Your favorite show nobody but you remembers.

Cafe Society
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I remember the loss-of-virginity episode where James’s eccentric roue uncle sets him up with a (of course) hot Swedish blonde.
Still remember the chucklehead theme song - a bunch of ham-fisted mullet-heads going “Whoh, whoh, whoh, whoh, whoh, whoh, James”.
(And then the beginning of an SNL show with Don Pardoe announcing “‘James at 75’ cannot be seen at this time so we can bring you the following broadcast.”)

A couple PBS shows from the late 70’s - “Inside Tennis” and “We Interrupt This Week”. I am the last remaining person on earth who still remembers those.

Micheal Moore’s “TV Nation”.

featuring another flattenable theme song:

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Old (to me) SF shows include Otherworld, Earth 2, Something is Out There, and Mann and Machine. (*Manimal *and *Automan *have enough of a “wow, this was bad” notoriousness to be concidered "nobody but me remembers.) A western I used to enjoy was Young Riders, which is actually airing now on GetTV.

Speaking of BJ and the Bear, there was the spin-off The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo. And The Dukes of Hazzard had the spin-off Enos.

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Blakes 7 a British version of Star Trek with some politics thrown in. Loved it as a kid.

Benson and Bosom Buddies were on about the same time. Bad USA shows but great fodder for a 12 year old.
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The Feather and Father Gang. I think my wee self had a crush on Stephanie Powers.

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Hey, I remember that one!

Originally called Probe!.

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Hey, I remember that one!

Originally called Probe!.

My contribution: The Good Guys

Bob Denver, Joyce Van Patten, how could it fail?

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I’ve mentioned it before: Covington Cross; the first episode was a hoot.

I remember Bearcats! well; had a model car kit of a Stutz Bearcat.

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I think that was based on the Michael Caine/Julie Walters movie, “Educating Rita.”

*Search *and Probe; I never could remember which was the movie and which was the series. Just like I now have trouble with *Firefly *vs. Serenity.

My contribution: a little-remembered Sherwood Schwartz show called It’s About Time, about two astronauts stuck in the caveman era.

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When “Lost” was at the height of its popularity, ABC aired a one-season series called “Invasion” that was very good. I seem to have been the only person who watched it.

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It’s about time, it’s about space
It’s about time I slapped your face POW
“Sister Marie! burpo slapped me!”

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Yeah, I can’t think about that show without hearing that little ditty in my head, too!

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As a child I loved the Saturday morning live shows "Ghost Busters"and “Space Nuts”

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Reminded of Dusty’s Trail. It didn’t last long iirc. Showed me how to make soap out of fat and ashes.

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The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Hour.

Saturday morning watching three stoner brothers and an emu-puppet. I think I was nine or ten when that was on. It obviously guided my worldview to this day.

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And we had The Good Guys from 2010

It was great fun and deserved a chance. It didn’t get it.

And I second Raines. It deserved a shot also.

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Do I recall correctly that this is the show that had “Space Cadet Salute!” with two correct salutes and one brother hitting himself too hard?

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Two similar ones:

Mr. Terrific

Captain Nice
(I wonder what might be accomplished in this world if we could banish old TV theme songs from our noggins?)

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I used to like Nanny and the Professor.
Also liked Anything but Love.
Was just thinking recently that nobody remembers Family.

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There was a show called Cafe Americain in the early 90s with Valerie Bertinelli as an American divorcee named Holly who takes a vacation to Paris, and decides to stay there, so she gets a job in a place called “Cafe Americain.” I suspect it was inspired by the play and later movie Shirley Valentine, but I have no proof.

I loved it, but I’d been to Paris, and there were lots of references to European people and places that were part of its humor-- it was a very funny show. It also occasionally had subtitles when people were speaking something other than English, and Americans don’t like subtitles (or, according to some movie patrons whose money I gladly returned they “like, can’t get into subtitles.”)

I think that’s why the show failed. As far as I know, it’s only one of two attempts the US has ever made to set a show in a non-English speaking country, with the exceptions of shows on military bases, where everyone spoke English, and the other show was another show I liked that didn’t last past the first season, called Outsourced, which was set in India, which yes, is technically English-speaking, and all the characters on it spoke English, so, no subtitles.

After being a reading, texting world for a long time, the country finally accepted a subtitled show when Switched at Birth managed 4 or 5 seasons on ABCFamily-- but then, if Cafe Americain had been a cable show, not a network show, maybe it would have been successful.