I remember it. I didn’t care for it, but I remember it.
I also remember Nanny and the Professor. Wasn’t Prudence played by Haley Mills? Or was that a different show. Also, Family was quite popular when it aired and ran for 4 years. It didn’t last long enough for Buddy to come out though.
Hashimoto (honorable household mouse)
Once a Hero. Just plain brilliant comic book parody.
I remember from weekend fox: beans baxter werewolf women in prison whoops (which was later) … a show with the guy who played mr Drummond and mona from whos the boss they worked for the president
this was right before married with children and 21 jump street …oh and a tv version of down and out in Beverly hills they didn’t have many dramas yet
Oh, oh and another thing I just remembered about shows nobody remembers! I love every sit-com I saw Liza Snyder in. First in Jessie where she played Christina Applegate’s sister. and Yes, Dear where she played Jean Luisa Kelly’s sister. Yes, Dear reminds me of Boston Common where Anthony Clark played a bumpkin in college-- Liza wasn’t in Boston Common.
I used to have a very large situation comedy addiction.
Nanny (and the Prof) was Juliet Mills. OMG, I didn’t know she was still alive; NATP was 45+ years ago!
Liza Snyder rules!
Haley Mills’ sister Juliet was the Nanny. Prudence was Kim Richards probably best know for escape to Witch Mountain.
NatureScene was on for 32 years but I’ve never met anyone else who’s ever seen it. It was 30 minutes of a naturalist and his buddy checking out the flora and fauna of whatever location they were in that week. To say it was low-key would be a major understatement, but I liked the laid back vibe. It was just nice spending a half hour with Rudy and Jim while they explored and enjoyed the natural world around them.
I get that one confused with The Governor and J.J. which aired at the same time.
I didn’t like Family much, but I had a crush on Kristy McNichol. She’s a few years older than me.
Remember those TV Allstars sporting events they used to have? She was a regular participant
Eta: Battle of the Network Stars
Everyone remembers Battle of the Network Stars. Every other year there are rumors of a revival. Robert Conrad always struck my young self as a person I would never want to hang our with.
Every time this subject comes up I always have to chime in with this show.
From 1975, the sit-com “Hot L Baltimore”
It starred James Cromwell (The movie “Babe”), Richard Masur (“One Day At A Time”) and Conchata Ferrell (“2 1/2 Men”) and is primarily know for being Norman Lear’s first failure (though it was loved by the critics)
They only made 13 episodes and they’ve never been rerun. I was only 14 when i saw it and I remember liking it, but you know how memories are.
Love to get the chance to see it again.
Salvage 1 with Andy Griffith. Man builds a rocket out of spare parts and earns a living salvaging dead satellites from orbit, or something.
Man from Atlantis with TV’s Patrick Duffy as a man with “amphibious abilities.”
And who could ever forget Manimal?
I loved the show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phoenix_(1982_TV_series)
I never thought to search for it before. I thought I just had the bad luck to only see the same episode, but now I find out only the pilot and 4 episodes were ever broadcast.
In one episode, the protagonist was in a Video Arcade and found the video game called “The Phoenix”
I loved The Man From Atlantis!
You had a crush on Kristy McNichol when the young and achingly beautiful Meredith Baxter (Birney) was in the same cast??? That’s like watching Petticoat Junction and having a crush on Kate.
Anyway, I was thinking just today of a show called All’s Fair, with Richard Crenna and Bernadette Peters. The show actually wasn’t very good but Peters was adorable and Crenna was a solid performer. But what I really remember was the character of Peter’s roommate, who had a mega-genius IQ and no common sense at all. She was having an affair with a married Senator and would walk around singing “I’m in Love With a Wonderful Guy” – in Latin.
First time I saw Monty Python was in a 1974 variety show co-hosted by Barbara Feldon called “Dean Martin’s Comedy World”, (quite likely the most obscure thing DM ever did) which then got replaced by what eventually became SNL.
“Mary” ('78?) - Mary Tyler Moore’s ill-advised attempt at a variety show, for lack of a better way of putting it. (Which did highlight, btw, David Letterman in a mouse outfit - in a ‘lab animals musical’ sketch - walking up to the camera, and singing.) (and, IIRC, Micheal Keaton quite spastically playing guitar in a restaurant sketch.)
I remember him doing the 100-dash against Gabe Kaplan (Kotter).
Surrealler-than-fuck: seeing a totally in-shape, totally limbered-up Robert Conrad somehow creating the illusion that he’s giving everything he’s got, but getting passed by this fat, lumbering, ugly-track-suited shlebb.
Kotter won. I was requiring brain bleach after witnessing that.
Saw them doing Free Ride on the show. Didn’t realise until years later that was an Edgar Winter number, and then later I used their awesome faces to grace the cover of a demo of one of my old bands. There’s nothing like representation.
Their influence was of the ages.
Wow. I remember the Lanford Wilson play, but I read it in the eighties, and never knew about the TV show.
Unhappily Ever After, an unabashed knockoff of Married…with Children except the Dad was divorced and owned a stuffed bunny (voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait) that only he could talk to. Despite lasting five seasons, it failed in syndication and has never been released on DVD or Blu-ray.