It was, for I have seen it. From memory, I think I liked his teacher/principal and there was this chunky bloke called Kubochek?
My entry is Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist.
The Mary Whitehouse Experience early 90s British sketch comedy show:
A big influence on the slightly more influential Fast Show (known as Brilliant in the US). In the fine tradition of British telly, only ran for two series.
I’ve not met anyone who wasn’t a teenager or young-ish adult in the UK at the time who remembers it at all. But those (like myself) who were still have the catchphrases ingrained on my brain…
I remember it well, and the Radio One show that it came from. They went through a period of playing comedy shows at midnight on a friday.
Was it ‘The good old Days’?
It’s being repeated on BBC4 these days.
If anyone besides me remembers McKeever and the Colonel, I’ll buy them a lobster dinner at Scott’s in London!
Some episodes are on YouTube.
Looking at the cast lists of these old shows on IMDB is pretty amazing, when you see who was in what. So many of the actors I remember guest starred on them. F’rinstance, Jericho (1966) not only had Walter Koenig but James Doohan, Lawrence Montaigne, Malachi Throne, and a whole slew of others.
I remember many of these, including Search. Someone (IK thought it weas James Lileks, but, if so, he’s taken it down) did a pretty good reminiscence on the show.
My contribution:
My World, and Welcome To It, a show based on the writings and cartoons of James Thurber, with animated sequences. It starred William Windom (Captain Decker in the Star Trek episode with the World Destroyer). It was utterly unlike anything else on television, and I suspect that most people had no idea how to classify it. It had animation, but wasn’t directed to kids or to easy sitcom or slapstick humor. It frequently referenced the New Yorker (as “The Manhattanite”).
It had two pilots ten years before the show finally made the air, and won two Emmys during its one season run, but it never got good ratings.
A few mentioned above…
Blake’s 7 - remember liking it, also remember the special effects were pretty cheesy.
John Larroquette Show - A great show. Made me realize just how good he was in Night Court (“hhmmm… those are new.”).
Days and Nights of Molly Dodd - Had a whole different feel to it. Something about being filmed with the camera work of a movie instead of a television show.
A few of my own… (all from the 1960’s)
Hoppity Hooper - animated, a younger half-sibling to Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Doctor in the House - A British sitcom following the antics of a group of medical students.
The 21st Century - a more documentary type of show that tried to show where technology would take the planet “30 minutes into the future”. I remember the Walter Cronkite was tied in with it somehow (narrator ?).
Mr Wizard - Maybe not quite so obscure except in name only. The (original ?) science guy does experiments on T.V. show. Lasted for quite a number of years.
I used to love to watch The Computer Chronicles with Stewart Cheifet. (Even though he always hogged the couch.)
I watched both of these! This kind of show is right up my alley.
Previously mentioned shows that I remember fondly (though I will admit they were bad):
The Phoenix
The Fantastic Journey
Logan’s Run
Some that I don’t think have been mentioned:
Husbands, Wives, & Lovers
The Kids from C.A.P.E.R.
The Sword of Justice
I always associate this one with the fully animated Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, which was actually a couple of years later. It was a Hanna-Barbera production, so there was a whiff of The Flintstones to it, but it was an attempt at being “relevant,” a la a milder All in the Family. Mild-mannered middle-of-the-road dad, voiced by Tom Bosley, is confused by the antics of his hippie kids, but is equally wary of the rhetoric spewed by his ultra-conservative neighbor.
Way back when my family first got cable TV, I discovered a show called Not Necessarily the News which ran for a long time but I never hear mentioned. It introduced the world to Rich Hall and Snigglets.
Yes! And to the Eric Clapton version of the song “Motherless Children”,which they would play during wordless skits.
A few others:
Ruff and Ready – the first Hanna-Barbera cartoon for TV, predating even Huckleberry Hound.
Crusader Rabbit – sort of the proto-Rocky and Bullwinkle. The first series was actually made by Jay Ward and co., before Rocky, back around 1950 (making it one of the first cartoons made for TV). I saw a later series, circa 1958, made by someone else, but still with the Jay Ward writing and sensibility (and incredibly cheap animation). The titular hero was diminutive (like Rocky) and his companion, Ragland “Rags” T. Tiger, was big and dumb, like Bullwinkle (I wonder if Bill Waterston was influenced in his character Hobbes by Rags?). One of their adversaries was Dudley Nightshade, a top-hatted and handlebar mustachioed villain that looked like a taller version of Snidely Whiplash.
Beany and Cecil – Warner Brothers cartoonist Bob Clampett left animation to create an incredibly successful TV puppet show called “Time for Beany” that featured Beany (a boy in a propeller beany), Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent, and others. It was the MST3K of its day, appealing to kids and adults alike with its witty writing that went over the heads of kids. Albert Einstein was reportedly a fan. A decade later he revived the show as an animated cartoon, with Captain Huffn’Puff and his ship the Leakin’ Lena and villain Dishonest John (who looked like Dudley Nightshade and Snidely Whiplash).
Does anyone else remember Gigglesnort Hotel?
I used to watch the Nancy Dussault Show just because she was so cute. The only thing I remember about it is that she used a pair of sneakers on her mantelpiece as candle holders.
This was sort of a follow-up to an earlier CBS documentary series The Twentieth Century. It was indeed hosted and narrated by Walter Cronkite. The episode I remember best was the one that tried to show what motoring would be like in the 21st century. Almost every car looked like the 1966 Batmobile.
No, but I remember Bill Jackson’s previous show with some of the same characters. I think it was called “Cartoon Town.”
Well, it looks like I’m the third “Strange Luck” fan. Maybe we should get hats.
I might be the only “Strange World”, fan, though. At least, from what little I remember it.
I do remember Cybersix—a Japanese/Canadian animated series based on a gritty Argentinian graphic novel—much more clearly. I certainly couldn’t ever forget the opening sequence.
Shows my friends have never heard of:
Hard Time on Planet Earth
Brimstone
Swamp Thing
Monsters
Sledge Hammer
Dracula: The Series
Amerika mini-series
Neon Rider
American Gothic
The Lone Gunmen
The Ray Bradberry Theater
Eden (edited USA soap opera)