# 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:** 7
**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, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/121 "2017-04-08T20:52:45Z")
> [@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 was part of their demographic; they introduced America to some great New Wave bands. I heard that the show was discontinued in large part because so many of the stars had serious substance abuse issues, mostly cocaine. ☹ Is there anyone here who saw the first and last episode of “Turn-On”? > **[Turn-On](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn-On)** > > Turn-On is an American surreal sketch comedy series created by Digby Wolfe and George Schlatter that aired once on ABC on Wednesday, February 5, 1969. Only one episode was shown partially before being pulled from ABC's airing schedule, leaving another episode unaired. The show has since been considered one of the most infamous flops in TV history, with significantly low initial ratings and negative critical reception. > Turn-On's sole broadcast episode replaced the Wednesday episode of Peyton P... ---
**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, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/122 "2017-04-08T20:54:16Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > [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. I remember this. I believe it was a series “commissioned” by CBS for its late night schedule (I think \*\*\*Leg Work \*\*\* with Margaret Colin :o was another). It was definitely filmed in Canada (Toronto or Vancouver), but I always thought the setting was Boston or Chicago (there was some “Irish” influence, as I recall). I got to watch it in Czechoslovakia in 1991–92, with Czech overdubbing. I thought it was quite good. ---
**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, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/123 "2017-04-08T20:57:21Z")
> [@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. (jumps up and down and waves) I do! I do! It was You Tube, 30 years before You Tube. In the mid 1980s, there was a one-season series called “Kay O’Brien” about a female surgeon in residency, and her colleagues. Lifetime ran it periodically for many years afterwards, and when Patricia Kalember, who played Kay, made her first cameo appearance on “Madam Secretary”, I went, “Hey, that’s Kay O’Brien!” 😛 > **[Kay O'Brien](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_O%27Brien)** > > Kay O'Brien is an American medical drama television series set at fictional Manhattan General Hospital, which aired for one season on CBS from September 25 to November 13, 1986, during the 1986-87 television season. > The series stars Patricia Kalember as Dr. Kay "Kayo" O'Brien. CBS had high hopes for this multi-racial medical drama, but it received low ratings and was cancelled after airing just 8 episodes. > Lifetime bought the rights to the entire series, and has occasionally aired all 12 episo... ---
**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, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/124 "2017-04-08T21:04:18Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > 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. I saw part of it at the time, and it was cheezy then. The network tried to do a “War of the Worlds” redux and did it by broadcasting it in real time. I’m pretty sure it’s on You Tube. In the early 1980s, there was a movie called “Special Report”, parts of which were also broadcasted in real time, about a domestic terrorist who holds Charleston, SC hostage with a homemade nuclear weapon. It too is on You Tube and I finally saw it within the past couple of years, after I realized I could get You Tube through my Tivo. 🆒 At the time, some people were concerned about panic, and there were people who figured it out pretty quickly when the news network was one they’d never heard of (Global Broadcasting Network, that kind of thing) and it wasn’t being covered on any other station. In the end the bomb explodes but there are relatively few casualties because Charleston was mostly evacuated. The news channels moved on faster than we did after 9/11. ---
**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, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/125 "2017-04-08T21:10:37Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > 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. Missed the edit deadline: Did you also see “I Was A Zombie For The FBI”? TV Guide described it as “Aliens steal the formula for a popular soft drink” and that was indeed pretty much the extent of the plot. It was a film school project from the early 1980s, shot in B&W with all the hair and clothing styles from the early 1980s and the cars were all from the 1950s. 😛 The alien was the same stop-motion alien used in the ZZ Top video “TV Dinners” a couple years later. ---
**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, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/126 "2017-04-08T21:21:18Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > In the early 1980s, there was a movie called “Special Report”, parts of which were also broadcasted in real time, about a domestic terrorist who holds Charleston, SC hostage with a homemade nuclear weapon. [_Special Bulletin_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dih1KSHDcT4). ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/127 "2017-04-08T21:22:46Z")
_Gatchaman_ (1972), very few remember that one because that Japanese animated show from the 70’s was repackaged and they squeezed out the more adult and serious themes it had, and turned it into what everyone remembers as _Battle of the Planets_ (1978, and shown in the early 80’s in the old country) . YouTube short clip showing how one scene was cut, with the violent end of some secondary characters removed from the American version. The American version was the one shown translated to Spanish in the old country. Much later in the 90's I learned about the gross censorship and dumbification made to the original show, then I finally did see it in its original form and liked it a lot. ---
**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, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/128 "2017-04-08T21:48:47Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Much later in the 90’s I learned about the gross censorship and dumbification made to the original show But they had to make room for 7-Zark-7! ---
**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, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/129 "2017-04-08T21:57:20Z")
BTW, I remember watching Battle of the Planets as a child, and in an episode where the team’s commanding officer threatened to ground them if they (did _x_, or did _x_ again) I thought that he was threatening to _grind_ them–as in toss them into a large meat grinder or something. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/130 "2017-04-08T22:30:06Z")
I would’ve posted earlier, but I couldn’t remember the name of a show starring post-Night Court John Larroquette. Turns out it was _The John Larroquette Show_ :rolleyes:. IMHO, a great show (1993-1996). Larroquette plays a recovering alcoholic who becomes the manager of a big city bus station. It made me appreciate Larroquette as an actor. ---
**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 9, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/131 "2017-04-09T00:10:47Z")
Check out the funky theme music to the [Logan’s Run](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owNi60LLK1c) TV series. ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/132 "2017-04-09T00:56:37Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > 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. I’ll third and fourth this. My little brother and I used to watch it all the time. He was only four or five at the time, and he always called it “Simon” after the main character’s name. Our favorite episode was some kind of _Raiders of the Lost Ark_ clone, where they had to survive traps in an ancient tomb. ---
**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 9, 2017, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/133 "2017-04-09T01:00:52Z")
> [@ioioio](#): > > I would’ve posted earlier, but I couldn’t remember the name of a show starring post-Night Court John Larroquette. Turns out it was _The John Larroquette Show_ :rolleyes:. > > IMHO, a great show (1993-1996). Larroquette plays a recovering alcoholic who becomes the manager of a big city bus station. It made me appreciate Larroquette as an actor. _\_ I remember that show! I really liked it, too. ---
**Author:** ![bobsmom101](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobsmom101/32/2867_2.png) [@bobsmom101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobsmom101)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/134 "2017-04-09T01:47:53Z")
Two from the Brits Red Dwarf (goofy and surprisingly sweet - I wonder whether the humor would hold up today?) and of course the great Fawlty Towers. Sent from my SM-T350 using Tapatalk ---
**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 9, 2017, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/135 "2017-04-09T01:52:46Z")
> [@bobsmom101](#): > > Two from the Brits > > Red Dwarf (goofy and surprisingly sweet - I wonder whether the humor would hold up today?) and of course the great Fawlty Towers. > > Sent from my SM-T350 using Tapatalk Not sure if either of yours really count, Fawlty Towers is well remembered and cherished by large numbers, Red Dwarf while much more obscure had a fairly good following and a long run. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/136 "2017-04-09T02:20:17Z")
There was a third TV Movie done in the style of News Broadcasts called Countdown to Looking Glass. It was on HBO and was about the events that lead up to a Nuclear war. ---
**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 9, 2017, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/137 "2017-04-09T03:22:33Z")
Here’s one that everyone I 've ever mentioned this show to, has never seen it. It’s a Canadian show called _ **"Made In Canada"** _ but when shown in America, primarily on PBS (where I saw it) is called _ **"The Industry"** _. It’s a dark comedy featuring a group of back stabbing executives, actors and actresses at a Canadian TV Network. It ran 6 seasons, though I’m sure I didn’t see all of them and ran from '98-2003. I remember it being very funny, but have never seen it or even heard anything about it since my first viewing ---
**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 9, 2017, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/138 "2017-04-09T04:45:29Z")
These are much more recent, but nobody I talk to in real life has seen them — British comedies “The Thick of It” (2005-2012) - with a blindingly foul-mouthed Peter Capaldi as a political mastermind for the Labor party (unnamed but obvious) at the end of Gordon Brown’s premiership. Spun off a movie “In the Loop,” about the run-up to the Iraq war, and has been remade in the U.S. as HBO’s “Veep.” “Twenty Twelve” (2011-2012) — a mockumentary about the preparations for the London Olympics starting Hugh Bonneville of “Downton Abbey” “W1A” (2015-2015) — After the Olympics, Bonneville’s character gets an executive position at the BBC and the mockumentary moves to satire of the media business and modern office life in general. This one hit very close to home for me and I have a fantasy to make every executive at my company sit and watch every second of it and then submit term papers on what they learned. If it could be done at gunpoint, it would somehow me more satisfying. ---
**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 9, 2017, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/139 "2017-04-09T06:37:08Z")
Finally thought of a real obscure one. So obscure i kind find a proper theme song for it that actually features the opening credits. [A Year at the Top](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0mOhnLXvlQ) Paul Shaffer and Greg Evigan sell their souls to the devil for fame. ---
**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 9, 2017, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/140 "2017-04-09T09:33:19Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Red Dwarf while much more obscure had a fairly good following and a long run. And it’s still going. They had a new season out last year, and another is due later this year. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=8)