Just going from memory here so please excuse any flubs
Casey Jones, steamin’ and a’rollin’
Casey Jones, you never have to guess
Casey Jones, you can hear the thunder rollin’
When it’s Casey at the throttle of the Cannonball Express
Two more I remember - “My Friend Tony”, a short-lived detective seres with James Whitmore as an American professor teaming up with a now-grown Italian orphan he’d supposedly met when he was a GI in Italy during WW2. (Even in my tender teens I think my eyes rolled a bit over that explanation. But hey, I’m a sucker for Italian accents.) Enzo Cerusico played the sidekick.
And this may have been more of a Chicago thing, but does anyone remember **“Super Circus” **with Mary Hartline?
I remember those from when I was a child. It was the transitional time between tube TVs and transistor TVs, but there was one of those testing units by the door at my local drug store, a few feet away from the L’eggs display (another piece of history.)
Wow, I’d forgotten about Spewey. I have a DVD with a something like 3 or 4 episodes (this one) but I don’t think that the Spewey one is on that. I see that (apparently all of) the episodes are on Youtube. Here is Spewey and Me.
Count me as another one who enjoyed this and was surprised it got canned. Very well written.
Same here - definitely my favorite show of the Saturday morning.
Yep. Two handsome burly guys competing to see who could get their nose broken more, and a nerd who couldn’t make a fist.
Another good one. As I recall it was mostly a one-room show (the hotel lobby) and was very theatrical in nature.
I was going to mention Strange Luck. I liked Brisco County a lot but by the end it was very much running out of ideas.
Really? “The Thick of It” is legendary - mostly for Capaldi’s epic swearing but the writing was amazingly good. So good, in fact, that Blair and Campbell were worried someone was bugging their offices.
I remember that from the early HBO days.
A few more for the pile:
Grapevine, a six-episode 1992 summer series for CBS. Cleverly told via multiple narrators and always ending with the line “That’s all I heard” (which has different meanings dependent on context). I note from the wiki it had a brief revival, which I haven’t seen.
Wizards and Warriors, starring Jeff Conaway in a D&D parody show. Watching clips of it now show it to be incredibly cheesy, but still funny. Only lasted eight episodes.
Super Circus was, indeed, a Chicago show that debuted in 1949, starring Claude Kirchner.
But Kirchner later showed up in similar shows elsewhere. I knew him from Terrytoon Circus and others that played in the New York metropolitan era circa 1960. No Mary Hartline, though – his sidekick was a puppet clown named – highly original here – “Clowny”
Yep really. It’s not well known in the U.S. even though it’s the template for “Veep.” Nobody I know has seen it and I haven’t been able to persuade anyone I know to watch it. I guess the idea of British political comedy just doesn’t appeal.
I only remember one where CE is in combat with a neighbor (?) and the arena and music are from “Gamesters of Triskelion.”
No argument here. I kept watching for the novelty of the casting: "Excalibur’"s Nigel Terry and Cherie Lunghi. A dash of Ione Skye and I was good for 13 episodes. But yeah, ran out of material quick.
In the mid to late 1990s, there was a channel that would sometimes show short films on the weekends. I think it was A&E. Anyway, there was a autobiographical documentary that consisted mainly of old home movies from the 1940s or 1950s that was fascinating, and I cannot find its title, who made it, etc. The narrator showed a lot of snowy landscapes, and talked about the towns of Brandon, Clear Lake, and Pilot Mound. There are two areas that have towns with these names in relatively close proximity: one is in Iowa, and the other is in Manitoba; this turned out to be the latter, and any effort to find it could best be described as something that could prompt the formation of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Google Users.
Much like his dad. The YouTube version of Bob and Ray’s SNL version of “Do you think I’m sexy” is probably the West Coast feed, as they are wearing different slacks and not pointing at their junk. The most appalling three minutes in TV history.
Well it’s sure hard to speak to definitively 35+ years later, but maybe it was just my local channel that opted to only show one season. I seem to recall it ended in a cliffhanger and I was desperately waiting for the next season that never came.
Nowhere Man was one of UPN’s first shows. It got good ratings for the UPN, but was cancelled anyway so they could turn UPN into the Star Trek network. It was filmed in my hometown of Portland, OR (although it is set all over the place), so for me, it’s like going on a time travel trip to the mid 90s.
There was “Questor”, a human shaped robot. I believe it was from Gene Roddenbury. It may have just been a pilot. Also can’t remember names but the show where Jackie Cooper had the Bassett hound and, different show, the cowboys time warped to the present.
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