Forgotten TV Series

[Snakeman1066]

I have been looking for a TV series called "A Man Called Sloane" starring Robert Conrad where he played a "freelance" spy that drove an Excalibur and had a sidekick that had a robotic hand.....I know I'm not crazy I remember seeing this show when i was a kid.....around 10 or 11, (which would make it about 30 years old) but everytime i mention it people look at me like I have a carrot growing out of my ear.....(It ran 12 episodes plus a two hour pilot) i think Quinn Martin (Barnaby Jones) produced it for NBC...

Any odd shows you guys remeber from your childhood, that no one else seems to remember?

I also remember watching a TV Series where this blonde guy from another planet was discovered in a crypt in a ruin in Peru...he used an amulet to draw power from the sun and then he transformed the energy into things like levitation, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, astral projection and telekinesis....as i remeber it it had a very green eco-friendly message way back in the 80's i think it was called the Phoenix

and last but not least on Saturdays i used to watch a show called Ark II where this family ran around in some spaced out looking RV with a monkey and a robot after a nuclear holocaust...again people look at me like i'm crazy when i mention these shows

You should have seen my kids faces after watching an episode of my beloved H.R. Pufnstuf.....classic! then again how many witches do you see riding a rocket powered broom with a sidecar?

[unbasslichkeit]

Originally Posted by Snakeman1066

Any odd shows you guys remember from your childhood, that no one else seems to remember?

Ohh yes:

"Doctor in the House" - an early "Brit-com" about medical students from back in the 70's, which always seemed to get pre-empted on my local stations when I wanted to watch it. I think John Cleese and Graham Chapman of Monty Python had something to do with the writing, which makes sense because it was absolutely hilarious.

"My Mother the Car" - horrible show. "A 1928 Porter / That's my mother dear / She helps me through anything I do and I'm so glad she's here.." Is anyone flashing back and throwing up yet?

[hbarcat]

Originally Posted by Snakeman1066

and last but not least on Saturdays i used to watch a show called Ark II where this family ran around in some spaced out looking RV with a monkey and a robot after a nuclear holocaust...

I remember it was a "talking" chimp that barked out everything it said and the show insulted my intelligence when I was 8 years old.

You should have seen my kids faces after watching an episode of my beloved H.R. Pufnstuf.....classic! then again how many witches do you see riding a rocket powered broom with a sidecar?

H.R. Pufnstuf was an awesome show.

[Marcus Johnson]

[Snakeman1066]

Originally Posted by unbasslichkeit

Ohh yes:

"Doctor in the House" - an early "Brit-com" about medical students from back in the 70's, which always seemed to get pre-empted on my local stations when I wanted to watch it. I think John Cleese and Graham Chapman of Monty Python had something to do with the writing, which makes sense because it was absolutely hilarious.

"My Mother the Car" - horrible show. "A 1928 Porter / That's my mother dear / She helps me through anything I do and I'm so glad she's here.." Is anyone flashing back and throwing up yet?

Dude if you remeber that show from it original run that puts you in you 50's as that show was on in the mid 60's....but i do remember seeing it in re-runs...lol it had that guy from coach in it!

talking about Pufnstuf reminds me that Sid and Marty Croft put out some really bizarre shows in the 70's (Electo woman and Dyna girl, the Far out Space Nuts, Sigmund the Sea monster, Wonderbug, The Bugaloos, Dr. Shrinker, Land of the Lost, Lost Saucer...etc...)

[Thunderscreech]

There was that show on Nickelodeon about the kids lost in space; and one kid looked like a guy from Metallica with spiral ears. I think it was called Space Cases

[bongomania]

Originally Posted by Snakeman1066

I have been looking for a TV series called "A Man Called Sloane" starring Robert Conrad where he played a "freelance" spy that drove an Excalibur and had a sidekick that had a robotic hand.....I know I'm not crazy I remember seeing this show when i was a kid.....around 10 or 11, (which would make it about 30 years old) but everytime i mention it people look at me like I have a carrot growing out of my ear.....(It ran 12 episodes plus a two hour pilot) i think Quinn Martin (Barnaby Jones) produced it for NBC...

Oh yeah, I really enjoyed that show! Sure it was cheesy, and I knew that even then, but I liked it. The sidekick with the robot hand was cooler than Sloane IMO. I remember him going to a tailor to have a new 3-piece suit made, in purple with green stripes- the tailor looks at him funny, and sidekick smirks and says "family colors".

How about "Manimal"?

Or let's dig real deep here, who remembers "Pink Lady"?

[unbasslichkeit]

Also "Kolchak the Night Stalker" - Darren McGavin, I think.
Imagine Columbo, on amphetamines, chasing vampires.

[tplyons]

God, the Devil, and Bob - only 13 episodes from 2000-2003
God has made a bet with the Devil: if one human of the Devil's choosing can't prove that humanity is decent, God will scrap all of creation and start over. The Devil chooses Detroit car assembly line worker Bob Alman. Now Bob has to live a decent life with no hints from God and constant temptation from the Devil. from imdb.

[Snakeman1066]

Originally Posted by unbasslichkeit

Also "Kolchak the Night Stalker" - Darren McGavin, I think.
Imagine Columbo, on amphetamines, chasing vampires.

that was an awesome show......

they tried to re-vamp it recently (no pun intended) with Stuart Townsend playing Kolchak....i don't think it lasted long

[hbarcat]

Remember the show Small Wonder?









Worst TV show. . . ever.

[Outlaw_son]

Perfect Strangers
My Two Dads
Moonlighting
Highway to Heaven
The flash - Tv series
Team knight rider
Beauty and the Beast - Tv series, linda hamilton getting it on with a f****** lion? Strange.
Storybook Stories
Jake and the Fatman
Afraid of the dark - Nickelodeon
Turbo Teen
You cant say that on television - on nickelodeon,you got slimed dropped on you if you said some word.
There was a show where a teenage boy was a robot named chip,alan thicke was his father,but i cannot remember the nameof the show

[bassteban]

Originally Posted by bongomania

Or let's dig real deep here, who remembers "Pink Lady"?

Correction: Pink Lady & Jeff.
NOT that I'd know...


Edit: Shonen Knife's lesbian Grandparents.

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

At least where I live, I seem to be the only one who remembers this one.

Here are others that bring me so many memories, but I hardly find someone who can say the same:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOWgTtSiVwA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwOmmIEoLQg

[gold_member_321]

TWO WORDS..



STREET SHARKS!

[Atoz]

Originally Posted by Snakeman1066

Dude if you remeber that show from it original run that puts you in you 50's as that show was on in the mid 60's....but i do remember seeing it in re-runs...lol it had that guy from coach in it!

talking about Pufnstuf reminds me that Sid and Marty Croft put out some really bizarre shows in the 70's (Electo woman and Dyna girl, the Far out Space Nuts, Sigmund the Sea monster, Wonderbug, The Bugaloos, Dr. Shrinker, Land of the Lost, Lost Saucer...etc...)

The Kroffts put out some great stuff that I watched as a kid in the 70s. I have a 3 volume set of Krofft shows (Land of the Lost, Wonder Bug, Lost Saucer, Magic Mongo, Far Out Space Nuts, Pufnstuf, Lidsville, etc.). My son thinks they're awesome. I never realized until I was older just how excrementally awful the acting is in those shows.

Mr. Show did a pretty funny send-up on Pufnstuf a few years ago:

Originally Posted by Alvaro Martín Gómez A.

At least where I live, I seem to be the only one who remembers this one.

OMG! I LOVED Lancelot Link! Awesome!

Speaking of obscure TV shows, in the early 70s, my favorite show was a British sci-fi called "UFO," about a futuristic military base hidden beneath a movie studio. I even had a UFO lunchbox. In the early 80s, I used to watch a show called "Sledge Hammer," about a detective with a false hand. Anyone remember either of those?

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Originally Posted by Alvaro Martín Gómez A.

Here are others that bring me so many memories, but I hardly find someone who can say the same:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOWgTtSiVwA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwOmmIEoLQg

Here's another one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNbca1Stzms

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

I tried not to miss a single episode of this one when I was like five or six years old.

[steve21]

Originally Posted by gold_member_321

TWO WORDS..



STREET SHARKS!

Hell yes.

[GregC]

Oh man, I love this thread. I only wish my own contribution was better. I remember a mid70s sitcom set in a hotel bar (I think) called Hot L Baltimore (the "e" was burned out on the sign of the hotel). I don't think it lasted long, but it had a big-band sort of opening theme.

Originally Posted by unbasslichkeit

"Doctor in the House" - an early "Brit-com" about medical students from back in the 70's, which always seemed to get pre-empted on my local stations when I wanted to watch it. I think John Cleese and Graham Chapman of Monty Python had something to do with the writing, which makes sense because it was absolutely hilarious.

Yep, I used to watch this a lot. Cheesier than Python, but I liked it.

Originally Posted by bongomania

How about "Manimal"?

Or let's dig real deep here, who remembers "Pink Lady"?

I didn't watch Manimal, but I remember Letterman having a lot of fun with it.

Ouch to Pink Lady. A cut-rate Tony Orlando & Dawn.

Originally Posted by Alvaro Martín Gómez A.

At least where I live, I seem to be the only one who remembers this one.

I loved Lancelot Link, too. Man, thanks for that clip!

Originally Posted by Atoz

Mr. Show did a pretty funny send-up on Pufnstuf a few years ago:

I LOL'd hard at that one! I remember the Krofft Supershow, all that bizarro kiddie psychedelia in one 90-minute chunk, whew!