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Strange names for TV shows...

Braves2005 said:
How can I forget the strangest title of them all?

My Mother The Car
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I'll nominate "Over Easy" - the title of the late 70s-early 80s PBS show hosted by Hugh Downs and Mary Martin (once Peter Pan on stage, as well as Larry Hagman's mom). It was a show for and about senior citizens. I assume the title was supposed to refer to having a happy and healthy retirement life-style.

But to me, it reminded me too much of cooked eggs, or rolling "over" in one's grave - not exactly a great image for seniors.
 
Claude's Crib
The Littles
Bones
House
Doogie Howser M.D
Grounded For Life
The Half Hour Comedy Hour
Smallville
Scarecrow & Mrs. King
Mork & Mindy
 
The New Temparatures Rising Show, Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers. Santa in Wanderland was a local kids show in Ft. Wayne during December
 
One that comes to mind for me is the 2002 short-lived ABC sitcom, "Wednesday 9:30 (8:30 Central)" with John Cleese and Ed Begley Jr working at a fictional TV network. The show lasted two episodes, was placed on hiatus, and three remaining episodes were burned off that summer under the new title, "My Adventures in Television." Then it disappeared for good.
 
Braves2005 said:
Two And A Half Men -- The young person who plays the son on the show is now 15 (he was 9 when the show started) and if the show lasts 2 more seasons he'll graduate from high school and then what will the show be named? Three Men?
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Nah, it'll still be Two and a Half Men... with Charlie Sheen's character being the half man (I thought he already was him!)
 
Nanny 911
Reno 911
the Man from U.N.C.L.E
Armed & Famous
Worst Week
 
My mama was telling me once she watched a soap called From These Roots. I always thought that was a weird titled soap. But when One Life To Live was being created it name was going to be Between Heaven And Hell and the sponsor was going to an upset stomach medicine and the sponsor thought that viewers at home would take offense with the soap being named that and have a stomach medicine be its sponsor. so ABC exc's changed the name of the soap to one life to live.
 
Andy Coleman said:
My mama was telling me once she watched a soap called From These Roots. I always thought that was a weird titled soap. But when One Life To Live was being created it name was going to be Between Heaven And Hell and the sponsor was going to an upset stomach medicine and the sponsor thought that viewers at home would take offense with the soap being named that and have a stomach medicine be its sponsor. so ABC exc's changed the name of the soap to one life to live.
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That same thing happened with "The Secret Storm." It was going
to be called "The Storm Within," but a stomach medicine also sponsored
that show and for the same reason, the title was changed. (BTW, I think
the "fire" opening in the early years of "OLTL" was a holdover from that
"Between Heaven And Hell" title.)
 
I might add a British-made show that aired on ABC
in the summer of 1968, "Man In A Suitcase," with
Richard Bradford (who?) as spy John McGill. I think
the title refers to his globetrotting adventures, but
it conjures up images of a man getting locked in a
suitcase and spending the rest of the series trying
to get out.
 
The Edddgggeee...Of Night(why not just call it "Dusk"?
The Flying Nun
Empty Nest
 
In the 1964-65 prime time season on NBC there was a 90 minute program block entitled "90 Bristol Court" which suggested as the addresss of an apartment complex. It consisted of three sitcoms: "Karen" (a typical 60s teen) "Tom,Dick and Larry" and one other sitcom whose title I cannot remember. I think it ran in the Tuesday evening time slots....didn't survive one season...the summer repalcement series (I think) were reruns of the 50s series "GE Theater."

"Camp Runamuck" was another 1965-66 flop on NBC which ran on Friday evenings with "Hank" (about an ice cream cone vendor turned college student) along with "My Mother The Car."

"All That" on Nickelodeon I thought was a stange title but it launched the carreers of Kevin and Kell and Amanda Bynes. My kids loved it!

Another series on Nick "You Can't Do That on Television" also launched Alanis Morrisette's carreer.

So why did it imitate "Laugh In" and Monty Python?
"I Don't Know"...(slimed) eeeyyooooo!

A kids shampoo based on the series was also marketed by Nick as..(yep you guessed it)...Green Slime Shampoo!
 
kirkiefan said:
In the 1964-65 prime time season on NBC there was a 90 minute program block entitled "90 Bristol Court" which suggested as the addresss of an apartment complex. It consisted of three sitcoms: "Karen" (a typical 60s teen) "Tom,Dick and Larry" and one other sitcom whose title I cannot remember.
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I seem to recall the other show being Harris Against the World.
 
wbhist said:
kirkiefan said:
In the 1964-65 prime time season on NBC there was a 90 minute program block entitled "90 Bristol Court" which suggested as the addresss of an apartment complex. It consisted of three sitcoms: "Karen" (a typical 60s teen) "Tom,Dick and Larry" and one other sitcom whose title I cannot remember.
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I seem to recall the other show being Harris Against the World.
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And 'Tom, Dick, and Larry' was actually, 'Tom, Dick and Mary'..when I first saw those titles squeezedinto the prime-time grid in the Brooks and Marsh book, I thought it was one very long title...Karen Tom Dick and Mary Harris Against the World ::)
 
I'm surprised no one bought up "Babes," about three BBWs, one of them being Wendie Jo Sperber (RIP) or "Oh Baby" with Cynthia Stevenson.
 
The Chicago Teddy Bears
The Righteous Apples
Pistols and Petticoats
Captain Nice
Mr. Terrific
The New Adventures of Beans Baxter
You'll Never Get Rich (aka Sgt. Bilko)
He & She
United States (Patriotism had nothing to do with the storyline)
The Great American Dream Machine
San Francisco Mix
When Things Were Rotten
My Talk Show
I Led Three Lives
 
How about ABC's 1966 spy show "The Man Who Never
Was"? Actually, it's a spy who's an exact double for
the husband of a socialite (she's the only person who
can tell the difference in the two men); the socialite's
husband has been murdered by East Germans, thinking
he's the spy. If that doesn't make sense, the audience
didn't get it either; it lasted thirteen weeks.
 
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