TV shows you remember that no-one else does

[caj]

Running The Halls - TNBC Saturday morning show about 6 teenagers going to a private school. Aired for one year in 1993.

Here Come The Double Deckers - Saturday morning show from the early 70s. About seven kids who have a clubhouse in a double decker bus in England.

[Thezmage]

Valentine: Written by Kevin Murphy of Rifftrax/MST3K fame, this was a romantic comedy about the Greek gods facing an unknown enemy, focusing on Aphrodite and her son Cupid as well as her husband Hephaestus and her lover Ares and some other mythological figures who have to bring couples together and increase the power of love in the world because otherwise she's vulnerable to this unknown enemy.

[Synestra]

So Weird from the Disney Channel

It's often described as a X-Files for kids, and it does have something of a fan base online. I always remembered watching it as a kid myself, and later looked into it and found out why it took such a drastic shift in tone during its 3rd season (the writers actually planned to have Fi venture into Hell to save her father's soul, but Disney considered this too dark, and the lead actress departed the show after the second season).

I've actually started a re-watch on Disney+ and admittedly the show does have some pretty profound episodes about loss and death for a kid's show, although they do balance it out with some lighter episodes too. I wish the writers could've freely explored their plans in the 3rd season like they wanted to.

[Jackalope89]

So Weird from the Disney Channel

It's often described as a X-Files for kids, and it does have something of a fan base online. I always remembered watching it as a kid myself, and later looked into it and found out why it took such a drastic shift in tone during its 3rd season (the writers actually planned to have Fi venture into Hell to save her father's soul, but Disney considered this too dark, and the lead actress departed the show after the second season).

I've actually started a re-watch on Disney+ and admittedly the show does have some pretty profound episodes about loss and death for a kid's show, although they do balance it out with some lighter episodes too. I wish the writers could've freely explored their plans in the 3rd season like they wanted to.

Loved that show when I was a kid. Always tried to watch it when I could. And seeing that for season 3, it would have been interesting for sure.

[Chris Lang]

Ah, lots of shows listed that I'm surprised people mentioned because no one talks about them any more. Powers of Matthew Starr, for example. It was a show about this young teenager with powers that kept growing as the series went on. Early on, his goal was to return to his home planet, but midway through it got retooled and that goal was forgotten and he and his mentor (played by Lou Gossett Jr) just went around fighting crime.

Hmm... Silverhawks, to me, was remembered as that cartoon whose theme song proclaimed them to be 'partly metal, partly real'. Apparently, metal isn't real?

Children's shows:

Hodge Podge Lodge (if I recall correctly, children went to that house to visit a kind storyteller named Miss Jean. It aired on PBS).

Wonderama and Kids Are People Too.

Dusty's Treehouse (aired on Nickelodeon).

I think someone already mentioned Today's Special, set in a department store. Featured some puppets and a mannequin who came to life after hours.

Cartoons:

The Super Globetrotters: The Harlem Globetrotters as super-heroes.

The Robonic Stooges

Inch High Private Eye (featured a detective who was only an inch high, along with his normal sized assistants, and his boss Mr. Finkerton who was almost as prone to firing people as Mr. Spacely of the Jetsons).

Trollkins (largely a Smurfs knockoff, with more of a hillbilly atmosphere)

Help! It's the Hair Bear Bunch

Space Kiddettes

The Roman Holidays (basically it's like the Flintstones, but set in Rome instead of the Stone Age. Traffic lights are 'red torches' and 'green torches'). The Holidays were a family who lived in a 'modern' take on ancient Rome with their family cat, the lion Brutus. One of their main antagonists was their landlord, named Evictus (it's a silly Hanna Barbera cartoon, so we don't really expect subtlety).

The USA Cartoon Express had a number of the above as its 'stops' during the 80's.

[Synestra]

Loved that show when I was a kid. Always tried to watch it when I could. And seeing that for season 3, it would have been interesting for sure.

It's a shame that executive meddling occurred with this show... even though the writers wouldn't have been able to explore the plans they wanted for season 3 due to the main actress leaving, they lightened tone so much that outside of having the rest of the main cast, it almost felt like a different show.

Before I did a re-watch though, the episode I almost remembered most was Rebecca, with the friend of Fi's mother who never aged. There were plans to bring that character back too.

[Daveismyhero]

Man, these are some very obscure shows. Great work folks, and please keep 'em coming!

[Will Evans]

You Can’t Do That On Television,

Canadian show that got me interested in Nickelodeon as soon as we got cable in the early 80s.

[bob fett]

Anybody remember "the darkroom"?It was a horror/thriller series on ABC in the early eighties.James Coburn introduced the stories.I,loved it,and reminded me of another show that scared me as a kid,Night Gallery.

[Jim Kelly]

You Can’t Do That On Television,

Canadian show that got me interested in Nickelodeon as soon as we got cable in the early 80s.

Another Canadian show from the 1980s, but made in Vancouver and featuring local mainly adult hosts, was ZIG ZAG.

And then later, for many many years, there was STREET CENTS, which had mostly teen hosts, but kept changing its line-up with new seasons.

[Toreador]

Not sure if it's been mentioned already but recently remembered an old show starring Richard Crenna and Bernadette Peters. Did a Google search and came up with the name All's Fair. The sit-com was about a conservative columnist (Crenna) romantically involved with a liberal photographer (Bernadette). Show only lasted one season on CBS from '76-'77. The only part of the show I remember is an episode where an election is taking place and Crenna tries to convince Peters that since their votes will cancel each others they should skip voting and spend the night together. They go into his bedroom but a few seconds later Peters runs out of the bedroom and heads for the door saying she can't in good conscience not vote.

[Steel Inquisitor]

The Great Space Coaster. It's about three kids who sing who get recruited by a space clown for his roller coaster shaped spaceship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dddm5bQeKvg

Space Precinct. Cops in space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QlDbop91FY

Mercy Point. A hospital in space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-B4Oe5SPDc

Alien Nation - based on the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlRunN3L9Cg

Time Cop - the tv show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuVMNnyFTcM

Syfy's Invisible Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOZ2lrq7jm8

The Pretender

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLuf...jF_P0H&index=3

MANTIS. The finale went all out, he died fighting an invisible dinosaur!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNIbUHXmgjg

Mutant X. Pseudo X-men show created by Marvel, got canceled when hey got sued by Fox. Not the best show, but it's got impeccable stunt work for such a low budget.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIzc6wPDVm8


The Sentinel. Low budget Daredevil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNQQvmbXckQ

Terra Nova. The show Naomi Scott was on before she got famous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBb6Kyd7vAc

Dark Skies. A wonderful X-Files rip-off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE35PzgNzVM

Time Trax. Time cop 2.0.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS4hf29AggI

Forever Knight. Angel before Angel was cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuPcMBcwT4A

Teknoman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVQYMWrFaaM