Lost TV Shows

[BurtWorm]

I'm thinking mostly of TV shows that lasted a season or less, usually--summer replacements, specials, underwatched series--that were truly great in their own way and that you want to memorialize or are just curious if anyone else remembers them.

Ones that stand out for me:

In the early 1970s, CBS ran the entire series made for Italian TV about Leonardo da Vinci as a summer replacement for the Smothers Brothers, I think, on Sunday nights. It was dubbed into English. There were no name stars. It was all about this brilliant gay man from the Italian Renaissance. And it was fascinating TV. I was about 10 or 11 and I loved it. It was rerun a few years later on PBS.

Another summer replacement series on CBS, maybe for the same time slot even but a year or two earlier was "Comedy Tonight," starring Robert Klein, Madeline Kahn and Peter Boyle, most memorably. I'll never forget one sketch in which Madeline Kahn playing a nightclub singer revolted people eating dinner while singing a song called "We Dined on Garbage."

And finally, on PBS in the early 1970s there was a great eclectic show called The Great American Dream Machine. That's where I first noticed Albert Brooks, who made a film for them about the American Academy of Comedic Arts. The guy I most associate with that show was Marshall Ephron, a sort of Gene Shalit for the stoners, in looks anyway. He was much more witty that Gene Shalit. It was a great show.

[terrya]

1. I liked "Meeting of the Minds" on PBS

Steve Allen had a show on PBS called "Meeting of the Minds"...where historical figures of the past would get together and talk. Actors played the historical characters, of course (with Allen's wife Jayne Meadows being a frequent guest)

I liked that show. I thought it was an interesting idea.

Terry

[Faygo Kid]

5. I liked it, too. Good choice.

Bet lots of good ones will be posted here.

[grannylib]

2. I always loved "Fridays" the Ken the Monster character was a stitch

and there were some forebodings of 'Kramer' for sure on there...

I remember the Comedy Tonight show a little...

[Fenris]

11. Oddly enough...

Michael Richards appeared in the cast with Larry David, who is unrecognizable because of the massive afro he was sporting. This was a good 10 years before the two worked together on Seinfeld.

[grannylib]

26. Yup, I remember...always thought that was strange

[BurtWorm]

27. It's funny, I remember those two guys in particular

because all of their names are first names. That always hit me weird somehow. My very favorite episode of Fridays was the one with the Clash as musical guests.

[Fenris]

50. I've seen that!

It was great!

[Love Bug]

82. My favorite "Fridays" bit

was their interpretation of Rocky Horror Picture Show with Reagan as Frank N Furter. Hysterical!

[peekaloo]

32. Andy Kaufman's appearance!!!!

Not Milos Forman's version but the actual show. Probably the only time I watched it.

[BurtWorm]

36. It's funny, but I didn't recognize your avatar until just now.

;)

[peekaloo]

42. that Kaufman's a no-talent coat tail ridin' show biz phony!

:D

[jimbo fett]

78. "The Misfits of Science" It ran in the early 80s. .......... OOPs!

A geeky superhero show. A bunch of science nerds save the world kinda thing.

on edit: I didn't mean to post this in the middle of the kaufman thread. sorry.

[UnAmericanJoe]

68. Was that the episode

where Kaufman goes off script throughout the entire show and he and Richards almost come to blows??

A television classic indeed.

[peekaloo]

73. yep...pissed off the other cast members

but Richards was in on the joke.

Andy would later return to Fridays as a born again Christian!!!!!!

[Khephra]

54. My favorite characters

Ganja Man and the pharmacist who's catch phrase was "Take a PILL!!!"

Richards was great as the kid who played with GI Joe dolls.

Diner of the Living Dead and the Ronny Horror Picture Show were also classics.

[Faygo Kid]

3. "Frank's Place;" "The Charmings;" the show about the young Elvis

"Frank's Place:" A great show set in New Orleans; one of TV's finest moments, with Tim (oh geez, can't remember his last name - great black actor) running a restaurant. Really loved it. A guilty pleasure? "The Charmings," late '80s. Prince Charming and Snow White in the present day. Hey, I thought it was pungent and fun; so shoot me. Finally, the show about the young Elvis that aired in the early '90s (I think). Really well done, fine acting, good scripts, vastly underrated. There's three to chew on.

[ironflange]

93. Yeah, The Charmings was pretty good

Only one dwarf, and his name was Luther. They probably had to use a different name so Disney wouldn't bite their asses.

[Faygo Kid]

97. Luther just died last year. Did the FedEx commercials, Christmas 2002

I loved the episode when Luther and Eric (Prince Charming) exchanged bodies. Really, funny, pungent humor.

[hyphenate]

95. The black actor

Was Tim Reid. You probably remember him better as Venus from WKRP in Cincinnati.

[Faygo Kid]

99. Thank you! Yes, Tim Reid. He was just great.

Hope you were a fan, too. What a great, intelligent show. Sorry, folks, but much better than "Friends."

[Burma Jones]

4. I have been looking for copies of the Great American Dream Mach.

For Years. I believe that they are finally slated for DVD sometime in the next year. The Great American Dream Machine was one of the great shows. I remember an animation telling the story of Abraham and Isaac with, I believe, Pete Seeger singing. I remember an interview with someone that had returned from Viet Nam talikng about collecting the ears and genitalia of the killed in action.

[BurtWorm]

10. Remember this?

[peekaloo]

6. 'My World and Welcome To It'

based on James Thurber's writings/cartoons.

[BurtWorm]

13. Starring William What's his name...

I hated that show when it first came on, but it really grew on me.

[peekaloo]

17. Wyndom? Lisa Gerritsen was the annoying kid.

[Faygo Kid]

20. William Windom

A fine actor, and a good show.

[BurtWorm]

23. Right, Phyllis's daughter from MTM.

I had a crush on her.

[hyphenate]

96. William Windom

People probably best remember him as Seth Hazlitt on Murder, She Wrote. :)

[arwalden]

28. I Recall That One

[Kathy in Cambridge]

60. I LOVED that show when I was little

I totally forgot about it...

[Whitacre D_WI]

7. Kolchak

The Night Stalker

[BurtWorm]

14. Loved that show!

The one about the Aztecs sticks with me for some reason.

PS: I just remembered that Kolchak was played by Darren McGavin, which is why the show was so great. His boss, I believe, was the actor who played the Detective in West Side Story, George something, another great character actor.

[NightTrain]

58. Speaking of Kolchak...

...you might want to check out this webpage:

http://home.comcast.net/~soulexpress4/kolchak.htm

[BurtWorm]

61. Thank you!

I found out the name of the actor who played Kolchak's nemesis Tony Vincenzo: Simon Oakland. The Sci-Fi Channel's site is very good:

http://www.scifi.com/kolchak/

[hyphenate]

98. His boss was played by

Simon Oakland, who was probably best remembered for his performance on Black Sheep Squadron as the General.

The other officer above Robert Conrad in BBS was Dana Elcar, who went on to portray Peter Thornton on MacGyver. Dana actually did go blind during the filming of MacGyver--he suffered from glaucoma.

[NashVegas]

107. Me Too - And Trio Has the Re-Runs

For their 'Brilliant But Canceled' series. I TiVo'd 'em all.

They said the reason it was canceled was Darren McG found the role too grueling.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

110. did they run out of monsters?

..the joke was that the series was cancelled because they ran out of monsters.

Supposedly set in Chicago, but it looked like it was filmed in LA.

[OneBlueSky]

8. "You're In The Picture" starring Jackie Gleason . . .

a live celebrity game show that ran for exactly one episode . . . which, believe it or not, I actually saw when it was broadcast . . .

http://www.tvparty.com/picture.html

[Lydia Leftcoast]

86. Two episodes

I saw both of them.

Jackie Gleason opened the second one with, "Last week, we did a show that absolutely laid!"

The second one was no better, so it was cancelled. The one thing I remember is that during the closing credits, they passed a big empty picture frame around in the audience and people could strike a pose in it.

[OneBlueSky]

116. yeah, he came on the next week . . .

but they didn't play the game . . . it was just Gleason apologizing and making fun of the show . . . I think they may have even gone on a little longer doing some variety stuff, but I'm not sure about that . . .

[Wickerman]

9. Homefront

Based on the time period after WW2 ended, different families, all somehow connected, strive to get on with their lives despite personal losses. The show provided proper humor while showing how people were still biased and judgemental and how it affected everyone around them. A very well written, directed, acted and produced show that kept audiences returning each week to see each new episode, only to be canned by ABC. It returned for a short time (viewer protests), again with ABC abusing it to cut back the ratings so that they could cancel it again without any complaints since no one knew when it came on anymore. (imdb.com)

[Norbert]

40. Watch my first Homefront last year.

Impressive show. A shame it didn't make it.

[Wickerman]

47. where did you see it?

I really enjoyed the program

[mitchum]

12. I also have fond memories of "Comedy Tonight" and "GADM"

also "Strange Paradise" a horror soap opera knockoff of "Dark Shadows" that dealt with zombies and voodoo (two of my favorite words)

[BurtWorm]

18. I don't remember Strange Paradise.

What a great name for a show about zombies and voodoo! When was it on? Which network?

[mitchum]

45. It was on late 60s...

and I assume it was syndicated. Seems to have disappeared down the memory hole (not even "Jump The Shark" obsessives bring it up) I know that I didn't make it up...I'm sure of that. I remember a bald, hulking Tor Johnson-like henchman, wealthy colonials, a voodoo priestess...

[BurtWorm]

46. Sounds like a truly lost treasure.

Of course it probably sucked, which is why it's gone for goods, but someone could do something really nice and creepy with that premise. And that name!

[Zolok]

15. Most of my list are more like oddities and

curiosities than anything...

"Custer" starring Wayne Maunder, think "Star Trek" on horseback sans the charm and with heavy Viet Nam era doses of counterinsurgency-chic.
Lasted seventeen episodes in 1968...I think the Tet offensice took this show out too.
"Jesse James" aka "The Legend of Jesse James" starring Christopher "Wild in the Streets" Jones...Jesse is nuthin' but a misunderstood kid with a beef against banks, railroads, the living....
:)
"The Young Rebels" another seventeen ep wonder, it's the "Mod Squad" set in revolutionary times...features a young Lou Gossett Jr.

"The New People" buncha right-on kids from slice-o-life USA get shiprwecked on an island...try to create a more just democratic society.

"The Loner" starring Lloyd Nolan...anyone remember this?
It's the series Rod Serling produced after the "Twilight Zone".
Civil War vet rides west, tries to do good in the Serling fashion...last a whole year...sucess compared to the other shows on my list.
:)
Oh anyone remember "Englishman's Castle"? A counterfactual in which a BBC writer gets mized up with the resistance in NAZI occupied Britain?

[BurtWorm]

22. I watched Custer and I would have watched The New People

if I'd have known what it was about! Now that was a golden age for experimental TV.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

89. I remember "Englishman's Castle"

I caught one episode when it was being shown on PBS in a city I was visiting for a convention.

Wish I could have seen the whole series. It looked great.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

16. Japanese Show, Monkey. Anyone recall?

[BurtWorm]

34. I remember an Australian show called Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.

:shrug:

Also Astro Boy.

[Paul Hood]

65. I remember Skippy.

They used to show that, Gentle Ben, and Flipper back to back after school. I guess it was the animal block.

[Khephra]

53. I know about "Monkey", but I've never seen an episode

But I've been trying to find me a few episodes.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

72. Yeah, I think it's the most obscure thing ever.

Monkey is born out of a rock at the start of each show. He had two friends, one called Pigsy, another a girl?. There's a lot of Karate (or Kung Fu). I haven't seen it in twenty years, though.

[muriel_volestrangler]

106. Obscure? It's famous!

Just say "Monkeeyyy" in the right voice, and a generation of British blokes will go into a kung fu crouch.

It's being repeated on late night British TV now.

[Fenris]

19. "exit 57"

The first incarnation of the Sedaris-Colbert-Dinello trifecta that later went on to one of television's greatest shows, Strangers With Candy.

[tridim]

21. Freaks and Geeks

F&G is the best 1 season show ever. I miss it.

[Whitacre D_WI]

24. "Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp"

[BurtWorm]

25. I a-DORED Lancelot Link!

[arwalden]

29. Apple's Way

[terrya]

31. That was a nice show!

Ronny Cox was the father.

Nice, nice show.

:-)

Terry

[ironflange]

30. Johnny Bago

Summer series, several years ago, about a guy on the run, in a Winnebago, from both the mob and his cop ex-wife. Really smart, funny show.

[Awsi Dooger]

67. Absolutely, Johnny Bago was hysterical

I can't believe it was so short lived. The premise was bizarre and they didn't try to pretend otherwise.

I heard more clever tongue in cheek humor from that one summer series than any show since the '60s classics.

Damn, I'm chuckling right now, at the visual of that lumbering Winnebago eluding pursuers from coast to coast.

[terrya]

33. Also..."The Name of the Game"

A weekly series in the late 60's on NBC about a magazine. Gene Barry was the owner, Robert Stack was the editor and Tony Franciosa was the reporter. Cool theme music (by Dave Grusin, I think) and interesting storylines. I especially liked the episodes featuring Gene Barry...

:-)

Terry

[Zolok]

48. The late Phillip Wylie wrote a Name of the Game ep...

that coincidentally enough was directed by Steven Spielberg...
"Los Angeles 2017 AD" in which Gene BArry gets a bump on the head and wakes up in the near future wherein the US is a dictatorship and everyone lives underground thanks to pollution.
I have a few "Name of the Game" eps via a "private source".

[terrya]

49. Yes, that's the one I remember...

Very thought provoking. Good episode.

Terry

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

66. I remember that one.

I seem to recall that episode was promoted heavily, & it came out in '69 or '70, when the environmental movement was taking off.

[Dogmudgeon]

71. I remember it, too

My father watched the show, and he let me stay up to watch it.

Spooky episode.

--bkl

[Capn Sunshine]

81. ..and the magazine was named "People!"

[ironflange]

35. Got another one: 704 Houser

A black family is now living in Archie Bunker's old house. Dad is a good union Democrat, son is a Republican with a white girlfriend. Had one great moment in the first episode. A young man knocks on the door and identifies himself as Joey Stivic, and says his grandparents used to live in this house. He's invited in for dinner, and when the food comes Joey shovels it in just like Meathead used to!

[Norbert]

37. Alias Smith and Jones.

A Butch Cassidy and Sundance type show with a Maverick style humor. Two bank robbers are offered amnesty if they stay on the straight and narrow for a certain period of time. A well done and successful for a short while then one of the Stars of the show Pete Duell committed suicide. Another actor replaced him (can't think of his name but he was fairly good and notable) but the chemistry was never the same.

On edit, the actor that replace Duell was Ben Murphy.

[no_hypocrisy]

41. Nope. Roger Davis replaced Pete Duell in 1972 after his suicide.

Ben Murphy played Thadeus Jones. (Was that the pseudonym for Kid Curry or Hannibal Hayes?)

[Norbert]

44. Thanks

I knew Murphy was in there somewhere. Roger Davis, I just couldn't think of him.

[hyphenate]

101. Ben Murphy played Thaddeus

Jones, which was his "cover" for Jedidiah "Kid" Curry. Pete Duel (one "l") had changed his name because of a numerological analysis. He had a brother, Goeffrey Deuel, who looked a lot like Pete and was also an actor. Pete committed suicide with a gun while his girlfriend was asleep in the bedroom. Some say it was an accident, because he had said he was cleaning the gun when it "accidentally" went off.

Rober Davis, who replaced Duel, had been on a number of episodes as well before he was called in to replace Duel. Rather than have him play another character, they had to go with him as Joshua Smith aka Hannibal Heyes. Roger Davis was formerly a major player on Dark Shadows.

[no_hypocrisy]

38. "It's a Free Country (1978, Rob Reiner) and "Good Heavens" (1976 Carl

Reiner). I like them both.

[FunBobbyMucha]

39. Profit

This was a Fox show in 1996. The lead, Adrian Pasdar, from the film "Near Dark," played the titular character, a sociopath who infiltrates the board of a huge corporation. He provides the voice-over narration for his own evil deeds, and at the conclusion of the first episode it is revealed that the childhood abuse he earlier describes at the hands of his father, being confined to a cardboard box with a single eyehole from which he could only see the TV, has affected his entire life, as the adult Profit disrobes, strides confidently thru his lush apartment, eschews the bed and lays to sleep inside the same cardboard box, which, we see, is a product box from the same company he has just gone to work for.

It would've gone on to be a truly unique and warped version of the typical nighttime soap.

Vanished after, I think, four eps.

[BigMcLargehuge]

55. I WAS GONNA POST PROFIT!!!

What a great show... WAAAAAAAAAAAY too dark for the average viewer. It ended just as he was going into the lie detector test.

What a great friggin show.

[ironflange]

43. On the Air

David Lynch's twisted foray into the world of sitcom. Possibly the weirdest show in TV history. I believe they made six episodes, but only three or four were ever aired. Naturally, I have them on tape.

[Ricdude]

51. Getaway!

Un-reality TV, it's a game show set in a modern ghost town. The contestants steal cars, and try to outrun the police officers to safe zones. Some demolition, some foot racing, one contestant stole one of the cops' cars while the cop was arresting another contestant. What did you expect from a generation schooled in Smoky and the Bandit, and the Dukes of Hazzard...

I'm not sure it really existed anymore.

Thanks, Google: It did exist! It wasn't just a hallucination! http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,7160,00.html

UPN also confirmed it ordered the one-hour special Getaway from the guy who produces World's Wildest Police Videos, Paul Stojanovich. Getaway, which pits real cops against each other in a car chase, is also being looked at as a possible series.

[BurtWorm]

52. kick

[NightTrain]

56. "Quark"

It ran for about eight episodes in the summer of 1976, and was a sci-fi sitcom about the crew of an interplanetary garbage scow.

[thom1102]

79. I was thinking about that one myself!

I never remember the name of it, and everytime I mention it, everyone looks at me like I just spontaneously sprouted another limb. Quark, I have to remember that!

[Gildor Inglorion]

57. "The Summer Brothers Smothers Show"

starring Glen Campbell.

[BurtWorm]

84. The Smothers Brothers show, period, now that I think of it!

It was the original hip TV show. Dangerous, subversive, news-making. Remember all the fights they had with censors over language and political content.

[Faygo Kid]

100. Yes. Oh yes. 20-somethings: Offer something! Gen-X? "Fear Factor?"

Pat Paulsen dead is a lot better than the Gen X stuff we have on today. And, you will soon be replaced by the Millenial Generation (now starting college) anyway.

[BurtWorm]

102. Is Pat Pauslen dead?

:cry:

[Faygo Kid]

104. Yes, Pat Paulsen has passed.

I had the honor of meeting him, in about 1990, and of filming some Public Service Announcements (PSAs) with him. His humor was out of sync then, but would be topical now. He was a very nice man. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.

[Zinfandel]

59. Buffalo Bill with the greatest asshole of them all Dabney Coleman!

Lasted one year on NBC...it was excellent...no one watched.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

62. Square Pegs

I was in hs and I loved it. It lasted only one season. TV Land has been playing it.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

88. And it was the first TV exposure for

teenager Sarah Jessica Parker.

[NashVegas]

108. THE Gen-X TV Show

God, how I loved Johnny Slash.

[Khephra]

63. Michael Madsen's Vengeance Unlimited

Some other weird ones.... (Not exactly good, but weird)

There was a show on Fox called "Whoops" which was a Gilligan's Island type set-up, but after a nuclear war.

Then there was this weird comedy set during Lincoln's time. I think Lincoln was the main character.

[Chovexani]

85. Get out of my head again Kef

Sometimes I think we were separated at birth, LOL. I *loved* Vengeance Unlimited. That show was so cool. And we never did find out what happened to Mr. Chapel's wife did we? :(

You know I've been burned so many times by ABC I call it "Already Been Cancelled". That's why I never watched Alias, I figured it was another cool show ABC was going to cancel. Oh well, there's always DVDs. :)

[Khephra]

91. I was hoping SOMEONE knew that show

Momakef and I LOVED it. I used to have all of the episodes on tape, but I lost them.

Revenge shows, when done with class, can be some of the most satisfying of them all. I mean, heck, who doesn't like the Man in the Iron Mask?

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

64. Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers in London.

..or something like that.

It was a summer replacement for Dean Martins show, and it was where I first saw Marty Feldman, as he was a regular on it.

[Dogmudgeon]

69. The Second Hundred Years

Late 60s, maybe early 70s.

Monte Markham as a man who is lost in an accident in Alaska at the turn of the century and is frozen in a block of ice. He's found by scientists, thawed out, and returned to his family -- his son is now and old man, and his grandson looks like he does.

I liked the premise. It was pretty entertaining, but it probably suffered from lousy writing, something I wasn't up on at age 11.

--bkl

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

111. I remember that one too.

....I think it was the late 60s..

[RoeBear]

117. Or SNL's version...

...'Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer".


"I am just a humble caveman"

[Dogmudgeon]

70. The Pruitts of Southampton

Late 1960s.

Phyllis Diller as a rich dowager who loses all her money; the house staff conspire to keep things afloat. Richard Deacon (better known as Mel Cooley in The Dick Van Dyke Show) was the IRS agent who was trailing her.

It had a catchy theme song, too, just like My Mother The Car.

I loved it; it lasted two seasons, I think, before it was canned. Ms. Diller looks back on it in anger. She got royally screwed, as did Deacon and the rest of the talent.

--bkl

[ScreamingMeemie]

74. It was a comedy with Richard Krenna and I believe Patty Duke.

With Billie Byrd (sp) as the mom the son was Anthony Edwards. They were lawyers I believe. The show was hysterical but only lasted a season. It would have been in the late 70' or early 80's...Anyone remember the name??

Laura

[Mixxster]

80. "It Takes Two"

BTW, you forgot Helen Hunt.

[Insider]

75. oh my, WORKING! (1997-1999)

but the first season was golden. it went downhill with cast changes and such. but i loved it.

matt fred savage (wonder years)
yvette freeman (ER)
debi mazar (jungle fever and more)
etc

[YellowRubberDuckie]

76. FRED Savage!!

Where did you get Matt?
Duckie

[Insider]

77. oops

fred savage played MATT peyser.

[mopinko]

83. the orginal kracker

that they showed on a&e, with robby coltrain. great, great show. about an out of control forensic psychiatrist. severely tarnished by a later nbc(?) remake. i really loved it at the time it was made, but i love it more now that i have too much contact with shrinks.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

87. Yes, the American version was too "nice"

The Brits aren't afraid to build series around edgy, somewhat unlikable, but fascinating characters.

[peekaloo]

90. 'When Things Were Rotten'

I thought it was funny but then again I was in grade school at the time. A Mel Brooks comedy based around Robin Hood (I think).

[pdx_prog]

92. The Paper Chase

TV series with John Houseman....

[RoeBear]

118. THAT...

...was a classy show.

[Beaker]

94. Buffalo Bill and Sports Night.

BTW- those are two shows, not one.

[hyphenate]

103. Seeing as I'm a TV addict

I have some really obscure (and a couple not so obscure) as my submissions.

The first: UFO, produced by Gerry Anderson. It was his first live people show, before Space: 1999. It was about a secret organization that fought nasty aliens who came to earth to steal body organs for themselves, because their race seems to be dying out. Starring Ed Bishop, it ran about 1972 in the U.S., a year after its sole season of 26 episodes in England.

Two: The Persuaders. Also a British series, this was about 1972 as well. It starred Roger Moore and Tony Curtis as very rich jetset players, who are blackmailed by a Judge Fulton (Lawrence Naismith) into being heroes instead of just goof-offs.

Three: The Champions. The series, again a British series, was in 1968 and starred Alexandra Bastedo, William Gaunt, and Stuart Damon as employees of an organization called Nemesis. In the pilot episode, their plane crashlanded in the Himalayas (allegedly near Tibet) where they were rescued by monks and given certain powers to aid them in their fight against bad guys.

Four: Bearcats. 1972 again, starring Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole. The series took place in 1914, where lead character Hank Brackett (Rod Taylor) drove a Stutz Bearcat around the turn-of-the-century West, as they helped people out with sticky situations and their payment was always a blank check.

Five: Covington Cross. This was about 1993. It starred Nigel Terry (who had played King Arthur in John Boorman's Excalibur) as the father, with Glenn Quinn (yes, Doyle from Angel) and Ione Skye as his children. There was an older brother, though I can't recall who played him. It was a period drama, with lots of knights in armor, and other fun medieval stuff.

Six: Guns of Paradise, with Lee Horsley. Early 1980s, I believe. Horsley played Ethan Allen Cord, who had just inherited his sister's children upon her death. Seeing as he was a former gunslinger, he has to try to become a family man overnight, and take on the responsibilities of raising children.

There are others, but I've bored you enough. :)

[BurtWorm]

105. I remember UFO, especially for being pronounced YOU-foe.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

112. I recall Bearcats & UFO

I think there was even a model Stutz Bearcat you could get that was based on the one in the show..sort of an early "product tie-in".

UFO....You-FO. I recall that one too.

[EstimatedProphet]

115. I wondered if anyone would remember Bearcats!

That was my favorite show when I was 8.

Anyone remember a summer replacement show starring Jonathan Winters? Probably called the Jonathan Winters show. Had a lot of his standup, and some sketch comedy starring him too. I remember the opening sequence was a small animated clip featuring a cartoon of him and various household things (tables, chairs, vacuum cleaner) levitating out of his house and floating around the neighborhood...

[mac56]

109. Remember "Remember WENN"?

It was on AMC for a season or so. Ensemble comedy about a Pittsburgh radio station in the 1930s. Really quite good at first, but then sort of lost its moorings after a while. I have fond memories of it, though.

Edit for accuracy

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

113. Geraldo Rivera hosting "Good Night America"...early 70s.

Before Geraldo became what he is today he was a long haired freak, and hosted this very late night, very intermittent variety show on ABC.

For its time it was pretty avant....they had things like an animated "video" to Greatful Deads US blues, live acts, drag queens, Kurt Vonnegut reciting poetry, and a pretty good animated opening sequence using Ringo Starrs "It Dont Come Easy".

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

114. The Protectors

an english import...half hour spy/crime drama. Has sort of a jet-set thing, with this team of spys or investigators solving a caper. Starred Robert Vaughn as the lead spy or detective.

It was syndicated, but was on in Louisivlle on late sunday night.

[Deja Q]

119. 704 Hauser and Quark instantly come to mind...

So does "When Things Were Rotten", but that was rotten... :D