Shows The World Forgot About

LOST. It was this huge cultural phenomenon while it was on and then it was over and everyone forgot it existed.

I'm not sure this qualifies - it would have to be somewhat popular before it was "forgot about."

COLD CASE.

Was actually a great show but not shown in reruns or on streaming services due to the difficulty in licensing music, which plays a key part in each episode.

I don't know anyone who watched this, I think I was the only viewer

No, R1. People still talk about Lost constantly. Doesn't fit the topic.

Early Edition -- man receives newspaper about events that will happen in the future, so he has a chance to change them. The guy was hot, show was ehh.

Swans Crossing starring DL fave Sarah Michelle Gellar and featuring future Oscar winner Mira Sorvino.

R7, I used to watch that, too! It was good. I had a gayling crush on Garrett.

I still think it's a genius and hilarious name for a show.

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues

Chicago Hope. 6 seasons. Never on TV (in reruns). Not streamable, the last time I checked. Never on DVD, the last time I checked.

Yeah, Chicago Hope is one of those shows that completely faded from public consciousness, despite the fact that it did pretty well at the time

The New Gidget -- no Sally Field

California Dreams -- a low-rent, wannabe Saved by the Bell

The New Leave it to Beaver

Persons Unknown (2010)

Holmes & Yoyo.

On Our Own

Flying High

Except that repeats have been airing for several years now on START-TV, R3 . . .

Pacific Blue

Baywatch Nights. What was that crap?

Hawkeye

The Julia Louis-Dreyfus shows Day by Day and The New Adventures of Old Christine. Actually not bad shows, but massively overshadowed by Seinfeld and Veep.

R3 I remember seeing reruns of "Cold Case" airing on one of the cable channels (ad nauseum). .. It's currently a staple of "Start TV", which here in Los Angeles is a digital sub-channel. .. Their programming is described as:

[quote] Start TV is an American free-to-air television network owned by Weigel Broadcasting. Predominantly carried on the digital subchannels of its affiliated television station in most markets, it primarily airs classic television drama series from the 1980s through the 2000s, with a focus on dramas, police and legal procedurals geared toward female audiences.

My Mom appeared as an extra on "Silk Stalkings," as well as "Renegade" with Lorenzo Lamas. Both shows were filmed mainly in the San Diego area.

R18 I somehow missed your existing reply, when I posted R23.

Husbands, Wives and Lovers was an hour long sitcom that aired on CBS on Saturday nights in 1978. I remember watching this as a 12 year old when my parents were out on the town. I thought it was very adult. Seeing the credits it looks dreadful now. Apparently Joan Rivers worked on some of the writing.

Brothers was a groundbreaking sitcom about three brothers the youngest of whom comes out as gay.

Before “The Good Wife”, Julianna Marguiles played a lawyer in the short lived “Canterbury’s Law”.

The original "The Goldbergs"

Picket Fences, sad to say. You'd think it'd be perfect for syndication on USA or TNT or something, but I never see it anywhere.

Terra Nova

Your sins are forgiven, R23 and R25.

For your penance, watch three episodes of "Ghost Whisperer" and two of "Dr. Quinn, Inflatable Woman."

Nurses. Savannah. I Married Dora. Models Inc.

Rob Estes of Silk Stalkings was my gayling crush.

A Year in the Life on NBC in the early 90s.

Providence

United States

Profit

In which a young Adrian Pasdar's lead character, Jim Profit, would go to sleep naked in a cardboard box.

Julia Louis Dreyfuss' Watching Ellie. Interesting concept, but ditched that in season 2.

Less Than Perfect. Pretty funny sitcom that got shuffled all over ABCs schedule.

Desperate housewives was a massive hit, more or less forgotten today.

Partners in Crime

Nightime soap "Sisters".

Homicide, Life on the Street. My favorite network TV program of all time has never been made available for streaming or syndication. The DVDs have poor sound and no closed captioning. I threw out all my tapes when my last VCR died.

Lipstick Jungle, The Division, Tru Calling, Millennium and Martial Law.

'Dark Skies', a Saturday night NBC show set in the 60s (19 eps from fall of '96 to May of '97). Lots of intrigue about the Kennedy presidency and aliens. I was 16 and was entranced, to the point I checked out tons of books from the library about JFK and his assassination. Eric Close starring in the show didn't help me on my journey to try to be straight...I'm fairly certain I jerked off to a couple of eps.

CSI and all its spinoffs seem mostly forgotten. I think CSI: Miami still gets rerun on some channel but the original only seems to pop up randomly on USA on the rare occasions they're not showing L&O: SVU. I guess people just got sick of the format.

Before there was a Simon or a Victor, there was ME, bitches!

LADY BLUE!

Miami Vice...not

Central Park West with Raquel Welch.

Alien nation.

Desperate Housewives. It ran for eight seasons but most people forgot about it after the second.

The 5 Mrs. Buchanans. Another Marc Cherry creation.

Isn't Homicide on cable? I thought I'd seen it in the listing when I've been visiting family with cable.

Do you know which channel, r53? I don't have cable, either.

"Central Park West with Raquel Welch."

And dl fave John Barrowman!

Remington Steele

Anything But Love with Jamie Lee Curtis, Richard Lewis, and Ann Magnuson. It was an underrated little show.

Dead Like Me. I was so sad it didn't make it.

I loved Ryan’s Four.

It was sort of a precursor to Chicago Hope.

War of the Worlds, 1988. I think I 'm one of the very few people who watched this in syndication and really liked it. Not enough of a following, ratings- or nostalgia-wise, to merit repeats.

I loved Dead Like Me. I had a huge crush on Callum Blue.

God Justin Lazard from CPW was HOT.

R45 Maybe it's because CBS has included ALL seasons of both original CSI and CSI Miami as part of the network's "CBS All Access" streaming service. .. But even with that, the WE channel currently fills its schedule with CSI Miami reruns, while the Oxygen channel has original CSI running during its forensic-themed drama block on Mondays.

The Naked Truth, which ran 3 seasons and starred Tea Leoni & Holland Taylor. It was a sitcom about a tabloid.

Herman's Head

Beyond Belief : Fact or Fiction. It was hilarious how they never provided any explanation or details about the so called "true stories ".

Outer Limits and the critically reviled Twilight zone reboot .

The Lost World on WB and the animated show The Critic. I remember these shows because I absolutely loved all of them. Yes, I have cheesy tastes.

Beyond Belief was campy fun. I liked the The Crotic, too. Don't remember The Lost World at all.

I loved The Critic, too. It's odd that the only remnant of it that really survives is that really wonderful crossover episode with The Simpsons.

OP!!!!! A kindred spirit!!!!!! I used to LOVE "The Others"! I still have several episodes of the series... on VHS!

To this day, whenever we encounter wallpaper with tiny figures on it, my younger sister -- who also watched it -- and I say, "They come alive at night." (Referencing the episode in which Marian hears scratches from the possessed wallpaper in her bedroom.)

Apologies for the excessive use of exclamation points, but no one I know (other than my sister) has even heard of "The Others," let alone ever watched it. It's DEFINITELY a show the world forgot about.

Free Spirit, starring DL fave Alyson Hannigan.

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.

The Single Guy. It was one of a million of those NBC sitcoms sandwiched between "Friends" and "Frasier" that never caught on...

100 Centre Street - a solid legal drama IMO, with Alan Arkin. LaTanya Richardson, and Bobby Cannavale, among others.

The 1989 CBS series Heartland, starring Brian Keith...and nobody else you've heard of. It did have a pretty nice theme song performed by Dion, though.

First and Ten - An early cable series about a gold-digger widow (Delta Burke) who inherits a football team. Jason Beghe played a Cinderella quarterback who walked onto the team during tryouts. It was a 30-minute sit-com.

Boomtown

It was an edgy police drama set in Los Angeles, using a non-linear model of storytelling. It won lots of accolades including the Peabody Award for Television Drama, TCA's Best New Program and Outstanding Achievement in Drama, and the American Film Institute's TV Program of the Year.

I remember First and Ten, R75 - on HBO. Though, yes, the world has generally forgot it.

[quote] and nobody else you've heard of

Come on! The gays know Richard Guilliland! Mary Jo's (and really Charlene's) man.

"First and Ten" reminded me of the excellent serial drama "Playmakers" on ESPN (2003). It was even dubbed the first soap opera for men. .. lol!

As I recall, there were too many controversial storylines for the NFL (e.g. drugs, a gay player, etc.), and they forced ABC-ESPN to pull the plug on it.

I think someone still has all the episodes on a channel at youtube.

Yep, I remember Playmakers, and it was pulled because of pressure from the NFL.

R76 I remember Boomtown. I actually thought it was significantly better quality than 90 percent of the other shows of this type. I'm surprised it's run was so short. The Television Without Pity takedowns of it were hilarious though. One writer regularly referred to the Latina EMT character as "the only paramedic in L.A." because she just happened to be at every single accident or trauma.

Playmakers was pretty prescient

I'LL FLY AWAY (1991-1993) NBC

Brooklyn Bridge

Empty Nest

Nurses

Marc Feurstein was given multiple chances on Thursday nights by NBC...he had 'Conrad Bloom' in '98, and then 'Good Morning, Miami' in 2002. I always thought he was cute, but who gets two chances? They had to being Tiffani-Amber Thiessen in to help save 'GMM', and by then it was too late. Even Jillian Barberie was a regular in the 2nd season...eek!

Tenspeed & Brown Shoe

Benson

I liked one episode where he needed new furniture because his apartment was decorated in "early Halloween"

The theme music went "da da da (fart fart fart fart fart fart fart) da da da da daaaa (fart fart fart fart)

Boston Public

Boston Legal, another show David E. Kelley shat out. I am so glad Kelleys' heyday is over. He used to drop his smelly turds all over network TV.

Nip/Tuck

What a stupid idea for a thread. 99% of tv programs are forgotten just like 99% of theatrical released movies.

OP = idiot

R92 R93 Is retarded.

SouthLAnd. Favorite LA cop show ever. Currently available on Amazon Prime @ $4.99-7.99 per season.

All three CSIs are in heavy syndication here, in Canada.

But this seems to have been completely forgotten:

Sidney Lumet's "100 Centre Street" (ca. 2001-02) when A&E still did Arts & Entertainment.

There’s an interesting podcast on this subject called Cancelled Too Soon. They rewatch obscure shows that were cancelled after their first season. There’s a loooot if obscure crap in the annals of TV history (no pun intended)

Northern Exposure. Such a great, quirky show. Probably too politically incorrect for today's climate though.

Sledge Hammer

R99, what climate? The show is available on DVD

Hearts Afire, starring John Ritter and Markie Post. Created by Linda Bloodworth Thompson. Ran for 3 seasons in the 90s.

Forgotten.

Evening Shade. 4 seasons and forgotten.

Grace Under Fire

Dirt w/ Courtney Xox

The Tony Randall Show -- almost forgotten while it was on. It was truly funny with a superb cast. Rachel Roberts AND Allyn Ann McLerie? Heaven. The only down spot was that Devon Scott left the series and the cipher Penny Peyser replaced her.

Only 44 episodes so it's doubtful it will ever run again or stream. Too bad.

Alice

How was Northern Exposure not politically correct? The town was founded by lesbians!

R101, the current climate in which people seem to be offended by every little thing. Maurice was quite homophobic and racist, so I'm not sure it would be accepted by the masses of it aired unedited. I could be wrong though. I just streamed a lot of the episodes last month and enjoyed it all over again.

Remember WENN on AMC from the late 90s was also fun, if a bit hammy.

People like r109 who bitch about people being offended by everything were probably offended by Colin Kaepernick and the Dixie Chicks. No one is complaining about Northern Exposure. Why would they when hardly anyone remembers it anyway?

R111, I'm not offended by much. And as I said, I could be wrong about people being offended by it. It was a great show, nonetheless.

The Golden Palace owns this thread. You would think with the massive success of The Golden Girls, there would have been some interest in this, but it's only been shown once since it left the air, and it's not even out on DVD.

LA Law was huge in its day. The critics slobbered all over it like it was Shakespeare, yet it hasn't been rerun since the late 90's.

La Law, Rose Nylund's favorite show!

Thriller hosted by Boris Karloff. I loved it as a kid in the early 60s.

Thriller is a really good show

I recently binged Dead Like Me. It holds up really well after all these years. You wouldn't know it was like 15 years old except for the technology

Men in Trees starring Anne Heche.

"Grace Under Fire", "First and Ten", "Hearts Afire, and "Cybill" are all on Amazon Prime (free for Prime members). Just sayin'.

Above and Beyond -semi-good Fox sci-fi show.

The ORIGINAL Goldbergs, bitches!

Private Secretary starring Ann Sothern

Central Park West starring Mädchen Amick

When was the last time anybody mentioned "Providence"?

That's Life, starring Heather Dubrow, Paul Sorvino, Ellen Burstyn, Kevin Dillon, and Debi Mazar. Ran for 2 seasons.

Suddenly Susan, Caroline in the City, Fired Up!, Jenny

Jessie

Veronica's Closet

True Blood

"Joey"

Strong Medicine

Lifetime's original series Any Day Now with Annie Potts and Lorraine Toussant.

Our House

Bette

Amen

Out of Practice

Encore! Encore!

I swear this show was just called Zoe.

DAG.

Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place

I loved this show as a gayling

Kate & Allie

My Two Dads

Perfect Strangers

Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers

Yes, Dear. Ran for SIX seasons.

The tv version of Clueless

Legacy another one my favorites My mother and I were both in love with the dad. Hot men, period clothing and horses! This show should have been huge

Blossom

Midnight caller. I only heard about this show from a thread on here. Pretty good

Beauty and the Beast starring Ron Perlman and Linda Hunt

Sweating Bullets or Tropical Heat im Not sure. My older sister used to make fun of me for watching this. I was like 8

Dear John

Dave's World

The John Larroquette Show

Tales from the crypt

Family Law

Whoopi

Two completely different types of shows from the Sixties"

The Invaders with Roy Thinnes as a guy who can't convince people that aliens are among us.

It's About Time with Jack Mullaney and Frank Aletter as two astronauts who go back in time and find cavepeople Joe E. Ross and Imogene Coco (until midseason when they totally reversed the premise)

"Cassie & Company" ... Angie Dickinson's flop on NBC after the success of "Police Woman."

So forgotten there isn't even a Wikipedia article on it.

As youtube commenters say, the main titles looked like a panty hose commercial .. lol!

The Time Tunnel

That 80's Show

The forgotten spinoff of The Jeffersons, Checking In.

r158 LOVED the Time Tunnel!

Women of the House, the forgotten sequel to Designing Women.

Love & War

A lot of these shows are currently airing on cable stations such as ME, Antenna TV, COZI, and Heroes & Icons. The Time Tunnel, The Invaders, Planet of the Apes (series), Dear John, My Two Dads.

Time Tunnel!!

R158 The Time Tunnel is on MeTV. They do an adventure sci-fi block on Saturday night. Things like Land of the Giants and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as well.

I don't think anyone's listed one show from the UK yet.

Shasta McNasty, on the forgotten network, UPN.

R148. I used to work on 'Midnight Caller'! It was a terrible show.

Ned & Stacey

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Some of My Best Friends, Jason Bateman's pre-Arrested Development dud where he played gay.

The Torkelsons

[quote]Boston Legal, another show David E. Kelley shat out. I am so glad Kelleys' heyday is over. He used to drop his smelly turds all over network TV.

Ha! I could not agree more!

Hung

Night Visions

[quote]Evening Shade. 4 seasons and forgotten.

That was a good show. Another show I found similar to Evening Shade and was also loved by tv critics-Frank's Place with Tim Reid

Mission Hill

Legend Of The Seeker

Dharma & Greg

Rubicon (which was a great show, by the way). AMC needed more money for their Zombiefest so something more sophisticated had to be sacrificed.

The Cape

Pamela Anderson had a really bad syndicated show (not Baywatch - another one). I forget what it was called right now.

Becker

Cosby (not The Cosby Show)

The American version of Men Behaving Badly with Rob Schneider, Ron Eldard, and Justine Bateman.

Bagdad Cafe

Stacked

[quote]Pamela Anderson had a really bad syndicated show (not Baywatch - another one). I forget what it was called right now.

Must be VIP. The only attraction for me was Dustin Nguyen, of Jump Street, who was in it.

[quote]Hung

That show was the worst. I don't think it lasted too long.

Three Sisters

Mr. T and Tina

Becker is on Antenna TV. So is Alice. I've watched both shows (all seasons) twice in the past 10 years.

r188 - yes, that was it!

The Joy Behar Show

Bay City Blues--Bochco baseball show with an adult character who was a bedwetter

Cop Rocj---high concept Bochco

Turn On--cancelled after 1 episode

The Tammy Grimes Show--cancelled after 4 episodes

Get Christy Love

Rock not Rocj

Dog and Cat

The American Girls

The Sally Field TV Programme

The Devlin Connection

After the success of McMillan & Wife, NBC tried Rock Hudson in another detective series ca. 1982. (This was a couple of years before his final TV role in Dynasty.)

[quote[ Hudson stars as Brian Devlin, a former military intelligence officer and ex-owner of a detective agency who is now the director of the Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles. Devlin meets racquetball pro and private investigator Nick Corsello (Scalia), who is revealed to be Devlin's son from a brief affair 28 years earlier.

Teachers

Another shout out for Beauty and the Beast. Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman were both very good in an unusual story.

I'd go with Parker Lewis Can't Lose. Loved it...quirky and funny and original.

Any gossip? @R169 Midnight caller is a bit corny but great visuals and soundtrack. Very 80s

Remember "Pepper Dennis"?

Neither do I...

My favorite...Andy Richter Saves The Universe. It was funny as hell.

It was Andy Richter Controls The Universe

Revenge

The Charmings. Snow White and Prince Charming are placed under a sleeping spell by the Wicked Queen . But the spell backfires effecting everyone in the vicinity - the Charming, their children, their servant, the Queen herself - only to have them wake thousands of years later and in California (???). Worthy only for Christopher Rich as Prince Charming.

R41 That was one of my favorite 90s show. Most of the cast minus Julianne Phillips were terrific in their roles.

R41 That was one of my favorite 90s show. Most of the cast minus Julianne Phillips were terrific in their roles.

North shore (2004) many pretty faces, but Jason Momoa was my favorite

Everwood on the defunct WB. It was a typical WB type show, but it was better than crap like 7th Heaven. It got canned when WB and UPN merged into the CW.

Everwood on the defunct WB. It was a typical WB type show, but it was better than crap like 7th Heaven. It got canned when WB and UPN merged into the CW.

Models Inc - forgotten Aaron Spelling flop that was campy and fun

Reasonable Doubts- 90s show that starred Marlee Maitlin as a deaf prosecutor and Mark Harmon as a detective and love interest who often worked cases with her because he knew sign language. It lasted two seasons.

Civil Wars, with Mariel Hemingway and Debi Mazar

[quote]California Dreams -- a low-rent, wannabe Saved by the Bell

I remember that one. Peter Engel produced that too along with other shows that NBC aired on Saturday mornings throughout the 90s into the early 2000s under the TNBC programming. I was a kid and teen in the 90s and early 00s, I watched all these as guilty pleasures. The original Saved by the Bell is the only one that people remember. Saved by the Bell: The New Class gets ignored. Back when Freeform was known as ABC Family, Hang Time was aired and I remember WGN airing reruns of City Guys for awhile.

All About Us (2001) Brains & Brawn (1993–1994) California Dreams (1992–1997) City Guys (1997–2001) Double Up (1992-1993) Hang Time (1995–2001) Just Deal (2000–2002) Name Your Adventure (1992–1995) One World (1998–2000) Running the Halls (1993–1994) Saved by the Bell (1989–1993) Saved by the Bell: The New Class (1993–2000) Sk8 (2001–2002)

Babes. Best theme song ever.

A Canadian produced knockoff of The X-Files called "PSI Fator: Chronicles of the Paranormal". Another show allegedly "based on true stories", Dan Aykroyd hosted the segments. Lead actor Paul Miller (first season only) was crush material for me, with his Superman good looks and voice to match!

Jack and Bobby

Any Day Now

R154, Dixie Carter showing her leg...that had to be in her contract. Like the songs sung on 'Designing Women'!

Down to Earth- The spirit of a dead flapper returns to Earth to earn her wings. I loved this show when I was five.

Crossing Jordan

"Suzanne Pleshette Is Maggie Briggs" .. her post-Bob Newhart show sit-com from Lorimar.

Eli Stone.

Models Inc. finished on a cliffhanger too!

Quantum Leap

R1 and R60 I watched BOTH those shows. :) In fact just this past week I noticed one of the nostalgia channels was actually showing War of the Worlds, unfortunately when I saw it in the listing it was something like episode 18 so I didn't bother watching. I can't remember which channel it was. WoTW was where I first recall coming across Adrian Paul(Highlander).

Here's one: The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne(2000), it was on the Sci Fi Channel(US). It was the first tv show filmed in HD, lasted 22 episodes but then various fights between the producers caused it to not get renewed(it had been renewed but the renewal was cancelled). It's not streaming, not released on DVD, probably will never be because of those same fights among the various producers. It was a little corny but I liked it. :)

Seaquest DSV.

Lol ⬆️

r124 I loved how Robbie (Seth Peterson’s character) was addicted to dryer sheets. I had a friend like that. I didn’t want to sit any closer than three feet.

r146 Or at least allowed a second season. Legacy was hotness personified. I wonder what happened to Jeremy Garrett. Plus, Grayson McCouch when he was still allowed to have hair. And Ron Melendez. Wasn’t his character adopted, yet he was the only one who truly looked like Brett Cullen?

r201 Yes, I will watch anything with adorable Justin Bartha. I loved The New Normal. Did you see him in Holy Rollers (see link)?

Quinn Martin was known for a lot of successful TV shows, but Banyon (1972) was short-lived.

It was a period drama set in the 1930s starring Robert Forster as a private detective.

Nowhere Man which starred Bruce Greenwood. Lyons Den with Rob Lowe.

Another vote for 100 Centre Street. I loved that show.

Another vote for I'll Fly Away. I was so glad it got two seasons. The ratings didn't really demand a second season.

"She's the Sheriff" - Suzanne Somers universally acclaimed return to TV after leaving Three's Company.

Linc's

I had completely forgotten Three Sisters. And I had to watch it because I knew the mother-in-law of one of the creators. I had a crush on David Alan Basche who was essentially playing the husband of the creator/son of the person I knew.

The Commish

Head of the Class

Due South

Playing House - I think it's still available on demand with Optimum

NewsRadio I loved Parker Lewis Can't Lose!

The Linda Lavin Show

Otherworld with Sam Groom and Tony O'Dell

Teacher's Only with Lynn Redgrave

Hometown (80s tv show) with Daniel Stern

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Before Lea Michele farted on the Glee set, there was Rags To Riches. DL fave Sasha Mitchell shirtless at 21:35.

Breaking In

In the Motherhood

The Starter Wife

M.Y.O.B.

Miss Guided

Go Fish

Stark Raving Mad

All the old people shows on CBS. Probably because most of the people who watched them are dead. A few of them were guilty pleasures of mine.

JAG

Diagnosis Murder

Dr Quinn Medicine Woman

Joan of Arcadia

Cracking Up

Maybe It's Me

Welcome to New York

One on One

Alphas starring David Strathairn and cutie Ryan Cartwright

Hangin With Mr Cooper

Boston Public

Emerald Point, N.A.S. (the first four episodes are on YouTube). Navy-themed soap from the Dynasty creators. Sela Ward, Susan Dey, the MacGyver guy, Andrew Stevens, Maud Adams, etc.

[quote]The Cape

Forgotten by many, yes, but not all.

Starved

It premiered on FX alongside 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' in 2005. 'Starved' was canceled after 7 episodes, while 'IASIP' has gone on to become the longest-running live-action comedy series in US history, with 14+ seasons as of 2020.

Profiler- ran on NBC four seasons. It was about a female FBI profiler played by Ally Walker in seasons 1-3. Jamie Luner played the new profiler in the final season.

Back to You

Hank

Partners

Partners

We own this thread, bitches! We own most of the shows, too.

Cavemen

Baby Bob

Til Death

"Phyllis" (Mary Tyler Moore Show spin-off, set in San Francisco). "Amanda's" (Bea Arthur sitcom in which she owns a hotel).

Both shows are on YouTube. Every episode! All 48 "Phyllis" episodes and all 13 "Amanda's" episodes. Both shows are (mostly) hilarious.

Room for Two, starring Linda Lavin and Patricia Heaton

Sister Kate, starring Stephanie Beacham and a pre-90210 Jason Priestly.

R208 is correct. Christopher Rich was hot as Prince Charming. Who can forget Hulk Hogan in "Thunder in Paradise"?

R99 - I loved Northern Exposure. I think the British TV show "Doc Martin" was based on Northern Exposure.

Mrs. Columbo, featuring the previously unseen wife of TV's Lieutenant Columbo played by Peter Falk and starring Captain Kathryn Janeway of the starship Voyager

Princesses, starring Fran Drescher, Twiggy, and Julie Hagerty

High Society, the US remake/ripoff of Absolutely Fabulous, starring Mary McDonnell and Jean Smart.

Has "Yes, Dear" been mentioned? Those milquetoast marital sitcoms were all EXACTLY the same and they were ALL offensively mediocre. No wonder they're forgotten. Even the sets looked the same. Television in its safest and saddest form. Those kinds of shows are only watched today at 1 in the afternoon, by people who took off sick from work and are too sick to reach for the remote.

The Geena Davis Show!

What About Joan?

Kristin!

remember when John Goodman played an enormous homosexual on 'Normal, Ohio'?

Samantha Who?!?!?

Oliver Beene

R280, I loved 'Kristin'! It was a summer show, as I recall, so it kind of softened the blow when it didn't get picked up again.

R277, I'm fairly the set from 'Yes, Dear' (which I only watched once) was the same one from 'Dave's World', the 90s sitcom also on CBS and starring Harry Anderson and Shadoe Stevens.

Another one I don't believe has been mentioned is 'Get Real', which was on Fox for x1 season in '99. Starring none other than Anne Hathaway, Eric Christian Olsen, and Jesse Eisenberg.

Bob Patterson

Listen Up!

Emeril

Greg the Bunny

Leap of Faith, starring Sarah Paulson and Regina King, among others.

Da Ellen Sho

Already forgotten:

Pearl

Boston Common

Ink.

The Tortellis, the other Cheers spin-off

Masquerade

Women in Prison

Open Your Box, and Cook - Yoko Ono's cooking show on public-access

Babes

Snoops

Action

LOVED Action. One of the few insider Hollywood comedies that was actually funny and not just a glossy wankathon (cough, cough, Entourage, cough, cough).

Running Wilde

NYPD Blue owns this thread. Its on one of those over the air channels now but otherwise it has been almost totally forgotten. It ran for a decade, was in the top ten, and won a bunch of Emmys. And it was controversial for the violence, swearing, and showing butts.

I had a huge crush on Danny Nucci when he was on Snoops. Then I forgot about him.

Gloria, which spun off from Archie Bunker's Place, which was a continuation of All in the Family.

Oh Madeline

Some other vanilla marital sitcoms I remember in the vein of Yes, Dear: According to Jim and Grounded for Life. According to Jim was especially horrific.

9 to 5

Also Daddio, Come to Papa, Center of the Universe, Still Standing R308

And Ladies Man R310

R86 I always wondered what connections he had to cover his failures.

R311 and don't forget My Wife and Kids

Dorothy

Anyone remember that show that was briefly on Fox back in I think the 2014-2015 season, starring Rainn Wilson as some douchey psychoanalyst (or whatever the fuck it was that he actually did in that show)? He’d meet a new character and imagine what it was like inside their head and then start a cheesy monologue where he’d go, “I’m a... *insert absurdly accurate first impression here!*” ALWAYS with the exact same tone and expression. It was painfully cheesy and didn’t last very long.

It also starred that deep-voiced All State man.

"Double Trouble" (twins whose father was Dutch from "Soap", who was dating the mom from "Home Improvement").

"Jennifer Slept Here" (Ann Jillian, between "It's a Living" stints, as the ghost of a famous actress).

Both were NBC sitcoms around the years 1983-1985. Never officially released on DVD. Earlier this year I bought bootleg DVDs of both series. LOVE!!!!

r315, is this the one you're talking about?

Sister Sister

You're all forgetting the sitcom where I played myself, bitches.

Dharma & Greg

Living with Fran

8 Simple Rules

When will Alec Baldwin have Shelley Hack on Match Game??!?

Woops! (1992). The world is destroyed when American kids accidentally set off a nuclear missile, causing the Russians to counterattack. Only six people are left in the US: Mark, the narrator, an ex-school teacher; Alice, a feminist; Curtis, a yuppie stock broker; Jack, a homeless person; Frederick, a black pathologist; and Suzanne, a sexy ditz.

The North Shore, with DL Fave Jason Mamoa

Tales Of The Gold Monkey

Pasadena, with DL fave Dana Delaney

Cover Up

Now on Antenna TV, both shows ran for one season in the early 1970s:

"The Paul Lynde Show" - Paul, married to a woman (!!!), is quite nasty to his HOT son-in-law. Totally unfunny show.

"Lotsa Luck" - Dom DeLuise as a bus station clerk supporting his mother, sister, and deadbeat brother-in-law. Hilarious! Dom even gets to date Ruth Buzzi and Suzanne Somers!

Still Standing

Whiz Kids

Delta

All's Fair

The McCarthys

Dumplings, a show about a fat couple.

704 Hauser, in which the house from All in the Family got it's own spin-off.

Norm

Grady

Hot L Baltimore (I believe this show had the first gay couple on tv)

Better pic^

Over the Top

I Had to Be You

The Popcorn Kid

Not the best show but the funniest show I have ever seen. Hugh Jackman's Viva Laughin. A singing cop show. Even had Melanie Griffin singing Blondie.

Selfie

666 Park Avenue

Manhattan Love Story

The $treet

You Can't Do That Television

Bearcats!

Cover Me: Based on the True Life of an FBI Family. Starred Peter Dobson, Melora Hardin and baby Michael Angarano.

- Today's Special - Hey, Dude - My Two Dads - Just The Ten Of Us - My Sister Sam - Trigger Happy TV (the US episodes are even harder to find) - Head Of The Class - Check It Out! - Perfect Strangers - Madame's Place - Kate & Allie - Three's A Crowd

"Hail to the Chief" (1985, 7 episodes) - Patty Duke as the first female U.S. president. Married to Donald from "That Girl". Mother of the girl from "The Goodbye Girl". Show was created by Susan Harris, who also created "Soap" and "The Golden Girls"!

Commander in Chief

Stand By Your Man starring DL faves Rosie O'Donnell and Melissa Gilbert.

Buffalo Bill

Filthy Rich

Good & Evil

"Riptide" completely forgettable mid 80's show about 3? guys who live on a house boat and solve crimes.

Style & Substance

The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle

The Powers That Be

"Boomtown" was amazing its first season. A masterpiece. It was up there with 'The Wire" and "The Sopranos."

But no one saw it.

Then, the second season, they introduced Vanessa Williams as the Alexis Carrington character and it was, thankfully put to sleep before it became a schlock-fest.

First season, though, it was amazing.

That show about the overweight husband with the attractive wife and their kids.

Gen Zers, you remember "ALF", right? Terrible back in the late 1980s, terrible now (on ME). One of the show's writers, Jerry Stahl, was a heroin addict and wrote the autobiography "Permanent Midnight" (later a film starring non-DL fave Ben Stiller). In the book and movie, the show "ALF" is disguised as "Mr. Chompers". Easy to believe that writers of a show like "ALF" were on drugs!

Oops! "ALF" = Generation X.

Mr. Belvedere

Forgotten....but one of THE most flawless shows ever made

Misfits of Science

Keep on Truckin'

R322 I made that show notable.

There were two shows that seemed too whimsical for their time and didn’t get much of a chance: Wonderfalls (lasted one season, I believe) and Pushing Daisies (starred a pre-gay Lee Pace and Kristin Chenoweth).

At the very least they were different and creative, which is always refreshing.

If Models Inc. and Pasadena are forgotten, then I guess Berrenger's is too.

Dirty Sexy Money

Big Shots

Good Morning World (until recently).

Phenom.

(With opening theme by Carly Simon)

Phenom.

(With opening theme by Carly Simon)

Sibs

So you people have been shut in retirees for decades? Just how old are y'all?

I'll see your Berenger's and raise you a Tattingers starring Stephen Collins (perv) and Blythe Danner (spawner of Goop). Retooled as a half-hour sitcom the second season called Nick & Hilary.

Picket Fences

Thirtysomething

Life Goes On

Major Dad

The Jackie Thomas Show

It's only legacy is that episode of 'Roseanne' in which the Conners take a trip out to L.A. and attend a taping of "The Jackie Thomas Show", the show within this forgotten show. Tom Arnold appears as Jackie Thomas, even though he'd been a regular on 'Roseanne' as a different character. Probably a confusing episode for people who've forgotten, or don't know about "The Jackie Thomas Show."

Are You There Chelsea?

It's All Relative

[quote]There were two shows that seemed too whimsical for their time and didn’t get much of a chance: Wonderfalls (lasted one season, I believe) and Pushing Daisies (starred a pre-gay Lee Pace and Kristin Chenoweth).

Both shows that Bryan Fuller was involved with.

Fuller always has great ideas but either they're cancelled early, or he flounces away from them if he doesn't get his way.

PS I loved both of these shows. Wonderfalls was fabulous and had so many great actors: the lead (Caroline Dhavenas), the very funny Katie Finneran, Lee Pace as the brother, and of course, Diana "Mommie Dearest" Scarwid as the mother.

Even though they're both great show, "Soap" and "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" seem to have been forgotten. Unless they're airing on some old person's network like Cuddly or Fuzzy.

Hooperman

In the HeeEEET of the Night

THAT'S where I remember Reid Scott (Veep) from! Logo ran It's All Relative over and over years ago.

Da Big C

Rules of Engagement, the sit-com that CBS kept renewing as mid-season filler for failed shows

[quote]Dirty Sexy Money

Loved that show. Speaking of, whatever happened to Seth Gabel? He was one of Ryan Murphy's first 'discoveries'.

R394 The last thing I saw him in was season 5 of American Horror Story. He played Jeffrey Dahmer's ghost.

My favorite short-lived show was EZ Streets. It was pulled after two episodes in the fall of 1996. It returned for a few more in the spring and that was it.

"Speaking of, whatever happened to Seth Gabel?"

Also: Glenn Fitzgerald

Is it wrong that I find shirtless Stephen Collins in the Tattinger’s clip extremely hot? He was fucking beautiful.

Seth Gabel got fat. So that’s what happened.

Yellow Rose Of Texas

Freakylinks

Relativity

Now and Again

Once and Again

Loved this show!

I remember most of these though some are more vague than others. But Phenom I NEVER heard of, and with Judith Light and Carly Simon involved it seems like any gay into pop culture would be aware of it.

ZERO Hour, starring Anthony Edwards

Six Degrees

The Mountain on the WB.

three years later Penn badgley was on Gossip Girl what the station changed its name to CW

Do No Harm, which co-starred Lin-Manuel Miranda

Crusoe

That 'other' Robert Conrad series first called "High Mountain Rangers" then revamped as "Jesse Hawkes" that he tried to do with his two sons.

Peaceable Kingdom

Jessie

Why didn’t this show take off?

Tucker’s Witch

Each week was 25 minutes of the lead character asking to speak to the manager.

Don't get me going about how much I loved The Book of Daniel. The DVD includes unaired episodes by the way.

Similarly, I treasured every minute of Nothing Sacred.

I actually liked Phenom

Phenom was a James L. Brooks failure.

Square Pegs

Jedward's Big Adventure

Everybody on Square Pegs was on the coke.

No wonder the show literally made no sense at times.

THE SLAP! On NBC. The only thing I remember about it is that there were two simultaneous DL threads about it when it started, and the lunatic OP of the second thread (who had somehow deluded himself into believing he was first) literally made a post that started with, "HELP ME!!!" because his thread had less replies. It was fucking hilarious.

OMG The Slap

HOW CAN SHE SLAP?

Better Off Ted

My Mother the Car

Sugar Time!

Reunion (2005)

R382 Someone at ABC hasn't forgotten "thirthysomething," because the network is (or was) getting ready to shoot the pilot of a sequel-type series to be called "thirtysomething(else)" with a younger cast and several of the original cast members. Like with everything else, I think it's on hold due to the shutdown.

it'll probably flop hard like the revival of another forgotten show, Murphy Brown.

The Class

My Generation, featuring DL fave Julian Morris

"Way Out" a very short lived Twilight Zonish type anthology show from the early 60's.

Perfect Strangers

I'm too young to have seen Way Out the first time around, but I saw some episodes on YouTube and they're pretty good

Daktari

The Pruitts Of Southampton

Mr. Terrific

Captain Nice

Music Scene, a 45-minute show (!) followed by....

The New People , another 45-minute show

Damages

Way Out

Inside Schwartz

Miss Match

Complete Savages

Jack and Bobby - why haven’t they released it on DVD?

Dreams

"New" Dallas is best forgotten. "New" Dynasty is also a mess. Discuss!

The Heights

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

It’s Your Move

Life With Bonnie. Sexy Mark Derwin should have had a better career.

Top of the Heap

Vinnie and Bobby

I remember Reunion on FOX and I liked the setup. But, FOX messed around with the show and time slots due to the World Series and I recall they didn't promote it as much as they did with Prison Break which premiered the same season.

After it got canned I did wonder if it could have succeeded had it been on another network.

Skin

Fastlane

Cane

It's probably been mentioned already but does anyone remember "House Calls" from the early 80s with Wayne Rogers and Lynn Redgrave? I suppose because it had the guy from MASH it was somehow required viewing by my parents but as a kid I just remember it being incredibly boring.

Drive

Happy Family

The Fanelli Boys

Misery Loves Company

The Boys

Chris Meloni did a lot of stinkers before Oz/SVU

Grosse Point!

Baby Talk

The Mommies -a sitcom about mug cradling and fibromyalgia

Cavemen

The Mullets

NBC had their own Grey’s Anatomy rip-off for a little while called Mercy. The protagonist was some forgettable blonde woman. The male lead was James Tupper (David Clark on Revenge). I think it may have lasted two or three seasons. It was so similar to Grey’s in its tone and structure that at times it felt like a big joke.

R463, I loved 'Grosse Point'! Very underrated, but I'm not sure how long it could've lasted, anyway.

[quote]NBC had their own Grey’s Anatomy rip-off for a little while called Mercy. The protagonist was some forgettable blonde woman.

The forgettable blonde woman was Taylor Schilling. You may remember her from such hits as Orange Is the New Black.

If nothing else, this thread is a fascinating study in how shows do promo pictures.

Eyes, a private detective show with Tim Daly and Laura Leighton. It wasn’t anything exceptional but the leads were likable and it should have gotten more of a chance than ABC gave it

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

[quote] If nothing else, this thread is a fascinating study in how shows do promo pictures.

Ha! Indeed. It’s also a study in how many tries it takes for an actor to find the right show/role. So many familiar faces starring in flops.

The Help

Ion was having all-day reruns of Cold Case a few years ago.

I'm surprised it's not more popular though. It was "woke" for a cop show, so it would fit it with today's pop culture, but I liked it because it wasn't preachy and was frequently powerful and moving.

R460 As a gayling, I watched that for the sight of Christopher Meloni's ass in tight jeans.

R409 Badgley had a string on flops on the WB. He was also in Do Over and The Bedford Diaries.

The Jack LaLanne Show doesn't get much nostalgic love. It should be revised with Tom Daley.

MARY!

[quote]Beyond Belief : Fact or Fiction. It was hilarious how they never provided any explanation or details about the so called "true stories".

I watched the show during it's original run and it's streaming on IMDB TV. I've been watching episodes here and there for the past few months. It's pretty fun seeing it again even though I know the true stories are BS.

[quote] As a gayling, I watched that for the sight of Christopher Meloni's ass in tight jeans.

Me too, r477. And I followed his entire pre-SVU career because of it, even though most of the shows were shit!

Also, OP's title reads "Shows The WORLD Forgot About." .. Some of these shows haven't been forgotten about in foreign countries.

e.g. Cold Case is currently running in France. Another one I know of in France right of right now is "Early Edition." That left American airwaves back in 2000. It's called "Demain à la une" there.

Someone above mentioned "Perfect Strangers." They apparently had an affinity for that in Saudi Arabia.

The Adventures of Briscoe County, Jr. - I watched this for Bruce Campbell. It was a bit of fun for a while.

Once & Again!

Billy Campbell was the hotness

Dark Skies

Union Square - yet another 90s workplace comedy. I tuned in because had a crush on Michael Landes who was positioned as the romantic lead in the pilot, but relegated to a supporting role as the series went on. Harriet Sampson Harris was in it so that was a bright spot in an otherwise awful show.

Sara, starring Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Bronson Pinchot, Bill Maher, and some other actress with skunk hair

E/R

[quote]some other actress with skunk hair

That's Corabeth fucking Godsey, you heathen!

Payne, the last attempt (for now...) to remake Fawlty Towers in the USA.

George Clooney was on that E/R sitcom and then on that ER drama.

Goodnight, Beantown starring Bill Bixby and Mariette Hartley

Mariette Hartley has some serious six o’clock shadow in that picture.

Sweet Justice- 90s legal drama set in the south starring Melissa Gilbert, Cicely Tyson, and Ronnie Cox. It wasn't a bad show, but it had low ratings and got canned after a season.

That's My Bush!

Married To The Kellys

Donald Trump's Coronavirus Press Conferences

Quintuplets

Good Advice

[quote]Picket Fences, sad to say. You'd think it'd be perfect for syndication on USA or TNT or something, but I never see it anywhere.

I remember seeing it on cable reruns in the early 00s. It was an interesting show that had storylines that were sort of ahead of the time, but I could see those storylines behind slammed today. I recall there was a storyline in which a school teacher in the town was revealed to be a transwoman and another storyline where the sheriff's teen daughter was being hit on by a lesbian teacher.

Cleghorne

Eisenhower and Lutz

Out all Night

r501 is trying to blame "cancel culture" for the fact that a show no one cares about and no one under 35 has heard of isn't being shown in reruns. LOL.

The Trouble With Larry

Up all Night

R507 I hate that show and the homewrecker Christina Applegate.

George

1600 Penn, starring the horrifyingly unfunny and unnoying Josh Gad

Jack and Mike - they should reboot this one with two gay male leads.

So basically we're listing 99.9% of everything that's ever been on TV?

My Big Fag Greek Life

Applegate is the queen of forgotten series.

R512 New here? OCD central = DL

Bad Judge

Bad Teacher

Space 1999

I Hate My Teenage Daughter

R512 We've only scratched the surface so far.

MAMA MALONE!

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That's My Mama!

I'll admit that I liked that 1600 Penn despite it having annoying Josh Gad in it. There's a been bunch of political related shows that didn't make it past one season. The Powers That Be has been probably been mentioned as well that show where Geena Davis played a female vice president.

I'll admit that I liked that 1600 Penn despite it having annoying Josh Gad in it. There's a been bunch of political related shows that didn't make it past one season. The Powers That Be has been probably been mentioned as well that show where Geena Davis played a female vice president.

The Sanford Arms

The Royle Family

The Redd Fox Show

R518 is an abomination unto man and shall be cast into the fiery pit for daring to sully the name of the CLASSIC sci-fi series Space 1999!!!

Lucky Louie

The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman

Strip Mall

Fat Actress

All American Girl

Wanda at Large

Daytime Divas

The PJs

Sanford

Bringing Down the House

oh wait that wasn't a sitcom, even though it sure seemed like one.

Kath & Kim

Picket Fences was syndicated for quite a while and then was one of the big cornerstone shows on Bravo's "Brilliant But Cancelled." I think it's remembered a lot more than you think it is.

What's Happening Now?

Nurse Jackee

Missing, starring Ashley Judd

Popular

Malibu Cuntry

Sherri

Soul Man

The Sun Also Sets

The New Leave it to Beaver

Hot in Tuckahoe

Gimme Gimme Gimme

The 80s remake of Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Two's Company

Nobody's Perfect

Jam and Jerusalem

"Pasadena," a nighttime soap created by Mike White (of "Cuck and Buck"), with an amazing cast: Martin Donovan, Dana Delaney, Marc Valley, Nathan Fillion, Bathasar Getty, and Natasha Gregson warner.

It had a great credits sequence.

"CHUCK and Buck," not "Cuck and Buck"! LOL

Law and Order: LA, proof positive that the L&O franchise really doesn't work when it's set anywhere else besides NYC.

Justice, starring DL fave Victor Garber. I actually liked that show

Fridays, ABC's attempt at a late-night sketch comedy show in the early 80s.

wow R560 I didn't even know about that one.

The Bonnie Hunt Show

The Roseanne Show

The Fran Drescher Tawk Show

The Megan Mullally Show

Roundhouse on Nickelodeon

The Other Half, the failed attempt at a male version of The View

Robert Urich in “Gavilan”. I jerked off to this photo multiple times as a teen.

The New Normal

The ½ Hour News Hour. Fox News' attempt to create their own right-wing version of the Daily Show.

Eastwick

Traveler

Max Headroom! I had a crush on Matt Frewer at the time.

Automan

Werewolf

Wolf Lake

Tabitha, starring Lisa Hartman-Black and Andy Cohen

Apple Pie

Goodtime Girls

Fernwood 2 Night

Forever Fernwood

Las Vegas

The Powers of Matthew Starr

Sidekicks

Sapphire and Steel

The Invisible Man

I remember Traveler because it was my introduction to Matt Bomer!

Mutant X

The Playboy Club

Pan Am

Go On

Mr. Sunshine

Manimal!

R259 I still have my bootlegs of Starved!

The Man From Atlantis

Voyagers. Hated the kid.

Jake And The Fattie!

Big John, Little John starring DL fave Joyce Bulifant, that jinx Cousin Oliver aka Robbie Rist, and of course Herb "Stan Zbornak" Edelman. Created by Sherwood Schwartz. Why Datalounge hasn't demanded a Bluray restoration and a place in the Television Museum of History is beyond me.