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do-lolly

10-03-2007, 02:48 PM

I received a Critics Choice DVD catalog yesterday. It's has a huge selection of movies and television shows that are not on DVD. A lot of them I haven't seen in ages. Seeing all of these movies and television shows made me start to think of movies and shows from my past that I haven't thought of in forever. For example, do any of you remember Prisoner Cell Block H? I remember watching it late night when I was probably in my early teens. It was such a stupid, bad, low budget show, but I watched it every night. I couldn't help myself.

Also, I remember a show that no one else seems to remember, Dr. Shrinker. It was a Saturday morning cartoon, but it was not animated. It was made by the Croft Brothers, (the same people who did HR Puff and Stuff) so you know it was fairly bad. It was about a mad scientist that shrank things.:confused: It was out about the same time as Shazam, Mighty Isis. and Sigmond and the Sea Monsters:D

There is a movie that I'm hoping you can help remember the title. It was on HBO (I think) a lot in the early to mid eighties. It was a really bizarre, creepy movie about a guy in a vegatative (sp?) state, in a hospital. His eyes were open, but he was unresponsive, but he could move things with his mind. I think he ended up killing people in the end. I remember it being really, really creepy, and the title of the movie was this guy's name. Something like Jeremy.:confused: The only other person in the whole world that remembers this movie, other than me, is my DSIL. Have you ever seen it, and do you remember the name of it?

One last one. This one is not so obcure, and unlike the others listed above, it was actually a pretty good show....I think. Do you remember Hong Kong Phooey? I loved this show!! I wish that someone would sell it on DVD. I would love to see it again. I would probably be disappointed though. I'm sure it's not nearly as good as I remember.;)

This Critic's Choice catalog does sell all of the after-school specials. They have sets from: 1974-76, 1976-77, 1979-80, and 1981-82. Ha, wouldn't that be fun to watch.:D They even have Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman in here. Oh that was so bad. LOL

What are some truly obscure shows that you remember?

wwhirledpeas

10-03-2007, 02:54 PM

I don't know how obscure these are......

I loved that TV show that was hardly ever on - with Claire Danes called 'My So Called Life'
and one of my favorite movies as a kid - that was on television ever once in a while was The Boy with Green Hair.

do-lolly

10-03-2007, 02:57 PM

My So Called Life was one of the worst examples of network executive decisions, of all time. It was a really great show, that was killed way too soon.:rolleyes:

I don't remember the green hair. Sounds interesting.

Gumbeaux

10-03-2007, 03:05 PM

They even have Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman in here. Oh that was so bad. LOL

With those pig tails she reminds me of the "banana girl". Remember her? :D

http://www.mortystv.com/showcards/images/mary_hartman_mary_1.jpg

sararosalie

10-03-2007, 03:11 PM

[QUOTE=do-lolly;1281895]

One last one. This one is not so obcure, and unlike the others listed above, it was actually a pretty good show....I think. Do you remember Hong Kong Phooey? I loved this show!! I wish that someone would sell it on DVD. I would love to see it again. I would probably be disappointed though. I'm sure it's not nearly as good as I remember.;)

[QUOTE]

I love Hong Kong Phooey (and his cat).
the entire series is for sale. If you google Hong Kong Phooey, the first hit will be the DVD for sale.

Enjoy!

aggie94

10-03-2007, 03:25 PM

DH loved Hong Kong Phooey. Even though we're about the same age, I don't remember it.

Obscure TV shows I loved that no one else I know has heard of:

Manimal: (From Wikipedia) a television series that ran from September 30, 1983 to December 17, 1983 on NBC. It is about a shape-shifting man who can turn himself into any animal, using this ability to fight crime.

and

Grapevine: (From http://members.tripod.com/~stefan317/grape/index.html) In June 1992 CBS introduced a very controversial TV series called Grapevine. Only six episodes were ever broadcast. The show was about relationships but was doomed because of too much sex. Modern romances are very complicated, and an important component is sex. This show tried to examine all aspects of relationships and was promptly cancelled.

I don't recall it being that sex-focused, but it was also 15 years ago. :eek:

KristiB

10-03-2007, 03:31 PM

It was out about the same time as Shazam, Mighty Isis. and Sigmond and the Sea Monsters:D

What are some truly obscure shows that you remember?

I just put this in my Netflix queue :D

It's so funny because I'm reading a book about a geeky boy in the 70's and one of the sentences began, "And before you could say, "Oh mighty Isis..."

One TV show I miss was The PJ's. It was claymation and starred Eddie Murphy. I wish they'd put that out on DVD!! It was so funny but so baaaad!

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41lOwRDmavL._SS500_.jpg

FruitsAlive

10-03-2007, 03:40 PM

My favorite show when I was a kid was Out of this World. I can't tell you how many times I've wished I could just put my fingers together and wreak some havoc.
I also really liked Dinosaurs. Nnnnot the Mama!

Alethea

10-03-2007, 03:44 PM

DH and I were just talking about this a few nights ago. He's a bit older than me remembered watching "Tales of the Gold Monkey," which I know I watched with my parents can't recall anything other than that there was a one-eyed dog.

Probably around the same time (I was maybe 7?) I remember liking "Wizards and Warriors," I think mainly for veil the princess wore.

And I can't forget "Robin of Sherwood," which my mother and I watched on PBS and became addicted to.

Veronica

10-03-2007, 03:49 PM

Seeing all of these movies and television shows made me start to think of movies and shows from my past that I haven't thought of in forever. For example, do any of you remember Prisoner Cell Block H? Do I! I spent many a night as a teen watching this show. I think it came on after The Twilight Zone. The women had so many wild stories and experiences. I'd love to see it again sometime to remind me of my youth. :)

MaryMac

10-03-2007, 04:49 PM

I don't know about anyone else, but I ran home from school everyday to watch
Dark Shadows. It was the biggest low budget soap out there and every kid where I lived watched it.

TKay

10-03-2007, 04:52 PM

I love Hong Kong Phooey (and his cat).
the entire series is for sale. If you google Hong Kong Phooey, the first hit will be the DVD for sale.

Enjoy!

It's also playing on either Cartoon Network or Boomerang. My kids catch it from time to time. I don't remember it from the first time around (except for the name). My favorite? Kimba, the White Lion.

Puppylove

10-03-2007, 05:45 PM

I'm not sure if this is obscure enough, but who remembers "Small Wonder"? The robot girl that a family tried to pass off as a daughter(?) I think. And I know this isn't obscure, but I just LOVED Mr. Belvedere!

MikeC

10-03-2007, 06:00 PM

I don't know about anyone else, but I ran home from school everyday to watch
Dark Shadows. It was the biggest low budget soap out there and every kid where I lived watched it.
My sister and I loved Dark Shadows too.

Years after Dark Shadows ended, my sister and I and a friend went to see Jonathan Frid in a production of "Arsenic and Old Lace" here in Baltimore. We each took a copy of one of the Dark Shadows paperback "novels" with us, and waited at the stage door after the performance. When Frid came out, we told him what great fans we were and he signed each of our paperback books.

blrn1

10-03-2007, 06:16 PM

I remember Small Wonder! She wore that red dress with a white pinafore, and at night she would hang on that hook, right? I can even remember the beginning of the theme song.

Does anyone remember a series that was probably on in the mid-80s about a family that was going on a vacation but ended up in some time-warp/wormhole situation and the key to getting back to reality involved the pyramid with the eye on the dollar bill?? I know that's really vague, but I think the name was something like "Other Worlds" or something. No one else remembers it -- not even my family, but I swear we used to watch it when I was little.

Anyone?

FruitsAlive

10-03-2007, 06:31 PM

Now I have the Small Wonder theme song in my head. I used to watch that as a kid, too. But, I eventually got to the point where I just couldn't stand watching that obnoxious little Harriet character...and I couldn't figure out what she saw in Jaime.

Does anyone remember The Charmings?

OH! and I was addicted to Alf and Mork & Mindy!

testkitchen45

10-03-2007, 06:47 PM

*guiltily raising hand* DH and I used to watch (as adults, b4 we had kids) Pee-Wee's Playhouse. :eek: :D The off-the-wall humor was addicting. This is before Pee-Wee Herman got arrested for, well, you know. ;) Now we love Law & Order, & think it's funny that S. Epatha Merkerson, the wonderful black actress who plays the police detectives' supervisor, was on P-W's P with "Globey." :p

What about Love Boat? Hated that show; watched it anyway. Go figure. :confused:

We still love The Twilight Zone, and our DSs got a kick out of Star Trek and Monty Python reruns when we TiVo'd them for awhile.

badunnin

10-03-2007, 06:49 PM

*guiltily raising hand* DH and I used to watch (as adults, b4 we had kids) Pee-Wee's Playhouse. :eek: :D The off-the-wall humor was addicting. This is before Pee-Wee Herman got arrested for, well, you know. ;) Now we love Law & Order, & think it's funny that S. Epatha Merckeson (sp?), the wonderful black actress who plays the police detectives' supervisor, was on P-W's P with "Globey." :p

And Lawrence Fishburn was the cowboy!

I used to *love* Square One on PBS. *pushing glasses up nose*

barbara-cook

10-03-2007, 07:02 PM

DeeK

10-03-2007, 07:55 PM

I used to *love* Square One on PBS. *pushing glasses up nose*

Ohhhhhh Lordy, that brings back memories.

My DS (about 3 at the time) was watching TV and I was "resting" on the sofa. He came over, poked his finger in my eye to lift up my eyelid and asked me "what is Fibonacci sequence?" Sheesh, child, what ARE you watching????

When he told me, I told him that when the library opened we would go investigate Fibonacci Sequence. We did and I still didn't understand it until on a Martha Stewart show she explained how the sections of a pine cone are arranged in Fibonacci sequence. NOW it makes sense to me. :p

do-lolly

10-03-2007, 10:27 PM

Thank you for finding this for me. The last time I looked, it was not to be found. I think I will order it now!

[QUOTE=Veronica;1281939]Do I! I spent many a night as a teen watching this show. I think it came on after The Twilight Zone. The women had so many wild stories and experiences. I'd love to see it again sometime to remind me of my youth. :)

I'm so glad that I'm not the only one.:D

Does anyone remember a series that was probably on in the mid-80s about a family that was going on a vacation but ended up in some time-warp/wormhole situation and the key to getting back to reality involved the pyramid with the eye on the dollar bill?? I know that's really vague, but I think the name was something like "Other Worlds" or something. No one else remembers it -- not even my family, but I swear we used to watch it when I was little.

Anyone?

That sounds familiar, but the only thing that I can think of is Land of the Lost, and you didn't mention dinosaurs, so I know that's not it.:D

do-lolly

10-03-2007, 10:34 PM

There was a show on in the early 70's - but I can't remember the name. It was actually part of a series of shows. One was "MacMillan and Wife" (LOVED IT!), "McCloud" and then the other one. All I can tell you is that Lawrence Luckinbill was the star. There was another one too, with James Farantino, and I had a huge crush on him! There was a new episode of each of these shows about once a month. I think they ran for a year or two.

Does anyone remember the series with Tony Curtis and Roger Moore? Also early 70's. It was set in England and I think they were a couple of theives. But it was soooo cool!

Guess I'm dating myself, but I did post on the age survey, so who cares!

Here is a link to Laurence Luckinbill's filmography on IMDB.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0524743/

The name of the Roger Moore series is The Persuaders.
Here's the link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066701/

barbara-cook

10-04-2007, 06:18 AM

Thanks Do-lolly - I'll have to check those links when I get a minute. These boards are just such a wealth of useful information! How do you guys find all this stuff?!

Have a great day!

RobinC

10-04-2007, 06:21 AM

And I can't forget "Robin of Sherwood," which my mother and I watched on PBS and became addicted to.

Hey! I resemble that. ;)

BucknellAlum

10-04-2007, 06:39 AM

There was a show on in the early 70's - but I can't remember the name. It was actually part of a series of shows. One was "MacMillan and Wife" (LOVED IT!), "McCloud" and then the other one. All I can tell you is that Lawrence Luckinbill was the star. There was another one too, with James Farantino, and I had a huge crush on him! There was a new episode of each of these shows about once a month. I think they ran for a year or two.

Was the other show called something like "Alias Smith and Jones"?

Does anyone remember a very short-lived sitcom called "When Things Were Rotten"? For some reason, all I can remember is the theme song! I think it took place in medieval England for some reason. . .

ErinM

10-04-2007, 06:46 AM

I also really liked Dinosaurs. Nnnnot the Mama!

I don't know about anyone else, but I ran home from school everyday to watch
Dark Shadows. It was the biggest low budget soap out there and every kid where I lived watched it.

I've got both of these on my Netflix queue...in the case of Dark Shadows, the newer version they did in the early 90s.

hollysmom

10-04-2007, 08:20 AM

Gilgamesh37

10-04-2007, 08:34 AM

Does anyone remember a very short-lived sitcom called "When Things Were Rotten"? For some reason, all I can remember is the theme song! I think it took place in medieval England for some reason. . .

Yep, it was written by Mel Brooks and lasted something like 3 months. Robin Hood was an idiot, the Merry Men were bumbling fools, and Nottingham was even dumber. Sort of the precursor to his movie Men In Tights, only sorta sideways.

sararosalie

10-04-2007, 08:58 AM

And I can't forget "Robin of Sherwood," which my mother and I watched on PBS and became addicted to.

OHMY---I had completly forgotten about this show....My friend and I watched every episode---we loved it. thanks for the memory!

Hammster

10-04-2007, 09:04 AM

I don't know about anyone else, but I ran home from school everyday to watch
Dark Shadows. It was the biggest low budget soap out there and every kid where I lived watched it.

HUGE Dark Shadows fan here! Loved that show. I caught it on SciFi a few years back when they reran the entire series of shows. What a trip down memory lane that was. And what horrible acting! A great show!! LOL.

sararosalie

10-04-2007, 09:06 AM

[QUOTE=barbara-cook;1282038]
There was a show on in the early 70's - but I can't remember the name. It was actually part of a series of shows. One was "MacMillan and Wife" (LOVED IT!), "McCloud" and then the other one. All I can tell you is that Lawrence Luckinbill was the star. There was another one too, with James Farantino, and I had a huge crush on him! There was a new episode of each of these shows about once a month. I think they ran for a year or two.

[QUOTE]

I loved that series of shows. My parents and I rarely missed a Saturday night-

After a little research found this on Wikipedia:

NBC Mystery Movie
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The NBC Mystery Movie is the umbrella title of an American television series, produced by Universal Studios, that aired on NBC from 1971 to 1977. At times throughout its run, it split into several versions that ran concurrently on different nights of the week and were entitled The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie and The NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie.

Mystery Movie was a "wheel show", or "umbrella program." That is, it rotated several shows within the same time slot throughout the season. In its initial 1971-1972 season, it premiered with a rotation of three detective dramas that ran on Wednesday night from 8:30-10:00 in the Eastern Time Zone.

The three original 1971-72 shows were:

McCloud, which starred Dennis Weaver as a New Mexico lawman reassigned to the New York Police Department, had debuted the previous season as part of the hour-long NBC wheel show Four in One.
Columbo, which starred Peter Falk as a bumbling but deceptively clever Los Angeles homicide detective, was a series created from a 1968 made-for-television movie, Prescription: Murder, which starred Falk in the same role.
McMillan and Wife starred Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James as a husband-and-wife crime-fighting duo. Hudson's character was the upscale San Francisco police commissioner. Saint James later left the series and it was renamed McMillan.
The umbrella series was counted a great success in its first season and finished at number 14 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1971-72 season. Columbo was nominated for eight Emmy Awards and won in four categories.

The success of Mystery Movie prompted NBC to move the original three shows to the competitive 8:30-10:00 Sunday evening for the second season as The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie. A fourth series, the Jack Webb-produced Hec Ramsey, starring Richard Boone as a cowpoke turned crime-fighter in the Old West, was added to the rotation and lasted two seasons (1972-1974).

In addition, a clone of the umbrella series, The NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie debuted in the original time slot and featured three new shows:

Banacek, starred George Peppard as a free-lance insurance investigator in Boston. Like Hec Ramsey, it lasted two seasons (1972-1974).
Cool Million, starred James Farentino as a private investigator and security / retrieval expert whose fee per case was the title of the series.
Madigan, had Richard Widmark reprising his 1968 film role as a streetwise veteran detective with the NYPD.
Other series that were later part of the Mystery Movie series are Amy Prentiss (starring Jessica Walter as the first female chief of detectives for the San Francisco Police Department), Faraday & Company, Lanigan's Rabbi (about a small town police chief and his best friend, a rabbi and amateur sleuth), McCoy (starring Tony Curtis as a professional con-man / thief), Quincy, M.E., The Snoop Sisters, and Tenafly (starring James MacEachin as a family-man private detective).

Of all the wheel series, only the original three -- Columbo, McCloud and McMillan and Wife -- survived for the entire run of the Mystery Movie. Most of the others were short-lived (usually just one season), with the exception of Quincy which became the only Mystery Movie series to outlast its parent program when it was spun-off into its own weekly series in February 1977. It featured Jack Klugman as a medical examiner in the L.A. County's coroner's office.

The Mystery Movie theme music was composed by Henry Mancini. The opening credits consisted of a mysterious figure carrying a flashlight slowly walking towards the camera as images representing the various rotating series appeared in cameos on the side of the screen; at the end, an announcer (Hank Sims) presents that night's stars and series (example: "Tonight, starring Peter Falk as Columbo"). It was also the same opening used in Ironside for its second season. Some syndicated episodes of Columbo retain this opening credit sequence, though slowed down towards the end to avoid showing the title caption which includes "NBC" and (after the first season), a day of the week. Columbo returned in 1989 as part of ABC's revival of the Mystery Movie concept, which lasted for two seasons, and then in a further fourteen TV movies between 1990 and 2003. McCloud appeared in one further TV movie, The Return of Sam McCloud, in November 1989.

hlao23

10-04-2007, 10:18 AM

Dr. Shrinker
Dr. Shrinker
He's a madman with an evil mind!

Loved it!!! Was it maybe part of the Bay City Rollers show?

My sister used to watch a show after school called Space Giants. Kind of Godzilla-like, I think. Goldar and Sil-var. I didn't watch it.

slknight

10-04-2007, 10:41 AM

It's not as old as some of the ones mentioned, but I liked the short-lived "Class of 92." It was the same genre as Beverly Hills 90210.

aggie94

10-04-2007, 10:45 AM

It's not as old as some of the ones mentioned, but I liked the short-lived "Class of 92." It was the same genre as Beverly Hills 90210.

Oooh, do you mean Class of '96, with Doogie Howser's girlfriend Wanda? I loved that show! :D

slknight

10-04-2007, 10:46 AM

Oooh, do you mean Class of '96, with Doogie Howser's girlfriend Wanda? I loved that show! :D

Doh. Yes, that's the one I meant. And somehow, I *knew* that you liked that one too. :)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0105972/

aggie94

10-04-2007, 10:48 AM

Well, of course - what else would you expect from your long-lost twin?? :D

crockpotmom

10-04-2007, 11:25 AM

Had to make sure my mom and dad left church quickly on Sunday nights...Mutual of Omaha and the Wonderful World of Disney were 2 of my favorites along with,, Happy Days and Laverine and Shirley...Gosh wish the First two would come back...Great family time shows and we always watched them together...Now....Thank goodness for the discovery channel...they have great shows for familys too...

___Rhianna___

10-04-2007, 12:38 PM

I used to love a show on Saturday mornings called "Land of the Lost" about a dad (Marshall), brother (Will), and sister (Holly) who were rafting and went through a time warp. They were always trying to escape the Slestack (sp?) and trying to get back home.

I, too, remember Isis and liked that show as well. "Oh zephyr winds which blow on high, lift me now so I can fly. Oh mighty Isis, Isis, Isis . . ."

One of my favorites was "The Hardy Boys" with Parker Stevenson and the love of my pre-teen life, Shaun Cassidy.

hollysmom

10-04-2007, 12:53 PM

..Mutual of Omaha ...

"We'll watch from the Jeep while Jim takes the bone away from that lion."

SSM

sararosalie

10-04-2007, 01:03 PM

"We'll watch from the Jeep while Jim takes the bone away from that lion."

SSM

HEE HEE...that was a milk snorting out of my nose moment.

thanks for the BIG laugh!

FruitsAlive

10-04-2007, 01:32 PM

badunnin

10-04-2007, 03:32 PM

Ohhhhhh Lordy, that brings back memories.

My DS (about 3 at the time) was watching TV and I was "resting" on the sofa. He came over, poked his finger in my eye to lift up my eyelid and asked me "what is Fibonacci sequence?" Sheesh, child, what ARE you watching????

When he told me, I told him that when the library opened we would go investigate Fibonacci Sequence. We did and I still didn't understand it until on a Martha Stewart show she explained how the sections of a pine cone are arranged in Fibonacci sequence. NOW it makes sense to me. :p

The first few numbers of the Fibonacci sequence actually appeared on my white board yesterday, and I expanded it today before they came in. Some of my kids were actually surprised, some of my kids just feigned surprise when they saw it (I minored in Mathematics).

Another show I miss is Danger Bay. I had a crush on Jonah. :o

barbara-cook

10-04-2007, 04:06 PM

sararosalie - Thanks for all the info! Wow, does that bring back memories. I didn't realise that Columbo was part of that "umbrella" and "Cool Million" was the one I couldn't remember with James Farantino. Trust me, you young ones, he was HOT.

Thanks again!

testkitchen45

10-04-2007, 04:17 PM

One of my favorites was "The Hardy Boys" with Parker Stevenson and the love of my pre-teen life, Shaun Cassidy.

Oh, I remember that!! But I swooned over Parker Stevenson. Till I grew up and realized that he's basically got one giant eyeball; I've never seen someone with eyes so close together. :D

"We'll watch from the Jeep while Jim takes the bone away from that lion." -- Hollysmom, ROFLMHO!!! :D

Here's one more: anyone remember some of the stealth Little House episodes? You know, the ones that would sneak up on you, and be totally inappropriate for the target audience? I remember one where Mary's baby dies in a horrific fire, with a woman wailing out the top window as the flames consume her, and another one where Albert's girlfriend turns up PG after an incident involving a stalker in a clown mask, and Charles says to Albert, who swears he & the gal didn't "do anything," that "maybe it was against her will." Yeah, we need infant death and teen rape on a kids' show. :eek:

Gilgamesh37

10-04-2007, 04:19 PM

I remember battling with my mother to watch Dark Shadows--she was afraid it would be too scary for me. Mostly, I might have been scarred by the terrible acting. Still have great affection for it, though.

Never liked Daktari much (but totally coveted the zebra-painted jeep) but loved Lost in Space. And of course...My Mother the Car

sararosalie

10-05-2007, 08:35 AM

The other show I loved as kid that seems to have faded from most people's memory is Switch.

It ran in the mid to late 70s and starred Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner.

Here's a plot snyopsis from Wikipedia:

The series focused on two main characters, Frank MacBride (Eddie Albert), a retired bunco cop who once arrested Pete Ryan (Robert Wagner), who was his con man before his trusted crime-fighting partner. After Ryan's release, the two open up their own detective agency in Los Angeles that specializes in "out-conning the cons" by using the same sorts of double-crosses and deceptions used by con men in order to capture criminals. Assisting them is another former con man of Frank's, restaurant owner Malcolm Argos (Charlie Callas), and Maggie Philbin (Sharon Gless), Frank's and Pete's young receptionist who helps them out in each of the cases.

Thanks for starting this thread--I'm really enjoying it!

Davey

10-05-2007, 08:39 AM

Hong Kong Phooey I used to love. I'm going to have to see if I can get my hands on any old episodes. Speaking of older shows, I love the show get smart, and they just came out with it on DVD (definitely going to pick that one up).

Cherise

10-06-2007, 08:00 AM

After watching Ghost Whisperer last night, DH and I were talking about tv shows, and that reminded me of one, Friday the Thirteenth tv show. Anybody else remember this one? It was centered around 3 people who worked in/owned an antique type store, and they were trying to collect objects that were cursed or had occult type magical powers. It was on for maybe 2-3 seasons in the late 80's. It was just creepy enough, without being gory/scary. I checked awhile back to see if they were on DVD, but at that time they weren't. I should check again. Also, I immediately thought of Land of the Lost when I read this thread. I liked that show as a kid too.

boisewinesnob

10-06-2007, 09:10 AM

I loved Soap and about 2 years ago I found some DVDs of it at our library!

I'd also like to see thirtysomething on DVD; it probably already is, but I've never looked into it.

Terri_A

10-06-2007, 09:27 AM

Just thought of yet another one...

Fraggle Rock.

I used to watch it religiously, but the only thing I really remember is this episode where the ogre sat on a basket containing Gobo. He was trying to convince the ogre to get up. The ogre looked down at the basket between his legs and said, "My bottom is talking to me".
I still crack up when I think about it...and I still use that line when the occasion arises.

We didn't have cable, so I used to go to friends houses to watch Fraggle Rock And now, the theme song is on my iPod - the weeone loves to sing it...."Down at Fraggle Rock -clap, clap- Down at Fraggle Rock!"

colleency

10-06-2007, 09:38 AM

There is a movie that I'm hoping you can help remember the title. It was on HBO (I think) a lot in the early to mid eighties. It was a really bizarre, creepy movie about a guy in a vegatative (sp?) state, in a hospital. His eyes were open, but he was unresponsive, but he could move things with his mind. I think he ended up killing people in the end. I remember it being really, really creepy, and the title of the movie was this guy's name. Something like Jeremy.:confused: The only other person in the whole world that remembers this movie, other than me, is my DSIL. Have you ever seen it, and do you remember the name of it?

It was called Patrick. I wasn't supposed to be watching it. I think I still have nightmares about the end sequence when his IV bottle is over the smashed neon sign, and he flies out the window when someone turns the sign on. *shudder*

One last one. This one is not so obcure, and unlike the others listed above, it was actually a pretty good show....I think. Do you remember Hong Kong Phooey? I loved this show!! I wish that someone would sell it on DVD. I would love to see it again. I would probably be disappointed though. I'm sure it's not nearly as good as I remember.;)

DH and I each loved this show as kids. One day, about 10 years ago, it came on the channel we were watching. Our excitement soon turned to horror when we realized exactly how bad the show really is. Wow. We had no taste as kids.

Of course, I was also disappointed to learn how bad the original Battlestar Galictica was.

At least the Waltons is still good!

BarbaraL

10-06-2007, 01:55 PM

Dark Shadows was all the rage when I was a teen, but I never got into it. Not much of an after school TV watcher, believe it or not.

There was a show on in the early 70's - but I can't remember the name. It was actually part of a series of shows. One was "MacMillan and Wife" (LOVED IT!), "McCloud" and then the other one. All I can tell you is that Lawrence Luckinbill was the star. There was another one too, with James Farantino, and I had a huge crush on him! There was a new episode of each of these shows about once a month. I think they ran for a year or two.
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Wasn't Columbo, with Peter Falk, the other one? Those shows were great, although I read that Rock Hudson couldn't stand Susan St. James.
I also watched Dark Shadows . . . Jonathan Frid, Lara Parker (Angelique), David Selby (how can I remember that???) - ah, those middle-school years!
Obscure shows: "It's About Time", about 2 astronauts who went through some kind of time warp and wound up in the stone age; Imogene Coca was in it. Daktari, which was set in Africa, and had Clarence the cross-eyed lion. "Lost in Space" and "Time Tunnel".
This is fun; I'll probably be thinking about this all day!

GingerPow

10-06-2007, 03:35 PM

When I was a kid (also a "Dark Shadows" watcher then:D ) one of my favorite shows was called "Maya" starring Jay North (the t.v. Dennis the Menace) and an East Indianian boy named Sajid Kahn. I had a wild crush on Sajid Kahn. I used to look at his picture in Tiger Beat and sigh. :D

I'd watch the Monkees regularly - even had a Monkees lunch box.

I had to laugh at the reference to "MUU-tual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom." My brother and I would always imitate Marlin Perkins pronunciation of the title when the show started. We were easily amused. We loved that show - first show of it's kind really. Animal Planet's predecessor, I guess.

gdnr77

10-06-2007, 11:18 PM

Barbara,
I loved It's About Time, Lost in Space, and Time Tunnel. A couple other favorites were Here Come the Brides and Land of the Giants. I loved, loved loved Bobby Sherman, and GingerPow, I too waited for the Tiger Beat magazine, for Saj Khan pictures as well as Bobby Sherman pics too.

Joan

Lauren

10-07-2007, 05:32 AM

I'd watch the Monkees regularly - even had a Monkees lunch box.

I had a Monkees lunchbox, too! I loved the Monkees and had a couple of their albums and a bandana/scarf thing. :p

I remember as a kid watching the Carol Duvall show if I was home sick. It was on in the early afternoon. I've seen her on HGTV several times and was surprised to see she's still around. ;)

Reading her bio I see she's from MI, so maybe she wasn't national. Anyone from MI remember her?

http://web.hgtv.com/webhgtv/images/pac/60172/header_leftGutter.jpg

Carol Duvall's career began with a children's show in Grand Rapids, Mich. In 1962 she joined a Detroit television station and spent 18 years in a variety of positions, ranging from news anchor to co-producer and host of her first craft-oriented program. By the late 1980s she was crafting on ABC's Home Show, and in 1994 she became host of The Carol Duvall Show on HGTV. With self-effacing humor and practical know-how, Duvall imparts expert crafting advice to audiences across the nation.