Old shows that you enjoy?

[bloodtide]

Blake's Seven was a great show! And it is nearly lost to time. Most Americans had very little chance to see it. In America it was only shown on PBS, just like Doctor Who. Blink and you missed it.

I'll add: You Can't Do That on Television. The staple of Early Nickelodeon programing. It was a skit comedy show for kids, framed in a comedy show about making a kids skit comedy show..and then mixed fantasy with real reality more times than can be counted. It was such a trip. For complicated reasons it never gets re run much, so unless you saw it at the time it's gone. Though You Tube has a bunch.....

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

A lot of old favourites popping up in this thread! Has anyone mentioned Robin of Sherwood? The ITV show with a young Ray Winstone and Sean Connery's son popping up for the final season.

 

[dragoner]

70's TV was often crap, endless MASH, Three's Company, or Happy Days. Blake's Seven, and Dr Who were awesome, and only seen on PBS, but PBS wasn't so bad, back then there weren't a lot of TV channels. I remember seeing Image Union, and it was pretty good: Image Union - Wikipedia

 

[WayneLigon]

Loved Kolchak, and I'm astounded nobody has tried rebooting it (I have blanked the terrible 00's reboot from my mind), but maybe Darren McGavin was just so perfect for the role that nobody feels they can touch it. The first and as far as I'm aware the only show ever to feature a rakshasha.

There were a number of attempts in the mid-70's by Gene Roddenberry to break back into TV: Genesis II, Planet Earth, The Questor Tapes, Spectre, all of which were stealth pilots for new shows. None were picked up, but I liked them. I quite liked Spectre. It's hard to get across how rare Sci-fi and horror were on TV pre-Star Wars.

Rummaging through Tubi, I found the 'movie/intro for Fantastic Journey - it leans into the Bermuda Triangle craze of the time and used a lot of dimension/parallel/timer travel shenanigans, and Jared Martin's Legally Distinct Sonic Screwdriver being the all-purpose Problem Solver Except When It Is Not. It didn't last very long. Scheduling it across from The Waltons was pretty much a death sentence even if it had been twice as good.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I saw The Fantastic Journey, but I was very young at the time and haven't seen it since. I remember Roddy McDowell, and people jumping into a cloud at the end of the Episode.

When I saw Sliders, it kind of reminded me of this.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I was reminded of Fantasy Island recently. By the (poor) second series of Nine Perfect Strangers, which seemed to be changing into it, with Nichole Kidman as the new Mr Rourke, and Mark Strong as Lex Luthor.

 

[Tonguez]

Loved Kolchak, and I'm astounded nobody has tried rebooting it (I have blanked the terrible 00's reboot from my mind), but maybe Darren McGavin was just so perfect for the role that nobody feels they can touch it. The first and as far as I'm aware the only show ever to feature a rakshasha.

There were a number of attempts in the mid-70's by Gene Roddenberry to break back into TV: Genesis II, Planet Earth, The Questor Tapes, Spectre, all of which were stealth pilots for new shows. None were picked up, but I liked them. I quite liked Spectre. It's hard to get across how rare Sci-fi and horror were on TV pre-Star Wars.

Rummaging through Tubi, I found the 'movie/intro for Fantastic Journey - it leans into the Bermuda Triangle craze of the time and used a lot of dimension/parallel/timer travel shenanigans, and Jared Martin's Legally Distinct Sonic Screwdriver being the all-purpose Problem Solver Except When It Is Not. It didn't last very long. Scheduling it across from The Waltons was pretty much a death sentence even if it had been twice as good.

Damn! was Roddy McDowell in everything in the 70s?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Damn! was Roddy McDowell in everything in the 70s?

Yes. (Pulls off monkey mask).

 

[Ryujin]

Blake's Seven was a great show! And it is nearly lost to time. Most Americans had very little chance to see it. In America it was only shown on PBS, just like Doctor Who. Blink and you missed it.

I'll add: You Can't Do That on Television. The staple of Early Nickelodeon programing. It was a skit comedy show for kids, framed in a comedy show about making a kids skit comedy show..and then mixed fantasy with real reality more times than can be counted. It was such a trip. For complicated reasons it never gets re run much, so unless you saw it at the time it's gone. Though You Tube has a bunch.....

One of the kids on "You Can't Do That on Television", Teddy Wilson, went on to be a host on a media news show on our version of the SciFi Channel, SPACE. Sadly, they rebranded it to CTV SciFi Channel and killed any real flavour the channel had, but Teddy also did stuff like "Mighty Trains" on Discovery. I saw him around the Silver Snail comic shop, in Toronto, a couple of times.

Aside: Long before this show ever existed, there was a show by the same name on our local cable access channel 10. it was a music show, hosted by a local DJ, and predated cable music channels (mid-'70s).

Loved Kolchak, and I'm astounded nobody has tried rebooting it (I have blanked the terrible 00's reboot from my mind), but maybe Darren McGavin was just so perfect for the role that nobody feels they can touch it. The first and as far as I'm aware the only show ever to feature a rakshasha.

There were a number of attempts in the mid-70's by Gene Roddenberry to break back into TV: Genesis II, Planet Earth, The Questor Tapes, Spectre, all of which were stealth pilots for new shows. None were picked up, but I liked them. I quite liked Spectre. It's hard to get across how rare Sci-fi and horror were on TV pre-Star Wars.

Rummaging through Tubi, I found the 'movie/intro for Fantastic Journey - it leans into the Bermuda Triangle craze of the time and used a lot of dimension/parallel/timer travel shenanigans, and Jared Martin's Legally Distinct Sonic Screwdriver being the all-purpose Problem Solver Except When It Is Not. It didn't last very long. Scheduling it across from The Waltons was pretty much a death sentence even if it had been twice as good.

I watched a couple of "'70s SciFi shows that were great, but died too soon" videos on Youtube and they reminded me of "Fantasic Journey." I had forgotten about it, but was definitely sad when it was cancelled.

I have mentioned the Roddenberry pilots in other threads here, down through the years, and the fact that "Planet Earth" did eventually get made int o a series. It was called "Andromeda", starring Kevin Sorbo. A group commanded by a guy named Dylan Hunt. He meets genetically engineered super humans, who want to subjugate everyone and travels around trying to create peace, through superior tech

 

[Ryujin]