I loved this show!
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My husband and I have this book by him. It’s hilarious. The Official Dr. Science Big Book of Science (Simplified): Dr. Science, Rodney: 9780809248490: Amazon.com: Books
Hot Metal was a really funny British sitcom about the tabloids. It ran in the late 1980’s.
Wasn’t that part of Duck’s Breath Mystery Theater? I loved that show.
Quirky Nazis; it was set during WWII. Vaguely reminiscent of Hogan’s Heroes, what with the secret transmitters, the British airmen hiding out in the wine cellar, et cetera.
In Minneapolis, this was on at like 6:30 on boring Sunday evenings, and it always put me to sleep. At 13, I watched it only because there was nothing else on at the time. Cheesy even for an Erwin Allen series.
I remember this one too, but then I remember almost everything. In the '90s, I briefly had a girlfriend who was a dead ringer for Blair Brown.
Black Tie Affair. It was a comedy murder mystery starring Bradley Whitford, Kate Capshaw, and Bruce McGill. I thought it was hilarious, and the writing sparkled with wit. Back in the day when everybody used quotes in their email signatures, I used a lot of quotes from the show because they were perfect for every occasion.
It only lasted about four episodes.
The stewardess on the spaceliner (Heather something) was hot, though. :o
Anyone mention When Things Were Rotten? Used to LMAO.-
There was a different *Jericho *that I tried to get into that was cancelled, revived, then cancelled again. It was sort of an immediately after the bombs drop, post-apocalyptic, survival drama. I was trying to make a concerted effort to follow a series every week. I’d missed out on all the hot shows (24, Lost, whatever) that were all the rage at the water cooler because I have no TeeVee watching discipline. I chose this show to make my way into the cool kids table; my own personal BetaMax.
Curse you! I was going to cite that after reading through the thread. Here’s the link: When Things Were Rotten - Wikipedia
Also, Best of the West
Perhaps most obscure of all: Young Lives, a daytime soap opera about high school students. Yanked after 1 week in 1981. I remember bongs.
I was a little kid (6, 7 yrs old) when "Land of the Giants first aired (Sunday nights on ABC) and was a big fan of the show. I also owned a Colorforms set and View Master reel of the show. There was some merchandising, but not much.
METV does air it now, just once a week, Saturday night (or specifically Sunday morning ) 1:00 AM EST.
Yes, the Giants planet looks like Earth but the government is much like a police state, very fascist like.
“Hot Pursuit” A woman is framed for a heinous crime by her employer. The woman escapes prison with help from her husband. The employer sends a henchman to capture the couple. He looses an eye after an encounter with the couple so now the chase is personal. The series is about the henchman chasing the couple who are chasing the woman’s lookalike who framed her for the crime. The show ran for three or four episodes before being cancelled.
“This Week in Nemtin” One episode comedy special with Carl Reiner. I remember it being very funny but I have no details.
“Turn-on” I watched this in Cleveland when the ABC affiliate stopped broadcasting it after twenty minutes.
Is Turn-On really among your favorite shows, since it’s generally considered to be awful?
The best episode of Land Of The Giants is when they found the model village. Theme music by the little known composer John Williams.
Coronet Bluuuuue…
Deep inside my brain,
I keep hearing that wild refrain…
Oh, man, before the internet my friend Scot and I tried for years to find any trace of it, or anyone who’d seen it. Only to be met with blank looks.
We’d stumbled across the pilot late at night during a fifth grade sleepover, and were half asleep when we realized what a cool concept we were watching. I mean, this guy gets pulled out of a river with amnesia… except for the phrase “Coronet Blue”… and then mysterious guys are trying to kill him!
It didn’t help that this was the mid-60’s, when if you missed a show, that was often your only chance to see it. And the network didn’t air the show after they filmed it.
Glad to see it mentioned here! Guess Scot and I can stop singing that jazzy theme song to each other as our own private Futile Quest…
So, someone HAS seen it!
I once saw a TV listing for “The Nick And Jessica Variety Hour” and wondered if it was what I thought it was; I tuned in, and it was, and I lasted about 5 minutes.
Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson, if you don’t know or care.
p.s. Never heard of “Corner Gas” until now. A movie was released in 2014.
Parker Lewis Can’t Lose - it was a surreal, almost live-action cartoon-type show about a Ferris Bueller-like high schooler and the stuff he and his friends get up to.
It was very popular in New Zealand in the early-mid 1990s (all my friends and I watched it) but I don’t think it was ever on TV in Australia; I’ve never met anyone in this country who has ever heard of the show, much less considered themselves a fan.
Two candidates for me are Best of the West and Tenspeed and Brown Shoe.
This was the theme tune to my mother’s favourite show in the late 70s. If you were to close your eyes and just listen you would think it was a UK action cop show, along the lines of The Sweeney or The Professionals, but in fact it was for a nursing drama called Angels.