Kubiac. I think he’s the only reason I remember that show, as the actor is distinctive looking and has kept working through the years, so every couple years I see him in something and am reminded of Parker Lewis.
On a talk show once, Melanie (Principal Grace Musso) Chartoff said she would get stopped constantly by people asking her to do the “thumb thing.” In the show, she would cock her thumb over her shoulder, indicating “to my office,” or “to detention,” and there would be this “whoosh” sound. People wanted to see/hear that. She had to disappoint them.
At the end of the last episode of Parker Lewis, they’re all on stage (?) and the camera pulls back beyond two dudes in the seats, one of whom says, “Come on, Ferris, let’s go,” and the two get up and leave.
The Whirlybirds. A couple of guys and their helicopter. Every week they would be chasing a bad guy, swooping down on bad guys’ car. Bad guys always ducked down, as though a fragile helicopter could actually force a 50’s road hog off the highway.
Chopper One – A couple of cops and their helicopter. The first line of the first episode was like “On the ground, you’re just another cop. In the air, you’re ten.” And it went nowhere after that. Dullsville.
A Desilu production. Chuck and PT in the chopper, Helen manning the phones at the office. :o
I remember watching a rather odd show that was actually for deaf kids
Called VisionOn, and some goofy spider looking thing named Otto Mona Pia
I vaguely remember “Jot” as well. They were 4-minute segments produced by the Southern Baptist Church.
I remember both. Most or all of the latter’s episodes are on YouTube.
I remember the original black-and-white series.
I watched it on channel 56 in San Jose around 1990. I also liked the laid-back vibe. Loved the theme - a slow version of Tarrega’s Study in A Major with a small instrumental backing. I wish I had bought the CD.
It was pretty well known in the United States, as it ran for three seasons. In it’s initial season, it was up against an actual Ferris Bueller TV Show, which was poorly received and short lived.
Fury. The adventures of Lassie in horse-form.
I have a very early memory of watching some mystery on TV, for the longest time I didn’t remember if it was a from a series or a movie. A star football player disappears during the middle of a game. He’s tackled by four other players, and when the refs pull everyone off the pile only the guy’s helmet and the ball remain.The player who disappeared was in on the scheme. He had the other team’s jersey on under his own. The tackle was near the sideline. While everyone was piled up the other players ripped of his jersey, and as the bodies got untangled he slipped quietly to the sideline. There’s more to it than that, but that’s what stuck in my head for four decades.Well, MeTV was, for a while, showing reruns of Banacek, and my memory was pretty accurate. George Peppard starred as an insurance investigator who gets called in to solve the most impossible crimes. There were only about 20 episodes, and I haven’t managed to catch them all, but I want to see the rest. The crimes were incredibly clever and there are some good shots of early-'70s Boston.
I came to this thread to mention The Games, a mockumentary about the preparations for the Sydney Olympics staring John Clarke. There seems to have been a bit of controversy that Twenty Twelve copied the subject and format rather blatantly; if it’s half as good it would still be brilliant.
Sadly, Clarke died just yesterday. There’s a RIP thread in CS.
How many people remember That Was the Week that Was? I found a CD some years ago that collected some of the skits and songs, and I watched a couple episodes at a museum once, but it seems like a lot of it has been lost. Seems to have been absolutely vicious satire, and taking on topics that no TV networks would touch these days.
I remember Land of the Giants, vaguely. I think that after it’s original run it ran in afternoon syndication in the mid-'70s, which is probably where I saw it. That show, along with The Time Tunnel, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea were all produced by Irwin Allen and all had a similar life span; a short network run, syndication, and then decades of obscurity. And they’re all in a late-night-weekend block on MeTV.
I remember St. Elsewhere, although my brother was a bigger fan than I was. I decided a few months ago to look up where the building was that was shown in the opening credits and supposed to be the hospital. Turns out it was only a couple blocks from where I’ve been getting my hair cut for years. I don’t think it was ever a hospital; started as a hotel and is now apartments.
I can do one better than that. A friend on Facebook had a post about the best SF TV show theme songs, and it didn’t include UFO. It was a Gerry and Sylvia Anderson show after Thunderbirds (and the other Supermarionation stuff), but before Space: 1999. I was pretty young during its first run and remember the theme songs and spaceships better than anything else, but I watched it on Youtube a while ago and it’s rather surprisingly intense at times.
And one more than hasn’t been mentioned, Eyes. Tim Daly (of Wings) as the head of a private surveillance company. And I don’t remember a whole lot more about it, except that I liked it. Someone upthread mentioned A.J. Langer, which reminded me of it. According to IMDb, 12 episodes were made, and only 5 aired.
Interestingly, the first game in the X-Com series was known as UFO: Enemy Unknown in everywhere that wasn’t the US, as a homage to that series.
Marblehead Manor, Throb, She’s the Sheriff, Easy Street, i recall watching and liking.
There was The New Adventures of Bean Baxter, Some show with Linda Carter and Loni Anderson as detectives and The Adventures of the Golden ??? with a plane called the Spruce Goose that came on Saturday afternoons, were these mentioned or am i blind? In my defense I can blame chemo but just barely,lol,
Anyone else think “Voyagers” would be great revamped on Netflix? That show was awesome…cheesy in hindsight but with modern day tweaks it retains a great premise IMHO.
Tales of the Gold Monkey, perhaps?
Sugar and Spike. That takes me back.
There was a time when DC Comics wasn’t just superheroes. They had superheroes, of course, but they also had romance comics, “real people” comics (with the two most prominent being Jerry Lewis and Bob Hope), and kid comics. “Stanley and his Monster” was one such, and so were “Sugar and Spike.”
Two babies, Sugar (female) and Spike (male) could talk to each other in baby talk, which was unintelligible to adults, but helpfully translated for us readers through voice balloons. Usually, the kids were smarter than the adults, and somehow or other, Sugar and Spike would win the day, in spite of the bumbling adults who were supposedly in charge of them.
A little off-topic, as these were comics, not TV shows; but I hope that it is a fun and informative aside.
That’s it!..I wanted to say Gold Baboon but don’t know why…lol. Thanks for jogging my memory!
Another set of these that just sprung to mind were some weird foreign kids cartoons that I was obsessed with as a nipper, but no one else seems to have heard of.
Although I did realize at the time they were obviously not English originally, I had no idea where they were from (and could never really place the style, even when I got older). It turns out they were Japanese-Spanish or Japanese-French productions.
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds
Space Legend Ulysses 31
The series were incredibly long and (in my memory at least) seemed to last my entire childhood.
Kube eat now?
I enjoyed Andy Richter Controls the Universe.
Also, there was another short-lived series on Fox at around the same time as Andy Richter, a science-fictiony show about cowboys in space. I think it was called Lightning Bug? Anyone remember that one?