What random TV shows do you remember?

[JillMelissa]

I was just thinking about some of the TV shows I remember growing up that I haven't thought about in ages...

My Two Dads
Small Wonder (with the robot girl... doesn't get more random than that)
Mr. Belvedere

They should do a "odd TV shows from the 80's" reunion special! :lol:

[Dawnie]

I loved My Two Dads!! :lol: I thought the one with the beard was cute!

I like to watch VH1's I Love the 80's and see some of those TV shows mentioned. Some other faves:

Silver Spoons, Punky Brewster, and Different Strokes!

Dawn

[Dennis]

There was one, I forget what it was called, about a girl whose father was actually an alien and talked to her through this cube on her bedside. I think it was on NBC, sometime in the mid-80's.

How about Sledge Hammer (or was it Sledgehammer)? I loved that show.

Dennis

[Barb]

Empty Nest pops to my mind immediately.

[~Lisa~]

There was one, I forget what it was called, about a girl whose father was actually an alien and talked to her through this cube on her bedside. I think it was on NBC, sometime in the mid-80's.

Dennis
Oh my gosh I remember this but I dont remember the name either.

[Dawnie]

Dennis - That was called "Out of This World" I believe!

Edited to say: That is definitely the name! :lol:

[TtownAnne]

Blossom! I thought she was so cool.....

[AmyP]

I thought Blossom was cool too! I used to be able to do the flip she would do at the end of the opening credits (the backwards one and the forward one) and I would always have to join her in doing it. Of course, if I tried now, I'd probably hurt myself or at least be sore for several days!

I used to really like Golden Girls, Empty Nest, and Nurses (I think it was called that, it was a spin-off of Empty Nest). I also liked Cheers and The Cosby Show.

[Martian Lullaby]

I remember "Out of this World" too! The girl's name was Evie I think. She could stop time by putting her fingers together. To this day I have moments where I wish I could just put my fingers together and stop time. Random enough for you? :lol:

[Barb]

I thought of another one - Alf.

[Nichole]

I was going to say Out of This World and Alf, too!

How about Max Headroom? :lol:

[Jenn]

There use to be a show where Snow White, her prince and their 2 kids woke up to living in the present. I can't remember the name but the prince got a job and they lived in a nice house and they tried to hide who they really were from the neighbors.

[Stacy]

I was just thinking about some of the TV shows I remember growing up that I haven't thought about in ages...

My Two Dads
Small Wonder (with the robot girl... doesn't get more random than that)
Mr. Belvedere

They should do a "odd TV shows from the 80's" reunion special! :lol:
I was thinking about stuff like this the other night.
I loved those shows.
I was a big Dallas and Falcon Crest watcher.

[Dennis]

There use to be a show where Snow White, her prince and their 2 kids woke up to living in the present. I can't remember the name but the prince got a job and they lived in a nice house and they tried to hide who they really were from the neighbors.

I remember this one as well, but I can't think of the name either.

Dennis

[kim]

I thought of another one - Alf.
i was in college when this came on the air. let's just say it is way funnier when you're stoned :lol:

[Barb]

How about "It's a Living". It starred Ann Jillian and it had a bunch of waitresses in a fancy-schmancy restaurant. I think that's what it was called.

[Nichole]

I remember that show, Barb!

Kim, did you see the movie with Ben Stiller about the guy that wrote Alf? He was a herion addict.

[kim]

I remember that show, Barb!

Kim, did you see the movie with Ben Stiller about the guy that wrote Alf? He was a herion addict.
i remember that show too barb...the girl from 'wings' was on it as well.

a heroin addict? that makes total sense now!

[bunkie68]

I remember the "Shmoo" cartoon. :lol:

[mommytheresa]

Gimme a Break is one that comes to mind!

[Stacy]

What about the BarbaPappas. :lol: or "Wait 'til your Father gets home"

[MaryNH]

There use to be a show where Snow White, her prince and their 2 kids woke up to living in the present. I can't remember the name but the prince got a job and they lived in a nice house and they tried to hide who they really were from the neighbors.
It was called The Charmings:)

[MaryNH]

manimal, code red.....the colbys

[MaryNH]

press your luck

[02cubed]

Out of this World :aok:

The series revolves around Evie Garland, who is the daughter of Troy and Donna Garland. Troy, however, is an alien from the planet Anterias. As a benefit of her half-alien parentage, Evie develops three powers as the series progresses. She can pause and un-pause time, "gleep" objects into existence, and can transport herself from one place to another. Troy is living on Anterias and is never seen, but Evie talks to him via a crystal cube. Evie is thirteen at the beginning of the series and lives with her mother in Marlowe, California. Visitors to the Garland home include Donna's brother Beano; the mayor Kyle Applegate, a former actor; Lindsey, Evie's best friend; Chris, Evie's boyfriend; and Buzz, who tends to take things literally. Episodes usually revolve around Evie getting herself out of a situation that she has caused.

[Jenn]

It was called The Charmings:)

Oh, thanks!

[mcox]

Here's the ones I can think of:

Three's Company
Growing Pains
Facts of Life
Fresh Pince
Different Strokes
Perfect Strangers
Cheers
Brady Bunch
Saved by the Bell
Lavern and Shirley
Happy Days
A Different World
The Love Boat
Fantasy Island
Greatest American Hero
Tool Time
Family Matters
Full House (my favorite)

I'm sure there are more. Can you tell I was a TV junkie when I was young? :lol:

Michelle

[Nichole]

Ah, Greatest American Hero! That one was great! Believe it or not, I'm walking on air... I never thought I could feel so free-e-ee :lol:

[mcox]

Ah, Greatest American Hero! That one was great! Believe it or not, I'm walking on air... I never thought I could feel so free-e-ee :lol:



:lol: That's the one! :lol:


Michelle

[bunkie68]

manimal
And kind of in the same general territory (but not really) - anyone else remember Beastmaster? :lol:

[SarahK]

Degrassi High (or something like that)

[LisaE]

Wasn't there one called Rags to Riches? I loved that show!

A cartoon came to mind...The Littles! I actually saw that a few Saturdays ago, it was so random!

[Connie1222]

How about Dynasty? That was the ultimate 80's show, my mom even watched it with me!

[Mrs. Smith]

There are so many that come to mind...

Trapper John, MD
The A-Team
Nightrider
Benson
Amen
227

[Connie1222]

OMG, I'm showing my age but I remember watching the Donny & Marie show on Friday nights. I also LOVED the Bionic Woman and the Six Million Dollar Man and Wonder Woman too!

[JillMelissa]

Wasn't there one called Rags to Riches?
Yes! With the little girls who sang 50's songs!

What about that show with the dinosaurs, with the two teenage dinosaurs and the little baby dinosaur that said, "I'm the baby, gotta love me!" Was it called "Dinosaurs" or something else?

[SarahK]

What about Doogie Howser? I loved him!

[~Lisa~]

Anyone remember "Kids Inc."? I used to LOVE that show!

[happysmileylady]

Yes! With the little girls who sang 50's songs!

What about that show with the dinosaurs, with the two teenage dinosaurs and the little baby dinosaur that said, "I'm the baby, gotta love me!" Was it called "Dinosaurs" or something else?
OMG, I LOVED Dinosaures Not the mamma! Not the mamma! Not the momma!

My absolute favorite 80's show was Punky Brewster! I think I have seen every single episode. I so wanted to be her. I loved how she liked to be different from everyone else.

[MizLacey]

All in the Family
Emergency
The Jeffersons
The Brady Bunch (not reruns)
The Partridge Family (again, not reruns....my age is showing!)

[Dennis]

What about that show with the dinosaurs, with the two teenage dinosaurs and the little baby dinosaur that said, "I'm the baby, gotta love me!" Was it called "Dinosaurs" or something else?

Wasn't that the one where the baby would hit the father over the head and yell "Not the mama!"?

Another one I just remember is Inside Herman's Head.

Dennis

[Karri]

I was always a big fan of KnightRider, A-Team, & Magnum P.I.
There was a really whack show in the 80's called Beast....it was a take off Beauty & the Beast.

[ChristiH]

I was a huge Dukes of Hazzard fan! I thought I was gonna marry luke duke =)

I also looooved rags to riches that was like one of my favorites! I think I still have a tape of it somewhere =)

[Nichole]

Hey, remember Bosom Buddies with Tom Hanks and that other guy that dressed as women to live in the women's-only apartment building? :lol:

[mommytheresa]

Wonder Woman!!! I even had the underoos!! :lol:

[MaryNH]

joanie loves chachi???

[Nichole]

Wonder Woman!!! I even had the underoos!! :lol:
OMG! So did I! :lol:

[Dennis]

Hey, remember Bosom Buddies with Tom Hanks and that other guy that dressed as women to live in the women's-only apartment building? :lol:

That was Peter Scolari (sp?) who was later on Newhart.

Dennis

[Dawn]

The shows that immediately came to my mind, but were already mentioned were:

- Small Wonder!!! Jill, that's so cool that you remember this show too!
-Alf (although I never watched it really)
-DYNASTY! I LOVED this show! We watched it with our mother too.
-The Colby's
- Yes, I remember Kids, Inc.!!!
- Brady Bunch

I don't think these were mentioned:
- Shirt Tales (cartoon)
- Grape Ape (cartoon)
- Magilla Gorilla (another cartoon...I LOVED this!)
- The Land of the Lost (I LOVED this show!)
- Mr. Wizard
- 3,2,1 Contact
- Welcome Back Cotter
- Magic Garden (another one of my faves)
- Perfect Strangers ("Don't be ridiculous!"...remember? :lol: )

[Tracey]

Sigmund and the Sea Monsters

Speed Racer

[mcox]

I thought of a few more...

Mr. Belvedere
The Jeffersons
Santa Barbara (soap opera)
Mork and Mindy

[Barb]

Square Pegs - with a very young Sarah Jessica Parker. :lol:

[cmmteaches]

I LOVED the NBC drama "Sisters". I also liked "My So Called Life" ~ Jared Leto was so, so, so hot in that show.

[Dawn]

I also liked "My So Called Life" ~ Jared Leto was so, so, so hot in that show.Me too! Yes, he was certainly a hottie! :nod:

I also remember another one I use to watch alot...I think on Sun. mornings:

David & Goliath (sort of a clay-type of figure animation). David was the little boy & Goliath was his dog. David's sister was Suzy I think. ??

[Shanna]

Fame!! I loved that show! Evening Shade with Burt Reynolds, Designing Women, Press Your Luck... those were some of my favs!! And Out of this World and Alf were great too :) Oh! I forgot two of my faves! Fraggle Rock & You Can't Do That on Television!

[kkc]

How about Silver Spoons and Family Ties?

[Nocona]

Puttin' on the Hits :rotflmao:

[Karri]

Well dang --how could I have forgotten Fraggle Rock??? That show rocked!!!
When I was much younger, I loved Solid Gold. I wanted to be a Solid Gold dancer when I grew up :blush: (later on down the line, I stole dance team moves from The Fly Girls on In Living Colour!)

[mcox]

Ok, a few more...

Wonder Years ( where Fred Savage narrated the whole program)
Bewitched
Sanford and Son
Leave it to Beaver
That's Incredible
227
Golden Girls
Incredible Hulk
Charlie's Angels
Who's the Boss

[Nichole]

Well dang --how could I have forgotten Fraggle Rock??? That show rocked!!!
When I was much younger, I loved Solid Gold. I wanted to be a Solid Gold dancer when I grew up :blush: OMG, ha ha! Ditto and ditto! :lol: (After Solid Gold, it was Flashdance for me. :lol: )

[Jenn]

I use to watch 21 Jumpstreet all the time.

[TxTeacher]

I remember a show called "Empty Nest" that aired right after "The Golden Girls" on Saturday nights.

I watched "Small Wonder" a few times-:puke: is all I can say for it.

And of course, let's not forget the "Three's Company" spinoff that had Jack married and dealing with his FIL-I think it was called "Three's a Crowd"?

[Kris]

Menudo????

I remember seeing them on ABC

[HeatherSG]

I loved

Kate and Ally

Silver Spoons

Hee-Haw (do NOT laugh at me! LOL)

The Lawrence Welk Show (again, no laughing)

Small Wonder

Out of This World

ALL of the 80's cartoons!

Jem & the Holograms :)

Who's the Boss


Facts of Life


Fraggle Rock

90210 of course!

Melrose Place

Savannah

Models Inc.

Dance Party USA


Oh, that brings back memories...I loved these shows!!

[Missy&Maggie]

Ahhh nobody mentioned "Just the Ten of Us" from Lubbock Texas!

[TxTeacher]

Ahhh nobody mentioned "Just the Ten of Us" from Lubbock Texas!
OMG! I forgot about that show! The family's name was Lubbock. :lol:

I also remember "Perfect Strangers"-that was one of my favorites.

[Clare]

I don't think anyone mentioned Eight is Enough

[Missy&Maggie]

One of my favorite game shows -- The Joker's Wild

[biggstella]

I have to say that my favorite show growing up was The Caroll Burnett Show, but I think that was actually in the 70's. I used to love Square Pegs, also. Might want to start another thread on this one, but can anyone remember all of the Schoolhouse Rocks on Saturday mornings? Why don't they do that anymore? I learned so much from those. I'm just a bill, if you skate a figure eight...help me out here.:help2:

Stella

[Linda]

Conjunction junction, what's your function?

[HyperCello]

I LOVED Schoolhouse Rocks! And Fraggle Rock, Smurfs, Mighty Mouse....oh I can go on and on...Mr. Ed, You Can't Do That on Television, Alf, Empty Nest, Golden Girls....
~Michelle

[ChristiH]

The one show I missed ALOT was Rags to Riches..about 5 adopted girls in the 60's. anybody remember that show?

[Alyssa]

This is a plea for help!

There is a show I swear I remember as a child, but my sister - who is usually my go-to person on these shared memories - can't recall it. She thinks I'm making it up!

I think it was on Nickelodeon in the early 80s (ah - remember You Can't Do That on Television? !!). It was a drama about twins, a girl and a boy, and I think it was set in Europe. They had the ability to share thoughts without talking, but they had to envision stones dropping to get this power. I think they were trying to solve some mystery or something too, trying to use these powers to get to something.

Anyone????????

[lexie]

Ghost Writer... Man that was a long time ago!!! I loved Fraggel Rock Too!!!

[Brooke]

Press your luck (reruns) is still on the Game Show Network. They also have an updated version called Whammy.

I watch Match Game (from the '70's) on there all the time!

[Brooke]

How about

Night Court I still remember the episode where a bunch of women were having babies in the courthouse and one of them yells "You try squeezing a cabbage patch kid through your nostril!"

Mork and Mindy

Head of the class

[Brooke]

One more - Step by Step? With Patrick Duffy, I think? Ugh! I hated that show.

[Jennie]

G-Force - a wild cartoon that was shown after school when I was in primary school (so probably on the air from 77-79?).

I loved Press Your Luck - "no whammies no whammies no whammies!"

[Alysia]

I was just thinking about some of the TV shows I remember growing up that I haven't thought about in ages...

My Two Dads
Small Wonder (with the robot girl... doesn't get more random than that)
Mr. Belvedere

They should do a "odd TV shows from the 80's" reunion special! :lol:
When I saw the title of this thread, Small Wonder was the first thing that popped into my mind!!! :lol:

[Eleanor]

Alice ("Well, kiss my grits!" :lol: )
Moonlighting (LOVED this show)
Probe (a really weird science based mystery show that only lasted a few episodes. Starred Parker Stevenson pre Baywatch)

[LISA]

The Love Boat, Fantasy Island,Happy Day's and Threes company were some of my faves growning up :)

[Stacey]

These are cracking me up! :lol: I was one who watched Rags to Riches. :nod: I liked that show a lot.

I can't think of the show you're talking about though, Alyssa. Sorry. :( I do remember watching Pinwheel on Nick when I was little.

Anyone watch V? I was really little when it came on. I think my parents thought I was a little weird to want to watch it so much, but I loved that show!

My dad and I used to always watch Bossum Buddies together... and WKRP! :lol:

[Missy&Maggie]

The only episode of V I saw was the one with the alien birth. Ewwwww....

[Dennis]

I thought V was great!

[Eleanor]

DH and I were just talking about V- I loved it (and wasn't really little when it was on ;) )

[Dennis]

V is out on DVD now. It's great that they are releasing all these shows on DVD now - the problem I have is there are so many I'd like to get but I have no time to watch them.

Dennis

[iluvhewy]

I loved Smurfs! Wow, so many shows that I totally forgot about! I also remember Double Dare on Nickelodeon, Charles In Charge (hubba hubba Scott Baio!) Mama's Family (I think that was the name of it)