First Obscure Movies, Now Favorite Obscure TV Shows!

A few days ago I started a thread about obscure movies you love. Now it's obscure TV shows!

3 (of many) for me are:

The Second Hundred Years. A man is revived after being frozen in ice since 1900 and is now the 33 year old father to his 67 year old son.

The Five Mrs. Buchannans. Foru Daughters-in-Law to the Mother-in-Law from hell.

Prince Planet. Early Japanese Cartoon show about a boy sent to Earth as a protector. At the end of the series he actually goes home. I enjoyed this as a kid.

All 1 season and done.

And You?

in ages. I used to watch that!

I liked "The New People" (at least I think that was the name) about a group of young people the get deserted on an island. They create a whole community. I have never seen reruns of it.

1 not enough episodes &

2 only 45 minutes. Remember that disastrous ABC gimmick?

it only ran one season? I think. Anyway it was interesting. It was produced by Rod Serling, I think.

Monte Markham?

Just checked IMDB. Majel Barrett (Rodenberry) was in that too.

Kids from Caper -
Tales of the gold monkey
Rip Tide
San Dieago Beach Bums
Anyone remeber these

Nick and Cody!





:P

until I found that picture.

:P

It was always on after Airwolf :D

It was pink

Wait, was Riptide gay? I was too young to know the diff, but after seeing that casting picture..

on cody's boat.

...not "Kids..."

Wasn't it "San Pedro Beach Bums"?

Mel Brooks' take on Robin Hood and his Merry Men.

James Thurber's writings and drawings brought to life.

I think that the public wasn't ready for either!

Loved that show! Conchata Ferrell... :D

I also liked "Temperatures Rising" - a hospital sit-com starring Cleavon Little

Conchata Ferrell is wonderful!

Who was the mom who always talked about her never-seen, idiot son Moose? Was that Charlotte Rae (at that point, last seen, as Molly the Maillady on Sesame Street, and later Mrs. Garrett on Diff'rent Strokes/Facts of Life)?

I remember, as a kid, feeling so "oooooh, edgy" watching this show that had that ominous PARENTAL DISCRETION ADVISED warning at the top of the show.

Especially loved the theme.....

http://members.tripod.com/~northfork/branded.html

with the alternative verses.

"Stranded, stranded on the bathroom bowl
What do you do when you're stranded and you can't reach the roll?
Wherever you go for the rest of your life
Be sure...there's a roll...by the bathroom bowl"

I don't even know the real words anymore.

Thanks for the memory.:)

What do you do when you're branded, and you know you're a man?

He was innocent
Not a charge was true
But the world would never know

Branded — marked with a coward's shame
What do you do when you're branded, and you fight for your name

Wherever you go for the rest of your life
You must prove you're a man


Can't remember the first verse. :blush:

Now, the "F Troop" theme song... :bounce:

It was this silly Irwin Allen produced show (Allen produced other television shows from the 60's such as "Lost in Space", "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea") about a group of people from Earth who someone end up on a planet of giants (never minding the fact that said giants from another planet looked exactly like us and spoke perfect English)

For trivia fans, she played one of the daughters in Sound of Music. She was also Robert Urich's wife.

Daniel Benzali (sp?)

Briscoe County Jr (is that obscure enough?)

I never watched it, though.

so I had to watch. :D

...was in the pilot when a guy in the saloon grabs Kelly Rutherford and she knocks him out with 1 punch.

Briscoe asks "Where did you learn how to throw a punch like that?"

She yells back "CATHOLIC SCHOOL!"

Way to go. Obscure and Bruce Campbell all in one!

the first is VERY Early Jim Carrey http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0086702/
He was SO funny in that. It just didn't last. Had a great little thing going in the end credits. It was an MTM (Mary Tyler Moore) production, and they all ended with a little cat in an M-G-M kinda thing. After the credits for the Duck Factory, the MTM kitten logo forms. Off-screen voice says, "And now, here's the cat!". And you heard the kitten go "Quack!"

the second was already mentioned by another poster, but not So obscure -- it won two Emmys :)

Last of the list and the most obscure: "Coronet Blue" (1967) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0061242/combined

ARGH! The first show I experienced getting SO into and having it canceled before the "mystery" was revealed! I HATED THAT!

good luck finding copies of that show. I have a few, but they are of low quality.
Also, I liked the Misfits of Science. Keep in mind that I was in the 7th grade during the brief time that show aired.

Frightenstein was produced at CHCH, in Hamilton, Ontario. It was a staple of early, early Saturday Morning kid's programming when I grew up.

It was still being rebroadcast a few years ago.

Alas, the multi-talented Billy Van, who played most of the roles, died of cancer in 2003.

A footnote: Mitch Markowicz, who directed the series and played the Mosquito and the Superhippy, wrote "Good Morning, Vietnam" and several episodes of "M*A*S*H", and is an accomplished TV director.

My absolute favourite as a kid.

I remember sending them a letter and getting all sort of stuff from the show...stickers, posters, etc. Where it all ended up, I don't know...x(

There is a website: http://www.frightenstein.com/

in that picture. YUMMM!!

What an incredible filmography. That guy is truly a "working actor"

...she loved and married William Windom!

it was really snazzy that the grandmother had a elevator that went up the stairs in that show.

Japanese live action show from around the late '60's early '70's? Anyone? Anyone?

My brother & sister LOVED Goldar!

Johnny Socko and his Giant Robot

Go Robot Go!!! *speaking into wristwatch*

The proto-MST3K. :thumbsup:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056756/

Couldn't have been more than 10, but I loved how they took obscure old film footage and put their own audio to it.

And all the women sounded like Gracie Allen. :rofl:

...especially the references to California in the names: the detective "Sherman Oaks"; the Mexican bandit "Chavez Ravine" and the evil robot "Candlestick Parker" :rofl:

one episode and GONE! How bad must that have been? I don't know why I remember it, maybe it's the odd name.

"Lotsa Luck" with Dom DeLuise. Oddly enough the one and only season is on DVD.

I'd like to see "Captain Nice" on DVD. It was shown on "The Comedy Channel" or "Ha!" (remember that) or maybe after they merged to become "Comedy Central".

"Stanley, do I have a son? Or do I NOT have a son?"

Captain Nice & Mr. Teriffic! 2 superhero spoofs!

For some reason, we also watched The Double Life of Henry Fife, the theme song of which is forever stuck in my brain.

NBC and CBS, I believe.

But I can't remember which one's real-life persona was Stanley Beemish. :shrug:

Who was, according to the prologue, "a weak and droopy daffodil." Why does my brain retain such things?

Captain Nice was William Daniels, who of course went on to star in St. Elsewhere, among other things.

similar humor to "Scrubs"

...EVIL little sister thrown in!

Anytime reprehensor and I go to the bookstore and separate for any length of time, I still say that.

:D

My favorite is a 1971 13 episode series starring Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole called "Bearcats." It featured a Stutz Bearcat, in which our heroes rode around the southwestern region, sort of mercenaries who worked for a blank check in order to put down insurgencies and other similar situations.

Other Rod Taylor obscure shows were "Outlaws" "The Oregon Trail" and "Masquerade."

"Barbary Coast" had William Shatner and Doug McClure.

"Cupid" came out at the same time as the remake of "Fantasy Island." It starred Jeremy Piven and Paula Marshall. Piven played Cupid--yes, the real Cupid, who had been thrown out of Olympus because of a challenge he made to Zeus. He lost his powers temproarily, and his mission was to team up 100 couples before he could return to Olympus. Paula Marshall was a psychologist who was convinced he was just another crazy loon, until she actually saw some of his methodology working.

"The Champions" was in either 1967 or 1968, and starred Stuart Damon, William Gaunt and Alexandra Bastedo. It was a BBC/ITC production, and took place mainly in Geneva, Switzerland or England. The three were agents of a spy organization called "Nemesis" and they had special powers as the result of healing administered to them after a plane crash in the Himalayan mountains by Buddhist monks. As a result, they used their powers to help them in their work.

"The Magician" was a Bill Bixby series sandwiched in between "Courtship of Eddie's Father" and the much later "Hulk." He played Anthony Blake, a magician who owned the "Magic Castle" (which is a real magic club in Hollywood) and used his mastery of illusion and legerdemain to capture bad guys.

"The Persuaders" starred Roger Moore and Tony Curtis. It, too, was a British show. They both played very welathy playboys who were brought together to help out an old judge, trying to make sure justice was done.


Oh, there are tons more. I really would like to see more of these on DVD--at least the two British shows are on DVD.....it might be awhile before the others make it.

I remember that one from when I was a kid.

no I didn't know that. That's interesting. That would have been around the same time as Star Trek, the animated series.

And I think it was "Filmation", too, just like Star Trek.

IIRC, the characters weren't people, they were bears and cats (but I could be wrong on that one).

Thanks--I'll have to check it out somehow.

The Champions !!! - I never could remember the name of that show, though I vaguely remember the setup.

Used to watch the magician, always liked bill bixby.

The persuaders is currently running on bbc america, hilrious to watch now.

Bearcats! , wow, What a flash from the past.

just as NBC was cancelling another of my favorite shows, The Man From UNCLE. If I recall correctly, it even replaced it in its time slot.

I watched the Persuaders about a year ago, it seems, when it was on Fridays at 10. It was on right after The Saint and The Avengers. But I've decided it is useless to watch some of the episodes on TV because they have been very badly edited by BBCAmerica, and I will watch them when I can get the DVDs for them.

And the car was the most interesting thing on the show. :-)

and madly in love with Rod Taylor. I remember many other things about it! :)

I didn't understand what that was about at the time, though. :-)

...and the Persuaders, too!

I thought it was hysterical but I have a wierd sense of humor.

Police Squad

And when I was a kid, Boomtown.

Joel Higgins, right?

I had forgotten all about him.

...the guy who was in the tower that recharged the Prince's Power Pendant was ALWAYS asleep! He would wake up in the proverbial nick of time, however!

Christina Applegate before Married With Children :). She played the daughter of an LAPD officers whose wife had been murdered, so she was basically the woman of the house.

I only remember one episode to be honest, and it was her younger brother losing his virginity (along with the girl he lost it to losing hers), and then dumping the girl shortly after.

It was a drama with Applegate before she became a comedy sexpot. :)

And in the not so obscure, but I liked 'em:

"Undeclared" on Fox
and "Grizzly Adams" :)

Great American Dream Machine

What a wonderous show.....

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066665/

our first introduction to Michael Moore? And this:

The trash compactor; the only machine in the world that turns 20 lbs. of trash into...20 lbs. of trash.

Is there sex after death? (Efron searches a book the size of the OED) No.

Or the cream pies? No chocolate, no cream, nothing but pie.

and the deal where Efron compared sizes of Olives as well as Pete Seeger singing an animation of the Abraham and Isaac story. I so wish that show were available on DVD, it really was something.

Eerie, Indiana was a neat, sort of Twilight Zone meets Twin Peaks kind of show, seen through the eyes of a young boy.

The Tomorrow People was a British miniseries for teens which featured a group of teens who were telekintetically gifted, and brought together by an ominous government agency which wanted to exploit their powers.

Quark starred Richard Benjamin as an interstellar garbageman.

The Sweeny was a British cop series. Pretty much set the bar of "realism" of detective work. The leads were a couple of Cockney wideboys. Always with the flash cars and natty suits. Imagine Miami Vice with more cauliflower ears, more rain, and no pastels.

The Professionals was another really good British cop series. It was extremely violent and foul-mouthed. The CBC used to run it very late at night because of the content. Anyway, the lead characters were sort of "last resort" cops who were called in to settle scores when conventional law and order failed. It was really pretty RW, if I remember correctly. What I do remember, though, was that one of the stars was a member of the elite SAS Regiment in real life, and had to resign from the covert ops arm of the regiment because he became an identifiable celebrity.

I just got the boxed set of the series not that long ago. It was only on for the one season, and all the episodes are in the set. It's great!

I would watch this show still if it would ever be replayed.
I specifically remember a storyline involving "Bubbleskin" suit fashion craze when the suits caused people to fall under control of some alien race that looked sort of like pink Killer Tomatoes.

It didn't conform to standard episodic time-lengths. If a story needed four half-hour episodes to tell it, they'd give it four half-hour episodes. If the story took one, it got one.

The one that sticks in my mind is "A Spy is Born", in which a "TP" is recruited forcibly, despite her having severe emotional problems. She's dead by the end of the episode, and that was that.

It was this sitcom from the 60's...Doris played a single mom who got a job as a secretary in San Francisco. McLean Stevenson was her boss.

Naturally, "Que Sera Sera" was the show's theme song.

sent her to the city the next season.

Remember the New Dick Van Dyke Show with Hope Lange?

Fannie Flagg was also in it, as I remember.

...underrated show!

I tink the network never forgave him for not being Rob Petrie anymore.

He & Carl Reiner actually cancelled the show themselves when CBS censored an episode where their daughter walks in on them making love.

There was a HILARIOUS episode where their college age son comes home with a black girlfriend and Dick's mother is a bigot.

Short lived sitcom starring Matt Frewer (max headroom) set in Providence RI (which is why I remember it).


How about the kids shows:

Big John Kittle John

Electra woman and dynagirl

Isis

damn those were funny(unintentionally) !!

Oh, and 'the double deckers" (a british kids show where a bunch of kids live in a junkyard on a double decker bus)

and I took my lunch to school in a "here come the double-deckers" metal lunchbox.

My younger brother & sister's generation.

I remember thinking that Electra Woman & Dyna Girl were hot. I was about 17 at the time!

Deidre Hall in tacky spandex...with really, really bad props. :toast:

Yes, there was a Uk kids cartoon called "Banana Man". It was this kid who ate a banana who turned into a superhero. Can't remember the rest. Too long ago.

Mark.

Not many people have seen it; I mean, what's the deal?

...WAS obscure!

How about Where's Huddles, the Charmings, and UFO (one of the coolest themes ever)?

I sort of liked "The Charmings", actually.

Ugliest Girl in Town. It was fun for the most part.

The Charmings....I loved that show. Especially Judy Parfitt as the stepmother and Paul Winfield as the image in the mirror. They lasted barely two seasons, and switched lead actresses between seasons.

Christopher Rich was the prince Charming. He was younger than when he did Murphy Brown. He was cute.

And UFO.....I can never forget it. I was already into science fiction by then, and it was one of my favorite shows. I was writing fan fiction and UFO was one of my favorite subjects! Big crush on Michael Billington. :)

One woman I knew ran a UFO/SHADO fan club. It was active even into the mid 70s. Those were the days

I think it was back to back with second hundred years!

When I was a 12-year-old girl, that show was right on. Also, we used to watch "Small Wonder," when I was young -- about a robot girl. It was a stupid show.

Gene Barry played the chief of police of Los Angeles. Gimmick? He drove around in a silver chauffer driven Rolls-Royce (I never understood how he could afford a car like that)

...his character was LOADED!

The acting and effects were deplorable, and the individual stories were hit and miss, but the premise was great (although borrowed quite liberally from Silent Running and 2001):

Pilot: Three humans live in a colony on what is revealed to be a miles-long, generations-old starship which is some sort of cultural Noah's Ark. The ship itself consitst of a long skinny body and literally thousands of "pods" which radiare out from the body. Each one of the pods is a different kind of biosphere.

We don't learn the origin of the ship, its mission, or why it has 'specimins' on board.

One of the humans, Devin (played by 2001's Keir Dullea), is the first to realise that they live on a space-ship.

His human curiosity leads him to discover that the ship is on auto-pilot. And that it it on a collision course with a star a few years away.

The premise of the series is that Devin and his fellow humans go from pod to pod trying to find the ship's bridge, in hopes of re-directing the course of the ship. Some of the pods can only be reached via other pods.

Some of the pods have other life-forms, others have other humans, and some are basically giant computers and reactors and other systems which keep the ship functioning. And many of these are armed to keep out intruders.

The only "intelligence" on the ship is "Oracle", an effeminate, hippy-like old man/computer who appears on video screens. He is clearly not functioning properly, and although he is obviously managing the ship's biosystem, he has no access to its navigation and propultion systems, and his files which had information about the origin and mission of the ship have been erased. Sometimes he gives limited information about entering/exiting pods, sometimes his information is wrong (and lethal).

Each episode, Devin and the crew visit a different pod or two.

I remember it distinctly, never quite was up to expectations. If you want some trivia, Harlan Ellison was the creative consultant on the show (the last time he did that until babylon 5).

If you really want to know how the show was envisioned look up 'phoenix without ashes' written by ellison and someone else (don't remember who). It's a novelization of the original storyline. Very different than what was produced as the tv show.

The best episode? Sputnik was due to fly over the US and no one knew exactly what would happen. This show was broadcast on Bravo for a time but has faded away.

...that never found an audience!

Loved Art Garfunkle singing the theme!

The most adult children's show I've ever seen. Find and read some synopses.

High School age Jason Bateman at his comedic peak.

...CON MAN!

Anyone?

...Hershel Bernardi!

In one episode, she modeled her new bikini for him.

I was.. 14, I think.

:wow:

starring Matt Frewer as Edison Carter/Max Headroom.

That show was totally fascinating.

It was my introduction to Fox's tendency to clobber perfectly good shows for
no particular reason.

Now, I expect it.

A quirky "dramedy" quickly canceled by Fox, but luckily all the unaired episodes have been released on DVD.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006GAO18/qid=1133902923/sr=11-1/ref=sr_11_1/103-6800664-5479042?n=130

Tim Reid as a cultured Bostonian who inherits his father's New Orleans restaurant. From Hugh Wilson of WKRP fame. Also, for some reason I cannot possibly imagine, the only weekly TV series in all of history set in New Orleans (that I am aware of).

Anne Francis as a private eye. Gimmick? She had an pet ocelot.

Thanks for the memory :)

A cop show from the 60's. Rather unknown cast...but one of my favorite shows growing up. Superb writing...the show didn't have all that much action...a lot of it was character driven. "Naked City" is one of the classics of television. It's somewhat forgotten today, though. Unfortunately.

It's on my "wanted" list, definitely.

That was my first choice. Where the hell's the DVD box set? With all the extra Jennifer DeNuccio footage?

"I like dark. Dark is good." --Johnny Slash

Trailer Park Boys

...completely obscure to most people here.

The Prisoner. "I am not a number, I'm a free man!" A very Orwellian TV drama.

Quatermass. The first real British sci-fi programme on TV. Shot live and no-one thought about recording it for posterity. Fortunately the scripts remained and it was remade twice, once by Thames and most recently by the BBC (who made the original back in the 1950's).

Interceptor. Obscure UK gameshow where two people have to join up together. Their prize is in their backpacks, but they got to stop the "interceptor" (who is flying around in a helicopter) from "zapping" their backpack. Crazy, silly, dire and good at the same time.

"Going for Gold". Crap pan-European TV game show. Again, so bad it was good. And the prizes of course were naff.

With Richard Castellano ("Clemenza" in the Godfather movies) as a building superintendent in a run-down apartment. I think Castellano died shortly after this.

And Harsh Realm, too.

Both ended long before they had a chance to develop (even though Millennium had three years to try).

"Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense" and many other episodes were brilliant.

But I stuck to 2nd Unit in Season 2.

The pilot was nuts. I worked the longest day of my career (27 hours) on the last day of the pilot.

I looked like this ---> :crazy:

Back then, I was in Locations. Then I moved into production management and line producing, then back into locations management, where I am now.

I'm trying to get out and retrain for another career, but it's not easy!

I miss it.

And dark.

An extremely short running sitcom on MTV but the most hilarious show ever. They had a show about a "bindi" that ranks up there with Seinfeld's "puerto-rican parade flag stomping" show that got banned as the funniest show of all time.

taught.

And Apple's Way.

I was only in middle school when it was on, but it was a cute show.

Yeardley Smith is so cute. Glad she went on to a good career with "The Simpsons."

And the chick who played the sensitive side of Herman's brain... :wow:

That show was a brilliant satire of uncontrolled capitalism.

The Charmings was Snow White and Prince in modern times. I think my daughter and I were the only ones to ever watch this.

I Married Dora had the most original series ending ever. All the characters were at the airport...the main character boards the plane for a flight to move out of town...he walks back into the airport and everyone asks..."did they cancel your flight?" He responds "No, they cancelled the show."

That was a tv show that knew how to not take itself seriously. :)

I actually came into this thread wondering whether someone would mention "The Charmings" -it was one of my favorite shows when I was a child and I've still got some old videotapes with some old "Charmings" episodes on them. I truly loved that show and I encouraged all my friends at school to watch it as well

I loved the Mirror -sadly the actor who played the mirror is deceased now. And I loved all the other characters as well as the storylines. I wish that show had lasted longer than it did

Too bad there weren't more of us :)

The actor that played Mr Charming is on Reba now and I always get a kick out of seeing him.

Especially The Charmings. What a cute concept for a show!

There was also some other show that was on around that same time...I think it might have been sort of like I Married Dora, only I think the dad marries a blonde-haired "witch" (a nice witch, like on Bewitched.) Or maybe the blonde witch character was actually just a character on I Married Dora??? I don't know, my memory of that one is pretty vague!

Oh, yes, I watched that. It was a comedy, but I seem to recall there was a bit of debunking of stereotypes, plus a serious discussion of the war in El Salvador (which did not, no matter what Cheney wants you to believe, end neatly with that one election).

Not the best offering of the British, but pretty inspired.

Again, starring Leonard Rossiter.

Now that was comedy.

what a great spoof of teen dramas. Great show - short life.

http://aa.1asphost.com/CTVA/US/Adventure/ChinaSmith.htm

Starring: Dan Duryea, as China Smith
Myrna Dell as Shira, the Empress
Douglass Dumbrille as Inspector Hobson
recurring cast: Regina Gleason as the Countess Steffi, Clarence Lung as ?

Premise: Adventures of China Smith, an opportunist American adventurer living in Singapore, who's services were available to the highest bidder.

Writers include: Robert C. Dennis
Directors include: Arthur Peirson

...and "Greg the Bunny" were two short-lived but brilliant sitcoms.

I'm sure it was good. Andy is a very funny guy.

A British import, that featured comedian Dave Allen in a series of recorded sketches along with him sitting in a chair in front of a live studio audience, telling jokes and stories with his trademark glass of scotch and ginger ale. He seemed like a very spiritual guy that didn't have a problem satirizing organized religion, especially Catholicism, his own! I think my favorite all-time sketch was "The Pope on Water Skis"...probably one of those things that had to be seen to be appreciated!:evilgrin:

He's no longer with us unfortunately.

It's true that most of his work was done in England - that's where entertainment was done and where you got your break; not in Ireland at that time.

But yep, he was a great comic and he is missed. Along with the other comics of his era, they are leaving us to go to a better place.

I found out he passed away just this past March... :cry: I should try to look for some of his work on DVD, if they're available here in North America.

My dad used to watch Crossroads, an anthology series of stories with religious themes.

Fair Exchange--an English and American family exchange daughters for a year

Love on a Rooftop--a newlywed couple live in a rooftop apartment in San Francisco

Those Hathaways--a couple is raising a family of chimps

East Side/West Side--a 1960s series about social workers in New York, starring George C. Scott and Diana Sands

Seeing Things--a Canadian series about a man with clairvoyance, shown on our PBS station in Oregon

Mr. Novak--a drama series about a high school teacher

I could go on, but it's late.

Grand was a hilarious comedy with Pamela Reed, Bonnie Hunt, Michael McKean, and John Randolph, about a bizarre extended family in Pittsburgh. It lasted 2 years.

EZ Streets was an amzingly dark cop drama starring Ken Olin, Joe Pantoliano, John Finn, and Richard Portnow. Score from Loreena McKennitt. It lasted only 10 eps. Every one was like watching a movie.

Pamela Reed is a friend of our family and I remember when she was doing the show - it was fabulous. She's been in a lot of made for TV stuff lately.

Not to be forgotten is Mr. Belvedere, Benson, Scarecrow & Mrs. King, etc. All the great 80's shows that didn't last too long.

Lucky you. I fell in love with her when she played Trudy Cooper in The Right Stuff. A really underrated beauty. Maybe I can wrangle an introduction?

5 minutes into the Grand pilot, she had a dialog with John Neville that sold me on the show:

Janice: I haven't had sex in three years
Desmond: And? ...pause... Oh, yes, I guess at your age that would be a problem.

That show was perfectly cast, right down to Ed Marinaro's dimwitted ex-high school hero. Catchy theme song, too. A lost treasure, for sure.

I taped all but two episodes. It ran when I was in middle school. For about two months.

I used to watch Street Cents everyday after school, along with Jonovision. Street Cents was fascinating, because teen reporters evaluated products and did research. They also named names and confronted companies. (It was on CBC, along with my all-time childhood favorite - Road to Avonlea).

It was a sitcom/western about a Civil War veteran who becomes a town marshall.

For some reason, I still remember the theme song lyrics:

In days of yore,
in western lore...
a man came home
from civil war
his newfound bride
was at side

they called him Best,
Best of the West.
Whoopee ty yih yo, whoopee ty yih yay
for the western pioneers
Whoopee ty yih yo, whoopee ty yih yay
for the good times happen here

Good ol' John Cleese, everything he touches turns to gold...

okay almost everything...

It was a good thing that it was decided only to make 12 episodes of Fawlty Towers. Yes, the likes of the BBC do repeat it to death, but it still endures.

I liked the Rattatouille episode - oh and The Germans! (Don't mention ze var now, vill ya?)

Mark.

Cartoon in the late 80s or early 90s about a whole world of tiny "people" who lived in the walls.

My daughter who (warning: obligatory brag about my 20 year old daughter who is president of her college's Young Democrats and was in Boston at the DNC in '04) is now and always has been one of my personal heroes,
used to like it when I would talk to her from the basement through the furnace ducts and pretend to be one of the littles

Stephen Bochco's sort-of spinoff of "Hill Street Blues" about a minor-league baseball club. Pretty good cast: Michael Nouri as the manager, Dennis Franz as the pitching coach, Ken Olin and Mykelti Williamson as players.

Never forget this scene with Franz telling one of the pitchers how to throw a spitter: "You got your spit, you got your snot, you got your hair oil..."

NBC tested it at midnight. Lasted four episodes.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084982/

Edit: Oh, and Sharon Stone as a player's wife.

mid-'80s ... came in the wake of "Raiders of the Lost" ... the main character was a bush pilot in the South Pacific who got into all sorts of predicaments ... theme music by Mike Post (I think) ... lasted one season ... there was a similarly-themed series at the same time on another network, whose name escapes me ...

"Days and Nights of Molly Dodd" ... late '80s ... single woman in New York ... played by Blair Brown ... seemed melancholy ...

"Frank's Place" ... late '80s ... main character played by Tim Reid, a yuppie who returns from the North to run a restaurant in New Orleans ... great atmosphere ...

"Lucas Tanner" ... mid-'70 ... David Hartman ... played a teacher or counselor ...

"Bridgit and Bernie" ... early '70s ... marriage between a gentile (Meredith Baxter) and a Jew (whom she later married in real life?) ...

"Cowboy in Africa" ... Chuck Connors ... late '60s or early '70s ...

Don McKellar played an agoraphobic who spent his days watching TV. "The Rex Riley Show" was his favorite. Rex was played by a member of The Kids in the Hall; in the 2nd season, another ex-Kid took the role. Explanation? He had a head transplant!

The agoraphobic's first roommate went to prison for killing a street bum with a can of catfood, strictly by accident. An unending string of odd roommates came & went. Dry, weird humor.

Bravo showed it in the US--with bleeps & oddly placed commercial breaks. And the schedule was not reliable, so it was almost impossible to catch.

No DVD so far. (At least Brisco County will be available next year!)

two that I remember from my 50's childhood - though even then in reruns. One was "I Married Joan" starring Joan Davis and Jim Backus and the other "My Little Margie" starring Gale Storm. Both originally ran from 1952 to 1955. I was three when they ended, but remember both well so they must have been rerun throughout the decade and on into the 60's. Joan Davis died in 1961 at the age of 49. Really funny lady.

Actually this show annoyed the hell out of me as a child. Desi Arnaz produced it so it was like Lucy x 2.

The part he was meant to play.

I barely remember the first one, I think Meredith Baxter was in it, or maybe Mariett Hartley. The second one was awful. "Donald Hollinger" actor and Anita Gillette mugging like there was no tomorrow. There wasn't.

Forerunner of the Naked Gun movies starring Leslie Nielsen. One 6 show mini-season & canceled. Way too funny & subtle for network TV.

a couple of years on Sunday nights during the 1960's?

Family of con artists who would use their skills to outfox bad guys,
sort of like "the A team" with gentility.

I loved that show.

That was a Western that premiered in 1966, I think, and didn't last more than a year or so. A very young Barbara Hershey starred as a 19th century teenager who, with her older brother and younger siblings, makes a home in the West when their parents are killed during the journey.

I really liked the Indian who befriended the brother and sister after their parents died. It was a show with a lot of feeling and heart set in the old west.

and aftermannix

Remind me.

Had really campy and cornball songs and sketches involving math concepts, plus the Mathnet scene at the end of every episode involving two mathematicians/detectives who solved crimes with math.

Noggin reaired old episodes of it for a while late at night but they don't anymore

I loved the detectives. I remember that they had some horribly corny and repetetive song I really enjoyed.

nothing remains to be said.

Electric Company, anyone?

Don't Just Sit There
Mr. Wizard's World
The Lone Gunmen
Friday the 13th: The Series
Night Flight
Maximum Exposure