# 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:** 6
**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, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/101 "2017-04-08T16:17:36Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > 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/) I vaguely remember [Run, Joe, Run](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071045/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt) but I don’t remember Kristy McNichol on it. It looks like it was 1 [episode](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2762956/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_37). ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/102 "2017-04-08T16:27:24Z")
**Police Squad!** , a six episode series that would likely have been forgotten if it hadn’t spawned the “Naked Gun” films. Also **Sledge Hammer!** , another cop procedural spoof, starring David Rasche. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/103 "2017-04-08T16:37:15Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > I remember him doing the 100-dash against Gabe Kaplan (Kotter). > Surrealler-than-fuck: seeing a totally in-shape, totally limbered-up Robert Conrad _somehow_ creating the illusion that he’s giving everything he’s got, but getting passed by this fat, lumbering, ugly-track-suited shlebb. > > Kotter won. I was requiring brain bleach after witnessing that. I was a big fan of \*Battle of the Network Stars \*back in the day. You mention Gabe Kaplan … I think he was a much better athlete than he appeared. Not only racing against Conrad, but he was always the quarterback for the ABC team in the football competition, and he did really well. What always bugged me was NBC would have Mark Harmon playing QB for them … he actually played quarterback for UCLA, for real. That hardly seemed fair. On topic, I worked for a small television station back in the 1980s that started up right along with the Fox network. Fox started out with several programs that really stood the test of time - _Married With Children_, _The Tracy Ullman Show_, _21 Jump Street_ - but plenty of others that not many people remember. _Mr. President_, with George C. Scott as the President and Madeline Kahn as his sister-in-law? _Duet_, with the lovely yet show-killing Alison LaPlaca (after _Duet_’s short run she and her character moved on to _Open House_, which lasted an even shorter time)? _The New Adventures Of Beans Baxter_ - did Beans ever have any old adventures? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/104 "2017-04-08T16:45:12Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > _Duet_, with the lovely yet show-killing Alison LaPlaca (after _Duet_’s short run she and her character moved on to _Open House_, which lasted an even shorter time)? Hmmm, I wonder where I heard about these shows before. . … ---
**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, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/105 "2017-04-08T16:53:13Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > _Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers in London_: > > [Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers (TV Series 1968–1970) - Release info - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062553/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_dt_dt#akas) > > [The Golddiggers - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golddiggers) > > 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. Oh, God, yes, I remember this! It helped me get through the summer of 1970. :o ---
**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, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/106 "2017-04-08T17:03:34Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Also **Sledge Hammer!** , another cop procedural spoof, starring David Rasche. Sledge Hammer! [is currently airing on MeTV](http://www.metv.com/shows/sledge-hammer). 1:30 AM on Sundays isn’t exactly a prime time slot, but in these days of DVRs (and for that matter, those days of VCRs) that doesn’t much matter. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/107 "2017-04-08T17:37:26Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I pegged Peter Scolari as the one who would happen. Shows what I know. People always say this, but when I was a kid I thought doing 6 years of Newhart was a pretty big deal. He never became a star but he’s always worked, which is more than most actors who get 1 series ever do. ---
**Author:** ![pmwgreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@pmwgreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pmwgreen)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/108 "2017-04-08T18:05:24Z")
1995 was a good year. I liked [Strange Luck](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112182/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_76) and [VR.5](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112209/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_77) They filled the hole left by some bastard cancelling [Brisco County](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105932/) anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/109 "2017-04-08T18:15:01Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > I vaguely remember [Run, Joe, Run](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071045/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt) but I don’t remember Kristy McNichol on it. It looks like it was 1 [episode](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2762956/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_37). No one believes me when i say “It’s The Fugitive. But a dog.” I’m trying to remember more…we already did almost all the short-lived Sci-fi shows. [Planet of the Apes cartoon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4noAXqcP8A) [Planet of the Apes TV show](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-wCImOruQI) Nice intro music ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/110 "2017-04-08T18:29:49Z")
Here are some horror anthologies: [The Sixth Sense](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWOhyvhXeKM) [Quinn Martin’s Tales of the Unexpected](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skq5rg0dE1w)…going through the 8 episode synopsi (?) some of those could be long unanswered ‘what is this tv show?’ [Ghost Story (1972)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jERRBXXqc2M) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/111 "2017-04-08T18:32:03Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > **Police Squad!** , a six episode series that would likely have been forgotten if it hadn’t spawned the “Naked Gun” films. > > Also **Sledge Hammer!** , another cop procedural spoof, starring David Rasche. I remember Sledge Hammer quite fondly. One weird thing is they would show reruns of it in Hungary in the early 00s, dubbed in Hungarian and all. ---
**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, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/112 "2017-04-08T18:42:45Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > I’m trying to remember more…we already did almost all the short-lived Sci-fi shows. Well, there’s _[Homeboys in](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeboys_in_Outer_Space) [Outer Space](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GlEAYp-vt0)_. And [_Mercy Point_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_Point), which was a bit of a humanwashed [Sector General](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sector_General). ---
**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, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/113 "2017-04-08T18:49:12Z")
If we are going to go with cartoons, how about [_YoulissEEEeeeEEEeeEEEs 31_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev1aBt-_Zs4), or [_The Littles_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUxwCdyl5C8)? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/114 "2017-04-08T18:51:17Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > **BJ and The Bear** was my favorite show as a little kid. I can’t remember much about it and am curious about going back and watching a couple of episodes. All I remember is a chimp, and a guaranteed big rig crash in every episode. To a 6 year-old boy, nothing else is really necessary for quality TV. Didn’t this show also have The Lander Sisters somehow involved? They were treats for the young boys! > [@Acsenray](#): > > As a child I loved the Saturday morning live shows "Ghost Busters"and “Space Nuts” Yeah, _Ghost Busters!_ Larry Storch, Forrest Tucker and a Gorilla named Tracy! That’s quality TV right there! ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/115 "2017-04-08T19:32:41Z")
“Excuse My French”, a sitcom which aired on Canadian TV in the mid 70s. Maybe only on Montreal TV. The son of an anglophone businessman marries the daughter of a francophone working class family. Family conflict ensues. Full of the most blatant stereotypes. I think it went off the air when the PQ were elected to power for the first time; this sort of thing was no longer funny. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/116 "2017-04-08T19:45:43Z")
[Something Wilder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Wilder), starring Gene Wilder ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/117 "2017-04-08T20:06:51Z")
I wouldn’t mind seeing repeats of either of the following shows: 1. [Strange Report](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2piBBdim6A) (starring Anthony Quayle), about an unorthodox team of crime fighters, which ran for one season or less. 2. [Night Heat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Xg4xg0iCM), a cop drama set in an unnamed North American city (Toronto?), and which lasted several years in the mid-late 1980s. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/118 "2017-04-08T20:46:02Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Shout out to [_The Brothers Grunt_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t7pylCz_KM) There is not enough brain bleach in the world to make me want to watch any of that program again. :o ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/119 "2017-04-08T20:48:38Z")
> [@stillownedbysetters](#): > > 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. The last episode had a terrific cliffhanger, too. I heard that at least one of the main actors got a deal s/he couldn’t refuse, and they couldn’t find a way to write them out of the show and still have it make sense. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/120 "2017-04-08T20:49:15Z")
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