Obscure TV Shows You Fondly Remember
Obscure TV Shows You Fondly Remember
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#1Obscure TV Shows You Fondly Remember
Posted: 2/8/10 at 11:00pmHow about Fractured Flickers?
#2Obscure TV Shows You Fondly Remember
Posted: 2/8/10 at 11:01pmIt's About Time. It's About Space. It's about two men in the strangest place!
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#2Obscure TV Shows You Fondly Remember
Posted: 2/8/10 at 11:07pm
Supertrain - A fiasco that could be called Love Boat on the Rails
Another one My Mother The Car
#3Obscure TV Shows You Fondly Remember
Posted: 2/8/10 at 11:07pmBraveStarr!
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#5Obscure TV Shows You Fondly Remember
Posted: 2/8/10 at 11:12pm
Seeing Mae Whitman on Parenthood immediately makes me think of the show State of Grace. I am a sucker for period pieces.
Speaking of the ultimate period piece, Thanks comes to mind as obscure personified. I am wondering how a pilgrim-themed sitcom could have ever found widespread appeal but I love Sarah Vowell writing about its genius. Good to know I was not the only one watching.
Judd Apatow's other show Undeclared.
#6Obscure TV Shows You Fondly Remember
Posted: 2/8/10 at 11:15pm
(I'm probably dating myself here, from the 70's)
The Johnny Mann Singers
and
Keep on Truckin'
#7Obscure TV Shows You Fondly Remember
Posted: 2/8/10 at 11:16pm
FISH POLICE
No one but me, it seems, recalls this short-lived primetime cartoon.
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#8Obscure TV Shows You Fondly Remember
Posted: 2/8/10 at 11:17pm
Lancelot Link
Spawned during the spy craze, all the actors were chimps.
#9Obscure TV Shows You Fondly Remember
Posted: 2/8/10 at 11:20pm
"Oh No LAnce it's a chicken stampede!"
The Ugliest Girl in Town. A sitcom a head of it's time!
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#10Obscure TV Shows You Fondly Remember
Posted: 2/8/10 at 11:25pm
You must be nearly my age as I remember Ugliest
Another one was The Magician with Bill Bixby
#11Obscure TV Shows You Fondly Remember
Posted: 2/8/10 at 11:31pm
Louis CK has a new show coming up that seems more formulaic than his first jab at a sitcom which was Lucky Louie. I believe it was HBO's first live-audience sitcom and it showed as it was just so raw. Like any HBO show it was raunchy but couple that with a live audience fit for Married... With Children (or even Jerry Springer) and you got yourself something epic. The plots in each episode were secondary, the chemistry between the family was hilariously non-existent, the dialogue was more about one-upping between the characters, Jim Norton was the best part, and everything was irreverent. It hit more a stride later on but it was not renewed and the show was mostly floating in its own muck. I just adored the girl who played Louis CK's daughter. She got to utter lines with words I did not even know existed at that age.
Updated On: 2/8/10 at 11:31 PM
#12Obscure TV Shows You Fondly Remember
Posted: 2/8/10 at 11:32pm
Fox had two scifi shows that failed, both were on Friday night paired with X-Files:
VR5
THE VISITOR
Loved 'em both, neither lasted more than 6 or 7 episodes. (Still hoping they'll suddenly appear on DVD!)
#13Obscure TV Shows You Fondly Remember
Posted: 2/8/10 at 11:32pm
Small Wonder
We Got It Maid
Too Close For Comfort
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#15Obscure TV Shows You Fondly Remember
Posted: 2/8/10 at 11:35pm
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
My Talk Show with Cynthia Stephenson and Stephanie Hodge
Norman Lear's All That Glitters
Ball Four starring Jim Bouton and Ben Davidson
The Corner Bar
Larry Gelbart's United States
#16Obscure TV Shows You Fondly Remember
Posted: 2/8/10 at 11:41pmWelcome to Pooh Corner. It was a kids' show on Disney in the late '80s. I was OBSESSED from ages 2 to about 6.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#17Obscure TV Shows You Fondly Remember
Posted: 2/8/10 at 11:42pm
"Wait Til Your Father Gets Home" - a Hanna-Barbera prime time animated series in the early 70's. Voice of Tom Bosley as the conservative father, with two hippie teenaged kids. Jack Burns did the voice of the next door neighbor, who was a right-wing conspiracy nut - a precursor to Dale Gribble on "King of ther Hill".
"American Dad" also owes a bit to this show.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#18Obscure TV Shows You Fondly Remember
Posted: 2/8/10 at 11:44pm
2 shows that ran less than a season
The Master - Lee Van Cleef as a king fu master
Brimstone - Starring John Glover as a dapper devil
One that lasted 1 season
Mr Lucky
#19Obscure TV Shows You Fondly Remember
Posted: 2/8/10 at 11:48pm
When Things Were Rotten -- a spoof on Robin Hood
Beauty and the Beast -- with Ron Perleman as the Beast living in the tunnels under NYC with Roy Dotrice as Father, and Linda Hamilton as Catherine. Oh, how that show spoke to the romantic deep within my soul. So glad it's now on DVD.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir -- Edward Mulhare has Capt. Gregg, Hope Lang as Mrs. Muir and Charles Nelson Reilly as Claymore Gregg.
#20Obscure TV Shows You Fondly Remember
Posted: 2/8/10 at 11:48pm
Just the Ten of Us (Growing Pains spin off), Home Free, Snorks.
JG2, I loved Small Wonder and Too Close for Comfort
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#22Obscure TV Shows You Fondly Remember
Posted: 2/8/10 at 11:51pm
I am surprised that Mel has not gotten Rotten out on DVD
It Takes A Thief with Robert Wagner & for some episodes Fred Astaire as his father.
singalongsong2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/11/08
#23Obscure TV Shows You Fondly Remember
Posted: 2/8/10 at 11:53pm
Malibu Shores
Two Guys, A Girl, and a Pizza Place
Adventures In Wonderland
Pepper Ann
Just The Ten Of Us
Today's Special
Updated On: 2/8/10 at 11:53 PM
#24Obscure TV Shows You Fondly Remember
Posted: 2/8/10 at 11:53pm
The Oblongs. Only lasted 13 episodes w/ 4 being unaired in its initial run.. 
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