Shows That You Wish Were Still On TV?

[Aljr]

How about the original; "The Outer Limits."

Oh yeah. As a 6 year old I used to change the channels just to be sure they weren't taking control of my tv set.

 

[notalkallstatic]

The one real show that I really miss, is Mystery Science Theater 3000.

IMO, that was the greatest show that has ever graced our television screens.

 

[Riley_dfwm]

Barney Miller and Our World (c'mon, we all remember that one)

 

[jonbruce]

"The Life of Riley"- Willim Bendix; "Highway Patrol"-Broadrick Crawford; and "I Married Joan"-Joan Davis and Jim Backus.

 

[pqgeorge]

Barney Miller and Our World (c'mon, we all remember that one)

Fortunately, "Barney Miller" is available on DVD, all 7 seasons.

"Our World" (It's about time.). I loved that show. Linda Ellerbee and Ray Gandolf made a great team. I wish that one year of "Our World" was available on DVD. It was well done and quite educational. Maybe ABC could put it on their website. Who knows.

 

[oldschooler1]

"Our World" (It's about time.). I loved that show. Linda Ellerbee and Ray Gandolf made a great team. I wish that one year of "Our World" was available on DVD. It was well done and quite educational. Maybe ABC could put it on their website. Who knows.
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But it was a throw-away show for ABC -- remember, it went up against The Cosby Show Thursday's at 8PM. At the time, I was working the night shift, so did not get to see it as much as I wanted to.

What wasn't too bad, either, was MSNBC's Then and Now...Some were good, some were just OK.

Ray Gandolf -- is he alive?

 

[MikefromDelaware]

I agree, that Our World (its about time) was a great show, even if it was a throw away show. I used to watch Cosby and tape Our World. We've watched those shows numerous times with our kids. A cool way to show them some history. I'd like it if there were DVD's available of this show as my VHS tapes finally gave up the ghost. My kids couldn't believe their eyes watching teenagers going crazy over Artie Shaw's big band in the 1938 show. Linda Ellerbee and Rat Gandoff made a great team. "And so it goes."

 

[ssetta]

Classic Sesame Street - Anything from before 1998, when the dreaded Elmo's World premiered
Classic Price is Right starring Bob Barker
Lottery Live with Dawn Hayes

 

[bk77]

I agree, that Our World (its about time) was a great show, even if it was a throw away show. I used to watch Cosby and tape Our World. We've watched those shows numerous times with our kids. A cool way to show them some history. I'd like it if there were DVD's available of this show as my VHS tapes finally gave up the ghost. My kids couldn't believe their eyes watching teenagers going crazy over Artie Shaw's big band in the 1938 show. Linda Ellerbee and Rat Gandoff made a great team. "And so it goes."

I believe ABC did offer Our World on VHS back in the 80s. At least they did for schools and colleges. My high school was one of them who got the tapes.

Now for the general public, I don't think they did.

 

[Ultimajock]

I agree, that Our World (its about time) was a great show, even if it was a throw away show. I used to watch Cosby and tape Our World. We've watched those shows numerous times with our kids. A cool way to show them some history. I'd like it if there were DVD's available of this show as my VHS tapes finally gave up the ghost. My kids couldn't believe their eyes watching teenagers going crazy over Artie Shaw's big band in the 1938 show. Linda Ellerbee and Rat Gandoff made a great team. "And so it goes."

I believe ABC did offer Our World on VHS back in the 80s. At least they did for schools and colleges. My high school was one of them who got the tapes.

Now for the general public, I don't think they did.

...and, much as I loved that thing (the Halloween 1938 program centered around Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast and the panic it caused), I have to think that, with all the clip licensing that show would require, the complete original runs of "WKRP in Cincinnati" and the Thames documentary on silent cinema "Hollywood" will see DVD issue before "Our World" does...

 

[Kurt Toy]

The Real McCoys, The Defenders, Classic Dating Game with Jim Lange, I could go on.

 

[Andy Coleman]

I haven't seen these shows in a long time. Wish now a days they were still on or somewhere. Fall Guy, Falcon Crest, Riptide, Crazy like a fox, trapper john md., Double Trouble with twins,another world, santa barbara, later shows past 1982 of Ryan's Hope, Walking Tall the series, Cover up, Facts of life, It's your move, silver spoons, cannon, Hee Haw, Police Story, Welcome Back Kotter, Gimmie A Break, lots of shows like some i mentioned have never been aired on tv since they were taken off network schedule.

 

[anotherguyTN]

Trapper John MD is on ALN on Wednesday nights. Welcome Back Kotter was on WGN one night in June during their 70's retro week. I don't know if there are plans for it to be more regular in the future.

 

[Ultimajock]

...another one I have to mention would be "SheSpies." The first season (2002-03) was damned funny; unfortunately, a different production unit was brought in for the second season and took the series away from the comedy and tried to turn it into a retread of "Charlie's Angels" -- and it sank the show...

 

[kirkiefan]

Locally originating children's shows...with kids in the audience interacting with the hosts during games or with progran guests who may have been with local museums and such that would gear to local youth.

One such program was "The Uncle Orrie Show" on WHIO-TV in Dayton throughout much of the 1970s. Joe Rockhold was the title character with local actor Ken Hardin as Ferdy Fussbudget. It was much more than just cartoons back then. I miss that era of television dearly.

Surely there were other programs across the country like that one....and there were LESS commercials!

 

[smashedcd]

Movin On
Angie
Hello Larry
Tabitha
Chips

 

[bpatrick]

Mannix
Have Gun, Will Travel (saw it on the Hallmark
Channel a couple of years ago but they haven't
shown it lately)
The Odd Couple
The Bob Newhart Show (but how different
it would be with Suzanne Pleshette gone)
F Troop
Rawhide
The Millionaire
Burns And Allen (this show could be funnier
than the show it most resembled, I Love Lucy)
He & She (a gem of a sitcom from 1967-68 with
Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss)
Trials Of O'Brien (Peter Falk as a small-time lawyer,
an overlooked gem from 1965-66)
You Bet Your Life (with Groucho...forget
Buddy Hackett and Bill Cosby)
Ryan's Hope
The Secret Storm
Guiding Light (at least the '80s and early
90s, up to the point where they killed off
Maureen Bauer)
Camouflage (in its original version, except
that Don Morrow is 81 now)
Who Do You Trust? (with Johnny Carson...
forget Woody Woodbury)
Gambit (1972-76...forget the '80s Las Vegas Gambit)
Dick Cavett, Mike Douglas, and Merv Griffin--
at least I'd get to hear some civilized conversation
and two documentary series I wish the History Channel
would get ahold-of, both from 1964-65: FDR (originally
aired on ABC) and World War I (originally aired on CBS)

 

[RicoGregg]

I have only one wish along this line - Dead Like Me.

Showtime (Les Moonves, maybe?) pulled the plug on this marvelous dramedy way too soon. There were only 29 episodes produced, and a growing legion of fans.

A new straight-to-DVD has been made, sans Mandy Patinkin, and online petitions have been sent en masse to the Sci-Fi Channel, where reruns of DLM found it's true core audience, to please revive the show.

 

[The Voice of Reason]

Third Watch
NYPD Blue
The Dead Zone
Now and Again
The Adventures of Superman
The Twilight Zone
Space, Above and Beyond
Star Trek; The Next Generation
Wanted Dead or Alive
Harry O
The Man from U.N.C.L.E
Time Tunnel