How about “The Invaders” with Roy Thinnes- i was little when that came out and i thought it was really scary. Also the British marionette show “Captain Scarlet” as well as “Fireball XL5” which had a really snappy theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrK0rmeSlTk
and then there was “Wonderfalls” which only lasted one season.
His name just came to me in a flash: John Dehner. The theme song was “Que Sera, Sera,” sung by Doris herself.
Gerry Anderson and Supermarionation! Supercar, Stingray, Thunderbirds! Way cool! 
Yes! Nearly 6 pages in, and I don’t think anyone’s mentioned my two favorite “forgotten gems”.
The first, Strike Force, was what I would now consider a guilty pleasure, but back when I was in 7th grade, this show was awesome. Robert Stack leads a crack squad of LAPD’s finest as they battle the darkest elements of the city. This show stood out at the time for its hyper-violence - (according to Wiki, “at one point the series was labeled the most violent in American TV history”). Now, watching it decades later, what stands out is the uber-cheesy dialogue. Examples (from 2nd link above):
(Two cops doing a crossword puzzle on a stake-out)
Dorian Harewood (African-American cop): “What’s a five-letter word for color of night?”
Michael Goodwin (white cop): “Black.”
DH: “No, no; K-night.”
MG: (smiles smugly) “White.”
DH: (side-eye glance, shakes head) “It figures…”
Frightened Witness: “My God! Who are you people? What do you do?”
Cool-and-Collected Robert Stack: (shrugs) “This is what we do.”
My other forgotten gem is It’s Your Move. There was nothing like this show when it debuted in '84 for its sole season. It featured a smart-ass, amoral, ruthlessly manipulative Jason Bateman doing battle - and winning! - with the various people in his life, including adults. His foil was played by David Garrison, who later went on to semi-stardom as Steve Rhoades in Married… with Children. I’ve watched this show recently, and it still largely holds up, IMO, due to the two male leads and the terrific writing. However, the show went in the shitter towards the end of its run after they watered-down Bateman’s character and made him vincible, in response to parental complaints to the producers.
If I have the right show, wasn’t she a fashion designer/model?
(Even then, they did the “slightly out of focus” dealie for close-ups)
As I recall, she worked for a publishing house as the assistant to Stevenson (and presumably Dehner as well). But it was one of those shows (like, f’rinstance, ***Buck ***Rogers) that seemed to change formats every season (DD ran for two or three). And yeah, Doris was by this time getting a bit long in the tooth, but she was still quite attractive!
I was amazed to see, in Best Buy a few years back, a complete box set of the Doris Day Show. I just can’t imagine great demand for that.
I remember 'em all (except Ruff & Ready). You were just a kid! I was about six for most of these.
[aside] My Little Margie was one of those single-father series that were so prevalent for a while. Bachelor Father, Family Affair, My Three Sons, Bonanza, Andy Griffith, The Rifleman, even The Beverly Hillbillies. No mention was ever made of the moms or what happened to them. Here’s an interesting list.
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I wasn’t even a kid, just a babe-in-arms! 
What was the series with Mike “Mannix” Connors, who drew his concealed .38 at the start of each show? (I could Google this, but I’m having connectivity problems at the moment. 
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I remember watching Fred Ziv’s Highway Patrol (starring Broderick Crawford) for the first time in years when I was 16 or 17. I could not believe how cheap and cheesy it was, despite its kick-ass signature tune/march!
One no one has mentioned yet is “World of Giants” (different show from “Land of Giants”). You can read about it on Wiki. Basically it starred a 6 inch high spy who was used to infiltrate various places. He’d always run into nasty cats or something. The start of the show showed the letters W O G with a voice-over announcing "WOG (pronounced as a word to rhyme with “log”) World of Giants.
I was ten when it came on, and as far as I know it’s never been repeated.
Ten years later we got the British SF/detective show “The Champions”.
I just watched all the episodes of this on DVD within the past few months. Crawford seemed noticeably drunk in many shows.
“10-4!”
And a serious babe daughter.
This is a great site! I actually remember watching an episode of The Baileys of Balboa back in 1964 or '65; it was CBS President Bill Paley’s answer to Gilligan’s Island, which he loathed. The plot was, everybody wanted to know how a very young Clint Howard was able to catch so many fish off the pier. The answer was, he used bits of peanut butter sandwiches as bait!
As far as old goes, I love the Burns and Allen Show. George stepped through the fourth wall regularly and it was truly the original show about nothing. But I discovered this gem as an adult, not a kid.
A real Ugly Duckling story, too. Here she is as a kid.
Of **course **they had to be in great shape: Can you imagine what the gravity on that planet was like? They were lucky they weren’t crushed under their own weight! :eek:
Strangely, I cant stand it, altho i love Cleese.
And here is horrible show no one remembers- with a infectious theme song:
This was rerun late at night when I was in college. I was surprised when my roommate actually laughed out loud at it. (I was a few years older than he was, and old enough to remember when it was on earlier.)
Burns and Allen, and Jack Benny. They just don’t make 'em like that anymore!
