Stompin at the Savoy, I watched it on youtube but I wish I could see a clearer version.
Once again, I was going to post something, and there it was on YouTube.
Was it by any chance set at a beach resort? There was a Venezuelan show called “Bienevidos(?)” that comes to mind.
There were a few re-occuring gags like a bungling stage magician, a police station which seemed only to arrest hookers, oh and a “not so little girl” who always wanted her step-dad to spank her.
Found it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at4TWrBy8og Wishman from 1983.
About 100 episodes of “Doctor Who” from 1963 through 1969.
In particular, episode 4 of “The Tenth Planet”
I remember watching the Star Wars Christmas Special when I was a kid. I’d watch anything that had anything to do with Star Wars. Now, I would love to see it because it was just so weird. The campiness went over my head back then.
When I was a kid in the 70s, my sister and I would watch the “Sid & Marty Kroft” shows, and there was one called “Electra Woman and Dyna-Girl”. I heard at some point that they did a pilot for a reboot in 2001 with Markie Post playing Electra Woman as a washed up boozy slut. Dunno if it ever aired, but I happened to stumble across the episode last night:
I vaguely recall a show about a general hospital in space. Orbiting around Pluto, maybe? Unfortunately I can’t remember any of the actors. I feel like I saw 2, maybe 3 episodes before it disappeared. The special effects were pretty good for the era, too, which I think was the late 90s. Ring any bells for anyone?
I also remember enjoying “Misfits of Science”, but I can’t imagine that it’s aged well. Also still unavailable on DVD.
I see what you did there…
Oh yes - many of mine have been noted:
**New Treasure Hunt **(circa 1975). My mother hated this show because Geoff Edwards seemed to come up with new ways to humiliate contestants who picked badly. One episode in particular sticks out. Some lady gives up some decent amount of cash and wants to keep her box. Edwards does his schtick of looking inside the box, building up the poor sap’s hopes, and tells her “You’ve WON 25 thousand…lira” (Italian currency that at the time might have been worth a penny to the lira). Contestant goes from elation to being crushed in an eyeblink.
The original Jon Stewart Show. There was an episde with William Shatner and Gilbert Godfried as guests. Godfried comes out in an Andrew Dice Clay get-up, imitating his then trendy monologues but filling it with various homophobic jokes. The college-aged audience is appauled and stone silent. But in the background, you can hear Shatner guffawing. Priceless.
An anthology show hosted by Orson Welles from the early 70’s called “Great Mysteries”.
Top of the list: a local show run on New Jersy Network called Uncle Floyd. I’m sure it ran over a decade. Loads of cool musical guests (probably no VHS/DVD clearances were ever negotiated). Lots of innuendo humor (it was supposedly a kids show).
You Tube has tons of uncle Floyd, including political commercials from when he ran for Governor.
I don’t. (Must be something about episodes that were destroyed.)
IIRC, they must have hand-picked only the loopiest of studio audience participants, and then the cream of the crop of those as contestants. It always seemed a parody of game shows…Chuck Barris at his best.
I miss Uncle Floyd…you had to watch for a few weeks to catch even some of the inside jokes. The Ramones were on quite a bit. It’s the only show I remember watching on UHF. Will have to go catch those YT vids now.
Yeah, that’s the list of episodes that the BBC famously destroyed their copies of. Occasionally one or two have shown up at a TV station somewhere but the odds are that most of them are gone forever.
What was that show where the people survived a nuclear bomb and somehow all found each other at a farmhouse? It was only on for one season, I think around 1994. One person survived because they were in their bank’s vault, another person survived because they were in their Volvo (“the world’s safest car!”), but I can’t remember the rest. It was an American sitcom.
I started this thread Help ID this Saturday Night Live video - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board looking for a video but never found it. As explained in the thread, it was a video of many famous faces quickly shown to the beat of the music. I’m almost positive it was David Bowie’s Fame.
Still convinced I saw it and didn’t dream it.
Also, I would love to see my Dad’s car commercials from the 1960s. They couldn’t find a salesman who spoke Spanish in those days, so my Dad was tapped for the job with his broken New Mexico gringo speak.
God, I hadn’t thought of this in years, but this thread brought it back!
In the mid-80s I saw a handful of episodes of this show that had a kind of proto-Princess Bride feel - I don’t think it was as good (well, it was several decades ago and dubbed into Italian, but from what I can tell…) but it had that mix of fantasy, tongue-in-cheek comedy and a full-on good-versus-evil underlying story line. I was a kid and it was the first time I’d seen that mixture, and I *loved *it. Some slightly fancy Googling (I only knew the title in Italian) and it turns out it was called Wizards and Warriors and I’m not the only one who loved it and wishes it was out on DVD.