Brilliant TV Shows That Noone Apart From Me Appears To Have Seen

1) The Secret Life of Walter Kitty: Loosely based on the Thurber/Danny Kaye film, except an animation about a daydreaming cat. Years ahead of its time in terms of genre playfulness and reflexivity. Did I dream it?

2) Marine Boy: now, lots of people remember this, but I was completely OBSESSED with the lil fella and all my pre-school books are defaced with my primitive sketches of the boy. And I can't seem to find a THING about him on the modern interweb.

As far as Zim, that is Invader Zim, it is on Nickelodeon. It's a wonderful, off beat cartoon made by the guy who writes the comic Johnny the Homicidial Maniac.

I also remember getting into a scientifickal debate with my dad about (a) the possibility of oxygum, and (b) and fact that coilman should actually be called "springman" or something...

I enjoyed The State as well. It's been quite depressing to see where the old cast members have ended up. I read that Michael Ian Black is now hosting a reality-based/Candid Camera-type deal. I've also seen one of the others doing really bad commercials. Too bad.

"I'm outta heee-urr."

Noggin and Nooka = pioneer cross-cultural marriage hurrah!! But what was the child called?

(PS Award for general stand-out groundbreaking PC excellence in BBC kids TV: Joe, whose working class parents ran a Midlands roadside cafe, with black cook Abel.)

Oh, and my answer: "Look, Stranger" (BBC2 1970-1976).

Everyone looks at me funny when I talk about News Radio or Dr. Katz, but I really don't understand that. We're talking network tv, people, get with the goddamned program.

http://www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/shows/saturday/sa1130.php http://members.tripod.com/~absoluteanime/marineboy/ http://www.flexnet.net/~midi/Marine.html http://www.alphalink.com.au/~roglen/marine.htm

I was devastated when they too "The Critic" off the air. Thank God Comedy Central shows reruns of it! Two other grand shows of old: "Manimal" and "Misfits of Science".

(from http://www.alphalink.com.au/~roglen/marine.htm )

"The ear incident had fans apparently running from the stadium in fear. Why? Did they imagine an outbreak of ear biting taking hold? But the interesting thing about the biting was a bunch of psychologists having to assess whether Tyson was emotionally fit to fight... just how would they go about that? 'Mr Tyson, you've said you want to take your opponent's heart, liver, blood and spleen. You've also said you want to drive an opponent's nose up into his brain. Under normal circumstances this would be quite unforgivable but given that you're a heavyweight boxing champion of the world we'll let it go this time...destroy them but don't bite - it's not fair...'"

Andy? Nicole?

Rock To the Top -- now there was a great cable access music program. Hair metal up the wazoo. And then they interviewed a bewildered Radiohead (back in 1993). I would give an arm and a leg for a tape of that now, it was hysterical.

"Whoop-There It Is!"

The host, RJ Watkins.

Surprising, it STILL comes on (in reruns of course). I don't know if you remember "The Dance Show", but that was even more GFab (GhettoFabulous) than "TNDS". But, that's Detroit: Wonderfully Tacky.

Other shows I've seen no one cares I watch(ed):

Sifl and Olly: ROCK! (It was mentioned already, but I had to add my 2 cents)

Buzzkill: Jackass' Redheaded Stepchild (Although Buzzkill was first, it never "hit" Jackass' cruelty level)

MTV Live: With MTV VJ Toby (Remember him?). They used to show this slow-motion tape of a little dog humping the CRAP out of a teddy bear, and it was the funniest thing I've ever seen.

The Critic: Comdey Central plays the reruns now, but during it's first run, I think I was the only one that kept the show on the air.

Drop the Beat: Although I live the States, due to the fact I live in Detroit, I watch CBC. It was a great Hip Hop show that never get its just desserts. *sigh* This Spring, it was cancelled.

Cleopatra 2525: I don't even want to talk about it. Ok, maybe a little--Girls kicking ASS! Girl Power, WHAT??

The Downer Channel: New show on NBC. It's my kind of comedy, and I feel, because I like it, it will be cancelled.

Maximum Exposure: Intense Real Events shown at 11pm. Who could ask for anything more?

I could add more, but now I'm beginning to believe that I have no life, and that TV has sucked the life out of what's left. *Ho-hum* :)

electric company.

read all about it. a spookily brilliant tv ontario show.

That would be CNN nowadays (All Bush, All the Time).

come on...he was a monkey secret agent! he played in a monkey psyche band called LANCELOT LINK AND THE EVOLUTION REVOLUTION. I WANT THIS ALBUM MORE THAN LIFE ITSELF.

The birthplace of Super Dave Osborne, yes? "Bizarre" was on ITV over here in the mid-80s. Apart from Super Dave, I'm ashamed to say that I only remember the 'speed bumps = bra tester' sketch.

Thanks

Nobody but me ever seems to remember Metal Mickey. I miss that show.

you can download the title sequence from ludwig here
http://tv.cream.org/themes/themes3.htm

things i vaguely remember:
nora & nellie - weird cartoon, set on an ark?
the owl service - children in wales with magical plates.
rentaghost - before it had the meekers and madam popov and that
bloody pantomime horse, i've got recollections of a quite
different kind of show, three ghosts living in a hotel and being
quite evil and scary.
oh, and kelly monteith. he had a show on bbc2?

not so long ago shows that i loved:
'it's like, you know'-- chris eisenberg playing his crabby (wondeful) self, and jennifer grey playing jennifer grey. the worst part was the running gag about people kind of recognizing JG but not quite getting it until she said 'nose job.' still, a great show.

'two stupid dogs'. was on cartoon network and was so so so funny. i don't think it's on anymore, and the only other person i knew that liked it was my friend rob.

Oh, I was big Downtown buff. Me and my flatmates used to watch it every thursday, but no one else seems to know about it. I remember me and my flatmate having discussions about how we totally related to the characters: I was like the shy bespectacled dude and she was like the not-so-social Chinese girl. That show was a million times more credible than any live-action show about "young adults".

Does anyone remember this: "Cap-tain Pla-net, he's a he-ro!" Did Captain Planet have the best eighties-style mullet or what:

http://www.turner.com/planet/static/graphics/captain.gif

I've seen The Great Space Coaster... always hated it.

I remember watching this game show all the time where kids play video games and have to score a certain amount of points in 60 seconds or something. It was on USA and no one ever knew what I was talking about, but I saw it on the Video Game Channel (or whatever) when I had digital cable. So I didn't make it up!

Yikes, Kelly Monteith. He was shit.
The thing on the ark was Noah and Nelly (hence the ark) - she used to knit everything, including (I think, but my mind may be playing tricks again) the smoke out of the funnel. Do arks even have funnels?

The Cops was utterly fuXoring great :)

I don't think I saw more than a couple episodes of this, but I was a big fan cos I thought Capt. Planet was a turquoise Macguyver with superpowers.

I'd read that upon finding out the show was cancelled they hurriedly shot a final episode in which the lead character has a heart attack and dies. Wonder if that ever aired..

I haven't read the entirety of upthread. Anyone mention On the Air, the summer replacement sitcom Mark Frost and David Lynch did after Twin Peaks? Probably even stranger as a sitcom than Twin Peaks was as a soap opera.

The other show was by that Alex Winters guy who was either Bill or Ted, I forget. The only sketch I remember wasn't very funny, but he played a "flying gimp."

Nope. I absolutely loved that show and went so far as to burn all 13 episodes to VCD

I'd read that upon finding out the show was cancelled they hurriedly shot a final episode in which the lead character has a heart attack and dies. Wonder if that ever aired..

It was the last one aired on Fox, but there were four more episodes that Trio aired when they reran the series last year. Oh, and the lead character survived the heart attack.

I'm pretty sure that was called The Idiot Box, but that was the name of the course I taught on television, so I might be mixing. It was close, though (and it was Bill, yeah). That had a lot of good moments.

I kinda sorta vaguely remember the pirate thing ... almost.

Oh, my next entry: PROFIT, for the love of God. (Another one Trio's done, I know, but I've never had Trio available).

Children's BBC.......

"we're called Jossy's Giant's

football's just a branch of science"

lol!

did you mean 'Morris Minor and the Majors' song Stutter Rap?

"well no-one's ever seen what I mean

from the age of ni-ni-ni-ni-ni-ni-nineteen..."

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They had another release, I think it was the same band anyway, 'John Kettley is a weatherman, a weatherman, a weatherman,

John Kettley is a weatherman

and so is Michael Fish!

and so is Ian McKaskill!"

etc.

They *did* have another song, though. It went:

This is the chorus
It goes around and around, and gets into your brain
This is the chorus
And thirty seconds from now, you'll hear it again

I'm pretty sure the John Kettley is a Weatherman was their song too.

Never heard of the chorus one tho'. But they obviously had other releases and B sides, etc.

From what I recall they looked like a sort of spoof of The Beastie Boys and Public Enemy during that time.

'John Kettley Is A Weatherman' was credited to Tribe Of Toffs - i vaguely recall them on TOTP, and the singer didn't resemble Tony Hawks at all - they sounded Scottish anyway

B.Aff was in that?? We watched that in 5th-grade science class!!

John Kettley is a weatherman
a weatherman
a weatherman
John Kettley is a weatherman
and so is Michael Fish

Simon Parkin's always larkin
Eric Lane is the same
Jonothan Ross collects moss
and John Kettley, John Kettley, John Kettley
is a weatherman

Lester Piggot couldn't dig it
David Icke rides a bike
Richard Keys has got no knees
and John Kettley, John Kettley, John Kettley
is a weatherman

Debbie Thrower's got a lawnmower
Johnny Marr he plays guitar
David Steele lives in Keele
and John Kettley, John Kettley, John Kettley
is a weatherman

Chuck Knox has blue socks
Andy Crane has got no brain
Bernard Davy left the navy
and John Kettley, John Kettley, John Kettley
is a weatherman

John Kettley is a weatherman
a weatherman
a weatherman
John Kettley is a weatherman
and so is Michael Fish
and so is Billy Giles
and so is Ian McGaskill
so is Wincy Willis

Big shout out back in time to ailsa -- there is a listing on TV Cream so we're not hallucinating. It bugs me that nobody remembers this - it was Nigel Kneale (Quatermass fella) attempting what felt like a sitcom and it had Rula Lenska in it too.

I loved:
The Mighty Orbots (cartoon. I knew it was silly, but I liked it. And the way the robot team ran when they were heading for action was funny and I would mimic it to entertain myself)

Clyde the Frog (bizarre frog marionette with a strange woman's voice. public television. often on around midday when i was home sick from school. clyde would always fuck up and use the opposite of good judgment and by doing so would teach the kids a lesson. Like he'd get cocky and decide not to use hand signals while riding his bike and end up being mangled by a car. It all looked so strange. wish i had a tape.

Fans of Action should check out the Illeana Douglas episode of Jay Mohr's podcast where they tell all the inside stories about the show and how messed up things were behind the scenes.

omg was Crooooooooow our first sock puppet - and none other than Ned Raggett at that?!

a sock puppet is not a person who posts regular things without any false persona under a handle taken from the name of a famous puppet

I can totally believe that this thread has no mention of RUBICON on it. still sad that AMC cancelled it after one season

tbf this thread has only had like 5 posts since Rubicon aired

well RUBICON

Really happy to discover that the complete run of both Pasadena (Mike White's dark soap opera loosely based on the LA Times Chandler family) and East Side West Side (1963 gritty drama with George C. Scott as a social worker) are up on YouTube.

Psi Factor. It's the Canadian X Files. It's hosted by an Ackroyd, and it's got the bloke from Max Headroom in it. And no one except me has ever seen it!
― masonic boom, Saturday, June 23, 2001 5:00 PM (fifteen years ago)

i used to make the radio promo spots for this show

i didn't think Pasadena was that great when it was on. i might have been wrong though.

just makes me wish they'd put China Beach on Hulu or Netflix.

idk about brilliant but INTERBANG‽ def made an impression growing up & ive never heard anyone else mention it

I remember 'The Ugliest Girl in Town.' I remember thinking he was cuter than Marlo Thomas. I also remember 'T.H.E Cat' at least I think that was the name of it. It was like 'It Takes A Thief' meets 'Man From Uncle.' Some former cat burglar all dressed in black using a grappling hook and rope to fight crime and uncover espionage. Always jumping from rooftops and such. Another fave was 'My World and Welcome To It' based on James Thurber. I think the star was the same guy that kamakazied a Federation shuttle craft into a giant ice cream cone that ate planets on Star Trek.