I vaguely remember Run, Joe, Run but I don’t remember Kristy McNichol on it. It looks like it was 1 episode.
Police Squad!, a six episode series that would likely have been forgotten if it hadn’t spawned the “Naked Gun” films.
Also Sledge Hammer!, another cop procedural spoof, starring David Rasche.
I was a big fan of *Battle of the Network Stars *back in the day. You mention Gabe Kaplan … I think he was a much better athlete than he appeared. Not only racing against Conrad, but he was always the quarterback for the ABC team in the football competition, and he did really well. What always bugged me was NBC would have Mark Harmon playing QB for them … he actually played quarterback for UCLA, for real. That hardly seemed fair.
On topic, I worked for a small television station back in the 1980s that started up right along with the Fox network. Fox started out with several programs that really stood the test of time - Married With Children, The Tracy Ullman Show, 21 Jump Street - but plenty of others that not many people remember. Mr. President, with George C. Scott as the President and Madeline Kahn as his sister-in-law? Duet, with the lovely yet show-killing Alison LaPlaca (after Duet’s short run she and her character moved on to Open House, which lasted an even shorter time)? The New Adventures Of Beans Baxter - did Beans ever have any old adventures?
Hmmm, I wonder where I heard about these shows before. . …
Oh, God, yes, I remember this! It helped me get through the summer of 1970. :o
Sledge Hammer! is currently airing on MeTV. 1:30 AM on Sundays isn’t exactly a prime time slot, but in these days of DVRs (and for that matter, those days of VCRs) that doesn’t much matter.
People always say this, but when I was a kid I thought doing 6 years of Newhart was a pretty big deal. He never became a star but he’s always worked, which is more than most actors who get 1 series ever do.
1995 was a good year. I liked Strange Luck and VR.5
They filled the hole left by some bastard cancelling Brisco County anyway.
No one believes me when i say “It’s The Fugitive. But a dog.”
I’m trying to remember more…we already did almost all the short-lived Sci-fi shows.
Nice intro music
Here are some horror anthologies:
Quinn Martin’s Tales of the Unexpected…going through the 8 episode synopsi (?) some of those could be long unanswered ‘what is this tv show?’
I remember Sledge Hammer quite fondly. One weird thing is they would show reruns of it in Hungary in the early 00s, dubbed in Hungarian and all.
Well, there’s Homeboys in Outer Space.
And Mercy Point, which was a bit of a humanwashed Sector General.
If we are going to go with cartoons, how about YoulissEEEeeeEEEeeEEEs 31, or The Littles?
Didn’t this show also have The Lander Sisters somehow involved? They were treats for the young boys!
Yeah, Ghost Busters! Larry Storch, Forrest Tucker and a Gorilla named Tracy! That’s quality TV right there!
“Excuse My French”, a sitcom which aired on Canadian TV in the mid 70s. Maybe only on Montreal TV. The son of an anglophone businessman marries the daughter of a francophone working class family. Family conflict ensues. Full of the most blatant stereotypes. I think it went off the air when the PQ were elected to power for the first time; this sort of thing was no longer funny.
Something Wilder, starring Gene Wilder
I wouldn’t mind seeing repeats of either of the following shows:
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Strange Report (starring Anthony Quayle), about an unorthodox team of crime fighters, which ran for one season or less.
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Night Heat, a cop drama set in an unnamed North American city (Toronto?), and which lasted several years in the mid-late 1980s.
There is not enough brain bleach in the world to make me want to watch any of that program again.
:o
The last episode had a terrific cliffhanger, too.
I heard that at least one of the main actors got a deal s/he couldn’t refuse, and they couldn’t find a way to write them out of the show and still have it make sense.