Shows that haven't been seen anywhere in years

[cd637299]

Man With A Camera - Charles Bronson - correct.

Anybody yet mention Mission Impossible with Barbara Bain, Martin Landeau, & , Peter Graves & Greg Morris. Very good program for its era.

That's on MeTV nightly, very late (2am EST or so).

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[deltas69]

http://www.westernsontheweb.com/?page_id=7752 for some of the westerns mentioned..clik that link some have only a hand full of episodes..others have many more..quality is somewhat faded on some of the older ones..but stil watchable clik on the series name..and a drop down menu appears..clik on an episode and then..scroll down a bit to watch it..sometimes there are presented in two or more segments..but great to see the old stuff a lot of us grew up on....especially since you cant get them elsewhere..i snagged a complete series dvd set of 'Wanted Dead or Alive" couple years ago from somewhere on the web..can't recall..but it is pristine quality..10.00 for all three seasons..

 

[rhead]

I'm gonna mention ... most episodes of Sesame Street.

There were a bunch of old episodes airing on the now defunct Noggin channel for awhile, retitled "Sesame Street Unpaved," and a few select episodes have been released on "Sesame Street Old School," and there were a couple on iTunes as well, but more than 4,300 episodes of the series have been produced at this point, and most have not aired since their original airing. I always wondered why Sesame Street episodes only ever aired once. I have a feeling that most old episodes may never be released. I have a friend who claims that he received all episodes from 1 - 3005 from someone at Sesame Workshop, and that he is not allowed to trade them with anyone, but I do not believe that is true. I do know for fact that Sesame Workshop is NOT allowed to send out tapes of episodes.

Your mention of the Noggin channel reminds me of another program that that channel used to show but hasn't been seen on TV anywhere since they dropped it- the original version of The Electric Company.

 

[FredLeonard]

This thread has gone from shows that haven't been seen to shows nobody remembers. Either because they flopped the first time or were really, really bad.

Mission: Impossible. Forget Barbara Bain. Couldn't stand Lynda Day George. I love Lesley Ann Warren. I also preferred Steven Hill to Peter Graves. But I made the mistake of watching the first MI movie with Tom Cruise and that ruined the whole thing for me. I don't want to see the show. I don't even want to think about it any more. Tom Cruise. Pretty boy, movie star, makes a lot of money and he needs the Church of Scientology to get him chicks!

 

[cd637299]

^ Making feature-length movies out of long-gone sitcoms (edit: or dramas) IMO is basically a lazy way for writers to get ideas.....and, it's gone way outta hand. We could start a thread on that, but not now!

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[skippercollector]

ABC Afterschool Specials
Schoolhouse Rock
made-for-TV movies of the 1970s and 1980s. Except for Brian's Song, The Day After and Something for Joey, they've all disappeared.

 

[SixtiesGuy]

This thread has gone from shows that haven't been seen to shows nobody remembers. Either because they flopped the first time or were really, really bad.

I can't buy your either/or rationale for why some shows haven't been remembered. Television history is full of examples of shows that were cancelled prematurely despite being popular or critical successes. Exhibit A: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, which was by any measure a success, but was cancelled because CBS executives were in mortal fear of offending the sitting presidential administration. Conversely, there are many examples of shows that were kept on the air despite their lack of quality or great ratings, usually because they were relatively cheap to produce or were favorites of (the same).

 

[onairb]

ABC Afterschool Specials
Schoolhouse Rock
made-for-TV movies of the 1970s and 1980s. Except for Brian's Song, The Day After and Something for Joey, they've all disappeared.

Search for "ABC Movie of the Week" on Youtube, and you'll find a lot of them, including at least two of the three you mentioned(Not sure about 'Joey'). I recently watched 'The Ballad of Andy Crocker'(Lee Majors in a 1969 drama about a Vietnam vet's homecoming) and 'Smash-Up on Interstate 5'.

 

[BD Sullivan]

"Something for Joey" is on You Tube, although it's chopped into about seven 10-15 blocks.

 

[FredLeonard]

This thread has gone from shows that haven't been seen to shows nobody remembers. Either because they flopped the first time or were really, really bad.

I can't buy your either/or rationale for why some shows haven't been remembered. Television history is full of examples of shows that were cancelled prematurely despite being popular or critical successes. Exhibit A: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, which was by any measure a success, but was cancelled because CBS executives were in mortal fear of offending the sitting presidential administration. Conversely, there are many examples of shows that were kept on the air despite their lack of quality or great ratings, usually because they were relatively cheap to produce or were favorites of (the same).

Please note I used "or," not "and." The Smother's Brothers was a good show and got good ratings. And people remember it. It was cancelled (depending on whom you believe) because of controversy associated with it or because Tom and Dick didn't get the show to standards and practices for review before airing.

There are some critical hits which didn't find an audience and did not get a chance to develop an audience or develop as a program. Often this was due to ms-handling and poor scheduling by the network. One example, and one of the funniest sitcoms ever, is (Sen.) Al Franken's "Lateline." If he ever start a thread of NBC Dumb Moves, this should be way up on the list.

 

[skippercollector]

Something for Joey and Brian's Song (both versions) have been shown on ESPN Classic, while The Day After has been shown in the past few years on TV Land and probably SyFy.
The Gathering and The Gathering II were both on TNN (before Spike) about 15 years ago. They FINALLY got released on DVD two years ago, and I bought them immediately.
Deadman's Curve (my all-time favorite TV movie) showed up everywhere in syndication in the 1980s, but I suspect the reason it disappeared since then was because of music copyright issues. I got the VHS in the 1980s for Christmas one year but I doubt it will ever be released on DVD. The VHS gets pricey on ebay.
I would love to see again Roll, Freddy, Roll, It Happened One Christmas, Go Ask Alice, That Certain Summer, The Morning After, Amber Waves, The People and When Every Day was the Fourth of July. The Homecoming showed up on GMC last December, the first time it had aired in decades!

 

[jfrancispastirchak]

This thread has gone from shows that haven't been seen to shows nobody remembers. Either because they flopped the first time or were really, really bad.

Tom Cruise. Pretty boy, movie star, makes a lot of money and he needs the Church of Scientology to get him chicks!

TC ruined MI for me too. Nowadays I even get the creeps wearing Fruit of the Loom.

 

[Mark Giardina]

I'm afraid that a number of the shows mentioned won't be aired over television because many of them are for sale on DVD.
Wanted Dead or Alive was one of my favorite shows and I thought that MeTV would air it. But because the three seasons are on DVD they will not be aired over television.

 

[BD Sullivan]

I'm afraid that a number of the shows mentioned won't be aired over television because many of them are for sale on DVD.
Wanted Dead or Alive was one of my favorite shows and I thought that MeTV would air it. But because the three seasons are on DVD they will not be aired over television.

That hasn't stopped shows like I Love Lucy, MASH, Gunsmoke, Bonzanza and many others from continuing to be shown.

 

[cspotrun]

maybe its been mentioned but, i would like to see The Real McCoys's on ME-TV, there are around 10 episodes on YouTube, quality is terrible on some of them... i remember watching it as kid, but as an adult it is even more funny. as far as"Rural Comedies" are concerned everybody points to the beverly hillbillies, and green acres, but The Real McCoy's was one of if not THE 1st. very good writing, and walter brennan was one of a kind.

 

[jfrancispastirchak]

I'm afraid that a number of the shows mentioned won't be aired over television because many of them are for sale on DVD.
Wanted Dead or Alive was one of my favorite shows and I thought that MeTV would air it. But because the three seasons are on DVD they will not be aired over television.

That hasn't stopped shows like I Love Lucy, MASH, Gunsmoke, Bonzanza and many others from continuing to be shown.

I'm guessing the airing of iconic shows like those wouldn't be a risk to DVD sales. Fans of Lucy, M*A*S*H, and Bonanza can never get enough. I know, I'm one of them.

 

[howardm]

RE; Walter Brennan - Anybody remember his top 40 hit?

 

[cd637299]

RE; Walter Brennan - Anybody remember his top 40 hit?

Yes, "Old Rivers" was his biggest (sort of a slow country rap, if you will), but "Mama Sang a Song" was also Top 40, and there was another one in Top 40 as well, I think, which I forget.

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[Tim L]

RE; Walter Brennan - Anybody remember his top 40 hit?

"Mama Sang a Song" was also Top 40, and there was another one in Top 40 as well, I think, which I forget.

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Written by Bill Anderson, who had the first hit with it in 1962..

 

[landtuna]

RE; Walter Brennan - Anybody remember his top 40 hit?

Wasn't there one about the Lost Dutchman?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QpS7omGDjI