im looking for a show, possibly Canadian from the late 80s early 90s.
all i remember is a girl with some necklace or watch that connected her to a different world or dimension. I think there may have been a puppet character.
I remember seeing the girl lying on the floor, like she had fainted or something, or just the necklace/watch thing left in the middle of the floor.
anyone???

I love this site! It reminds me of TV shows and movies I loved and now want to show my son.

Here's one my hubby and I have been talking about. It may have actually been in the 90's rather than 80's. There was some sort of office--maybe a news office???--where people worked along side rabbit-type puppets. It was a primetime show and was more for adults than kids. It was really funny!

I have been racking my brain trying to remember it...Anyone have a clue?

I love this site! It reminds me of TV shows and movies I loved and now want to show my son.

Here's one my hubby and I have been talking about. It may have actually been in the 90's rather than 80's. There was some sort of office--maybe a news office???--where people worked along side rabbit-type puppets. It was a primetime show and was more for adults than kids. It was really funny!

I have been racking my brain trying to remember it...Anyone have a clue?

Anyone remember a show from maybe the 90's where puppet-rabbits worked along with people in an office? It was prime time and not really a kids show.

Thanks!

Does anyone remember a 70's tv show with a puppet octopus and a creature with seawead on him. They lived in a cave on the beach that two children visited.

OK, this is an amazing site. But I THINK I have read through all of it, and can't find the show that I've been looking all over the WEB for for the last 2 weeks. It's really bugging me. It would have been in the late 80s or early 90s. It had a rich man (who used a cane) who sent his employees to solve different things. They always had amazing technology and rode in the jet so many times. There were 2 men and a woman. One man was blond and I think a lawyer, one man was dark and more of a tough guy, and the woman was blond and possibly had a criminal background. The rich man it seems like lived in France, and had a butler. If any of you can help me, I would appreciate it.

Maryah

On April 21, 2009 Brandi asked:

does any one know the name of an 80's tv show that was possibly on CBS in which the main character wore a medallion,was a traveler or alien, had platinum blond hair, could telepathicly speek to animals, and in the opening sequence of the show is shown sitting indian style while levitating? the answer IS NOT BEASTMASTER
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I have been struggling trying to remember the name of that show myself and came to this site looking for an answer. All I could remember was that the main character was blonde as Brandi mentioned, and this medallion he wore around his neck gave him special powers when he used it.

PLEASE HELP !!!! Thanks in advance.

Hey there, i have an old cartoon in my head i cant think of the name or find for the life of me. im twenty nine now, i think it was on in the late 80s or early nineties, very early in the morning. . like 5ish maybe even, but its not mysterious cities of gold, but something like that, it consisted of a group of people searching for this golden city i beleive or a golden phoneix, or they rode in a golden phoenix or something, i realllllly want to find it, because of what i remember, i think i watched like all the shows, except when they were getting cclose to finding the place or thing they were looking for, it either went off air, or i moved to another area and couldnt find it any more?? or something. Pleeeeeease help me.

I'm trying to remember a Saturday morning live-action series from the 70s. It was about a group of guys who travel around in a large truck or van to fight crime. One of them was the cool dude who got all the chicks. Another guy would go crazy whenever he heard the word "bananas."

Friends and I have been trying to think of this actor/comedian from the 70's maybe also the 80's. Kind of chunky, blonde hair that was long but combed back, bushy eyebrows, worked maybe on variety show, wore a colorful tacky tux. Funny laugh, pretended to cry, had scarves in his tux that he would pull out. Almost to the point of flamboyant. Anyone have any clues?

Does anyone know the children's show where a family lived on an estate (they rented) and their landlady was an uptight british woman, and she lived in a mansion? There was a girl and her brother and her horse would always eat the woman's garden, and sometimes the girl and her horse would go down to the beach to a store there.

I think it might be claymation
Thanks so much

One word, "Manimal" -- Simon MacCorkindale's finest hour as a guy who can turn into any animal. Some creepy (if not repeated ad naseum) animation as he turned into, say, a bird.

Here's the obligatory IMDB link:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0085898/

K

It doesn't technically fall in the 70's-80's category, but The Prisoner certainly had me riveted when I first saw it. And for the 80's, I loved Airwolf! I even met Jan-Michael Vincent. Twice!

Oh, yeah, Manimal! That was the show where the guy could turn into the panther (I somehow melded that with Automan in my description above). Boy, what stinkers...both of them!

Quark!!! Honestly, I think you just named the single most obscure memory of my childhood! All I remember is a garbage-ship drifting through space. Thinking how cool it was, but knowing I was only 4 years old at the time I simply couldn't handle it! I'm going to try and find it on eBay.

Anyway, to contribute, how about "Bring 'em Back Alive" with Bruce Boxleitner, where he protected endangered animals from poachers? Or "The Rubic's Cube / Menudo" hour? Basically an animated Rubic's Cube for the first half, the members of Menudo in the second! "Q-Bert" also had a cartoon, I believe. "The Great Spacecoaster" is a classic of course, as well as "The Bugaloos". But what about "Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors"??? Plant-vehicles sawing through evil! "Homeboys in outer-space" will be a classic in ten years, with its space-hoopty. Remember the phrase "The Rousters are gonna sink The Love Boat". Never saw the show, but it didn't sink any boats. Well, that's all I can think of for now. Thanks for the "Quark" heads-up!!!

Airwolf! Yeah, that was cool -- didn't they kill off both Jan-Michael and Earnest Borg-9 towards the end?

My personal 'way-back' ace-up-my-sleeve has to be the Nickelodeon classic, "Tomorrow People" with 'jaunting' British 'Homo-Superiors' -- a Doctor Who for teens, I guess.

k.

there was a short lived show called wishman i think it was about some little guy i think he was blue thay made him so he could work where people could not or some thing like that he ate some kind of past for food you know any thing about that show

Hi,

Question, does anyone have a recollection of a short-lived early 70's show with a chimpanzee? I seem to have an early recollection of a show which opened with a chimpanzee spraying the man of the house with a hose. Does this ring a bell with anyone?

I seem to remember a short lived show from some time in the early to mid 80's that had a Genie, who I believe was a black man, that lived in someones closet or something. When they would look in the closed it was all colorful and warped looking. The only other thing I remember was Roy Orbison was on an episode, or at least his song "Pretty Woman" was. Does anyone know what this show was called?

what about "out of the blue" that rip off of mork and mindy meets eight is enough?

I was wondering if anybody remembers a show about a girl who was a robot. All I remember is the day opening her back to rechage her or something, and that she wore a red dress with a white apron.

I think the show you're thinking of is 'Small Wonder'

"PARKER LEWIS CAN'T LOSE!" Remember that one???
It was a good one back then...
Didn't he have a hot sister or something?
Enjoy the memory trip!

Christine:

"BJ and the Bear" had a chimp. He was a truck driver, and he had a chimp partner.

There was a rash of movies around then that had the tough guy (say, Clint Eastwood), teamed up with a Simian.

k.

I recall a show where a man was like new to earth and had a small mercury bloob that flew threw the air with him, early memory was that the bloob could go into machines, such as an atm, the man got a trash bag and the bloob got the atm to spit out money, and the man put the money in the trash bag, the man commented this money going to burn a whole in my pocket, but the bloob commented, it's not in your poect, it's in the trash bag, anybody have a name for this show?

Does anyoen remember a show call rags to riches.
5 girls beeing adopted by a rich man Mr.Foly
Does anyone have the shows

quick question:
anyone remember a tv show about a couple "misfits" where one guy could manipulate electricity, one woman could stop time, i think there were four characters.....anyone?

Wasn't that "Misfits of Science"?

Can anyone help me with the name of a show from the 80's about a girl who's father was an alien (although you never saw him) and she spoke to him through a clear rubiks cube type thing that opened up. She was able to freeze time by putting her index fingers together and the song at the start of the show was ' Would you like to swing on a star' This name has been bugging me for years!!!

Does anyone know where i can find any archived info on a show called 'real people'.

anyone remember,bj and the bear? it was a show,about a guy driving his truck,and his best friend was a monkey,if i remember right,the cops were always after him for some reason or another. i remmeber in the opening credits,the big red truck,bursting through a billboard.

everyone i mention it to,never seems to remember it.but i remember watching it(possibly on a saturday morning)

please don't ask me to remember the cast,because i barely remember(it was mid to late 70's i think)

another show i used to love as a kid,was the reruns,of the 50's and 60's superman show. this is the best incarnation of superman(well smallville is pretty good) and i used to watch it 9am on a saturday morning,laying in front of the tv,with my legs and arms outstretched!

those were the days!

pam the show is called out of this world.ran in the late 80's early 90's i think(or maybe later)

the girl who played the main character,looked like tiffani from california dreams(i don't know if it's the same girl)

would you like to swing on a star
carry moonbeams off in a jar
============================

blah blah blah(fill in the blanks if you know)

or would you rather be on earth
(i think the original song might have been sung by ol'blue eyes,or someone who sounds like him

I know of one chimp show from the 70's called "Lance Link" or something like that. The chimps were secret agents of some sort, and one of them was named "Mata Hairy."

The main thing I remember about "Quark" were the two blondes in shorts who were at the controls. I was only about 6 at the time, but thought they were really pretty, sexy, and had a sort of a crush on them.

Some other shows of note:
Lucan: the boy raised by wolves now using his feral abilities to help people as he searches for his parents.
Wizards & Warriors: a live action version of Dungeons & Dragons starring the blonde guy from Taxi and a fat guy.
The Man With the Power: I think this is what its called but can't find any info on it. It was a guy with telekinesis and when he used it they would zoom in on his eyes as his pupils dilated. I remember an episode where he saved a turtle from some railroad tracks and then got his foot stuck and stopped the oncoming train.
The Fantastic Journey: same as Otherworld but they used a tuning fork to journey to parralel worlds, main guys name was Varian.
The show with the alien and the mercury bloob was the tv show of the movie Starman.
I have a ton more if anyone is interested. I'm a 70's-80's pop culture nut.

Dave,
Yeah, I remember "The Fantastic Journey" -- it had Roddy McDowall in it, didn't it? I remember them walking around with that damned tuning fork and me thinking "what the hell is going on?" I think it had like 5 episodes or something.

Heh...IMDB has a listing for it -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075503/ -- 10 episodes were filmed. And yeah, McDowall was in it. And to think my wife says I have a crappy memory...pshaw!

There are sooo many of these lost 'gems'. It seemed that all the shows that held my bizarre youthful attention got cancelled in the 70s & 80s (same today: Tick, Jack of All Trades, Twin Peaks). Remember these:
Tales of the Gold Monkey: Indiana Jones rip off with the dad from 7th Heaven (Collins)
Bring 'Em Back Alive: similar to Tales of the Gold Monkey, but with Higgins from Magnum
Voyagers: time travel shenanigans with a kid

Do you know the name of a show about a man who rides a high tech black motorcycle and wears a high tech helmet to cover his identity so he can fight the bad guys? And do you know how I can get a copy of the show on VHS?

Let us not forget the 1988 classic "The Highwayman" with that annoying Australian, Jacko -- with the 18-wheeler that transforms into a helicopter.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0094479/

As for the high-tech motorcycle guy, that show was "Street Hawk"

http://imdb.com/title/tt0088618/

Not to mention the "Logan's Run" TV series.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0075527/

k.

Anyone remember a show whwere there were 2 societies, one was Utopian, the other had these bumpy headed pig like guys (called Gorts or something), and to get to one society from another there was this underground train...this may all have been an alcohol induced dream mind you...

Does anyone remember a show from either the late 70's or early 80's about a boy that accidently gets taken through time with a man (Finius Bogg?) that has a time "watch" that only the boy seems to be able to use properly? The kid's dad was a history professor (or something of the like), so the kid knew all about history... It has been driving me NUTS trying to remember the name.

Pharlan,

I was talking about this the other day (see post 01/21/04). It was called Voyagers. I believe the star committed suicide in real life

This is going to sound odd....but my best friend and I have memories of a children's science show from the 80's where the host wore a flesh toned body suit that had pictures of muscles and veins on it.He was on a set with a huge prop of a human heart.He kind of resembled the "greatest american hero".He had the same sort of curly afro hair.We have not been able to find out any info on this show.I think it was on PBS.Anyone remember this?

Melissa,

That would have been Body Man from the classic Canadian tv show 'Yes You Can', which spun off the Raccoons, and also featured Harry Hogg & Coach Cuddles.

Cant remember the name of a short lived kids show from 70's maybe early eighties? Was very claymation and had a character named Jeremy and a bird named Hector? Help, its driving me batty.

Carrie,

That was another taste of Canadian tv. This was simply called "Jeremy" (remember the song "I am a bear called Jeremy, I can do most anything..."), the bird was Mr Raven & Hector was the Rat

http://members.rogers.com/ambrozic/tvo/jeremy.html

Bless your little heart

Thanks Dave! It has been driving me nuts trying to remember the name. Definately something I wouldn't mind seeing on TVLAND!

Thanks Dave! It has been driving me nuts trying to remember the name. Definitely something I wouldn't mind seeing on TVLAND!

My pleasure all. Its good to finally put this useless knowledge of pop culture and misspent youth to a good cause. Keep 'em coming gang

Thanks Dave!

Does anyone remember a show about russian rebels living in the wild trying to save peasants and give them money.I remember seeing it but i do not remember what the hell it was.

thanks

Does anyone remember a show in the mid-80's that was about a midget professor or scientist? One episode he invented a machine for a disabled ballerina so she could "see" her self dance by projecting an image of herself and her mind would make it dance. It wasn't on very long (I wonder why).

Does anyone remember a show in the mid-80's that was about a midget professor or scientist? One episode he invented a machine for a disabled ballerina so she could "see" her self dance by projecting an image of herself and her mind would make it dance. It wasn't on very long (I wonder why). Thank you!

The midget show was 'The Wizard' on CBS...don't remember too much about it. Check the tvtome.com site for pictures.

ok
so the wizard show with the midget was the same gay from willow i think thay gave him the tv show as the movie did so well.
now i have two there was a show obout this group of guys that work in a scrap yard present day earth(70-80) and get the idea to salvage all the space junk around earth like satalites and the luner lander. i remember the rocket thay made had the drum of a cement mixer for the capsull and thay where also woried about the goverment stopping them, becouse it was not safe to go to space or sume thing like that now i think that it was fust a movie then there was a few episodes
one i think i remember where thay use the rocket engine to move a iceberg thet is gouing int San Francisco harbor. does this sound real to any one???
the outher i remember is about a gay that gets his hans on a magic bow and it acepts him some how leaving a mark on his hand now no one elts can use it a black bird follows him around(crow or raven) it would drop a feather that turned into arrows when ever our herow was about to run out i do remember the end that had him going quest and realy looking like a pilot epp. to a weekly cerial
also when it comes to campy saterday morning tv daes any one remeber "electro woman & dino girl"?
"school house rocks" and of cours "H.R Puff and stuff" about a boy that gets ship wrected on an island and his flute starts to talk an a witch is always truing ti steel it from "Jimmy" or how about "land of the lost" water fall to the center of the earth dinosors.
ok i will stop now.

I am looking for some way to find this tv show about a horse named Thunder. It would have been around 1976 or so, I believe there was a little girl who rode the horse and a family on a ranch??

david 136,
The shows you are talking about were:
Salvage 1 (with Andy Griffith) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078681/
and Archer: Fugitive of the Empire (which was a failed pilot for a regular series)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082027/. I have beebn trying to obtain a copy of this movie for years.
Alot of the old Sid & Marty Kroftt stuff (Dyna girl, HR Puff n' Stuf, Sigmund and the Sea Monster, Land of the Lost) is now available on DVD

david 136,
The shows you are talking about were:
Salvage 1 (with Andy Griffith) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078681/
and Archer: Fugitive From the Empire (which was a failed pilot for a regular series)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082027/. I have beebn trying to obtain a copy of this movie for years.
Alot of the old Sid & Marty Kroftt stuff (Dyna girl, HR Puff n' Stuf, Sigmund and the Sea Monster, Land of the Lost) is now available on DVD

Jennifer,

Your horse show was simply named Thunder and ran on NBC from 1977-78.

please help!! i've been looking for a childrens show similar to the H.R. Puffnstuff show. it had costumed characters like a Hippo with a tutu, a Frog, A Tiger who was a painter. there was a regular guy and girl in the mix. and i remember a gazebo in the background. it was musical mostly.

also, whats the show called with the Woozles?

When I was a kid in the late 70s early 80s there was a show on PBS here in TX where there were talking shoes. I remember them all saying "Goodbye" at the end of the show. Pretty vague - I know - but does anyone have a clue as to what I'm talking about!? :)

Jeremy -
As to your first question - I'm pretty sure thats New Zoo Review. My mom & dad hated that show. I loved it. Henrietta Hippo,etc. Good times :)

Hi,
I am desperately seeking the name of a tv show I think was from the late 80s, early 90s. It featured a young girl who was a ghost (she died when she was abducted off a swing). She befriends (i think) a young boy who lives in a house, i think she lives in the attic. Her name MAY have been Ally, Please help with any info!!!! Thanks

Jeremy i think it might be Zoobilie Zoo or something

I'm trying to remember the name of a kids show from the late 70's (I think) which started with a kid falling through a giant hat, I think maybe inside a magic store. Does anyone remember this? It is making me nuts.

Shawn,
That would be Lidsville brought to you by Sid & Marty Krofft, starring Butch Patrick, formerly known as Eddie Munster, and Charles nelson Reilly. Some episodes are avilable on dvd, definitely on the best of Sid & Marty Krofft (a must have for fans, has 1 ep from every show, like HR Pufnstuf, Elektra Woman & Dyna Girl, Sigmund & the Sea Monster). Follow the link for more: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066679/

Help! My husband recalls a tv show from the 70"s about people dressed as dogs that talked. The people walked around not talking but they acted like the pets of the dogs. Sounds strange, I don't remember it myself. Anyone?

http://home.snafu.de/keks/

pam,ckeck this out!

automan was a great show, but he did not turn into a panther. The show you are thinking of is manimal. It was about a guy who solved crime by having the ability to turn into animals. another good one in the early 80's was Mr. Smith. The show centerd around a baboon or some type of ape that was rich and lived in a mansion and had a butler. Does anyone rmember that one?

I am trying to remember the name of a show from the 80's that had a regular guy (blond) that had super powers, but he lost his powers when he saw the color red?

Jamie
the show was called "the greatest american hero"
the suit was a gift from alians but he lost the instructions, so he has problems making his powes work

Does anyone remember Bixby and me? Are there any websites fir it?

Jeremy, That was Zoobily Zoo! I use to LOVE that show along with Heith Cliff/Snorkles/Rainbow Brite/Fraggle Rock/Stawberry Shortcake/Hugga Bunch & many many more. I am looking for pictures on the internet for that strange show: Body Man from the classic Canadian tv show 'Yes You Can'

Does anyone know about a short lived show which I think was namd "Old Joe"? I think it was in this time frame. It had a working class dad raising his kids. I think he was a painter. I can find nothing on this. It really cast workers badly, but was an interesting curiosity. I'm a union prez.

Do any of you remember a show where i think from the late 80's early 90's it was about a little shop i think it might have been a shoestore where there were two teens that worked there and a couple of puppet mice in one episode i remember the most the boy mouse got stuck in the wall in between some pipes and the girl mouse tried to help i think it was on pbs around the same time as a show about people dressed up as cats and there was a pink girl and a fat guy dressed up as an orange lion who played the tuba or trumpet or something if you can think of any of these shows please help me its driving me crazy.

Ryan, I think the 1st show you are referring to Today's Special, kids in a dept store, a mannequin that comes to life with a magic cap, and there was a rhyming mouse named Muffy, a muppet security gaurd too: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0198253/

Hey Dave thanks thats been bothering me for awhile and im pretty sure thats right
Hey theres another one thats been bothering me umm theres this cartoon where mice live in the capital building and i remember i thought it was funny but it was only on for a very short time it was on around the same time as scorch the dragon and fish police if you can think of it please tell me thanks.

So nice to see others remember these shows too! I thought nobody would remember "The Phoenix". I was so bummed when it didnt come on anymore. I guess it only had four episodes. Man that leaves alot of questions. Did he ever find his girl?

Automan was also a great one. Sort of a Tron for TV. The sidekick little glowy guy was cool too. His name was Cursor. There is a character in the Tron 2.0 game that looks/acts just like him. He is called Byte.

Max Headroom was so strange and intriguing, that I had to watch it. If a name like "20 minutes into the Future" didnt grab your attention, I dont know what will.

I have a few more old favorites for ya. How about the Shogun Warriors style shows? Ultraman with his magic "pen?" that could transform him into a hundred story giant monster stopper.

Or Giant Robot, the answer to every kids dreams who has ever been bullied. Whenever, oh lets say a giant monster, attacks this kids town he yells into his wristwatch... "Giant Robot LAUNCH!" Then this thing blasts off with as much flame as the space shuttle. It was cool too, the way the kid could fly in the robots hand.

Or Battle of the Planets. The one where all the characters could fly and wore bird suits, and the team jet could burst into flame and fly faster.

But how about this for an obscure reference. I remember seeing it only one halloween. All these kids go trick or treating at this creepy house, and this scary witch lady turns them into their respective costumes for real. In other words, the guy with a bed sheet over him suddenly becomes a real ghost. Yikes. I think it was called Halloween: Witches Night Out.

Great reading about these cool old shows.

Does anyone remember the name of the cop/detective show that starred a heavy set guy with mustache and slickly combed back black hair? He was nothing to look at but good at solving crimes. It was during the early/middle 70's. I think the show was the guy's name -- kinda like "Columbo." It's driving me nuts trying to remember it. I can't sleep. Help!!!
- sleepless in Santa Cruz

Does anyone remember the name of the cop/detective show that starred a heavy set guy with mustache and slickly combed back black hair? He was nothing to look at but good at solving crimes. It was during the early/middle 70's. I think the show was the guy's name -- kinda like "Columbo." It's driving me nuts trying to remember it. I can't sleep. Help!!!
- sleepless in Santa Cruz

Steve Hebel,

That kinda sounds like the mid 80s Private Eye show Mike Hammer (or Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer) starring Stacey Keach http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086760/, but if its a fat guy PI in the 70s my vote goes to Cannon (1971-76) starring William Conrad http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066636/.

This is actually a followup question to this previous post (listed below), but I am trying to find any website with pictures of this fella (Michael Magee is his name, right?) Can anyone help? Thanks!!

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
This is going to sound odd....but my best friend and I have memories of a children's science show from the 80's where the host wore a flesh toned body suit that had pictures of muscles and veins on it.He was on a set with a huge prop of a human heart.He kind of resembled the "greatest american hero".He had the same sort of curly afro hair.We have not been able to find out any info on this show.I think it was on PBS.Anyone remember this?

Posted by melissa at February 2, 2004 07:54 PM
Melissa,

That would have been Body Man from the classic Canadian tv show 'Yes You Can', which spun off the Raccoons, and also featured Harry Hogg & Coach Cuddles.

Posted by Dave Cox at February 3, 2004 02:13 PM

Does anyone remember a tv series in the 80's. A male model who was a bit of a hero, theme tune I Need A Hero later sung by Bonnie Tyler. Can't remember the name and it's driving me potty.

Debs,

The show you are looking for was called "Cover Up", and the theme song was Bonnie Tyler's 'Holding Out For A Hero' (although it was sung by a Bonnie soundalike!), from 1984. For more info follow the link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086690/

Hi. Does anyone remember a show called "Sebastian and the seven cities of gold"? all i remember is it was about this kid(sebastian)who had a part of a necklace and i think a girl on the oppisite side of the world had the other half. and the whole show was about trying to find one another and to find the city of gold. am i crazy?

MattGuy613@yahoo.com

Anyone remember this?:

A children's science show from the 80's (late 80's?), that consisted of two (or three) English kids doing just science experiments. There was also some sort of robot that helped out. It was on PBS.

Matt,
The animated show you are referring to was actually called "Esteban & the Seven Cities of Gold", and sometimes broadcast as "The Mysterious Cities of Gold". It was an amazing show based on a very old book. I remember the Golden Condor. They don't make 'em like that anymore, thats for sure. Check it out:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122356/

Hi, I am racking my brains trying to remember a TV show. I believe it was some time in the 70' s or 80's about a father who was a cartoonists and he would draw out different scenarios in his life and erase them and create others. If anyone remembers this name I would be very grateful if you would share it with me...thanks so much...Dawn

Hi...i was wondering if anyone remembers a show...it was a canadian kids show whichc featured a house where the windows were its eyes and the door was the mouth and there was a person dressed up as a record who played wooden spoons??? if anyone has any info please email me at starshine116@hotmail.com
thanx!

Hey ya'll.. im looking for a show about a castle, it was a puppet type show and it had a little, i think, she was a sorceress and she wore a i think purple hat with stars on it, there was a dragon and a other characters.. i have been racking my brain trying to figure it out but i cant find any sites with it on it or not i think it was in the Chicago area tv stationi think it was Eurikas Castle... or somthing like that.. please if you have any info or anything Email me at Bravewarrioress@aol.com Thanks ever so much Kay

This is obscure as any, and it may be a longshot...but does anybody remember the name of a sitcom in the mid to late 1980's about a detective/cop/pi type guy who slept with his gun under his pillow? A .44 magnum I think? This has been driving me nuts. Pretty sure it lasted less than one season.

I found some links to some of those old shows I mentioned in my earlier post. I hope they help some of you to find your old favorites too. Or mebbe even some new favz. ;)

Johhny Socko and his Giant Robot!(aka Giant Robo)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0170962/

Ultraman (1972)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068145/

Battle of the Planets (1978)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076983/

Witches Night Out (1978)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078500/

Also here is one more obscure one. This wasn't really a series, but they replayed it so many times on HBO it could have been. The storys main hook is this flashy gun that makes YOUR sense of time stop while the world keeps going on around you. This guy is doing dishes, gets zapped, and now the water is overflowing the sink and several hours have passed. Ummm.. What happened? He has no idea. Its called Looker.

Looker (1981)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/

Sorry folks, but I really misspelled that one.

It should read:

Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot (aka Giant Robo)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0170962/

I am wondering if anyone remembers a show that was about a bunch of troll like things that was on in the 80's.

addendum to previous question...... this show was on Saturdays and I think the "troll like" beings were able to travel through a portal of some sort. They were always after humans and if they bit them they were turned into them.
THis is the most that I can remember of it. I really hope that someone has seen this show and can help me out as it has bothered me and everyone around me (mostly because I keep bothering them with it) Thank you.

Carly,

The show with the talking house, as well as a talking boot, was a Canadian show called Readalong:
http://members.rogers.com/ambrozic/tvo/readalong.html

Kayleena,

You are close, the show you are looking for is called Eureeka's Castle:
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-8816/

Johnny Vegas,

I'm pretty sure the sitcom you are looking for might have been "Sledgehammer". It was on from Sep 86 to June '88, and is soon coming to dvd. Check out there official site:
http://www.sledgehammeronline.com/

Hi! I've been trying to identify a show from the 70's or 80's. I think this was only ever a pilot. It was a variation on the "secret crime-fighting organization" concept and what I remember is that a young woman was recruited into them, but at the end they have a department that can erase all your memories up to a certain point (kind of the first hint of Men In Black!) and so she ends up not even knowing she's had all these adventures. I also remember their headquarters was reached by an elevator where an agent turned a special key that flipped over the normal floor descriptions to those of the secret departments. I think the Black Department was the one that could erase your memories. Help!

Didn't TVOntario have a short-lived series called "Dr.Whom and the Case of the English Language" that tied into their showing of Dr.Who?

No one I know remembers this show from the late 70's. It was short-lived but one of my favourites. It was the story of about 5-6 kids from different nationalities shipwrecked on an island. One was an American, another German, I think one Japanese. I seem to remember the theme song as >the lost island> or something like that. I'd appreciate if anyone can remember a little about this great show.

Does anyone know where i can find any information on Zoobily Zoo? Like a website or something?

Chris,

That was a great show! It was an Australian production called the Lost Islands, made in 1976. Check out the link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072535/
A Hurricane nearly sinks the "United World", a ship holding 40 teenagers from all around the world. 35 flee the ship on time - 5 are left behind, and end up on 2 islands unknown to the outside world, inhabited by people who got there under similar circumstances 200 years ago. The islands are ruled by a supposedly 200 year old immortal tyrant called "The Que", who would very much like to see them dead, so while running for their lives they make friends among the locals, even local very close to the Que.

Does anyone remember the name of a show with puppets-I believe it was candian-it had a talking boot and a granny(who kind of creeped me out as a kid) and they would read and sound out words. Another show was the "giggle-snort hotel". It had real person who ran the front desk and puppets as occupants-one who resembled W.C. Fields and a guy called the "shusher" who would go around shushing people.

Shane-o,

This comes up alot over here. The series in question with Granny, Boot, Mr Bones, Pretty, and The Thing is Readalong:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212689/
Here is also a link to Giglesnort Hotel:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0370143/

Thanks Dave. I also want to find out what show had the guy who was a detective in a big kangaroo outfit and talked to Mr Big about math problems. Thought it was Square One TV:math-net, but not sure.

Does anyone remember a show from either the late 80s or early 90s that was about some kind of detectives? I think there was a man and a women who were the main characters. I only remember one episode..... they went to a house and there were several guests who each had a different room signified by a different color( red room , green room, etc)and one would disappear every night. The butler I think turned out to be behind it all and he was keeping them all locked in a room or something. But the theme music was like....... dum duh dum-dum. Please someone help me!!

Sarah-Anne: Hart to Hart? Just a wild guess, really.

What about the show that had the letters of the alphabet who could talk and they were puppets. The a was a girl and she would be like "achoo" because she was A, and the B liked buttons, and V liked vests... could anyone help me?

Sarah-Anne> THe show you're thinking of is Square One TV: Math Net. This is a good site:http://home.comcast.net/~nspil/sq1.htm

Does anybody know where I can or if I can buy all of the series of Magum P.I.?

I remember The City of Gold - very educational, with a little segment at the end of each episode explaining a bit about the Aztec culture. That show went on for ever...
I wonder if anyone can help me find a website containing info on these shows - show on Australian TV mid 80's: Metal Mickey (British, the robot sometimes did a dance and sang along 'boogie, boogie' in a robot voice, he lived with a family that were always doing the same thing - mother washing dishes, father talking to plants, son and daughter looking at themselves in the mirror and body building - had to take energy pills like Roger Ramjet)
This one's a bit more obscure - I think it was called Adventure Valley, and the theme song was Waltzing Matilda, but different words - a group of kids living in the bush together, having good clean fun, but continually sabotaged by the heinous Spider Gang, who had a spider drawn on their palms, and a grown-up helper who looked like Kevin Spacey - any one but me ever heard it?

how fun to laugh and remember all those shows! lol! okay, my brain is sprained from trying to remember two shows......could ya'll help me, pleez?
a.) does anyone remember a low-budget show on afternoon tv, made by and shown on WTBS, it was the show that aired right before their other original series (at that time), "ROCKY ROAD". (remember that one? the ice cream shop on the beach. lol!) anyway, my missing show: it was about a family being raised by a big brother or something? i remember the older brother guy and he went on to do car commercials. there was of course, a snotty lil' brother and the daughter was named LISSA. any info would be greatly appreciated! :) :)
b.) my other brain boggle is a short lived show on nbc that was basically homocide meets csi. the title was letter. like h.somthing.somthing? sound familiar? i remember they investiged crimes and crime scenes.

thanks for the trip down memory lane! i hope you can help my mental health by jogging my memory w/those titles! thanks in advance!

peace, luv, etc.
amnesia

I remember bits of a tv show (think it was late 70's) the thing i remember most is this amphibias vehicle with teeth painted down the side and people with muskets, it all seemed to take place in the jungle or woods, can anybody help please?

Im looking for the name of a show in the early to mid-eighties that had monkeys/chimpanzees in it and one of them was named Mr. Smith. That's all I remember but I now I loved it as a kid! any info would help.

Hi. Can someone please help me. Im trying to think of a certain show. It came out in the early to mid 80s and it was a cartoon. Like a japanese anime. And it had this kid with a huge white dog. and he traveled around. I believe he was trying to either get to his dying mother or find something for her. I anyone has any info please let me know. Thanks.

Hi. Can someone please help me. Im trying to think of a certain show. It came out in the early to mid 80s and it was a cartoon. Like a japanese anime. And it had this kid with a huge white dog. and he traveled around. I believe he was trying to either get to his dying mother or find something for her. If anyone has any info please let me know. Thanks.

Harriet's Magic hat? (Boy that Canadian public access TV). The 80s were the days of provincial public TV. I watch more American PBS than the Canadain public channels.

Then there were the music video programs (before the cable music video channel(s) overtook the market).

Now here's a tough one. I don't think this show ever went past the pilot, but it was about a couple of scientists who create this android guy. I remember it vaguely, but the parts that really stick to my head: him showing off his android skills by break dancing, and him coming back from surfing with his wet suit torn because a shark bit him and he was like "It's no big deal.." The android guy bore a remarkable resemblance to Buddy Lembeck of Charles in Charge.

Here's one for you. tv series didn't last long,
don't think. About a ship that sank with a 100
people traped inside. The people survive and make
a living, inside the ship, at the bottom of the ocean.
Then 80 yrs. later, some divers discover the ship.
And the story begins, of course it never had a
ending, so no closer for us.
Anybody remember that one?

Anyone remember an 80's show about a guy who always wore white suites, I think, and had a stopwatch that would stop time for everyone except him and his female friend? I think he acted proper, maybe like he was British or something. Also, there was a series about a cop who gained superpowers from observing an experimental missle exploding but temporaraly lost them when he saw the color red. This was not the "Greatest American Hero", as there were no aliens involved that I remember. The "Hero" didn't lose his powers; he just never learned how to fully use them because he lost the instruction manual.

I do remember the TV movie,"The Girl the gold watch and everything" he could stop time and it was Robert Hayes, and I can't remember the Girls name... I think there was a second TV movie made called "The Girl The Gold Watch and Dynamite"

Does anyone remember a tv show in the late 50's or early 60's about a family who moved form the city to the country to live on a ranch or a farm? It was very similar to a show called Apple's Way but it came on many years before Apple's Way. The husband seemed to be away a lot leaving the wife to "man the ranch" and keep up with the kids. I think there were only two kids. The rich family members and friends from the city would come to visit and were always surprised how good the wife looked even though she did most of the work on the ranch. What was the name of that show? I was only about 6 or 8 years old at the time, but it was my favorite.

Barbara...
Could it be "The Real McCoys"? Just a guess. I think that there was something odd about the show, maybe a character written off like they were never there or something. Anyway, about my two shows. It appears that I may have been thinking about two made-for-TV movies called "Super Fuzz (1981)" and "The Girl, The Gold Watch & Everything (1980)". Could have swore that they were a series. Probably just watched them more times than I should have.

Thanks but no, it wasn't the Real McCoys. I well remember that show as well. The show I am thinking about was a man and his wife and I think just two kids, there were no grand parents. The were in their early teens ( a girl and a boy) I think the girls name was Kelly but not sure. The time frame was 50's because they had cars of that time frame. The husband had been an executive of some sort in the city. I don't know the reason they moved to the country to live on a ranch, but on one episode (I remember it as though it were just yesterday) the man's mother came to visit and the moment she got out of the car and saw the wife, she said "what has my son done to you". Upon closer inspection of her daughter-in-law, she realized the woman was just glowing, making her realize that that country life agreed with her.

I remember watching it one night of the week and the very next night, The Real McCoys came on. That was also one of my favorites.

Up until about 2 years ago, I could remember the name of the show I am looking for. somehow, it now escapes me. I even found it on the internet a year or so ago.

Thanks , Barbara

ok, mego and gam?

ring a bell?

two asian kids with matching red sweater vests and, i think, um space type hats? they like fought monsters and stuff...

figured it's worth i shot, thanks!

ok, i think i may have been referring to giant robo. i just blocked out the giant robo, and remembered sweater vests. go figure...

thanks, i wouldn't have made the connection if i hadn't found this.

Back to the tv show I'm trying to remember. I believe it came on about the same time frame that The Hathaways (show with 3 chimps starring Peggy Cass) came on. You wouldn't really call it a western but it was not a situation comedy either, though it had some very funny stuff in it. I wish I could remember the actors who starred in it, but I can't. Does this ring any bells for any one? The boy had dark hair and I think he was the oldest child. The girl was blonde I think and wore her hair in a pony tail. I think the woman's name was Kate or Katie.

"no two kids are quite the same, growing up's a learning game, but if you use your head you'll always win, just like the edison twins"-I really enjoyed this show when I was a kid- does anyone know a good web site for this show?

i was going crazy asking everyone i know about a tv show from the 80's people thought i was insane....all i could remember was the ice cream shop on the beach.. and then i stumble across it on this site in parenthasis no less...how great is that my only problem is i can't find anything about anywhere except tvtome and i would love to see some pics from the show please if anyone knows any good links for it please post them so i can enjoy more pieces from my past...thanks so much...wheres dave when you need him

i was going crazy asking everyone i know about a tv show from the 80's people thought i was insane....all i could remember was the ice cream shop on the beach.. and then i stumble across it on this site in parenthasis no less...how great is that my only problem is i can't find anything about anywhere except tvtome and i would love to see some pics from the show please if anyone knows any good links for it please post them so i can enjoy more pieces from my past...thanks so much...wheres dave when you need him

i was going crazy asking everyone i know about a tv show from the 80's people thought i was insane....all i could remember was the ice cream shop on the beach.. and then i stumble across it on this site in parenthasis no less...how great is that my only problem is i can't find anything about anywhere except tvtome and i would love to see some pics from the show please if anyone knows any good links for it please post them so i can enjoy more pieces from my past...thanks so much...wheres dave when you need him

i was going crazy asking everyone i know about a tv show from the 80's people thought i was insane....all i could remember was the ice cream shop on the beach.. and then i stumble across it on this site in parenthasis no less...how great is that my only problem is i can't find anything about anywhere except tvtome and i would love to see some pics from the show please if anyone knows any good links for it please post them so i can enjoy more pieces from my past...thanks so much...wheres dave when you need him

I am trying to remember the name of a show that came on in the late 70s, early 80s. A gang of kids that solved puzzles?? I remember 2 girls that were sisters of some of the boys in the gang, they were always playing with their dolls.
Does this ring any bells with anyone?
I think it came on on Sunday mornings?

Thanks

Anyone know of a show that screened in New Zealand in the 80s. The theme music was "A Haunting We Will Go" and it had a guy dressed in white called "Count Homogenised" and he used to drink milk, and was set in a haunted house or something.

please help , i am trying to figure out a childrens tv show , with someone i belive was called commander or something like it , captain maybe ( not captain kangaroo ) , anyway he would draw on this hugh board and it was like a small city and shapes everywhere , and in the show he would show kids also how to draw , and he had some characters as well to help him along in it , it was really cool , and i would love to know what it was called , and possibly how to get a copy of some of the shows . thanks

OK gang, sorry, I've been swamped, but I'll try and catch up...
Joy: The monkey show with an ape named Mr Smith was simply titled Mr Smith (1983). Try these links:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/m/mrsmith_1299002214.shtml

Shane-O: Ah the Edison Twins, classic Canadiana again starring Marnie McPhail & Andrew Sabiston. These are available on VHS. Theres not much but for links try these:
http://www.jessicasteen.com/edison.html
http://epguides.com/EdisonTwins/

Shaylene: Rocky Road, eh. Not much out there but the cast listing here might help you find some pics:
http://epguides.com/RockyRoad/

Angus: not only was the theme song A Haunting We Will Go, but that was the title of the show as well, from 1976. Not much out there on this one, sorry, but it starred Russell Smith as Count Homogenised....

Okay. This one has had me puzzled for a long time(over 15 years.) When I was about 3 or 4('81-'82),they showed Screen Gems "Partridge Family" and "Brady Bunch" on a certain network. Between the segments(commercials),there was a show(not sure whether it was an actual show or commercial),but there were like 5 teenagers and a dog(and a big blue puppet which looked like the skipper on "Gilligan's Island",)and they were in this cool-looking '50s dragster(you know,the shark fins and everything),and they would fly through space and fight crime. It was really cool,and the name was something like the "Morning Bunch" or the "Breakfast Bunch." My brother and I both thought it was pretty rad. Well,if anybody has any information on this program, I would be much obliged,and I would definitely love to see it again(for old time's sake.) Well,thanks. Bye. BTW-Speaking of old & forgotten,I do remember "Automan." Thought it was cool back then,now probably wouldn't admit to have seen it(you know,to my friends and stuff.)How about this one:how many people do you think honestly remember a little-known Disney Channel show with George Plimpton called "Mousterpiece Theater?" Well,I certainly do!

Okay. This one has had me puzzled for a long time(over 15 years.) When I was about 3 or 4('81-'82),they showed Screen Gems "Partridge Family" and "Brady Bunch" on a certain network. Between the segments(commercials),there was a show(not sure whether it was an actual show or commercial),but there were like 5 teenagers and a dog(and a big blue puppet which looked like the skipper on "Gilligan's Island",)and they were in this cool-looking '50s dragster(you know,the shark fins and everything),and they would fly through space and fight crime. It was really cool,and the name was something like the "Morning Bunch" or the "Breakfast Bunch." My brother and I both thought it was pretty rad. Well,if anybody has any information on this program, I would be much obliged,and I would definitely love to see it again(for old time's sake.) Well,thanks. Bye. BTW-Speaking of old & forgotten,I do remember "Automan." Thought it was cool back then,now probably wouldn't admit to have seen it(you know,to my friends and stuff.)How about this one:how many people do you think honestly remember a little-known Disney Channel show with George Plimpton called "Mousterpiece Theater?" Well,I certainly do!

In the early to mid-80’s there was a anime type show. More of a Japanese, Godzilla type show. It had a guy, that was a superhero and fought bad guys and moths and things. And he work a suit like iron man, or the rocketteer or something of that nature...And he was gold, maybe silver...Does anyone know what I’m talking about?
It wasn't a cartoon though...

Ted,

Sounds like you are referring to Ultraman, which has popped up on tv in many different names and forms, but was most popular in the 70s. Also had a bunch of movies, and went head to head with Godzilla. There is a lot out there on, here's a good start:
http://www.ultraman.com.br/

http://www.japanhero.com/ultraman%20images/ultra_gallery.htm

Late 70's or early 80's-more 80's now that I think about it-there was a show, possibly only the pilot or movie of the week, about this super-mult-sectioned-oversized luxury coach bus ala 'love boat' plot, or some kind of dramedy-ish deal. Any clue, or did I dream this in some drug induced nightmare!?!?!?

Kim,

You just described about a dozen shows of the same ilk, can you remember any more....was it British, if so it might be Enid Blyton's 'The Famous Five'.

Dave,

Wow! Thats an obscure one. It was a movie called 'The Big Bus' about a giant nuclear-powered bus complete with a bowling alley and pool. It was a disaster movie spoof like Airplane, but predates it (1976). Starring Ned Beatty, Ruth Gordon, Richard Mulligan, Larry Hagman, Lynn Redgrave, Stockard Channing, and tons more. Everything that could go wrong on the bus does. Check it out:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074205/

Thanks Dave,
I knew that one was a curve ball-heck it was a screwball-but you hit it right outta the park! That movie had been bugging myself and a few others for nigh on 7 years! Of course, I've since lost touch with the other 'wonderers', and hadn't seriously gone searching until the other day when I stumbled on your site. Ya know, for years people have been insisting that the movie I was refering to was 'Ark'. I knew they were waaaay wrong.
Thanks again and keep up the good work!
Dave

ok dave help me out again...in 84 or 85 there was a program, probably on nova...or pbs, about two kids i remember them sliding down a huge tunnel that took them to another land or world or something.. the slide was like a water park slide i think it was black and white.. maybe had something to do with aliens.. ring any bells.. i remember watching it in class in fith grade would've been 1984... they had to try to find there way back.. it might have been an actual series but i don't remember enough i think the kids were maybe 9-12 years old...please help...thanks

I am trying to remember a tv show- it may be a false memory. It was a family or group of crime fighting carnival people and Ernest (Know what I mean?) was in it.

Vicki (April 24,2004),
It took awhile but I remebered the neame of the boat and thus the title of this made-for-tv flick about a luxury liner that sinks in WWII and their are survivors trapped in an air pocket inside for decades...it was called Goliath Awaits:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082461/

Dave,
It was a US show, I think on public television.A lot like the little raskels but a 70's version. Driving me nuts because that's about all I can remember about the show.
Thanks for your help,
Kim

hello again... does anyone recall the name of a show about some highschool or college kids and possibly a father or both parents set in a loft apartment.. they had a big red velvet couch and a round table they always sat at.... it was a sitcom may 86 or 87... i remember one of the lead girls in the show had long blond hair.. she later went on to star in other sitcoms and made for tv movies... including one from the same time frame about a girl whose mom remarries a man with a son her same age... and they all live together but the two kids fall in love and try to hide it from the parents who eventually find out anyway... i believe the two kids were friends or seeing eachother first. anyway now ive gone off on a tangent.. but if you remember either of these two shows...names, web links....please post.. thanks for your help.. i love this site

hello again... does anyone recall the name of a show about some highschool or college kids and possibly a father or both parents set in a loft apartment.. they had a big red velvet couch and a round table they always sat at.... it was a sitcom may 86 or 87... i remember one of the lead girls in the show had long blond hair.. she later went on to star in other sitcoms and made for tv movies... including one from the same time frame about a girl whose mom remarries a man with a son her same age... and they all live together but the two kids fall in love and try to hide it from the parents who eventually find out anyway... i believe the two kids were friends or seeing eachother first. anyway now ive gone off on a tangent.. but if you remember either of these two shows...names, web links....please post.. thanks for your help.. i love this site

Jason,

That is no false memory that was a show from 1983 called "The Rousters" which started as a made for tv movie. Also stars Mimi Rogers & Hoyt Axton:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086211/

dave ,

thanks for overlooking my question all together , it seems like everyone else gets a reply why not me ? is there any way to figure out the show i have been scrambling my brain to figure out ? it was a childrens show with a person i think called commander , where he drew and taught kids how to draw shapes and shading , and he had different characters to help him out in the show , he drew on a hugh board , of a world that was mostly like cartoon aliens and so fourth , in thier own space cities , it was really cool , and i would really like to know what it was called if you can find out for me , it is most appreciated . thanks

Can anyone remember a show were a man probaly
a vicar and had a boy in a suitcase
this is driving a friend mad for more info on it
so please help

Perhaps you could try typing with capital letters, proper punctuations, and correct spellings. Your attempt to turn babbling into a literary style is quite disconcerting to those of us with at least a semblance of an education. Even so, I would name your show if I had the answer.

PV2 Dave B,

Sorry I didn't answer your question, I have been trying to research it as I personally don't have a clue on this one. I will keep looking, but as it stands right now: no clue.

Terry,
This is a little vague, and sounds more like an episode or movie than a syndicated show. If you could get more info that would definitely help.

Darren,
Thanks man, this comment was directed at me, even though I don't run this site.

Do you know of an early 80's kids sci-fi show with Japanese actors where there was a little boy who would blow a whistle to enlist the help of his 3 friends? 1 blow of the whistle called a little boy rocket, 2 blows of the whistle called the larger mother rocket, and 3 blows of the whistle called the largest father rocket person.

This is driving me nuts. I used to watch it every day after school.

HELP!!! ok heres a good one, i need help with a show from around late 70's to 80's (i think)
it was about an old bloke who had a scrapyard and built a rocket to go to the moon, oh i hope someone can help its realy bugging me now!!
thx :)

I am trying to recall a show that the main actor killed himself on the set. All I can remember is the theme song being "I need a Hero" Any thoughts?

please.. ive been checking this site faithfully every day and still no response... if you have any info on the two shows i mentioned i would be forever greatfull...i know , dave, your not the official on this site.. but you definately have the answers...if you know nothing of these two shows please make mention so i can stop buggin everyone.. untill then keep up the good work and as always i LOVE this site

Organgrinder,

You are looking for Salvage 1 (the old guy being Andy Griffith) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078681/

Rebecca,
The show was "Cover Up", the song was "Holding Out For A Hero", the year was 1984, and the actor was "Jon-Erik Hexum". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086690/

If you have a second, skim through the previous posts; both these questions have been posted and answered b4, plus lots of other shows from your past that will trigger memories and nostalgia.

Shaylene,

I'm still looking and racking my brain bud

Art Klugh,

You are looking for a show from 1967 (showing your age) called "The Space Giants", and it kicked ass! It was a cross between Godzilla, Johnny Sokko & Ultraman, a precursor to Power Rangers. Beware the LUGOMEN!
Check it out: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061299/

Thx!!!!! i can sleep now (",)

Organgrinder:
You may also be interested in the 1967 movie "The Reluctant Astronaut." This movie starred Don Knotts with pretty much the same overall plot but without Andy Griffith in it.

KARINA,
this may be a little info too late but the rags to riches you mentioned was a miniseries or movie in 87.. i remember my sister and i had recorded it and watched it over and over again.. we have since taped over that and lost the movie to our memories but how nice of you to reignite it.. i believe they sang or the movie was a musical....but i know it wasnt an actual tv series.. i know you probably won't read this info but for anybody else there you go...and enjoy...p.s...the name of the movie was infact "rags to riches"

wow, these messages really bring back memories!
a few shows i remember vaguely, was wondering if anyone had any info on them.
first, "tales of the gold monkey" i remember it was in the jungle and at the beginning of the show there was a plane landing on water
a couple of shows on nickelodeon--- turkey t.v.... it had the "gnu news" and some prank phone calls if i remember correctly.
Pinwheel... I can still sing the theme in my head
there was one episode where a puppet buys all the raffle tickets except one and lost.
Automan was pretty cool... was that a delorean he drove?!?
What was the name of the cartoon where the toys would hang from strings and slide from one side to the other? i think it was on around 1988.
Lastly, remember when wheel of fortune had that prize thing at the end of each round, and there was always that crappy ceramic dalmation to buy? you could carry over your money at the end of each round too. "once you buy a prize...its yours to keep"

After reading all these postings, its funny what you remember. Anyways, if anyone has any info, i'd greatly appreciate it.

Shaylene,

It wouldn't be 'My Two Dads' wold it? I remember a red couch in the shape of a corvetter front. A young giovanni Ribisi starred in this also along with Paul Reiser as one of the dads.

Could someone help please.
All i remember of my 80's (possibly 70's) show is the beginning opened with a young man with very bright eyes in the back of a car leaving (or maybe arriving) at a huge house (possibly a castle). He looked very sad, i think he lost his parents?? He may've had special powers, or maybe had an anger problem (not the hulk) His eyes may've turned yellow??

the opening theme was a very slow and sad tune.

...and i think the name of it was one word like 'passion' or something.

Okay, surely some of you folks in your 50's and 60's remember this show. It came on in the late 50's or early 60's. A wealthy, successful businessman decides to leave the city and his sophistcated job and move his family to the country to live on a ranch or farm. I think it was a ranch. It was a real adjustment for the family (two kids I think, a boy and a girl). The husband seemed to be away a lot leaving the wife at the ranch to take care of things. She was often trying to repair things on the ranch and of course always mastered the job. The husbands snooty mother often visited from the city and was appalled at how her son and his wife were living. The family however, seemed to be thriving in their new surroundings. I can't remember who starred in it or the name of the show. It was very similar to a show that came on many years later called Apple's Way. Can anyone remember this show besides me? I was about 8 years old at the time, but it was my favorite.

Thanks,
Babs

thanks trina,,
but my two dads was not the show i was thinking of although i did like that show....the one im thinking of was 2 or 3 kids late teens early twenties...maybe 2 girls and one boy...it was a lot like too close for comfort and came on around the same time frame..still trying to figure this one out.. or even the lifetime like movie.. if anyone knew this girls name that i spoke of then maybe i could look her up and find the name of the old series but until then thanks for all...and keep it up

Correction on Automan: He was a Program that could only manifest at night (due to power needed), named aptly enough "Automan". He had a sidekick named "Bit" that could transform into what ever Automan needed at the time, be it a car, plane, what ever. Remember, the car could only turn at 90 degree angles.

Okay late 70's early 80's Saturday morning kids TV show about a young prince and his guardian alien that was from another planet and he was hiding on earth because he parents were overthrown on their world. Anyone have a clue...the title was Little Prince(not the book) or something of that nature.

Steve1001, that was called The Powers Of Matthew Starr I believe.

Now here's one I'd like solved please: It was a kid's show, possibly preschool, and it had a guy in a black bowler's hat and he came out of a closet at night and played with the toys in the kid's room. He was short, wore a nightshirt thing and had no legs but had polished oxfords or something. I also don't think he had arms, just hands. This was somewhere around the early 80's in Vancouver, Canada. Anyone? Thanks!

OH God. I just got off of a nine hour bus ride, trying in vain to find someone who could remember the show with the car that turned at 90 degree angles. Thank you for reminding me that it was automan. Does anyone remember a show about a a little girl? who get trapped in a house and there was a scary red room behind a firepace. Might have been an afterschool special.
Anyone remember a show with Jack Klugman and John Stamos being father and son who were reunited after some years for some reason. Pretty sure it was called "You, Again?' What I can't remember was wether it was a drama or comedy or what?

Chad,
If you know the name of an actor, it's easy to find the show/movie -- check IMDB. You Again? was indeed the name of the show with Klugman: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090550/

Hey, gosh I LOVE this site, brings back some memories. I was reading a few comments and one mentioned a bookstore w/ two teens and puppet mice, that was a Canadian show called Bookmice, and another comment mentioned a house w/ windows as eyes and a door as a mouth, I believe that was called Size Small Island (another Canadian show). Does anyone remember any other late 80's- early 90's Canadian children's shows?

Does anyone remember a show that was about undersea creatures or crabs or something like that. I just vaguely remember people dressed in orange colored costumes and some dark caves as part of the set. I thinkg it ran only a couple of times in the After School Specials. I think it ran about the same time as The Land of the Lost.

We are being driven crazy searching for the name of an obscure television show. The lead character becomes a puppet by twisting his ring when crossing over into the forest. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!! We can't sleep until we find out the name of the show!!!

Thanks!!!!!!!!

Where can I buy "Bear called Jeremy on VHS"? or find it on the net?

There is one animation I'm desperate to find out more about. I don't know why, I've seen it on TV twice, and was captivated by it each time. It seemed to be about a bear and a crow (With striped black trousers) who were on some kind of adventure. It was stop-frame animation, and the crow had a suitcase that would transform into different things, like a boat and a helicopter.

And it had the most swetest tune running through it that still goes through my head! ...do be do be doo... ... do do be do be ...

Does anyone remember this? What was the name of it? Also, The secret of ISIS is one series I just about remember, seems to be long forgotten, hardly ever see references to it! It was about an foxy archeologist who discovered the amulet of ISIS. When she put it on, lo and behond she would be transformed into the Goddess complete with godlike superpowers!

Does anyone remember Alphabet Soup? I can't find anything on the net about it.

Hi ,
i am looking for a show from the early 80's ,
it was an animated show about bikers , a good group and a gang of bad mutants or something like this ( i remember the bad guys had a red sign on their faces ) .
if you know the name of this show , it will be great to know .
thanks

I have been trying to remember a show from my childhood, and this looks like the place to ask. I think the show used to be on Nickelodeon. It was a puppet show, not Spitting Image, and I believe was set in a hotel. The Janitor was a dragon named Stanley Steamer, I believe. The clearest memeory I have is from the final episode where aliens land on the roof of the hotel. The show had to be from the late 70's early 80's cause I remember watching it at my Grandparents house. Any help would be appreciated.

It finally came to me. THe name of the show was Gigglesnort Hotel. The dragon's name wasn't Stanley it was Dirty Dragon. And it was the hotel that was the ship. Man that had been bugging me for years tyring to remember the name.

I,m 43 years old and still remember watching black and white television. Somewhere in my childhood I remember seeing an after school speacial of a boy who finds a dinosaur egg and a triceratops hatches from this egg after which he names it "uncle beasley". Please tell me I'm not dreaming this. Is it a book? This was not a pilot or series.

Hey, I was wondering if anyone could tell me the name of this loopy show.... it took place mostly in the main characters' living room and back yard, where he could talk to the animals and hear them (but it was not Dr. Doolittle)There was a gorilla (a man dressed up in a scary gorilla costume) and a Tucan bird, both of which had very distinct voices. His family was not aware of his ability to talk to them. The gorilla would always show up at his window to have him help them out. The theme song was was "In the Jungle" but no one seems to remember this show...and I dont think it lasted more than one season. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Ralle, your comment got deleted...sorry. :-( Please resubmit it if you would. Thanks.

Shaylene,
Could the movie be 'Sins of Innocence' with Megan Follows...? I'm not familiar with the TV series you speak of, but I remember that movie.

I have been trying to remember the name of "Misfits of Science" for over a year. I finally found it here. Thanks to whoever posted it. Also I went and looked up the stars of it and Courtney Cox was in it. Crazy!!!

I'm looking for a show from my childhood. In 1972-73 my family lived in Chicago. My brother and I used to watch a show everyday after school that consisted solely of puppets and was quite scary to us at the time. It was not "Eureeka's Castle" nor "Giggle-Snort Hotel". Any help?

I am also looking for the claymation show "Jeremy" Does anyone know where to find it on VHS or DVD? Or even a website? There was one at the top but the link wasn't working...

The show about the guy in the body suit was not Body Man, it was "Slim Goodbody". He had curly blonde hair and wore a leotard airbrushed with bones/veins/internal organs on it.

The drawing show DaveB was asking about was "Mark Kistler's Imagination Station" where the guy would draw on a huge board and usually drew other planet landscape/cityscape type stuff with weird creatures and intricate buildings and such.

Thanks to the rest of you for reminding me of Voyagers, Real People, Out of this World, Small Wonder, etc. I had completely forgotten that these shows even existed until reading this.

This is to Mike, I believe the show that you are talking about was "Belle and Sebastian". It was on Nickelodeon in "85 or "86. It was also one of my faves!!

i remember an 80's show where there was a team of vigilatnes? maybe swat team members off duty that did drug busts and go to keep the cars, jewelry etc that they got from the bust. Anyone?

I remember a show from the 70's that featured a gorilla (someone in costume, not a real animal) teamed up with a dark-haired man. The man was definitely on other shows in small supporting roles, but I haven't seen him since. He was easily in his forties back then. One of them wore one of those propeller hats. What I remember most is that these two had missions to accomplish that they were given via cassette-taped messages that would "self-destruct" in so many seconds. Sound familiar?

I was wondering if anyone remembers a cartoon that I think was from the 80's. In it there was a girl, a princess with long blonde hair who had these animals that kind of resembled little squirrels or chipmunks, something cute and furry like that, and instead of tails made from fur they had long hair that was blue or pink or yellow. And they would clip in her hair whenever she performed whatever power that she had. I also remember that she had a dog named Prince, who was actually a prince and of course, in love with her. If anyone can remember anything about this, I would really appreciate this. I've told this to everyone I know and they all look at me like I'm crazy, so if would be nice if I could tell them a name.
Thanks

Hello,

I remember watching a TV show from the 60's or early 70's about a group of young people stranded on a deserted island. No one knows they're there, there are plenty of furnished uninhabited houses on the island, and the stranded people find out the island is going to be used for nuclear testing.

I can't remember the name of the show, I don't remember what channel it was on, and no one I talk to remembers this show. Am I crazy?

Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot.

Regards,

Kenny from New Jersey

Hey does any one remember the show called That's Cat I used to watch it when I was a kid, it was always on about 6 a.m. normally followed by Godzilla. I have been trying to find it on the web, but I can't find it anywhere. Does anyone know where I can look, if some one can tell me I would truely appreciate it Thank You Very Much!!! :)
~*.'AngelWinks'.*~

Help! I am trying to remember the name of a show from the 70's or 80's. A group of outlaws are escaping from a posse when they go through a timewarp transporting them to modern day Texas? Even though they still have the money from the robbery they have to start up a security company. It only lasted one season. Does this sound familiar to anyone??

Hello and and a gigantic thank you to whoever can help me.

The premise was a couple of dating teenagers had to take three younger kids to an amusement park. Two of the kids were 7 or 8. The other was a boy around 11-13. He whined the whole time and the two teenagers were always disgusted with him. At any rate, they were driving home from the amusement park when a billboard magically sucked them into another dimension by a wizard. I remember that people saw them disappear into the board and looked behind it, seeing nothing but the back of the board. I don't know if the entire thing was cartoon, or just the part in the magic dimension - that part is hazy.

They had to fight, if my memory serves me right, in mideaval times (sorry, can't spell), and were trying to get home while fighting these bad guys.

Someone having heard my description thought this was a serial on The Banana Splits, but I couldn't find anything about it. It had to be on either ABC, NBC or CBS because we only got those three stations.

My little brother says this must be a dream I had. I remember crazy dreams from my childhood, but I have never dreamed in cartoon.

Hmmm...the show Ann was asking about sounds like "The Banana Splits in Hocus Pocus Park" which was a Saturday morning movie from 1972. It started out as live action in King's Island Amusement Park with a little girl named Susie who chases a magic balloon through a billboard. The Banana Splits follow her. Everything is animated from that point on. They fight a witch, two wizards named Hocus and Pocus, a dragon, they cross a moat by submarine to get into a castle, they have a joust, and eventually make it back to the amusement park at the end.

The outlaws through time show that Vicki was asking about was called "Outlaws". It was a 1-hour live action show from 1986 about outlaws transported from 1886 to 1986 and they fight crime. Richard Roundtree was in it. Only lasted one season.

sorry if I missed this answer already. My sister and I are going crazy. There was this show when we were little, took place on a ship. All we really remember is there was a buff dude who wore a ponytail in front of his face, and maybe a hotish main character. I was a cartoon, and there could have been some kind of monkey. Any ideas? Also, an animated movie that involved dragons and maybe a board game. Haha, not much to go on, but i'd appreciate any help. thanks!

Tom,
Thanks for the answer on the Outlaws show. I have been trying to remember that show name for several years. Sort of like a tune stuck in your head. Thank you once again.
Vicki

To Angelwinks (Ash): "THAT'S CAT" is truly a lost show of the 70's. I couldn't find any websites dedicated to it and I'm sure it's not out on DVD or VHS.

This is all I could find out: The show got it's title because the characters would say "That's cat" instead of "That's cool." It starred Alice Playten who played Alice and a mime character called "Me". Alice would hold up a picture saying "Can you find me in this picture?" but she wouldn't be in it, Me would be in the picture. The show also featured Whitman Mayo, better known as Grady from Sanford and Son. He played Alice's grandfather. John Sebastian from the Lovin' Spoonful did the theme song.

Alice Playten was also on the Lost Saucer show playing a character, once again, named Alice. (She wasn't the lead -- that was Ruth Buzzi). She was also in the movie Legend with Tom Cruise. I could only find this one picture of her: www.amrep.org/people/playten.html

Wow thank you so much Tom for what you were able to find out maybe it could be a little bit easier to find something about that show with that information. I am just really glad that some one remembers that show I knew I wasn't the only one but it took forever for someone to tell me. So thank you very much for helping me I truely appreciate it! Now I can get some rest lol. If there is anyone else out there with more inforamtion I could still use it I'll be more than happy to hear it. Once again Tom thanks now I'm gonna go post some more and see if I could find a website. If I do find one about it I'll be sure to let you know if you want. TTYL

~*.'AngelWinks'.*~ Ash

Hello please help me find this tv show from either the 80's or early 90's not entirely sure.
It's based around 2 children brother and his older sister. they found this amulet or a madallion or a necklace that is magic it either takes them through time or to a different place. by turing the necklace once they hold hands and then theres a portal that is green i think. where they make a friend that is a dragon. There is an evil witch trying to steal the necklace from them and the witch lives in a castle with a servent that is just a head I think hanging on the wall. (the dragon and witch and serevant are puppets). They come back home each time saying they will never go back because of the witch, but they always do go back either after school or before school. I think that the necklace belongs to their mother and will get in trouble if they get causght using it. Also when they leave time at home says they have been gone for only 5 minutes. it is a live action and with puppets. PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME FIND THE NAME OF THIS TV SHOW. THANKS SHERI

macfixer, yes the show was called "Wishman" aka "The Genetic Wonder" and IMDB has an entry:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424569/

I think the show "The Best TV Shows That Never Were" had a clip of it:

http://www.stomptokyo.com/scott/blog/C748430211/E1720544415/

Dave Cox, you may be thinking of Super Force:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098917/

lori, sounds to me like you are describing "The Ghost Busters".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072505/

I have a very short video clip, I think, of the opening intro I got from somewhere. Email me if you want to see it.

"Misfits Of Science," "Hard Time On Planet Earth," "Kindred: The Embraced" (oops, that's 90s), "Forever Knight" (also 90s), "Punky Brewster," "Soap," "WKRP In Cincinnati," "Fernwood 2Night," "Starman," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Amazing Stories," "Tales From The Darkside," "Tales From The Crypt," "Small Wonder," "Wizards & Warriors," "The Max Headroom Show," "Freddy's Nightmares," "Friday The 13th: The Series," "Friday Night Videos" *laughs*, "Silver Spoons," "The Ron & Nancy Show" (and the "spin-off," if it can be called that)... gods! That's all I can think of right now that I used to watch, most TV nowadays I abhor!

gods! I had almost forgotten about "Sledgehammer," I loved that show!

This place is awesome! Helped me finally recall enough to search and find "Battle of the Planets". I was like three when I watched it and could barely recall anything useful...except the swirling pyramid they formed when they were in trouble!

Tom71:
I think the show with the guy on a ship with a ponytail (Ren) and the monkey like thing (Niddler) was "Dark Water". I enjoyed it as a kid myself!
Found a nice website http://dukenostalgia.com/Kscope/PDW/DW_index.html

that was Chelsea that was looking for that show. THE PIRATES OF DARK WATER. Is that the one you were looking for Chelsea?

I've been trying to figure this out for a long time, and I was hoping someone could help me. When I was in elementary school in the 70s, we used to have to watch these films about good nutrition. It centered around this group of kids (I'm thinking they played instruments or were in a group of some kind), and the whole idea was to teach you the basic food groups. These kids were not cartoon characters, but actual teenage actors. They even had the typical bumbling adult who looked after them. Perhaps he was their manager? Does anyone remember this?

Does anyone one remember a show from the 70's where there was a green furry puppet who sat in a hole of a tree and played a banjo? I thought I was the only one who still racked their brains trying to remember a childhood show. This site rocks!

One of my co-workers remembers a children's show in New York (possibly Channel 13) where a lady with long brown hair would sit on a swing outside and play gutair and sing? This was one maybe 10-15 years ago. Does anyone else remember this?

Ann, I think you're describing the cartoon "Dungeons and Dragons." There are quite a few fan pages out ther if you just type Dungeons and Dragons cartoon into a search engine. Here are some links, hopefully this is the one you're thinking of:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085011/

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=dungeons+and+dragons+cartoon&num=10&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=images

There was a Saturday morning cartoon in the 70"s that featured a shark that would come out of the water and walk around. What was it called?

Vickie: Was it Jabberjaw? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177447/

Anyone Remember A shoe called "RIPTIDE. It stared Joe Penny(Jake and the fat Man), Perry King, and one other "Geeky" Guy, Theu worked on a oboat, and had a BIG Pink Helicopter, and old Vette, I believe they were PI's

This is the greatest website I have ever visited. I would like to share my favorite T.V. show from the 80's that took me several years to track down the name. Who rememebers Probe with Parker Stevens, about a scientist in a wearhouse who solves crime, wiht an sarcastic edge.

I am trying to remember a short lived show from the 80's, sci- fi, about a guy that was struck by lightning and had superpowers, but had a watch he had to recharge to keep his powers and stay alive? Driving me crazy! Anybody know this one? Thanks!

I am looking for a show perhaps 80's or 90's starring an actor who looks like Marc Singer. There was a man and boy I think called Jacob who was special. That's about all we can remember.

I'm searching for some older stuff that no one else seems to know. Does anyone know where to find clips from the marianette TV shows Super- Car or Stingray? How about the classic Beanie & Cecil?

beanie and cecil was about a boy with a propeller hat and a shark. i think staplebox is talking about "The powers of Matthew Starr".
Wolfox, Battle of the Planets was about a crew of 5 wearing birdsuits; Mark, Jason, Tiny, Kyeop and Princess. They flew in the Phoenix, which sometimes turned into the FIERY PHOENIX when they were under heavy enemy fire, it would burn through anything. Voltron 5 was cooler, though. Who remembers the 80s Saturday morning cartoon called "The Littles"? I wish Droopy reruns would still come on TV. Quantum Leap was the coolest show of the late 80s, early 90s.

Canadians might remember the early 80s waking up (around 6am?) watching "Les Superheroes" in french. I've never seen Iron Man cartoons anywhere else. Rocket Robin Hood followed, then the old Spiderman cartoons from the 60s and then "The Hilarious House of Frightenstein" which was originally an ABC afterschool show back in 1975, starring Billy Van, Vincent Price.

I also remember KIDS ARE PEOPLE TOO, THAT'S INCREDIBLE (JOHN DAVIDSON, CATHY LEE CROSBY), YOU ASKED FOR IT (WITH RICH LITTLE), FIGHT BACK WITH DAVID HOROWITZ.....

What about DANCE FEVER!!

does anyone remember the great space coaster or kid video

Trying to remember a show..... maybe from the 70's.

Sort of a rogue squad troop action show where they ride in dune buggies. Not sci-fi.

I really can't remember all the details.

Think I found my answer.

Rat Patrol

http://www.crazyabouttv.com/ratpatrol.html

Hi! What was the show, I think from the 70's, that had a puppet named Casey who always opened his trunk full of play clothes, etc. ??!!

Hi. Does anyone remember a late 80's cable show about a canadian tv station where the main camera man was having an affair with the anchorwoman? I know the name of it was just the intials of the station

Please, please, let there be someone else out there that remembers a kids show in the late 70's
that was hosted by a girl w/ brown pigtales. and baseball cap or a cap w/ a propellar. And she flew around in a teacup, looking through a magnifying glass. Maybe it was a hot air balloon. The songs that run through my head when I think about it are " Thats Cat, That's Cat..." and " We're in the land of Frooze.." I remember liking it more than Romper Room. Remember the backwards jacket trick. Also I thank romper room for the best trick to keep my kid busy in a restaraunt, I make a scribble and he makes a picture from it.

Sandra, the puppet show you were asking about was "Mr. Dressup". It was a Canadian kids show that started in the 60's and had a puppet boy Casey and a puppet dog Finnegan.

There was a puppet tv show in US called "Hallo Spencer". Used to love the music from that one.

Anyone else remember "It's Your Move" with Jason Bateman and the guy from "Married With Children"?

lori-
i think have been looking for the same show forever, and there were maybe three princess sisters (blonde, red, ?) and the black haired evil princess who wore purple. thats all i remember. and when the dog looked at his reflection in the water he was a prince .same show? any info would be greatly appreciated...

Ok, was just lookin at halloween costumes and coincidentally happened upon "Lady Lovely Locks" THATS IT! The mystery has been solved, you should check it out lori

Does anyone remember a show that was on pretty early in the morning in the late 80's with a young woman as the host who I believe was Russian or something to that effect. The show was a variety type show with big mascot pandas and such... I believe the name began with an x or a z but was pronounced something like "Sousha"?? This has been making me and my best friend crazy!

Hi there! For years now, the title of a certain childrens tv program has been haunting me and I must find out the name of it before I go INSANE!!! It was a puppet like show from the 80's set in an underwater setting. A few of the characters that I remember was a clam that was supposed to portray a wrinkley old lady, a shark, I think there was a lobster and an octopus as well. I also recall 2-3 other characters, at least one boy and one girl, but I don't know if they were supposed to portray human children or other underwater sea creatures! There was a lot of soft singing and I think the show focused on morals. I hope that I have given you enough info because this is driving me absolutely batty! I'm also wondering if there is a web-site that I can visit. This tv show brings back some pretty wild memories!

Does anyone remember a show that aired in the late 80's (I think) about a dinosaur family. The dad was a construction worker, mom,teenage son, teenage daughter and a baby that would say "Not the mama"?

I am looking for a cartoon type comedy show. ( Along the lines of the Simpsons ) not sure when abouts it was on ... ( mid / late 90s? )

Just one funny line I remember from this short lived show ...
One guy was in the bathroom. Someone in the next stall peeked in on him and said something like

"Psst ... Are ya poopin'"

Can someone, if anyone remembers this show, e-mail me the name??

Thanks

anybody remember the gimini man, v series and night stalker...? Gimini man was about a guy who can turned invisible by pressing his watch, V series (i think) about a race of aliens that came to earth on the pretends of peace but actually stocking people as food...aliens where somewhat like a lizards. At that time i found that the series had the coolest shades ever. Nightstalker about a reporter who investigate strange murders (which were later to be of done by vampires, werewolf, etc). What about a group of people investigating strange events where the leader was david souls...really like that series.

BJ: that show was called XUXA. She was from Brazil.

Kimberly: the dinosaur show was called DINOSAURS. But I thought the baby said "Gotta love me."

Bink29: that wasn't a tv show, that happened to you in 1993

I remember a saturday morning show, it was live action about a famuly of cave people. It showed them living and fighting dinosaurs.

Are my parents and I the only people who remember this one show from the late 80's called "Philby" that did not make it past the pilot? The only reason we remember it is because it was so horrible, and I think it was about a gym teacher. I was only like 7 or 8 at the time so the details are fuzzy. I just remember it was the worst show I think I've seen to this day.

Bruce, was the show you are talking about, "Land of the Lost" with Rick, Will, and Holly Marshall?

i'm trying to remember a tv show from the late 70's or early 80's. it may have been a kid's morning show. it was a mix of western and scifi. it was about an advanced secret society living in a mountain who would have dealings with the people in the western town (era mid to late 1800s). the sheriff of the town found out about a plot against the town then starts working with people from the advance society to stop the plot. the western part of the show was in sepia tone while the scifi part was in color. any ideas?

There was a show called "Open All Night," and the theme song sounded kinda like Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. I remember they ran a convenience store and their son was this goofy teenager who did things like keep his fishing worms in a can of Pennzoil in the ice cream case. Just want to be sure I'm not the only one who remembers this (or did I dream this whole thing?).

Also, if someone can answer the "Pssst! Are ya poopin'?" question above, I'd like to know, too. Sounds freakin' hilarious.

I have a question that so badly needs an answer! Does anyone remember a show from the 80's (it was real people, not cartoon) that was about a werewolf, a vampire and possibly a scientist that took place in a castle? Sometimes the werewolf (I think it was him) would be in front of this weird psychadelic screen with lots of colours? I was really young when this was on, but a bunch of my friends and I were talking about it the other day and NO ONE could remember what it was called!! If anyone could help me out it would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks! :)

Okay, so here's my submisson for forgotten 80's show. This show was about 3 (or 4) stewardess' and their whacky adventures around the globe. I think one of the girls in particular was Australian. I think they were trying to capitalize on the whole Olivia Newton John phenomemon at the time. If you remember or can answer this, you will be solving a questiont that has plagued me for almost 12 years.
Rich

Does anyone remember a muppet/puppet show from the seventies or early eighties about a rat like creature that lived in a swamp but was in constant danger from these life sized human like puppets? they lived in a cabin in the swamp had huge mouths which in my young age terrified me to no end,,been looking for name of the show so i can look for them on e-bay..any ideas would be great,thnks

Hi. Great site. In england we only seem to get the successful u.s t.v shows now butin the past we got some stinkers. For Bink29 Gemini Man starred Ben Murphy as Sam Casey and Katherine Crawford as Dr. Abby Lawrence. There were 11 eps and a pilot. It premiered in the U.S on 23 sept 1976. Sam became an agent for a govt. agency called Intersect when an underwater explosion changes his molecular structure. He can become invisible at will but for only 15 mins a day. Now can anyonne help me with a 70s kids show called Camp Runamock. We only got 5 shows here. Can anyone remember who was in it?

To Rich, that Stewardess show you're talking about is probably "Flying High" from 1978-79.

If Kenny from NJ is still monitoring this, you're NOT crazy. There was a show in the 1970's about a group of young people stranded on an island that had been used for nuclear testing. This one has bothered me for years. Years ago I finally ran across a little info. in TV guide about it, because somebody else wrote to them asking about it. Unfortunately, I have forgotten the title! One fact that may help that I recall is that the show had a very unusual running time, I think 45min. (Including commercials.) I think it was on ABC. I'll keep looking.

Hey Kenny, or anyone else interested....I should have kept researching before my last post. The show about people stranded on an island used for nuclear testing was called "The New People". Here's a web site about it.

http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/TNP/

Charles

Susan-

The show you mentioned about the teenagers in the 70's who learned about nutrition has been on my mind lately. I'm glad you asked about it. I was in grade school in the mid 80's and I remember them showing that to us too. I think there were a few different episodes. I wish someone would come up with the name for this one. It seemed like something that would have been shown on PBS.

My sister and I are pretty sure that there was a tv/show in the 80's (could have been a movie on tv) that featured a stray dog that vistied families and people in trouble, and then left when everything was better. I'm pretty sure that it wasn't Benji because I remember the dog being black and white - possibly a border collie??? In the credits I recall the dog walking down some railroad tracks. I think it was on Saturdays around the same era as Kidsongs.

Does anyone recall a Saturday Morning Cartoon in the late 70's/early 80's that had five(or was it seven?) robots each with a "special power". I think there were two girl robots that had some magical or elemental powers (they had a crush on the leader strong guy robot) and there was a robot that ate space junk/garbage. I want to say in times of danger they were able to form a large robot like the Transformers (the girls were the arms I think).

This has been bugging me for a while now! Thanks!

Does anybody know the name of the kids show with a robot and a kid that lived in a very decorated basement. The boy reminds me of Jerry Supiran that played Adam on the show Small Wonder.

The show I have been looking for for years, I finally found the name of it, by scrolling each letter on jumptheshark.com. Mine was about the television station. It was early nineties, called WIOU.

Does anyone remember a puppet program with a villain with a patch over his eye that had a face on it and could talk also there was a huge robot in it. It was kinda sci-fi. It had big battles and something to do with an 'X'. I dont think I imagined it....

First of all, I also want info on THAT'S CAT, and i wonder why on earth it's not listed on IMDB... i mean, EVERYTHING is listed on there.

Okay, I have an opposite sitch here...

Instead of describing a show and needing a title, I have a title and I need to know if anyone remembers this...

A cartoon called "TOFSI"...

did this exist???

i rememeber always seeing it playing when i went to the doctor's office for some reason for my allergy shots, and the music was very, very annoying.

so if anyone knows if there was any cartoon for kids (girls mostly) called "TOFSI", let me know...

And anything current on THAT'S CAT too?

im trying to remember an old show that was on nickelodeon sometime in the early 80's. it was either british or australian. all i can remember is this old guy turns into this crazy looking monster and chases these two kids down this long tube or tunnel. it would have been on around the same time when children of the stones was shown.

Did a cartoon ever exist called "TOFSI". It was in the early eighties I believe, and had an annoying theme. I can't find it on IMDB (as well as THAT'S CAT) and I wanted to know if anyone remembers this cartoon called "TOFSI". It was aimed at girls mostly, I don't recall what the show was about, I only remember the title.

Sorry I posted twice, I didn't know my first post made it so I did it again.

Another question. This is for people who lived in California in the mid to early eighties.

I used to watch the FAMILY FILM FESTIVAL, hosted by Tom Hatten, where they showed Popeye cartoons in the morning, and old movies during the afternoon. It was on channel 5 KTLA.

There was a certain very old pre disney cartoon version of Pinnochio that was incredible. It had killer dogs in the end leading them over into the sea, and it was brilliant and edgy and even frightening unlike the Disney version.

I was wondering if anyone would be familiar with this older cartoon version of Pinnichio and if it can be found on IMDB?

I've been searching for this show for a long time, and I finally found a reference to it here...but unfortunatly it was another person (Sheri) looking for the name of the show, and no one had replied! The show featured a brother and sister who would go into the basement and use this amulet to go to another world, where there were puppets (one was an evil witch). It was live action (not a cartoon).

This was Sheri's post:
Hello please help me find this tv show from either the 80's or early 90's not entirely sure.
It's based around 2 children brother and his older sister. they found this amulet or a madallion or a necklace that is magic it either takes them through time or to a different place. by turing the necklace once they hold hands and then theres a portal that is green i think. where they make a friend that is a dragon. There is an evil witch trying to steal the necklace from them and the witch lives in a castle with a servent that is just a head I think hanging on the wall. (the dragon and witch and serevant are puppets). They come back home each time saying they will never go back because of the witch, but they always do go back either after school or before school. I think that the necklace belongs to their mother and will get in trouble if they get causght using it. Also when they leave time at home says they have been gone for only 5 minutes. it is a live action and with puppets

Please help!

All I can remember about this show was a bunch of kids in a old warehouse or something and they made music videos of really crappy songs....anyone have any idea?

My wife remembers a show from the late 80's early 90's it featured a girl robot. I don't think this show ever existed, but of course she does. Please let me know.

I actually liked Ten Speed and Brown Shoe. I thought it was funny while also being serious, while being unrealistic, or is it?

The "Great Space Coaster" had "Gary the gnu" doing the news. Remember "NO GNEWS IS GOOD GNEWS"

Does anyone remeber a late 70's early 80's TV show about a crime fighting team made up of a vampire, frankenstein, a wolfman, and a mummy? NOT MONSTER SQUAD the 80's movie.

Fox had a cool show in the 80's, prior to having their multiple networks, doe anyone remember WEREWOLF?

Charles:

I guess we will both continue to be stumped about the show featuring the singing teenagers who performed as a band and taught nutrition to kids in the 70s. This is driving me crazy!!

Jennifer I dont know if anyone answered but do you mean The Magic garden? withSherlock the squirreland the 2 girls that sang and the chuckling flowers they picked jokes from?

whats that show with a dog that was done in the same style as Inspector Gadget ans Heathcliff. All i remember is i think IG made a cameo on the tv and a cat would annoy the main dog character? And that maybe the title had like Wowzer or Yowzer or Bowzer something like that. I believe it came on the Family Channel in the mornings in the early 90's between the Littles and Gerbert. And also what was the one show where i had kids and this yellow creature thing that kinda looked like a cat without hair, had antenna's and was animated?

anyone remember MULLIGAN'S STEW?

does anyone remember the comedy "Emergency" the theme song was sung by Lou Rawls. It was very racy and with much sutble comedy for it's time and did not last more than a season. I would like to know who the lead actor was. I think George Clooney and Conchatta Ferrell were on the show but their bios skip this show. To obscure I suppose. It was during the late 70's or early 80's. Thank you

hey Babs, do you mean the comedy show "ER" with George Clooney that came out in the mid eighties?

George Clooney was in a sitcom called "ER" before he was in the serious "ER" (two entirely different shows with just the titles in common by coincidence) and it starred Elliot Gould, Mary McDonnell, Bruce A. Young, and George Clooney as a male nurse who wears headphones and sports a pretty mean mullet...

Is this the show you're refering to?

I thought it might be since it's a comedy, and since "Emergency" is somewhat in the title, as in, that's what "ER" stands for, "Emergency Room"...?

heheh Tofsi was actually "Tofsy". I remember that cartoon very well. That was some really wacky artowkr they had going on in that one. "Blow on the magic feather and everything will be A-OK." That's Cat, I remember that one as well. I know I have some footage of that on a video in my collection somewhere. They would have a terrible cartoon mouth singing classic songs that no kid would ever have heard of. I remember one time the mouth sang The Beatles "I'll Follow The Sun". Grady from Sanford And Son was "Grandpa" in the show. Both Me ands Alice wore the exact same clothes. Every once in a long while, they would actually go out somewhere and do a field-trip to some museum or something like that. And of course, who can forget the "Cajn You Find Me In This Picture?" thingy. eheheh I remember one episode where JOhn Sebastian and his sone were actually on the show, explaining how he created the That's Cat them song. I seem to reacll a couple other shows that came on after it entitled.. Dusty's Treehouse and BIg Blue Marble. This was of course, the 70's in Los Angeles.

Tiger,

That show your wife is talking about was SMALL WONDER. The girl robot' name was Vikki.

That was a bit of an odd one.

- Ken

Anyone remember that terrible, terrible Tv Show. The San Pedro Beach Bums. Ither really late 70's or very early 80's.

- Ken

What was the name of the show (possibly late 60's/early 70's), where they said "see you at tea time" and also which family did 'spotty dog' belong to? Ta.

Great sit! Does anyone remember a show in the mid 80's called "the big show"? I think it featured a dancer called Shabadoo, or something like that.A show that I remember from when I was a kid, was Supercar. It was with string puppets.

Hey everyone! I have been struggling to remember a Halloween movie that I had seen when I was just a young child. I remember that I liked it a lot but the problem is that I can't really remember much about it. I remember it was animated and it looked like it was made in the 70's because at least one of the characters had an afro and I think one had bellbottoms. I remember that each character was only one color from head to toe. Their hair, skin, clothes, everything about each character was only one color but each character was a different color. The storyline is where it's all cloudy. I think the kids were some how turned into monsters for Halloween night while they trick or treated. I think it aired on the Disney Channel back in the 80's. If anyone can help I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

o.k. how about the Isis and Shazaam hour on saturday mornings, and what a bout the one with the singing hippo and her other friends that centered aroung a gazebo in a little neiborhood.

What about the one with the caveman that walked around with his big friend that resembled the one from star wars - chewy. with his caveman horse that looked like one of the budweizer horses. he also carried a club. who fought for good - i think it was called thundar the barbarian

hey the one posted about isis and shazaam wwere by jackie also

I have been looking for this show which both a user named Sean and Sherilynn have BOTH been looking for. I couldn't see a response to either of their questions and I am wondering if anyone has some insight as to what the name of this should could be? It is extremely important to me :o)

Sean Wrote:
I've been searching for this show for a long time, and I finally found a reference to it here...but unfortunatly it was another person (Sheri) looking for the name of the show, and no one had replied! The show featured a brother and sister who would go into the basement and use this amulet to go to another world, where there were puppets (one was an evil witch). It was live action (not a cartoon).

This was Sheri's post:
Hello please help me find this tv show from either the 80's or early 90's not entirely sure.
It's based around 2 children brother and his older sister. they found this amulet or a madallion or a necklace that is magic it either takes them through time or to a different place. by turing the necklace once they hold hands and then theres a portal that is green i think. where they make a friend that is a dragon. There is an evil witch trying to steal the necklace from them and the witch lives in a castle with a servent that is just a head I think hanging on the wall. (the dragon and witch and serevant are puppets). They come back home each time saying they will never go back because of the witch, but they always do go back either after school or before school. I think that the necklace belongs to their mother and will get in trouble if they get causght using it. Also when they leave time at home says they have been gone for only 5 minutes. it is a live action and with puppets

Please help!

I'm trying to remember a show that stared a young teen boy who daydreamed about a girl in his school all the time she had long dark hair and he had curly dark hair. It was on weekly before it went into sitcom mode then it was on everynight. I think it was on in the late 80's to early 90's. The name of the program is driving both my husband and me crazy. Please help if you can. Thank you

Kathy:
That sounds like THE WONDER YEARS. The boy was Kevin and the girl was Winnie. They had a best friend named Paul.

I am looking for the show that has a man hanging from a helicopter, and the song that played said something like " I wanna hang from a plane like robert redford. Please Help.

THE LAND OF FROOZE.....I loved that it was on PBS...and I heard someone on here talk about todays speacial with that mouse muffy....I love these shows!

Still looking the name of the show.

"I am looking for the show that has a man hanging from a helicopter, and the song that played said something like " I wanna hang from a plane like robert redford. Please Help"....

That sounds like The Fall Guy with Lee Majors from 6 Million Dollar Man.

You are awsome thanks.....

I'm racking my brain about a sixties/seventies family sitcom with a newly married couple who had six kids between them, three each, and they also had a maid who had the hots for a butcher and a cousin who resembled a young John Denver and a dog named Lion, please help

Sean: ha ha...how droll

um....... the brady bunch???????? sean

i was joking, of course we all know the BRADY BUNCH, but what's that show that was a spinoff from the BRADY BUCH, and Mike Lookinland (Bobby) had a real life brother who co-starred in this show, and there was a family in this show and it was really kind of a slow paced sitcom and didn't last long, anyone know what I'm talking about??

Does anyone know a british show about a girl and her horse? it was claymation, I think.. kind of like david and goliath. Her brother and her lived on a farm that their parents rented. Their landlady was an uptight british woman, and she lived in a mansion. The horse would always eat the woman's garden, and the girl and her horse would go to the beach together. thats all I remember.
thanks
-c

I think this is the place to be for my question. I have been asking a couple retro friends I know and they can't figure it out. I'm trying to remember the name of a cartoon, which wasn't fully animated, just like frame here, frame there, and audio with it. The story was about 2 siblings, I can't remember how old, and there was also a mother, father, grandmother, and grandfather. Something with the story involves a witch and a castle, poison berries (I think) and something where it ends happy in the end and I think the witch dies, melts, vanishes somehow. Oh I remember more now, she wanted to stay young forever from the berries and at the end she gets very old and...the end. I don't remember how many episodes there were or what year it was out, but I remember watching it on VHS in the mid 80s, when i was about 4 or 5. Please help. Thank you so much!

Reply to a post from:
T Brooke at November 1, 2005 12:41 PM

Brooke,
I think you're describing highfeather from the vegetable soup series. When I was trying to remember that one, it took me a few years and a coincedince. All I had remembered was the theme song w/o the words, and I hummed it randomly in a class of mine, and some girl shreaked "High feather! I loved that show!" what a sweet relief that was.
It was about a camp, and all they talked about was proper nutrition. Never forgot the shy heavy kid out of breath, with the candy bar and sloppy tube socks. Because the show implied that if you eat a candy bar you will be constantly out of breath, withdrawn, fat and sloppy.

baud:
sounds like "The HuggaBunch" movie.
(1985) Made for TV. A girl and her brother travel through a mirror into HuggaLand to find a way to keep her grandmother young. "youthful berries"?

They go to this strange land, beat the witch with the help of their fairytale friends, and get the berries. Tragically as the girl is stepping back through the mirror she trips and spills the berries and they are gone forever.

I loved The Great Space Coaster! It also had a Puppet named Goriddle Gorilla. Singer Emily Bindiger play Frannie, The Beautiful 16 year old female lead/guitar player/female lead of the show. Does anyone remember when Frannie once as a practical joke made Puppet Goriddle Gorilla into a fake Scarecrow in Puppet Edison Elephant's Garden to scare off the crows! Frannie also used to tickle Goriddle Gorilla! Does anyone remember the time Frannie found Goriddle on top of The Coasterville Ampitheater pretending to be King Kong? Another time, Goriddle was trying to do a talk show. Frannie kept hitting the bell on the table as a practical joke to distract him. Goriddle yelled, "Don't ring the bell, Frannie!" But she kept on doing it to annoy him! This show had many other exciting Puppet characters like Baxter The Clown, Knock Knock ,The Bird, Gary Gnu and The No Gnus Is Good Gnus Show, Baffle,The Caterpillar Magician from The Planet Blimp, The Huggles, Rory, M.T. Promises, a human regular named Speedreader, and 2 other human male teenagers playing in TGSC band along with Frannie named Danny and Roy. Please sign the bring back the great space coaster petition @ www.petitiononline.com/TGSC because it already has 1,883 signatures! This educational childrens t.v. show had many guest stars including Sally Struthers, Bess Armstrong, Aileen Quinn AKA "Annie", "Mary" Kathleen Turner, Linda Gray, Mark Hamill, Valerie Harper, Carol Channing ,Charlotte Rae, Gerri Jewell, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Henry Winkler, Marvin Hamlisch, Rock Steady Crew Dancers, Richard Kiel, and many others.Lets get this 1980's classic children's t.v. show back in rerun syndication for another generation to enjoy! TGSC also won many peabody and emmy awards as an outstanding children's daytime t.v. educational series for grade school children. It aired syndicated 7 seasons from 1981 to 1986.It was produced by Sunbow Productions and Claster Television.

OMG, I can't believe it's taken me YEARS to remember "The Tomorrow People" and only because I saw another Brit program that was on around the same time called "Timeslip" has just been released onto DVD. I had been trying to, for ages, remember that show where I saw an evil robot, which was a shape-shifting robot and terrified me when I was a kid.

Now, going out of my mind over this one from the 70's. it's with a boy or a girl that accesses another world or time or just plain escapes a room by drawing a door onto a wall...LOL, that's all I can remember of that one.

Thanks!

Please help. It was a made for TV movie as far as I can recall. It was in the early to mid 80's. About all I can remember is this kid packing canned food into his backpack. They he sat indian style inside a little "Pyramid" in his bedroom. Soomehow he was warped to ancient egypt inside the "real" pyramid. I think he made a freind there too, and of course they were being chased. I hope someone else remembers this?

seti

Tomorrow People was a great show. I wish it was on DVD!!

Land of the lost scared the bejesus out of me!! Slestacks were scary.

Riot - Tomorrow People is available on DVD, check on amazon.

About the 70's (or even 60's?) show where the boy or girl accesses another world or time or just plain escapes a room by drawing a door onto a wall...I seem to remember them drawing a door at the top of a fire escape as well and getting INTO a building. Or it could all just be a false memory.

Craig "Achoo is from the LETTER PEOPLE puppet show"

Way Cool Site! "Makin'it" disco crap from the 70's staring the guy from the dr pepper ads and "american werewolf in london"-I remember "open all nite" as well. the son said "It tastes Blue"-Anyone Remember a show w/Jim Balousie, before John died, where he was a house painter? What about a early FOX show called "OoppS!" a comedy about the end of the world. My fav show of all time-"Get A Life" What a great oddball show-made me laugh till I wet myself!

"All I can remember about this show was a bunch of kids in a old warehouse or something and they made music videos of really crappy songs....anyone have any idea?"

Maggie: You might be talking about KIDD VIDEO. A bunch of kids in a band being taken by an evil guy to another dimension called "The Flip Side". Half live action, half cartoon.

Oops! Sorry, Maggie. I was responding to tiger's question.

I AM LOOKING FOR AN 80'S SHOW ABOUT A GROUP OF GIRLS WHO WERE WAITRESSES IN A LOUNGE. IT HAD A PIANO PLAYER IN THE CORNER OF THE LOUNGE AND I CAN REMEMBER IT ALWAYS BEING DARK WHEN THEY WERE AT WORK. I ALSO CAN REMEMBER THE GIRLS IN THE BACK WHERE THEIR LOCKERS WERE AND A TABLE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM. I CANNOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME REMEMBER ANYTHING ELSE. I DO REMEMBER THOUGH THAT I USED TO WATCH IT AT NIGHT WITH MY GRANDPARENTS. IT WAS A COMEDY. FOR SOME REASON IT IS IN MY HEAD THAT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SET IN MANHATTAN, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHERE I GOT THAT IDEA! ANYHOW, I HAVE BEEN RACKING MY BRAIN-SO IF ANYONE HAPPENS TO REMEMBER I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IT. THANKS!

Just checking but does everybody know of this website.
http://www.retrojunk.com/

70/80/90s stuff.

long live "thats cat" used to watch it on (channel 4) NBC at 5am every saturday with my older brother, in the 80s.. (big Smile on his face)...!

It drives me crazy as im trying to remember one tv series,70-80.It was for 3-4 teenagers (1 fat,1 thin,1 handsome,1 clever)and was showing them from the time of school to the summer holidays,when they went to the army,when they were in love with some girls and basically a typical period of time of the teenagers.In every episode you could listen to some songs like : bobby vinton-sealed with a kiss,bobby vinton-blue velvet and other songs like these.I think it was an american-israeli co-production.If anyone has any info i would appreciate it.

Can anyone remember a tv show done back in the late 70's early 80's, i think it was called THE LOST WORLD. it was about a family who got stuck in another time with dinosaurs. i think in the opening theme the family goes down some rapids and ends up in another time and the kids end up having a baby pet dinosaur. thats all i remember and its driving me mental.

Does anyone know a british show about a girl and her horse? it was claymation, I think.. kind of like david and goliath. Her brother and her lived on a farm that their parents rented. Their landlady was an uptight british woman, and she lived in a mansion. The horse would always eat the woman's garden, and the girl and her horse would go to the beach together. thats all I remember.
thanks
-c

DCG:
Sounds like LAND OF THE LOST. The pet dinosaur was Dopey. If you haven't seen it recently, I definitely recommend getting the DVD's. It was really well made and holds up over time, in my opinion. All 3 seasons are out on DVD. (Well, get seasons 1 & 2 anyway.)

Dear DCG,

Do you remembered Ghostbusters from 1986?

Signed, Jen

Does anyone recall a live action type show that played in the 70s that featured a young boy (white??) who was friends with a young asian boy who could turn into some sort of jet? The asian boy's parents could turn into jets too I believe and they would fight evildoers. I know I'm not making it up but I can't find it anywhere. thanks.

There was this show I watched in school, as a kid. It was either PBS or from an educational program. It was set in the future. There were few books left on the earth. There were humans who were looking for any books left over, however, there was an evil race that was looking for these humans.

Has anyone seen this show, and if so, how did it end?

Does anyone remember the show with the little girl that was part alien and could stop time by touching her fingers together? I think she lived on earth with her father and talked to her mother who was far away.

I was trying to remember a show or movie from the late seventies or early eighties. It featured a female PI that seemed tomboyish and drove a beat-up red car that somewhat resembled a volkswagen rabbit or something like that. I don't lose a whole lot of sleep, but it keeps me thinking. Please help.

EST:
That was called OUT OF THIS WORLD.

ANDREA:

The show was originally called IT'S A LIVING, then retooled as MAKING A LIVING. Ann Jillian is the most recognizable name from it, but I can't remember if she was in both versions or just the first.

Hope this helps.

Lee

Does anyone remember a show that had 3 different shows in the same program each week. One show was about western, then a vampire and 3rd was futuristic with a glass tube elevator. I can not remember what it was called. I think it was on in the 70's??? Help

Hi, this site sounds great. Remembering a lot of different show that have been on. I have however read through all the listing hoping to find the show I am looking for. Oh it is about an all girls' school of withcraft. Some of the names I remeber are Maude, I think Matilda, the main girl wasn't good at magic. One episode they were praticing fire drills and she didn't know this, she flew out her window and dropped the bucket of water on top of the head witches head. Another one is where they had to fly through an course of challenges and she made it through. THere are several things I remember but not the name of the show, please help. THanks in advance. Nite

there is an old tv show i think it is called mud puddle lane. but it is about a wizzard story teller and his coldron says pom pom pom pom pom. can any one tell me what 9it is.

i remember 2 shows from when i was a kid. childrens show : One show was of 2 girls singing and playing guitars saying goodbye from a swing set, theses girls also talked to flowers and had a magic trunk.
My second memory is of a a am show with animal characters henrrieta hippo freddie the frog, it was a cool show and was wondering if i could find additionaql information

I THINK THE CHARACTER YOUR LOOKING FOR IN THE FLESH COLORED SUIT WITH BODY ORGANS IS SLIM GOODBODY A PBS OR CAPTAIN KANGAROO SNIPPET

BJ AND THE BEAR STARRED GREG EVAGIAN WHO ALSO STARRED WITH PAUL RISER IN MY TWO DADS I ENJOYED BOTH SHOWS

SORRY TO POST SO MANY TIMES I SHOULD HAVE READ ALL THE WAY THROUGH BEFORE I DID THE FIRST ONE. THE SHOW ABOUT THE DOG THAT IS NOT BENJI. I THINK THAT YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT BOOMER. CUTE THEME SONG REAL FAMILY FRIENDLY SHOW!

Laurie:

I think the show that you are thinking of is Cliffhangers. I always loved the vampire storyline. I hope this helps!!

Maria:

The show you are looking for with the Hippo, the Frog, and the Owl is The New Zoo Revue. It is now out on DVD.

Thanks so much, I was begining to think I had a new plot for tv.

Just like Lee, I am trying to remember that show about the waitesses that worked in the lounge. I remember the same exact details and remember loving the show and always watching it, but cannot, for the life of me, remember the name of the show. I would appreciate any insight.

Was wondering anyone remembered a cop TV show back in the early 80s or late 70s with 5 main cast, one of them male Latin, title i think FBI or sumting.Got nice tv theme.

IT'S A LIVING is the show about the waitresses and the lounge and the lounge singer, Paul Grepple, who resembles the lead singer for the band eighties metal band KROKUS

here's the IT'S A LIVING, the waitresses in the lounge, pic

http://www.donnareedshow.com/ItsLiving/pics1980/cast80.jpg

Does anyone remember Bixby and Me? Can someone give me a website to find it?

There was a show on in the eighties, I think, about a family of oceanographers and they had a living room that had a pool in it and pet dolphin. I can't remember if they lived in the ocean or just near it, but the 'ocean/pool' was right in their living room. Anyone remember anything like that?

This series was around in the late 80's and was played in school. The show involved a librarian who drove around in a bookmobile and was constantly trying to avoid some sort of enemy that was trying to destroy all books and or knowledge on the planet. The enemies were named the watchers? or somthing along those lines. It was sort of an educational series play for a school library class. Any clues?

Regarding Ark II. Uh, that was Noah who "drove" the ark, not Jonah.

Jonah was the guy who had to deal with the whale. :)

LOL! [smacks forehead] Thanks Drew...fixed that.

pre-apologies for the vagueness of my memory.

i am trying to remember a show...maybe only a pilot, maybe a series, potentially even an after school special. it may have been disney distributed(?). not sure why i'd remember that.

here's what i can remember: the story revolves around a team of younger people in an futuristic academy(?). lots of white hallways, clean. space academy? there may be a shuttle involved? they are all in in dark uniforms. i seem to remember some group missions/tactics/problems to be solved by the team.

the main guy/leader is brown haired, clean cut, naive(?) i remember 1 scene very well...it's very blade runner. it's a nighttime urban environment, raining heavily, umbrellas might have neon sticks, i believe they are on earth. the young leader, cleancut guy is helping an old woman put on a respirator (there are public respiration stations), as the oxygen content in the air has decreased, and there is acid rain(?).

i might be able to remember more later. i think "earth" may be in the title. jog anyone's memory?
it's pretty obscure, but i remember loving it for it's ideas of what earth might be like in future.

thanks!

mike

I am trying to remember the name of a show from the 80's that had a regular guy (blond) that had super powers, but he lost his powers when he saw the color red?
Posted by: Jaime at March 19, 2004

Someone else mentioned the "regular blonde guy" part is Greatest American Hero, but the "losing powers when he sees red" is from the movie Super Fuzz
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082924/

Eric H: Does anyone remeber a late 70's early 80's TV show about a crime fighting team made up of a vampire, frankenstein, a wolfman, and a mummy? NOT MONSTER SQUAD the 80's movie.

Actually, it was Monster Squad, but not the 80's movie, but the 1976 TV series. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128000/

You might also be thinking about the cartoon Drak Pack, which had teen monststers fighting older evil monsters.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220892/

As for me, anyone remeber a show..it was a variety show, but it had a frog as the MC and bear that told really bad jokes.

Hi, I'm trying to figure out what cartoon I'm thinking of, and I was hoping you would be able to help me.

In the mid-eighties there was a show on Nickelodeon about an alien from a world whose sun was dying in search of more advanced worlds that have scientists who may know how to fix it.

He had a few other aliens who stowed away with him, and there were some re-occurring bad guys who would chase him.

It may not have been a Nickelodeon production, may have just been a syndicated cartoon on their network.

The main character I think I remember having a very "dark and quite" persona about him, while his cohorts in contrast were mischievous.

I think it had two or three episode arcs, but I could be wrong... but the plots were usually that he would go to a planet, have some adventures, and then move on in hopes of finding a planet that has the technology to save his sun.

Thanks for your help! if you don't know, do you know of any good forums to post on to find an answer?

Thanks!
Andrew

Please help!!! This is driving me nuts. there use to be a show in the late 70's or mid 80's. ruty buzzi was the main character along w/ another guy(who looked like captin kangaroo w/ a mustache that curled up on each side) they were in a space ship and had a big giant dog as a pet (it almost looked as if a human was in the dog costume). any ideas??? much appreciated

the variety show was the Muppet Show, Kermit the frog was the MC and Fozzy the bear told the bad jokes

Does anyone remeber a show late 70's to mid 80's it was a show like Benny Hill. But it was a guy who would do skits. But the cartoon he would show was I remeber the most. It was a rocket that looked like a male part. He was a captain of this ship and the blonde partner was drawn in a red dress with knee high boots like a Pamula lee Anderson look a like of today with her nipples showing thru and it would be a different episodes. But the cartoon would some how inner twine with another. I believe it was a bbc show but could be mistaken. I want to say dave something or dick something was the host of the show. Please help thanks.

I'm searching for the name of a childhood show that was produced in the U.K. It's most likely from the early or mid 1970's. It's some sort of claymation. The only vivid memories I have of it are a frog who's always driving through the countryside in old fashioned sporty u.k. convertable speedy car. I saw it once again a long time ago late at night on PBS but didn't catch the name. I remember it being very vivid and intense and really well done. Very fantastical and even as an adult I liked it. Perhaps the frog's name was Froggy? Please e-mail me if you remember the name at confuser_friendly@hotmail.com I'd seriously appreciate it as I'd love to watch again. It would probably bring back lots of memories, etc.

I really want to know if anyone out there remembers this kids show from the 70s i used to whats=ch.It was about these to little mice who traveled in an hot air balloon.......all my friends say they dont remember it and they say im making the show up>........but i remember it sooo well...i think thier names where nick & pick.if you could ley me know if you remember or know where i could find proof of this shows existence i would be forever greatful...thanx soo much

I am looking for copies of the 1974 tv version of "Paper Moon" that lasted only 13 episodes, since it was in the days before home vcr's they are hard to find, can anyone help me?? (end my 30 year search please!!)
Anyone remember the "Childrens International film Festival" (With Kukla, fran and Ollie)? I would like to get those tapes too.
Julia

I am trying to find out the name of two shows. One was a puppet show that took place in a news room of a newspaper. Sorry I can't remember more. The other has been driving me crazy for years every time I think of it and can't find any details. It stars a young boy and a girl. The girl is in outer space and the boy is on earth (or maybe it's the other way around). They talk to each other on computers. I kind of remember them having to hide the fact that they are talking. Also I feel as if there was a puppet show in the middle with two bert and ernie like astronauts. Hopefully you have some info, thanks.

I am trying to find the name of an old tv show that I watched when I was a kid. I remember what it was about and why it drew such an interest in me. If anybody can help me with this I would really appreciate it.
It was on in the early 1990's on Global.
Here is a description of the show (as I said I cannot remember the name of it): ( I first describe the pilot)
There was a man, who had an orange and white fluffy cat, who -lived in an apartment- one morning when he went to get his newspaper he found that it was the next days newspaper. He, at first, thought that it might have been a mistake but then he saw the things in the newspaper happening around him. They made a series from it.
Each day after that when he got this newspaper he would go out and try and stop the things that were written in the newspaper from happening. I can't remember where he worked, but his work partner and his best friend was an old blind black woman. I've been searching for this all over but cannot find any trace of it anywhere, people remember it but not what the name of it was.
If anybody can help me with this I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you.
Please, email me if you think that you can help me (chained_twilight@hotmail.com), and agin my name is William Hanes (just so you know who to address the e-mail to).

This show is really driving me crazy.. but it was nice to see one show on here.. that brought back some memories.. damn readalong.. that was a classic.Now this show.. I recall watching it in grade 8 so i don't know if it was ever a tv show.. but it was about a few kids.. that were always trying to solve a mystery.. I remember they had a talking ro-bot called Speedreader and he would read some clues.. and help them solve the mystery.. I belive it had a typerwriter.. and a newspaper about a town called Duneden.. this is driving me crazy -- HELP ME OUT -- THANKS!

William Hanes:

The show you're thinking of is EARLY EDITION. It IS available on DVD (check Amazon.com) and a search on Google will yield various websites regarding it.

Great show, by the way. Went off way too soon.

Hope this helps.

Lee

chelle:

I believe you're actually mixing two different shows.

Ruth Buzzi co-starred with Jim Nabors in a Sid & Marty Krofft show called LOST SAUCER. They played robots from the future who came back to the present to observe society, accidentally picked up two kids and then got lost in time. They had a pet which was called a "dorse": half dog, half horse.

Where I think you may be getting the guy with the curled mustache is from LIDSVILLE, also a Krofft production. Charles Nelson Reilly played the villain on that, and I believe he had a handlebar mustache. Freaky, trippy show.

Hope this helps.

Lee

There was a TV show that was about time traveling. The main character used some type of hand held device that allowed him to travel through time. He did not have any control were the device would take him.

hi i am looking from a show from the 80's or early 90's , 2 detectives, one has black hair, the other brown-blonde hair, mustach, they live or work in some kind of boat. There is a silly looking robot living there too

i saw the dark haired guy in some SF show too a few years later. He was some sort of space police man
thanks
d

I only vaguely remember this show. It had a family lost in the fog in the ocean/sea, and when the fog would clear they would be in a different time or dimension. I think it was in the early to mid 70's. I actually think I saw it berformed as a Disney on Ice show.

there was a syndicated show on in the early 90s about this guy in the future(i think) who wore this armored suit that enhanced him and i think he rode a motorcycle too. does anybody have any idea which show im talking about?

Look maybe it's just me, but when I became a parent and was forced to watch the tv shows for kids on today, I miss the "good" stuff. Sponge Bob! are you serious? Thundercats that is a cartoon. Voltron! G.I.Joe that was quality. Kids today have no idea that "Knowing is haf\lf the battle!" I hated Strawberry Shortcake, but would much prefer that to anything that Nickaloden shows. Does anyone else in the free world remember the show The Poka Dot Door or Mr. Dress Up? I watched them back east and no one in California has ever hurd of them. Please someone tell me that they really did exist.

William Hanes,
Early Edition is currently running on I channel. It use to be Pax. My family and I really enjoy it, I think it's currently towards the end of the series. I have my TIVO set to record it.

I don't suppose anyone knows where I can get a copy of a short on Captain Kangaroo ( I think the 1985 edition) The animated short was the Toothbrush Family. I'm dying to get a hold of the theme song!!!

Thanks

Sarge, are you thinking of Street Hawk? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088618/) Someone way up the list asked about this show. Sort of a Knight Rider on a Motorcycle, starring Rex Smith of Solid Gold fame.

A Note: Max Headroom, the 'electronic being' from the show, got created in the first episode, when the main human character got scanned by a computer. This starred Matt Frewer, who has since done a LOT of stuff.

Note about Voyagers! and Cover Up: The star, Jon-Erik Hexum, didn't kill himself on purpose, although he did kill himself on the set. He was joking around between shots, put a gun with blanks in it up to his head, and pulled the trigger. The wadding from the blank hit him in the head and killed him.

Need some obscure help: I'm looking for the name of a hispanic kids' show from the 70s. I was living outside of L.A. at the time, so it might have been local only. Main image I have in my head is of a street carnival of some kind. Title of the show was in Spanish. Any thoughts?

Oh, and this is probably much too late to help the person asking, as it was now a few years ago that this post above was asked, but I do know the answer...

The show about the fat detective with the slicked-back hair, with a one-word title?

Cannon.

Okay, just answered my own question about the hispanic kids show.

Villa Alegre!

ok theres two shows i've been trying to remeber for ages...one of them is set in a library and theres i think 3 mice and some porthole thingy they go through theres people in it as well, the mice also live somewhere in the libary...and some which thingy i dono...the other is set in a house? they also show the front yard and theres a big tree in the middle of it...then theres this big rock wall with two arches in it...and a house type thing in the middle of the two where one of the characters live...after the rock wall...theres another garden where i think another of the characters live...there all puppets and i think theres only three of them..actually there might have been and old man ( who was real ) come into it a couple of times i dono, they never really left there house area...i think you might have seen the street a couple of time, but yea anyone have any clue at all about what i'm talking about lol.

i dont know why is says it was posted by tom j but just so you know he didnt post it lol steph did

i saw a question u wrote on here (at keast i thing it was on here) asking about a tv show where the girls dad was an alien and that she could stop time with her two index fingers well did u ever find out the name of the show because that has been bothering me for years as well. i only remember some of the song and the woman who played her mom on that show also playes the mom on Even Stevens on disney(if that still comes on)

Anyone remember a children's show that had a bunch of college kids who landed in a spaceship? There also was a guy who had a tiny movie player.

I am looking for an OLD tv show for kids.....

There was a show on TV in the 70's/80's...it was kinda weird with a witch and werewolf and other characters (not animated) It was a kids show,funny and spooky at the same time.... and I don't remember a whole lot about it, but it was shot in scenes and not continuous. Any help would be great...thanks

Sheree

Hi everbody, I was wondering if any one could re-
member an old late 1979-1980's science program called "space academy". If my memorie serves me
well it was about a floating astroid that had a
mission to make contact with other worlds and
possiably a colinization of a new world.The main
character that I best recall was a small robot
named "PEOLPE".Let me know if anyone remebers this
old sci-fi!
Jesse

"DC Follies", now that was a great short lived t.v. show, does anyone remember that show? It was about a bunch of celebrity puppets who used to hang out at a bar. God, i loved that show and cant wait for the "Best of" Dvd to be released sometime in the near future. And that show that had the girl who could freeze time was "Out of this World".

I think I can answer two questions. Chris.cy the German/Isreali production was a series of films in the Popsicle line inc. Lemon Popsicle, Private Popsicle, Private Manouevres, Baby Love and Up Your Anchor. Try ebay FOR u.k. SELLERS. To Joel who asked about the cartoon It was a feature called Captain Kremen from The Kenny Everett Show. Everett was a British D.J who moved to T.V on both BBC and ITV. His show featured wild characters and weird comedy. Everett died a few years back of AIDS. He was originally sacked by the BBC for making a joke about the wife of a Government minister in charge of transport.

Also trying to think of the name of the show with the witch and the "wolf man" who danced with disco type backround behind him. There was also a huge foot and the mosquito would come down and talk and then bite the foot. Also remember a small frankenstien and a big one. drivin me crazy i can't remember.
thanks Jen

There was an anime cartoon in the 70's I used to watch before school and I can't for the life of me remember what it was called!

I think it started off with a nuclear bomb or something destroying the earth and it was about a boy who then lived in space. Much of it was surrounding a princess that had to be rescued. She had long, flowing hair and cried a lot. Lots of whimsical music playing whenever they showed her...any ideas?

Thanks!

I am looking for a tv show 80's or 90's. It was like knight Rider but a silver car I think and more modern. Had a shell that would form over it with the push of a button?

Grant, the name of the show you're looking for is Nic et Pic. The end of the show always showed them floating away in their air balloon. I use to watch it in French so I don't know if they even had an English version. You can purchase Nic et Pic on VHS.

http://www.afy.ca/catalog/i1-815.html
&
http://www.afy.ca/catalog/i1-814.html

Jen,

You are thinking of The Hilarious House of Frightenstein. One of the best shows I can remember.

www.frightenstein.com

Shannon,

You are thinking of Quantum Leap.

Laurie,

I believe you are referring to a MOVIE that aired on HBO (I think) for a few years around Halloween in the mid-80s. It is called "The Worst Witch". It eventually turned into a series. It starred Tim Curry, Charlotte Rae, and Fairuza Balk. Look here for more info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092239/
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Posted by: laurie at January 8, 2006 08:27 PM

Hi, this site sounds great. Remembering a lot of different show that have been on. I have however read through all the listing hoping to find the show I am looking for. Oh it is about an all girls' school of withcraft. Some of the names I remeber are Maude, I think Matilda, the main girl wasn't good at magic. One episode they were praticing fire drills and she didn't know this, she flew out her window and dropped the bucket of water on top of the head witches head. Another one is where they had to fly through an course of challenges and she made it through. THere are several things I remember but not the name of the show, please help. THanks in advance. Nite

RE: Two earlier posts by Tony (12/30/05) and Kellie (1/14/06)

I also remember this show and it is killing me to remember more about it and especially the name of the show! I remember watching it in the library in elementary school (around '83-'85 or so). Didn't the people wear weird headbands?

My friend's mother is a school librarian (has been for 30 years now) and SHE can't even remember the show!

does anybody remember a show from the late 70's early 80's.it was about 4 or 5 teenagers and they drove a old green military jeep.but as soon they got into trouble the old jeep turned into a brand new red buggy and helped them get out of trouble.it was really cool!even the buggy could talk in a wierd language that only the kids could understand.it wasn't a cartoon it was w/real people.can't remember the name of the show but i used to watch it every morning.

Early 80's cartoon. A boy and a girl go through a door or hole in the ground and go down a slide or stairs. Seems like they were following some troll or small green man when he went down into the hole. They find some underground world and something happens and they have to find their way home. Could be an after school special or a regular cartoon series. Please help with the name.

Dave or Shaylene or Craig or Anyone!!!

could somebody/anybody help me.. I Have for the past 20 years being annoying people by asking if they remember a childrens daytime cartoon that was on around 1984-86 (ish) it used to be on a lunchtimes when I went home for my dinner from infants. All I can remember is a boy maybe a red indian, jumping onto a horse called lightning which i think was white and then leaping over a fence to have some sort of adventure, I think I recall his parents shouting at him as they leapt over the fence. sadly that is all the information I have.. if somebody could please help me its been driving me insane for an unhealthy amount of time. THANK YOU!!!!!

I liked this 80's t.v. show I saw when I was a little Girl back in the 80's but I can't think of the name of it. I also liked the theme song from it alot. but I can't remember the name of it. I can picture the charactor so vividly. He Had short blond curly hair and wor a super hero outfit with cape. It was not superman it was something els totally different. the charactor worked for a crime agency. and when somone was in truble he'd change into the super hero. But it wasn't superman at all I'd like to find the CD that has this t.v shows theme song on it. But I just can't think of the T.V. show. Can you please e-mail a respons back to me on this matter
Thank you.
Sincerely:

Heather

Heather, I think you're thinking of the show titled "Greatest American Hero" and the theme song went "Believe it or not, I'm flyin on air" or something like that.

Do you happen to know about this cartoon from the 80's?:
Early 80's cartoon. A boy and a girl go through a door or hole in the ground and go down a slide or stairs. Seems like they were following some troll or small green man when he went down into the hole. They find some underground world and something happens and they have to find their way home. Could be an after school special or a regular cartoon series. Please help with the name.

I found another post on this site that sounded similar, but noone has answered that post either. Please help. Thanks.

kids from caper?

Nope. It's not kids from caper. It was a cartoon and it was 1 or 2 kids around the age of 10. The rest of the info is in my post above. Thanks for the guess though.

Does anyone remember this show about a father, son, and daughter that fall into a prehistoric world during an earthquake? It was in the nineties.??????????????

the super hero who lost his powers when he saw red is from the MOVIE SUPER FUZ .
And ThX for naming PHOENIX for me that shows names been driving me nuts for YEARS !

Shanon,

That was riptide. Pink helicopter, the 'screaming mimi'

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086789/

Cool show, filmed at Pier 56 in CA.

Does anyone remember a kids show on in the 80's, and the only memory I have of it was a man dressed in a black leotard and dressed up like a giant black record. Oh and he also had wooden spoons in his hands, and he danced. It was probably a preschool show.

DINOSAURS, that was the show that the father dinosaur was a construction worker. I remember the teenage boy dinosaur had huge bangs that stuck out.

HALARIOUS HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN- is on the "scream" network channel if anyone has bell express-vu, ALL the time. I don't let my children watch it, gee I can't believe mom used to let me watch that. Vincent Price is on it.

GOOD MORNING MISS BLISS- was the original SAVED BY THE BELL. Does anyone remember that show, with Mikey, and Miss Bliss.

Kara:

The show you're thinking of was probably the 90s update of LAND OF THE LOST, which was originally broadcast in the 70s. Far inferior to the first version, IMHO.

Hope this helps.

Lee

Shark1:

The show you're thinking about was WONDERBUG. It was part of the SID & MARTY KROFT block of shows on Saturday mornings.

Hope this helps.

Lee

R8R13:

The show you're thinking of was VIPER. It was basically an hour-long Dodge commerical.

Hope this helps.

Lee

Hey there, a co-worker and mine remember this tv show from the 80's where the dad was an undercover wrestler and had a manager named Bernie. He had two kids , a boy and a girl and was a single parent. We have been wracking our brains trying to remember the name and nobody else seems to know what we are talking about. Help us Please!

Who remebers the show "SIDEKICK" about a white cop who has a little oriental partner, I think he adopted him or something realy obscure TV show

There is also a show about a BLOND lady who was a ghost and she would help some teenager out. Damn I think she got breast cancer in real life, I remeber the show but not the name.

Dave Cox, I may be late, but the guy with the muscle suit, I think he was just a between shows kind of thing. Like yuck-mouth, or timer, or schoolhouse rock.

I also am looking for info on the show with the robot family and the boy with the whistle.

Dave Cox,
please help!! i've been looking for a childrens show similar to the H.R. Puffnstuff show.

This was The Zoo Revue

Did anyone answer Julia's question from Jan. 22nd 2006 about the brother and sister talking on computers in space?? Can't find the answer and I was talking about it with a coworker, but couldn't remember the name of the show.

Hi I have a question. I was wondering if anyone could remember a show from either 1997 or 1998 about a Jr. high class and their teacher.. I believe his name was "Mr. Ferrano".. I cannot remember the title for the life of me, nor can i find anything on the web. Any help would be great.. Thanks! :-)

hey therem i'm having trouble figuring out a show i used to watch as a child. i remember it being similar to Visionaries, where the characters had hologram plates on their chests with certain animals or insects or whatever that related to their 'team' or 'powers' or something along those lines. another thing i remember about it(this is where i get confused) is that my neighbor had a gun that he could use to shoot the characters on teh tv show and have somethign happen. that part might just be me remembering a strange dream, but the show itself was a live action thing where they had sort of armour looking outfits and they had these hologram things on their chests. anyone have any ideas?

Who remebers the show "SIDEKICK" about a white cop who has a little oriental partner,
John: "Sidekicks" starring a post-Buck Rogers, and post-girdle Gil Gerard and Ernie Reyes, Jr.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090519/

There was a TV show that was about time traveling. The main character used some type of hand held device that allowed him to travel through time. He did not have any control were the device would take him.
Sean: I suspect Shannon was referring to "Voyagers", not "Quantum Leap", as Phineas, the Voyager, carried a pocketwatch-like device that gave him inforamation about where he went. Sam, in QL, had no such device...though Al, who was in the future, had a hand held computer.

another thing i remember about it(this is where i get confused) is that my neighbor had a gun that he could use to shoot the characters on teh tv show and have somethign happen
Jesse: You might be thinking of "Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future", which was a mix of live action and CGI, and had a toy tie in, where the toys could be shot by laser blasts on the show. It was largely written by J. Michael Straczynski, and many references to things that would later show up in his Babylon 5 series can be found in it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092329/
I don't recall the animal/insects teams..which sounds like Visonaries or Beast Wars.

Does anyone remember this show about a father, son, and daughter that fall into a prehistoric world during an earthquake? It was in the nineties.??????????????
Kara: I'm guessing you're thinking of the 90's remake of "Land of the Lost"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101130/

THIS HAS BEEN HAUNTING ME FOR YEARS...does anyone recall that cartoon with robots--well, there were a set of twins, one fat one that ate rocks and junk, a big strong one, one whose arms stretched far (& more...). There were also these little furries "things" that got brainwashed to be evil (their eyes turned red, so that's how you knew). & the robots had to save them. This is all that I can get out of my memory. Help!

I am trying to remember a short lived show (might have even been a TV movie)from the 80's, sci- fi, about a guy that was struck by lightning and had superpowers, but had a watch he had to recharge to keep his powers and stay alive? Driving me crazy! Anybody know this one? Thanks! I posted this originally a while back and didn't see an answer anywhere. for some reason I'm almost positive it was on NBC. Thanks!

Someone may have already asked about this one but does anyone remember a show from the 80's where there was a giant talking hot-air balloon? I think there might have also been a woman on the show- it wasn't animated, more like a PBS type show- everyone I know thinks I imagined it!

Thx

~~Emily

Hello, could you tell me the name of the show that had different monsters - comedy for kids, like Frankenstein, wolfman, etc. The witch always said "Time for Tasters" and would always bang her head on a pan or pot hanging up.

Thankyou.
Rich Mueller

I've been pretty impressed with the way everyone's finding the answers to their questions. So I'm gonna ask one now.

I'm looking for the name of a show that was shown when I was really little, probably mid to late 80s. The main character was a kid, and once in a while these bad guys would appear in a flash of really bad 80s special effects. The main bad guy had sunglasses on. They'd do something bad and the kid would use his reading skills or something to foil them.

I remember a motorcycle with a sidecar.

:[ I'm no help.

Hey this has really been bothering me for the past few weeks...does anyone remember an old tv show like back in the early 90s i want to say i saw a few episodes but it was really really sketchy about some kids or group of people who were attacked my like MOSQUITOS or some kind of fly...NOT ANIMATED...i think it was on nickelodeon but I am not 100% sure...in the show there was some diseace or some kind of strange thing going around...and they used to give people shots...i have this weird memory of this show didnt know if someone could help me out who kind of remembers this

i was wondering if anyone remembered a tv show early 80's with a pilote with a dog i believe it was a jack russel that had a patch over one eye they would fly an amphibious airplane on their adventures

Do anyone remember a cartoon movie about a mermaid. It was a lot the "Dinesy little mermaid movie"-the mermaid wants to be human and goes to the sea witch and trades her voice for legs because she is in love with a man. The man/prince however is in love with another girl and does not return the mermaids love so she will die unless she stabs the prince in the heart and lets his blood touch her feet.But she loves him and cannot do it so she dies and turns into seafoam. I saw it on TV when I was little, perhaps early 80's. The anaimation was a lot like "the last unicorn". Hope someone can help me... i am going nuts trying to find it!!!

How in response to the guy/girl wanting to know about an 80s cartoon show about a boy and a big white dog.... the show was called Belle and Sebastian. It came out of the same studios as The Mysterious Cities of Gold.

WOuld anyone know of a 80s showabout a gypsy boy an a black horse. It goes someting like this: the horse is abused by its mean farmer owner. the boy makes friends with the horse and steals the horse away. The farmer is irrate and goes after the boy and horse. the boy also makes friend with a girl along the way. Its an english show and Iam pretty sure it would have been shown on the weekend before worzel grumage (cant spell) came on. The title went something like the boys name and then the horses??????

Rudy Asks: i was wondering if anyone remembered a tv show early 80's with a pilote with a dog i believe it was a jack russel that had a patch over one eye they would fly an amphibious airplane on their adventures

Tales From The Gold Monkey Starring Steven Collins of 7th Heaven fame. Check out http://www.goldmonkey.com/ for lots of info.

Does anyone remember a kids show from the 70s (possibly early 80s)that a man had a secret laboratory behind a bookcase? I kind of remember something called "Merlin and the Magical Green Machine" but I can't find it on any search.

Does anyone remember a TV show or maybe it was a miniseries where a father got special powers like rapid healing and then after a train wreck with chemicals I believe so did his son?

Does anyone remember the show which was in the 70s and 80s on a Saturday morning which included the banana splits and the arabian nights it has been rattling my brian it had around 5 kids on a bus and I cant think of the name of the show maybe something......Gang. Can anyone out there help?

Anyone remember a show called "Jennifer slept here."?? I think someone was asking about what the title was. (Theme: Teen boy had a "girl" ghost who lived in his room & appeared to give advice, etc..)....something like that.

does anyone remember an episode of a tv show called That's Incredible, about a 16" man and his wife?? if so please get in touch.
Jmp244@aol.com Thanks

there was a show that came on the late 70's. it was about a bunch of super heroes. i was in the military and never got a chance to see it. i'm looking for some info on it.

so i searched for a show on google, and this website came up with what looked like the show i'm looking for...scrolled through the ENTIRE thing and either missed it or its not here...HELP.
the name of the show...with the kid that lives in the basement with a robot...and his mean older sister that would come down and visit...
help...

that super heroe show came on at night. i know that it didn't last long. i think it had something to do with the justice league of america. appreciate any info.

for the person who wanted to know about the show with the dog in it helping people in neeed it think the dogs name was smoke looked like a german shepard

does anybody rember a show from the late 70's or 80's tha had a robot in it with a guy who wore rainbow suspenders and glasses show mostly took place in a living room of a house i think it was a morning show for kids

ok. there was this show from the late 70's early 80's that was really like 4 shows in one and one part of it had a dracula like character, another was a western theme it was like a soap opera but at night and there was a portal that seemed things together. if anyone has a clue what this was called PLEASE leave info. I have been looking for this show for years . oh I think it was on NBC.

anyone remember a childrens programme, it was presented by an older lady dressed in full scottish wear. mostly standing outside?

also the programme where there were 3 funny kinda of monkies--i think this was called banana split?? is that right? thanks

WHAT ABOUT THAT CARTOON FROM I THINK THE 70'S,ABOUT TIME TRAVEL ,IT WAS A DIFFERENT YEAR EACH EPISODE,I REMEMEMBER ONE ABOUT CAVEMEN IN THE TITLE SEQUENCE,AND SPACEMEN ALSO,WOT THE FU#K WAS IT CALLED!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here's an obscure one I have searched to identify in vain: it started out live-action starring a real cat and the next door neighbor bulldog -- his nemesis. Then it switched to a cartoon and the cat was an anthropomorphic superhero... the cartoons were the real cat's day dreams perhaps. Anyone remember this?
~Doug

Ok so, I was pretty young when I watched this show but it's stuck in my head and I have this memory of it but they took it off the air and now I NEED to know what it's called. It was people dreed up like animals and they lived in like a community together and they like sang and stuff and there was like a cockatoo.

it was the zooblie zoo

i think the show with kids in the warehouse making stupid songs was "kids incorporated"

I have one for you. I honestly don't know if this is real or not, but I seem to remember watching this in the mornings before I went to school. Early eighties maybe. The only things I remember were a girl with a rose birthmark on her foot and the guy that was searching for her.
The birthmark only showed up with heat, because I think they made her walk across coals during one episode.
Also I'm pretty sure that she was a long-lost princess of some kind.
If anyone can help me please reply.

I'm trying to find the name of a show probably from the 80's. All I remember was there was a lady in a basement (I don't know if she was locked away down there or not.) and she had a machine in there with her. She would put in certain items like a red shoe and a basket and turn the machine on. A book would come out with those items in the story. Does anyone else remember this?? Please help me if you do!

I need help remembering the name of a show or possibly a movie from I think around the 70's. It took place in Japan I think. There was a little boy who controlled a robot through a wrist comunicator of some type. Not much information but that's all I can remember. Thanks!!! Lisa

hey therem i'm having trouble figuring out a show i used to watch as a child. i remember it being similar to Visionaries, where the characters had hologram plates on their chests with certain animals or insects or whatever that related to their 'team' or 'powers' or something along those lines. another thing i remember about it(this is where i get confused) is that my neighbor had a gun that he could use to shoot the characters on teh tv show and have somethign happen. that part might just be me remembering a strange dream, but the show itself was a live action thing where they had sort of armour looking outfits and they had these hologram things on their chests. anyone have any ideas?

Posted by: Jesse Wade at March 4, 2006 08:27 AM

If that wasn't Captain Power, it might have been Photon, which was a Lazer Tag rip-off. I used to have one of the Photon sets, which came with 2 guns, and a 'training target.' The cool thing about this set, compared to Lazer Tag, was that you didn't need to have any sensors on you, the guns registered hits. It was like 4 hits, and you were dead.

I am trying to track down a show I loved as a kid called "Ark Lost". It was a sci-fi
show about a huge space ship carrying the last remnants of the human race. The
ship was so big and had been in flight for so long that those on it did not know they
were on a ship except for three people that got exiled from their community.
Fortunately or perhaps unfortunately they discover that the ship is way off course.
The show had the look of being filmed on video tape. Does anyone else remember
this show?

Hey Lisa! I remember that show! The robot would fight monsters sent be evil aliens. I was
a bigger fan of Ultraman though.

TO the person who wanted to know about the show about a dog who went around helping people. It may be the one called the littlest hobo. the dog looked like a germen shepard cross husky and had a different name each week as it travelled around from place to place and was a stray so to speak and make new friends. Had a great theme song too!

Hi. If anyone knows this please email me the answer. I remember just some basic points. There was a costumed witch.( i think she had a big head and body like h.r.puffnstuff)There was a castle with a spiral staircase and a band of real people would play songs. I have thought all a long it was witchie poo but I know it was a witch. It was sorta like a childrens sitcom styled show with these characters. Was there a spin off of H.R. Puffnstuff? I just can't be sure. It has been driving me crazy for years. The lead singer of the rock band had 70's styled long layered hair and I remember his name being Leslie or some name which I thought was a girls name at the time.(I was young.)I thought the symbol on the drums was similiar to the mouth and tongue symbol of the rolling stones.Please help. To the best of my memory it was a mix of real people, costumed people, puppets.Everyone thinks I am crazy. Also, A game show with lots and lots of pretty boxes(presents) of all sizes and shapes on the stage and he would pick someone out of the audience and they would pick a numbered box. It would range up to like 99. Then those people would either get their box with the gift inside or he would give them money or something. Not Lets make a deal. They only had 3 curtains and no boxes everwhere with numbers. Thanks so much. Please email me any responses at sherryappraisal@yahoo.com

I FINALLY FINALLY figured out the show. It was the Bay City Roller show. It only took years to figure it out. I still need to find out the name of that gameshow. Please email me the name. Thanks.

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Hi. If anyone knows this please email me the answer. I remember just some basic points. There was a costumed witch.( i think she had a big head and body like h.r.puffnstuff)There was a castle with a spiral staircase and a band of real people would play songs. I have thought all a long it was witchie poo but I know it was a witch. It was sorta like a childrens sitcom styled show with these characters. Was there a spin off of H.R. Puffnstuff? I just can't be sure. It has been driving me crazy for years. The lead singer of the rock band had 70's styled long layered hair and I remember his name being Leslie or some name which I thought was a girls name at the time.(I was young.)I thought the symbol on the drums was similiar to the mouth and tongue symbol of the rolling stones.Please help. To the best of my memory it was a mix of real people, costumed people, puppets.Everyone thinks I am crazy. Also, A game show with lots and lots of pretty boxes(presents) of all sizes and shapes on the stage and he would pick someone out of the audience and they would pick a numbered box. It would range up to like 99. Then those people would either get their box with the gift inside or he would give them money or something. Not Lets make a deal. They only had 3 curtains and no boxes everwhere with numbers. Thanks so much. Please email me any responses at sherryappraisal@yahoo.com

Posted by: Sherry at April 1, 2006 12:55 PM

"Posted by: kevin at March 29, 2006 10:51 PM

I have one for you. I honestly don't know if this is real or not, but I seem to remember watching this in the mornings before I went to school. Early eighties maybe. The only things I remember were a girl with a rose birthmark on her foot and the guy that was searching for her.
The birthmark only showed up with heat, because I think they made her walk across coals during one episode.
Also I'm pretty sure that she was a long-lost princess of some kind.
If anyone can help me please reply."

I came to this site looking for the cartoon mentioned above as well, and the things mentioned above are the only details I can recall too. It was along the same lines (and Nickelodeon programming timeline) as Belle and Sebastian and Mysterious Cities of Gold...Help!

I remember The Lost World. -And I was trying to remember more from it too. The only specific episode I remember is when they return to their old neighborhood, and it's all deserted, but the phone rings in their old house. And that's all I know.

What will kids these days do? They don't have anything like the weirdo local shoes WE grew-up on. I thought all hope was lost until I caught a few minutes of a show called "It's Curtoon Time". It hits it right on the mark. It's locally produced, shot live with an in-studio audience of small children (dressed in 50's garb), stupid songs, odd sidekick characters (Heebie and Jeebie), and almost no pesky redeeming qualities like professional production, decent scripts or important messages.

Not much web presence I am afraid.

http://www.cox.com/oc/cox3/curtoon.asp

Hi,
I have been looking everywhere for clues to a show I remember from the 80's ( I THINK it was the 80's). What I recall is a shop (The Curiosity Shoppe or The Olde Curiosity Shoppe, etc). This was a TV series based on the occult, and starred a young redheaded woman by the name of Robie (she also did a cover of Murray Head's One Night in Bangkok, if that helps) along with a young dark-haired man and an older man (the shop owner) who was older, balding with a beard, and British, I believe. This is driving me nuts, so if anyone can help, I'm grateful. Thanks!

John, the series I think you are referring to (if no one answered this already) was "Jennifer Slept Here" with Ann Jillian ..I know cause I LOVED that show, and ok had a serious crush on Ann Jillian

Ray I think the show you are talking about is Cliffhangers each one was a mini cliffhanger and each week it would pick up from the previous cliffhanger

I was mistake on the title of the show I remember from when I was a Kid. It was
called The Starlost. I found a website with info about the show. What a walk down
memory lane that was! Wish I could find it on DVD.
And...speaking of "the weirdo local shoes WE grew-up on", Wonderama with Bob
McAllister lives on in my earliest memories.
Dave

That should read: I was mistaken...

The 'body suit guy' was Slim Goodbody.
http://www.slimgoodbody.com/

Hello,Pleaaassseee dose anyone out there remember a childrens show from the late 70s or very early 80s about a sick girl in a lighthouse. The lighthouse was surrounded by stones that used to slowly move closer and closer to her and they used to mumbel??? all my friends remember the show but we cant remember what it was called. Cheers for any help :-)

I FOUND IT! In a post posted by me in Feb. 2006 and in other posts by by Tony (12/30/05) and Kellie (1/14/06)we discussed "a weird show about books and people from the future and a lady in a bookmobile." My inability to remember the name of that show (or much about it) had been killing me for nearly a year before I found this site in February. Today, I finally found the name of the show (A random memory from the show popped up in my head and was enough for me to do a productive Google search.) The name of the show is Tomes and Talismans. Kellie - the enemies were called the "wipers" (that is what popped into my head today and allowed me to find the name of the show.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomes_&_Talismans

Anybody remember a kids show from the 70's (I think) where the narrator was a kindly old guy dressed like a farmer, and the set was this little model town or farm or something, so he was a giant compared to the set. I remember at the end of the show he would say "Look up... Waaaay up", and the camera would pan up to the guy. The theme song was a classical piece - Bach, I think. "The Friendly Giant" maybe?

Lisa,

It was Gigantor

Song:
"Gigantor the space age robot,
He's at your command!"

Hi, I was reminded of a kids show I used to watch everyday after school around 4pm. I believe it was a Japanese made show because all of the characters were Japanese or Chinese. Anyway, the show was about this young boy who had a whistle and everytime he needed help, he blew the whistle and it called this "super family" to come and help him. There was a dad (who was a giant) who transformed into a gold ship when he was called, a mom who did the same, and a boy who also changed into a ship. It seemed to be the typical Japanese type show of the day, kinda like Godzilla. I remember the bad guy was a monster type creature and he had these little black people that were so tiny they could crawl up people's pants legs and control them somehow. Me and my friends use to watch this everyday after school. It would have been in the mid to late 70's when we watched it. I sure would like to see those shows again for memory's sake. Anybody remember the name of this show?? Please email me at chaznabby@aol.com Thanks!!!

anyone remember a really old show? its about these 2 kids and their dad who are driving and then theres an earthquake, which causes the car to fall into a chasm and they get transported back through time.

i cant remember much more about it, but i remember it used to be my favorite show as a kid and it was probably on nickelodeon.

Rudy,

the movie you're talking about is probably just the ACTUAL Little Mermaid Story by Hans Christian Andersen. Disney took some liberties and gave it a happy ending. I don't know who did your version and there are probably countless ones. Sorry, that probably doesn't help too much.

I'm looking for the name of a cartoon it was an ABC after school special I in the 80's about these two kids and there teacher who was a witch but I think she was nice she even had a black cat
There is also one about the sock trolls that is all I remember about that one and does anyone know if I can get the Giggle Snort Hotel on DVD
Thanks

if anyone ever saw an old cartoon of PINOCCHIO that was violent and old and before the Disney one and there were killer dogs and it was dark and surreal and very cool, let me know via email

i am trying to remember the name of a tv show in the early 80's ofcourse where a psychic would look into her cat's eye to sovle crimes it was really good can u get the name for me..

I'm trying to remember a show in the 70s or 80s which had a young boy (8-12 yrs old) who was an alien with some sort of powers, but he didn't know who he was. I think his ship had crashed on Earth. I think he also found a dog. I also vaguly remember that someone was trying to catch him. Any clues? Please address your answer to me. Thanks.

TO Lori who posted at March 15, 2006 05:23 PM

You asked "Does anyone remember a TV show or maybe it was a miniseries where a father got special powers like rapid healing and then after a train wreck with chemicals I believe so did his son?"

I believe you are thinking of I-Man, staring Scott Backula and Joey Cramer (who also stared in Flight of the Navigato). It was a Sunday Nigh Movie which came out in 1986.

ahhh! can ANYONE throw out the name of the show about the boy and the robot in the basement!!! i seriously CANNOT sleep until I get it (two other people are similarly stumped!)

please!!

regarding the boy and his robot...
there was a similar show that was a cartoon:
Wake, Rattle & Roll was a daily syndicated morning entry produced by Hanna-Barbera. RJ Williams portrayed Sam, a kid who had his own basement hangout. His friend is his robot named DECKS, built by his grandfather. He also has a friend named KC & an annoying older sister named Debbie. There were two cartoon segments in the series.

I need help. When I was Younger in the early to mid 70's there was a horror show on, I think it was called "Frankenstien's Castle" Dracula lived in the castle and there were 4 to 5 segments of the show, Dracula would always try to invent something new, some old witch would hit her head on a hanging pot every time she would go over to her couldren to cook something, there was an old man who would tell you a story but fall asleep during it, then dracula again would try to feed a monster down in the basement by throwing stuff down a shute with bars on it, and last Dracula, at the end of the show, would always try to revive frankenstien, who was on a slab, with electricity.
Someone please tell me where I can find this show, and that I'm not imagining it.

"Does anyone recall a live action type show that played in the 70s that featured a young boy (white??) who was friends with a young asian boy who could turn into some sort of jet? The asian boy's parents could turn into jets too I believe and they would fight evildoers. I know I'm not making it up but I can't find it anywhere. thanks."

Did you find the answer to this? I have been wondering for years

Salvage 1 starring Andy Griffith and the father from Silver Spoons. All I remmeber is they were junk collectors and had a spaceship (I'm not lying). I used to love this show. Also, Supertrain. Again, a show that I loved, but don't remember anything except the title because I haven't seen it since it went off the air.
Also, does anyone remember a TV movie from the 70's about a man who got struck by lightning and developed the power to conduct electricity?

What was the tv show about a asian family that lived in a volcano and they could turn into jets by falling to the ground?

To Jamahl, yes! I've posted on here a couple times about the guy that got struck by lightning. I thought it was a short lived TV series, because I seem to remember watching it more than once. Didn't he have a watch or something similar that showed how much "charge" he had left and he would get really weak, or possibly die if he got too low without recharging? I can't remember the name of it for anything, I've looked everywhere! If anyone knows it, please post! Thanks!

Anyone remember a live action kids show (with puppets as well I believe) that aired in the mid-80s. All I can remember is the intro. A bearded guy with a red backpack hikes through the woods and along a river, until he gets to a hollow log, puts his bag in in front of him, and crawls into it himself. He came out into an obviously fake set which they tried their best to make look like a forest clearing. The puppets lived in tree houses I think and he talked to them for about 30 minutes and left... It's killing me that I can't remember the name. For some reason, I want to say "Fred" is part of it. Any help??? Thanks.

anyone know the name of a cartoon from the 80's where a group of kids go through a port hole to another time and they're stuck and they have to go through all sorts of adventures to find their way back? even I can't remember it too well to describe it but I wanna see this again. nobody know's I've asked everyone. it was viewed for me in Minneapolis in the 80's.

I NEED HELP..!! All i can remember from this mid 90's kids nickelodeon tv series is that it featured a very beautiful lookin blonde haired girl.! I dont think it was Saved By The Bell and i know it was'nt the two girls from Sweet Valley High.!! I think it was mainly filmed at a diner.!! She had a very specific caracter name like Angel or Peaches.!! HELP..??

I'm trying to find the name of a tv show from the 80's maybe late 70's. It had characters dressed in blue spandex, but then they pressed a power button on their suit it gave them gold plated armor?? It would have fallen under a sci-fi genre.

what was the tv show with the guy on the couch

We are looking desperately for this show. We remember the sparkly effects and I think the villain was overweight and had a beard. He had sunglasses for sure and rode a motorcycle. It had a magic glove involved, and I think it was a math or reading show. It was on PBS for sure. This skinny weasely guy rode in the sidecar to the villains motorcycle. I think there was a guy kid and a girl kid, both around 12 years old. They rode a regular bicycle. It was prolly from around 1985-87. Any info would be mondo.

Hi, got a real head-scratcher here, there was a show, early 80's, where a little kid talked to what appeared to be a blue orb or void, may have been an alien, anyways as the show progressed his parents thought he was crazy took him to a child shrink who had a record with spinning lines on it to hypnotize him into not believing in the void/alien – sorry it seems so vague! ANY help would be fantastic!

to Denise from April 6:
the show you were looking for was the Friday the 13th TV series.
It was about an old antique store where everything in the store was cursed, so they had to go back and try to recover all the items that had been sold.
I loved that show.

i know you may have said this before but i couldn't keep reading.. anyone remember 'that's cat' i know i'm not crazy.. none of my friends remember
also anyone remember seeing a movie in school maybe about a witch... she had grandkids or something and they made blueberry pancakes... i know it's vague, but it's all i remember! it was on a film reel from the library i think.
and how about santa conquers the martians with pia zadora! classic!

Hi Tom,
That's Cat was a show I remember. Starred Alice Playen. Had an infectious little theme song too, I still hear it in my head,lol. "What may be 'cat' in one place; ain't cat somewhere else... That's Cat, That's Cat."
Garry.

I wish that these 'retro' tv channels would show something different. Many of the shows mentioned here would make nice replacements for the common stuff we see on TV Land etc. Some may like Andy Griffith or Van Dyke, and that;s OK But you know, some of us get burned out on something that has been shown for years on end. There were more shows out there than what are being shown now.
I guess my age is showing when I see those of you mentioning "old show" way back in the 1990's lol. I remember some good shows that I'd like to see again. "The Immortal" about Ben Richards (Christopher George) who has a rare type of blood that makes him live forever. His brother has the same type of blood, and Ben searches for his brother to warn him of the guy who wants to capture Ben.
Some good episodes.
What about NYPD? NO not NYPD "Blue" the original NYPD show made in New York and starred Jack Warden, Robert Hooks and Frank Converse. Give us a break from the "Blue" and get that original show on.Original locations in NY from actual cases from NYPD files.

Speaking of Frank Converse, he also starred in a cool show with Claude Atkins called Movin' On! About 2 truckers on the road, and the adventures they had.

"Then Came Bronson" Michaeal Parks a cool show also. Motorcycle guy's travels thru the US.
So, I think that TVLand should get some new old shows on for a variety. Why limit shows to a certain few, then play the heck out of them?
Thanks for reading.....

I have been trying to remember the name of a 80's Sci-fi show. I think it came on after otherworld (USA 1985). The main charachter falls asleep in a big city while heating milk, only to wake up in the future. It may not have lasted past the pilot. Any help would be appreciated.

ok, im searching for a show, late 70's early 80's i think, about a teenage male with piercing blue eyes ( i thought it was robby benson but i dont think so ) this actor was very cute, white male with dark hair. i think his partner was an older male, maybe dealing in some kind of investigation work, i know its not much, but any help will be aprrecitated. thanks.

Regaridng this post -
Posted by: manuel at April 30, 2006 01:58 PM

"Does anyone recall a live action type show that played in the 70s that featured a young boy (white??) who was friends with a young asian boy who could turn into some sort of jet? The asian boy's parents could turn into jets too I believe and they would fight evildoers. I know I'm not making it up but I can't find it anywhere. thanks."

The show was called Space Giants. Somebody had a whistle that was used to call the robots. They were Goldar, Silvar and Gam. Their old benfactor was named methuselah. the boy with the whistle was named miko mura, his father was a reporter named tom mura. miko would whistle once for gam, twice for silvar and three times for goldar. these robots made their home beneath a volcano, mt. olympus

You have no idea the amount of time it took me to identify the show "Gigglesnort Hotel." LOL!!!!!!!

the person who is looking for the Frankenstein sitcom...it was called "The Hillarious House of Frightenstine". There were only a couple of actors. Billy Van (Canadian) played most of the parts. The Frankenstein's name was Bruce. As a kid I loved the show when I could see it. I remember during a very bad thunder and lightning storm (a real one) I asked my parents if the lightening was red like on the tv show. Funny what you remember when you were 5 or six years old

The Hillarious House of Frightenstine still plays on satalite TV. Sometimes on the comedy network.

There was a animated show in the early 80's I recall watching. Possibly on TVO (TV Ontario).

The show taught history lessons of different time periods, and was actually rather boring. However, the beginning intro was pretty cool when I was a kid.

It starts off showing this neandrathal man (or maybe a caveman), with a simple red or orange or something background.

Music plays and the man (who is walking on the spot) has his clothes morph around him, switching through the different time periods, greek/roman, rennaisance, victorian, modern etc. At the end his clothes become an all white space suit, at this moment the plain background fades into a scene at a launch pad. Immediately the man has a look of shock, and turns and runs towards a large rocket. Soon behind are four or 5 guys giving chase, also in similar jumpsuits.

The man runs on board the rocket and blasts off from earth, moments later the earth exploades.

I have seen this in english and in french, and the animation reminds me of a european style.

Anyone have any idea what the heck I'm talking about? Please email me at pferg@hotmail.com

I've talked to others about this, most do not remember it, but I have met some that do (so I'm not crazy).

There was a tv show that came on before spider man i believe it was a boy that had a helmet and would say something and melt his enemies like applesause does anyone know what that show was called?

really late, but Dave B on 5/3/04 was describing Commander Mark from his show "the secret city adventures." It was on PBS.


http://www.drawsquad.com/ds_story.html

I was hoping someone from this discussion could name the 80's show that had a MALE high school aged robot.... Probably same story lines as Small Wonder, except with a guy? Scientist dad builds robot son, who struggles in high school to find "himself" because he doesn't know he's a robot. In fact, I think his dad works at the school? Am I going nuts? Thanks

I was wondering if anyone remembers the 80's show with the MALE robot son? Probably same storyline as Small Wonder, only this robot son is in high school, struggling to fit in, finding how difficult it is to fit in when you're a robot (even though he thought he was real)??? Am I going nuts?

Does anyone remember a show around the late 80's in which a boy traveled to different points in time by pedaling (I want to say an exercise bike in his garage). He also wore some kind of magic glove I think. I believe it was on PBS. Anyone???? Thanks in advance.

Kerrie -

The series you're looking for - about the girl who was abducted off the swing and is now a ghost etc - is "Elly and Jools".

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0218762/

Clare.

If youre in california there is a christian network that shows the new zoo review on weekend mornings they show like six to eight episodes im not sure what day form those interested its Doug and Emijo Fredddie the frog Henrieta hippo ans my fav Charlie the olw claims to be Woodsy the owls cousin and always making jokes about Henrietea being fat and they live in Los angeles where the show was filmed.

Im tring to find out about a show early 70s it had a man not sure if it was in space in think a planet maybe earth but he had a liitle box robot looked like a 70s intercom for a phone with a little orage lite and had walking legs like a wind up toy.

Also any one know how to find any pics or anything about Thats cat

Ozdep

Its the Hardy boys starig Parker Stevens the older guy and Shaun Cassidy big time 70s teen idol they also teamed up with Nacy Drew dont rember much about that by the way the new tv show invasion is wrinten by Shaun

70's kids show where they sang a song inky dinky do i love you

Anyone remember an 80's show, maybe only a pilot where a father, daughter and son go the the Great Pyramid and are transported somewhere? I remember the Title scene or something had to do with the "All seeing eye" like on the dollar bill. I have been looking for info on this for years. Thanks

I am trying to remember a show about a coach I think. I believe the main actor was ( Daphne Coleman) but I can't get any thing on this name when I search it. It was a 30 min sitcom and I think it was placed in Buffulo NY and was loosely, about the Buffulo Bills Team.. am I going crazy or do I really remember this.

This may have been mentioned, but I'll ask anyway. I'm looking for a show that was aired in the 80's. I think it aired on Nickelodeon, but I could be wrong. It was a live action show where the main character wore a special hat. If the hat was ever removed he would turn into a maniquin or freeze or something. If anyone knows the show please let me know. It's been racking my brain for years.

I've got one for ya, "tractor trailor" truck-thing,that changes to a helocopter. Some kind of
special crime fighters I think.. Can you help??

Does anyone remember a show from the mid-70's about rock band and I think they were called Full Moon. There was theme song with lyrics about a full moon. The band solved mysteries in whatever town they were playing in. It was always on really late at night. I have asked all my friends in my age group and it does not ring a bell with anyone. Driving me nuts....

Response for Karen Catlin... Karen, the name of the show you are referring to is called Buffalo Bill (1983-1984) and starred Dabney Coleman, not Daphne Coleman. More information on the show can be found at the following link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084992/

(the above is a link to the Internet Movie Database and is a great resource for anything that has to do with movies, actors, or television.) Hope this helps!

Hey ... what happened to my post from the other day?? I was looking forward to getting a response on that show I have been thinking about for the past 20+ years. One day it was here and the next it wasn't. Who decides what gets posted and what doesn't? That's Not Fair! :oP

Anyway, I will continue to see if I can help anyone else out. I love a challenge.

Greg: sorry...the server had a slight aneurism and I had to restore the blog data from a backup that was a couple hours old, and I think your post was a victim of that restore. Really sorry...dang computers! :-)

Hi Craig,

Thanks for the response. Sorry to hear about the problems with the computer though. I thought computers were supposed to make life easier for us??? Ugh! lol Anyway, feel free to delete my last two posts since they are off topic. Thanks and see you 'round the net.

-Greg

OK.. this show was not very good lol. But, it is killing me that I can not remember the title. I think it was a Canadian show. It starred 4 kids, 2 girls 2 boys, and it was kind of like a variety hour where they sang songs and made skits. I am pretty sure it was from the 70's because they wore disco suits and such. I remember my sister had a crush on one of the boys. (lame)

To Tom71,

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for remembering Friday the 13th TV series! I just decided to check back to see if I ever received an answer, and I never would have remembered such a simple title. You're the best (I loved it too!).

Thanks so much again,
Denise

to tony from jan 8 2006
i found the "pom pom pompompom" show it's Puddle Lane. Jedi's children's TV had it, i'm sure there's more but it's the first i can say i found. and there are pics. isn't it interesting about that one line of diologue unites us...

The Jack Russell terrier show was Wishbone. His family would get into trouble and Wishbone would use history books go solve the problem. The mother was single and a librarian, and Wishbone's owner was her son, Joe. Joe had two friends, Samantha (Sam) and David.

Who remembers Sky King? Go back to the late 50's or early 60's. Loved it!

What was the name of the mid/late 80's children's special (not a series) that had a man who pretended to be a little boy who had imaginary friends that were full body puppets. He sang songs called "The Wow-wow Wibble Wobble, Wazzie Woodle Woo" and "Gravel Gertie" or something like that?

And Tommy, were you thinking about The Elephant Show, with two women and a man called Brahm singing "Skin-na-Mir-Ink-a-dink, skin-a-mir-ink-a-do, I love you"?

OMG... After reading through this entire page, I have found every single one of the old TV shows that I have been racking my brain to remember!!! This site is waaaay too cool!!!!!

So far though, nobody has mentioned...

Read All About It: Great educational PBS show, kind of a precursor to Tomes and Tallismans. Just freakin' wish I'd gotten to see how it ended! :)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212687/

Pole Position: I seem to remember it as an anime Saturday mornings, featured Wheels and Roadie... these two boxes with TV faces that were artificially intelligent and could be fitted into race cars and do all kinds of awesome stunts (and of course, fight crime)!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086781/

Anybody else remember the animated version of the Dukes of Hazzard? My main image of it is from the opening credits where the General Lee's tires suddenly get huge. Probably a horrible series but a fun trip down memory lane.

I suppose the shows like AirWorlf, Simon & Simon, the Equalizer, Scarecrow & Mrs. King, Reemington Steele (which prevented Pierce Brosnan from taking the role of James Bond, when Dalton got the role, because NBC wouldn't release him from his contract) Cagney & Lacey, and Speedracer are all too well known to be mentioned here.

Here are all the other shows I was looking for...

Kidd Video: I could've sworn I was the only one in my global hemisphere who remembers this one! :-D How could I have forgotten Kidd Video, Carla, Ash, Whiz & Glitter vs. Master Blaster, in the Flipside!
http://www.kvflipside.org/

The Littles: I think I can now remember one snippit of the theme song..."you can't stop the Littles, 'cause the Littles don't stop..."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0320055/

I-Man: The fact that the guy could heal almost instantly was all I could remember about it! was driving me crazy for years!

Tomes & Talismans: Didn this show ever actually have an ending?

Along with everyone else who reads this, thank you so much for having this site here!!!!!!!

I so apologize for how long this post has gotten (I so hope the formatting of this post stays intact) , reading through the whole thing gave me a lot to say... and 1:00 am tends to scramble my brain! :-D

Where can I find info on the tv show that's cat?

Beau H "Anyone remember an 80's show, maybe only a pilot where a father, daughter and son go the the Great Pyramid and are transported somewhere? I remember the Title scene or something had to do with the "All seeing eye" like on the dollar bill."

I believe you were looking for "Otherworld". I found this information on Wikipedia (another great source after imdb) - see link.

There was a show in the mid 80's about four marshalls from the "wild west" who are transported through time to "present day" to fight crime and find a way back to their own time. Any idea at all????

Hey,

Looking for a cartoon, probably from the eighties, early nineties at the latest. Main characters were 3 guys who wore a red suit, a blue suit and a green suit (One may have been yellow) These suits had holes in them into which all sorts of pieces could join in, making them into different machines. Each guy had a particular speciality, one was mainly land, another water and the third air.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

N

Looking for the name of a show about a husband and wife police team, sorta like Hart to Hart but the twist was that they had to pretend that they weren't married because there was a rule against two married people being partners.

Thank god I found you guys... maybe someone can help?!!

My mates think I'm crazy coz I have a memory of a tv show in the 80's they dont remember: I get flashbacks of a guy with a UFO friend - the UFO is an orange flying object that looks almost like a ball of somesort that has kind of like a glass eye that turns into a video screen?? (cant remember well)... It darts through the room and follows the guy everywhere... I think from memory the guy fights crimes and the UFO helps by showing him videos through the glass eye...

Please tell me I'm not making this up!!

To Jessica from Nov 2nd and Scavenger from Mar 6th I believe the cartoon you are thinking of is Mighty Orbots. I remember one tall lanky robot with stretchy arms and a heavy set robot that would eat everything. There were 4 or 5 robots that linked together to form Mighty Orbots. All I remember is the robot that piloted Mighty Orbots or at least sat in his head was Ono.

To Craig from Jan 16 I believe your show was a Disney special called Earth Star Voyager. There were a bunch of kids who were supposed to fly this ship. Earth was in the future and there was bad pollution. And some evil alien had planned to use Earth Star Voyager as the command center for a huge ship he had built. I think I have it on tape around here somewhere.

To Sheree on Feb 2nd and Tommy on May 29th... are you thinking of Jason of Star Command? I don't remember much about the show but I do remember the little robots that looked like little windup toys.

And finally to Scott from May 8th. Is your cartoon Dungeons & Dragons where the kids get sucked through a magic trunk and are wandering around in D&D land looking for a way home?

Ok my turn... heheh... I seem to vaugely remember a live action show from the early 70's that had some really weird characters like a guy who was half vampire/half werewolf. Does anyone remember anything about that? I want to say I remember Dionne Warwick doing a guest shot on it but who knows for sure when you remember a half vampire/half werewolf guy....

Sorry about the length.

Vern

I am so glad that so many people mentioned "That's Cat" I was starting to think I had imagined the whole thing.

DC Follies - great show - do they have any of it on DVD yet?

I also remember the show with the guy with red suspenders and a robot he hid in the closet, but I don't remember it.

And the movie about the witch who made the magic pancakes - I was just thinking about it the other day. They used to show it to us in grade school, along with The Red Balloon, and the Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs.

Now - here's another one... I believe it was one of those ABC Saturday Night Movies... It took place on a cruise ship, during Christmas, and the ship caught fire. I remember it being very dark and only about 5 people ended up being rescued by helicopter in the end. It had to have been on in the 70's. Does anyone remember it?

Thanks - this is really a cool listing - I started remembering all kinds of things I had forgotten...

I think I remembered another one that someone was asking about. They asked something about a witch that I thought might have been an afterschool or Saturday morning special about "Ms. Switch".

Vern

to karen on june 26th the name of the cartoon was of course centurions The team consists of Max Ray, Jake Rockwell, and Ace McCloud - who respectively can each call upon special equipment that gives them mastery over land, sea, and air. Crystal Lake, the resident hot chick, usually just hangs out in a ship hovering above the Earth, ready to beam down any special weapons the team might need. It's a lonely job, but she gets to hang out with a monkey, so there's at least a little balance.

Ok who if anyone remembers this little gem, its an 80's tv show called lottery about a l;ottery agent and ( for fun) a IRS agent who go around and deliver the good (and bad) news to winners, problem was the plot usually involved someone not remembering where they put the winning ticket , and how many times can you do that...

Can anyone remember 'The Great Tomfoolery Show' UK? Animated 70's - 80's show where various cartoons were introduced including 'The Arabian Knight's' and also one of the cartoon presenters was called 'Mr Umbrella Man' ??

I know I didn't hallucinate this one. I remember a show maybe early eighties about some kids in an underground library and aliens are out to get them. It was on PBS. Someone please tell me I didn't dream this up!

Where I can find Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?" [TV-Series 1970-1972] in vhs or dvd? Please help me.

ok i have waited for a couple of months and no one has managed to help at all with the tv show that has driven my friends and i CRAZY YES CRAZY for years and years... the show was about a sick girl that was bed ridden.She use to draw alot and would draw the stones that she could see from her window. At night large stones/bolders used to slowly edge closer and closer to her while also makeing a sort of mumbeling sound. There has been some debait about where the little girl lived i thought it was a lighthouse on a cliff and some others think it was a house.... Can ANYONE PLEASE help us out with the name of the show and dose anyone remember the show???? Thank you one and all

DOES ANYONE RECALL A CANADIAN CHILDREN'S TV SHOW FROM THE 70'S CALLED "BIXBY & ME"? BIXBY WAS A RED CAT PUPPET, WHO HAD A REALLY CUTE VOICE, & WOULD SAY,"BIXBY SAYS...REEEEEEEEELAX!!!!!!!!"

Vern,

No, Dungeons and Dragons isn't it. It wasn't a cartoon. It was some bearded guy with a red backpack who'd walk to a secret place in the woods that was at the far end of a hollow log he'd crawl through... that's just the intro. It wasn't a magic place, just hidden. The woods in the intro were real, but the show was shot on a set. I'm quite sure it aired on public tv near Detroit in the mid-80's, and was possibly a Canadian show.
Beyond that, I don't recall anything else. Thanks though.

Does anyone remember a cartoon show/movie with droopy eared dogs that were on some kind of quest. I remember that they used a special key and when it glowed they had to find a door (that appeared when they put it in the air somewhere)to another land to get home. that's all I can remember about it. it was color animated. thanks, Tori

Great site.
The show with the truck that changes into a helicopter I think was a cartoon called M.A.S.K. other vehicles also changed . The bad guys had a jet that turned into a boat etc.

I came across this site looking for a show about a boy who would travel back to ancient egypt through a metal wire pyrimid that he would site in and also had a crystal pyrimid that helped transport him back. I think he would always run into king tut and some other young girl. I saw someone else reference this early 80's tv series but no one answered. I have been looking for the name of this show for years. If anyone could help I would appreciate it.

Also Does anyone remember MR. Merlin
It reminded me of a spine off from the Zapped! with Scott Bayo? not sure how to spell his last name and I'm tired. LAter

Does anybody know the name of show that aired in the early 90's, about two girls that were friends one of the girls had long blonde hair and the other one had short curly hair kinda like a Tom Boy.

Posted by: TARA at July 12, 2006 08:46 PM

(It wasn't a cartoon. It was some bearded guy with a red backpack who'd walk to a secret place in the woods that was at the far end of a hollow log he'd crawl through... that's just the intro. It wasn't a magic place, just hidden.)

I can't remeber the name but I do recall that the guy played guitar.

Does anyone remember a series of fillers (kind of like the old schoolhouse rocks, in between cartoons on saturday mornings) where there was a little mouse, his name might have been Max, in fact as I'm writing this, Max the 2000 year old mouse is floating into my headspece so perhaps I've already answered my own question.

On another fron, does anyone remember a series of videos from way back, one was called Rome-0 and Julie-8 (robot star-crossed lovers) and the Devil and Daniel Mouse? If so, are they still in distribution?

Same questions for Jeremy the Bear/Colargol, Peter No Tail, The Swan Princess, Raggedy Ann and Andy (the one with the blue camel, babette the French Doll and the Candy pit) and finally The Last Unicorn?

We used to rent those from the video store as kids and it would be great to have a retro night sometime.

Yikes sorry for the length...just going trhough all these posts have opened the floodgates of all the hours of watching TV!

PS For the person who was looking for the info. re. the Elephant Show, it was put on by Sharon, Lois and Brahm (or however you spell it). They put out albums and went on tour n stuff kind of like Raffi did, and the TV show was later on in their career - I believe the song went ...
Skinna-ma-rinky-dinky-dink
Skinna-ma-rinky-doo
I love you
I love you in the evening and in the afternoon,
I love you in the evening, underneath the moon,
Oh
Skinnamarinkydinkydink
Skinnamarinkydoo, I love you, too boo-boo-be-do

Ah, how much of my brain is filled with useless information!

Scott,

Did the show you're thinking about have puppets in it? I seem to remember a guy crawling through a tree like that. Seems like it was on Nickelodian or somethin like that. It wasn't a show I watched but it sounds familiar.

Vern

You can find a copy of the Devil and Daniel mouse on The Rock 'N' Rule dvd as an extra. It was made by a company called Nelvana same people that did the care bear movies.

There was a summer fill-in show from the early or mid 60's. I think it was called "Wayout" or "Farout". Only 3 or 4 episodes were made, as I recall. Anyone remember that show?

I psted this a while back...
"I have one for you. I honestly don't know if this is real or not, but I seem to remember watching this in the mornings before I went to school. Early eighties maybe. The only things I remember were a girl with a rose birthmark on her foot and the guy that was searching for her.
The birthmark only showed up with heat, because I think they made her walk across coals during one episode.
Also I'm pretty sure that she was a long-lost princess of some kind.
If anyone can help me please reply.
I think I may have finally found it. If the other person who was looking for it would like to confirm it I found this... http://www.enokifilmsusa.com/library/honey.htm
Hope it helps.

to Scott. the guy who crawled through the log was Fred Penner.

http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/383-fred-penners-place/

I am SOOOOO happy to find "read all about it" and "tomes and talismans"! now if I could only watch them again. I miss the quality tv I had growing up. :(

Okay, the show about the girl who's dad is an alien and she communicates with him through this crystal type thing is call "Out of this World"

I have memories of watching Tomes and Talismans in 6th grade english class. For about 2 weeks we watched that show.It was fun! Good memories. Strange topic for a show though but I think it was supposed to be educational.

Does anyone remember a show about a girl with a horse who had a star brand on its forehead? The girl was from some other planet or something and the horse could talk? Anyone?

ok, second time posting this, and hoping someone can help me out please, its been eating at my brain for years. im searching for a show, late 70's early 80's i think, about a teenage male with piercing blue eyes and big lips ( i thought it was robby benson but i dont think so ) this actor was very cute, white male with dark hair. i think his partner was an older male, maybe dealing in some kind of investigation work, i know its not much, but any help will be aprrecitated. thanks.

PLEASE HELP ME!! I'm going nuts trying to remember a show that I just vaguely remember from the very early 70's.

All I remember is that there were animal puppets. The main thing was a caterpillar turned into a beautiful butterfly. There were other animals too...maybe a squirrel or bird.

It seemed to be a little bit sad...like maybe one of the animals was sad the caterpillar was leaving/changing.

There could have possibly been a narrator, but I don't remember. I don't remember if it was outside or in a studio. There was always a tree in the back or part of the scene.

This may have been a one time show and not a series. Sorry I can't remember more. I just remember how cute the butterfly was at the end. He had a name but I am blank.

Thanks so much..love this site!

SOLSTICE--

It sounds like the young man you are describing was the guy on "Shazzam" (spelling?) He was a superhero and I think they traveled (he and the old man) in a RV.

Sorry I don't remember the name of the actors. Hope this helps. Maybe someone on here will know more about the show.

TORI!! WE HAD THE SAME QUESTION AND FOUND IT. ITS FLUPPY DOGS. THEY HAD A LINE OF TOYS AND A ONE HOUR PILOT. YESSS!!!! http://dreamfollow.com/lilypad/fluppydogs.html

Tara the name of your show is Fred Penner's Place...I think...look on imdb.com

Thank you so much for your reply, I will definatly check out that website. Thanks again, that has been bugging me for years and everyone I asked thought I was crazy or talking about the" pound puppies"
thanks emily

I am not sure if this posted...but Tara I think the name of the show is Fred Penner's Place

Posted by: TARA at July 12, 2006 08:46 PM

(It wasn't a cartoon. It was some bearded guy with a red backpack who'd walk to a secret place in the woods that was at the far end of a hollow log he'd crawl through... that's just the intro. It wasn't a magic place, just hidden.)

I am not sure if you will see this, Tara I think the name of the show is Fred Penner's Place

You made my day, I am so excited that you found my most favorite little show from my childhood. I am going to find out how to order the movie so my 3 yr old can watch it to. thanks.
Tori and lil' Shanna-leigh

Does anybody remember the name of a 70's cartoon that was about an aircraft carrier (or some big ship) that was converted to a space ship. They had a huge laser cannon that always saved the day. It was on daily in the afternoon. Thanks.

RE: Joe (January 22, 2006 02:06 AM)
I am trying to find It stars a young boy and a girl. The girl is in outer space and the boy is on earth (or maybe it's the other way around). They talk to each other on computers.



RE: Mary Jo (March 3, 2006 01:37 PM)
Did anyone answer Julia's question from Jan. 22nd 2006 about the brother and sister talking on computers in space??



I find the formatting of these posts a little misleading, when trying to match author to message. MaryJO, the post I believe you were referring to on Jan 22nd is actually Joe's post.



I have been struggling for a few years now, trying to find the name of the same show. This show is about a boy and girl who are friends. They talk over their their computers where they can see each other on screen (way before webcams!) where the girl is up in a spaceship and the boy is on earth. In my memory I thought that she was also from the future, but could be wrong. I remember that the boy had to hide the fact he was talking to her. And something else too, the computer I thought was his television, but maybe it was a computer. I remember him saying that it wasn't working to someone (maybe his father) and they offered to take it and fix it. This would scare him and he would say anything to let him keep it in his room. If anyone would come to his room, he would quickly shut it off and pretend he wasn't using it.



I really hope someone remembers the name of this show... I have a post 3/30/06 on http://www.classickidstv.co.uk too, but no one has replied to it.



The text from that posting:

"Does anyone remember this show where a boy from the present can talk to a girl from the future through his television? This show was on in the mid to late 70's I think and ran on Sunday mornings. Help! This has been driving me nuts the last few days! Thanks in advance!"



Thanks to all!

Does anybody remember the name of a 70's cartoon that was about an aircraft carrier (or some big ship) that was converted to a space ship. They had a huge laser cannon that always saved the day. It was on daily in the afternoon. Thanks.

Posted by: Larry at July 25, 2006 09:51 PM

HEy LArry I think the show your are think about is called STAR BLAZERS. In the early 80's they had a show similar and it was called Robotech Macross

Tori!!!

im going insane trying to find that movie (Posted by: Tori at July 14, 2006 02:03 PM) about a boy that receives a crytal pyramid and travel back in time to egypt....i remmebr the movie well but the name is gone!!!!!

Tori...i found it!!!!!!

'Through the Magic Pyramid' - made for tv, Ron howard film check it out!!!!!

http://home.earthlink.net/~clips3/videos/MP1high.html

it has clips from the film

My information about this show is vauge so i'll try my best.
It's from the early 80's (82-83) and the star of the show was being chased by the goverment because of his special powers?!. The man chasing him was a scary tight eyed german actor that has been in a lot of films (Playing a hitman,assasin etc.) but the guy would always escape or avoid capture at the end of the show. I also remember the shows plot revolved around a golden pyramid he was trying to get to.
I hope someone can help me with this. I know my explanation is vauge and odd, but it's all I got. Thank you very much

Mike awsome job! I have been trying to remember the name of that show for so long.

While I DO know Computer Virus Removal - I stink at RESEARCH.

Here is my question: In the late 50's or early 60's there was a Television show about a lady or girl who went from her room, thru a dark series of "lily pads" into a fantasy world of strange creatures. It was all live action - no puppets.

Trouble is: I have no way of researching this! I mean, I tried TV GUIDE - but they don't go back as far as the 60's ! (so what good is the internet you ask?)

HELP !
j1076366@hotmail.com

Thank you!

Hi!
im trying to remember the name of a short lived series in the 80's I beleive, set in the ww2 era. it was about a widowed woman and her three grown children.I remember her daughter worked in a factory, her one son (a tall dark haired actor) was trying to make it in major league baseball and her other son was in the service. it only ran one season and i cant rememeber the name. i wanted to find it on dvd if possible. thanks for all your help. Kathy

Okay this is driving me crazy:
There was this show in the 70's where these puppet kids turn their treehouse into a spaceship and go into space. But they can't get back home...it may have been on PBS.
Anyone know what it was ?

wow this kinda sucks that no one else has a memory of the show i posted in June... try again please??!

All I remember is: an Orange flying object almost like a football with some sort of a glass eye - I think the UFO uses its eye to play video recordings.. its partnered with a guy who I think is some sort of a cop... I know its not much but its been bugging me for years! is it a dream or did it actually exist... someone please put me out of my misery!

James
What you are talking about sounds like a scene from the movie Heavy Metal. The guy that looked like a cop was a star ship captian named
Captian Stern and he was on trial for a whole bunch of things including selling crack to kids dressed as a NUN! LOL The robot that followed him I think was taking notes through the story. It was one o flike 5 stories and 1 main story line that tied it all together. classic 1982 animated cartoon

Someone asked about a similar tv show, it has a man in a record costume and he tells the kids to get woodend spoons and play along. There is a grandmother (I believe named Grandma Gussie). Beyond that I don't know much else. Something about two brothers and a mother, I believe its devoted to music?

I'm looking for a show that I think was from this time period. It maybe from the early 90's. The main character was a man with dark hair and a beard who was thin. He was a singer. (maybe it was Rafi?). The show opened up with his riding his bike through a town/city to a wooded area. He hid his bike and then went down a secret trail. I remember that at one point he had to crawl through a log. Then he came to a Treeehouse where he would sing songs. I think there were puppets of some sort too.

This question abouta show with a skinny guy with a red muscle suit that told you about the body is it a cartoon i can't rember

I need to find the show about truck drivers named Wil&sonny. I need to find the music for the theme song.

The name about the TV show with Will (Chandler) & Sonny (Pruitt) was "Movin On" and the Theme sone was of the same name(Movin On) or either Big Wheels Rollin by country artist Merle Haggard.

I just found your site and I'm hoping you can help me...I used to watch this TV show on Saturday mornings in the early 80's and this is what I remember: It's about a single man who drives and old-fashioned checkered cab for a living, and he receives a package one day which turns out to be this robot/alien who looks a lot like a vacuum cleaner with the hoses for limbs, etc. In the guy's apartment, he sleeps on a Murphy bed, which always slams shut with him still on the bed (in basically every episode). At the end of every episode, the robot/alien talks to his parents (who are still back on the planet he comes from) via a TV screen in his torso that he can turn on & where he plays back video of their day's adventures, and he tells them what lessons, etc. he's learned that day. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Does anyone remember the show were the kids would type on the computer with the green screen, and there would be a little white gloved hand that would fix the sentences they would write? When the hand was correcting the sentence, it would make the noise, chuka chuka chuka, then it would go pop pop pop!! I'm serious! Please help! It was on in the early 80's.

Ok, 1 more, how about the show from the early 80's were a guy dressed up as a lepercon would shrink himself and sit on huge mushrooms, and show pictures that kids had drawn and sent to him? Love this site soooooooooooo much!

Does anyone know about a show in the 80'S (I think) about a guy that was struck by lightning and developed superpowers. He could not touch water as it burned him. Thank you to anyone that can help

Hi. I've been racking my brain for a couple of years now ( and asking veryone I meet in "remember the 80s" conversations) about this show --

It was, I guess, a cop-hero show, with the hero being a guy who wore a glowing blue suit under his normal clothes. Not like superman or something, the suit actually radiated a phosphorescent blue light. ONe episode I remember distinctly, he was shot, but turned out to be okay because he had a bullet proof vest on, strapped with packets of red liquid to fake it.

Am I way out on a limb here? The main thing was the suit, and something about his bad-ss car. . . He had a wife or other female sidekick; they may have both been blonde?

Looking for the name of a show that used to come on early 80s about a girl that had short hair wore white pants and a red shirt with rainbow suspenders and had a dog for a friend that she wouid talk to and educate us about all sorts of things kinda like a blues clues thing may have been mid 80s educational program it bugs me i cant remember the name of it!! anyone anyone?
thanks and stay out of the trees

hi I'm looking for a movie from the 80's. I think it's called "The Huggles" . I rember that it was about a girl that went through a mirror into the huggle land. And it had been taken over by some kinda "evil queen" that stayed young by eating some red berries. the girl and the huggle killes her by taking away those berries. then of course saves their land. Please help looking for my daughter

I am looking for a show. The only thing I remember about it is the beginning where they show the stars names. I only remember there being an orange robot and there was a helicopter in 1 of the shots. I can't even remember the leading man's name. He was average height with dark brown hair. Sorry not a lot to go on. I think it took place someplace like California or Hawaii or some place like that. Help. I am going out of my mind trying to think of the name of the show. I want to say I think the guy was a P.I. or something. I don't know. I was little.

Re: the girl with the suspenders & dog for a friend...are you thinking of RAINBOW BRITE?

Posted by: Mike at August 15, 2006 1:55 PM

The guy with the blue glowing suit was the show
Automan (1983) - Desi Arnaz Jr. starred in this short-lived show about a cybernetic crime-fighter that could transform between a man and a car (and I think he could even change into a panther). Dumb, but you gotta love those 90-degree turns at speed.
It was the first on the list at the top :)

Sorry can't help you on the second one

this tv show was a real girl and a puppet dog not rainbow bright maybe the dogs name was bowser or boomer cant remember it was geared more as a storytelling and education program probably on pbs or something like that girl was a teen short brown hair always wore white like painters pants red shirt and suspenders dog was like life size real lazy might not have aired very long ?? loved that show had to be early 80s took place maybe a news stand or something in the town they lived in

this site is fing awesome. if i had a ton of money id give it to you. i was trying to find this 80's tv show i loved when i was a kid and none of the sites had it. i didnt even remember the name. but this site had it up like right at the top. does anyone remember a show kinda like nightrider but with a motorbike, and another one where this midget invented really cool stuff to fight crim? if anyone knows what im talking about and tells me, ill probably lose control of all my bodily functions.

Octavio, you're looking for "a show kinda like nightrider but with a motorbike"....could that be "The Highwayman"? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093189/

Or "Renegade" (with Lorenzo Lamas)? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103524/

RE:Posted by: Bill at May 25, 2006 6:10 AM
"I was hoping someone from this discussion could name the 80's show that had a MALE high school aged robot...."

This sounds a lot like "Not Quite Human" I think it starred Alan Thicke from Growing Pains.

allisa the name of that show was Riptide Detective Agency

Hello every one,Well im not giving up so here I go again There was a tv series that aired round- about the mid to late 70s,im from new zealand and back then most of our tv shows came from euroup, it was a sceary childrens show about a sick little girl that was bed ridden at night time large boulders would sinisterly mumble and edge closer to her accommodation(i say accomadfation as there is some disagremnt amoungst us as to wether she lived in a house or lighthouse) dose ANYONE remember this show or the name of it. This is my third posting so third time lucky :-)

There was a show on in England around the early 70s about a sick girl forced to stay in bed. She draws a house with a boy in the window and then visits him in her dreams. After an argument with the boy she draws boulders that move creepily toward the house. It's a vague memory that has stuck for years - can anyone help with a title?

a load of kids in a flying bus looking for golden salamanders? i think it might have been Australian. did i dream this show or did it really exist?

there was one alien tv show i watched couple of times... i think it was australian, from 80's or 90's. There was a guy called Dawud Walter in the show..... what's this show called? And where's this guy now????

There was a show that was a lot like the story of robin hood but it was all bears. It was a cartoon and I can't remember the name even though I grew up on it. There was little yellow girl bear that was the main character and a big oaf of a bear. PLEASE HELP!

Two shows I'm trying to recall:

In the U.S., there was an educational kids show in the '70s on PBS. It was a sort of female Mister Rogers. I remember this lady lived in a little house out in the woods and she showed how to do crafts and the like. I remember lots of animal subjects and I think the show had a bit of an environmental theme.

The other one was an adventure show about forest rangers or mountain rescuers, or something of the sort. I remember the opening credits showing mountains or canyons. I want to say it was called something like Sierra, but I might be mistaken.

Thanks.

Oh yeah. That second show, the one about forest rangers, was broadcast in the '70s.

Holly the show you're describing sounds like the Gummi Bears

Hello! Great site! I can't remember the name of a show that I watched on PBS in the 80's. It was about a librarian who was captured by a witch and keep in a castle. She had a machine that she would put objects into and it would spit out a book. It was great! Anyone remember the name??

Hi, this is Richie. I posted a comment looking for an old television show about a boy who could talk to a girl through his computer or television. The girl was from the future.

I found it!!! It was called Starstuff and it was produced locally in Philadelphia, PA.

All about the show: http://www.starstuff.net/about/

Whew!! :)

--Richie
richiemadden@comcast.net

Does anyone remember a show about a girl with a horse who had a star brand on its forehead? The girl was from some other planet or something and the horse could talk? Anyone?

Posted by: SolsticeRG at July 23, 2006 5:33 PM

http://unico_02.tripod.com/images/horsing.jpg

The only talking horse with a star on his forehead was Rainbow Brite's Starlight, but there was a show about a girl with a talking horse called Wildfire on about that time as well.

http://www.keyframeonline.com/Animation/Wildfire/229/

does anybody rember a show from the late 70's or 80's tha had a robot in it with a guy who wore rainbow suspenders and glasses show mostly took place in a living room of a house i think it was a morning show for kids
Posted by: roman at March 25, 2006 10:54 PM

Are you thinking of Mork & Mindy? It ran from 1978 - 1982. Mork wore rainbow suspenders and the action took place mostly in the living room.

Some of you were looking for this I believe:

There was a movie that came out in 1987 called "Not Quite Human" (with two sequels) which stared Jay Underwood as the teenage robot (Chip)and Alan Thicke as his scientist father (Dr. Jonas Carson).


Good stuff here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093649/

Does anyone remember the show were the kids would type on the computer with the green screen, and there would be a little white gloved hand that would fix the sentences they would write? When the hand was correcting the sentence, it would make the noise, chuka chuka chuka, then it would go pop pop pop!! I'm serious! Please help! It was on in the early 80's. ** Posted by: VWLVR at August 14, 2006 12:29 AM


I don't know if this is what you were looking for but perhaps you were thinking of "Ghostwriter". It originally on PBS on from 1992-1997. As quoted from TV.com

"Ghostwriter was the story of a group of New York City kids, brought together by the spiritual being known as "Ghostwriter". The kids work together, with Ghostwriter's help, to solve the mysteries they encounter. The series featured a cast of widely different ethnic groups, and focused on the concept of "making reading fun." The show was renewed for 1 year as The New Ghostwriter Mysteries" on CBS."
Hope this helps. http://www.tv.com/ghostwriter/show/2080/summary.html

I'm thinking of a a cartoon, apparently short-lived, with little TROLL-like creatures. They were not ugly like trolls though, they had really cute faces. They had different COLORED AFROS. As if the troll (toys with the the hair sticking up) slicked their hair back, almost looking like afros. Can't remember any antagonist. It's very foggy. I don't know anyone who remembers this late 80s or early 90s cartoon. I'm thinking it was on disney channel. I think THEY RODE HAMSTERS, dogs or gerbils around. Clue: not the Trollkins, wuzzles, hugga bunch... I NEED TO KNOW!!!!

Hello all,

trying to remember two programmes, one is very odd...the first is of a school, the scene i'm thinking of was in a school gym, i think there was a kid who'd fallen into an up turned horse (gymnastic equiment)or it coulds have been a chest. Anyway the kid couldnt get out, and was covered in pink or brown slime. Nobody could feed him, and he kept trying to make a grab at his freinds who would drop by. very strange.
My next is less odd...a boy with a floating robot, that got him out of scrapes, the kid had blonde hair. Max something??
please help, thanks

Hi guys -
Does anyone remember a tv show from the early 80's. Im pretty sure it was a brother and sister (this was not a cartoon) and they went under a ocean or a lake through jelly like consistancy tunnels. they were chased by giant slugs or worms or something and the sister had a red glowing stone and the boy had a blue glowing stone. In one episode the boy dropped his stone and it stopped glowing at a crucial moment. Im going out of my freaking mind trying to remember this one!!! I think it was british. Thanks!

spent hours reading all of these and can answer a few people in alphabetical order (by poster)

First of all: Here are the lyrics to "That's Cat" as sung by John Sebastian: "Hey pumpkin, come along with me. Been thinking about some things to see. Take a look at this and that. We'll find something that's cat. That's cat. That's cat. It means that you like that. Like an Indian drum or a kiss from your mom or (getting something under your hat). That's cat. That's cat. That's cat. Imagination, and doing it yourself, sometimes what's cat in one spot aint cat somewhere else." In LA, this "Christian" show followed "Davey & Goliath".

Christine Jason: I think you may be thinking Paul Winfield as the Mirror (not the Genie) and the show was "THE CHARMINGS" about Snow White and her family living in the suburbs.

Dave Cox/Tony: your show is "NEW ZOO REVUE" w/ Freddie the Frog and Henrietta the Hippo, the owl, a guy, and a woman. "It's the new zoo revue, comin' right at you!"

Grayce: You're thinking of Sigmund and the Sea Monsters starring Johnny Whittaker
Ken At Activision: San Pedro Beach Bums had Michelle Pfeiffer as a regular.
Matt: The show was 3-2-1 Contact
Meleka: The show was "Here's Boomer"

Rhea: There was a Brady Bunch episode that almost didn't have any Bradys in it at all. I remember Ken Berry (I think, from Mama's Family) came in to ask Mike & Carol for advice and they tried to speak but didn't. Ken Berry & wife were trying to choose a foster child (one of them being Bobby Brady's real life brother). I think they picked all three kids and it was meant to spin off (pilot) but I don't recall the title.

Sean: I watched EVERY Family Film Festival movie Tom Hatten showed. That Pinocchio cartoon was very dark and I think it had the original author's name in the title (which is something like Carlo Collodi). You probably remember the other movies he showed. In addition to all the Pippi Longstocking, Three Stooges, Godzilla and Bob Hope movies he showed MIracles Still Happen (girl survives a plane crash in South America), Sweet Hostage (Martin Sheen holds Linda Blair against her will), S-s-s-s (guy turns into snake), Food of the Gods (giant animals), Them (giant ants), The Legend of Bogey Creek, Mad Monster Party, and my favorite: Japanese furry giants in War of the Gargantuas.

Stacy: Your game show with the presents was hosted by Geoff Edwards and had two words in the title. I forget the title but it was Mystery Box or something very literal.

My names are mixed up in above post because I mistakenly thought the poster's name appeared as a header. Anyway, I think the pilot for that unsold series that spun off from the Brady Bunch starring Bobby Brady's real life brother Todd was called "Kelly's Kids"

My turn: Anyone remember (in Los Angeles): Those sign language public service announcements that ended with "Bye for now". Some weird video game show that kids played live on TV over the photo by yelling "POW! POW! POW!" in between cartoons.

I am looking for a show that I saw as a kid one Halloween night; I think on PBS (Channel 12 or 21 in NYC). It was a comedic kids show that featured Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolfman all living in a house. It seemed as a one-off special as opposed to a series.

ok, I like this site...let's see if anyone remembers these for me...it's making me nuts.

The first one was a show that I distinctly remember having a character news anchor called gary gnu... the tagline for that segment of the show was "gno gnews is good gnus with gary gnu"

Ok, the second one, and this is making me crazy, it was at least partially live action because there was a girl clown (hobo maybe??) who would, in every episode, go up in I think a hot air balloon and look into a big magnifying glass and call out kids in the neighborhood she saw a-la romper room.

also, HEY, anyone remember Picture Pages? Bill cosby... picture pages picture pages time to do your picture pages time to get your crayons and your pencil...

I found both of them, OMG!! The Froozles... with the girl who rode in a tea cup and the puppets who told jokes out of the wall a-la laugh in... and the other was the great space coaster with gary gnu... I think they have clips on youtube

I remember a lot of these... Rags to Riches was about girls who were adopted by a rich guy. It was supposed to be set in the 50's, was a musical television series. It came on Sunday nights.

hi, im looking for a 90's cartoon show with 3 main guys and each had a different colored suit where u could snap on things like one guy could be a motorcycle and another could be a helicopter (each color indicated his specialty, air, land , water). and they had a spacestation where a woman could see where there was trouble and send them there. they also had an encounter with this huge black star creature that fed off electricity? and another one where they were in the land of the dead?

I am frantically trying to remember a Saturday morning cartoon, but it was not a weekly show, it was more like an hour long special, but was repeated a lot. Anyway, the show was set in an underground world inhabitated by some fanciful creatures (gnomes?, elves?, ogres?), and I think it was accidentally discovered by some kids through their basement. The most striking thing I remember is that the artwork was really beautiful, with vivid colors. I know my details are sketchy, any ideas?

Hey Glen8p,
That sounds like Hilarious House of Frightenstein. It was a Canadian show I believe and it was recently shown on the Space Channel.

Does anyone remember a show from the 70's I think it was called Monkey Bars. It featured about 6 pre teens in a variety show format?
Thanks

Help! I have gone through this entire thread and no mention of a show I remember but cannot find reference to anywhere!

It was late 70's early 80's and I think was on HBO. It was a science, mind twister type show.It was animated and consisted of a series of skits that were all different mind puzzles. I think it was 1/2 hour or 45 min. long. I remember one skit where it is a cartoon and there is a cartoon box of socks. It asks how many socks would you need to pull out of the box to get a matching pair if there were 4 different colored socks in the box? I also remember that they would do little skits where the TV screen would be black and they would play a sound and you would have to guess the sound. Then a picture would pop up and show you what the sound was.
It was many little skits like that and I keep thinking "Mind Twister:, or "Brain Bender", something like that.
Please, if anyone remembers anything, e-mail me at ifitwags@yahoo.com.

Hey Everyone, After another couple hours of hunting, I finally found the name of the show! Braingames! It WAS on HBO from 1984 to 1985.

Hi,
Can someone please help me? I remember a show about a witch and a young woman (a librarian) I think. The witch kept the woman locked in a room and she would put objects in a machine that turned them into a book. The witch made the young woman read them to her! I know it's not called HR pufnstuf! PLEASE, PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!! Thanks to all

Hey all!
Great forum...
My question is kind of vague, but those who know
which show I am referring to can hardly mistake it
for another show.
It took place in a hospital and the kids ran the
hospital (they were the doctors and nurses.
Chistinalove@aol.com

Hi Ya'll, it's 2007, I hope people are still reading this. The movie I can't remember was from the very early eighties. It had a young teen guy, I think he was into Vampires or something. There was an older man that gave him advice, I don't remember if it was his Grandpa or not. But I do remember they went to a Garlic Festival and the kid had Garlic Pizza. I can't remember if he ate it or saved it or what he did with it but it was significant to the story because it was Garlic Pizza and there were Vampires. I also remember that maybe one of his friends was a Vampire and he was floating outside his window. Maybe tapping on the window. That's all I can remember. It must have been a made for TV movie and it must have been on a Saturday night in the early 80's. Definitely a family type movie. And it WASN"T "my best friend is a Vampire". Any help id appreciated.

One more odd movie from the eighties if anybody remembers it is something that has been on my mind for years but I vaguely remember anything about it. I believe it was a drama with kids in New York. I remember there was a kid that pulled a red wagon to central park, and I remember that they stood by a Peter Pan Statue at the park. Maybe it was Capt Hook Statue? I don't know, but I know it was significant to the movie. I think the lead kid was homeless or something. Anybody remember this? THANKS:)

Here's one - I recall a show or TV movie set in the 70's, where the main character created an Iron Man like suit. He was lying in the garbage unable to breath, until a kid used a stick to push a button on his gloved hand which opened his faceplate. This wasn't Ultraman, but something US produced.

Hi, I'm looking for the name of a U.K children's series in the late 70's, early 80's about a young GYPSY girl. She lived in a caravan and went to a public school where the other girls were really horrible to her! Help!

I have been trying for years to remember the name of this obscure show from the late 70's/early 80's. It was about a wizard or magician (who maybe travels from the past?). I remember a scene where he and a friend talk about when they turned into spiders and spun webs in the headmasters nose. The guy would sometimes look into a magic something and show a short film. One was the clatmation "Closed Mondays" where the drunk guy goes into a museum and the paintings come alive and another film was of some Japanese students who get mad at their teacher and turn him into a goldfish. The show was live action but the intro was a groovy style cartoon that shows the guys walking along in olden days and then I think he gets sucked into the present time. I think I remember him wearing all red and maybe tights? Please help!! It's driving me crazy! Not sure if it was an American show or not as we had satellite but they spoke English. Thanks!!!!

REPLY TO

"Posted by: ronnithepooh at October 24, 2006 9:17 PM

hi, im looking for a 90's cartoon show with 3 main guys and each had a different colored suit where u could snap on things like one guy could be a motorcycle and another could be a helicopter (each color indicated his specialty, air, land , water). and they had a spacestation where a woman could see where there was trouble and send them there. they also had an encounter with this huge black star creature that fed off electricity? and another one where they were in the land of the dead?"

It was the centurions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhitQF5Srds

Posted by Saraw:
"I'm thinking of a a cartoon, apparently short-lived, with little TROLL-like creatures. They were not ugly like trolls though, they had really cute faces. They had different COLORED AFROS. As if the troll (toys with the the hair sticking up) slicked their hair back, almost looking like afros. Can't remember any antagonist. It's very foggy. I don't know anyone who remembers this late 80s or early 90s cartoon. I'm thinking it was on disney channel. I think THEY RODE HAMSTERS, dogs or gerbils around."

This sounds like it could be Little Bits from nickelodeon.

BTW I wonder if anyone else remembers seeing this educational series on PBS? I remember seeing it in school alot from 86-89. It was always about math topics for elementary school, presented by this teacher with brown hair who would usually be talking about place values, or working with various little blocks. At one point there was some song played on a tympani drum about pairs of numbers that add to ten.

The thing I remember most is the beginning of each show, she rides into some little bookstore-looking place on like a tricycle with a basket or a cart, she does a full circle around the place before getting out to start discussing math. I'm hoping this wasn't something just locally produced. Any recollections??

To Larry: In "Batteries Not Included", an orange UFO named "wife", follows her scientise-inventor around and keeps track of his daily schedules and such.

I think I'm remembering Weebo from the movie Flubber. She was an orange robot.

on Nickelodeon, "Finders Keepers", "Fun House",
"Mr. Wizard's World", "Denver the Last Dinosaur"

some other cartoons, "Yogi bear", "Flintstones", "Jetsons", "Thundercats", "She-Ra",
"He-Man, Master of the Universe", "Odyssey", "Captain N", "Captain Planet & the Planeteers", "Dinosaucers"

I remember "Max Glick"

science, "Beakman's World"
environmental awareness, "Thunderstone"
PBS, "Tucekoi?"

yes, I remember "Pole Position", I also remember "Visionary", "Centurions", Jayce & co., but I don't think the title was Jayce & the Wheeled Riders, I also remember "Small Wonder", "The Wonder Years", "Out of this WOrld", "Punky Brewster", my grandpa called me "Punky", go figure! and the girl on the swing in a pink nightgown, she was a ghost.. thanks for providing the title: it's "Elly & Jools"

I also liked watching the old Superman movies on Saturday mornings.

"The Green Hornet"
"Batman & Robin"

and these seem to have made it onto the 21st century -- "Transformers", "Voltron", "Voltes V", "Rainbow Brite & Friends", "Care Bears", "My Little Pony"

Anyone reading this post would think I spent all my entire childhood just watching t.v. and doing nothing else! =p

"Sea Quest" comes to mind. About a boy, his dad and some other people who live in a submarine.

"Mr. Squiggle" is a marionette puppet who turns squiggles into line drawings with his nose. His nose is a pencil tip.

This was a PBS series that we often watched in the school library in the 70's. It was hosted by a serious man, not funny or patronizing, who talked about books that appealed to kids. It wasn't "entertainment", it was education, though I found it highly entertaining. He tried to get kids interested in good books. He would read exerpts from books while illustrations were shown. He would also illustrate on a large pad of paper with chalk and charcoal while books were read in voiceover. (You could often see his rough pencil sketch very lightly in the background). One of the episodes I remember in particular was on The Ransom of Red Chief. He may have even interviewed some of the authors.

I loved this show because it combined my two favorite things - drawing and books. It seemed to play for years - I think we watched it even in Junior High (76,77,78). I can't find any reference to it, of course I can't remember the name of the host or the show. It was in the 70's, so it wasn't Imagination Station with Mark Kistler or Picture Pages with Bill Cosby, although, Bill Cosby may have gotten the inkling of an idea for picture pages from this more serious program.

It has been bugging me for years and I've asked all of my friends - my sister and best friend both remember it and are teachers and reading specialists and they'd like to know too. It would be great to share with our kids.

Help!

Melissa,

You may be thinking of Bob Ross???

Hi there,

I'm trying to place a TV show I watched as a kid. I thought I had it when I found details on the "Tales of the Gold Monkey", however, I do have even vaguer memories of another very similar Indiana Jones wannabe programme.

The one I'm trying to place is a cheeseball TV programme, where the lead character was referred to as HRH (though he had another name), and had a sidekick of possible oriental background.

Please can anyone help, it's driving me insane, and I have to little to google...

Derek.

I'm trying to remember a show on PBS, 85-87??, It was live action and was set in medieval times. It's opening credits had a crappy theme song and a cartoon guy with an outfit like "Robinhood: Men in Tights". Thanks

Hi, I'm looking for an 80's series titled 'Neat and Tidy'. Has anyone heard of this or how I could get vhs/dvd of series?

I'm desperate! I'm trying to remember a Kids TV show that aired some time during the early/mid 80's. It came on during the weekdays in the early morning (btween 530 and 730 sometime). It contained human characters, but the intro showed those characters as cartoon type characters and they traveled around in a spaceship of sorts and over a rainbow. I don't have much more info than that b/c my memory is failing me. It isn't Captain Kangeroo or Today's Special i don't think, but it was during that time period.

Uh, thanks, Jason, but not Bob Ross - no Joy of Painting, although I did used to watch Bob just to lull me into a meditation state from his calming voice.

It was a children's/juvenile literature show and the host just happened to be a book illustrator. He kind of reminded me of Mr. Rogers in looks, but was quiet and almost dull, although the program was very entertaining - to me anyway.

Still bugging...

Does anyone remember a show around the late 80's in which a boy traveled to different points in time by pedaling (I want to say an exercise bike in his garage). He also wore some kind of magic glove I think. I believe it was on PBS. Anyone???? Thanks in advance.

This has been killing me for over a year now... does anyone know the answer to this!?!

Thanks to everyone who posted information about THAT'S CAT. It was my favorite show growing up in the late 70s. To add information about why it is not on DVD, I believe I read somewhere that was an LA base syndicated show produced by LA's KNBC (channel 4). So perhaps the folks at KNBC don' know how popular this short run show was to many kids.

By the way does anyone remember the segement where you saw the singing lips and the song "My Room" by The Beach Boys.

hey dave Cox

PBS flesh toned body suit was Slim Goodbody.

steph,

girl with alien father..
Out of this world.
theme song was "would you like to swing on a star..."

Posted by: Alina at March 3, 2006 6:13 PM

hey therem i'm having trouble figuring out a show i used to watch as a child. i remember it being similar to Visionaries, where the characters had hologram plates on their chests with certain animals or insects or whatever that related to their 'team' or 'powers' or something along those lines. another thing i remember about it(this is where i get confused) is that my neighbor had a gun that he could use to shoot the characters on teh tv show and have somethign happen. that part might just be me remembering a strange dream, but the show itself was a live action thing where they had sort of armour looking outfits and they had these hologram things on their chests. anyone have any ideas?

Ok..I'm going to say that the first thing is the Battle Beast toys.
many toys, four elements, many species, and not too big.

the other thing sounds like Captain Power, a show with toys that could play with the television series, I believe on sundays.

Posted by: charchar at April 8, 2007 4:15 AM

I'm desperate! I'm trying to remember a Kids TV show that aired some time during the early/mid 80's. It came on during the weekdays in the early morning (btween 530 and 730 sometime). It contained human characters, but the intro showed those characters as cartoon type characters and they traveled around in a spaceship of sorts and over a rainbow. I don't have much more info than that b/c my memory is failing me. It isn't Captain Kangeroo or Today's Special i don't think, but it was during that time period.

All aboard for the Great Space Coaster, with Gary Gnu?

Posted by: mickygivesme@yahoo.com at January 16, 2007 6:00 PM

Here's one - I recall a show or TV movie set in the 70's, where the main character created an Iron Man like suit. He was lying in the garbage unable to breath, until a kid used a stick to push a button on his gloved hand which opened his faceplate. This wasn't Ultraman, but something US produced.

Sounds like The Guyver, US production

Posted by: Sascha at August 15, 2006 11:13 AM

Hi. I've been racking my brain for a couple of years now ( and asking veryone I meet in "remember the 80s" conversations) about this show --

It was, I guess, a cop-hero show, with the hero being a guy who wore a glowing blue suit under his normal clothes. Not like superman or something, the suit actually radiated a phosphorescent blue light. ONe episode I remember distinctly, he was shot, but turned out to be okay because he had a bullet proof vest on, strapped with packets of red liquid to fake it.

Am I way out on a limb here? The main thing was the suit, and something about his bad-ss car. . . He had a wife or other female sidekick; they may have both been blonde?

---the show is Automan

Knight Rider with a Motor Bike is.........

"Street Hawk" (1985)

a show were a blonde haired guy lost his super powers when he sees red, was a movie called "Super Fuzz" staring Terrence Hill.

Posted by: Alina at March 3, 2006 6:13 PM

I may be wrong with the captain power part, after thinking about it, it might actually be "Photon"

For PH:
The show with the blond kid and the floating robot was "Benji, Zax & the Alien Prince", i remember it well!

Does anyone remember a show which had the theme tune:

#California highways
taking me back home
right back where i belong

I'd assumed it was called California Highways, but i can find no mention of it anywhere, and really want to hear that theme tune again - if only to excorcise the fact that it's been torturing me for nearly 20 years!

Does anyone remember a show that stared two guys. One black and one white. One was an investigator or reporter. can remember what the other one did. I think it was only on for one season. Thanks

Bratty: Are you thinking of "Ten-Speed and Brown Shoe"?

To Preston Janney,
You're not nuts. I used to love the early 70'S show about the crime solving rock band called "Moon" or "Full Moon". I remember the male singer having really long blonde hair and the theme song going "Don't be afraid of the dark - there's a full moon out tonight..." I was about 13 when it came on and I used to record the songs off of my TV. I think I still have a tape somewhere. That's about all I can remember. That show is the reason I'm on this site. Good luck.
Jimmi Blue

This is a great site. reminds me of all the great shows from my childhood. I have one for anyone who may know it. I have been searching for what i think was a halloween special. It had puppets - all kind of scary - in a cute way - and i remember gargoyles that were alive. there was something about a bog or swamp (though i know it's not the "bog of eternal stench from "labyrinth.") I for the life of me can't remember much else - as this had to be at least 25 years ago. Sorry so vague - but i'd love it if anybody had any ideas on what this was.

Thanks

HI I seem to remember a show in the early 1970s about cave people. on saturday morning along with the land of the lost.no one seems to remember it . if anyone knows please let me know. thank you.

First, I LOVE this site, it's WONDERFUL!

Now, my show...it was about (I believe) a troll, a vampire, a werewolf and a witch. They all were seeing a Shrink (the same one, if I recall correctly)and lived in an apt building together.

PLEASE HELP!
(and thanks a LOT)! :-)

Hey everyone, anybody remember watching an educational/sci-fi video in Elementary school, that taught kids how to find books in a library?

The movie was supposed to take place in the future, either human-like beings from another planet or humans from another time, somehow find themselves on a deserted Earth. They find a library and have to figure out the Dewey Decimal System, Card Catalogue, etc.
It came out around the same time as the LETTER PEOPLE, anyone have an idea?
All I remember is that they found our deserted planet very interesting, and were amazed when they found watermelons growing wild.

Can anyone help me on this one? I am looking for the name of a tv show that was made in america. It was a teen 80's show about a teen girl who's dad was a alien but you never saw him ( he was on his home planet) the teen girl just found out she was half alien (her mom was human) and she had a power to stop time. the theme song to the show was "would you like to swing on a star" but I don't think that was the name of the show.

can anyone help it is driving me crazy.
from kelly

"Vern,

No, Dungeons and Dragons isn't it. It wasn't a cartoon. It was some bearded guy with a red backpack who'd walk to a secret place in the woods that was at the far end of a hollow log he'd crawl through... that's just the intro. It wasn't a magic place, just hidden. The woods in the intro were real, but the show was shot on a set. I'm quite sure it aired on public tv near Detroit in the mid-80's, and was possibly a Canadian show.
Beyond that, I don't recall anything else. Thanks though."

Fred Penners Place

Does anyone remember a show about a guy who wore a gold/blue suit. He rolled with a crew of good guys and they fought soldiers and a silver/metallic dragon. I remember having the action figures but can't remember the name of the show. If you can pull this I'll throw you a high five.

KELLY,

I don't remember the name but I think I saw the answer on this page a couple of days ago, hope that helps.

Show Summary: In the land of Mojuste there once were a race of Storylords who guided the seemingly illiterate commoners in the ways of reading and grammar. The old man Lexor is the last Storylord left to defend Mojuste from the wicked Storylord, Thorzuul. Thorzuul seeks to turn all of those who can't read into stone statues to his amusement. Thorzuul's sidekick, Milkbreath, is along for the ride to shuttle "His Royal Badness" around in a motorcycle.

Seeking out an apprentice Storylord, Lexor stumbles across Norbert, a young boy with Drew Carey's glasses. Norbert becomes an apprentice Storylord and defends both Mojuste and Earth by putting on his shiny gloves, hopping aboard the Bikeotron and chanting:

"Thunder and Lightning

Trumpets and Drums

Readers Rejoice

A Storylord Comes."

HI I AM TRYING TO REMEMBER A SHOW FROM THE 80'S THAT I THINK TOOK PLACE IN A DEPARTMENT STORE , THERE WAS A LADY WHO WAS BLACK I BELIEVE AND I REMEBER A MANICIN COMMING TO LIFE AND DANCING AROUND.. I CANT REMEMBER MUCH ABOUT IT FOR I WAS FAIRLY LITTLE BUT I THINK IT WAS CALLED SOMTHING MAYBE ALONG THE LINES OF SPECIAL SURPRIZE , OR SOMETHING WITH THOSE WORDS IN IT ??!! I DONT KNOW SOMEONE PLZ HELP LOL !!!!

THIS IS STEPH AGAIN ABOUT THE SPECIAL SURPRIZE SHOW OR WHATEVER IT IS ... PLZ EMAIL ME AT vicious_circlez@hotmail.com if you know any info , thx !

Does ANYONE remember a show, probably on PBS, that none of the actors actually spoke, it was entirely narrated. They stories were fables or other type of stories with a moral and were all in other cultures from asia or mid-east region. The beginning had a animated intro with a guy playing a lute or some type of guitar dressed like Robin Hood. The lyrics were about the translations of his name in other countries and in america his name is "John" Please help if you know what this was called, it's driving me crazy!

Family lost in another world, that is ruled by women, trying to get home.....80s tv series....does that sound familiar to anyone? i have been going nuts forever trying to remember the name of it. thanks for the help....(lots of cool 80s memories on this thing...the 80s rocked!!)

Anyone remember during the 80's ninja craze, a show called The Master with Lee Van Clief and Sho Kosugi?

Just found this site...I love it!!

OK, what I can contribute:
"I'm trying to place a TV show I watched as a kid. I thought I had it when I found details on the "Tales of the Gold Monkey", however, I do have even vaguer memories of another very similar Indiana Jones wannabe programme.

The one I'm trying to place is a cheeseball TV programme, where the lead character was referred to as HRH (though he had another name), and had a sidekick of possible oriental background.

Please can anyone help, it's driving me insane, and I have to little to google...

Derek"

This would have been "Bring "em Back Alive", extremely fictional tales of real-life trapper Frank Buck in pre-WWII-era. Brucer Boxleitner was Buck, Clyde Kusatu was his sidekick Ali and Ron O'Neal was H.H., a playboy sultan. Fun show.

The caveman Sat. AM show may have been "Cro" An animated 'serious' series.

I remember the TV movie/Iron Man rip-off about the guy in armor except of course for the name, but it wasn't The Guyver. It was on about the same time as "Man From Atlantis" David McCallum's "Invisible Man" etc.

Someone earlier asked about the Justice League of America TV show...this was two TV movies "Legends Of The Superheroes" and a super-hero roast. It was from '78, produced by Hanna-Barbara and reuinted Adam West & Burt Ward as the Caped Crusaders, also had Hawkman, Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Black Canary, Huntress & Capt. Marvel, and a bunch of their foes. Really campy & crappy---if one were to look for it, a bootleg copy can be found. Not that I encourage that.

Finally, the cartoon about the teacher who was a witch with the cat (Miss Switch) was "Mission: Magic" also starring Rick Springfield...and came out on DVD this week!

Now, anybody remember "Marlo & The Magic Movie Machine"? And any other "Kids From CAPER"or "Bailey's Comets" fans out there?

Ooop, three others I wanted to know if anybody else remembers. ABC Sat. AM: "Curiosity Shop" a puppet show hosted by (?) Chuck Jones, a DePatie-Freeling superhero parody show from the mid-60s (the Super 6, maybe, and the Charles Nelson Reilly/Jonathan Harris classic, "Uncle Croc's Block"

I've seen a couple of posts about a man who was struck by lightning and could then manipulate electricity. I'm trying to find out the name of the show too! I remember he had a watch that told him when he was running low on power, and that his father was an USAF officer. They believed that the reason for his new power came from the fact that his mother was too close to some type of weapons test while she was pregnant. It aired in the late 70's, early 80's?

I am trying to find a title of an 80's program that I think was filmed in Alberta? Where trouble kids were sent to a ranch? I think the lead character's name was Winston something?? Does this strike a chord with anyone??

Does anyone remember those educational shows that were on weekdays on PBS in the 1970's ?
I remember the following titles.
Mulligan Stew: a bunch of crazy kids who came up with the 4-4-3-2 food group song.
Ripples: a drama about troubles facing different young people.
There was another one with the theme song
"Theres magic in the pages of a book ....
Inside-Out: another drama about young people.
I remember watching these whenever I was home sick from school on PBS.

Rags to Riches was a tv series not just a movie.
The pilot had one extra girl in it. The t.v. series dropped her so I never watched it much. She had reminded me of myself.
Why did you not tell that one guy that BJ and the Bear was the name of the show. I'm sorry i started reading in the middle of 2005.

Does anyone know what version of Pinocchio was played on KTLA's Family Film Festival with Tom Hatten. This version was not the Disney version and may have been a dubbed foreign version of the film. Pinocchio was very "gender-bending" and seemed very feminine. I think I remember him wearing the a long red coat that was very dress like. This film was very dark and scary. Someone post about it earlier saying that there was killer dogs. I think I remember a very dark forest scene. PLEASE email with any info. Anything regarding this film is greatly appreciated!!!!

Does anyone remember a tv movie from the eighties about a family living in a house and they had a daughter that had a pet dog, possibly a sheepdog, and the house burns down all except the upstairs balcony area and the girl and dog die and come back as ghosts. A boy, possibly the girls relative finds her casket in a barn and there is hay on the floor and there is a picture of her and her dog on the outside of the casket. All i can remember of the movie was her ghost and the dogs ghost floating across the burned out balcony and the boy finding her casket in the barn. Please help. The movie was on tv sometime between 80-86' and it could have been one of the Wonderful World of Disney movies, it was on around the same time as Polyanna. Any help in finding out the name would be greatly appreciated.

Hi - I've TRIED to read each entry, but my eyes are burning an I can takes no more! Can anyone remember a programme featuring large brightly coloured dinosaur (hand?) puppets with a black background? I remember a pterodactyl flying to a nest in a tree, and a T-rex running, as well as rather pathetic "Raarr" sounds... I think it was on at lunchtimes, either late 70's or v early 80's.

I'm wondering if anyone remembers a show in which the characters (think kinda like barney the dinosaur), would sing and do skits and between singing, they would show cartoons. It was late 70's mid 80's I believe. I think the characters were fruits, but not banana's in pajamas.
Thanks for your help!

I'm just glad to see someone on here besides me remembers the show about the guy that got struck by lighting and had the superpowers... I was beginning to think I had imagined it. Still don't know the name of it though.... any help?

Jason D...the show about the future where you need to know the Dewey Decimal system was called Tomes and Talismans.

Melissa- I too am looking for the show where the narrator would draw with chalk while reading to us from the book!!

This was posteda while ago and I remember the show but cant find the name:

Does anyone remember a tv show from the early 80's. Im pretty sure it was a brother and sister (this was not a cartoon) and they went under a ocean or a lake through jelly like consistancy tunnels. they were chased by giant slugs or worms or something and the sister had a red glowing stone and the boy had a blue glowing stone. In one episode the boy dropped his stone and it stopped glowing at a crucial moment. Im going out of my freaking mind trying to remember this one!!! I think it was british. Thanks!

Its driving me CRAZY!!!!!! Anyone help? It was shown on ITV I think and I think the aliens (seaweed type creatures) posed as real people living in the village. They would melt into their alien form!!! Any help please?

I remember Bixby and Me! I watched it all the time as a kid. The theme song started off "It's Bixby and me, we live in a tree..." Of course his catch phrase was "Bixby says, reeelax!" He was a bossy cat.

KELLY!

the show you're after is 'Out Of This World'. It's been mentioned on here a few times, but it's easy to miss stuff if you're going by description alone.

stuff about the show is here: http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/575-out-of-this-world/

anyone know a cartoon with a little kid that floated around in a teacup?

OK. Here are some I've been thinking about for years. First one up. There was a show or t.v. movie that was about a man who was struck by lightening while changing his tire. He got this special power from it allowing him to shoot electricity but he had to where a special wristwatch to keep him powered-no this is not Mathew Star. Second one, does anyone remeber the show from the 70's called, 'Bigfoot and Wild Boy?' And thirdly. There was a t.v. movie where this indian boy who had a wierd tattoo around his eyes got lost and was befriended by another young boy and his family. I remeber a scene where some kids were playing baseball and the indian boy was walking on the outside of the field and the ball came to him. When he got it, he threw it back and it went so far that the coach was calling for him to come, but he and the his friend ran away from him. I think the Indian boy was being chased by some group. Any how, this site is cool. Lots of old memories. Especially that show, 'Quark.' I didn't think anyone remembered that one.

ok, to the person looking for the show that had the two cops in that were secretly husband and wife, that was called, 'Macgruder and Loude' spelling I'm sure is wrong. Secondly, Gary gnu is from, 'The great space Coaster.' and I remember that show about the girl ghost. I remember the boy had to go to a well and found a doll that belonged to her half way down or something like that.

I am confused about the space garbage ship show. Is it quark or is it salvage 1?

Vinnie: 'Quark' was the comedy about a space garbage ship.

Here is a cool one. Remember the show that came on after, 'The six million dollar man' called, 'project bluebook,' or 'project u.f.o.' it was about two air force officers that investigated ufo sightings. I loved that one. Also one that came out in 1989 called, "Aupair" about an Australian girl coming to America to be an aupair for a family. It was a sitcom that didn't last, the girl was really cute. Also, what show had the lemon headed puppet alien on it on Sunday mornings. That thing scared me. I think it was on Gigglesnort but I am not sure.

Tales from the Darkside kicked ass, but remember MONSTERS. that one was like it but was also really cool. FAME was a great series, wish they would bring that one back.

If anyone can help, it would be appreciated.
I'm trying to remember a show from the 70's(74 or there after)
It was on in the daytime. It had like a vampire or dracula character.
It was not the munsters or creature feature....
It was like a kids show and all I can really remember is this vampire/dracula going into a basement and there was a coffin?
It's so frustrating that I can't remember!

Yeah I remember that Dracula show.
I think it was on the Gigglesnort hotel.

Posted by: Brian at August 10, 2006 7:55 AM

I just found your site and I'm hoping you can help me...I used to watch this TV show on Saturday mornings in the early 80's and this is what I remember: It's about a single man who drives and old-fashioned checkered cab for a living, and he receives a package one day which turns out to be this robot/alien who looks a lot like a vacuum cleaner with the hoses for limbs, etc. In the guy's apartment, he sleeps on a Murphy bed, which always slams shut with him still on the bed (in basically every episode). At the end of every episode, the robot/alien talks to his parents (who are still back on the planet he comes from) via a TV screen in his torso that he can turn on & where he plays back video of their day's adventures, and he tells them what lessons, etc. he's learned that day. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Just bumping it, cause I'd like to know the same thing!!!

Hello all! This is such a fun and cool site. Ahhh, the memories! What a way to pass the day... Lisa, I don't remember it as a kids show, could it be "Dark Shadows"? The Dracula's name was Barnabus Collins I think... Does anyone remember an early 80's (late 70's??) action TV movie or show about a group of guys and a girl (or two??) that had to do something with solving crimes and high performance vehicles? They had a yellow sleek racecar called "The Spider" (I think??) that looked kind of like a Lamborghini or Ferrari (more like Hardcastle & Mcormicks red Coyote) in what might have been the pilot episode. I think it was on ABC but I may be wrong. For some reason I remember "The High Performance Racing Team" as the show's name, but I get nothing on searches.

Hello again everyone! I have better information about my post above. This show I am trying to remember was a primetime show (or a TV movie??) in the early to mid 80's. It was action-adventure involving a group of guys and a girl (or two??) that had to do something with solving crimes (I think??) and high performance vehicles. They had a yellow sleek racecar called "The Spider" (I think??) that looked kind of like a Lamborghini or Ferrari (more like Hardcastle & McCormick's red Coyote) in what might have been the pilot episode. I think they might have built it as part of the storyline. I know that "The High Performance Racing Team" has to have something to do with it because I actually found a dated drawing I did of the car with that name in the title of the paper along with the name of the car "The Spider". I remember talking about it with my friends the next day and we all were drawing it in class. We couldn't stop talking about the show back then and now we vaguely remember it. But I have PROOF!!!! LOL Thanks to you all in advance for any help!

Hi all, Racking my brain on a show cant remember if it was a pilot or not but it was seems around 70's it was about a group of sciencetests that were trying to figgure out a very complicated computer program that they were given or stumbled on but it actually was suppose to belong to an android that was suppose to protect the world and if i remember correctly he was the last.

PLEASE, if you find the tape (which I would like to buy a copy of) or even just remember the title, I would be beyond greatfull ! Preston is not the only person who saw this show as a kid, & I would greatly love to be able to track it down : )

To Preston Janney,
You're not nuts. I used to love the early 70'S show about the crime solving rock band called "Moon" or "Full Moon". I remember the male singer having really long blonde hair and the theme song going "Don't be afraid of the dark - there's a full moon out tonight..." I was about 13 when it came on and I used to record the songs off of my TV. I think I still have a tape somewhere. That's about all I can remember. That show is the reason I'm on this site. Good luck.
Jimmi Blue

I am trying to help my fiance figure out the name of a show HE remembers watching in the 80's...live action Saturday Morning show with a young man and a robot and they would go on field trips in a VW Beetle? Any ideas?

Ok, folks, here's a stumper.

Late 70s, early 80s. A sci-fi TV series, mini-series, or tv movie.

I have very vague recollection, but I recall two things. A beautiful blonde woman dressed in flowing white robes thrown into a pit of fire (I was crushed when this happened!) And a giant dark brown brain floating in a vat, that could talk. The brain, not the vat.

The show/series/movie-thing was popular enough to have trading cards put out for it.

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER A SHOW ABOUT AN OLD MAN AND A TALKING DOG SITTING NEXT TO A FIREPLACE, AND THEY TOLD STORIES ABOUT MAGIC PLACES. EVERY DAY WAS A DIFFERENT STORY. ONE OF THE STORIES WAS A YOUNG MAN HAD TO GET THE GOLDEN FETHER OF THIS BIG BIRD IN ORDER FOR HIM TO MARRY THE KINGS DAUGHTER. ANOTHER STORY WAS AN EVEL WOMAN MARRIED A KING AND AFTER KILLING HIM, SHE TRANSFORMED THE KING'S SONS INTO RAVENS AND THE KING'S DAUGHTER RUN AWAY, BUT SHE WASN'T SUPPOST TO TALK, BECAUSE IF SHE DID HER BROTHER WILL NEVER BECOME HUMANS AGAIN.PLEASE IF SOMEBODY REMEMBER THE NAME I'LL REALLY APPRECIATED.

Does anyone remember the kids show (PBS I believe) that had the puppet kids with human hands that rode around the galaxy in their treehouse spaceship? I'm going nuts trying to think of it. Thanks!

Does anyone remember the kids show (PBS I believe) that had the puppet kids with human hands that rode around the galaxy in their treehouse spaceship? I'm going nuts trying to think of it. Thanks!

Chris, the show with the old man (John Hurt) telling stories to his dog was the "Storyteller" from Jim Hensons creature workshop.

Hi Lili and Chris, I've been going crazy too trying to remember the name of the show with the puppets that turned their treehouse into a spaceship. I loved that show. At first I thought it was a flying windmill but now I remember it was a treehouse. Remember the show Hot Fudge?

soo, whats goin on w/the 1976 KNBC children's show THAT's CAT??? this here site came up in a search, can someone give me the lo-down, dear internet gods, if i ever needed you it was to find this show!

Hi, does anyone remember an 80's(possibly early 90's) cartoon where there were guys who could jump in some vat and turn invisible. I think they're vehicles could turn invisible too. The action figures may have been clear. It was a boys show most likely, with a G.I. Joe vibe possibly. I can't remember the title, only watching it as a kid.

Also they're was a Nickelodeon channel show about a mannequin that came to life in a department store with muppets/puppet characters too. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Good evening skillz, the show about the mannequin coming to life in the department store is called "Today's Special". Remember if his hat was ever removed he would become a mannequin again? Also if he were to step outside the department store (regardless if he had his hat on or not) he would turn back into a mannequin as well. Only once he was actually able to leave the department store by means of some sort of magic.

Thank you very much Wayne:D

Does anyone remember a canadian tv show that was like a news type show? It was a weekly series I think in the 80's and there were 2 characters who worked together and were involved with each other. The female character had red hair and the guy she was involved with was a cameraman. I remember seeing the female character on ER at one point but I can't remember her name. Thanks!

Posted by: anne k at June 5, 2007 1:51 PM

This was posteda while ago and I remember the show but cant find the name:

Does anyone remember a tv show from the early 80's. Im pretty sure it was a brother and sister (this was not a cartoon) and they went under a ocean or a lake through jelly like consistancy tunnels. they were chased by giant slugs or worms or something and the sister had a red glowing stone and the boy had a blue glowing stone. In one episode the boy dropped his stone and it stopped glowing at a crucial moment. Im going out of my freaking mind trying to remember this one!!! I think it was british. Thanks!

Its driving me CRAZY!!!!!! Anyone help? It was shown on ITV I think and I think the aliens (seaweed type creatures) posed as real people living in the village. They would melt into their alien form!!! Any help please?

This was a New Zealand Show called "Under the Mountain"

who recalls a 70's show that featured a steamboat on the opening theme? There was a blond girl with ponytails, I believe. What the hell was that show called?

Does anyone recall a children's show based on a Japanese boy "Gam"? and his family who turn into gold jets to fight "Goldar"? I remember watching it in the late 70's early 80's.

does anyone PLEASE remember a show that was on in the 60's it was a musical and the hosts were greasers this is going to drive me wacko lol
Laura

From the 80s, can anyone remember this?
I only remember the opening sequence to this show: A bunch of bubbly lights moving quickly through a forest at night, and swirl around until they come up to the camera and the name of the show is revealed. I remember it came on at night and I think it was a "Outer limits" type anthology show, with each episode a new story, maybe mysteries or paranormal.

LILI, CHRIS and WAYNE
I'm pretty sure the show you're looking for is "vegetable soup" which at times had stories about puppet kids and spaceship. Ran on PBS in the late 70s.

Good evening Michelle, the show are you talking about is The Space Giants about people turning into jets. Check out this clip and others from you tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flGn7l1ELfg

Hi Lissa, thank you!!!!

Yes, I found it on you tube thanks to Lissa telling me the name. The name of the spaceship is Outerscope 1 (the spaceship that the puppets built by converting their treehouse).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69VSZ9rV7ao

Good evening Michelle, the show with the people that can change into jets is called "The Space Giants". You can go to you tube and they have clips there.

Sincerely,
Wayne

Somebody mentioned a show about mice. I think it was capital critters (with the doogy howser actor)

Questions about 2 Shows:

1. I think it was a PBS show from the 70's where kids are stuck in a spaceship with a woman in bell bottoms and they all read together. I watched it in elementary school.

2. A man draws pictures of the story as the story is told. Probably also a PBS kids show.

Thanks!

Hello. I used to watch this show when i was in maybe 2nd grade. Which was about 1986 i guess? Anyway, the show was on PBS or a like channel i think. It involved storytelling with real-time artwork done in either cray-pas or chalk. It was basically a dude who told a story as you watched the hand of the artist create pitctures that correalated with the narration. Does that make enough sense? Any help is much appreciated! Stay well.
Best,
Aaron Staats

Chris,
The show you are talking about with the dog and the man sitting by the fire is The Storyteller by Jim Henson.

Do you recall a show, probably from the late 70s or early 80s, in which one episode a guy is trying to escape a robot and he tricks it into walking into a puddle that he's electified? It causes the robot to short circuit. I just remember that he's in some corridor and the robot is chasing after him.

Thanks !

One more that's been driving me crazy: it was a show from Japan in the early 70s in which aliens are trying to take over the Earth. The aliens fall to Earth from space as globs that look like tar, then turn into humanoid-looking creatures and chase after people?

Thanks !

Tim - the one with the kids in the underground library is called Tomes and Talismans. You can find it on Youtube. After searching for a long time, I found that it was posted not long ago to Youtube.

Sorry Gabby - the comment for the underground library was for you! It is called Tomes and Talismans, and you can find the whole series on Youtube.

Larry - the show with the aircraft carrier that had the laser canon was called Starblazers.

Hi Aaron, that is EXACTLY the show I am talking about (the guy drawing in real time as the story goes along). Do you remember what it was called? Thank you!!
Lisa

Hey monica your character you are looking for sounds like .....John "Johnny B" Bukowski, a rock musician who gained freak electrical powers when he was caught in an accident with a set of amplifiers. He uncontrollably absorbed electricity and could fire it as lightning bolts or channel it into super-speed, but water caused him to short circuit, burning him with potentially fatal results and forcing him to retire as a musician ....... he was one of the characters out of misfits of science which aired in 1985 - 1986 he wore a watch which told him how much "juice" he had left before he needed to charge up was a good series hope that helps a bit

whoops read wrong name that should be for glen

I think I'm looking for the name of a cartoon. It's about a young girl who has a necklace. I believe her mother died. When she touched the necklace, it would send her through a portal and on the other side was a horse that waited for her. I don't remember the color of the horse and I think the portal was kind of an oval shape. Any help would be WONDERFUL!!!

Hi - I was wondering if anyone remembers a 70's cartoon in which there were 3 characters and a master computer which could project itself into a futuristic looking white-ish "head". I know there was 2 guys and a girl and the computer and I think it was a traveling ship the computer was in. The 3 had different powers. I also believe it was quantum something in the title, but I dont know if it was quantum leap or quantum 4 or maybe I'm completely wrong with the title.

Thanks!

My brother and sisters and I remember a theme from an early show (my brother and sisters think it was a cartoon...but...I can assure you ..it was a tv show) it went like this:
A scientist..both wise and bold....set out to cure the common cold. Instead he found a power pill that he said....most certainly will: Turn a lamb into a lion, like an eagle he'll be flying! Solid steel would be like putty! It would work on anybody! (music-da da da da da...da da...da ...da da da)

( and here is where I scored extra points! The second verse!)
But what they found made them squeemish. For only Stanley Beemish (?)...a meek and mild daffodil...could take the power pill that would...Turn a lamb into a lion, like an eagle he'll be flying! Solid steel would be like putty! It would work on anybody!

After my bro and sis's sang the theme to me...they asked me the name of the show. Sadly..I didnt know. Then I asked for the answer and my sister told me it was Tom Terrific..which I KNOW is incorrect...since THAT was a cartoon.
Can you help me with the name of this show...it came on in the early evening.
Thank you SO much for your help.
Russ Hayden

OK!!!! Found it! The show was called Mr. Terrific and it aired from January to August...1967! Thanks goes out to askmrpophistory for the answer! Kudos Mr. History!

SCARY COMMERCIAL: It begins with a mother in a kitchen when she feels as if her child is in danger, then it cuts to a man in a cabin. a light comes under the door and an Alien appears. the commercial ends with an invitation that goes somewhat like this "If you have ever felt or seen things like this....:" There is a big pyramid at the end of the commercial.. I would love ya forever if anyone could tell me where I can find that commercial, better yet what the commercial was for. It was around 1983-1987.

Hi, i'm looking for the names of two shows.
One of them was about twins - a boy and a girl who were separated after their birth. They had visions about the other one from time to time, and what i remember is that each of them had a ring with the In and Yan symbols. At the end they met at some party in a watch tower, and they combined their rings in one...Hope that helps :) I think it was a bbc production...

The other one i barely remember. All i can recall is something about an android butler who had another eye on the back of his head...they were flying on some guitar cases and so on...help if you can, the names of these shows are killing me for years :)

K, i just got the name of the first one - The Gemini Factor. The show was actually good...or at least i liked it back then.

The show was asian either chinese or japanese . It was on the air in the 80's. The main character was a guy who looked like a monkey and his friend would turn or look like a pig when he missbehaved and they would always fight (martial arts) amongs each other. The setting of the program was in a small vilage. It was a funny show. I'm trying very hard to remember some other details but i cant. I really want to find out the name of this show. Your input is greatly appreciated. Thank You.

Does anyone remember the TV show, I think it was on PBS where there was a guy with a bushy beard who told stories while drawing them in cray-pas?

This might be a tricky one (or a blatantly obvious one, depending on just how keen you guys are on early children's programming). It aired in late 80's (early 90's maybe?) and each episode started with a live-action segment of a very friendly-looking guy sitting on a log (with a guitar? maybe?) and he'd introduce a variety of sketches/skits/shorts/whatever. If I recall correctly, the name of the show was just the name of the guy himself.

It made such an impact on me when I was a kid, and yet I can't remember the name of it for the life of me.

"FRED PENNER'S PLACE!"

I just had to scroll up a year's worth of posts to find something resembling it, and then I pieced it together from there!

Ohmigod, I'm in such a cheery mood right now. This brings back some warm memories!

This site is a freakin' godsend, keep up the good work, guys!

CARFIXER1, the show was Neon Rider starring Winston Rekert from Adderly, great show.

Does anyone remember a 70's or 80's show with kids in a train that travel thru a rainbow? The magic rainbow maybe?

STORYLORDS was the children's show on PBS during which the main character would hop on an exercise bike and put on a magic pair of gloves to travel to some other land to defeat the evil Thorzuul and his sidekick Milkbreath who road around on a motorcycle with a sidecar.

AARON, your question about the 80s PBS children's show where a man drew pictures of a story as it was read is called "Read it with John Robbins" or possibly "Cover to Cover"

Does anyone remember a canadian tv show that was like a news type show? It was a weekly series I think in the 80's and there were 2 characters who worked together and were involved with each other. The female character had red hair and the guy she was involved with was a cameraman. I remember seeing the female character on ER recently at one point but I can't remember her name. Thanks!

I'm desperate here and no one else remembers this show. It was on nickelodeon in the early 80's. There were maybe 4 or 5 people in different colored unitards who would sing and improvise little skits/lessons. The set was just a stage with some platforms on it. I might possibly go crazy if I don't figure it out. It's been a curse of mine for years. Please help.

Hi folks, now I remember in probably 83-85 a show on Cable TV that was about a girl who was in a haunted castle. It did not appear to be a series but seeing it again would take me back. It had musical parts and specifically I remember a scene where they were bowling with a skull on animated skeleton pins.

If anyone can help me out with this, I'd love to see if anyone else can pinpoint this errant memory.

Thanks

I'm looking for the name of a sci-fi series from the 70s or 80s. In one episode, one of the main charscters, a teenage boy, is kidnapped. The other characters find him in a room with several other boys. They are all hooked up to EKG-like machines and locked in individual glass boxes with just boxer shorts on. In another episode, alien bubbles invade the clothing at the store. I don't remember the conection of the store to the series storyline. It might have been owned and operated by a main character or 2. Anyways, whenever someone puts on the possessed clothing, they become possessed. Other than all that, I don't remember anything else. Does anyone recognize the show?

ok, i have a question that needs to be answered cuz its driving me potty!! two kids befriend two other kids who turn out to be ghosts that died in a fire like a hundred years ago or something, set in a big house with lots of gardens? any ideas any1?

Angelique,

Thanks so much! You're right on both counts. I tracked down a bio of the show on tv.com. Various titles given were: readit, the book bird, cover to cover, and storybound. So glad i finally have a title to put to my foggy recollection. searching around for it has been a little anti-climactic though...youtube got nothin [which was surprising kinda], couldn't find anything on amazon, and google didn't even have any images that came up? Whatever, some day i f#$*!%@ track this ish down! Hope this helps you out some lisa...good luck and stay well. Hit me up if you find some acutal footage! peace
-Aaron

oh whoops,
meant to direct this post straight to you lissa. man, i wish i could just watch that frckn show again right this frckn minute without having to go around to every every place to get at it!...crackits

aaron and lisa, holy crap. i was camping this weekend and was attempting to ask my girlfriend if she knew the show with the guy reading while it was drawn. today i found this website and you guys are asking the same questions at the same time. ha! the world is one wacky place.
i can remember 2 shows like that. one with the mustached fellow who drew it himself (i think that was the john robbins that angelique mentioned.) the other was a guy with glasses and a darker voice. he had a woman doing the drawings for him. hmm..maybe that was cover to cover.
either way, it's cool to know i'm not the only mental one out there with a foggy memory of his favorite childhood shows.
peace

I was wondering if anyone knows of a show in the 80's where a guy would narrate a story while he drew it out. I think it was on PBS.

OK Gang, here is a stumper (but maybe not!):

I remember late 70s - early 80s (not sure of exact year) a short lived Sci-Fi show on either PBS or BBC. I do remember it would be on in the evening (EST) and would usually precede Dr. Who. (the eps starring Tom Baker).

PREMISE: Brother & Sister, around 12 yrs old, had crystals in the palms of their hands, one had red one had blue. The were always being chased by "bad guys", who were easily identified by the fact that they ran with their arms straight down at their sides. I don't remember if they were English or Canadian or what, definitely not filmed in the US.

Everyone thinks I am nuts. Can anyone help me?

:) muh^shell

If you want a show to bring back memories, try Hardcastle and McCormick! If you want one with a name that escapes most people but most people remember the characters, try the one with Mr. Turtle and he would go thru time and get in trouble but always learned a lesson. It was on with another show about a roman that would tell parables to his son and they would debate the moral at the end.

Can anybody out there. Help me out. I'm searching for an early 80's TV show, about a middle class black family. It was years before the Cosby show aired. I thought it was called Up & Coming.

Good morning people. I seem to have found the right place to ask about what I need. Mainly, I remeber reading a story about a young boy who discovered that an alien being from another dimension was renting a room in his house. The boy found out about him by looking thru some colored glass. Cut to the chase: the boy cut him open, found these weird internal organs, and stuffed him with silver dimes. I read the story in a Sci-fi collection of short stories during the '60's/'70's. If anyone knows the story or the title, please e-mail me and let me know.Mahalo, gracias and thank you. V.

Dave who posted on March 31, 2004 - an answer for you at last! The series you referenced was called "My World and Welcome To It", based on the cartoons and humor by James Thurber. The main character was played by William Windom, and his daughter was the same girl that played Bess, Phyllis' daughter, in The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

April Fools - I meant to address my previous comment to Dawn who posted on 1 April 2004 - sorry!

To Mike who posted on May 26, 2005: No, you're not dreaming, that was a made-for-TV movie called "The Enormous Egg", based on the book written by Oliver Butterworth. I remember that one very well!

Yes, that series was called "The Friendly Giant" and the theme tune is an English folk song called "Early One Morning?.

Anybody remember a kids show from the 70's (I think) where the narrator was a kindly old guy dressed like a farmer, and the set was this little model town or farm or something, so he was a giant compared to the set. I remember at the end of the show he would say "Look up... Waaaay up", and the camera would pan up to the guy. The theme song was a classical piece - Bach, I think. "The Friendly Giant" maybe?

Posted by: loogie at April 12, 2006 8:34 PM

Julia: Please e-mail me at cdawson321@milwpc.com. I dearly loved the "Childrens International Film Festival"! Remember the one about the two little Japanese boys called "Skinny and Fatty"? And I can directly trace my love of foreign cinema to the time they showed "The Red Balloon" on that program.

Anyone remember the "Childrens International film Festival" (With Kukla, fran and Ollie)? I would like to get those tapes too.
Julia

Sherree and Messym: I believe the program you reference is "The Halloween That Almost Wasn't", with Judd Hirsch playing Count Dracula.

I am looking for an OLD tv show for kids.....

There was a show on TV in the 70's/80's...it was kinda weird with a witch and werewolf and other characters (not animated) It was a kids show,funny and spooky at the same time.... and I don't remember a whole lot about it, but it was shot in scenes and not continuous. Any help would be great...thanks
Sheree
Posted by: SHEREE at February 2, 2006 5:06 PM

I am looking for a show that I saw as a kid one Halloween night; I think on PBS (Channel 12 or 21 in NYC). It was a comedic kids show that featured Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolfman all living in a house. It seemed as a one-off special as opposed to a series.

Posted by: messym at October 24, 2006 11:51 AM

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THAT OLD SHOW ABOUT A GIRL WITH A BLUE OUTFIT THAT HAD A FUZZY PET THING AND A HORSE WITH A STAR ON ITS HEAD?? SHE LIKED AND DRESSED LIKE A RAINBOW A LOT. SHE WAS BLONDE. PLLLEEAASSEE HELP ME OUT WITH THIS. ITS BEEN DRIVING ME UP THE WALL LATELY.

Anyone remember a programme I think early 80's about two kids with magical necklaces, may have been brother and sister, being continuously chased by mud people or mud men...thats about all I can remember

oh and Mimi...I searched the internet for you and I think the cartoon was called Rainbow Brite...although it wasn;t something I watched :o)

Alright, here is a tough one.

There was a movie I watched maybe between late 80s to early 90s. This SciFi movie had a guy who had this case / I don't know what it was (but it was really small) allowing him to put on this suit (like the Guyver) and have a really awesome supercar appear.

He would drive this car against people, and at the end of the race, his opponent would die somehow; like in a fiery wreck.

At the end of the movie (after killing everyone he wanted), he gives the case to this loser type guy who takes over the power of being able to control the supercar. He runs off with some girl or something (???).

I can't even remember the whole plot for this movie, but I can't remember any other movie like it.

I know these details are kind of sketchy, but I can't think of any other movie letting a guy put use some device to put on a supersuit and have a supercar appear so he can race some punks and make them die.

Damn my memory sucks. I just remember the car and suit looking almost completely black, and the car would appear out of a fog on top of a hill type thing between some trees.

EDIT: The movie is NOT the TV series Automan.

OK,THIS IS DRIVING ME NUTS. IN THE EARLY 90'S THERE WAS A KIDS SHOW WITH A DRAGON IN IT, AND THE THEME SONG WENT "NORTH AND SOUTH, EAST AND WEST THE QUEST TO SAVE THE LIVES OF PANAMA".... DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT?? IF SO WHAT'S IT CALLED???

I'm trying to remember a show either in late 70's or early early 80's.. It was a science show for kids and it featured a guy wearing a flesh covered leotard with muscles and the vascular system painted on...nowadays that show wouldn't be allowed but back then it was educational... Thanks

What was the old tv program that a doctor lived in an old rv called the "titanic" in the hospital parking lot?

cristina
the show you asked about with the doctor who lived in an old rv was called "Trapper John MD"

Does anyone remember a show, i think it was on PBS, about two kids, a brother and a sister, that had an amulet that would transport them to like a puppet world. And there was a bad guy that was a puppet with no body with a side-kick. I just have an image of this body-less puppet and that's all. But the two kids were always wearing this big amulet around their necks. The bad guy might have even been trying to capture the kids so he could get the amulet back, or something. Please help me. I need to know for sanity sake!

I AM GOING CRAZY!!! I am trying to remember this TV show and no one seems to remember it but me...was I dreaming this or something??? OK so all I remember is it was a live action show about a little girl who either was from outerspace or the future or just had a parent who was an alien because she would talk to her father (I think) at night and it was like a hollagram type deal. also in the opening credits it shows the mom type figure with a pitcher of orange juice and she trips and it almost stpills but the little girl like stops time and prevents it from falling...does this sound familiar to anyone or am I nuts? someone please help me...this has turned into my life's mission and I cannot go on until I have found out what show this is...thankyou- Sasha

If anyone has remembered since the previous posting what this series is, please tell me! I watched it in middle school and for the past few days, it's been driving me nuts trying to track it down.

"This series was around in the late 80's and was played in school. The show involved a librarian who drove around in a bookmobile and was constantly trying to avoid some sort of enemy that was trying to destroy all books and or knowledge on the planet. The enemies were named the watchers? or somthing along those lines. It was sort of an educational series play for a school library class. Any clues?


Posted by: Mike at January 15, 2006 12:38 AM"

Sasha, the show you are thinking of is called "Out of This World". I too loved it.

Sasha, the show you are thinking of was called "Out of This World". It was awesome, totally awesome.

Does anyone remember the show (may or may not have been on Nickelodeon) that was on after the year 1988 where there was a girl and for most of the show she was walking in the snow (she might've lost her mother, idk).

OH MY GOSH JAN AND KGROW I LOVE YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

hey...does anyone remember a show from the 70's called turtle soup?...i dont remember much about it but it had a turtle who wore a chef's hat...

Brandon at February 21, 2006 10:39 AM

The show was the Secret Land of Og :)

BTW, I'm still looking for someone to confirm that Honey Honey was the show about the girl with the rose birthmark on her foot.
http://www.enokifilmsusa.com/library/honey.htm

thank you

There are two shows I have been looking for.

One was an old children's show from the 70's or 80's. It was a show that had a host who played several monster characters; Dracula, wolfman, a witch. The scene I keep remembering was an introduction to a segment of the witch who I think would give advice or read fanmail. There were five or six notes in the theme which would play then the witch would cackle a couple of times followed by the notes again. Usually each of the characters would be critizing what the other characters were doing and there were cartoons and movie shorts shown as well. It was either on in the afternoon or on Saturday mornings.

The other show was from the early to mid 60's. It was a music variety show - probably a half hour. It was sort of a cross between Conan O'Brien and American Bandstand. It was on weekdays around 5:00 or 5:30 on ABC. The host was a guy maybe in his mid to late thirties and always had a group of young teens on. What I remember about this show is two segments. One where he read the warped version of Cinderella that can be found on the net called Rindercella where letters are switched around. The other is the host singing about "little kids" appearing shorter next to the teens in the cast by kneeling into a pair of shoes while he was singing. This one may have only been a show on the local channel in Buffalo, New York.

I'm so glad I just found this site. Thank you for bringing back memories of shows I used to watch before my parents moved the family out of the states for several years. These questions may be too easy for you all, after reading about the obscure shows you recall so clearly, but I have three to ask about.

1) When I was really little (late 70's or early 80's) I watched a great TV show (on PBS maybe?)show but the only thing a remember about it is a red tricycle that moved, on it's own, toward an old fashioned shop. The shop keeper was a grandfatherly fellow. That's all I remember.

2)Does anyone remember a movie from the 80's, maybe B movie, called something like "BMX Bandits"? There were two kids (one looked like a young Nicole Kidman) and one boy, with Australian accents I believe, that evaded "bad guys" on their BMX bikes.

3) I remember a movie from the mid 80's that had a large group of people that divided into teams, team yellow, blue, red, etc. They piled into various van, trucks, cars and went on a scavenger hunt. There is a movie called "Scavenger Hunt" or "Treasure Hunt" but that's not the one.

Sorry, not much to go on, but I would appreciate your help!

Ok, I'm not crazy, "BMX Bandits" was released in Australia December 22, 1983 and does star Nicole Kidman. It was written by Patrick Edgeworth and Russell Hagg.

One down, now, if I could just remember the name of the other two!

Oh my goodness, this is to reply to Thinker about the tv show Up & Coming. I remember this show. It was 2 sisters and they had a brother. I remember I believe the youngest was always in the studio singing, I really recall her singing "oob baby baby" one day in the studio (Smokey Robinson's song) This is soooo funny. This is why I was on the internet today looking for this show too. Post a message back or email me if you find it. luvtuff143@yahoo.com

NBC, 80's, Western based in the future or the main character dressed as if in a Western movie. I believe he had the ability to time travel. Only a couple of shows. Need some help...

The movie about the scavenger hunt I had in mind is called "Midnight Madness". It was made in 1980 by Disney and was the 2nd Disney movie to receive a PG rating. Supposedly, this was Michael J Fox's first film role. It also starred:
Brad Wilkin,
Brian Frishman,
Debra Clinger,
Eddie Deezen (He played Mandark on "Dexter's Laboratory"),
Maggie Roswell (Part of "The Simpsons" cast),
David Naughton (He played David Kessler in "An American Werewolf in London"),
Stephen Furst (He played Flounder in "Animal House"),
Andy Tennant (future director of "Hitch", "Everafter", and many other films and TV shows).

does anyone have any info on that old t.v. show where it has the horse starlight, and a girl, and a fuzzy thing. i was a kid and loved to watch it, but obviously i am got the re-runs, as it was in the 1990's
this is the picture:

unico_02.tripod.com/images/horsing.jpg

thanks to any help.

Hopefully someone remembers this show and can tell me the title. It starred a young(12 or 13 yr old) nerdy kid(could have worn glasses) that was a Private Investigator or something like that and a man on a motorcycle would come and give him his orders. I want to say it was in the late 80's early 90's and WAS NOT "Beans Baxter" or "My Secret Identity." Anyone have any ideas email me Shockerj616@yahoo.com

Thanks

Wow, this is a goldmine of information so hopefully someone can help me with these two shows. I've just read the whole thread and I really don't think either have been mentioned yet - I've already checked any shows that seemed similar.

1. An American (Canadian?) show, late 80s/early 90s - around the same time as Out of this World, live-action. It was about Snow White (or similar character) who had married Prince Charming and now lived in suburbia. They had a fairly generic nosy neighbour and her husband. The only thing I remember clearly is in one episode the neighbour lost her voice and she had boards with comments on them an dat one point she's asked if she has a board for everything, answering yes, she's asked the names of Columbus's three ships, which she promptly reveals on the next three boards.

2. I think this was an English show - there was certainly one English female character, late 80s (maybe very early 90s), live-action. It was set in a high school but with a vampire, frankenstein, werewolf and others like that - in a very similar vein to The Munsters (but not that). It's definitely not Hilarious House of Frightenstein. My memory is very hazy on this - I don't even know if this was the show or a fantasy segement in something else and I've never met anyone who even vaguely remembers it.

Any help would be so gratefully appreciated.
Clairinova

Ok, so I think I've found the first one - The Charmings? However I can't find any pictures of it so it's hard to know if this is the right show or not.

The second one is as much a mystery as ever - I should say it was a children's show, on CBBC or CITV (in UK/Ireland), and I increasingly sure it was in the 1980s, sometime after 1986 is my best guess. This has been torturing me for at least a decade - please offer any ideas.
It's 3am where I am and this is driving me insane!!! Cheers c

PRESTON JANNEY, JIMMI BLUE and WAYLIN...

Trying to track down that television series about the rock band has been driving nuts! I was beginning to wonder if I'd imagined it. All I could ever remember definitely was bits of the theme song. If any of you can run it down, I'd reallllly appreciate hearing about it.

Does anyone remember a US childrens show from the 70's that had a character by the name of Mr. Purplejuice.?

...o.k. ready?....late 70's/early 80's-Canadian Variety Entertainment show---thought it was "CIRCUS"
but maybe it was just because the two hosts, both attractive brunettes (guy & chick),wore ringmaster suits to open it. I think her name was Cherise? Very much a Canadian version of Donny & Marie.....I am quite certain this was not a figment of my imagination (and my Mom recalls it, as well.)(plus we only had two channels in bumfart nowhere).....oh, please someone .help.
thank you kindly.

PRESTON JANNEY, JIMMI BLUE and WAYLIN

Update:

Thank God for friends who can uncover treasure online!

Okay...this is the deal. It wasn't a 'series' on tv, it was one of those 'movie of the week' type things on ABC's Wide? Wild? World of Entertainment.

There were 2 movies. 'Song of the Succubus' and 'Rock-A-Die, Baby.' The long hair hottie's name was Kim Milford. If you Google his name you'll see he has some impressive stage creds including Rocky Horror and Jesus Christ Superstar. Sadly, Kim died in 1988 of complications following open heart surgery. He was 37. It was his band, Moon, who performed in both movies playing his own songs. He also was a lead singer in the Jeff Beck Group. There's a couple pictures of him onstage during Rocky Horror at www.rockymusic.org/tags/Kim+Milford.php plus a song bite of him singing Sword of Damocles. I found some movie info for both movies on allmovies, unfortunately, I guess because they were made for tv movies they're not available to buy. If anyone comes up with more info, or has song/movie tapes they'd be willing to sell or share, please email me at starscr292@aol.com.

anyone remember a house that was under seige in the middle of no where.. someone who looks like eric pollard from emmerdale was in it as one of the main characters... help.. been bugging me

That's not a lot to go on, jules. Do you have any other information? Was it a movie or a television program? I know the movie "Dog Soldiers" has that scenario, but I think you'd remember the werewolves :))

Does anyone remember a show, 70's-80's, I thought it came on Saturday mornings. It was this old vampire guy who got out of the coffin and played really bad scary movies? I remember him being old and not really trying to be too scary, maybe more comical than scary?

still need help with Mr Purple juice a bit more info......
It was more of the Saturday morning type of show, I think it was animated, very similar to shows like "The Electric Company" "Sesame Street" etc. I remember that the sound effect that played when Mr Purplejuice came on was based on the "wah wah" sound you hear ringing in your ear when you get Nitrous at the dentist office, and the visuals were similarly based on that as well. I think Mr. Purplejuice had a "pet" that was a living purple grape. Thats about the best I can remember right now. It was 30+ years in the past.

Michele. you may be thinking of sir graves gastley it was broadcast from a Detroit station.

Ok, the Sir Graves Gastley was so close. Back then, I was in the philly suburb area. It was an old guy, dressed like a vampire. He entered some creepy lab kind of place and introduced scary movies, the old type like Dracula and the Werewolf. The Sir Gastley site has a lot of links though, so I think I'll look around a bit. But if anyone else from the philly area remembers it, let me know. Pretty sure it was early Saturday or Sunday mornings.

Hi there was a Christmas program that came on in the 80's on PBS about a family whose father hated Christmas, and his family wanted to celebrate Christmas. So his wife and kids put up a tree, and he said he was going to throw it out. His wife told him if he did she would leave him. So he threw it out and she did, then he changed his ways and ended up putting up a new tree. Does anyone know the name of this?

Does anyone remember a show that had 2 undercover cops on it,one rode a motorcycle. in one of the first episodes he shot his partner on the ass.the one that rode a motorcycle always wore a long leather coat carried a shotgun underneath it. his partner was a older bald guy, in the bald partners house he had a pool table and a jukebox in it. both guys were single.

Does anyone remember a show..It was about a bunch of kids that took over a t.v. station or something and they used to do like music videos and stuff. I remember the intro was like them setting up the studio and putting tapes in and such..its been driving me crazy
Please tell me someone other then me remembers it lol

Hey nvm I figgured it out it was called
Kid Songs

About a group of kids who take over an abandoned tv station

ok ...

first, some things i remember fondly:

Getting Terrified spying on my parents watching Night Gallery (Rod Sterling)

Wrapping newspapers for my route and watching The Streets of San Francisco (Carl Muldon and Michael Douglas)

Tom Hadden on Saturdays doing a Popeye Show in KTLA (channel 5, Los Angeles)

Now, to answer some other posts:

To: glen8p, posting on October 4, 2006:

re: the POW thing .... it was called Say Pow!, and was a call-in show where kids would tell a guy when to press a button on a video game. Beat a certain score, and win a prize!

To: Kevin, posting on May 6, 2007:

I believe this was an eposide of Other World. The teenaged Son is made a sex object by some power-woman in the town. He spills BBQ sauce on his shirt, and takes off his shirt. Scandal ensues ... an interesting exploration of gender role reversal

To: Simon, posting October 9, 2007:

I think this movie was called The Wraith, starring Charlie Sheen. Awsome black car driven by some racer-x type guy (who turns out to be the long lost brother)that could explode at the drivers command. Mysteriously, it could re-assemble itselft and appear when needed.

To another poster wayyyyy up there:

The cartoon about the motorcyles? Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch.

My Questions:

I remember some sat morning movies:
A boy meets the ghost of a young girl who died in the early 19th century. He helps her discover what happened to her, and when he falls into a well, he finder her doll. Inside the doll are a fortune in diamonds, which the girl tells him to keep. She gets to take human form once, and asks the boy to dance a waltz with her.

Another movie was about a boy who believed he was a vampire. He slept in a casket and tried to enlist his friends to kill him. I remember a scence where his chum chickens out after pounding a wooden stake 1/2 way into his chest. (Was this My Best Friend is a Vampire?)

Two of my all-time FAVE cartoons: The Tick, and The EEK Stravagnza! (eek the cat, and the Terrible Thunder Lizards) ... man, those shows would just kill me !

I need help!! There was a cartoon short that I saw on HBO circa 84 about an alien. He kept pointing up to the sky saying, "Mama." He climbed a tree and reached to the sky but he couldn't reach home. Then he stacked various objects higher and higher and each time he would keep saying "Mama." I don't remember exactly how he got home, but any help or name of the cartoon short or any other information would be greatly appreciated!!!! This has been on my mind for YEARS!

It was a drama/thriller mini series I saw back I think in the eightes. It was only three or four parts as I remember. About a woman who was being stalked and tormented by someone. There was a policeman who took a personal interest in the case. At some stage, she finds out that the person had been watching her in her own house through little holes in the ceiling. I think she may have received photo's of this in the mail, or maybe she found out from a telephone call from the stalker? Also, there was something about a fake hanging body in a tree in her front yard. I seem to remember it ended with the stalker actually hanging himslef in that same tree, and there were lots of policemen milling about at the very end.

Any ideas would be very appreciated! Thanks.

I am trying to remember the name of the show/movie/mini-series of some program that i remember seeing a part of when I was like 6 years old, and it is a very vague memory. I remember kids that lost something or something in another realm, and had to go to try to find. But the only way to get there was through some long dark pipe or tunnel, that they walked through. I believe they walked alongside some sort of larger device, like a railroad car or something along those lines. I remember it being "....to be continued...." but that could be because of a movie being split up, or a mini-series or something. But the only thing I could remember of it was labryinth, and when i bought that all it was was david bowie dressed up and singing, and not what i thought @ all. Can anyone help me out with this, i hate when things like this bother me....

Anybody remember a Canadian show about mid 70's about some kids around the Nova Scotia area fishing villages solving crimes or something, Aided by a local Native guy? I remember the Native always wore a brown coat with tassels on it, and they lived near the ocean with Fort-like houses. I've figured out every show I watched as a kid, except for this one.

I am trying to remeber the name of a late 70's early 80'2 show. I think it was a father an son? stranded on a planet and there where alien creatures, that had some kind on glowing stone. Maybe there were dinosaurs in it too that use to chase them. I must have been very little and vaugly remeber this show.

Just wanted to correct previous info on "The Wizard" show.It featured the dwarf, David Rappaport, from the film "Time bandits".
He commited suicide, i believe, when the show was cancelled.
There was another show called "Merlin", which was the same type of title character & entrusted young boy show formula. Anyone remember that one?

There was a show in the 80's, I believe in 1980 I just remember the beginning it had a little girl w/ dark hair in braided pig-tails on a horse w/ a flannel shirt on, she was taken off the horse by a woman. It was short lived. Anyone remember? I was born in '75 so I was about 5ish.
Thanks.

Battlestar Galactica and Space 1999 kicked ass back in the days.

For Alisa:

About the robot with the vacuum arms who lives with a cab driver, could it have been 'Whitney and the Robot'? The description seems to fit.

There is a television show that I have from memory that I cannot find on the internet.

All I remember is that it is not a cartoon and that there is a character on this show who has either green skin and purple clothes or purple skin, 6 feet tall or so, with features vaguely similar to a dog who can spin around and disappear when people try to catch him.

Thats all I remember.

Posted by: Gar at June 5, 2007 2:02 PM

I remember Bixby and Me! I watched it all the time as a kid. The theme song started off "It's Bixby and me, we live in a tree..." Of course his catch phrase was "Bixby says, reeelax!" He was a bossy cat.

I remember the Show BUT...... where Can I get my hands on it!!!!!!!!! VERY Important I have Been wanting this for years!!!!!
ANY HELP Would BE Great!!!!!

Reply for the Dog who helped people IT IS the Littlest HOBO it is still on CBC every Saturday at 7:00am My boy won't get up at 7 for school, but 5minutes to 7 on saturdays I hear him pattering down the stairs to watch it.
CBC is a Canadian channel

I really HOPE someone can help on the Bixby and me show.....reeeelax

anyone remember a show about kids in a mysterious place that had puppet actors addressing the kids? among the puppets who, by the way, stuck their heads out of picture frames in a mad scientists spooky house, there was a giraffe w/ earrings. i had the lunch box of the show in 1972 if that helps......?

Looking for a TV that I believe came on during the 80's. It was a series that normally played after midnight. It was a curio/antiques type of store, a different item each week had some type of occult/physic connections and the 3 people in the store (1 older man, 1 young girl & guy) would investigate the connection.

I'm looking for the name of a sitcom that my mother used to love from back in the late 70's to the mid 80's, I believe. It was about a group of guys that were in prison or jail. If memory serves, the setting looked more like a room with a regular door that had a barred window in it, but I may be wrong about that. One character was a heavyset guy with light colored thinning hair. His big deal was always saying "I know that!". My mom picked that up and would always go around saying "I know that."

"Looking for a TV that I believe came on during the 80's. It was a series that normally played after midnight. It was a curio/antiques type of store, a different item each week had some type of occult/physic connections and the 3 people in the store (1 older man, 1 young girl & guy) would investigate the connection."

Carol, that program was "Friday the 13th: The Series." I liked it too!

Hi all,

This is a really nice site. I've got a question myself. It's probably an 80s TV movie. It's a science fiction movie, set in space, probably in the future. The plot is somewhat like Event Horizon, where there's an abandoned spacecraft, and a rescue team? which includes, or just a femaile investigator goes to find out what happened to the crew and the ship. The story is told via flashbacks as the woman walks through the ship. I think she is a psychic. If I am not wrong, there was some accident onboard the ship, and the crew all faced the inevitable fate of running out of oxygen and dying. Then some of them chose to sacrifice themselves by ejecting themselves out of the airlock. Anyway, there was a twist at the end it seems, because the woman was attacked by a ghost? or a psychic manifestation of one of the crew at the end. I'm not too sure if she survived the attack or not, but I think she was stabbed by the crew member, who was a man.

Anyone who can shed some light on this.... please do.

TO Starscreeam:

Thanks, I really appreciate your reply and good memory...

Carol

Lauren the show you are thinking of I think is called the land of the lost. My sister and i were trying to remember the name of a cop show from the 80's about 2 policemen one was heavy set the other one was skinny. the skinny one rode a motorcycle and wore a long coat. under which he carried a rifle. In one of the shows the heavy set cop was shot in the butt. could anyone please tell us the name of the show. it may have only been on for one season.

To Emily:

You did NOT imagine the show about the hot air balloon and the chick with short dark curly hair. The balloon had big lips and I feel like it was pink. Everything in my memory says the color scheme on the show was red & pink. The balloon and the chick just talked to each other.

Back in the early 80's there was this sitcom about a woman who was a ghost and she lived in the attic. She had blonde almost white hair and she always would wear white. The womens name may have been Anne Jillian? Anyone remember this? Please e-mail me and let me know!

the show with the man wearing the "body"suit was called "Slim Goodbody".... I am looking for a cop show from the 80's about a husband and wife that are both police officers, but they have to hide their marriage to keep their jobs. I remember in one of the episodes one of them gets shot and is laying on the sidewalk, the other one is holding them... I was like 5 years old and my mom jokes about this being my favorite show, but none of us can remember the name!

TO JASON:

That program with Ann Jillian was "Jennifer Slept Here." It only aired for one season 1983-84.

JEANETTE:

Are you sure you're not remembering "Renegade" from the early to mid 90's? With Lorenzo Lamas as a motocycle riding bounty hunter and an Indian sidekick?

"Posted by: luvtuff at November 8, 2007 8:46 AM

NBC, 80's, Western based in the future or the main character dressed as if in a Western movie. I believe he had the ability to time travel. Only a couple of shows. Need some help..."

The Adventures of Brisco County

looking for a made for tv show or movie about a
girl football player turned homecoming prom queen
does anyone remeber it?

hey i am thinking about a show from the 80's that was filmed on a beach

it had real kids in it and the main actor had bright red hair and there was a swamp monster made out of seaweed

can anyone help please

lookin for an 80's kid show
the main actor had red hair and big eyes
was filmed on a beach and had a seaweed creature that was a man in the costume

Sid & Marty Krofft's Sigmund And The Sea Monsters

found it

OOps....I just realized the reply I made to Jason regarding Ann Jillian's program should have been directed to Lulabele. Sorry 'bout that, chief :)

Does anyone remember a tv show late 80s-early90s about a guy who wears a supercop outfit and rides a motorcycle. I think it was called supercop. Its not Street Hawk. It came out about the same time as Super boy and My Secret Identity.

Please Help !!!!! this has been driving me crazy for years & I see someone else has asked about the same made for tv movie which was made in the early 80's; it was about a boy who was really into pyramids; & was giving a small crystal pyramid, then one night in his room while he is messing around with the new crystal pyramid it starts glowing. he is then transported back in time, he awakes to realize he is in a real pyramid in ancient egypt, he then befriends a young girl egyptian princess? don't remember much else. does any one else know what I am talking about, or the name of the movie???????
here is a post someone else posted about the show....... "Posted by: wayout at December 11, 2005 10:18 PM

Please help. It was a made for TV movie as far as I can recall. It was in the early to mid 80's. About all I can remember is this kid packing canned food into his backpack. They he sat indian style inside a little "Pyramid" in his bedroom. Soomehow he was warped to ancient egypt inside the "real" pyramid. I think he made a freind there too, and of course they were being chased. I hope someone else remembers this?..........

hope this info is enought to jog someone's mind about the show. I know wayout & I can't be the only people who saw it. it was NOT a show called "tommorrows people"!!!!! help help!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please Help !!!!! this has been driving me crazy for years & I see someone else has asked about the same made for tv movie which was made in the early 80's; it was about a boy who was really into pyramids; & was giving a small crystal pyramid, then one night in his room while he is messing around with the new crystal pyramid it starts glowing. he is then transported back in time, he awakes to realize he is in a real pyramid in ancient egypt, he then befriends a young girl egyptian princess? don't remember much else. does any one else know what I am talking about, or the name of the movie???????
here is a post someone else posted about the show....... "Posted by: wayout at December 11, 2005 10:18 PM

Please help. It was a made for TV movie as far as I can recall. It was in the early to mid 80's. About all I can remember is this kid packing canned food into his backpack. They he sat indian style inside a little "Pyramid" in his bedroom. Soomehow he was warped to ancient egypt inside the "real" pyramid. I think he made a freind there too, and of course they were being chased. I hope someone else remembers this?..........

hope this info is enought to jog someone's mind about the show. I know wayout & I can't be the only people who saw it. it was NOT a show called "tommorrows people"!!!!! help help!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am looking for the name of a 70's kids show about a family of robots that could turn into rockets. They lived in a volcano. Made like Ultraman, same time period too. I think the dad was silver, mom gold and the boy was red. Please! Plese help we have been working on this for 8 years.ARGH!

Looking for late 80's, early 90's tv show, group of kids who fall asleep and wake up in the ocean. Swim to an island where there is a ship in the ground. Then when they wake up at home they're covered in ocean water. I believe it might be british? I don't recall though. E-mail me if anyone knows, cadoimond@yahoo.com

More answers, posted in chronological order

Chistinalove= Boy who befriends an older dude for vampire advice sounds like "Fright Night"

Jason= Wow. I remember watching "Neat and Tidy" on FOX when it was barely a channel (86?) but I don't remember it lasting for more than two shows. It was a big deal because it licensed Elvis Presley music, which was pretty expensive and hard to do. All I remember is the theme or end shot of the two of them in a convertible cadillac.

Denise (5/29/07). That was "Carlo Collidi's Pinnochio" (the original author) and it was scary and dark, just like the book. I recommend the book: Pinnochio kills Jiminy Cricket early in the book (his ghost follows him around) and Pinnochio also pisses off the Blue Fairy (who appears as a giant snake) so badly that she bursts a blood vessel and dies. I'm not kidding- go read it!

Trace (6/15/07) "Bigfoot and WildBoy" were Saturday morning staples in late 70s, and I THINK produced by Sid & Marty Krofft

Craig (6/16/07). I remember "Project UFO" from the late 70s, about two guys (one was in the Air force) who investigate UFO sightings. It was CBS or NBC.

Shannon (10/28/07) Are you thinking of "Wonderama"?

Joe (11/13/07). You are thinking of "The Charmings" which was mid 80s, starring Paul Winfield as the Mirror on the Wall. I watched every episode.

Taylor (11/29/07) Thanks for the "Say Pow!" answer.

MArk N (12/14/07) A father and son (and daughter) with glowing crystals and dinosaurs were stranded in "Land of the Lost"--- is that it?

Lauren (12/14/07). Your Merlin show on CBS was either Merlin, Merlin & Me, or Merlin & Max. The lady in the show was Elaine Joyce who went on to host the All-New Dating Game in 1986.

Does anyone remember the name of the 80s sci-fi TV show that starred Louis Gosset Jr ?....Or how bout the 70s kids show The Kids from C.A.P.E.R. ?...or how bout another 70s kids show Run Joe Run..about a PTSD afflicted German Shepard on the run from the Army??... or how bout the 80s TV show Cliffhangers??...Loved that one.

Starscream:Brisco County was in the mid 90s and it took place in the west. It was on FOX. Not the right the show.

Lulabele : That show i beleive was MacGruder and Loud. Married cops who had to keep thier marriage hidden to keep thier jobs.Starred John Getz and Kathryn(or Kathleen) Lloyd.

does anyone remember the name of the 80s tv show that starred a very young Patrick Sawyze and lead singer of 80s group Berlin Terri Nunn about teen gang leaders who worked with the police to solve crimes ?

Does anyone remember the name of the of the 70s TV show that starred Annie Potts(not Desinging Women) and it was based in the 40s during WWII...WOW...nevermind. It came to me as i was typing this. The show was called The Good Time Girls. Yay me !!

T : the movie youre referring to starred Helen Hunt and its title is Quaterback Princess.

This is regarding two posts made quite a while ago, about some children that follow a troll down into an underground world. I came to this site looking for the same movie, and was glad to see that at least two other people remembered it. I finally found it, and it was called "The Secret World of Og" (1983).

"Starscream:Brisco County was in the mid 90s and it took place in the west. It was on FOX. Not the right the show. "

Whew....I'm not the only one who gets confused by the poster name being BELOW the line ;))

Anyone remember a tv mini series 70's-80's a guy had a magic bow?

Does anyone remember the show from
PBS about a shipwrecked pirate and his lady friends that he used to call "Lady" and they would go around the island finding clues to words?
his hair was parted down the middle and he wore pirate boots, lady wore a red dress and a black hat...please help going crazy...:(

Allow me to spark a few Brain cells. Someone above was asking about a show named Sousha. It is actually Xuxa and i loved her shorts/boots. Who can remember Space 1999, a Canadian show me thinks about a Moon base on the moon that is out of orbit traveling through space. The Ghoul with froggy. Sir Graves Ghastley and our favorite Elvira. Bill Kennedy at the movies, Laugh In, what a great show that was. The Muppet show, the Smothers Brothers hour. Some good shows, some cheezy shows, but great memories. thanks for letting me share them.

I'm trying to remember a nightime variety show that ran in the late 70's that starred these 2 teenage girl puppets (life-size maybe?).
It reminded me of one of those Krofft monstrosities and had a running segment called "Life is a Disco."
Did I hallucinate it?

I remember watching a TV show from the 60's or early 70's about a group of young people stranded on a deserted island. No one knows they're there, there are plenty of furnished uninhabited houses on the island, and the stranded people find out the island is going to be used for nuclear testing.

I can't remember the name of the show, I don't remember what channel it was on, and no one I talk to remembers this show. Am I crazy?

Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot.

Regards,

Kenny from New Jersey

Kenny
That show was called "The New People" and it aired in 45 minute episodes with a Revolutionary War themed show. They crash landed on the island and had to make their own civilization, their own laws. The nuclear test angle was to explain why their was city on the island. It was intended to be blown up in a test that was carried out.

Help!!! I am trying to remember a show from the mid to late 70's that was on Saturday mornings. I remember it as a children's variety show and had an adult host. they played in front of a live audience. One scene that really sticks out in my mind is where they had an RV that had all kinds of gadgets. The owner pretended like he broke down and unlocked the front grill and drove away in a mini car.....Silly but that is what really stuck in my head.

I love going down memory lane...Ginko biloba would probably help.

THANKS FOR THE HELP

what was the 80's tv series that came on late at night and had "puppets" of famous people??

I have been trying to remember the name of this old scifi movie for about 5 years now.
It had a mad left on a prison planet for a "code" used for revolutionaries "and they usualy had good stories"but he only painted plolitical grophaty. Then a man captured and tryed to sell him to scavengers as a storie teller. The found out that he didn't have any stories and would not buy him but a single mother and her son bought him to help schavenge. he eventualy taught the scavengers to earigate crops and grow food. then a groop of bandits that had gas and working vehicals demandid that the scavengers turned over all thir food and would be back for move. so the "storie teller" sought out the man who captured him and sold him to the scavengers and convinced him to teach "the storie teller" how to fight and shoot then the man gave him a realy long riffle and they faught back and won. yeay

If any one could give me the name or any info that would be grate it has been driving me nuts.

Our family is going crazy trying to remember a TV show from, we think the late 70s or early 80s. We think it involved a private eye or some sort of a detective. The main thing is that he drove a red Spyder....well, it could have been black or yellow, but the general consensus it that it was red. Please help....we need sleep!!!

Does anyone out there remember anything about a tv show that was on in the 70's or early 80'2 about a dog (maybe a german shepard) who was a wanderer who would help out different families where ever he ended up? I remember a dog, railroad tracks into the sunset at the end of every show with a song playing....this has been driving me crazy for a long time...please let me know if you know!! Or even if you don't know anything but remember the same sort of show....it will make me feel so uncrazy!

thanks-Amy

Amy: "The Littlest Hobo" is from the mid-80's, but it sounds exactly like what you're describing: http://www.tv.com/littlest-hobo/show/4625/summary.html

Further information on that pirate-stranded-on-an-island PBS show with the lady and the map with clues...I remember snippets of the theme song, something about "with --- and captain too" and rhyming with "afternoon"...actually Afternoon might have been in the title of the show...argh, this is making me nuts. Also, the lady had grey hair, and the pirate guy would talk to the kids watching the show and call them "watersplashers" I think (and then do the obligatory pause so they can reply to the screen). It was a really cool show, if a bit creepy how clues kept showing up on the island, so hopefully someone remembers it...

there was a cartoon that was a short inside a bigger feature cartoon(like in Bugs Bunny)where a guy is driving in a car and tries to shave with an electric razor and cuts his head off. then when he finally gets to his destination(miraculously with his head) his car won't fit in a spot so he gets out and folds the car into a briefcase and walks away. Anyone remember the name of this silliness?

Jana 6th March
I think you're talkng about Spitting Image - latex puppets that mercilessly took the mick out of the rich and famous?

Does anyone remember Palace Hill?

I watched readalong, too. My mom says that I even liked the typewriter on Sesame Street...Destined to be a writer, I guess...

These two messages hit home with me...I looked through all the messages and didn't find anyone who knew the answers (unless I missed the answers).

The first message was posted by Jessica at January 24, 2006 4:05 PM: "This show is really driving me crazy.. I recall watching it in grade 8 so i don't know if it was ever a tv show.. but it was about a few kids.. that were always trying to solve a mystery.. I remember they had a talking ro-bot called Speedreader and he would read some clues.. and help them solve the mystery.. I belive it had a typerwriter.. and a newspaper about a town called Duneden.. this is driving me crazy -- HELP ME OUT -- THANKS!"

The second message was posted by VWLVR at August 14, 2006 12:29 AM: "Does anyone remember the show were the kids would type on the computer with the green screen, and there would be a little white gloved hand that would fix the sentences they would write? When the hand was correcting the sentence, it would make the noise, chuka chuka chuka, then it would go pop pop pop!! I'm serious! Please help! It was on in the early 80's."
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I thought I remebered watching a tv show where a typewriter typed the words on a page and a worm or caterpillar corrected the mistakes (combined two smaller sentences together and crossed out extra words). I have been trying to find the name of the show for years. Everyone I know says I dreamed up the show...that there was no such show. When someone said Ghostwriters, I thought that was the show. But I checked with You Tube and it doesn't seem right.

But these two messages are now making me think that I watched two different shows along the same idea (grammar correction). Anyways, hope someone can help us remember the names of these shows (or this show, if there's only one). Thanks!

i am trying to find information on the cast members of all the t.v.shows from the early 60's to the present and the surving cast members. where do i find that information at on the web?please e-mail me with the information.thanks. nancy lancing

Going out on a limb here. I am trying to come up with a movie from the 70's. It is in the same 'genre' as 'Child of Glass' and 'Red Room Riddle'....made for 70's kids/tweens. All I can really remember is the end. The main character (a young'ish boy) finds a secret door/passage that leads to a secret room beneath the (haunted?) house. He finds the skeleton of the 'long missing' man (who died due to carbon-monoxide poisoning from his lantern) and lots of money (gold, maybe?). He gets trapped as well and 'might die' (cue commercial break). He is found and rescued by men who dig him out from above. He 'saves' the day (or the house?) by solving the mystery and finding the money (gold?). Was kinda scary/creepy in that '70's kid's movie' kind of way (meaning...not really so much so). Any ideas? Thank you in advance.

Jana:
Clarinova (above) already suggested 'Spitting Image'....just thought I would add that the puppets were also used for the Genesis video 'Land of Confusion'.

Linda:
Is is 'RipTide'? As I remember it...it was about a group of detectives...one of them had a robot. I just remember that one of the guys drove a little red sports car.
Or,
'Hardcastle and McCormick'? I seem to remember a red sports car in that detective show as well.

J.V.:
'Through the Magic Pyramid'

Todd in Chicago:
The movie about the child ghost and the doll in the well was 'Child of Glass'. I actually referenced it above in my question about a movie with the same sort of 'feel' to it. Great flick. :)

Pen:
"ok, i have a question that needs to be answered cuz its driving me potty!! two kids befriend two other kids who turn out to be ghosts that died in a fire like a hundred years ago or something, set in a big house with lots of gardens? any ideas any1?"

The movie is 'The Amazing Mr. Blunden'.

"Going out on a limb here. I am trying to come up with a movie from the 70's."

The movie is 'The Haunted Mansion Mystery'. It was an ABC Weekend Special and starred Christian Slater (very young).

Heh...I found the answer to my own question from above. Providing it here on teh off chance someone else down the road is searching for it as well. ;)

Hi all,

Ok I am almost positive I am not goign to explain this well enough at all, and my memeory is so fuzzy of it, and no one else but me remembers this show so maybe I made it up lol...

All I remember is the story was about a boy or perhaps a boy and his sister and they were able to go into another world, or this other world was able to come in their world...and these almost muppet like creatures were there (kind of muppet like). The one that stands out in my mind was an all pink creatuer with I believe pink curly hair...

Does this sound at all familiar to anyone?

I've been racking my brains on this one, and I'm pretty good at this. As far as I can tell no one has brought this up yet.

This was a children's TV special in the 60s or 70s. It was based on "Jack and the Beanstalk", except the "giant" sort of looked like an alien with a large cranium. I believe it was shown on CBS or NBC some evening (amazing what tidbits you remember).

For years I've been trying to recall this. And like Stax cereral, no one seems to recall it.

A show about a ratty old dune buggy that
can change into a hot rod dune buggy to save the
day?

kelly: Wonderbug

Anyone remember a "Twilight Zone"-"Night Gallery" type of show from the early 70s that opened with a nightime roller coaster ride in a deserted amusement park?

Tracy, The show you are trying to remember is "the tomorrow people" from Britains Itv (Independent TV). They were the next generation in human evolution. They had a 47th chromosome which gave them the ability to teleport "jaunt" from place to place in short trips and "jaunting belts" to strengthen their powers to "jaunt" across the planet or to alien worlds. Their command headquarters was run by an artificial intelligence named Tim after the humanoid it was designed after Timus. I remember the episode very well. They got rid of the aliens possessing the people eventually (you couldn't remove the clothing or you would take all their skin with it). Easy solution, they genetically engineered a cold germ powerful enough to harm them but not be fatal to humans. There was even a new remake in the `90's of the same name - also on nickelodeon I think.

Anyone remember a "Twilight Zone"-"Night Gallery" type of show from the early 70s that opened with a nightime roller coaster ride in a deserted amusement park?

cp: Is 'Journey To The Unknown' what you are thinking of? http://youtube.com/watch?v=RnUm7G2HKuw

This was a children's TV special in the 60s or 70s. It was based on "Jack and the Beanstalk", except the "giant" sort of looked like an alien with a large cranium. I believe it was shown on CBS or NBC some evening (amazing what tidbits you remember).

keith: Was it 'Jack and the Beanstalk' (1967) by Hanna-Barbera and starring Gene Kelly? http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon_characters/48213-Jack_And_The_Beanstalk.html

hi, looking for 70's-80's tv show that may or may not have been preceeded buy a movie, i think main girl character name was nikita?? seem to remember they were group of prisoners but not really in prison, not really sci-fi but almost. thx for the help

I'm looking for a 70's or 80's kids show: i remember it had the leaning tower of pisa in it and one particular scene in it where this guy fits a tap into a pineapple and offers the juice to the kids... anyone?

About the automan show: Although the word "hologram" did exist then, they did not use it to describe Automan himself. He simply came out of the computer world and the only way to do that was as visible light. He animated the computer cursor into a life form (named "cursor") and cursor would draw the "autocar" or "autocycle", "autojet" or "autowhatever" he needed at the time. The only limitation was that it took so much energy to make "solid light projections" as he put it that the only time there was enough extra on the power grid was at night. AS soon as people woke u and started using electricity, he had to leave. "Walter nebicher" the detective who made him could even walk into Automan's body and take control if Automan wanted to. They would then share his powers and be able to walk through walls, etc. together. He even made his own secret identity of FBI agent "Otto Mann". Just thought you'd like to know. And contrary to the description at the top, I don't remember him ever turning into a panther. That was Simon McCorkindale's "manimal".

Ha! Thanks, EricS...I actually updated the original post to correct my inadvertent 'Manimal' reference. :-) Great info.

Hey, does anybody know this show with some Lorenzo Lamas look-a-like (cause he has long black hair in a ponytail) and he drives around in some blue buggy / 4x4 car across sunny places. He also has this woman and guy to help him out solve crimes or something.

I have been looking for the one mentioned here a couple of times. It was an educational show on PBS (for me it was NETV in Omaha) in the mid-80s. I think it was about a librarian (I want to say her name was Marianne or Mary Ann) who gets locked in a room by a witch. The part metioned here about a machine that took items in and produced a book to read sounds really familar too. Anyone have any idea if this was just a regional show, or more widespread? I can still vaguely recall the theme song (without the lyrics, nach).

There was a similar one about people in space reading books too, but my recollection of that one is more vague.

Hey,
anybody from the delaware valley remember an old kids show named "Dudley's treehouse" Where Dudley would get into his treehouse and these puppets and him would have life lessons - admitting you are wrong, etc. Or The "Wee Willy Webber show". Or "Johnny Cipher in Dimension Zero". There was one I have a vague memory of where some kids would show up in a club house - run by the never seen Mr Smith - They would climb up a ladder to get in and slide down a fire pole to get out. Every week they would have a guest - once I remember the original artist who drew the "Dennis the Menace" comic strips showed how to draw him. They even had a scene where he talked to the drawing of Dennis before it was finished and the drawing talked back in a really cute bit of animation. Again I believe totally local to the Delaware, NJ, Pennsylvania area. Any ideas?

I have been looking for the one mentioned here a couple of times. It was an educational show on PBS (for me it was NETV in Omaha) in the mid-80s. I think it was about a librarian

THL: Are you thinking of 'Tomes and Talismans'?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Pb0BdT8Qo

I don't remember if anybody was asking about this - and I'm not scrolling through the whole screen - But I just remembered an old show with Fred Grandy before he was Gopher on "Love Boat". He was a security guard in a wax museum who wanted to be a cop. When he would turn on the power to his crime detectimg computer, the electronic energy would bring the three statues to life. Frankenstein, the Wolfman and Dracula. They would (try to) help him with his cases and get him in even more trouble. That show was called "monster squad".
Waylin: The program you were looking for was called "the questor tapes" and it starred a VERY yound Mike Farrell from MASH as the last endroid to try to help mankind advance. They have been helping us for 25,000 years - or maybe 250,000. The previous model said it was actually good that many of the tapes had been erased so he would learn to depend on humans like none of the others ever had to. They were sent here by aliens but Questors program tapes were partially erased by radiation from the nuclear reactor where the previous model was working in when he built questor.
it_tech: The show was "The Three Guardians" but the title changed to "The Prime Guardians" They were three earthlings from ancient earth who were taken by aliens thousands of years ago, trained given powers to try to help us and brought back 2,000 years later. There was also a maintenance robot with a rectangular head - the voice would later play Orko on "He Man and the Masters of the Universe". Each guardian had a different power. The man from greece - super strength like herculese. The woman could change into any animal. The chinese man had super speed. I remember it lasted two years.
Hope it helps.

For many of us, this link will brinig fond memories. It is to a site that only lists the names of filmation cartoons and live-action shows like he man, space sentinels, shazam. http://www.danhausertrek.com/AnimatedSeries/Filmation.html
Enjoy.

im looking for a tv show that had i believe 2 boys that would ride and excersise bike with a magic glove and travel through time?????

Please help,this one is a tough one (at least for me). Name the tv show starring a dwarf that carried a very big brown backpack full of what i recall to be his own inventions (such as parachutes,remote control helicopters),and there was also a woman and a young man and they used to fight crime...Ive been trying to figure this one out for months but no one seems to even remember this tv show even existed.

HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!

Please help,this one is a tough one (at least for me). Name the tv show starring a dwarf that carried a very big brown backpack full of what i recall to be his own inventions (such as parachutes,remote control helicopters)

John T: 'The Wizard'
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CvyzTMovFKY

Rudy,

The show was "tales of the brass monkey" and starred Stephen Collins after his commander Will Decker days on Star Trek the Motion Picture and before 7th Heaven. By the way, the dog also guest starred on one esisode of MASH.

I am looking for the names of a few shows...
1) a bear that looked like it had buns for ears, his best friend was a crow and they went on adventures with a silver suitcase that turned into anything they wanted ex. car, airplane.
2)a small fragile looking doll named Toddy? She lived in a doll house with other old dolls. The show was about the dolls, but it showed a girl moving them and a British man narrating.
3)early eighties?? A cartoon about a rock band. Not Gem or Barbie and the Rockers.
Does anyone else recognize these shows???? I have wondered if they were a dream because nobody remembers them!

Does anyone remember Girl from Tomorrow?

Does this sound familiar to anyone? It's the end of a kids' show and they read the address or something, I think it's a PO box, and right before or after that they show a series of still images and play some real mellow music, maybe with flutes. I think there was a picture of a lit-up city skyline at night, or a house lit up at night, or something, and maybe something about a treehouse. It's driving me crazy. This was probably early-mid 80's.

I was wondering if anyone knew if the photon tv show was ever released on dvd or vhs, I've been looking for it every where and cant find it. I could have sworn I seen it on vhs.

I am looking for the name of a pbs show that we had to watch in school in the late 80's. I am not sure if it isn't something mentioned above by someone else already. There is a boy and girl and they have a ring and a stationary bicycle in the shed. When the ring glows they get on the bicycle and it takes them to another dimension where they help the people overcome evil bikers.
I just found the name of another show from that time called tomes & Talismans in which evil barbarians have taken over earth and some aliens and a librarian are stuck in an underground library. The librarian helps out because she understands the card catalog and the aliens only understand computers.

Mermer - The Girl From Tomorrow and it's sequel (the name escapes me at the minute) were/are on youtube. I watched the two full series a couple of months ago.

There is a boy and girl and they have a ring and a stationary bicycle in the shed. When the ring glows they get on the bicycle and it takes them to another dimension

Fil: 'Storylords' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylLevkW2UxI

a bear that looked like it had buns for ears, his best friend was a crow and they went on adventures with a silver suitcase that turned into anything they wanted ex. car, airplane

MerMer: Are you thinking of 'A Bear Called Jeremy'?
http://www.geocities.com/topspeed_jmv/jeremy/index.html
http://drawn.ca/2006/02/16/a-bear-called-jeremy/

fullonparanoid - that is awesome! I have been asking people for the name of that show for years!!!!!! Thank you!!!
clairinova - I checked out youtube! That brought back memories! Thank you as well.

Mermer,

Could that show have been about a rock band sucked into a cartoon world and riding around in a bus - maybe a flying bus? It was named "On the flipside" because the cartoon world was based on music and called "the flipside". It also starred peter billingsly as their drummer.
Andrea,
Could that show have been "Zoom"? The original I remember from the late `60's and early `70's before they remade it for the `80's had them singing the address to write in: PO box 23444 Boston, Mass, 02134. Ssend it to zoom!"
Hope that helps.

erics: It was named "On the flipside" because the cartoon world was based on music and called "the flipside"
You (and, presumably, MerMer) are thinking of 'Kidd Video'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBQS1cgsEdU
;)

Thanks to Erics and Fullonparanoid (you are on a roll!!!!!!!) I wasn't dreaming :-) I am grateful for your knowledge.

fullonparanoid: I found the one I was looking for... it was a regional production from NE Dept of Education called "once upon a time". (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zDTvw1xfp0&feature=related).

It was really fantastic stuff. Glad someone put some clips up.

What was the tv show that had some kids that had powers....one was able to shoot lightning another was able to shrink and the other was able to freeze things if he took off his glove cause he was in a suit?

Just found this page. This was asked quite a while ago, but looks like it was never answered.

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i remember an 80's show where there was a team of vigilatnes? maybe swat team members off duty that did drug busts and go to keep the cars, jewelry etc that they got from the bust. Anyone?
(Posted by: Brian at August 2, 2005 9:24 PM)
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Brian might not care anymore, but since I know the answer, here it is. That would be Nasty Boys. The show's theme tune was the Janet Jackson song of the same name. The group was a bunch of vice cops (in Vegas if I remember correctly). They did go after drugs and they did keep the stuff from the busts. I can't recall either whether they were ex-cops or vigilantes on the side.

Personally, I'm trying to find a show I seem to recall watching in the early 80s with my dad. I think it was on during a weekday evening. It was about a son and father (a grown man and his older father), and they were ninjas. Their ninja-ing was more about tight-rope walking and flash pellets then shuriken and martial arts. What little I do recall is that they used flash pellets a lot.

Erik: Sounds like you're looking for "The Master." The great Lee Van Cleef starred as an American who learned ninjitsu and taught it to his heartthrob student.

Here's the link: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0086756/

I'm trying to remember a pilot about a guy who gets hit with radiation while on a space station and gains powers from it. I think they're solar based powers, so he needs direct sunlight to power up, and he could jumpstart cars...and stuff. Can't find a thing online.

I remember it being similar to "I-Man," that cool Scott Bakula pilot from Disney. Gotta go download "Earth Star Voyager" now.

Greg, I think the show was called "misfits of science" and starred Dean Martin's son Dean Paul Martin. You can visit the wikipedia site to learn more about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misfits_of_Science. Briefly, they are a group of scientists and ordinary people with superpowers. The electric man was a rock musician "Johnny B." his theme song is "Johnny B. Goode" and gets burned by any contact with water. The frozen man was hinted at being a friend of Amelia Earhart and accidentally frozen back then in an ice flow or something. He needs to stay frozen or die.
Kevin: That is starting to sound familiar, but I can't for the life of me remember it. I do have a vague memory of a man touching a car hood and the car starting. It wouldn't have been The Phoenix would it? Starring Judson Earney Scott "Joachim" Khan's navigator from "the Wrath of Khan" as an alien who could do amazing things but only when exposed to sunlight with this large medallion around his neck. Our anthropologists woke him up from cryogenic sleep two centuries too soon and there were only 5 episodes filmed total. Hope this helps.

there was a cartoon that was a short inside a bigger feature cartoon(like in Bugs Bunny)where a guy is driving in a car and tries to shave with an electric razor and cuts his head off. then when he finally gets to his destination(miraculously with his head) his car won't fit in a spot so he gets out and folds the car into a briefcase and walks away. Anyone remember the name of this silliness?

Kevin,

Stumbled upon your answer. Apparently it's called Northstar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TExcv5SB_GA

Bunch of weird shows on here. Who knew there was a Dr. Strange pilot?

(And the Master was it. I really thought they were father and son, but I guess to a kid my age at the time, an authoritarian master-apprentice relationship is like a father-son relationship)

Read the original comic in Marvel comics and He was indeed a medical doctor who went to Tibet and learned magic. Other than that they had nothing in common. He had a very sordid past and was a total loser at first before learning magic at the feet of "The Ancient One". You can read his condensed history here: http://www.drstrange.nl/drstrange/history%5Chistory.htm

Wayout: I just read your old post and it reminded me of a cartoon I saw in in the 70's about the same time as the cartoon "the brady kids" (eew) and Archie with Sabrina the teenage witch cartoon. This was a teacher that looked a lot like an adult version of their Sabrina character from the Archie cartoon. She was a teacher who would sing to her cat statue to bring it to life and draw a magic door on the chalkboard, open it and her entire fourth grade (or so) would go with her to another time or even dimension. They had a friend who would scout out these dimensions for her and would hear him on her old-fashioned edison-style (with the big tube instead of a record disk) record player.
Jackie: "Thundarr the Barbarian" was done by ruby/spears. 1994 a runaway planet hurtles between the earth and the moon unleashing cosmic destruction - the earth is devastated and the moon is cracked in two. Mooning us - get it? the show is set 2,000 years later as the earth is reborn in "savagery, super science and sorcery". Thundarr had a sword with an energy blade "the sun sword" but never said where he got it and it would only obey him. The wookie thing was Ookla the MOK and a woman was there, the sorceress princess Ariel we never learn where she learned magic but do know there are only 12 citadels of sorcery and she was raised in her stepfathers house, learning what little was known about the past through his library. You can learn about it on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundarr_the_Barbarian
Have a good day. I'll add more after perusing more of the page.

Does anyone know of a movie or TV show about a bet between two men. One of them dared the other to live alone in a room for a long period of time (probably a year or more), with no human interaction. They bet a yacht, I think. The man in the room at first goes crazy, then teaches himself foreign languages, etc. Does anyone know what I am talking about? This was a 1970's or early 80's movie or one episode of a show.

Does anyone remember a show about a guy with some sort of magic helmet, who would drive into a car wash, and his car would turn into a space ship? I don't remember these details very well, so please forgive me. I think there was also some sort of hawkman antagonist or ally. I'm pretty sure I'm not thinking of the hawk dude from Buck Rogers, but for some reason, the protagonist reminds me of Gil Gerard.

Jason,

I can't remember what series that was on either but I do remember everything else about it. I think it was part of a tv series and the episode I'm thinking of is a bet between a loudmouth gambler and a wealthy man who was sick and tired of hearing him talk. The first man was placed in a plexiglass room to prevent him from talking when nobody was there because microphones would pick up any noise - even talking in his sleep. The wealthy man goaded him more and more as the time to pay off came close. Eventually the gambler won the bet but the wealthy man admitted he had lost all his fortune and couldn't pay him but the gambler was definitely the more noble because he kept his promise. Then the gambler rips off his ascot from his neck and shows he cheated and had his voice box removed so he couldn't talk even if he'd wanted to. I definitely remember that the gambler was played by David Hedison and (I think) the wealthy man was played by David Wayne. I remember the first clearly because when I saw a rerun a few years ago on SciFi channel I thought "Capt. Lee Crane from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea!" Scanning all those references I haven't been able to find anything that sounds right, but I haven't actually checked each film and tv show. Sorry. Hope that helps.

Jason:
The Twilight Zone, episode 61, The Silence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silence_(The_Twilight_Zone)

I knew I'd seen him before! Parman, the evil telekinetic on "Star Trek" - original series - "Plato's Stepchildren". I was mistaken in my earlier belief. And thank you fullonparanoid for that info.

Hi! Someone had mentioned two girls on swings saying goodbye. (maybe licking lollipops?) Weren't their names Carol and Paula? What was the show???? I think it was in the early '70's.

Thanks to whoeverfound STORYLORDS. That's what I found this place looking for. Maybe you can help me with another. It felt 70sish, but I wasn't born till 83, so it couldn't have been. It was actually a really boring show with some couple talking or something, but the opening credits consisted of a dragon in a wagon going through this mountain and that part was awesome.

the picture to this site on google the horse with the star on ts head i am searching for the name of this film i used to love it as a child can someone please help,me many thanks xx

hannah: 'Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089877/

I'm trying to see if anyone remembers a show that was on late 80's, I think, about a bunch of teens/young adults. Can't remember much of the storyline, but I could swear it was called Tribe. It didn't last too long either.

yo, i remember that footage. it was so surreal because i couldnt conceive of a wicked witch being so nice to those 2 little kids. i was only about 3 or 4 then. bd 4/1/69. but i always remembered that witch. i seen it like 3 times on saturday morning. also, it was followed by this kid who ran in slow motion down this cobblestone dri veway that reminded me of my own when i lived on e.53st. ny. at the end it showed a iron gate closing in slow motion. help me out man. these are my memories. - genepryor@yahoo.com

Julie: Are you thinking of 'The Tribe'? It did not air during the 80's, though. It ran from 1999-2003.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tribe_(TV_series)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=m3cLwt0vSnQ

If not 'The Tribe', do you remember anything else about the show?

various posters: The witch who makes pancakes was from the short movie 'Winter of the Witch'(often shown in grade school like 'The Red Balloon').
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0277442/

Here it is in full:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5520207864742961679

tom71: Are you thinking of the movie short I linked to above? 'The Winter of the Witch'?

Or, could you be thinking of 'The Trouble with Miss Switch'? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5CkBTH5l30

If not one of those two....the only other 'witch' show that comes to mind is H.R. Pufnstuf (with Witchypoo). http://youtube.com/watch?v=JA3FFT54Ehs

Can you remember anything else?

I just found what I was looking for. It was by filmation - the same people that gave us He-man and the live-action Shazam! It's Mission, Magic! Starring a then younger and still Australian sounding Rick Springfield. Think of it as "Magic School bus goes time traveling with a rock star."
The link to Wikipedias web site on filmation may give some others help if titles sound familiar. Or if hours of clicking on one show link after another sounds like fun. Wiki has all the filmation shows on their own pages. Here is the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmation#Filmation_series
Hope this helps.

Good find EricS! I vaguely recalled the show based on your description....racked my brains but could not come up with the name of it. It really is amazing how many 'lost' shows there are out there.

Here is a clip of the Mission:Magic intro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh6YbL4uCOk

Here's a toughie:
Does anyone remember a show in the 70's that had just a single woman that would discuss everything about the body(maybe it was science in general, I don't remember)-I remember that she had a full size skeleton as a prop...!?

Hi everyone im hoping someone remembers this tv show i think it was in the mid-late 80s. It was about a girl who had really long hair and it would just keep growing i only have vauge memories so please bare with me anyhow she gets kidnapped by an old man in a blue van i believe and while shes in the van she finds a bag of sugar that she spills a trail i want to think its cause someone is trying to save her well then i remember two kids climbing up a wooden ladder into a big brick warehouse where they find her and she asleep and theres like a machine that cuts her hair and makes paint brushes out of her hair and the girls hair keeps growing so if anyone remebers this please help me thanks

Irene: The movie you are thinking of is 'The Peanut Butter Solution'.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089789/

Irene: Here is 'The Peanut Butter Solution' in full.
(scroll to the end of the first blog entry)
http://dvdpanache.blogspot.com/2007/11/peanut-butter-still-sticks.html
Enjoy!

I just wanna say thank you very much for helping me find out what it was i was beginning to think it was all a dream i also thank you for the website that explained more never would of thought it was called peanut butter solution i think i was like three when it came out im surprised i remembered that much of it now my mission is to find the movie thanks soooo much you rock!!!

Trying to remember an old kids show , The only thing I can remember is the intro where some guy is riding inside of a big box kite and arrives in a new land.

Ken the only thing I can think of is HR Puf-n-stuf. he's not riding in a box kite but a boat with a big kite-like sail. Hope that helps.

Part of the intro to H.R. Pufnstuf had Jimmy and Fweddie flying in a box kite - they were trying to fly him off the island and the west wind was blowing him home.
Of course Witchipoo interfered and the kite almost crashed. Hope that helps. Eric

I agree with both shocker and EricS above....
H.R. Pufnstuf is the only thing I can think of....there was an entire episode about the lion character trying to build a box-kite for Jimmy to fly home in.

Ken:
The episode of H.R. Pufnstuf was called 'The Box Kite Kaper'.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0776003/

Here is Part 2 of 'The Box Kite Kaper'....I could not find Part 1.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=H7FNQX_Uq3o

I love the Krofft shows! :)

There is an old TV show from back in the day where a man on a park bench gets mad at a cat who is chasing birds, so he starts whistling and the cat burns. What is this???

Does anyone remember a TV show from the 70s-80s about a female helicopter pilot. Kind of a law enforcement/rescue show around a beach area. May have had Mark Harmon in it, not sure.....

Ray: I believe you are thinking of 240-Robert. Had a female helicopter pilot and starred Mark Harmon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/240-Robert
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JS93zhw4aSo

For Sheri, Sean and Aaron.

Argon Quest?

Hi there,

I have vague memories about a show set in a large castle or English Manor. It was haunted by a number of ghosts that were unable to leave. I seem to remember a military man, a handy man / gardener and a maiden. It may have been a British or Australian show based on accent of the actors.

Thanks.

I grew up in Buffalo, NY and I know this was a Canadian show. I think it was on Sat. AM, but I could be very wrong. It was called Haunted Rock and Roll or Rock and Roll Haunted House. It was kinda psychadelic and had bands and skits. Everything was set in a creepy eerie house. There was a guy on it that looked exactly like the Albino in the movie Princess Bride. I have searched the internet and can't find anything on this show. Does anyone remember this show???

Ooh! Ooh! Boingboing just posted a link to the intro sequence to "The Phoenix": http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/05/the-phoenix-tv-serie.html

Vic, the TV series with Patrick Swayze was "Renegade".

Hi!!
Talking about old tv shows at work the other day, remembering shows such as mr ben, bod, bagpuss etc. My friend remembers watching a show 1960/1970's about a boy who was ill in bed, he drew pictures that came to life when he went to sleep. Nobody else remebered anything like that. Any ideas????

Nope. But I remember a Japanese show with the mandatory giant robot-looking hero. In one episode during recess some children drew a picture of a monster on a the side of a good sized rock in their playground (about 3 by 2 feet). At night the picture came to life and nearly destroyed the hero. It even regrew it's tail when severed. I can't remember the show - I don't believe it was "space giants" but I do remember the end narration. "And from then on, they (the organization the hero worked for) would carefully monitor everything the children would draw". I just wish I could remember what show that was. Anybody have any ideas?

i am looking for a movie where a young girl's grandmother is sick and her and her brother travel through a mirror and end up in some strange puppet land ..... huggaland or huggles ville ??? im not sure and they are in search for these youth berries to help their grandmother stay alive ... Please help or email me Trumizou22@aol.com that would be great thank you

stephanie: Sounds like you are looking for 'The Hugga Bunch' movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173915/

http://www.crowncombo.com/articles/2006/017_hbmovie/huggabunch.html

This youtube member has the whole movie in 4 sections:
http://youtube.com/user/karnella

oh thank you so so much that has been driving me crazy !!!! people thought i was on drugs explaining this movie !!!! thank you

hi british tv programe about a group of people on a train in a tunnel when a nuclear bomb goes off and they are the only ones left alive and they try to make it to scotland i think to a military base can any one help thanks kate

Hi, does anyone remember a live-action version of the Hanna/Barbara cartoon Speed Buggy? All I remember of it was an old, beat-up green dune buggy that turns into "Speedy" whenever the teens called his name.

Wes: Are you think 'Wonderbug'?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderbug

A clip of the original Wonderbug intro:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bQnnZOJSlh0

kate: Don't know for sure what show you are thinking of, but, here are a few 'maybes':

Threads
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads

The Last Train
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Train

Survivors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors

The Changes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Changes_(TV_series)

Hope this helps!
:)

fullonparanoid thank you thank you thank you i love you so much thanks the name i was looking for was the last train xxxxxxxxxxx

Someone was looking for the "Dark" version of Pinocchio that they used to show on KTLA's Family Film Festival, I too was fascinated by this cartoon and I finally found clips of it on youtube.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwb690-I9Yg&feature=related

I remember a program (I believe it was a series) on television. It would have aired in the late 60's or (more likely) the early 70's. The program, as I recall it, was some type of gothic/occult suspense which was set (primarily, if not exclusively) in a large home/estate or possibly a hotel. There was a small ensemble of characters--seemingly trapped or lingering in the building/grounds. I remember one character in particular, a lean, fair-haired man of taste and position [possibly the lord of the place] who regularly stared hatefully at a large painting of some other man whom he blamed for the loss (death) of his fiancee(wife?). It seems that I recall that he referred to the man in the painting as Jauque Elamare'. I think that the picture held a spirit that sometimes either became corporeal or possessed the tormented man/lord. This wasn't Dark Shadows, but perhaps a lesser knock-off of it. Does ths sound at all familiar?

Harold: You are thinking of 'Strange Paradise'.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244930/

Here is a short clip of the opening:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cW_12lkfI1w

Janice V: Are you thinking of 'The Hilarious House of Frightenstein'?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hilarious_House_of_Frightenstein

It was just the pilot episode (fortunately) but back in the '70's there was a frankenstein takeoff where the monster got a message to the descendent of the doctor so he could remake the original formula that keeps him alive. He needs to take it every fifty years. He was played by a veteran actor with one eye that drifted to one side and was actually a little lower than the other one. I believe that he had a part on "Little House on the Prarie" and most westerns in the `60's due to his naturally scruffy looks. Tha character got the man to realize who he was (they had changed their last name) by admitting his name was "Frank Stein my middle initial is N. Say it fast." It never went beyond the pilot episode fortunately. and there were the traditional sitcom hijinks with a man playing dracula coming there for filming a frankenstein movie. This type of stereotype would frequently hurt the man's feelings since he never was a monster. Anyone have any ideas?

EricS: Are you thinking of 'Doctor Franken'?

USA, 1980. Dir: Marvin J. Chomsky and Jeff Lieberman. With: Robert Vaughn, Robert Perault, David Selby, Teri Garr, Josef Sommer, Cynthia Harris. Titus-Janus/NBC-TV

TV movie pilot, filmed in 1979 as The Franken Project and 'suggested' by Mary Shelley's novel. Vaughn plays Dr. Arno Franken, a direct descendant of the legendary Dr. Frankenstein, who works as a New York surgeon and builds a creature (Perault) out of spare organs. Despite an open ending, the ugly photography and downbeat story ensured this never became a regular series.

The only other show I could come up with that seemed like a possibility was 'Monster Squad' (1976)....Frank N. Stein was a character.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuFO5QzT9fw

Best I could come up with....hope it helps!

EricS: Another maybe, if the actor you are thinking of is Jack Elam, 'Struck By Lightning'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Elam

Struck by Lightning (1979).[3][4] Elam starred as Frankenstein's monster. In an interview, Elam recalled that when he was approached to take the part, he was told he would not need makeup; his appearance was already perfect for the part! This statement convinced him to accept the role.[citation needed] The program only lasted about three weeks before it was cancelled, either due to low ratings or because its use