Forgotten Network/Syndicated TV Shows of the Past

[willdav713]

I would have to add the Essence of Emeril to the list. Show has been off the air since the late late 90's.

I would watch Food Network if they would bring Essence of Emeril back.

 

[crainbebo]

Think the last time I saw "Essence of Emeril" was around circa 2006, but it was at some very weird timeslot (late night?)

-crainbebo

 

[Corky Marlowe]

Think the last time I saw "Essence of Emeril" was around circa 2006, but it was at some very weird timeslot (late night?)

Might be on the Cooking Channel now. I'm pretty sure they also show "Good Eats", another one that Food Network no longer airs, along with the original Japanese episodes of "Iron Chef" ("Fukui-San!"). The Emeril show I miss is "Emeril Live"...

 

[johnnya2k6]

America ran half a season in 1985-86 I believe McLean Stevenson and Sra Purcell hosted it

They did indeed! It was from Paramount Television, which means that now CBS owns it.

And as brought up before, Soap World was a King World offering (not Barry & Enright, though it used the 1976 Break The Bank theme music as theirs), also currently owned by CBS. Both shows had the late Charlie O'Donnell as announcer.

 

[crainbebo]

Good Eats IS on Cooking Channel and I enjoy the reruns.

-crainbebo

 

[willdav713]

Good Eats IS on Cooking Channel and I enjoy the reruns.

-crainbebo

He was also on the On Demand channels on Time Warner.
Just 3 minute versions of him, though.

I got another one "The Galloping Gourmet" last aired around 3:30 AM on the Food Network back in 2002 when Time Warner served the Houston area.
I lived in an apartment back then with hot cable taps and phone taps, yes hot phone taps a royal mess up of SBC.

 

[blackgold]

How about "How To Boil Water" on the Food Network?

 

[crainbebo]

Good Eats IS on Cooking Channel and I enjoy the reruns.

-crainbebo

He was also on the On Demand channels on Time Warner.
Just 3 minute versions of him, though.

I got another one "The Galloping Gourmet" last aired around 3:30 AM on the Food Network back in 2002 when Time Warner served the Houston area.
I lived in an apartment back then with hot cable taps and phone taps, yes hot phone taps a royal mess up of SBC.

There's a bunch of Youtube videos of Galloping Gourmet showing that it was on the Cooking Channel - probably for a limited time, and probably in the wee hours of the morning. (c. 2010-11)

-crainbebo

 

[johnnya2k6]

One other note to pass along about The Lorenzo and Henrietta Music Show:

The reason why it was very forgotten -- it lasted about a month, I read -- was that folk music (Lorenzo's forte) seemed to be out of style at a time when disco was about to explode onto the scene! And here are a few more, all syndicated:

Reunion (1990)
Memories: Then and Now (same year), hosted by WNBC anchor Chuck Scarborough
Omni: The World Tomorrow (1981), the TV version of the now-defunct science magazine Omni and had absolutely no relation to The World Tomorrow (which was still hosted by the late Herbert W. Armstrong)
The Whoopi Goldberg Show (1992), which was Whoopi one-on-one with a guest

 

[crainbebo]

Whoopi Goldberg (when it was on) was carried on KSTW here in Seattle in the wee hours of the morning.

My new 1989 TV Guide I got shows a program in the wee hours of Sunday night on WMAQ called "Life's Most Embarrassing Moments". What was this show? Also a show called "On Trial" on WANE 15 - I think it was syndicated but it could have been WANE-produced, who knows.

-crainbebo

 

[Corky Marlowe]

My new 1989 TV Guide I got shows a program in the wee hours of Sunday night on WMAQ called "Life's Most Embarrassing Moments". What was this show?

It was a blooper show, hosted (I think) by Steve Allen. Don't think it lasted too long.

 

[jfrancispastirchak]

Our Time, a celebration of mainly 60's culture with heavy emphasis on that era's pop music. Hosted by Karen Valentine, the cast included Harry Anderson and the late, great Phil Hartman. Ran for one season.

Burned in my memory is an episode featuring high energy musical guests Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels.

 

[crainbebo]

I'd also like to add
"The Reporters" - Two-season Fox show ('88-'90) which was a newsmagazine similar to A Current Affair.

-crainbebo

 

[johnnya2k6]

My new 1989 TV Guide I got shows a program in the wee hours of Sunday night on WMAQ called "Life's Most Embarrassing Moments". What was this show?

It was a blooper show, hosted (I think) by Steve Allen. Don't think it lasted too long.

And before that, a 1984 ABC special hosted by John Ritter.

 

[johnnya2k6]

Oh, I forgot this one:

Key West (Fox, 1993), starring Fisher Stevens (yes, Ben from "Short Circuit" fame)

 

[joeybabe25]

Has anyone mentioned "What's Alan Watching" from about 20 years ago? It starred Corin Nemic and was an Eddie Murphy production. It was a show about a guy who watches television. The idea is a hoot and I remember it as being funny.

Joe

Here's a clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vffY617Czeg

 

[bpatrick]

I'd also like to add
"The Reporters" - Two-season Fox show ('88-'90) which was a newsmagazine similar to A Current Affair.

-crainbebo

Also add "The Reporter," a 1964 CBS drama with Harry Guardino as a reporter prone to become personally
involved in the stories he covers. This was one of three Keefe Brasselle-produced shows ("The Cara Williams
Show" and "The Baileys Of Balboa" were the others) that got on the CBS schedule without a pilot, thanks to
Brasselle's friendship with Jim Aubrey. As we all know, all three shows flopped, one (but not the only) reason
Aubrey was ousted as president of CBS in 1965.

Another show on CBS that year obviously had limits re its dramatic potential: "Mr. Broadway," with Craig
Stevens as a New York PR guy. The plot possibilities must have run out quickly since the show lasted
only the fall of '64. (Brasselle, BTW, had nothing to do with this show.)

CBS's fall '64 schedule seemed to have more than its fair share of disasters. Besides the four mentioned
above, there was "My Living Doll" (Julie Newmar as a robot being programmed by Bob Cummings to be
the "perfect woman"--totally subservient to men--why does this sound so appropriate for Cummings?),
"Many Happy Returns" (regular chaos in a department store), and "The Entertainers" (which didn't work
despite the presence of Carol Burnett and Bob Newhart, two of the Eye Network's biggest stars ten
years later).

 

[johnnya2k6]

Two more, hosted by Bill Cullen:

Quick As A Flash (ABC, 1953)
The Love Experts (syndicated, 1978; it wasn't really a game show even though it was from Bob "Pyramid" Stewart)

 

[bpatrick]

Cullen had a few other forgettables:

Bank On The Stars (NBC, 1954; he replaced Jack Paar
as host)
Blankety Blanks (ABC, 1975)
Child's Play (CBS, 1982)
Pass The Buck (CBS, 1978)
Place The Face (CBS/NBC, 1954-55)
Winning Streak (NBC, 1974)

 

[rnigma1]

Also add "The Reporter," a 1964 CBS drama with Harry Guardino as a reporter prone to become personally
involved in the stories he covers. This was one of three Keefe Brasselle-produced shows ("The Cara Williams
Show" and "The Baileys Of Balboa" were the others) that got on the CBS schedule without a pilot, thanks to
Brasselle's friendship with Jim Aubrey. As we all know, all three shows flopped, one (but not the only) reason
Aubrey was ousted as president of CBS in 1965.

Another show on CBS that year obviously had limits re its dramatic potential: "Mr. Broadway," with Craig
Stevens as a New York PR guy. The plot possibilities must have run out quickly since the show lasted
only the fall of '64. (Brasselle, BTW, had nothing to do with this show.)

Brasselle loved to flaunt his mob connections, and once tried to arrange a "hit" on Greg Garrison, director of Brasselle's own variety show. As for Aubrey, Brasselle went for character assassination instead of an actual one, writing a thinly-disguised novel called "The CanniBalS." (subtle, eh?)

"Mr. Broadway" did have one distinction: original music scores by Dave Brubeck.