Forgotten TV shows

Yes, I remember it. They played sisters. It was on ABC.

Yes. Liked Faith buf could never stand Kelly.

I remember this from grade school. And odd, half-animated program that I watched because, well, the cartoons. Now, I've realized it's based on James Thurber and the New Yorker set: My World and Welcome to It.

I sure do, OP.

I also remember a CBS show from the '90s, with Paul Sorvino, Ellen Burstyn, I think, and Kevin Dillon but I can't remember its name.

Does anyone remember Kids, Incorporated?

I just started rewatching Mad About You.

Did Faith Ford ever work after that? If not, too bad, she was not a bad comedic actress. That might have been Ted M's last regular job as well.

The premise of the show was not bad, but Kelly played her character so broadly. Which surprised me a little, because while her AMC character was annoying, I did not think she was that bad of an actress, but she really needed to be reigned in on this show.

The one episode that was funny is when she returned to her soap roots, but that was largely due to Susan Flannery and Susan Lucci showing better sitcom chops than Ripa and the two working well together. I don't remember any other episode (although I don't think I saw that many).

WHET Faith Ford?

Becker.

Strange Paradise. Hank. Tammy. Apple Pie. Madame. The Nut House with Chloris Leachman, Harvey Norman. The Invaders. Guest ward Ho.

R5, no.

"Hope and Faith" was confusing, because Faith played Hope.

Even more obscure: "Hope and Gloria" with the late Alan Thicke and the late Taylor Negron.

Chicago Hope

My favorite of all time and no one under 50 knows it:

I am under 50 and aware of Moonlighting R15, and have often wondered why it's not available for streaming. It seems like the sort of show that would find a new audience.

Oh look! It's the annual Forgotten TV shows thread.

Cocaine is what fueled Moonlighting. It flamed out relatively quickly, but it was one of the last must-watch TV shows on the Big 3 networks.

Oh look! Its a stupid cunt R17

What about all those NBC Must-See TV shows in the 90s R18?

Homefront is my fave forgotten show. Too bad it's never been released on DVD or streaming. Kyle Chandler was fire!

R20 When I say Big 3 networks, I'm referring to a time when there was no cable tv networks or internet, so a really popular show was watched by almost everyone back then.

Moonlighting may not be widely available because of music licensing issues.

I loved Homefront! It should be on Netflix.

Do shows that aired before you were born count here?

I added a classic TV channel onto my Roku and discovered a bunch of really obscure shows. There are the shows from the 50's that everyone knows, just from being a certain age, from watching TV Land, MeTV, etc, like I Love Lucy, the Honeymooners. This channel dug deep and it astounded me how much programming there seemed to be available back then.

I had no idea that Betty Hutton had a sitcom (produced by Desilu), Eve Arden had a self-titled show where she was a writer with twin daughters, Betty White had several shows, For the men: Red Buttons, Jimmy Durante, Buddy Hackett and Eddie Fisher are just a few 50's celebs that had shows. There are countless westerns, game shows and revue shows and shows headlined by people I've never heard of (Dennis Day, Dennis O'Keefe). There are various shows sponsored by big businesses - Campbell Soup had a show that put on one-act plays - I saw one with James Dean.

This channel is gonna keep me busy for a while.

R19.

Small Wonder. My Two Dads. That TV show where the girl had an alien dad. God the 80s were trash.

All the must see tv shows that NBC put on before or after cheers to make hits on Thursday nights

TLC's "Furniture to Go"! is coming back!

I loved watching Ed Feldman and Joe L'Erario every weekend back in the '90s. In addition to excellently refurbishing furniture (I learned how to upholster chairs because of their shows), their classic films parodies were hilarious.

Every once is a while they'd also parody fund-raising infomercials ala Feed the Children, Seagulls, Stray Dogs, etc. My all-time favorite of their fund-raising infomercial parodies was Sally Struthers' Christian Children Fund. Ed (then pushing 300 lbs.) wore a curly blond woman's wig, bright red lipstick, still in his full beard, asking viewers to order varying paraphernalia to support the fund. His intro was, "I'm Sally Struthers from 'All in the Family'; but that was before I looked like a Manatee. His closing was, "Order now. I'm hungry!"

"Life with Bonnie" Starring Bonnie Hunt.

[quote]I added a classic TV channel onto my Roku and discovered a bunch of really obscure shows. . . . This channel dug deep and it astounded me how much programming there seemed to be available back then.

If it turns up there, R25, you might enjoy "The Goldbergs." It was one of the first programs (starting in 1950, I believe) to move from radio to TV. For years and years, Gertrude Berg both wrote every episode and starred as Molly Goldberg. The style of humour is cozy and gentle, rather than LOL funny, but the topics were surprisingly prescient for the early 50s.

The YouTube link is the trailer for a documentary about the series. The complete documentary ("Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg," about 90 minutes) is also on YouTube.

Anyone remember RAGS TO RICHES???

"I Married Joan"!

Hope and Faith. Faith Ford really was one of the greatest and most under-rated stars of television of all time. Every scene she was in was glorious! A real jewel!!

I understand she was also a pleasure to be around. Much loved and adored! Odd how she has disappeared.

Does anybody reading this have any good stories about her????

(HRT, are you reading this? :):):) )

I liked. the episode when they parodied "Wife Swap."

The Powers That Be

Swans Crossing

The 5 Mrs. Buchanans

And yes, R32, I remember Rags to Riches

On Our Own with Bess Armstrong!

Murphy Brown was one of the most popular and critically praised shows of the 80s. It was everywhere in syndication for a short period, but seems to have completely disappeared.

Yet the highly superior show it emulated, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, is still shown and often discussed. I guess MB didn't age well. (and shocking that Candice Bergen won more Emmys than MTM for respective show).

Hi R31 - thanks for the rec. I did see The Goldbergs while exploring the classic channel. I only watched about 1 minute, only because there was no much other content to discover. I will go back and watch an episode.

I was surprised to see a show called Beulah, with a black actress as the lead; didn't know that POC had their own shows back then - I thought that Dianne Carroll was the first black female to star in her own show. I was hesitant about Beulah - I know the show is about a maid and I didn't want to see a POC in a subservient role and/or Uncle Tom-ing. I hung in for 5 minutes and it was a little cringe-y, but the positive part was that the family treated her pretty nicely.

Becker was fuckin' hysterical. The black nurse Margaret played the librarian on the Electric Company

Really R27? You think people have forgotten Small Wonder??

As for My Two Dads, I remember the opening theme sung by Greg Evigan. "You...can...count...on...me!"

I miss Homefront too! Kyle Chandler was gorgeous

R4 the show was That's Life. It starred Heather Paige Kent; she gave up acting soon after that and later became one of the Real Housewives. She was actually a very charismatic actress.

One season shows that I vaguely remember: Earth 2 and Space Above and Beyond.

OP? Please. This is Datalounge. There’s no such thing as a forgotten tv series.

Hank

[45] Hank is now on dvd, and the actual intro (the one on YouTube is from the pilot) is very different, really colorful and cute. Dick Kallman was a charmer.

R1 I get the feeling many picks to come in this thread will be long-lost ABC titles.

One of my favorites was 2004’s COMPLETE SAVAGES. Yeah, ok, it was sexist garbage (exec-produced by Mel Gibson, no less) but it was written by Julie Thacker (then, late of THE SIMPSONS) to be funny & dirty as all hell even by the standards of TGIF (the horny elder cousin to the Disney channel).

Among its cast were a college-aged Erik von Detten & Shaun Sipos playing a gorgeous stupid jock & a scheming fuckboy respectively, plus hot daddy Keith Carradine as the boys’ beleaguered Patriarch. The references & the costumes have dated horribly even in just 15 years, but the gags are still fresh and the concept still works. The episode ‘My Two Sons’ has a sharp Tran s joke you couldn’t get away with now.

It was the final new show to air on TGIF before the block was discontinued by ABC in September 2005. COMPLETE SAVAGES will never by syndicated as it only had 17 episodes, just like two dozen other TGIF sitcoms (the older Erik von Detten sitcom ODD MAN OUT springs to mind...).

Great news r29! I still catch Becker from time to time.

One Step Beyond. I think it was better than The Outer Limits.

R25 What's the name of the Roku channel with the old series? I might enjoy seeing some of those shows. Thanks.

I see that one of the old channels (like Antenna or MeTV) is going to bring back "Murphy Brown" in 2018 -- so we'll see if it holds up or if it is dated. I really liked it when it was on -- especially Miles Silverberg (Grant Shaud) who I'm surprised seems to have disappeared since that show. Also Jay Thomas, who died this year, was terrific on his guest spots and was made into more of a semi-regular on one point.

DECOY......

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

At one time there were religious anthology dramas. I can't remember the names but my cousin, a TV expert, mentioned one as a Catholic Twighlight Zone.

I remember another one of those shows had a story about a skinny nerdy teacher who was friends with the beefy he-man coach. The students thought the teacher was gay and harassed him to the point of saying he was in love with the coach, including an elaborate act of vandalism with strands of toilet paper and a sign saying "Mr Barnes loves the coach."

The coach then has a little talk with him and it turned the coach was the gay one. I don't remember how it ended.

R10- OMG! I remember Strange Paradise - that was like the Canadian version of Dark Shadows.

I'm surprised "Search" never lasted - originally it was called "Probe"- because it starred Hugh O'Brien. It had a sci-fi premise but it never caught on.

Also "Kaz" was a great show that didn't last - Ron Leibman got an Emmy for it but then it was cancelled. Linda Carlson was a pretty solid actress but I never saw her in anything after that.

Back in the day we would toke up to watch episodes of PBS' "The Joy of Painting." There was something about Bob Ross' voice that soothed us even more.

(PBS' "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood' was our favorite if we wanted to really giggle while enjoying said enhancement.)

Bob Ross is getting a revival -- a mention on the Goldbergs and his own ChiaPet

Date With the Angels......

Meet Corliss Archer..............

Veronica's Closet/Suddenly Susan

SKY KING..........

Baa Baa Black Sheep 1976-78

Murphy Brown

Caroline In The City.

For R49 - it's called Classic Television - Streaming. It has a red background with a white star.

Boston Common

Yes Dear

The Ellen sitcom that aired on CBS

Dusty's Trail which was basically Gilligan's Island moved to the west circa the 1800s.

[quote]At one time there were religious anthology dramas. I can't remember the names but my cousin, a TV expert, mentioned one as a Catholic Twighlight Zone.

I remember one called "Lamp unto My Feet," which sounded counterintuitive to me at the time (1950s).

I love you R29.

I remember that R32!

My sister Sam

Whiz Kids with Matthew laborteaux.

Hermans Head

Cop Rock

In search of...

That's incredible

Wizards And Warriors

Otherworld

Tales Of The Gold Monkey

It's A Living.

Rachel Gunn, R.N.

Funny Face

The Critic, animated by the Simpson's people...voiced by Jon Lovitz

Strange Paradise was indeed like Dark Shadows and I think George Jefferson, character of the Jefferson's, the lady who played his mom was on it.

Beauty and the Beast, an awesome show...Beah Richards a great under appreciated Black actress.

Murphy Brown is horribly dated, reruns were on a few years ago.

Whoopi and Jean Stapleton were on a comedy drama awhile back, forget the name.

Frank's Place, a great short lived sitcom that Oprah said was too good for network tv.

Northern Exposure

Duckman

Grace Under Fire

Mr. T and Tina

Murphy Brown is coming back to LA on Antenna TV.

How will the Bob Tsongas and Janet Reno jokes fare?

"Sisters"

*** BROADSIDE ***

Quantum Leap. I was in love with Scott Bakula..

[quote]Whoopi and Jean Stapleton were on a comedy drama awhile back, forget the name.

That was the sitcom version of Bagdad Cafe. great movie, horrible sitcom.

Whoops!

Flying Blind

Dr Quinn Medicine Woman

Judging Amy

The Division

From a Bird's Eye View with Millicent Martin and Pat Finley playing stews.

Third Watch

Making it

The Pruitts of Southampton

It's All Relative

R39. Beulah was originally a radio program.it was so popular that it was decided to make Beulah a television series

Beulah was played by Oscar winner, Hattie McDaniel.

R86 - you beat me by 20 minutes! That's the first sitcom I can recall watching.

I always wanted to be "Lady Penelope."

DINOSAURS......

R54- Isn't Bob Ross the painter that took over for William Alexander? Alexander's stuff was great - he used a house painter's brush and did a whole landscape in a half hour. It looks like Ross does the same thing.

Angie

The Hogan Family

It's a Living Three Sisters with Dyan Cannon and the dentist from The Bob Newhart Show

Newradio

Newsradio

Partners in Crime with Lynda and Loni.

Hotel

Just the Ten Of Us

Once and Again

R38 Murphy Brown has disappeared due to the greed of Motown. They released the first season on DVD, but it didn't sell well enough to pay for the music rights to release the remaining episodes on DVD, and it isn't on streaming services for the same reason. They can't just replace the music because of the tendency to have Murphy sing the songs.

Party Of Five

Felicity

Roswell

Dark Angel

Pasadena Central Park West Brothers and Sisters Undressed

Picket Fences Sisters I'll Fly Away

I loved Herman’s Head, and only watched Blind Justice to see Ron Eldard and Frank Grillo.

James at 15

Loved Partners in Crime and the great theme song. Idiotic NBC had something against somebody and buried it on Saturday nights when people who would have watched it were out on the town. Eileen Heckart was great.

I used to love Real People

Pepper Dennis

Lush Life had Lori Petty. I may have been one of the few people who watched this (Monday nights on Fox, after Melrose Place) because it was canceled after 4 episodes. But I liked it.

United States - a handful of episodes with Beau Bridges and Helen Shaver. A cerebral look at an American marriage.

American - United States. Married - united states

Get it?

I don't remember any plot lines, just that I knew it wouldn't last. Too introspective for network TV.

It's a Living

R76, I loved Northern Exposure. I remember watching the first episode, wondering what I had just watched. But, I was hooked and loved it until the end. BTW, I think the moose featured in the opening titles may, maybe, might just be a long-lost and sober relative of our very own Christmas Moose.

GCB. Thr title enraged those awful Million Moms cunts, and it barely lasted a season

The Pretender

I'll Fly Away

Remington Steele.

Linc’s.

Evening Shade.

Grace Under Fire.

Townies starring Molly Ringwald,Jenna Elfman and Lauren Graham.I know I watched every episode but I can't recall anything about it.Hooperman with John Ritter.This came on when I was a freshman in high school and I watched it faithfully.

There are a few episodes on youtube r117......

[quote]Beulah was originally a radio program.it was so popular that it was decided to make Beulah a television series Beulah was played by Oscar winner, Hattie McDaniel.

On the radio, Beulah was played by a white man, Marlin Hurt. And on TV she was played by both McDaniel and Louise Beavers.

DECADES Network has recently been featuring "Lost Television Shows," and "Beulah" was among them. The clueless DECADES host (and whoever wrote her material) babbled on about Beulah being played by Oscar winner Hattie McDaniel, all the while showing pictures of Louise Beavers. The episodes they broadcast also featured Beavers.

Great thread, OP. I loved Hope and Faith. It actually made Kelly Ripa tolerable. But the best thing about the show was when it made fun of soaps (from where Kelly's character came from). Susan Flannery, Susan Lucci and even Eric Braeden were all very funny in their appearances. And it's where Megan Fox started. She was really pretty before all the plastic surgeries.

Matt Houston with hunk Lee Horsley.

Models Inc., the spin-off of Melrose Place starring Linda Gray.

Nightingales with Suzanne Pleshette, and the longest credits ever.

When I was a kid in the 60's, Saturday mornings were filled with three hours of the best cartoons. Sunday morning....nothing except Davey and Goliath, a Christian "claymation" program. But we only had 7 channels, so we watched.

So many of the shows mentioned in these threads are iconic and still discussed today. Bewitched? The Outer Limits? Good lord.

“Turnabout” with John Schuck and Sharon Gless pre-Cagney and Lacey.

Mid season replacement in winter of 79. Died on the vine. Such an elaborate backstory, they needed a minute long animation to explain the fucking mess to the audience.

Andy Richter Controls The Universe

“Nancy” was a sitcom by Sheldon Leonard about the daughter of the president of the USA who meets a small town midwestern veterinarian and falls in love with him. Nancy was sort of a Julie Nixon type.

Celeste Holm was in it but the show was cancelled after one season. It was cute but not must-see tv as they’d later put it. It still had a very 60s feel to it.

Ironside. Loved the titles.

No one remembers Room 222 anymore but it had adorable Karen Valentine and that beautiful, melancholy theme music.

Anyone remember “13 Queens Blvd,” the millionth attempt to get Jerry Van Dyke a successful show? I loved Eileen Brennan so I watched it. But no one else did.

Most of us recall Room 222

Silk Stockings.. I think that was the name. Sort of a detective type show with crime solving and such. Had the dreamy(to me) Rob Estes... It was on late at night and I masturbated a lot to rob...

There was a show with David spade in it at some sort of fashion magazine place. The dad had a daughter working for him also. I think Wendy Malik was in it too..

Bewitched is iconic but do you remember Tabatha?

[quote]Most of us recall Room 222

I do. It's from a time when I never watched TV, but I was, and remain, aware of its existence.

[quote] There was a show with David Spade in it at some sort of fashion magazine place. The dad had a daughter working for him also. I think Wendy Malik was in it too..

R135 that was JUST SHOOT ME! It ran 2000-01 but it feels like it aired a lifetime ago. The ratings were awful and it wasn’t popular but I for one loved it, even if only for Spade’s killer sarcasm. At times it felt like WILL & GRACE with more zing & bite.

Just shoot me was only on for 2 years? Laura San Giacomo's charadter was the weakest link

R135, silk stalkings?

[quote]Just shoot me was only on for 2 years?

It only [bold]seemed[/bold] like 2 decades.

2009’s KINGS from NBC should have been a barnstormer but got buried by flimsy promo & weak scheduling, rendering it a forgotten cult hit. Somehow NBC went wrong with a high-concept, epic version of THE MONARCHS featuring such lights as Brian Cox, Ian McShane, Eamonn Walker, and the divine Susanna Thompson as the bloodthirsty Queen Rose (!) Benjamin. It had everything you’d want in a drama and more.

It’s a surprise KINGS was’t bigger with gay audiences or the DL even if it didn’t take with civilians, being as it featured the talents of heartthrob Chris Egan in the lead role as the future King David. with Bway stalwart Michael Arden & lesbian-icon Leslie Bibb in supporting roles. The pilot featured a devastating coming-out scene from a gay Prince character played by Sebastian Stan, which looked a little a too real and hit very close to home.

[quote] [R135] that was JUST SHOOT ME! It ran 2000-01 but it feels like it aired a lifetime ago. The ratings were awful and it wasn’t popular but I for one loved it, even if only for Spade’s killer sarcasm. At times it felt like WILL & GRACE with more zing & bite.

Ummm, Just Shoot Me ran for 6 seasons and was clearly a large enough hit to have lasted that long back when NBC actually had some Must See TV.

Babes

Mr. President

Marblehead Manor

The Powers That Be

Parker Lewis Can't Lose

Roc

Flying Blind

Pretty much all the Fox sitcoms

The sad thing about "Just Shoot Me" was that it had clearly been conceived as a vehicle for Laura San Giacomo, who was outshone by pretty much everybody else in the main cast.

The one that is truly forgotten by now is "Ned and Stacey", with Thomas Haden Church and the DL favorite Deb Messing.

Speaking of forgotten Fox comedies, anyone remember “Flying Blind” with Tea Leoni?

Or “The Naked Truth” with Tea Leoni?

I’d forgotten how absolutely filthy the humor was on this show. Even the opening minutes. Especially for network TV.

Going back to the 70's ..."Hot L Baltimore".

Re: Hot L Baltimore -

I still remember Conchetta Farrell as the fat prostitute giving the speech about how "You can't make me feel any worse about myself than I've already done over the years."

Like the "idential" hotel in DC during the same era, R147.

I'll watch anything with Ted McGinley, so yes.

Unfortunately, he has serious fuck you money and doesn't work much now.

The Powers of Matthew Star

“The adventures of high-school student Matthew Star, who is actually a superpowered alien prince from another world.”

I had a big crush on Peter Barton, great hair and beautiful eyes!

r 151 = Cricket Blair

Early Edition with DL fave Kyle Chandler

"That's Life!" with Robert Morse and E. J. Peaker.

She played the same role in Wilson's play r148.

Fired Up - In the Mission Impossible homage they did, Sharon Lawrence WAS Cinnamon Bain!

WHET to Sharon Lawrence?

She did an arc on Rizzoli and Isles r156.

Most eldergays remember Room 222 but it hasn’t moved forward in cultural consciousness, mostly because it didn’t really go into syndication, so it’s not an old show younger people are aware of, like bewitched or leave it to beaver.

My Mother the Car

It's About Time

"The Naked City" was a superbly written and acted series filmed in NY. Sadly, very, very few episodes are available on DVD. The weekly guest stars is a Who's Who of notable names.

"Men in Trees" - 2006 to 2008 (ABC)

Starring "Celestia," I mean Anne Heche, who'd left her first husband, Coley Laffoon, for her "Men in Trees" costar, hunky James Tupper. ("Celestia," I mean, Anne, had also left Ellen for her first husband, Coley Laffoon, who had basically backed up his pickup truck to her bank account to collect allimony.)

"Murder One"

Really, r161? That surprises me. Definitely set the stage for the Law & Order franchise. Those NYC streets just cannot be faked.

Alright Already, which was a sitcom written by and starring Carol Liefer on either WB or UPN when those network's first started airing. I remember one episode where Carol rents a porno, gets it stuck in her VCR, and then her parents want to borrow the VCR to watch something. Classic dumb sitcom storyline, but the performances were funny.

I found a clip on YouTube, but it's not the funnier parts of that episode.

My Sister Sam

This one was so awful it deserves to be forgotten.

The Montefuscos

"Duet" On Fox. Starred the then-hunky Matthew Laurance, Mary Page Keller, and Allison La Placa. When it failed to catch on, it was revamped as "Open House." This time La Placa was the star and Keller was a supporting player.

[quote]When it failed to catch on, it was revamped as "Open House." This time La Placa was the star and Keller was a supporting player.

I'm sorry, *who* was the star?

Veronica's Closet with Kirstie Alley, Kathy Najimy, Dan Cortese and Wallace Langham. Love that show. So funny. 1997-2000

The Powers That Be with John Forsythe, Holland Taylor, Davod Hyde-Pierce, Valerie Mahafey. Funniest goddamn show going. Gone too soon. 1992-93.

Duet had the first hipster--a wanna be writer with a dog and a fedora. His love interest was caterer Mary Page Keller, and his friends were the guy who was married to La Place.

For some reason, they made Mary Ann alcoholic during the season break and moved the action to Allison's real estate office, where her man crazy assistant was played by Ellen.

Greg the Bunny

Son of Zorn

He might have been a pedo back then.

My sister and I loved the very short lived Nearly Departed.

FX's "The Riches"

Eddie Izzard, Minnie Driver, and Noel Fisher were superb in this short-lived television series (2006 -2008). Along with many other well-written and well-acted television shows at the time (cable and network), it, too, was a casualty of the then Hollywood writers' strike.

Picket Fences. Love the theme.,

r173 Yes! I loved Open House and I remember the *very special moment* when what's-her-name says how she has her address tattooed on her from when she was an alcoholic and would blackout drink and forget where she lived I guess. It made no sense then, it makes no sense now.

Come-onna-my House with Miss Helen Lawson. This was a variety hour that wasn't really all that bad. La Lawson was a great hostess and under control. Until the show that had the winners of Super Bowl I on in 1967. Helen went a little ga-ga over the tight end, and the show was cancelled.

ABC's "Dirty Sexy Money"

Trashy fun at its BEST!

A wholesome story about the richest family in the world, the Darling family. Starring Donald Sutherland, Jill Clayburgh, Natalie Zea, Peter Krause, Blair Underwood, Lucy Liu, Billy Baldwin -

our house!

BLADE: THE SERIES followed in the continuity of the Blade films and surpassed all of them in originality & appeal. The series was short-lived, airing June to September 2006 for just 12 episodes, but what Blade fans got to see was a treat. Unlike other ‘continuation series’ this one tied up every loose end from the movies in smart unexpected ways, even retconning & fixing that ‘Day Star’ issue from BLADE III..

To replace Wesley Snipes, Kirk Jones aka rapper Sticky Fingaz stepped in and brought attitude, swagger & energy the Blade role. The series notably opened on a curb stomp brawl between Blade....and a vampire with a fireaxe. We get Blade’s entire backstory in this series, exploring his gang-past (the Bad Bloods) and even meeting his father..

The series topically & controversially followed a female Ir aq veteran named Krista as she tried to eke out a living after discharge and subsequently learned about the gory vampire Underworld her brother was involved in (and eventually killed by), which Blade is trying to bring down.

There was also a subplot with an AIDS-subtext concerning the ‘Aurora Project’, supposed to be a cure for inherent vampire weaknesses like photosensitivity. In fact, the ‘cure’ is bogus and the villainous vampire CEO who created it is selling it to fund his own project, to design a virus to infect & kill ‘pureblood’ (i.e full) vampires.

It ended early and on a cliffhanger, unbelievably. It was so fresh & so cool, surely deserving more than half a season.

Dirty Sexy Money should've been great, based on the cast and the premise. In reality, it was like some Midwestern frau's fantasy of how the super wealthy Manhattanites live, i.e. not all that good or campy.

Spencer, starring Chad Lowe.

My friend and I were probably the only two people in the country who watched it.

After they cancelled it NBC tried to revive it without Chad Lowe and it made no sense at all.

i had a huge crush on stephanie beacham on the colby's. i always thought she was so beautiful. remember sister kate?

R185: That was the same year as [italic]It's Your Move[/italic] with Jason Bateman and David Garrison.

Untamed World!

oops Untamed World.

the powers of matthew star

Open House

V

the lead guy always had a yummy crotch!

High Society

...before the golden girls the creators did I'm a big girl now

9 to 5

r187 All the eps are on youtube, the sound sucks but it's still great! I loved that show so much with Y&R's Tricia Cast and the Dregs of Humanity! Classic Bateman, the o.g Ferris Bueller.

Forever with Ioan Gruffud and Judd Hirsch. It ended far too quickly. Also Stargate : Universe, Alcatraz and Limitless.

square pegs

TVO's What Will They Think of Next with Joseph Campanella and the incomparable Tiiu Leek!

head of the class (a pre golddigging robin givens)

r200 Givens is not the villain of that cast, more like pre child molesting, fat fuck ,Schneider.

Everybody remembers Leslie Nielsen as Det. Frank Drebin in Police Squad, but few recall Lee Marvin as Detective Frank Ballinger in M Squad.

R197, you can watch Ioan Gruffudd in Forever on the CW app.

R161, The entire series of Naked City has been released.

The first season is a bit shakey but after that, it really is wonderful. But the second season changed the format from half-hour to hour, and rejiggered the cast.

It was shot in a soundstage that in now the big theater at La Mama, and a lot of locations around the city, but especially downtown.

The scripts are strong, the acting is great. Even the relationships are more recognizably real than most film and TV of that era.

And you get to see familiar New York City streets from the 60s.

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town with Monte Markham. I think Monte was on a number of series that flopped, but he was very cute -- he's otherwise known here as Blanche's gay brother on "Golden Girls".

Thank GOD nobody has mentioned SITC!

Life Goes On!

[quote] All the must see tv shows that NBC put on before or after cheers to make hits on Thursday nights

Despite being worshiped in the industry almost from day one, [italic]Cheers[/italic] didn't get good ratings until after [italic]Cosby[/italic] premiered.

Good Grief with Howie Mandel about a loser who runs a funeral home.

[quote]Mayor [italic]may not[/italic] be cremated.

That joke still make sme laugh today

The Duck Factory

Working Stiffs

Both shows starring actors that would become huge stars.

Ace Crawford: Private Eye

Blacke's Magic

Breaking Away

Gung Ho

The Nutt House

All shows starring massively popular actors that bombed within the first season.

She's The Sheriff

Pre Silver Spoons Joel Higgens in Best Of The West, which was actually a pretty fun show.

Doctor, Doctor. A short-lived 1989 CBS series where Matt Frewer played a doctor and had a gay brother played by an actor named Tony Carreiro.

R214 I remember that one! do you remember Matt Frewer in Shaky Ground, yet another failed Fox sitcom?

No, I don't remember that one, R215.

"Models, Inc."!

Starring The Lovely and Talented Linda Gray, formerly "Dallas'" Sue Ellen.

"Too Something" yet ANOTHER failed Fox sitcom which was renamed New York Daze. The first show about hipsters.

I remember that because there were a lot of flop sitcoms between [italic]The Simpsons[/italic] and [italic]Married With Children[/italic] before [italic]King of the Hill[/italic] premiered, and even when [italic]The Simpsons[/italic] were on Thursday night most of the shows after it flopped except for [italic]Martin[/italic].

Bosom Buddies.

That's not completely forgotten, R220, that still gets shown in reruns occasionally and got released on DVD.

I don't recall the last time I saw it in syndication, maybe 2001-2?

Dave's World.

I'm aware it's on DVD, but I can't remember the last time [italic]Punky Brewster[/italic] has been in actual TV reruns.

THE QUEST with Tim Mathison and Kurt Russell

TIME OF YOUR LIFE with Jennifer Love Hewitt

YOUNG AMERICANS with Kate Bosworth and Charlie Hunnam

GROSSE POINTE a 90210 roman a clef

That 80s Show

I remember That 80s Show because I had a huge crush on Glenn Howerton, who I didn't realize until recently has been on Always Sunny in Philadelphia for years!

How many cable/streaming shows of the last 20 years will be remembered in the future?

Get Real with AnnE Hathaway and Jesse Eisenberg

Get A life. Great first season so-so second season. Hard to find the complete series on DVD but worth the trouble.

Parker Lewis Can't Lose was another early 1990s Fox show that started good but petered out after three years.

R231 I have the first two seasons on DVD and the third is available but I haven't sought it out. Even though it has John Pinette in it, the third season was like a sitcom 90210 and was terrible.

DO OVER with a teenaged Penn Badgley

WASTELAND with DL faves Adam Scott, Rebecca Gayheart and Sasha Alexander

Yeah, they really fucked it up in the last season by shortening the title and doing god only knows what to the characters. Somehow the edge and charm of the first two seasons evaporated and it became just another show about angsty rich white kids in cool clothes. It became everything it set out to make fun of.

I would agree. The Powers That Be was so Funny. Partners in Crime. Come on WW. Also loved Pepper Dennis.

[quote] I would agree. The Powers That Be was so Funny

Renewing that show would have been the TV equivalent of preventing the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand.

R234 when he lost the pompadour I knew we were in trouble.

"Better Off Ted." Which is a real shame since it was a really good, smart sitcom during its short run.

Who knew a haircut could destroy a whole show?

I hated that Parker Lewis dropped Lemmer and made Principal Musso friendly in the third season.

Action with Jay Mohr

Superstar USA which was an American Idol spoof. It was to choose the worst singer in America... only the contestants were not aware of it. It was hilarious.

[quote] I hated that Parker Lewis dropped Lemmer and made Principal Musso friendly in the third season.

So much of the show revolved around that conflict, without it there was nothing left underpinning the show except routine boy/girl love stories and stock sitcom plots.

Is there already a DL thread about this show?

Not about PLCL R242, but one about Corin Nemec. And I will sheepishly admit I started it.

That's My Bush

TV Funhouse

Bette

Numbers

Theme song was the only good part of the show. I used to sing along to it while my family looked on horrified.

They were horrified because you probably sang it better than Scott Baio ever could, but never got anything to show for it, R248.

Wiseguy

I loved Better Off Ted r238. Excellent writing, great actors, I have no idea why it was cancelled so soon. It really was original.

[quote] I loved Better Off Ted [R238]. Excellent writing, great actors, I have no idea why it was cancelled so soon.

Part of the reason is Obama. Repeatedly he would make White House addresses and seemed to always pick the Better Off Ted timeslot killing the night's viewership..

The show even addressed that.

“Fat Actress” on Showtime starring Kirstie Alley.

Meh, not into reality shows R253.

Circle of Fear

"Millennium." I always preferred it to "The X-Files" being far more sinister, better acted, and less puerile. Arguably, you can only stretch a show based on that premise for so long but I rewatched it a couple of years ago and it held up really well.

China Beach

Spitting Image

I was wrong about the spelling of Silk Stalkings...

Thanks for refreshing my memory r250, Ken Wahl was so dreamy.. Can't find any recent photos of him online..

Another forgotten show, Dear John

R183 Jill Wagner was the best thing about that show. I heard it was cancelled because Spike TV didn't like that it had a mostly female audience.

Life Goes On

Third Watch

24

Ted McGinley is the one outstanding thing I remember about Hope & Faith.

Profit with Adrian Pasadar, playing an executive at a multinational conglomerate who slept inside a box

So are we not just going to mention Baby Talk?

She Spies, That's My Bush! Oh and Halfway Home.

SheTV

Hack, with David Morse.

Midnight Caller, with Gary Cole.

Savannah

Adrian Pasdar must be the kiss of death r262 because he was also in Mysterious Ways which was an entertaining bit of hokum about a paranormal investigator.

I hated LIFE GOES ON

Heroes

"Emily's Reasons Why Not"

I win.

Amazing Stories

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous

Eerie Indiana

Jay Mohr, then hot, got a gay blowjob, in Action.

Temperature's Rising - with Cleavon Little -- though it kept getting retooled and re-cast -- probably 3 different versions of it

The Governor and J.J. - with Dan Dailey

Mayberry RDF - spinoff to Andy Griffith Show w/ Ken Berry

Bracken's World - with DL fave Eleanor Parker

Max Headroom - very hyped, gimmicky show, not very good

Arnie - w/ Herschel Bernardi and Sue Ane Langdon

Doc - w/ Barnard Hughes

Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers

Seaquest DSV

Mayberry RFD, that is

Kate McShane

St. Elsewhere

I loved Life Goes On.

Celebrity fit club

Celebrity rehab

Surreal Life

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Aaron's Way

The Royal Family

Alex Mack

LOL R125, Nightingales did have an endless theme song.

Models Inc. Starring the most beautiful women in the world.... and Linda Gray.

R282 THE SURREAL LIFE was one of the only truly funny ‘celebrity’ reality shows.

It’s been 16 years and I’m still chuckling about the Vince Neil/Corey Feldman feud, and Feldman getting fake-married on the show to his Playboy girlfriend with the nuptials officiated by MC Hammer.

Trivia: SNL alum Bill Hader was one of the MTV production assistants on this show.

[quote]"Millennium." I always preferred it to "The X-Files" being far more sinister, better acted, and less puerile.

It was more sinister anyway. The show was utterly nonsensical. It made the X Files seem tightly structured by comparison.

I really wanted to like Millenium. I like sinister as well but the show couldn’t really commit to that and ended up being Kmart sinister. Commercial TV doesn’t really allow you to go all the way.

Lance Henriksen can be very good in the right role and this one was perfect for him, but the storytelling was too chaotic so I stopped watching after the first season.

"Turn-On" with Tim Conway. Cancelled after one episode.

"No Soap, Radio" with Steve Guttenberg

Apple's Way

Brothers - the Showtime comedy series with an openly gay character.

Get Christie Love

Some of mine were already chosen: Square Pegs and Best of the West.

Thirtysomething. The show was so hot, then the cast fell off the face of the earth.

Starved. From 2005 by Eric Schaefer.

Pink Lady and Jeff. Hit singing duo from Japan AND Jeff Altman together in what NBC thought would be a smash variety show.

The Joe Schmo Show - aired on the Spike cable network and featured a reality game show which was known to be fake to everyone except the lead. The challenges, characters and interactions were so crazy but "Joe" bought into it, believing it was all real and making for good television. One of the other "contestants" was a pre-SNL Kristen Wig.

There was a 9 to 5 sitcom that ran for 5 years in the middle of the 80s? I don't remember that at all.

God I hate Feldman with a passion. And he married a "fan" sure...sure he has fans.

r294 Yes! I loved that show too and the second season with Lorenzo Lamas. But Wiig wasn't a contestant, she played a psychiatrist I think.

Action with Jay Mohr was an excellent peek inside beyond the scenes Hollywood. Jay was cute then with a hot body.

Misfits of Science with Courteney Cox and Dean Paul Martin

Sledge Hammer

Book of Daniel with Aidan Quinn. Very controversial. Nothing Sacred was along the same lines.

Loved Book of Daniel and Nothing Sacred. Have the first on dvd, just watched the second on youtube.

r276 - I remember that I watched Arnie, but I don't remember anything specific about it except.......

on one episode they sang Hap-Hap-Happy Birthday (or something like that) and it was really funny.

Yeah, Sledge Hammer was a fun show. I have the DVDs and still enjoy them today.

What's Happening and What's Happening Now

It may have been mentioned by now but I didn’t see it. The Invaders.

War Of The Worlds. Great first season terrible second season.

[italic]Shirley's World,[/italic] Shirley MacLaine's one and only sitcom

^ Whoops, that's the TV adaptation of [italic]Adam's Rib[/italic] with Ken Howard and Blythe Danner. Here's [italic]Shirley's World.[/italic]

Shirley's World wasn't a sitcom r305......

The Ugliest Girl In Town.... Unfortunately, the theme song probably lives on with anyone who saw it.

Out of this World with DL fave Donna Pescow and Steve Burton

Oh...my...gawd r308....

GRAND, an NBC sitcom about a town that made pianos. One of my all-time favorite theme songs.

[quote]Does anyone remember Kids, Incorporated? —Martika

I vaguely remember a show by that name. Assuming you remember it at all, do you remember they brought back [italic]Charles in Charge[/italic] without me three years after CBS dumped it?

Speaking of whoops, Whoops was also a Fox sitcom about the end of the world back in early 90s.

Somebody mentioned music rights earlier - I've been watching Ugly Betty on Hulu (a show that's getting-to-forgotten) and I had forgot how integral music was to that show. It must have cost a fortune to clear that. There's an episode with tons of Madonna music, Timberlake is used, lots of EDM, Lady Gaga, Cyndi Lauper...

How about The Famous Teddy Z? Jon Cryer and Alex "Moe Greene" Rocco.

Goodtime Girls

Private Benjamin

Julia

Mannix

White Shadow

Cannon

Kojak

BJ and the Bear

My Two Dads

The Colbys

Cannon

Jake and the Fatman

The Edison Twins

No way this would be aired on ABC or any other network. I saw this at early age and remembered some of the scenes for a long time. I watched this last summer.

^^I watched this again after many years last summer.

Harry & The FUCKING Hendersons.

Star Man

Manimal

The Man from Atlantis

It Had to Be You

[quote]R38 Murphy Brown has disappeared due to the greed of Motown. They released the first season on DVD, but it didn't sell well enough to pay for the music rights to release the remaining episodes on DVD, and it isn't on streaming services for the same reason. They can't just replace the music because of the tendency to have Murphy sing the songs.

There is no Motown anymore to speak of. It's just an imprint of Universal Music Group trading on long-past glories.

Almost Perfect

Steampipe Alley starring Mario Cantone.

It ran on WWOR, a New Jersey station, from 1988 to 1993. I could watch it because the station was on our cable system.

R328: I never heard of that show since we only got WGN at home in North Carolina, but I look at this and now I understand how Mario Cantone became popular in the first place.

Seriously, it's like if DL created a kids' show. I can't get enough.

[italic]Flying High,[/italic] a dramedy about three sexy stewardesses (Kathryn Witt, Pat Klous, and Connie Sellecca)

I have to confess that I watched Steampipe Alley because I had a crush on Mario Cantone.

[italic]The American Girls,[/italic] starring Priscilla Barnes and Debra Clinger as two reporters for a [italic]60 Minutes[/italic]–style newsmagazine. It lasted for six episodes in 1978.

Debra Clinger went from that to the don't-call-me-a-Disney-movie-Disney-movie [italic]Midnight Madness[/italic] then disappeared off the radar completely.

Before Debra Clinger did primetime TV, she was on [italic]The Krofft Supershow,[/italic] which also brought us [italic]Electra Woman and Dyna Girl,[/italic] starring Miss Dee Dee Halls.

The 1970s were truly like another planet, especially Los Angeles.

flamingo road

R47 Erik Von Detten's character Andrew in 'Odd Man Out' sounded like a DLer more than a straight teen playboy.

I've never forgotten the opening scene of the pilot with Andrew yelling at his mother, aunt & sisters interrupting his tv-viewing, "take your little travelling Lilith Fair and move on". He then eagerly agrees to watch Michelle Kwan skate.

Oh, and I forgot "Estrogen cult", another DL-worthy zinger out of Eric's pretty mouth from that episode.

Here Come the Brides starred Bobby Sherman, Robert Brown and David Soul as the Bolt brothers in newly settled Seattle, which featured Joan Blondell in the "Miss Kitty" type role, Bridget Hanley and also Mark Lenard as the heavy. The premise of the show was that Seattle had too many lumberjacks and not enough women so they imported a bunch of single women from New Bedford, Massachusetts to be potential brides for the horny Lumberjacks. Hilarity ensues.

For those of us who grew up in Chicago in the 1970s:

Garfield Goose and Friends

Ray Rayner and His Freinds

The BJ and Dirty Dragon Show

Gigglesnort Hotel

Failed spinoffs of hit shows:

Grady

Gloria

Flo

The Ropers

AfterMASH

The Tortellis

704 Hauser

Checking In

And then there's [italic]Hello, Larry[/italic], which they tried to turn into a spin-off after the fact by glomming it onto [italic]Diff'rent Strokes[/italic]. It didn't work.

The beautiful Phyllis filler show. Bean and Cecil. The Fag Hour.

Hotel

[italic]Gunsmoke[/italic] also had a spinoff called [italic]Dirty Sally,[/italic] starring Jeanette Nolan and hunky young Dack Rambo as a gunfighter she nursed back to health after he got shot.

Boston Public

Combat! and Rat Patrol, both set in WWII.

Partners in Crime starring Lonnie Anderson & Lynda Carter.

Any Day Now on Lifetime starred Annie Potts and Lorraine Toussaint as two friends living in the South. I really enjoyed this show.

And the black version of WWII, "Roll Out," with Stu Gilliam, Hilly Hicks, a pre-SNL Garrett Morris, and token (very) white boy, Ed Begley Jr.

"The Anna Nicole Holiday Special"!

Cousin Shelly is my spirit animal!

Cutter to Houston starring Shelley Hack.

Loved Partners in Crime and Boston public. Boston had an excellent cast and some of the best black actors around.

Mighty Isis

"A Year in the Life"

The Letter People

Crime Story

Pop-Up

Don't forget the old Biddie r340!

Everwood

MTV's Undressed

The Trouble With Tracy

Spin City

Cant let a mention of A Year in the Life (best show ever!) go by without linking the amazingly awesome theme.

Viva Laughlin

Cop Rock

American Gothic with DL fave Sarah Paulson, pre plastic surgery.

Gary Cole is hot as fuck (yes, I do have daddy issues), and I wish a good showrunner would write him a decent major role.

I also loved Action, Jay Mohr was great in it. I'm sure a lot of the inside baseball went over my head, but I loved the dialogue. Mohr, to his upbeat assistant: Don't pound sunshine up my ass, Stuart!

Shazam and Isis (Saturday mornings on CBS)

Once & Again

Fame (it's only popped up in syndication here and there over the years)

Benson (coming this fall to Antenna TV)

Alice (coming this fall to Antenna TV)

Logan's Run

Fantastic Journey

Amanda's By the Sea

Kate & Allie (as mentioned above)

Jessie (starred Lindsay Wagner)

The Fall Guy

Night stalker. Scared the hell out of me when I was little. I would "sneak watch" it on Saturday nights. Still holds up creep factor today. I binged it on Netflix years ago.

Makin' It, with David Naughton who also sang the theme song (and had a hit with it)

240-Robert, with a young Mark Harmon and John Bennett Perry (Matthew's father)

Matt Houston, with Lee Horsley

Popular

Don't remind me r371!

Beastmaster with Marc Singer.

I'm getting mixed up. Marc Singer did the movies, not the series.

Yes, R39. They only beat her on Thursdays.

Boston Legal

Judging Amy

T.H.E. Cat

Flamingo Road

Loved Flamingo Road, R379. Lots of hairy chest shots with Mark Harmon and Fernando Allende.

Many of the cast members from "ThirtySomething" went on to produce and direct many television programs and movies, and are still actively involved in that aspect.

NBC Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly

Sisters with Sela Ward and Swoozie Kurtz, and Julianne (the former Mrs. Springsteen.)

Some of these shows are hardly forgotten. They don't just have the compulsive rewatchability factor of the longest-lasting shows like [italic]I Love Lucy, MTM,[/italic] or [italic]Golden Girls[/italic], or the early/peak years of Disney, Looney Tunes, and [italic]The Simpsons[/italic].

Great Scott! with a pre fame Tobey Maguire.

The Bronx Zoo which gave this gayling his first introduction to a gay character.

Thunder Alley a sitcom with Ed Asner.

W*A*L*T*E*R

The New People - years before there was "Lost" there was a program about a group of young people crash landed on a deserted island and most of the world thinks they'd been lost somewhere over the Pacific.

Dr. Shrinker

Wonderbug

Kids Are People, Too

Hearts Affire

If we're talking about something that was considered relatively successful and, yet, nobody has mentioned it in years: Dharma and Greg.

Hearts Afire -- the Clinton backed show that wouldn't die.

“Evening Shade”.

The Rerun Show. A sketch show that reenacted classic sitcom scenes. Very funny but short lived. Paul Vogt's Mrs. Garrett was brilliant.

Trapper John, M.D.

Never heard of it, R395.

Too bad 4 U, r396........it tarred a very young, very hot Gregory Harrison!

^^^ ....OOOPS, starred, not tarred. Must have been distracted by my thoughts.....

Strangers With Candy

R396, just because a show may be sitting on a shelf in a video store somewhere doesn't mean it's not forgotten by the majority of the public, especially if it hasn't been shown with any regularity in syndication over the past 30 years. (I'd wager several shows mentioned in this thread may live on video out there somewhere.)

Jack & Bobby.

The Nanny from down under sitcom 'Live-In'. Astoundingly, the creepy voyeurism peephole scene must have seemed innocent back in 1989 as this aired at 8.00pm.

Is that Greg Brady singing the theme song r402? Wtf? I have never heard of this show, well done.

Imaginary Mary

Doubt

Down to Earth

You're a fraud, r400.

You are NOT R395.

I AM !

[Bold] AND I'M HAVING MURIEL LEVEL FORGERY CHARGES AGAINST YOU ! ! !

Unhappily Ever After.

The Dome

Outsourced. I think I was the only person who watched it. I loved Gupta.

I forgot one. Alright Already. I wish that was on DVD or streaming somewhere.

Got you covered, R410. See R165. I wish they had full episodes, but am grateful for the several excerpts someone has made available on YouTube.

Voyagers!

Misfits of Science starring the handsome Dean Paul Martin, pre-Alf Max Wright, and a pre-Friends Courtney Cox.

Yes, R408, and that's a good thing.

The Two of Us - Mimi Kennedy as a harried single mother who hires Peter Cook, as an English butler, to take care of her household. Also starred Dana Hill as Kennedy's young daughter.

Holy shit, R3. Out of morbid cujriousity, I started watching that clip. And for the record, I'm just old enough where that was on the air when I was 5 or 6 years old.

Insufferable. Incredibly unfunny, precious, unpleasant, and frankly, pretty misogynistic, even for its time period.

No wonder it didn't last.

r416 It won the Emmy for Best Comedy series.

Moesha

100 Deeds For Eddie McDowd

Daria

Family

Loved that show.

Love, Sidney

R420: NBC cancelled that and passed on Paramount's gay-themed [italic]Brothers[/italic], which went to Showtime and ran five seasons, for [italic]Mr. Smith[/italic], a show about a talking orangutan.

Lancelot Link

R421 orangutans were HUGE in the early 80s!

R407 I’m still not over a then-19 year old Nikki Cox banging then marrying Bobcat Goldthwaite of all people on the UNHAPPILY shoot. Before that she was bearding for that little creep Kevin Connolly.

To put the cap on the nasty misogyny, they kept repeating pushing aside the Mom character (meant to be the protagonist) and killing her off repeatedly a la Kenny on SOUTH PARK, to instead focus on the schizo Dad character and his chilling fixation on his teen daughter’s body/sexlife.

Justin Berfield was on that show, poor kid.

[quote] I’m still not over a then-19 year old Nikki Cox banging then marrying Bobcat Goldthwaite of all people on the UNHAPPILY shoot. Before that she was bearding for that little creep Kevin Connolly.

I remember when Nikki was on Vegas a few years later, there were already signs that she was getting bad, unnecessary plastic surgery at a young. Her face had some joker like qualities by the time that show ended. Too bad, because she was attractive and probably could have had a little better of a career.

Unhappily had more of a meanness and nastiness that made them much more unlikable than the Bundy's that there were copying. I vaguely remember them killing the Mother off and having her haunt them as a ghost in the second season.

r424 didn't she end up with Jay Mohr, and they recently divorced?

[quote]The Rerun Show. A sketch show that reenacted classic sitcom scenes. Very funny but short lived. Paul Vogt's Mrs. Garrett was brilliant.

I remember that one. If it had lasted a few scenes they would have had plenty of material to reenact. I thought about the Rerun Show recently when I started listening to the Raised by TV podcast hosted by Lauren Lapkus and Jon Gabrus. They have a segment on the podcast where they and sometimes guests do cold reads of very special episode scenes from past TV shows.

[quote]Sisters with Sela Ward and Swoozie Kurtz, and Julianne (the former Mrs. Springsteen.)

I bought the Sisters DVDs last summer and have watched seasons 1-3 so far. It had great storylines and acting in the early seasons.

I used to think Swoozie and Goldie Hawn were sisters, does anyone else think they look alike?

Sierra

Mr. T and Tina, with Pat Morita as Mr. T.

The Feather and Father Gang, with Harold Gould and Stefanie Powers

Various failed talk shows: Chevy Chase, Magic Johnson, Wayne Brady, Bonnie Hunt, Megan Mullally, Queen Latifah, et. al.

[quote]Various failed talk shows: Chevy Chase, Magic Johnson, Wayne Brady, Bonnie Hunt, Megan Mullally, Queen Latifah, et. al.

Tempestt Bledsoe was another person who had a failed talk show.

r424 I know Goldthwait is hideous to look at, but he's absolutely hilarious and doesn't seem to be as much of a bro asshole as a lot of other writer/directors. Slight aside, he's a great podcast guest. If he's ever on one, especially a comedian's, it's worth a listen.

"She's the Sheriff" with Suzanne Somers

"Saved by the Bell- The College Years"

"He and She" with Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss

"Mr. Novak" with James Franciscus and Dean Jagger

Who thought it would be a good idea to give fucking Vanessa from The Cosby Show her own talk show?

I remember The Rerun Show. Should have been great. How could they fuck that up? They really did.

Loved Dharma & Greg, but it's seriously been forgotten. A lot of successful ABC sitcoms from that time are buried, like Spin City and Drew Carey.

Anybody else remember Less Than Perfect?

Big Wolf On Campus

Brit horror anthology Journey to the Unknown, some excellent episodes.

The Defenders, with E.G. Marshall and a pre-Brady Bunch Robert Reed.

Hot Hero Sandwich. An SNL-type variety show for young Gen Xers.

In Search Of... with Leonard Nimoy. Scared the shit out of me as a kid.

Comedy Central had a knack for killing off its best shows. “The Critic,” “TV Funhouse,” and “Strangers With Candy” have already been mentioned, I would add to that list “Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist.” Dr. Katz’s “patients”were standup comedians like Steven Wright, Ray Romano, and Dave Chappelle.

Don't forget me R432!

STUDS on Fox.

Hope and Faith was created by Joanna Johnson (Caroline on Bold and Beautiful) who now executive produces and co-created the Fosters. She got the idea from a friend of hers who was from Ohio who worked in Soaps then left LA to live in his mom's basement after a career crash mixed with her own experiences of leaving a soap. It was part of the ABC friday night line up of sit coms and did quite well.

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER left a legacy, but 20 years on is starting to fade imo. ANGEL suffers from this more extremely, in 2017/8 it’s almost like it never existed.

Young teens now have rarely heard of either, and don’t recognise the characters.

[quote]I remember The Rerun Show. Should have been great. How could they fuck that up? They really did.

Did the critics like it? I know the ratings dropped pretty quickly on it.

The Cape, an MTM 96-97 drama series about the space program. Only ran 21 eps, can’t find it on DVD.

Or me, R432!

Chicago Story

The Commish

Spencer: For Hire

r450 I's Spenser, with an S.

The Equalizer

Gidgit - Sally Field was the first actress that I saw on tv that really cried and didn't fake it.

Pacific Palisades

Santa Barbara

Passions

R452 Good show but scary opening

R456 over xmas I picked up a used DVD set of the shows and it does hold up well. Watching it as a kid I loved the opening and loved the idea of a vigilante righting wrongs.

Opening

I don't know if I'd call The Equalizer forgotten. It got a decent syndication run, all four seasons released on DVD and also available on amazon, iTunes, ect, and had movies based on it released starring Denzel Washington.

Hardcastle & McCormick

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, with Hope Lange and Edward Mulhare

Longstreet, with James Franciscus

Anything But Love, with Jamie Lee Curtis and Richard Lewis

Midnight Caller, with Gary Cole

Bosom buddies!

Has Nanny and the Professor been mentioned?

Was she a witch?

The Flying Nun

Johnny Quest.

All’s Fair with DL fave Bernadette Peters

Berrenger’s with the much-missed Anita Morris

2000 Malibu Road - with Drew Barrymore directed by Joel Schumacher

Nurses (Saturday night sitcom on NBC)

Nurse (drama series starring Michael Learned)

Rags to Riches was my favorite show. Sadly the series finale (the series hadn't yet been officially cancelled) was rudely interrupted by the live broadcast of baby Jessica's rescue from her deplorable family well. I was devastated for decades that the show was prematurely cancelled let alone I never got to see the proper ending! Fast forward like 25-26 years later I'm having drinks at my friends bar chatting it up with a sexy bearded man next to me. Our bartender friend brought up but subject of the baby Jessica well debacle and sexy beard guy chimed in about how this occurred during the show about singing orphans his sister made him watch. I shrieked Rags to Riches! We couldn't believe either of us would meet another soul who remembered this short lived show- let alone was haunted by the fact that baby Jessica ruined it forever. Clearly I took him home and Fucked him. Immediately after he left I ordered the 1.5 season series DVD off Amazon and finally watched that finale which was never aired.

Bare Essence, with Laura Webber Baldwin Spencer and Lucille Bluth.

"Strike Force" with Robert Stack

Hawk

Most Deadly Game starring George Maharis and Ralph Bellamy. I remember it because Inger Stevens was supposed to also star in it but she committed suicide and was replaced by Yvette Mimieux.

V.I.P

WIOU with John Shea, Helen Shaver, Mariette Hartley and Dick Van Patten.

A Year In The Life with Richard Kiley and the beautiful doomed David Oliver, whose wife was played by SJP in one of her less irritating roles.

And Hope and Faith was in trouble from the start - it co-starred show killer Ted McGinley.

I don't think this show is forgotten, but I don't hear people giving it the LOVE it DESERVED!

I loved that series, R320. They truly don't make them like that anymore....plus, Hart Bochner in uniform...

New York Undercover

My mom used to watch this--she was a big fan of Anne Jeffries and all the has-been actors from the 50s who appeared on it. I mainly remember it as having an intro that went on forever.

I remember the promos for this on tv during the 84 Olympics--I never watched it but it looks like it should be a gay classic.

^Damn phone

Blansky's Beauties

Yes, Dear

Easy Street starring Loni Anderson.

It aired for one season on NBC from September 1986 to April 1987.

Amen with Sherman Hemsley.

Paper Dolls. A trashy take on the modeling world.

The Charmings

Marblehead Manor

I Married Dora

"Out of This World" starring DL fave Donna Pescow and the voice of Burt Reynolds

Highcliffe Manor

We'll Get By

Chopper One

The Immortal

Didn't read entire thread, so apologies if it's been mentioned.. Faith Ford is currently on Mom playing the wealthy 12 stepper who's currently at a weight loss spa.

Viper

Cupid

What A Country

Throb

Learning the Ropes

Wizards and Warriors starring Duncan Regehr, a post-Grease Jeff Conaway and pre-Newhart Julia Duffy.

The Cliffhangers, which featured 3 different stories that would end on a cliffhanger each week. The serials were The Secret Empire, Stop Susan Williams, and Dracula ‘79.

Brothers never gets the credit it deserves.

Scarecrow and Mrs King just came to mind. And Greatest American Hero.

Nanny and the Professor

Greatest American Hero is on one of the vintage antenna channels. William Katt was a likable actor - he should have had a better career. I know they needed an antagonist, but Culp was really annoying on that show.

I forgot (appropriately) about Yes Dear. That was one set of unlikable (and not funny) characters.

I caught a few episodes of Scarecrow and Mrs. King a few years ago. The pilot was actually not bad. Jackson and Boxlietner had good chemistry and were very watchable, but beyond the pilot, the writing for the show was pretty weak.

Dear John

Harper Valley PTA

Open All Night

The Littlest Hobo

It's Your Move starring Jason Bateman.

This scene from "Yes, Dear," is the only reason I remember it. Starts at 18:30

Steampipe Alley sounds like gay porn.

Hello, Larry

Empty Nest

[quote]William Katt was a likable actor - he should have had a better career. I know they needed an antagonist, but Culp was really annoying on that show.

R499, it's funny you wrote this given that William Katt was rumored to be a huge asshole, which, if true, may be why he did not have much of a career beyond GAH and one or two of those Perry Mason movies. That said, I agree he was likeable onscreen and kind of cute.

he was a very nice boy

*hic*

Just Say Julie on MTV

Zoe with Selma Blair

R320 Why would "War and Remembrance" not be shown on network TV?

Tru Calling

1980s steampunk-ish Sherlock Holmes. I'd forgotten all about it till I saw a preview for the Alienist on TNT

R509 Because it had very disturbing (realistic) Holocaust scenes in several episodes. One episodes is a train travelling from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz with two main characters in it arrival at Auschwitz, selection and a horrible scene how people were undressed and forced into a gas chamber and also a scene inside the gas chamber. I saw this as a child in prime time. I remembered the episode for decades until I re-watched the series recently thinking ABC might not show it today, but maybe it should.

Mike Nesmith had this comedy variety series that ran for a really short time in the mid 80s that I think was the network's attempt to capture the MTV audience. It didn't run for very long but was full of talent that would break out separately soon after like Jerry Seinfeld, a little like the Ben Stiller show in the 90s:

Miss Match

r512, I was fully grown the first time I saw War & Remembrance, and those scenes stuck equally strongly in my memory. I think it's important that people see it, or something equally upsetting.

I only watched Miss Match for David Conrad. Did it even last a whole season?

R516 I think so?? And luckily for Conrad he landed Ghost Whisperer not long after. I remember thinking he was hot on Roswell.

R515 I totally agree but today’s television sadly avoids disturbing upsetting story lines and scenes.

Poor David Conrad, having to work with JLH. I couldn't watch that show, even though he was in it.

R519 I like JLH but i think i stopped watching after the 1st season.

R442 post about The Cape reminded me of the short lived mid eighties series Call to Glory about an Air Force family at Edwards AFB (but shot in Texas) during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I grew up in an Air Force family and a couple of my dad's friends were consultants on the show.

Craig T Nelson starred, along with a young Elizabeth Shue as the daughter they were setting up to become a 60s rebel, but it got canceled due to the cost of the production, though It got great reviews and may have led to Top Gun getting produced. My main impression from the trailer was how unrealistically long the men's hair was, and the women's too, now that I think of it, it would have been crewcuts and Jackie O beehives back then and really, up until the era the series was produced in. Even in the 70s, I still had to get a haircut every 2 weeks and spent my youth getting called Cousin Buzz by my shaggy haired classmates.

Are You Afraid Of The Dark

There have been a few shows set during wars which have been forgotten. China Beach and Tour of Duty are a couple of examples. Both shows were rerun in cable for awhile in the mid 90s and I don't have have ever aired again on cable or syndication.

Back in 2005, FX had a show about Iraq War called Over There. Luke Mcfarlane and Josh Henderson were in it. It only lasted one season.

ABC’s “Aliens in the Family.” I only vaguely remember the show itself, but the sad demise of its lead actress, Margaret Trigg, stayed in my memory thanks to this article.

Madonna Reed show, Nan Northern Show, Cry-Out, My Father The Bi-Cycle, Happier Nights, Better Days, All In The Family Way

r510, I thought I was the only person who remembered Tru Calling. Featuring a pre-famous Zach Galifianakis and a young (very hot) Matt Bomer!!!!

I did not watch Tru Calling beyond one episode. Eliza Douche Koo is one of the world's most annoying humans.

Hope and Gloria

Anyone watch Picket Fences? It was so weird that when they did an unannounced crossover episode with the X-Files and a cow gave birth to a grey alien, it was only slightly more absurd than the show normally would have been.

Living Dolls with leah remini and Halle berry

Double Trouble

Party Girl (based on the movie) starring Christine taylor as Parker posey's Mary. Very short lived series only like 6 episodes. It aired on mondays after another short lived series Lush Life starring Lori Petty.

OMG Double Trouble. I forgot all about it until I saw the girls. I had a big crush on them. Yep, I’m a gay guy.

"Living Dolls with leah remini and Halle berry"

And MISS Michael Learned!!!

[quote]Didn't read entire thread, so apologies if it's been mentioned.. Faith Ford is currently on Mom playing the wealthy 12 stepper who's currently at a weight loss spa.

You don't need to apologize to us -- you need to apologize to Jaime Pressly, who actually plays that part. (Faith Ford has never been on "Mom.")

Two with James Coco:

Calucci's Department

The Dumplings

Michelle Pfeiffer in B.A.D. Cats!

Byrds of Paradise

Monsters

Our House with DeeDee Hall and Wilford "Diabeetus" Brimley

Sister Kate

Who but the eldergays remembers shit from ten years ago, cuntard.

Superboy

NYPD Blue

Arliss on HBO

Freddy's Nightmares – A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Series

Friday the 13th: The Series

Almost Anything Goes.

Cop Rock—the musical crime drama show!

Andromeda

Earth Final Conflict

A number of these shows, esp. the ones that would have started as syndicated shows were probably not know by a large chunk of the population, even when they were on the air.

Air Wolf

Second Chance starring Matthew Perry. Just one of Perry and Fox's many failed sitcoms in the 80's

Living Single

Women in Prison

The nurturing way that gayling Marshall's dad looked after him in "United States of Tara"...can't find the right clip for evidence

The Louis Show starring Louis Anderson

The Tom Arnold Show staring Tom Arnold

Both shows that were released with lots of fanfare only to die out.

3,2,1.. Contact

The Great Space Coaster

Bloodhound Gang

I believe they were all on PBS

Quark - a show before it's time

Harper Valley with Barbara Eden and my favorite, Bridget Hanley. I loved this show as a kid, but even then recognized how the daughter is fat and fug.

Into the Labyrinth. I wished I was Belor.

Class of 96

Dead at 21

The State - 90s sketch show that was on MTV

You Can’t Do That on Television-especially the ones where Kevin Kubusheskie was shirtless.

You Wrote It,You Watch It on MTV. Viewers sent in stories that were acted out on the show. It was hosted by Jon Stewart.

Liquid Television

James at 16

[Quote] I thought I was the only person who remembered Tru Calling.

I guess that makes 2 of us.

[Quote] I did not watch Tru Calling beyond one episode. Eliza Douche Koo is one of the world's most annoying humans.

I loved her on Buffy and Bring It On. Unfortunately she was outshined by her costars on Dollhouse.

My Name Is Earl

Me & Mrs. C

State of Grace

Another failed reboot.

One Tree Hill

90s gem

I loved tha children's show Uncle Croc's Crack.

Felicity

Relativity. David Conrad was a cutie.

Summerland

T & T and post A-Team vehicle for Mr. T

I used to love "Monsters"

Samantha Who?

The “Canned Film Festival” starring the vastly underrated Laraine Newman. A forgotten MST300 predecessor that also featured bad films like “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.”

Lost Girl

science fiction series Continuum

Den Som Dræber

Littlest Hobo

All-American Girl with Margaret Cho.

Fraggle Rock

A Canadian staple seen in many parts of the USA on public television.

SPAAAAACE GHOOOOOST.

"Apples Way" - a family moves from Liberal California to Republican Iowa. There is a reason it didn't last long.

Well if we're going to get into Canadian shows:

The Forest Rangers

The Beachcombers

Street Legal

Adventures In Rainbow Country

Danger Bay

and Spirit Bay with what would one day become the gorgeous Tre Smith

Highway to Heaven

Gloria

You Take the Kids — Nell Carter and Roger E. Mosley as a married couple with kids

GRΣΣK

You Again? with Jack Klugman and John Stamos. Had funny moments but the chemistry wasn't there.

I guess it couldn't withstand the comparisons to [italic]The Odd Couple[/italic].

Suburgatory on ABC

Neighbors (about aliens from outer space)

The Associates, starring Martin Short and Alley Mills (1979).