Your favorite show nobody but you remembers.

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@CalMeacham

God, I remember most of these. “Arnie” starred Herschel Bernardi – the original voice of Charlie the Tuna (from Star-Kist commercials) as Arnie Nuvo, a blue-collar worker who got promoted to a white-collar job. Mad did a two-page parody of it.

…And his wife was played by Sue Ane Langdon.

Sue Ane Langdon, mmmmmmmmmmmmm! :o

[GargoyleWB]

Fingerbobs, a short run kids show that I loved as a little tyke. I can still sing the theme song to this day.

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@PeteShepherd

How about “Operation Petticoat?” **John Astin plays the skipper of a World War II submarine **tasked with ferrying 5 WAC nurses from point A to point B, but, then, for some reason, is unable to disembark his passengers. It was based on an earlier movie starring Tony Curtis, and, in additon to John Astin, had a young, unkown Jamie Lee Curtis as one of the nurses.

Which is a bit strange, since he was played in the movie by Cary Grant. :dubious:

Anyone remember “Longstreet?” IIRC, James Franciscus played a blind insurance investigator, and every episode involved him getting into some situation that a sighted person could handle with ease, but everyone was surprised when he handled it well.

The same year, George Kennedy played Sarge, a cop who became a priest. MAD Magazine then came up with Longsarge, a series about a handicapped detective who became a Zen Buddhist and rode a motorcycle.

[Darren_Garrison]

@GargoyleWB

Fingerbobs, a short run kids show that I loved as a little tyke. I can still sing the theme song to this day.

Speaking of kid’s shows, everybody knows Bill Nye the Science Guy, but I’ve always preferred Beakman’s World.

Anyone remember The Math Patrol, The Letter People, or Science Court?

[Urbanredneck]

Johnny Socko and his Flying Robot

From Japan.

[GuanoLad]

Michael Bentine’s Potty Time.

You should google it. You will be confused.

[Richard_John_Marcej]

@Urbanredneck

Johnny Socko and his Flying Robot

From Japan.

Do you get the cable station COMET? They air Johnny Socko episodes on Sunday nights

[Spoons]

@Thuringwethil

Midnight Caller - an overnight talk show DJ listens to people’s problems and solves them. Gary Cole starred. It had a great jazzy theme song.

I remember Midnight Caller–and I remember enjoying it, too. Sadly, I’ve never seen it on DVD. Wish it was; it was a show I looked forward to every week, and I’d like to see it again.

[Gyrate]

@Darren_Garrison

Speaking of kid’s shows, everybody knows Bill Nye the Science Guy, but I’ve always preferred Beakman’s World.

Me too, but Bill had a catchier theme tune.

[CalMeacham]

So many 1960s sitcoms not mentioned yet
Hank – comedy about a “college drop-in”, who did various odd jobs in disguise around a college, using the opportunities to sneak in and take classes he couldn’t pay for. Exactly how he was supposed to amass credits if he was attending on the sly was never clear to me. The show is notable to me because it’s one of the very few series of that era that had acdefinite ending – Hank did finally graduate.

Camp Runamuck – comedy set in a kid’s camp

the Smother Brothers Show – no, not the controversial variety show. Before that ever aired they had a sitcom where Tom Smothers had died and re-appeared as a somewhat dim angel helping his brother out.

The Bill Cosby Show – Two of these, actually, both long before he was Dr. Huxtable. Right after I, Spy left the air, he returned as a high school gym teacher in a show of his own. After that went off the air, he had a variety show. That one is memorable to me because one of his guests was Groucho Marx, in what was probably his last TV appearance. Groucho “riffed” through the closing credits of the show a la MST3K.

[chela]

@ThelmaLou

Frank’s Place

Only ran for one season in 1987-88-- 22 episodes, which is what constituted a season back then. Fabulous program starring Tim Reid, who had played Venus Flytrap on WKRP in Cincinnati. He was also the Executive Producer.

The premise: “Frank Parish is a professor from Boston, who has not seen his father since he was two. 35 years later, he is told that his father died and that he owned a restaurant in New Orleans, which is now legally Frank’s.”

But there was so much more to the show than this brief description conveys. Frank moves to New Orleans with the intention of shutting down and selling the restaurant. But instead he learns the ways, manners, stories of New Orleans, along with its quirky denizens. The cast was 90% black. God, this was a great program–one of those “too good to last.” It had humor, heart, understanding, and some great writing.

I also loved Memphis Beat, which someone else mentioned.

I’ve been trying to place the name of Frank’s Place for years! Thanks for mentioning it!

Anybody remember a show about a woman, a Darryl Hannah look a like, who would wear a Virtual Reality mask and dive deep into VR world, as a sleuth or something her name might’ve been Sydney, it hooked me but I’ve lost the thread of it.

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@CalMeacham

Hank – comedy about a “college drop-in”, who did various odd jobs in disguise around a college, using the opportunities to sneak in and take classes he couldn’t pay for. Exactly how he was supposed to amass credits if he was attending on the sly was never clear to me. The show is notable to me because it’s one of the very few series of that era that had acdefinite ending – Hank did finally graduate.

Wasn’t he also using the money from his odd jobs to help his sister through college?

The Bill Cosby Show – Two of these, actually, both long before he was Dr. Huxtable. Right after I, Spy left the air, he returned as a high school gym teacher in a show of his own.

This was on at the same time as The Jimmy Stewart Show. For some reason, a whole slew of big names were roped into doing series (usually sitcoms) around 1970, like Jimmy and the aforementioned Doris Day. I guess their movie careers had wound down and they had lots of free time on their hands.

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Not too long ago, Rebecca Romijn had a brief show as a smart-ass girl reporter named “Pepper Dennis.” It was cute (so was she). In one episode, she decided to model a teeny, purple bikini, for some reason. Had a catchy theme song.

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@PeteShepherd

One of my favorite sitcoms as a kid was called “Arnie.” Arnie worked for a company being run by the son of its late founder. Son gets tired of vice-presidents that want to do things the way they learned in college, instead of the way dad taught him, so, in the pilot episode, promotes Arnie, the loading dock foreman, to VP. Hilarity ensues, as Arnie tries to adjust to his new responsibilites, and to do his job using common sense, and every other VP tells him how that will never work. Quite possibly not as funny as I remember it…

I remember it. In particular it had Sue Ane Langdon in it as his wife which alone made it totally memorable. Great actress for a role like this.

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@GuanoLad

VR.5 had Lori Singer in it. And I didn’t watch it, so that’s all I know.

That’s it! VR.5 - a mash of old tech and new, she used a telephone handset and a dial up modem to slip into an alter reality with the people she called.

[chela]

mary hartman mary hartman springs to mind springs to mind

saturday night babysitting line up
starsky and hutch
Mcmillan and wife
Love american style

[Ranchoth]

@chela

That’s it! VR.5 - a mash of old tech and new, she used a telephone handset and a dial up modem to slip into an alter reality with the people she called.

'Lag musta been killer.

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@ftg

I remember it. In particular it had Sue Ane Langdon in it as his wife which alone made it totally memorable. Great actress for a role like this.

Arnie’s daughter was incredibly hot too, especially to an overhormonal fifteen-year-old like me. :o

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Just came back to mention Invisible Man. Starring Vincent Ventresca (what ever happened to him) and Paul Ben-Victor.

Loved V.R. Featured a practically unknown Anthony Stewart Head.

Alias Smith and Jones is a bit before my time, but I watched it in reruns and I thought it was brilliant. The name you have remember is Roy Huggins who wrote most of it and also The Fugitive and some Rockford Files.

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@pmwgreen

Just came back to mention Invisible Man. Starring Vincent Ventresca (what ever happened to him) and Paul Ben-Victor.

I was expecting David McCallum… :o

THE INVISIBLE MAN (1975) DVD Review