The TV Time Machine Thread!

[Muffit]

Hi all! Since our show is only one of many that had a short life even though it was so well loved, I thought I would start the:

TV Time Machine Thread!

Please list any shows you remember that were neat in their day but had a short if colorful life. I know some of you are too young to remember some of these but here goes my favs dating back to 1955:

Captain Satellite (1958)
http://www.captainsatellite.com/
A fun sci-fi/cartoon combo with kids as invited guests. Cheap props (including pie tins as knobs) but great fun!

Charley and Humphrey Show (early 60's)
http://www.tvparty.com/lostSF.html (down near the bottom)
A frustrated horse and a hilarious dog! Loved it!
Sooo sad, most of the footage has been lost now :cry:

It's About Time (1966)
http://www.tvparty.com/recits.html
Goofy sci-fi/comedy

Mr. Terrific and Captain Nice (1967)
http://www.tvparty.com/terrific.html
Competing shows about blundering super heroes
10 cubits to anyone who remembers what the CN on Captain Nice's belt buckle REALLY stood for :).

Okay friends, add your favorite memories!!! :D
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[Flamingo Girl]

Do they have to be sci-fi?

One of my favorites was one that lasted all of 6 episodes, "Police Squad."

Unoficial Zucke/Abrahms/Zucker Site (http://uk.geocities.com/zaz_fan/zaz_web_pages/pshome.htm)

As for any more, I'll have to think about it.

[Fëanor]

Starcops
http://web.bham.ac.uk/burforar/starcops.html
BBC 2 show in the UK.. Ran for one season.. the cases of the first Police unit in space.. (near future) was axed in favour of Red Dwarf

best episodes

Conversations with the Dead
a transport malfunctions on the way back from mars when the engines fire until the fuel is exhausted..

Case to be opened in a million years
A mafia operation for smuggling drugs grown in Lunar greenhouses on Nuclear transports goes wrong...

[Muffit]

Good point Flamingo Girl! Does NOT have to be sci-fi. Any show you miss that might stir a memory in others :).

Thanks for your input too Kai!

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[emerita]

I loved this one....."SPACE CADET!"
http://www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/shows/toys/ty1417.php

and Flash Gorden and Buck Rogers......:thumbsup: ...of course these three were before your time.....but man what cool shows......

[Muffit]

Originally posted by emerita
I loved this one....."SPACE CADET!"
http://www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/shows/toys/ty1417.php

and Flash Gorden and Buck Rogers......:thumbsup: ...of course these three were before your time.....but man what cool shows......

Cool Em! I heard of these but of course I didn't get the chance to see 'em when they aired. I did see the original Buck Rogers when a channel began airing the eps in the 70's. The space ship was so funny, you could see the wires, but I'm sure in its day it was great. I liked the mongol looking bad guy.

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[emerita]

Oh man, I thought they were the coolest ever. I anxiously waited for them to come on......then of course they made way for Star Trek in 1965.....

[Flamingo Girl]

I remember watching Buck Rogers, my sis had a thng for Gil Gerard. I wondered why his mother would name him after fish parts.

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I wished the Muppet show had gone on longer. I loved that show and would watch today

[emerita]

Me too. It was a funny show....

[Muffit]

I still love watching the Muppet movies. The newest one Treasure Island is really good :) The TV show was great. I still got that tune stuck in my head (or was that Sesame Street?) -- "There are bones, bones, bones bones bones inside of you..." :music:

[Flamingo Girl]

That would be Sesame Street.

I've often wished The Cosby Show had gone on for at least another year.

[Micheleh]

I was one of those strange kids, I guess... I actually liked the Prisoner!

[Muffit]

The Prisoner was great! I started watching half way thru so I missed a lot. But I got to see the end which was really something.

Thanks for reminding me Micheleh!

Oops, sorry I got Sesame mixed up with the Muppets!
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[default]

those were the days! i loved the stuff i watched as a kid. the stuff they show today is crud compared to our younger years!

[Flamingo Girl]

I remember watching reruns of The Mickey Mouse Club. I had such a crush on Bobby Burgess that I didn't mind watching The Lawrence Welk Show.

[Muffit]

My gosh, I remember both of those. My parents loved Lawrence Welk and got me interested in it. The bubbles were great :).

Let's see how far back we can go.... Dobie Gillis anyone? The star from Gilligan's Island was in it. Eeks, my age is /really/ showing. Okay, okay, I was awfully young when that one was on and remember being carried upstairs whenever it came on.

This is fun!
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[Flamingo Girl]

I wasn't allowed to stay up late on school nights till the early '70's. I got to stay up to watch the Brady Bunch, Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, and I think there were some Lassie specials...

[ojai22]

My favorite show of all time is The Prisoner. I can't say it went off the air too soon because it said what it needed to say, then ended. I have it on tape and pop in an ep now and then.

Another one I really loved was Harry O with David Jensen. No preaching, no politics, just interesting, well-acted stories. I've never seen any re-runs of it. Don't know why. Oh, but I think it ran about 3 years. Too long for this thread, huh Muffit!

[Erzengel]

I watched alot of shows like knight rider, A-team, emergency and airwolf. But I like watching and collecting british shows like the avengers and Doctor who, none of which I've had seen when I was younger.

[Muffit]

WELCOME to Colonial Fleets, Erzengel! Love to see new faces! Hope you enjoy it here :).

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[ojai22]

Welcome, Erzengel - fellow Avengers fan! Actually the only one I really loved was with Emma Peel. And the only ep I have is The House that Jack Built. Steed and Peel, what a team....

[Flamingo Girl]

One of my favorite shows was the Hardy Boys. I keep wondering why none of these Classic TV channels don't bring it back. TVLand showed an eppisode of Nancy Drew during their Chrismas Marathon, but its SO not the same.

[Muffit]

Ojai, any TV show you loved is fair game here, so that's okay :). It's especially fun to remember the brief ones, but any oldie would be fine. I really liked the Prisoner. I was lucky to catch the final ep and boy was it a surprise. There was a computer game about it too (text graphics only if I remember) and it accurately portrayed the bizarre mystery of it all.

Erzengel, I liked the Avengers too. I even caught a few Dr. Who eps and thought they were interesting.

Flamingo, I watched the Hardy Boys too a couple times. Neat show.

Am hoping myself that Supercar will get broadcast somewhere -- I think the DVDs are coming out, hope I can talk my alter-ego into letting me get that set too :). I am LOVING watching my new DVD boxed set of FIreball XL5 from 1962. My daughter actually likes it and won't let me watch without her :). Time with her is justification enough for the purchase, to my heart.

And thanks to Bsg1Fan1975 , Em and Micheleh too (hope I didn't miss anyone).

Keep 'em coming all!!!
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[default]

Anyone remember 'Supertrain'? It was 'The Love Boat' on train tracks. The train was way cool, but writing was not to good if I rememeber right. My two cents here.

Jim:colwar:

[Muffit]

Hi dilbertman! That's a new one for me -- anyone else seen that one?
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Muffit

You can get some info on this great show:laugh:, at the links below.

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-2206/

http://www.spudtv.com/features/worst/supertrain.html

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

Jim:colwar:

[ojai22]

That's a faint memory, Jim. I don't think it lasted long enough to get out of the station! Could have been interesting, though. Yes, the writing. Same old story!

[Flamingo Girl]

I'm not really a big fan of horror, but I became something of a fan of Gary Cole after watching him on "Midnight Caller", so I decided to check out his next series, which somehoe managed to grab me. It was also an attractive point that it was created by Shawn Cassidy.
Does anyone here remember "American Gothic"?

[kingfish]

Voyage To The Bottom of The Sea was a favorite of mine.

[emerita]

American Gothic...yes! Man there are so many that I have let slip from memory....

[Flamingo Girl]

"Someone's at the door."

[emerita]

Is that the one with the babysitter getting calls from a killer from inside the house?

[Flamingo Girl]

No. A young girl was mentally disturbed, and that's all she would say in the first episode, before the sherrif killed her.

[shadehntr]

I don't remember that one.But one of my old favorite classics and always well, is Sheriff Andy Taylor.Of the Andy Griffith Show.Reminds me of were I live,lol.Does anyone remember that show and remember some good scenes?

[Flamingo Girl]

I watched the Andy Griffith Show when I was a kid. I remember the drunk guy who would go into the cell on his own.

[emerita]

In the Andy Griffith show I always liked the scene where Aunt Bea decided to leave because Opie was being so mean. Ron Howard said later that he was really upset at being mean to her in the scene and he was really crying, because of the mean things he had to say. Of course later on, I guess he thought differently, because I read an article where it said that she was not a very nice woman and was hard to get along with.

[bsg1fan1975]

got hooked on British comedy when I started watching a show called "Are you being served?" from there I got into "Monty Python." those were the two best ones i've ever seen.

[Flamingo Girl]

OMG!!!! I LOVE "Are You Being Served?"!!!!

Have you seen "As Time Goes By"? The comedy is more subtle, but it's still funny as heck.