It was too smart for TV, I loved it.
Speaking of well known to our Brit members but almost unknown here on this side of the Atlantic:
QI.
I loved the costumes for the girls. Those who complain about Star trek ToS Miniskirts need to see these!
https://www.google.com/search?q=Space:+1999+girls&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiYkcaf_JzTAhUSxGMKHfi9CagQsAQIIg&biw=1262&bih=682
Yes, and Engineer Bill.
I thought of another one. “When Things were Rotten” A Robin Hood parody from the late 1970s. I recall it as being quite clever.
*There’s a holdup in the Bronx,
Brooklyn’s broken out in fights!
There’s a traffic jam in Harlem
that’s backed up to Jackson Heights!
There’s a Scout troop short a child,
Khrushchev’s due at Idlewild!
___ __, _____ ___ ___?*
Car 54, where are you?
They tried that as a movie, which bombed. In fact most films made from TV sitcoms have bombed.
Car 54 Where are you?
I remember Mannix, not because I watched it-- cop/detective shows were not my cuppa. But I remember tuning in just to hear the asskicking theme song by the same guy who did the more famous Mission: Impossible theme song.
P.S., this show ran for almost ten years, so it can’t be that obscure. I checked this out because, in looking for the theme song, I saw that it debuted in 1967, so there was no way I could have watched this on TV. Only it ran until 1975. My family watched it because of the black secretary? Receptionist? The same reason they watched Julia with Diane Carol.
I wouldn’t say no one remembers Julia only because people may not have watched but a show staring a black lady who wasn’t a maid? Wow, groundbreaking!
The show I’m thinking of was on about ten years earlier than Mannix. For a long time, I confused it with Checkmate, but I’m sure it had a different title. I just can’t think of it right now, and I can’t Google it.
The theme writer was Lalo Schifrin, who was a sociologist by training (!!) My mother’s boss, another sociologist, knew him.
I remembered the live action “Ghost Busters” but none of my friends did. Now the Internet has vindicated me. There were only 15 episodes apparently: The Ghost Busters - Wikipedia
Ah, gotcha. Tried looking it up but, man, was Mike Connors in a lot of early TV!
Filmation did a cartoon version of this show after the Ghostbusters movie came out. So there was a Ghostbusters show and a Real Ghostbusters show featuring the movie characters.
One of them was your run-of-the-mill animated show and one was really good. But I don’t remember which was which.
***Julia ***I remember mainly because of the hilarious satire of it in MAD Magazine. Toward the end, she goes out on a date with Bill Cosby:
JULIA: I’ll have caviar, filet mignon, and champagne.
BILL: I thought you wanted “soul food.”
JULIA: To me, that **IS **“soul food.”
BILL: Would you like to dance?
JULIA: I’d love to, but I have no rhythm. Do you believe that?
BILL: After tonight, I’ll believe anything!
Nitpick: Dihanne Carroll.
Gail Fisher was Peggy Fair, Mannix’s secretary/receptionist. Both Peggy and Julia were single black mothers.
MAD Magazine again: Jewelia’s son Corny (Corey) is playing in the middle of the freeway, carrying a picket sign advertising for a new father:
TRUCK DRIVER: Hey, kid! Don’t you have a father?
CORNY: Nope. A good fairy came and carried him away.
TRUCK DRIVER: Oh, yeah? What was he, a hairdresser?
CORNY: Nope. A pilot. He was killed in Vietnam.
TRUCK DRIVER: Oh, yeah? On a mission against the Vietnamese?
CORNY: Nope, against the Americans. He may have been straight, but he wasn’t very bright!
He was the star of this series.
Nitpick^2: Diahann Carroll. 
I think every Baby Boomer remembers that one! 
Oh, me! :eek: I stand corrected!