28:43Z")
> [@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. Make that two of us who watched it. I also liked _Threshold_ that premiered that same year. I was sorry when they pulled it after just a few episodes because there were complaints that it was too dark and violent for family viewing. And I never understood why _Invasion_ only lasted a year. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/76 "2017-04-08T05:48:53Z")
Marshall Herskovitz, Winnie Holzman, Edward Zwick and Jason Katims created, between them, four TV shows focusing on people at different stages of their lives. _Thirtysomething_, (1987) about people in their 30s (obviously), ran for several years, and was quite prominent as far as pop cultural references and mentions were concerned _My So-Called Life_, (1994) about high school kids, only ran for one season, but is high on the list of shows that people have fond memories of and wish hadn’t been cancelled. Their other two shows, however, while of similar quality, are all but forgotten. I don’t think I’ve heard either one even mentioned in a decade aside from discussions like this: _Once and Again_, (1999) was about two divorcees falling in love, and their families. It ran for three seasons, then seems to have been completely forgotten. And even more obscure is _Relativity_, (1996), about 20-somethings. It only ran for one season. I’m not sure I’ve ever met anyone else who watched it. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/77 "2017-04-08T06:08:54Z")
[Otherworld](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088587/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) - A family gets trapped in an alternate dimension and struggles to get home. [Probe](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094529/?ref_=nv_sr_3) - A quirky genius solves high-tech crimes You weren’t kidding about Erin Gray in _Battle of the Network Stars_. [Hot damn.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_5my2VJ0jI) ---
**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 8, 2017, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/78 "2017-04-08T07:13:44Z")
I saw Juliet Mills in something quite recently. Oh yes, she was in the pilot of _Time After Time_. Anyhoo, apart from the _Probe_ that **Sefton** just mentioned, I also liked these forgotten shows: [ul] [li]_[Mr Merlin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Merlin)_: Merlin is now an old man who runs a gas station, teaching a new kid to be a wizard.[/li][li]_[Throb](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DcagdINsuI)_: set in a trendy pop rock radio station. Where I first saw Jane Leeves. Also had one of the actors from the above _Mr Merlin_ in it. Oh, and apparently the late Paul Walker of _Fast and Furious_ fame.[/li][li]All the various versions of _[It’s A Living](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Living_(1980_TV_series))_ set in a restaurant at the top of a skyscraper. [Life’s not the French Riviera!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8DvfJAzEGE) Also Wendy Schaal… sigh.[/li][li]_[A Man Called Sloane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Man_Called_Sloane)_, which I thought was called TR Sloane but maybe that was the pilot movie.[/li][li]_[The Wizard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_(TV_series))_, David Rappaport carries a magical carpet bag everywhere. I can’t really remember much else.[/li][li]_[The Powers of Matthew Star](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Powers_of_Matthew_Star)_. Well this was awful, but as a kid I loved it. When they made a _Starman_ series a few years later, it reminded me of this show.[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/79 "2017-04-08T09:34:09Z")
[Square Pegs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Pegs) Of-beat quirky HIgh School comedy with an unusual premise, with actors close to the age of their characters. Probably appealed to people who had recently been in high school more than to people who had not yet been to high school. In my market, it was shown off season, in an odd time slot, and the stations knew that there wasn’t a second season. /Nobody/ I knew ever heard of it. ---
**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 8, 2017, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/80 "2017-04-08T10:00:08Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > [Square Pegs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Pegs) > > Of-beat quirky HIgh School comedy with an unusual premise, with actors close to the age of their characters. > > Probably appealed to people who had recently been in high school more than to people who had not yet been to high school. > > In my market, it was shown off season, in an odd time slot, and the stations knew that there wasn’t a second season. /Nobody/ I knew ever heard of it. “Quirky” doesn’t begin to describe “Square Pegs,” a high school comedy. Sarah Jessica Parker, pre-“Sex and the City,” as bespectacled Patty; her best friend Lauren, overweight and with braces on her teeth; a character named Johnny Slash (“I’m New Wave. Totally different than punk. Totally”); a peppy cheerleader named Muffy; the class clown named Marshall; and Tony Dow (better known as “Wally Cleaver”) as Patty’s father. It was a slice of 1980s American high school life. Not too far away from my own high school years that I couldn’t understand and enjoy it. I’ve got the series on DVD; it’s fun to pull it out from time to time, and relive those years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=5)