shows that disappeared into the black hole

Courtship of Eddie's Father
Nanny and the Professor
Land of the Giants
any of the variety shows (as Shaggie mentioned, Tony Orlando and Dawn, as well as the Sonny and Cher show and the Donny and Marie show)
The Carol Burnett Show
Bachelor Father
Family Affair
The New Zoo Review
The Gong Show
Get Christie Love
Policewoman

 

Mr. Terrific and Captain Nice...I barely remember them.

www.tvparty.com/terrific.html

Also, the Green Hornet with Bruce Lee as Kato.

 

I miss 21 Jump Street, that was such a cool show. Also, a tv show from Canada I used to watch a lot when I was able to pick up the CBC on my big dish, and that was called North of 60, an excellent show.

 

Land of the lost...
Im sure the 70s version was better...but I grew up with the 90s version

 

ok my age is out of the bag now! i remember allmost all the tee vee programs listed here. (yes i did read the this whole thread too!) allmost all of them were... S-H-I-T! even as a little kid i pertty much hated tee vee. i was one weird kid. about the only thing i ever watched on tee vee growing up was movies and speicals. in later childhood and my teen years i watched a lot of public television. my favourt old tee vee was back around 1975, it was called nova; and it's still on today! i do miss pbs theater and midnight snacks thought. those programs had really, really, strange but great movies! now i'm out of the "nerd closet" to all of you.

 

What about the Canadian Mr. Dressup and Casey the puppet.

.

 

The TV show 'Thirtysomething' hasn't been around for a while either.

Man, that was a whiney show.

.

 

third rock from the sun lol

 

The Adventures of Pete and Pete. =(

 

Some of the 70s rock music shows are nowhere to be found. Such as:

Don Kirschner's Rock Concert
The Midnight Special.

Both of those were good rock shows with live performances.

.

 

You can find many of those shows (or at least the individual performers) on youtube

The Sword of Justice


Hotwater

 

Midnight Special is on Youtube but Kirshner is more difficult to find.

.

 

Midnight Special is on DVD commercially. There are certain performers that aren't on the DVDs from what I've heard, such as ELO.

.

 

Haven't seen Shindig! anywhere either. That was a pop music variety show on ABC in the 60s.

.

 

alien nation
nuff said.

 

Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

That was a U.S. show in the 60s about animals and nature starring the older Marlin Perkins and the young tough Jim Fowler.

You may recall that Jim always got stuck with the tough jobs.

"While Marlin is upstream in the hut with the native girls, Jim will be downstream with the alligator pouncing on his face."

The more recent incarnation of Wild Kingdom is Animal Planet.

.

 

I agree with the opening post. Why are they keeping so many classics off the air??SO many great older shows used to be shown on many stations as re-runs .They should bring them back,because I don't watch any of the new 'junk!Hogans Heroes a great show just started airing on tvland again.Hey,maybe they don't want youngsters to see what great tv shows are like so they can get them used to the pure drivel they put out now.lol

 

Some of the blackout may be due to legal issues. There's often haggling amongst people who own the material concerning how to best market it and share the money.

.

 

I have a slim connection to two of the shows mentioned ... a cousin of mine was one of the leading characters in The Roaring Twenties. She was actually from a part of the family that we had no contact with, and I'd never heard of her until somebody mentioned the show to me one day many years ago. She also had a #1 hit record in the UK sometime in the early 60's.

The second connection is to Lost in Space. One of the regular characters attended my church some years ago. I can't say she was a close friend, but we were friendly with each other. I never watched the show myself, so I don't even know which character she played. But this was some years after the show had ended, and she said she still got a significant amount of fan mail. She was quite attractive, and most of the mail was from young men. She was a wonderful singer, too.

That's my name-dropping for today

Anybody have stories of their own?

 

The Smothers Brothers made it to DVD finally.

http://www.amazon.com/Smothers-Brot..._m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1H150KH8BJEH0M2HS5GF

.