I’d have used this link.
My brother loved this show on Fox called, “Get a Life,” with Chris Elliott, his father Bob, and Eleanor Donahue. I’d watch it, too, but CE was an acquired taste and I didn’t like it as much as m’bro.
I also nth “The Wizard” with David Rappaport. I remember the sidekick thinking he’d found the boss’s secret about where he’d been when he had disappeared. The Wizard had just smiled and said, “Yes, that’s right - but that was only for a week. Where do you think I’ve been for the last year?”
I also loved, “Quark”, “Land of the Giants”, “Honey West”, “Kolchak”, “Man from Atlantis”, “Nanny and the Professor”, “Salvage 1”, “My World, And Welcome To It”, and many more mentioned here. Many, like “Police Squad!” I wouldn’t have categorized as “shows nobody else remembered”.
I remember the total confusion when the last episode of “The Powers of Matthew Star” aired and suddenly the character relationships, premise, and environment changed with no explanation. They just aired the alternate pilot episode as the last episode and didn’t mention it!
I remember SNL’s properly titled take on the all-star sports craze called, “Network Battle of the T’s and A’s”
In the British show, “Allo, Allo”, they had an episode where the star of the show gets killed - and comes back as his here-to-fore unknown identical twin.
I addition the “The Greatest American Hero”, do you remember the one episode of “The Greatest American Herione”?
I’ll add, “The Champions” to the list. They crashed in the Himalayas, were rescued by an unknown civilization, and came back with superhuman powers.
Also, “The Magician” with Bill Bixby. A fun show and I seem to remember him having a motorcycle that could deploy out of a hatch in his airplane {while it was parked}.
And I second a favorite - “The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.”!
I just realized we’ve gone seven pages and nobody’s mentioned Pink Lady and Jeff.
I remember very little about it, but we watched Caroline in the City religiously.
Because people remember it but nobody really liked it.
True about so many of the shows here. Often, even the person posting about it didnt actually like it.
*Pink Lady and Jeff *was truly, horribly bad.
Got the series on DVD.
So do I. Still good, but not as good as I remember it.
While I would agree with you , that a show running for ten years wouldn’t be considered obscure, Mannix could still fit. It’s first season '67-68 was really different from the other 9 seasons. He worked for a high tech (high tech for late 1960’s) detective firm (which is why they used that specific font for the logo) but played by his own rules. It wasn’t until the second season that Mannix went out on his own and had a black secretary, Peggy, played by Gail Fisher.
When the show went into syndication that first season wasn’t included, so I’d consider the first season of Mannix as obscure.
“Get A Life” like many TV series went in different directions after it’s initial season. Yes, Chris lived with his parents (played by Bob Elliott and Eleanor Donahue) in the first season, but in the second season he lived with a cantankerous man (played by Brian Doyle Murray) and many years before “South Park”, at the end of every second season episode Chris would either die or be seriously maimed, only to return unscathed next week.
I’ll mention The Incredible Hulk. Not because nobody has heard of it, but because of a Mad Magazine parody I remember or it. Over at TV Tropes there is a category called Harsher in Hindsight, where "*a serious event, plotline, or comment where a later event (in the story or real life) comes up and only serves to amplify the already bitter-tasting effect*." Well, for some reason I have a memory of a specific joke where Banner is explaining why he is called David on the TV show and not Bruce like in the comics was because the TV execs thought “Bruce” wasn’t masculine enough. Meanwhile in the background the TV was reporting news about Bruce Jenner being one of the world’s greatest athletes. Ooops. (It might arguably be a better fit as a [URL=“http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FunnyAneurysmMoment/ComicBooks”]Funny Aneurysm Moment.)
(And yes, the TV execs really did make the change for that reason, and yes, I found the comic on line.)
Lea Thompson, mmmmmmmmmmm! :o
I knew the guy who played the gorilla, Tracy. He got the job because he could provide his own gorilla suit.
Wow! Sheriff of Cochise (with John Bromfield!) is on YouTube too!
Sheriff of Cochise - 1957 - YouTube
With Yancy Derringer (with Jock Mahoney!):
***Wanted: Dead or Alive*** (with **Steve McQueen**!):(The 1980s movie with Rutger Hauer was an *homage * to this series!)
And*** Broken Arrow*** (with Michael Ansara!):
(Brought to you by ***General Electric***)!I’m reliving my childhood here! :o
Well billy, once upon a time, in your great great grandpappy’s day, A TV set was actually an expensive piece of combined electronics and furniture.
They were also made with replaceable and repairable components, and men went to school to learn how to service and fix them.
People had them fixed.
They didn’t throw them away like we did the 42" plasma screen when you threw the damned baseball through the screen!@!@!!
Come back Billy, why are you running??
LOL
Say good night Gracie
You can *never *recapture the feeling of the original, especially when you have actors identified with iconic roles!
Ah, makes perfect sense! Should’ve used the old googlefu myself. Thanks!
This one is the best!