# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/161 "2017-04-09T19:48:39Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > There’s a Canadian show I really liked called “Little Mosque on the Prairie” that was never shown in America, even though it was on for 5 years and shown in 92 countries. It’s about a Muslim community living amongst other regular Canadians. Kind of flat as far as acting and writing goes but it was absolutely refreshing to see and I really enjoyed seeing Muslim characters just living their lives but also addressing cultural issues and clashes not only with non-muslims but also within their own group. > > It’s on Hulu now. I highly suggest checking it out! I loved this show! Sent from my LGMS631 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/162 "2017-04-09T19:53:06Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I recall Dr. Science doing a regular segment on public radio — “He has a master’s degree. In science!” > > Whatever happened to that guy? My husband and I have this book by him. It’s hilarious. [The Official Dr. Science Big Book of Science (Simplified): Dr. Science, Rodney: 9780809248490: Amazon.com: Books](https://www.amazon.com/Official-Dr-Science-Book-Simplified/dp/0809248492) ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/163 "2017-04-09T20:02:51Z")
**Hot Metal** was a really funny British sitcom about the tabloids. It ran in the late 1980’s. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/164 "2017-04-09T20:06:00Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I recall Dr. Science doing a regular segment on public radio — “He has a master’s degree. In science!” > > Whatever happened to that guy? Wasn’t that part of Duck’s Breath Mystery Theater? I loved that show. ---
**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 9, 2017, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/165 "2017-04-09T20:52:58Z")
> [@Brodi](#): > > [Allo Allo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Allo_%27Allo!): British comedy from the 80s about a café owner in France and his interactions with several quirky Germans. Probably more popular in the UK then here. Quirky _Nazis_; it was set during WWII. Vaguely reminiscent of _ **Hogan’s Heroes** _, what with the secret transmitters, the British airmen hiding out in the wine cellar, _et cetera_. ---
**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 9, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/166 "2017-04-09T20:57:56Z")
> [@smokey78](#): > > “Land of the Giants” I was stunned I’d never heard of this series, but then I realized why, at just two seasons it never landed in syndication. In Minneapolis, this was on at like 6:30 on boring Sunday evenings, and it always put me to sleep. At 13, I watched it only because there was nothing else on at the time. Cheesy even for an Erwin Allen series. > [@](#): > > Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, I’m glad someone mentioned it. I remember this one too, but then I remember almost everything. In the '90s, I briefly had a girlfriend who was a dead ringer for Blair Brown. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/167 "2017-04-09T21:06:05Z")
Black Tie Affair. It was a comedy murder mystery starring Bradley Whitford, Kate Capshaw, and Bruce McGill. I thought it was hilarious, and the writing sparkled with wit. Back in the day when everybody used quotes in their email signatures, I used a lot of quotes from the show because they were perfect for every occasion. It only lasted about four episodes. ---
**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 9, 2017, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/168 "2017-04-09T21:10:26Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > In Minneapolis, this was on at like 6:30 on boring Sunday evenings, and it always put me to sleep. At 13, I watched it only because there was nothing else on at the time. Cheesy even for an Erwin Allen series. The stewardess on the spaceliner (Heather something) was hot, though. :o ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/169 "2017-04-09T21:27:57Z")
Anyone mention _ **When Things Were Rotten** _? Used to LMAO.- ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/170 "2017-04-09T22:14:30Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > 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](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059999/) There was a different [\*Jericho \*](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805663/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)that I tried to get into that was cancelled, revived, then cancelled again. It was sort of an immediately after the bombs drop, post-apocalyptic, survival drama. I was trying to make a concerted effort to follow a series every week. I’d missed out on all the hot shows ( **24, Lost** , whatever) that were all the rage at the water cooler because I have no TeeVee watching discipline. I chose this show to make my way into the cool kids table; my own personal BetaMax. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/171 "2017-04-09T22:19:41Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Anyone mention _ **When Things Were Rotten** _? Used to LMAO.- Curse you! I was going to cite that after reading through the thread. Here’s the link: [When Things Were Rotten - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Things_Were_Rotten) Also, [Best of the West](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_the_West) Perhaps most obscure of all: [Young Lives](http://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/22/arts/tv-market-testing-of-soap-opera-about-youth.html), a daytime soap opera about high school students. Yanked after 1 week in 1981. I remember bongs. ---
**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, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/172 "2017-04-09T22:56:36Z")
> [@smokey78](#): > > Actually a show I think nobody if few heard of? I woke up one night and couldn’t sleep so I randomly turned onto MeTV? or AntennaTv? and saw “Land of the Giants” I was stunned I’d never heard of this series, but then I realized why, at just two seasons it never landed in syndication. MeTV or whatever broadcasting company it airs on, manages to I assume show 1-2 episodes a week to stretch the series to 26 weeks to a year. > > Some funny anecdotes I looked up: the series takes place in 1983 but with the clothes the cast had on, obviously filmed in the 60s. Everyone was in tip-top shape cuz the cast had to perform their own stunts pretending to be little folks in a land of giants (using the electric cords to slide down from tables to floors) . The Land of the Giants looked like Earth complete with English speaking giants but somehow was not Planet Earth. I was a little kid (6, 7 yrs old) when _"Land of the Giants_ first aired (Sunday nights on ABC) and was a big fan of the show. I also owned a Colorforms set and View Master reel of the show. There was some merchandising, but not much. METV does air it now, just once a week, Saturday night (or specifically Sunday morning ) 1:00 AM EST. Yes, the Giants planet looks like Earth but the government is much like a police state, very fascist like. ---
**Author:** ![alfonzos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alfonzos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alfonzos)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/173 "2017-04-09T23:58:59Z")
“Hot Pursuit” A woman is framed for a heinous crime by her employer. The woman escapes prison with help from her husband. The employer sends a henchman to capture the couple. He looses an eye after an encounter with the couple so now the chase is personal. The series is about the henchman chasing the couple who are chasing the woman’s lookalike who framed her for the crime. The show ran for three or four episodes before being cancelled. “This Week in Nemtin” One episode comedy special with Carl Reiner. I remember it being very funny but I have no details. “Turn-on” I watched this in Cleveland when the ABC affiliate stopped broadcasting it after twenty minutes. ---
**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 10, 2017, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/174 "2017-04-10T01:05:38Z")
Is _Turn-On_ really among your favorite shows, since it’s generally considered to be awful? ---
**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 10, 2017, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/175 "2017-04-10T01:11:12Z")
The best episode of _Land Of The Giants_ is when they found the [model village](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/66/b8/67/66b867afd5c7f5ca4c342c5725b5156a.jpg). [Theme music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iMNBY61ndQ) by the little known composer John Williams. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/176 "2017-04-10T03:05:00Z")
> [@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. _Coronet Bluuuuue… Deep inside my brain, I keep hearing that wild refrain…_ Oh, man, before the internet my friend Scot and I tried for years to find any trace of it, or anyone who’d seen it. Only to be met with blank looks. We’d stumbled across the pilot late at night during a fifth grade sleepover, and were half asleep when we realized what a cool concept we were watching. I mean, this guy gets pulled out of a river with amnesia… except for the phrase “Coronet Blue”… and then mysterious guys are trying to kill him! It didn’t help that this was the mid-60’s, when if you missed a show, that was often your only chance to see it. [And the network didn’t air the show after they filmed it.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronet_Blue) Glad to see it mentioned here! Guess Scot and I can stop singing [that jazzy theme song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHZJ0dx7tS4) to each other as our own private Futile Quest… ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/177 "2017-04-10T04:45:47Z")
> [@alfonzos](#): > > “Turn-on” I watched this in Cleveland when the ABC affiliate stopped broadcasting it after twenty minutes. So, someone HAS seen it! I once saw a TV listing for “The Nick And Jessica Variety Hour” and wondered if it was what I thought it was; I tuned in, and it was, and I lasted about 5 minutes. > **[The Nick & Jessica Variety Hour (TV Special 2004) ⭐ 2.5 | Comedy, Music](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408034/)** > > 1h Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson, if you don’t know or care. p.s. Never heard of “Corner Gas” until now. A movie was released in 2014. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/178 "2017-04-10T05:21:16Z")
_Parker Lewis Can’t Lose_ - it was a surreal, almost live-action cartoon-type show about [a Ferris Bueller-like high schooler and the stuff he and his friends get up to](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Lewis_Can%27t_Lose). It was very popular in New Zealand in the early-mid 1990s (all my friends and I watched it) but I don’t think it was ever on TV in Australia; I’ve never met anyone in this country who has ever heard of the show, much less considered themselves a fan. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/179 "2017-04-10T05:39:17Z")
Two candidates for me are _Best of the West_ and _Tenspeed and Brown Shoe_. ---
**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 10, 2017, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006/180 "2017-04-10T07:41:33Z")
[This was the theme tune](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu0fyzu7TZE) to my mother’s favourite show in the late 70s. If you were to close your eyes and just listen you would think it was a UK action cop show, along the lines of _The Sweeney_ or _The Professionals_, but in fact it was for a nursing drama called _[Angels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_(TV_series))_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-show-nobody-but-you-remembers/784006.md?page=10)