# 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:** 5
**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, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/81 "2017-04-08T10:59:54Z")
“Trials of O’Brien” with Peter Falk “Fractured Flickers” “Gulla-gulla Island” “Sky King” Several great British shows, including: “Danger Man” with Patrick McGoohan “Doctor Finlay’s Casebook” “Family at War” “The Planemakers” “Rumpole of the Bailey” “The Bounder” From Canada: “St. Lawrence North” “Cannonball” “The Friendly Giant” “The Bounder” was the funniest show I ever saw. Only 14 episodes in 1982. A slick con man gets released from prison and goes to live with his sister, who refuses to believe that he has not mended his ways. ---
**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 8, 2017, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/82 "2017-04-08T11:34:12Z")
Last night I was flipping through channels and ran across a show that I didn’t even remember having existed. I recognized it as soon as I saw it, though. [Voyagers!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyagers!). (I see that not long after the show originally aired, the star chose [an unfortunate bit of horseplay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon-Erik_Hexum#Death).) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/83 "2017-04-08T11:37:55Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > You had a crush on Kristy McNichol when the young and achingly beautiful [Meredith Baxter (Birney)](http://static1.tvbuzer.com/images/persons/sources/73/73c91098be56a04552bb9838a43eac14-22138.jpg) was in the same cast??? That’s like watching Petticoat Junction and having a crush on Kate. Well, Kristy was the cute girl next door and only 2-3 years older than me and Meredith is about 20 years older. I don’t even remember her on the show. > [@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. I liked that show, pretty talented cast but I went back to watch a few episodes maybe 8 years ago and it has not held up in any way for me. Besides Sarah Jessica Parker it had [Jami Gertz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jami_Gertz) & [Tracy Nelson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Nelson_%28actress%29). I know neither went on to great work but still pretty talented trio there. ---
**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, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/84 "2017-04-08T12:32:52Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > 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? It was so long ago and I was so young, I can’t really remember. I seem to recall that it was just a very short-lived variety show, but I can’t be very sure about that. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/85 "2017-04-08T13:12:32Z")
_ **Coronet Blue** _, of course. It premiered in 1967, along with _ **The Prisoner** _. They both shared a similar vibe. Was it good? No, not really, But both shows were a bit different from the usual mid-60s fare. I’ve never met anybody in my age range who remembers it. ---
**Author:** ![Pantastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@Pantastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pantastic)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/86 "2017-04-08T13:18:37Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > [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][/LIST] This is the one I was going to name. I remember liking it as a kid but not much else. Since most of the reviews say it was pretty bad, I probably won’t ever go back to rewatch it so I can keep it as really cool in my head. ---
**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, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/87 "2017-04-08T13:26:36Z")
I remember loving a Mel Brooks show called _The Nutt House_, set in a hotel. They used the same set as the TV series _Hotel_, which was a _Love Boat / Fantasy Island_ clone. There used to be a show called [Lottery!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery!) about the different ways people reacted when they won the lottery, starring Ben Murphy, who was also in one of my favourite shows when I was a kid, about a guy who could turn invisible, called _The Gemini Man_. There were a whole bunch of detective shows in the wake of Magnum PI, like Simon and Simon, the aforementioned Riptide, and Hardcastle and McCormick, but one of my favourites was Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner’s _Scarecrow and Mrs King_. I am pretty sure that was why Boxleitner was in _Chuck_, for the similar premise of an ordinary person getting caught up in the spy world. And also _Tron_ of course. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/88 "2017-04-08T13:41:56Z")
[_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. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/89 "2017-04-08T13:49:21Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Well, Kristy was the cute girl next door and only 2-3 years older than me and Meredith is about 20 years older. I don’t even remember her on the show. I liked her too, and I guess it was an age thing because she was kind of funny looking. Her first role, however, brings up another forgotten “gem” [**Run, Joe, Run**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075504/) ---
**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, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/90 "2017-04-08T13:53:44Z")
Oh. Who else remembers [Lucan](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075532/combined), about a boy raised by wolves? ---
**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, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/91 "2017-04-08T14:07:07Z")
> [@ZonexandScout](#): > > _ **Coronet Blue** _, of course. It premiered in 1967, along with _ **The Prisoner** _. They both shared a similar vibe. > > Was it good? No, not really, But both shows were a bit different from the usual mid-60s fare. > > I’ve never met anybody in my age range who remembers it. I know of it, but remember when it was on only very vaguely. The theme song is on YouTube: The resolution (which SFAIK was never filmed) was that the dude who had lost his memory was actually a Soviet sleeper agent. When I was in third grade, I absolutely loved \*\*this \*\*show. Whereas _ **Combat!** _ was set in France, and _ **The Rat Patrol** _ in North Africa, this took place in Italy: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/wK1BfiIbVbc/maxresdefault.jpg "Preview Clip | The Gallant Men | Warner Archive") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK1BfiIbVbc) ---
**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, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/92 "2017-04-08T14:17:25Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > “Cannonball” Is this the 1950s trucker series with William Campbell (aka The Squire of Gothos)? I remember watching this when I was three or four years old: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mSLoZzJ-7kc/hqdefault.jpg "Cannonball TV Series 1958 Full Episode Part 1") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSLoZzJ-7kc) Holy crap, it was Canadian (“Filmed in Toronto”)! And that theme song! Even in 1958, I thought it was way cool! ---
**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 8, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/93 "2017-04-08T14:21:08Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > [NatureScene](http://video.scetv.org/show/naturescene/) was on for 32 years but I’ve never met anyone else who’s ever seen it. It was 30 minutes of a naturalist and his buddy checking out the flora and fauna of whatever location they were in that week. To say it was low-key would be a major understatement, but I liked the laid back vibe. It was just nice spending a half hour with Rudy and Jim while they explored and enjoyed the natural world around them. Yeah, I used to just take it for granted that NatureScene was shown on PBS stations across the nation (like The Joy of Painting and other shows) but apparently it never much broke out of the South Carolina market for some reason, even though it covered multiple states and even other countries (I remember a trip to Russia, for instance.) It even should have intersectional feminist appeal–when Jim Welsh wasn’t with Rudy, it was [Beryl Dakers](https://www.flickr.com/photos/southcarolinaetv/4404470946)–a black woman–even close to 40 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/94 "2017-04-08T14:25:50Z")
[The Littlest Hobo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnCyMpl4dhk)…German Shepherd goodness. ---
**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 8, 2017, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/95 "2017-04-08T14:53:36Z")
_Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers in London_: > **[Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers (TV Series 1968–1970) - Release info - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062553/releaseinfo/?ref_=tt_dt_dt)** > > Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers (TV Series 1968–1970) - Movies, TV, Celebs, and more... > **[The Golddiggers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golddiggers)** > > The Golddiggers was a female singing and dancing troupe created for The Dean Martin Show. They performed on TV, on live tours and internationally with the USO. The group was formed in 1968, dissolved in 1992, and reorganized in 2007, and has numbered between four and 13 members over various time periods. > The act debuted on The Dean Martin Show, and was later featured in a summer replacement television series over three seasons. In addition to backing Martin on his show and in his nightclub act, ... Each summer when the American TV show _The Dean Martin Show_ (very popular at the time) went on hiatus, the time slot would be filled in by a replacement show run by the same production company. Several times this show starred the Golddiggers, the singing and dancing female troupe from the regular show. In the summer of 1970, someone decided that it would be nice to film the show in London. They hired Charles Nelson Reilly and Marty Feldman to be the hosts of the show. Reilly (who never did anything else half as funny) was well known to American audiences. He was sort of on the edge of being part of the Brat Pack. Marty Feldman wasn’t known to American audiences but was a hot new comedian in the U.K. He was one of the cast and writers of the British show _At Last the 1948 Show_. Feldman and Reilly did comedy sketches on this Dean Martin summer replacement show, some of which came from _At Last the 1948 Show_, including a version of the Four Yorkshiremen sketch, one of the most famous comedy sketches of all time. The sketches that I remember were screaming funny. ---
**Author:** ![waem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e47c2d/32.png) [@waem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waem)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/96 "2017-04-08T15:00:21Z")
I saw Night Flight broadcast in syndication in the early 90s. It came in horribly, and it was like midnight and I’d keep dozing off, but…I was a rural kid with little exposure to anything, and it was So Fascinatingly Weird by pre-internet standards. And I never talk to anyone who remembers it. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/97 "2017-04-08T15:01:51Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Last night I was flipping through channels and ran across a show that I didn’t even remember having existed. I recognized it as soon as I saw it, though. [Voyagers!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyagers!). (I see that not long after the show originally aired, the star chose [an unfortunate bit of horseplay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon-Erik_Hexum#Death).) I loved that show when I was a kid! It’s the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread. I remember it was absolutely the only thing on TV on Sunday mornings that wasn’t religious programming, news, or infomercials (this was pre-cable, for those of you for whom that statement doesn’t make any sense), but it was also a decent show, or at least it was in my 30+ year old memory. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/98 "2017-04-08T15:06:08Z")
> [@waem](#): > > I saw Night Flight broadcast in syndication in the early 90s. > > It came in horribly, and it was like midnight and I’d keep dozing off, but…I was a rural kid with little exposure to anything, and it was So Fascinatingly Weird by pre-internet standards. > > And I never talk to anyone who remembers it. I do! I watched Night Flight all the time on USA. Lots of crazy short films and music videos. It’s also where I first saw the movie Fantastic Planet. There’s a Roku Night Flight channel but it’s pay so I have never seen it but my understanding is it rebroadcasts episodes. I have another one that wasn’t a series. It was a TV movie that as far as I know only only aired once. I believe it was called Without Warning and it was a TV movie about an alien invasion but in the format of a series of live newscasts. I only saw it the one time but my memory of it is that it was good. I suspect if I saw it again it would probably be cheezy. ---
**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, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/99 "2017-04-08T15:18:14Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > There used to be a show called [Lottery!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery!) about the different ways people reacted when they won the lottery, starring Ben Murphy, who was also in one of my favourite shows when I was a kid, about a guy who could turn invisible, called _The Gemini Man_. I think I have a vague collection of Gemini Man, but I definitely remember Lottery! Got into a fight once with a cousin who wanted to watch Dallas instead. > [@](#): > > but one of my favorites was Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner’s _Scarecrow and Mrs King_. Oh yes! I had forgotten about that. It was regular viewing when I was a kid. > [@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 recall Frank’s Place getting good marks from critics. I have a vague notion that I might have seen an episode but I don’t recall too much about it. ---
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I’ll second **GuanoLad** on _The Wizard_. It starred a genius inventor who wanted only to make wondrous toys. He always got into various sorts of adventures, and his toys always somehow saved the day. I don’t remember the carpetbag, though. The only specific toys I remember were a super-cool remote controlled jet (I don’t remember what it did), and a little spherical robot that was strong enough to bend prison bars. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=6)