Weird TV shows you liked

I loved Sisters, OP! I wish I could find somewhere to watch it.

I also liked Sisters

Twin Peaks is still probably the weirdest thing ever put on network TV and it's my favorite show of all time.

Also a big fan of some of its spiritual successors like X-Files, Lost and Stranger Things.

I loved Picket Fences (did a rewatch a few years ago), liked Father Dowling, and just recently started Sisters for the first time.

Under the Dome got my attention and I usually ignore network series.

"It's Garry Shandling's Show" wasn't a "weird TV show," but when I was in elementary school, it was unlike any other comedy show I had ever watched.

Herman's Head was weird. I liked it when I was around 14 or 15 years old, but I don't know that I would have enjoyed it if I had been an adult when I came out.

The Kids in the Hall- hilarious Canadian sketch comedy show.

I watched all these shows. "Picket Fences" was my first hyperfixation as a 12 year old.

Having a monoculture was so great. But I hardly watch TV anymore.

Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman!

OP, I see your shows and raise you one “Evening Shade”.

Tonight, in Fernwood: Fernwood 2-Nite!

H.R. Pufnstuf

'All That Glitters" -- a syndicated satire by Norman Lear where women are in charge of the world, corporations, etc. and men are the hausfraus.

It starred Lois Nettleton, Anita Gillette, Linda Gray, and Jessica Walter (!) and featured the always-welcome Gary Sandy as a male secretary who was sexually harassed by corporate executives.

Too weird for TV, and by then women's roles were changing anyway.

I loved Sisters, too. But let's face it: that show was marketed to str8 guys. The first scene every week was them in the sauna in various stages of undress.

The OA.

They was in towels, r15.

Dinosaurs

Profiler on NBC in the 90s. Ally Walker as an icy FBI profiler with a stalker on her own. It was well executed.

I thought “Persons Unknown” had an interesting premise, but I think it was generally written off as an inferior Lost knock-off.

The Night Stalker (which directly inspired The X-Files)

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (unlike in tone anything else on TV then or for years after)

Father Dowling’s mysteries.

Shasta McNasty

The Pretender, with former DL fave Michael T Weiss

"Millennium", which I always thought was a better version of "The X-Files."

Being Human (both US and UK) Travelers 12 Monkeys Defiance Dark Matter Haven Being Erica Continuum Love on the Spectrum

^^Ugh, sorry. Formatting.

Being Human (both US and UK)

Travelers

12 Monkeys

Defiance

Dark Matter

Haven

Being Erica

Continuum

Love on the Spectrum

One Step Beyond

One Step Beyond was great.

Pushing Daisies with DL fave Lee Pace. Too bad it only lasted one season.

I was a kid in the 80s and a teen in the 90s, and I gobbled up anything on television. Night Flight, USA Up All Night had the best weird, obscure shows and movies. MTV had a swath of original non-video programming like Beavis and Butthead, Dead at 21, Liquid Television, all the fucking WEIRD VIDEOS they would play late at night. Also certain videos that they would only play late at night, like didn't Madonna's "Justify My Love" get that treatment? Also, all the REALLY WEIRD videos on THE BOX!

Pushing Daisies was great

“Love, Sidney” starring Tony Randall who was besties with a 8 year old girl and her single mom.

Did I win?

"MTV had a swath of original non-video programming like Beavis and Butthead, Dead at 21, Liquid Television, all the fucking WEIRD VIDEOS they would play late at night"

Liquid Television was fucking awesome. And I liked Dead at 21 featuring hot, GAY Jack Noseworthy

Station Eleven

Dead Like Me.

Hot l Baltimore

Cop Rock.

Strangers with Candy

Millennium, especially after Megan Gallagher was gone.

Alcatraz - Interesting ideas + Sam Neill + Parminder Nagra = I watched it and it was doomed to be canceled.

Eerie, Indiana - Great show, I watched it, so it was doomed to be canceled.

American Gothic - Great show, interesting ideas, I watched it, so it was doomed to be canceled.

Cash Cab - Ok, not that weird. It's a family favorite, partly because the contestants are often weird.

Reno 911. I still think its funny when I go back and watch it. Life with Tim is another one I like.

Room For Two - Linda Lavin and Patrica Heaton. Ran two seasons 1992-93.

Does The Nine count as weird? That would be my choice.

I loved Dinosaurs and I'm glad it's still around in clips and DVDs, because I think it was ahead of its time.

Goodnight Beantown

Eerie Indiana

Courage The Cowardly Dog

Death Valley

Cleopatra 2525

Big Wolf On Campus

The Bugaloos.

A girl I went to high school with was a recurring character on Father Dowling Mysteries. She played Detective Clancy on it.

"The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd" with Blair Brown.

She played a kind of bipolar woman living in New York in the 80s.

r48 here's an article about your high school friend. It's from 2012, so not that recent.

Sorry, I'm nosy, I went to look her up because I didn't remember the character off hand, and I found this.

Thanks, R50! Yep, that's her, except she went by "Gina" in high school.

She was a few years ahead of me. I was the same age as her brother Roger who she mentions in the article, who died of AIDS in the 1990s. We had been friends going all the way back to grade school.

[43] I’m still pissed The Nine was cancelled and we never got a resolution.

Adding Eureka on USA

2000 Malibu Road had a brief run, but it was magnificent!

So many DL faves crammed into 47 minutes. Lisa Hartman, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Beals, peak Brian Bloom.

The plot lines were absolutely nuts.

Also, the fat sister was so evil that she was struck by lightning INDOORS in the season (and sadly, series) finale.

I loved “Head Case” starring Ali Wentworth. Pampered bitchy psychiatrist treats various celebs in mostly ad-libbed sessions. She was funny and all, but I loved the side characters.

Can’t watch it anywhere unless you buy the series on DVD. Which I just might.

R53 It was guilty pleasure for sure. Michael T. Weiss and Brian Bloom in the same show! It was weird it was created by TLF, who co-created L.A. Law.

"Woops!" About 6 people who survived a nuclear holocaust. What a scream.

"The Sixth Sense." Gary Collins investigated paranormal events. "Your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions."

"Night Gallery." The Richard Kiley episode is not to be missed.

r40/r46 I'm an "Eerie, Indiana" fan as well. The cast was great, as was the writing.

I loved Millenium. Surprised no one has mentioned Friday the 13th yet.

Land Of The Lost (1974)

Drop Dead Diva

I still enjoy Drop Dead Diva reruns.

"The Popcorn Kid"- Ran for only a few episodes in the spring of 1987 on CBS on Friday night. Kind of like "Are You Being Served?" but set in an old movie theater. The main kid thought working there would help him get into the movie industry. In the last episode, they were having an Ed Asner film festival.

"The Charmings"- Started out on Friday night on ABC during the spring and summer of 1987. It was taken off and retooled then brought back, but I lost track (and interest). Silly little show about Snow White, the prince, and the evil queen somehow being transported to the real world. I liked it very much, but then, I like "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". I hoped they would have a hot guy playing the prince, but I was disappointed.

"Moon Over Miami"- Billy Campbell 🥵 as a private detective in the great city of Miami, running his agency out of an old art deco restaurant (or something). He had a Cuban guy as a bodyguard and a Cuban chick as his receptionist. Ally Walker (before "Profiler") was an amnesiac who hired Campbell to find out who she was. She ended up sticking around to help on cases and as Campbell's "love interest". It tried to be like one of those old "will they/won't they" type movies from the 1930s and 1940s, showing contrast between the easy-going Cuban couple and the bickering Campbell and Walker. It ran for half a season on ABC in the fall of 1993. The building used for exterior shots was the same one used for "The Golden Palace".

"PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal"- Hosted by Dan Aykroyd, it was kind of a Canadian version of "The X-Files". Each hour episode was divided into two separate "case files" as a team of investigators interviewed people with claims of ghosts, demons aliens, etc. A little silly, but good if you're into that kind of thing. Ryan Gosling was in the pilot as a teenager claiming to have been abducted by aliens. I watched it for a hot actor named Paul Miller. Thick, black wavy hair, blue eyes, square jaw, and a deep voice that would make me curl my toes. Jesus, I thought he was hot! He's now a hot Daddy playing the mayor on "The Good Witch". He was my introduction to Canadian men and television. I only watched the first season (1996-1997), then they killed off Paul's character in the season finale!

"Remember WENN"- Created by Rupert Holmes of "The Pina Colada Song" fame, it was AMC's first endeavor in original programming (well before "The Walking Dead"). Remember when they used to show old movies? A short feel-good sitcom set in a small town radio station in the days before World War II. No one of interest in the main cast that I can recall. The original station manager was hot in a big, masculine Daddy kind of way. (He got shipped off on a mission for special forces mid way through the show's run.) There was a queen playing the main male voice actor, trying hard to both come off as a philandering Clark Gable/ Errol Flynn type and not light the set on fire with his flames. Betty Buckley guest starred as the widow of the station owner. Lots of vintage clothes, hairstyles, and props. Old time, corny sense of humor. It had its moments, but mostly just a comforting, cozy kind of show in the vein of "A Christmas Story". Ran for a few seasons in the late 1990s (I first noticed it in 1996.). Forgotten now, I haven't seen it anywhere in years and my video tapes were lost.

Forgot to mention, Holmes also wrote nearly every episode of "WENN".

[quote] "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd" with Blair Brown.

With John Glover in a recurring role as her Cousin Mike from Bawlmore. He nailed that accent. Growing up in Maryland, it endeared me to that show. Plus Blair Brown was sublime.

Speaking of Remember WENN, AMC also had a show set at an old Hollywood movie studio called The Lot. It was pretty good, they even had an episode about a gay actor who was pressured to get married by the studio

Does anyone remember Monsters?

Or Tales From the Darkside?

Nothing weird about those shows at OP....?

I loved Molly Dodd. THAT show was quirky, for sure.

They should do a streaming version of it now.

R13 HR Pufnstuff was proof that you CAN, in fact, make a TV show whilst under the influence of serious drugs

Pushing Daisies was part of a group of shows with similar premises/tone by a crew that included Bryan Fuller, Todd Holland and/or Tim Minear....if I remember right.

But the one that preceded Pushing Daisies was my favorite....Wonderfalls. I would cheapen it with words if I attempted to describe it.

I loved Tales from the Darkside and The Hitcher(?) or was it the Hitchiker?

Dr. Shrinker.

BBC3's series: "In the Flesh" about zombies, which aired 2013-14. It got cancelled due to the massive budget cuts the BBC faced that year. It's unfortunate that they couldn't have given the showt at least three more episodes to wrap things up; but it just got chopped without resolution.

[quote] From wiki: The show, set in the fictional village of Roarton, Lancashire depicts life several years after "The Rising." This period, in (fictional) 2010, was a time when thousands of people who had died in 2009 suddenly re-animated as mindless, homicidal, brain-eating zombies world-wide. However, by the time of the series, normality has begun to return. A full-fledged zombie apocalypse has long since been prevented by armed resistance from the living, especially from armed local militias who patrolled their communities and actively hunted the re-animated. Meanwhile, a scientific solution for the zombie phenomenon has been found, with the development of a medication to restore consciousness to the undead, allowing them to remember their time alive and who they once were. The surviving undead, not killed by the militias, have been rounded up, forcibly medicated, and entered in a government rehabilitation programme in a plan to reintroduce them to society.

The drama centers around zombie protagonist-twink "Kieran Walker," played by Luke Newberry. His love is the charismatic "Simon Monroe," played by Emmett J. Scanlan. Simon is connected to the Undead Liberation Army and is one of the 12 disciples of the mysterious Undead Prophet.

Wonderfalls was so good, r69. I still rewatch it every couple years or so.

Profit - Starring Adrian Pasdar at his finest.

Recall his character, Jim Profit, still slept nude, curled up in a large shipping box, the way he'd been raised as a child.

R74 very interesting show and should have had more episodes. Yes, Adrian was perfect in it.

Adrian was so fuckable back then

Sigmund and the Sea Monsters

Makin' It

Fringe

Grimm

Beyond Belief

[quote] I loved Molly Dodd. THAT show was quirky, for sure.

[quote] They should do a streaming version of it now.

Sorry R67, it was too expensive to buy the music rights, as she was frequently singing. Apparently the cost outweighed the potential for viewers. I disagree, but that's Hollywood. There are a lot of episodes on youtube, posted from people's blurry old VHS tapes. I guess it's better than nothing.

Northern Exposure

Strangers with Candy

The John Laroquette Show - the one that was sent in the bus station

The Philanthropist

Dirty Sexy Money

Lucifer

R48 that was not a strange show other than the idea of a priest and nun solve crimes. It was another geriatric show like Murder She Wrote, In The Heat of The Night and fucking Matlock.

Ally McBeal

An assortment of interesting men

MTV's cheap and trashy daily soap opera, "Spyder Games."

It had good enough ratings to warrant a Season 2, but right as Season 1 was ending, 9/11 happened, and by early 2002, MTV would decide to get out scripted television (the popular "Undressed" would get cancelled as well) and go full steam ahead with reality shows.

Spyder Games was fun and it was gay-inclusive, too!

R81 I'm a dedicated Molly fan - I know all that stuff about the music rights.

I meant I'd totally watch either a reboot with a younger cast OR a limited series that showed Blair as Molly - who would that woman be at this stage of her life? Of course David Straithairn would be there too.

R48

Hey, that's interesting, you had a friend on the show :) I really did like that show, liked Tracy Nelson on it. I looked it up on IMDB and your friends name was evidently Regina Krueger and I was surprised to see Mary Wickes was also in it. I forgot that :)

Was Mary Wickes a Sister before she was a Sister on Sister Act?

Sewing with Nancy, because we couldn't stop laughing at her.

Swingtown, female liberation comes to the cul-de-sac in 1970s suburban Chicago as sexual libration runs wild.

This was like Scooby Doo for adults. The leads were all hot, they looked good in their suits, and they'd throw glasses of whiskey around and yell about THE TRUTH.

At the end of every episode you learn some important lesson about why you shouldn't believe everything you see about aliens on the History Channel.

Weirdly, this was made by the History Channel.

City Confidential

You Wrote It You Watch It on MTV hosted by a young John Stewart. Viewers sent in true stories that were acted out.

R91 Yes, it was Regina Krueger (she went by Gina in high school). R50 found an article about her. I was friends with her late brother Roger going all the way back to grade school.

R67 I loved Molly Dodd. I remember there was one episode where she had a psychotic break and went to the grocery store and loaded her entire cart with watermelons.

About a dozen years ago, one of public television stations in the Los Angles area began running "Cursive Handwriting with Virginia Henderson." This was an old show from the 80s produced by WHRO, the PBS educational channel in Norfolk, VA.

They'd air in around 8 am, and I'd watch it while getting ready for work. .. Fascinating! .. lol.

Beat the Geeks

Brimstone

Peter Perfect, hosted by should-be DL icon Peter Ishkans. It was on style network— his top quip was “I’m not gay, I’m BRITISH!”

R99 Well, the days weren’t too bad, but those nights, they were brutal.

Don’t know if it qualifies as weird, certainly massively silly, but I do like to watch Diagnosis Murder. Private Eyes with mature hunky Jason Priestly and his Kim Kardashian lookalike partner is good fun too.

Molly Dodd was also one of my favorites. I loved the music. I also liked Soap. Recently Hulu was showing Bunheads which came out in 2012 and was one season. Great show and funny. It is about a Las Vegas showgirl who hastily marries a guy who lives in a small town with his mother. The guy dies the day after she marries him and is stuck in this small town. Her mother-in-law owns a ballet studio and ropes the women into teaching classes. The show has a lot of dancing and it is fun to watch.

I had to look it up, but with mentions of Profiler reminded me there was a show that came on after Profiler and it was called The Others about psychics. I saw one episode and it was good, but strange.

Another one was Now & Again with Heather Matarazzo. Again a good show, but strange.

Anyone remember Golden Years? It was a miniseries by Stephen King. People were rapidly aging or something. I barely remember it, but it was freaky to me.

What? No love here for Schitt's Creek?

Lucan. A guy raised by wolves. Kevin Brophy….

Monsters

Happytown, it was so creepy, campy, & fun! I was so sad it didn’t last a full season.

Invasion. A series about an alien invasion.

Manimal.

The New People. Had every late 60’s cliche in the book. Only lasted half a season.

The original Æon Flux animated series that ran on MTV in the early 90s.

"The Young Rebels"

I liked The Young Rebels too!

Rock Follies. It was a really “of the moment” show that captures the end of the rock era, which kind of devolves into radical leftism and nostalgia acts. And it’s where “What’s the buzz, cock?” came from

I Am Not Okay With This. Wish it had gotten a second season.

Oh…and Rock Follies brought Rula Lenska to US audiences. For the next decade they asked, “Who the fuck is Rula Lenska?” after she appeared on a U.S. tv commercial getting off a plane and saying “I’m Rula Lenska,” and then told us about her hairspray.

Gotta love Celebrity Deathmatch... Some of those were just bonkers.

The Comeback. Even with great reviews, it didn't find much of an audience. One of my favorite shows of all time. Lisa Kudrow could make you laugh and cry in the same scene.

Great to see all the love for Molly Dodd. As a 16-year-old, that and Kate & Allie fed my obsession to move to New York and have a quirky life :)

People have mentioned “Milennium”, which I loved, but if we’re talking about X-Files adjacent shows, I really liked The Lone Gunmen - possibly because I’m from Vancouver and am a colossal techie nerd. it had great, self-deprecating humour! (The Lone Gunmen were side characters on the X-Files, and were always a highlight, imo.)

Also, piping cold tea alert: in the early ‘90s, when we were in our early twenties, a friend of mine used to work parties (you know - as a prostitution whore?) On more than one occasion, she and another friend of mine were hired by Chris Carter - along with other girls - and were instructed to dress like teenage cheerleaders, basically: pigtails, short slutty skirts… he was really into the high school girl fantasy.

Battle Of The Network Stars!

Wonder Showzen was like Sesame Street on PCP. I can't say I liked it but it was so insane I couldn't stop watching it.

Not sure if it meets the definition of weird, but I loved Getting On. Laurie Metcalf, Neicy Nash, and Alex Borstein in a geriatric hospital ward. It was a dark comedy but often it was wet your pants funny and poignant at the same time.

Eerie, Indiana

The Adventures of Pete and Pete

R122 I'm loving the Molly love here too.

I honestly could not, sitting in my chair today, look back and tell you a particular storyline, per se, it wasn't that kind of show. But as the kids say nowaways, Molly was a "vibe." It felt real, in terms of some of the weird but wonderful awkwardness that can happen when you're trying to establish your own life, or when you're in the dating scene.

I was the gay nerd from hell who barely survived bullying and a suicide attempt in my senior year, and while all the local dirtbagerati were spending graduation night drinking Jim Beam out of Pepsi bottles and celebrating their impending wage slave initiations, I was in the basement watching the first (or second?) episode of Molly, dreaming of escaping my dreary surroundings for NYC and having a fabulous studio and quirky but hot boyfriend. Never quite made it to NYC but did make it to Chicago, with plenty of quirky apartments and hot men.

Better off Ted. It was a quirky comedy that many didn’t seem to get.

As I recall, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd was just a evening version of a redux Ryan’s Hope with Blair Brown as a down market stand in for Kate Mulgrew’s Mary Ryan, and whose shadow she has remained in her whole working life.

[quote]Cop Rock —Steven Bochco

This is the strangest thing I have seen in a while. Hill Street Blues meets Glee or something?

R129 Better off Ted was hilarious! I loved the commercials for "Veridian Dynamics" they would feature in each episode.

Hodge Podge Lodge

Tattletales

Friday the 13th, the Series

R132 Thanks for the reminder! I had forgotten about those. I especially liked Portia de Rossi in the show. It was a fun show but too off beat for the masses.

My synapses must've been misfiring at r56. The TV series I MEANT to list was "Normal, Ohio" and not "Eerie, Indiana." Close geographically 😵‍💫 but otherwise not at all.

I'll go lie down now, and hope normal brain function is restored soon.

[quote]I Am Not Okay With This. Wish it had gotten a second season.

Yes! Loved this show.

Also "End Of The Fucking World". Terrific performances.

Another vote for Strangers with Candy.

R91 that show was for old people who got off on Matlock!

“The Book of Daniel” about a pill popping reverend (Aidan Quinn) who talks to Jesus (Garret Dillahunt). It was like SFU-lite for network TV but I enjoyed it. I also thought Aidan in his clergy attire was hot.

r141 I remember that. Very interesting. Waaaaay too advance for network TV.

[quote]Hodge Podge Lodge

I had forgotten all about this one because I'd usually turn the TV to something else whenever it came on. Seeing it now, it must have been the inspiration for 'The Lady Who Lives in The Woods' on 'At Home With Amy Sedaris'.

KINGS - NBC 2009 .. Really loved this show. It probably should have been on cable. From wiki:

[quote] Kings is set in the fictional Kingdom of Gilboa, a modern absolute monarchy. Gilboa is ruled by King Silas Benjamin, who originally formed the United Kingdom two decades before from the three warring countries of Gilboa, Carmel, and Selah. He believes that he has been divinely anointed king, and he often cites the day when a swarm of monarch butterflies once landed on his head in the form of "a living crown" which called upon him to form the Monarchy and Kingdom.

This video montage is heavy on Sebastian Stan's character, Jonathan "Jack" Benjamin – crown prince of Gilboa, a counterpart to the biblical Jonathan. Secretly gay.

R130 is on crack.

I don’t know why, but USA would air “Wings” several times a day in the mid-90’s, and I’d watch almost every single time (especially in the summer when there was no school).

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫 (1967), with Patrick McGoohan.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 (1977), with Roddy McDowall.

𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 (1981-82), hosted by James Coburn.

𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 (1979-88).

𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧'𝐬 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 (1977).

I liked Tales of the Unexpected

Way Out

The Edge - sketch show on FOX starring Jennifer Aniston, Julie Brown, Wayne Knight...

Two - Canadian late night show where Michael Easton is framed for the murder of his wife....by his evil twin, Booth!

TUSH (1980-1981)

It was sketch comedy like SNL. This is where my all-time favorite comedian (Jan Hooks) got her start. Watch this clip of her Tammy Jean Talk Show which is a parody of Tammy Faye Bakker's PTL show.

I loved Book of Daniel (have the DVDs). Also loved Nothing Sacred with Kevin Anderson

Only a homosexual would like those

Playing House which aired on USA Network: Childhood best friends Maggie Caruso and Emma Crawford have shared countless adventures raising Maggie's daughter Charlotte together in their hometown of Pinebrook. The BFFs overcome unexpected hurdles since Emma's move back home to help Maggie, including navigating colorful characters from their past and surviving countless dating misadventures. Now, the tables are turned when Maggie needs to come to Emma's rescue as their friendship faces its biggest challenge yet. These women complement each other the way only best friends can, by facing the challenges of their past, present and future -- together.

I also liked Younger with Sutton Foster.

The first 2 or 3 seasons of Once Upon a Time. Then it got weird and sucked.

Strangers With Candy

R14, I remember that show as a kid.

I loved the shows in the late 80s/early 90s that used to be on Saturday afternoon:

"Superboy"

"War of the Worlds"

"Highlander"

"Hercules"

And there was another with a beautiful, shoulder length-blondhaired Tarzan-like lead.

In Search 🔍 Of

It was on tv in the late 1970’s.

In Search Of had cool theme music.

I think it was The Hitchhiker that had the hot narrator with an enormous basket walking in and out at the beginning/end

Does anybody remember a Saturday morning kids' show in the 70s called "Wacko?" It was kind of like a kids' version of Laugh-In. It didn't last very long, but I thought it was really off-the-wall and funny.

"Burke's Law" 1963-1966, starring Gene Barry as a millionaire LAPD detective who solved crimes while he was chauffeured around Los Angeles in a Rolls Royce.

I mean, it [italic]could[/italic] happen.

Kings was great, but it looked expensive. Also, the lead lacked charisma. It probably should have been on cable or streaming.

Downward Dog

Pee-wee's Playhouse.

A reason to get up on Saturday morning.

The Young Ones

Sanchez of Bel Air

Kids In The Hall

The Chicken Lady skit will always be the epitome of weirdness

R165 The bind date skit: "Would you like a beer or would you like to drink out of the toilet?"

The Gong Show

r152, Nothing Sacred is where I first heard Nina Simone. "A Little Sugar in My Bowl" was its theme song.

I used to love The Big Gay Comedy Sketch Show, produced by Rosie. Especially Elaine Stritch as a Walmart greeter, and the hunky UPS guy.

I really liked People of Earth on TBS. I was so pissed when TBS initially renewed the show for a third season and then canned it later on.

R169, I liked it, too. Kate McKinnon got her start there

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. It was Tina Fey produced, so if you dislike her it's probably not for you.

I really liked Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. I'm probably in the minority, but I think Ellie Kemper is underrated. I like her a lot more than Jenna Fischer on The Office.

Not weird but criminally under-promoted: Hap and Leonard based on the series of novels by Joe R. Lansdale.

Kimmy Schmidt had its charms.

But Tina Fey is the new Ryan Murphy. Fun shows at launch that lose their potency/flavor within a season or two.

Don't trust the Bitch in Apt 23

R176 Such a great show! It deserved a bigger audience.

Santa Clarita Diet- In my opinion, it could have one more season.

Cell Block H

Little Mosque on the Prarie

Phoebe Waller-Bridges’ “Crashing” (not to be confused with the HBO series of the same name). Jonathan Bailey was adorable in this as was the actor playing his romantic interest. Great cast.

Sadly it only got one season, which I’ve binge watched several times on Netflix. I loved Fleabag but liked this one more!

[quote]I like her a lot more than Jenna Fischer on The Office.

Aw, she and Krasinski are the heart of The Office.

[quote]"Millennium", which I always thought was a better version of "The X-Files."

It is an apples and oranges comparison. “Millennium” is Book of Revelations-y; X Files wasn’t.

Video Music Box on Channel 31 in NYC.

Brooklyn and Queens hadn't yet been wired for cable, this video show was the best music fans could do re seeing videos. It was on at very odd time, 2 or 3PM, the audience for this was probably still in school during those hours. Or on their way home from school.

Homefront - a 1940s soap opera made in the early 1990s. Most people were into Kyle Chandler, but I was all about Harry O'Reilly.

I used to watch Sisters. Sela Ward was such an annoying actress. It was like watching someone reading a recipe off the back of the Hershey's Cocoa container, in perfect southernese, and then dying slowly of boredom. She had no facial expressions.

R173 I love Kimmy Schmidt. It was hilarious at times and so clever. Very rewatchable.

R152 Opened Sunset Boulevard with Patti LuPone in London in 1993.

TV Funhouse—ran for about a year on Comedy Central.

Short lived musical TV show about a rich guy adopting a bunch of teenage orphan girls. It was set in 1961 but they all dressed like it was 1987. Baby Jessica getting rescuers from the well cut into the season finale and the show ended up getting cancelled so no one was able to view the final episode until it was released on DVD 20 years later

Some of the musical numbers from Rags to Riches

Fox sitcom Babes- about 3 fat women. Starting DL face Wendy Jo.

Starring*

The Mighty Boosh

I Married Dora- starring Elizabeth Peña (and a teenaged Juliette Lewis.) about a man marrying his immigrant maid in order to stop her deportation. Unfortunately the show was cancelled halfway through the first season- which was famously addressed in the final scene when they broke the fourth wall.

[quote]Don't trust the Bitch in Apt 23

It's actually 'Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23'

R195 After his wife died, John Lautner who was a famous architect in LA married his maid so she wouldn't be deported.

Jenny Craig - A Whole New You

The Mighty Boosh. Funny funny stuff.

R179 - I lived for Cell Block H as a kid, for the few months it aired in my area. It’s all on YouTube, I need to watch.

R185 Between Slattery and Kyle Chandler, I often needed to rub one out after an episode.

The Jim Gaffigan show

The Patty Duke Show -- identical-looking cousins

Early edition with Kyle Chandler was good.

R191 Good lord, I saw Bill Maher in that montage!

I don't remember this show at all. It looks awful. And they call all those girls' caterwauling "singing?"

OUT OF THIS WORLD

Alien-human hybrid who resides with her human mom (Donna Pescow) on Earth and yearns to reunite with her absentee alien dad (voiced by Burt Reynolds) with whom she communicates via some special laser cube.

Her superpowers include being able to freeze time and to manifest objects using only her mind.

R203 and we all just went with it, lol. But, cute show.

I did like Square pegs.

Todd and the Book of Pure Evil. Netflix had it for a while but now it's locked down tighter than a submarine hatch. It's a shame too because everyone loved it.

VR.5 (it's in dire need of a reboot.)

Brimstone (had potential but John Glover was highlight)

The Others (had potential... though should have been more balanced ensemble than focused too much on one lead.)

No Ordinary Family (It wasn't bad for a family show. . . familar setup but there was potential for it.)

The Dresden Files

Constantine (honestly, they should just stop trying to do this one because the majority hate every version of it ever made.... but I thought the show was passable. )

In The Flesh (strong start but like most shows... got lost in the middle, kill a fan fav too soon and lost the plot by trying to make it bigger than itself)

The Rook (it was slow as heck and just as it started to pick up momentum, it was cancelled.)

The Passage (for what it was.. it wasn't bad.You see people keep trying to repeat this kind of format. But I think it was almost working here.)

R207 SP totally imprinted on me, I started middle school that year & could totally relate.

The end of the pilot ep, where Muffy dances to The Waitresses’ song like she’s heard music for the first time cracked me up like no other. I still remember the expression on her face & her Elaine Benes-worthy “dance” moves. Such a great show.

R210 Square Pegs was great. I remember Muffy always raising money for the poor Guatemalan child. In one episode, they almost had enough to buy the child the other shoe.

R211 LOL I was a poor, barefoot, Guatemalan child in the 1980s. I should check out the show for that storyline. 😂

Where is Square Pegs streaming anyways?

Here, R213.

R214

" The, like, TOTALLY COMPLETE SERIES...TOTALLY".

Hey, thanks ! :)

R214 thanks for that link!

It sure saved me the trouble of tracking down the show myself.

American Gods on Starz. I love Ian McShane as Mr. Wednesday and Ricky Whittle is very easy on the eyes as bald Shadow Moon.

Second Chance/Boys will be Boys 1987/1988 fox sitcom starring Matthew Perry

Second Chance is an American sitcom aired on Fox from September 26 to November 28, 1987. The series was then revamped under the new title Boys Will Be Boys, and ran in the new format from January 16 to May 14, 1988.

In its original format, the show starred Kiel Martin as Charles Russell, a deceased man, and Matthew Perry as his younger self, who is nicknamed Chazz. On July 29, 2011, Charles dies in a hovercraft accident, and his soul is promptly sent to the high spiritual palace of Saint Peter (Joseph Maher). It is there that Saint Peter determines that Charles is too good for hell but not good enough to get into heaven; therefore, Charles is sent back to Earth in the year 1987, to re-join his life during the teenage years in order to help himself, through the younger Chazz, make more moral choices.

After a little over a month off the air, the series returned in January 1988 under a new title, Boys Will Be Boys. In this revamp, the supernatural element was dropped, causing Kiel Martin and Joseph Maher to exit the cast. As the new title implied, the format now revolved solely around the antics of Chazz, Booch and Eugene.

In the opening scene for the pilot, as a throwaway joke, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is shown being judged after his death, with the date given as July 29, 2011. In the year after the Berlin discotheque bombing and the U.S. response, the 1987 pilot was playing off Gaddafi's prominent negative perception by the American public. Twenty-four years later, by coincidence, Gaddafi's death (on October 20, 2011) occurred within three months of the "predicted" date and was from the same cause (multiple gunshot wounds).

Moone Boy

Camp Runamuk

Sisters is a great show. I don't understand why it's basically forgotten nowadays.

I was just a kid when SISTERS was on. I had an aunt who watched. I caught an episode or two but vaguely recall them. But I remember all the female characters had boy names. So weird.

The short lived series Maximum Bob. Nothing else has captured the dumpster fire that is Florida like this. The humor was pretty ahead of it’s time.

Maximum Bob is an American comedy-drama television series that aired on ABC from August 4 until September 15, 1998.[2] Starring Beau Bridges, the show was based on Elmore Leonard's 1991 novel of the same name.

The series centered on Bob Gibbs (played by Bridges), an ultra right-wing judge known for giving the maximum sentence to defendants. Other characters included the judge's psychic wife Leanne (Kiersten Warren) who channels the spirit of a young slave girl named Wanda Grace (Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly); a widower sheriff with a knack for ballroom dancing; and Kathy Baker, a comely spitfire public defender (Liz Vassey) from Miami. The storylines served mainly to introduce the cast of eccentric characters, and were set in the fictional backwoods Florida town of Deepwater.

Judge Gibbs' young wife performed in a mermaid show until she nearly lost her life to an alligator, after which she abruptly retired from the business and can no longer even go in her swimming pool. Baker comes to Deepwater on a case and becomes a romantic target for the local sheriff, as well as a potential conquest for the always lustful judge. The show also includes a family of inbred, myopic, dysfunctional people with a criminal bent.

Yes! Moone Boy is great. And Derry Girls.

Father Dowling was just run of the mill mystery stories brought to TV…a knock-off Miss Marple in a Roman collar. Nothing very weird there…

It’s about time. I still remember the theme.

The Millionaire

Your're the Worst and Shrill

R225 A show where the priest and a nun constantly come across murders in their parrish and solve them isn’t ‘weird’? 🤔

You're the Worse was good for a few seasons.

Sick Note is kind of funny too, need to rewatch that one. I was drinking/passing out back then and can't recall some of the later episodes.

Blunt Talk with Patrick Stewart was super weird and funny too.

R227 John Beresford Tipton. I thought it was “Bearsfoot,” but I was 7 or 8 then. You can’t forget the name, though.

Pushing Daisies (though I started to lose interest)

Hung

Flight if the Concords

The Neighbors (Jami Gertz show)

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues. It ran for several seasons in the '90s, and I can't find a single other person who watched it.

[quote]“Love, Sidney” starring Tony Randall who was besties with a 8 year old girl and her single mom.

Sidney's huge pre-war apartment was also another star of the series.

Tony’s co-star was Swoozie Kurtz, this was long before she became anorexic. When Swoozie was on 'Mike & Molly' she looked like the walking dead.

R233 I remember they used to air that late at night here in New England, but I don't care for martial arts so never watched it. But I recall coming across it and seeing TV promos.

Just looked it up online. I guess it had a pretty good run: 4 seasons, 88 episodes. Today, that would be like 8 seasons' worth.

London Irish, from the writer of Derry Girls. The heartthrob preacher from DG is one of the leads.

[quote]Sewing with Nancy, because we couldn't stop laughing at her.

Nancy Zieman had Bell's Palsy for most of her life, that's nothing to joke about. I know people who worked for the NYC pattern company she designed for, no one had anything bad to say about this woman. I know someone who was recently diagnosed with Bell's Palsy, there's nothing funny about this disorder.

Nancy also dealt with two types of cancer, bone and breast cancer, at the same time. Nancy died in 2017.

I just started [italic]Yellowjackets[/italic], which might fulfill my need for a weird series. Dismissing it as just another teen-girl series, I ignored it until I subscribed to Showtime as a bolt-on. I truly did not recognize Christina Ricci until I read an episode recap online. It seems to be [italic]Lord of the Flies[/italic] but with girls with effective past/present splicing..

r93 If you thought Nancy was weird(I did not) you should take a gander on YouTube for the series of videos with George W. Trippon, entitled "Sew What's New." Mr. Trippon is a real hoot, very Hollywood movies-adjacent BITD with tons of gossip. He sewed women's clothes, never saw him work on anything for men.

I kinda' liked Nancy Zieman, whether she was going solo or had on one of her seemingly-endless horde of co-hosts. My real girl though was Eleanor Burns, owner of a quilt supply company and hostess of a long series of quilt making videos called "Quilt In A Day"(the first book I bought from her didn't live up to its name, it took me TWO days to make a quilt 😁) Just from the way she talked on camera made you think she was a kindergarten teacher, which was part of her charm, at least for me. Her techniques and books were foolproof ways to complete a quilt in record time.

R229. Compared to the slaughterhouse known as Cabot Cove? Or to the Snoop Sisters? Or Commissioner McMillian’s nosey wife? Not weird.

The Life & Times of Tim on HBO

High Maintenance

The Lives We Live.

In the early 80s this daytime talk show had three women who were supposed to be friends, who would ask some expert over to one of their homes to discuss some important issue.

Sort of a reality show, but sort of not because the houses were clearly sets. Not sure how real it was.

On one episode they had a homosexual. The New York Jews was totally cool with him, but the Connecticut WASP had difficulty accepting him.

Does anyone else remember this show?