Has anyone mentioned Ensign O’Toole? Ran for one season back in 1962-63. We watched it because my dad loved it.
The Questor Tapes (Mike Farrell, Robert Foxworth) was a Roddenberry pilot around 1973–74. It was rejected for being “too much like The Six Million Dollar Man.” Genesis II (Alex Cord, Mariette Hartley) was another Roddenberry pilot rejected around the same time. A huge pity, since they both had great promise.
Jackie Cooper and the basset hound (“Cleo”) was ***The People’s Choice ***. This was on my watch list along with Topper, Love That Bob and My Little Margie when I was three or four.
There was also a Mister Roberts series on NBC in the early-to-mid '60s.
I kinda liked Genesis II, the pilot in which Mariette Hartley’s character had two navels (which they showed on-camera, to make up for all the times NBC wouldn’t let them show even one on Star Trek – not to mention I Dream of Jeannie).
They gave it another try, entitled Planet Earth, starring John Saxon instead of that Mark Spitz lookalike Alex Cord.
They gave it one more shot, with Saxon again, as Strange New World in 1975:
But none of these caught on.
Holy crap-Dickens and Fenster–loved it! Haven’t thought of that in YEARS!!
“Goodnight, Beantown” — Boston news anchor Bill Bixby’s world is upset when his neighbor Mariette Hartley is hired as his co-anchor to improve his ratings
We liked The Young Rebels, which was an early 1970’s take on young rebels helping the American Revolution. I’m surprised to see Louis Gosset Jr was the obligatory African American.
I had completely forgotten about that one until I saw the title again.
What was this one? A single guy can’t get ahead in his corporate job unless he’s married, so he hires the girl upstairs to pose as his wife.
Occasional Wife (NBC), the opposite of The Cara Williams Show (CBS), about a couple who pretended they weren’t married in order to keep their jobs.
It was a clone of The Mod Squad, but set in the 1770s.
My mistake: Jim Aubrey was President of CBS at the time. He was the one who hated Gilligan.
Speaking of Gilligan, was Dusty’s Trail a memorable show in America? A western sitcom starring Bob Denver and Forrest Tucker. It played frequently in New Zealand when I was a kid.
I remember this show in the mid 80s so it was on between 86-88 too they got hit by lightning as they were taking a picture it was a group and some of them were bandits being chased and others were the posse but they ended up helping people who were wrongfully wanted because the former marshalls girlfriend owned a bail place or something close to it … and it was on cbs on Saturdays but maybe lasted a half to a full season… I think it had lee horsley (80s tvs answer to sam Elliott )
is that the same Aubrey that helped kill off mgm in the 50’s and 60’s ?
It ran for six months, 1973–74, and then disappeared ignominiously. Four episodes were cobbled together for theatrical release. I think I watched it once and then forgot about it completely.
Evidently.
I don’t think anyone has yet mentioned Brothers, a 1983 cable sitcom. Quite progressive for its time, and in some ways predated Will and Grace. The networks were certainly quivering with courage in those days:
One reason that I remember Brothers because it and the program Soap used the same joke. There’s a conversation between two characters. One of them is gay. The other one isn’t very smart. The second one says something like “You know, back in the old days, there weren’t any gay people.” The first one says something like “No, there have always been gay people, even back in the time of the ancient Greeks. Alexander the Great was gay. Plato was gay.” The second one says something like “Mickey Mouse’s dog was gay?” The first one says something like “Oh, you didn’t know?”
Goofy was his lover.