What TV Series do you miss...just for fun

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The Fugitive, with David Janssen. Great original plot; great stories; great acting; and the first show with a truly blockbuster finale. Loved Barry Morse as the underrated Lieutenant Gerard. I can still repeat the opening verbatim years after I first saw it.

*The White Shadow. * I can’t think of another show from as far back as the 1970s to tackle racism; teen pregnancy; VD; alcoholism; child abuse; and many other real-world subjects - including the need to get a good education - yet still be fun to watch in 2015.
 
7_Sorrows said:
I liked Car 54 Where Are You too! Huckleberry Hound was a favorite of mine along with Woody Woodpecker.

Were Pixie and Dixie mice? Don’t remember Oggie Doggie.
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Yes, mice. Woody Woodpecker, I even had a Halloween costume of him.
 
Carmelitenovice:

Thank you for mentioning *Emergency! * That was my favorite.

*Emergency! *ran from 1972-1977, and six movies were made between 1978 and 1979. The show was about two paramedics from LACoFD station 51. When the show began in 1972, the paramedic concept was fairly new (LACoFD at that time only ran three paramedic squads - really). Viewers were pleased with the show, and wondered “why aren’t these guys in our neighborhood?” Within the shows run, the concept expanded, and Emergency! was “a little accident of history” that educated the public on the need for hospital care. By 1982, more than half of all Americans were within 10 minutes from a paramedic. That simply would not have happened, without the impact of Emergency!

I went to EMT school shortly after I got out of high school in the mid-1980’s, in part due to *Emergency! * Many of my classmates were there for the same reason. Served six years on a volunteer fire department, which included staffing an ambulance. Many firefighters, EMT’s, paramedics, nurses, and doctors who are over 45 watched Emergency! as children (as kids, we even played *Emergency! * with our friends and brothers- I used to use my erector set or my dad’s toolbox as a trauma kit, and often went down ropes from a backyard tree - others borrowed a Fisher Price phone to call the hospital), and will admit that Emergency! influenced their career decision.
 
Does anyone besides me remember the tv show *Head of the Class? *

I enjoyed watching it through it’s run from circa 1986 to 1991, and it was often the only show I tried to catch regularly. Head of the Class was about a group of honor students at a public high school in New York, and it was well done. IMHO, the show should have wrapped up when Howard Hesseman (who played Mr. Moore, the IHP’s permanent substitute) left for greener pastures.

I would like to see Head of the Class be released on DVD. It was a good show, and for the most part, it was a clean show. I also liked the Catholic kid (Alex Torres) who persuaded his mom to let him attend public school if he could get into the IHP, which he did. I do realize that there would have to be enough of a demand for the show to be released on DVD, since it will have to be profitable. I recall Head of the Class being syndicated in some places during the 1990’s, but I don’t know why TV Land or a cable channel hasn’t picked it up.

Head of the Class was somewhat of a re-written Room 222, but it focused on honors students. More recently, I saw several episodes of the first season of *Room 222 *for the first time, and I did like how many issues were addressed. I also liked how since Room 222 was set in 1969/1970, the public schools had dress codes, and students were expected to be respectful to adults, study, be responsible, and follow some kid of decorum. I would like to find more episodes of Room 222 also, to see how many issues of the day were addressed forty (give or take a few years) years ago.
 
Kay_Cee said:
I was in the studio audience for the pilot of Barney Miller.

A friend and I had gone to be in the audience for a game show. As we were coming out of the studio, we (and the rest of the audience) were approached about going to watch a new sitcom. I asked what the name of it was and was told “Barney Miller,” which I thought was a terrible name.

These people were desperate to get an audience. Nobody, after all, had heard of this show yet. Well, my girlfriend and I decided to give it a shot.

We were not all that impressed. When I saw it on TV later, I could tell the soundtrack had been “sweetened” (to use the industry’s term) by adding canned laughter at places where we didn’t laugh at all.

However, as we were exiting the studio after the taping, I remarked to my friend that if they wanted that show to be a hit, they needed to ditch all the stuff about Barney Miller’s home life and concentrate on his job at the police station. And, about three episodes or so into the series, that’s exactly what they did. (Not saying I’m responsible, but I didn’t know at the time that usually people are stationed outside to listen to the audience’s reaction after seeing the taping.)

Only sitcom where I’ve been in the audience.
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If only they would care about their audience today.

I see no one has mentioned

Columbo
Kojak
the Bill Cosby Show

My mother liked Golden Girls and it seems rather strange but my daughter likes this show on DVD.

My mother-in-law liked the Lawrence Welk Show
 
I still miss “Twin Peaks.” I cannot help but notice how much “Bates Motel” has thoroughly ‘borrowed’ (to put it charitably) from the show, but “Bates Motel” is far creepier than “Twin Peaks” ever was. And now that David Lynch has bailed from the show’s return, it’s unlikely the show will ever be back.

I also still miss “WKRP in Cincinnati.” Watching it today as an adult, I have no idea how that show got on the air at all - and I don’t just mean the original-airing music being replaced by cheesy public domain music for licensing issues (even for DVD reissue). There is no way that show could get made today. I don’t think there are enough people who still listen to terrestrial AM/FM anymore. But it’s more than a little eerie how much of “WKRP in Cincinnati” remains relevant and timely years later. Not even the inferior 90’s show “Newsradio” came close.
 
hwriggles4 said:
Does anyone besides me remember the tv show *Head of the Class? *

I enjoyed watching it through it’s run from circa 1986 to 1991, and it was often the only show I tried to catch regularly. Head of the Class was about a group of honor students at a public high school in New York, and it was well done. IMHO, the show should have wrapped up when Howard Hesseman (who played Mr. Moore, the IHP’s permanent substitute) left for greener pastures.

I would like to see Head of the Class be released on DVD. It was a good show, and for the most part, it was a clean show. I also liked the Catholic kid (Alex Torres) who persuaded his mom to let him attend public school if he could get into the IHP, which he did. I do realize that there would have to be enough of a demand for the show to be released on DVD, since it will have to be profitable. I recall Head of the Class being syndicated in some places during the 1990’s, but I don’t know why TV Land or a cable channel hasn’t picked it up.

Head of the Class was somewhat of a re-written Room 222, but it focused on honors students. More recently, I saw several episodes of the first season of *Room 222 *for the first time, and I did like how many issues were addressed. I also liked how since Room 222 was set in 1969/1970, the public schools had dress codes, and students were expected to be respectful to adults, study, be responsible, and follow some kid of decorum. I would like to find more episodes of Room 222 also, to see how many issues of the day were addressed forty (give or take a few years) years ago.
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Yes, as a fan of WKRP in Cincinnati, I remember Head of The Class. It also gave Billy Connelly his ‘big break’ in the U.S. And IIRC, I think the show’s fate was sealed by Robin Givens and the then-very-infamous Mike Tyson. That was HUGE deal - O.J. big, Kardashian big - when all that was going on in the pre-internet era.
 
gam197 said:
If only they would care about their audience today.

I see no one has mentioned

Columbo
Kojak
the Bill Cosby Show

My mother liked Golden Girls and it seems rather strange but my daughter likes this show on DVD.

My mother-in-law liked the Lawrence Welk Show
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Columbo is holding up very well. I watched it recently for about a year Sunday nights at 8. If you have cable you can find oldie stations that run it - they run a lot of good stuff. Jack Benny, George Burns.
 
I miss Diagnosis Murder. Dick Van D_yke played a doctor (Dr. Sloan) who solved murders as a police consultant.

A lot of the shows endings had great moral lessons.

One of my favorite episodes was the story about a married man and married woman are having an affair with each other. Their respective spouses don’t know. The adulterer man wants to leave his wife and go with the adulteress, and she is just along for the ride for fun, and not interested in leaving her husband. He murders her husband and frames a homeless guy who had a speech impediment. Dr. Sloan found out what the homeless guy was saying, he witnessed the adulterer man kill the adulteress’s husband. He builds a strong case with the help of some of the other people he knows.

All the while the adulteress doesn’t know that her lover was the murderer.

Dr. Sloan confronts the adulterer. When he realizes his goose is cooked, he commits suicide by walking into the ocean and drowning.

The adulterer’s wife found out from Dr. Sloan about the affair. The adulteress found out from Dr. Sloan that her lover killed her husband. She is sitting stunned on a park bench trying to process this, when the adulterer’s wife comes sits next to her, to talk to her about how her husband was dead. The adulterers realized that because of her selfishness, two men she loved are dead. Very powerful scene delivering a very powerful lesson.
 
BobCatholic said:
I miss Diagnosis Murder. Dick Van D_yke played a doctor (Dr. Sloan) who solved murders as a police consultant.

A lot of the shows endings had great moral lessons.

One of my favorite episodes was the story about a married man and married woman are having an affair with each other. Their respective spouses don’t know. The adulterer man wants to leave his wife and go with the adulteress, and she is just along for the ride for fun, and not interested in leaving her husband. He murders her husband and frames a homeless guy who had a speech impediment. Dr. Sloan found out what the homeless guy was saying, he witnessed the adulterer man kill the adulteress’s husband. He builds a strong case with the help of some of the other people he knows.

All the while the adulteress doesn’t know that her lover was the murderer.

Dr. Sloan confronts the adulterer. When he realizes his goose is cooked, he commits suicide by walking into the ocean and drowning.

The adulterer’s wife found out from Dr. Sloan about the affair. The adulteress found out from Dr. Sloan that her lover killed her husband. She is sitting stunned on a park bench trying to process this, when the adulterer’s wife comes sits next to her, to talk to her about how her husband was dead. The adulterers realized that because of her selfishness, two men she loved are dead. Very powerful scene delivering a very powerful lesson.
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Has anyone mentioned “Wagon Train”, with Ward Bond. I loved that show, wish they would play reruns. God Bless, Memaw
 
Memaw said:
Has anyone mentioned “Wagon Train”, with Ward Bond. I loved that show, wish they would play reruns. God Bless, Memaw
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They ought to have a Western Channel with
Wagon train
Sugarfoot
Mavick
The Virginian
Destry
Rawhide
Wild, Wild West
and so many others.
 
Michael_Mayo said:
They ought to have a Western Channel with
Wagon train
Sugarfoot
Mavick
The Virginian
Destry
Rawhide
Wild, Wild West
and so many others.
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It’s kind of off there isn’t a western channel. The closest thing I can think of is MeTV with their “rope opera” line-up.
 
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