Obscure TV shows
After reading the King Kong thread, I went over to the website but I checked out the collection of TV shows both on TV and Blu-ray.
Gadzooks! There are some TV show seasons from the 1950s and 1960s as well as more recent ones. How ever did they get these?
A couple of examples:
"Medic" (1954-1956) starring Richard Boone.
"Yancy Derringer" (1958-1959) starring "Jock Mahoney"
"Manimal" (1983) starring Simon MacCorkindale
"The Westerner" (1960) starring Brian Keith
And more.
Anyone find a long lost favorite?
It was nice to see multiple seasons of "Lou Grant".
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | February 11, 2021 11:59 AM
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Anybody remember "Super Train". It was about this very fast train that traveled the country. People on it had Love Boat type adventures. I think it lasted 1/2 a season.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 9, 2021 10:50 PM
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Jock Mahoney was Sally Field’s stepfather.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 9, 2021 11:08 PM
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Only one season but this hilarious sitcom from Darren Star about the making of a Beverly Hills 90210 should have earned at least a second.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 9, 2021 11:35 PM
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The other week out of nowhere, I remembered this late-90s UPN one-season sitcom about private-school kids. I tried explaining it to some people of my age, who were also avid tv watchers in youth, and they all thought I was making it up. Even I thought I was imagining things.
After a night of heavy drinking and googling, however, I found proof of its existence. It’s called SOCIAL STUDIES, it aired in spring of 1997, and it starred Julia Duffy & Bonnie McFarlane, along with a young cast of Lisa Wilhoit, Rashaan Nall, Chris Owen, Corbin Allred, and Jordan Brower.
Sadly, I couldn’t find any clips or streaming episodes uploaded anywhere. Only IMDB, google images and a Wiki stub confirms that it’s real.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 9, 2021 11:49 PM
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"Follow the Sun" - 2 free lance magazine writers (and their legman) in Hawaii. Starred Barry Coe, Brett Halsey and Gary Lockwood. Gigi Perreau was their secretary. A single season (1961-1962).
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 9, 2021 11:57 PM
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Update: I found the pilot episode of SOCIAL STUDIES stashed away in the farthest dustiest corner of Youtube, and it’s as dirty and trashy and stupid and schlocky as I remember (UPN, you know how it is).
The main characters are 14-15 year old school-kids, and they spend all their time heckling each other about sex, and trying to exploit one another...so I guess it’s pretty true to life, actually (uncomfortably so).
Julia Duffy is fantastic and beautiful as the prim but sexually-frustrated upper-class headmistress, and Bonnie McFarlane is fun as the dykey scrappy underling teacher from Brooklyn. Corbin Allred stands out among the young cast, as the smarmy hustler kid who smuggles contraband into the school and sells test answer papers.
Wish I could find the rest of the series, I’m curious to see how it holds up and if it’s really as nuts and uncomfortable as I recall. The Youtube channel on which I found the pilot has a ton of other pilots of obscure shows from the 90s through to the 10s.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | February 10, 2021 9:36 PM
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The original "The Goldbergs", 1949-1956.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | February 10, 2021 9:57 PM
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ASK HARRIET, starring Anthony Tyler Quinn aka Mr. Tyler of BOY MEETS WORLD.
Kinda wish they’d bring it back, just to watch the Ts turn rabid and stroke out.
🎵There’s gotta be a way outta this mess/‘Cuz I can’t stand running ‘round in a dress!🎵
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | February 11, 2021 11:59 AM
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