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Another thread on memories as a kid.  In this case, shows you are sure you saw but nobody else remembers.  I mean shows you saw when you were very young.

I remember one show which I think was on PBS.  All I remember was that kid was in a normal playground.  He goes into some room which is nothing but a blue screen.  All that is in the room is the kid and a giant pair of disembodied lips which talk to the kid.  That's it.  Nobody remembers this but me, but I'm sure I saw it.

Another one is that show YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON TELEVISION.  I remember one episode where they are in the kid's normal bedroom, and it comes out that they are all on an alien spaceship.  I'm the only one that remembers that one as well.

I'm positive I've seen these as television shows.  The only reason I'm not sure they exist is because nobody else has ever corroborated seeing them and the fact that I was so very young when I saw them.  I mean young enough as to where memory itself was a new thing.

I think it's because television shows are so transitory, especially kid shows if they never catch on.  Most movies are shown quite a few times, even the worst ones, an popular shows are seen by everyone.  Television that never catches on may never be seen by anybody but a few.  So what to say about a bad television show that was only seen by a few people, and what if one of those people was just a young kid?

These sort of thoughts may not fill me with some sort of existential dread, but every once in a while they keep me up at night.  Tell me I'm not the only one who remembers shows that may never have existed.

Much of my memory as a child is a mess so I can't trust it for obscure details such as this. Bigger details I'm sure of but I can't completely trust my memory from early days. I can recall things I did or saw that nobody else remembers. Did it really happen? I don't know.

I used to watch you cant do that on television when I was a kid. It was on Nickilodeon back in the day. Apparently Iggy Pop played a character on that show.

I remember watching a scene in a movie that my Mom was watching where a lady was lying on her side with her back to the camera.  A bunch of other women, possibly in prison, were argueing or something.  One of them, the leader of one of the factions I think, stabbed her in the lower back with knitting needles.  She did not jump or bleed, so she may have already been dead.

I saw this several times, but I have no idea what the movie was.  I was probably around five, which would have made it around 1970 or so.  The few people I've mentioned this to had no clue what I was talking about.

Another show I recall with fond memories, that I KNOW existed but seems to be fairly obscure, is UFO.  I loved that show.  I saw it in a DVD catalog last year and tried to convince my wife to get it.  Alas, we didn't, and I'll probably never see it again.

For years I had memories of watching a daily TV show hosted by Vincent Price. (This was around the mid 1970's). It was set in an old castle & featured a variety of spooky characters. I could never really recall exactly what each episode was about - just a hazy memory with Vincent Price & a castle. But I do know that I'd race home from school every day to watch it, what ever it was!

So after years of asking friends & family about this odd little show - where nobody knew what the hell I was talking about & they probably thought I was making it all up - I finally found this online http://www.frightenstein.com/main.html

Anyone else remember FRIGHTENSTEIN ?

You Can't Do That On Television is an old Canadian show from the early 80s. I don't recall Iggy Pop being on it, but Alanis Morrisette was one of the regular kids for a while. Pretty funny show.

Mofo Rising. I sure do remember "You Can't Do That on Television"!  A lot of other people do two.

Click on this:

http://www.ycdtotv.de/



Sincerely,Steve.

iggy pop wasn't on "ycdtotv", as far as i know. he was nona's dad on "the adventures of pete and pete", though.

OK, try this one on...
Probably in the early 70's my father and older sister were watching a movie on tv and I believe it was about some killers but I really only recall 2 things about it and I was made to go to bed. I have questioned my sister about this before and she looks at me like I'm a freak. This was when my memory was a mess so it's entirely possible that none of this is real. Anyway...
There was one scene where some freaky lady was hanging all over this fat guy and she kept saying over and over: "Let me see your bosom."  I suspect he was getting ready to be killed. It was almost a dream like scene, as if he was supposed to be drugged or something. The other thing I remember is that there was some guy who had prized dogs (poodles, perhaps?) and these people got a hold of these dogs and ground them up and killed the guy by jamming them into his throat using a funnel in his mouth.
Now, anyone I've mentioned this to thinks I'm strange, so you tell me...what the hell kind of memory of a show is this? Is it even real? I'm a freak.

I have tv episodes of unknown shows I will never forget, i'm sure it was a tv show in color where the episode had something to do with a man realizing that some egg or something was put in his ear. the host seemed well to do, i can't remember the story at all except the explanation that this thing would live in his ear and basically eat his brain..lol Maybe "Night gallery" I also have a memory of a black and white tv show and a woman walking into a room to see a giant spider (by giant i mean giant)

I used to watch YCDTOT also. That was back in the day, wasn't there a girl on there called moose or something? I remember people getting slimed, i wasn't a huge fan tho. I used to also watch "not necessarily the news" which i loved. Here's a show i know existed but nobody else saw "Eat Bulega", i lived in the philippines and it was a game show we snidely referred to as "eat boogars" where lucky contestants won prizes like bags of rice, mattresses and fans.

Also I hate to mention it but "Voyagers", i've never met one person in my actual real life who has ever heard of this show. I don't know why i find that strange, i was obsessed with it and never missed an episode even tho it was not on for maybe more than a season or two. I hated the kid, but i had an infatuation with john erik hexum ;-)  Plus i like time travel shows

I'm sorry.  I didn't mean to say I didn't think YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON TELEVISION.  That show I remember, as do most of the people around my age.  The particular episode I described though, with the house and the aliens nobody seems to remember.

Odinn7,
I can say with something amounting to terrifc glee that the show you're thinking of with the fellow(Robert Morley) being forcefed his own pet poodles is none other than the wickedly wondrous "Theatre of Blood" with Vincent Price and Dianna Rig!
The 'terrific glee' aspect comes from having just recently revisited that same sick lil' gem after some 20 years or so.  It's semi-similar to the "Dr. Phibes" movies that Price did around that time, and equally great!

Actually I'm wrong, sorry. Iggy Pop was on a Nickelodeon show called "The Adventures of Pete and Pete"

odinn...There is a scene in the Vincent Price movie:"Theater of Blood" where Vinnie grinds up a man's pet poodles and forces him to eat the dog meat. I can't recall if he uses a funnel or not. The plot revolves around Vinnie being a Shakespearean actor who got bad reviews on his plays. So what does Vinnie do? He bumps off the critics who gave him the bad reviews. One of the critics is a dog lover.....Vinnie kills the dogs and forces the guy to eat them.

Could this be the thing you saw on TV way back when? I think this movie came out in 1973. Maybe it first came to TV a few years later?

Sincerely,Steve Byczek

It can be very frustruating remembering a movie or TV show and your relatives and friends have no idea what you're talking about. Check out a post I did last week:

Hi friends. Here are some weird television memories I want to share with you. I am posting the first one for a friend who does not own a computer. He wants to know if anybody recalls a movie shown on CBS in the mid 70's. He cannot recall the title of the movie, or who starred in it, or who directed it. It may have been a made for t.v. movie,a made for t.v.special,or a pilot for a new t.v. show that never made it as a weekly series. The plot revolved around an incredibly ugly princess who was going to inherit her father's (the king's) fortune as soon as he died. However,the rules and regulations in their kingdom dictated she had to be married in order to inherit her father's money. Her relatives were scrambling around trying to find a husband for her but no guy wanted to date her because she was referred to as the "Ugliest Woman in the World". He cannot recall if it was a comedy or a drama,but the trailer was shown while he was watching "Captain Kangaroo" one weekday morning,and it creeped him out. He thinks they may have even had a parental warning during the commercial urging adults to not let their children watch the movie because of her incredibly ugy face. Does anyone recall this television event? No...it was not "The Girl Most Likely To" starring Stockard Channing. That was a made for t.v. movie made in 1973,and his movie probably came out in 1975 or 1976. My strange film was a pilot for a t.v. program shown in the summer of 1984. I think it was called "Wishman" and it involved a little boy who witnessed a flying saucer crash in his backyard. The pilot of the spaceship turned out to be a small alien creature with an incredibly ugly face. The little boy became friends with the alien but always placed a paper bag over the creatures face. The bag was not removed until the final scene in the program. I remember the t.v. network hyping up the pilot episode during the trailers by placing a square box over the image of the alien's face. Obviously this was a marketing gimmick to get people to watch the episode. This thing never made it as a weekly series as well,and no it was not "E.T." or "Mac and Me." Please let me know if anybody recalls either or of these two very strange television events. Thank you! Sincerely,Steve.


 
I never got a response so I must be the only guy in the universe who remembers this weird show. Oh well! LOL!

Sincerely,Steve Byczek




 
 


     
 
 



   




 

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I remember watching a bizarre TV American sci-fi show which may, or may have not existed -- the show was in the mid/late 80s with a family of four, maybe five who were archelogists or exacting some pyramid or egyptian building in the middle of a stormy desert.

I think they uncover some kind of device which sucks them to a different world, and the rest of the series is them trying to get home - it stared some blonde/brown haired guy who seemed to pop up in a lot of TV shows during that year - but I can't remember if the show existed, what it was called or anything.

I don't even know if they got home...

Hmmmm....perhaps this movie was "Theater of Blood", I will have to look into this.
Thanks.

There was a show I liked when I was very small call Uncle Croc's Block . Charles Nelson Riley was a supposed kiddie show host, who dressed as a crocadille. The station manager was Mr. Bitterbottom, played by Jonathan Harris. He showed really lame cartoons and had "celebrity guest." They were parodies of other TV shows.  My favorite guest were the $6 man, who would fall apart. Another was Capt. Marbles, who would come out as a Peter Fonda-looking guy who would mouth off before saying the "magic word." When Capt. Marbles appeared he was a fat guy with glasses and red underwear.

According to a reference book I have, ABC cancelled because they felt the show was too adult for children. Without having seen the show in years, the only thing I can figure is the show was modeled after comedy routines by Lenny Bruce, Bob Newhart, Firesign Theater, Alan Sues and even a Mad Magazine story by (I believe) Al Jaffe.    

I would love to see these again but supposedly they have been lost.

i remember a show calledhard times on planet earth. it was about some guy that had a giant eye follow him around. I think it was on in the late 80s or early 90s.

Ozzymandias.    I remember "Uncle Croc's Bloc". I found it to be a very cute and funny parody of the Sid and Marty Kroft "kiddie shows" popular around this time such as "H.R. Pufnstuf" and "Lidsville". I wonder why they considered it to be too  "adult"? Oh well...like you I would have to rewatch episodes of it, and analyze it from an adult's perspective to make my opinions. Gee..there are so many TV shows out there we have not seen in years. Not everything is on DVD,yet. I guess only time will tell.


Sincerely,Steve.

Susan wrote:

> Also I hate to mention it but "Voyagers", i've never met one
> person in my actual real life who has ever heard of this show.

I remember "Voyagers"...kind of a time travel show right? With the kid from The Bad News Bears and The guy who accidently shot himself....my memory for names sucks.

Does anyone remember MANIMAL? It was an adventure program in which the lead character went around solving crimes and righting wrongs using his ability to change into an animal. Goooood Watchin'!!



Post Edited (05-18-05 10:49)

Deej - yep. I think that was punky brewsters brother as i recall. I always found it kind of silly that here are these two people travelling through time, the kid wants to learn all about history while the real time traveller basically wants to make it with every chick he can.

Manimal sounds familiar. I fear i missed out on alot of american tv from the late 70's to early 80's being overseas. By the time we got the tv shows they were a year old. And i think we only got certain shows, not sure if it was based on the network or what. I'm not sure what real live non-animation shows kids watch now but i back then that's all we watched because cartoons only came on saturday morning.

I still think it would be a cool to have a cable station that showed nothing but tv shows that never made it past the first or second season. Then we can truly enjoy all the crap! How long did BJ and the Bear last? ;-)

Susan wrote:

> How
> long did BJ and the Bear last? ;-)
>

Let me be the first to say it:  too long.

Susan wrote:


> Manimal sounds familiar. I fear i missed out on alot of
> american tv from the late 70's to early 80's being overseas.

I also grew up overseas , Karlsruhe Germany, and watched whatever THE ARMED FORCES NETWORK happened to have on it's line up. I grew up, pretty much on a steady diet of Star Trek and Hee-Haw. It sucks to have one English-language channel. You mentioned BJ and the Bear, I remember that was shown on AFN, as well as Starsky & Hutch and The Misadventures of Sherrif Lobo(itself a spin-off of BJ and the Bear), and The Master. Around '86 , we began getting more current programming,  The Cosby Show, Moonlighting, Mr. Belvedere,  we even got Letterman once a week!

Of course, German programming was an option, but in the 80's, the German tv industry was pretty lame, mostly dubbed American movies. We moved to the states when I was 13, and I was more impressed with commercials than any actual program....I loved COMMERCIALS...especially Jocko, the Australian  Energizer battery pitch man...."Too right, the extraordinairy Energizer...OY!!".

Deej - i guess we were more lucky. We also got stuff like hee haw and dallas, this was late 70's early 80's tho so i remember stuff like "Incredible Hulk",  "Dance Fever", "Wonder WOman", "Dukes of Hazzard", "Grizzly Adams" along with with typical game shows.  They probably picked whichever shows topped the nielson ratings.

Thank god they also had stuff like Three Stooges and alot of older B&W shows. The cool thing is Filipino tv picked up alot of programming from Hong Kong. I saw alot of creature features, kung fu theater and anime. Not big on anime these days tho. But loved nearly everything else, and it was alot of B-tv. Since we only  When I came back to the states i was so amazed with all the tv channels

Yeah, I do, if that is the program, where Vincent Price narrates what is going on, while they show footage shot in various castles around Europe.

As for my own choice of bizarre TV programs for kids, and this has been mentioned on various other sites. . .  Do  the names Sid and Marty Krofft mean anything to anyone? I swear, those guys must have been on acid, when they thought of some of their ideas for kids' programs.

AD wrote: the show was in the mid/late 80s with a family of four, maybe five who were archelogists or exacting some pyramid or egyptian building in the middle of a stormy desert.

That was Otherworld starring Sam Groom. I watched a few episodes but gave up when the bad guys were clearly a bunch of pseudo-Nazis. They wore Nazi style garb, but with made different colors. I figured any series where they couldn't up with a better set of villains than badly redressed Nazis wasn't worth my time.
The Sci-Fi Channel reran it a while back. I watched it and was surprised to find it was better than I remembered. Here's the IMDB listing for it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088587/

I remember Manimal. The big problem with the show was due to budget limitations, they could only show him changing into 3 animals. So it was the same tranformations over and over again and it just got boring.

The first host kid on YCDTOTV was, yes, Christine "Moose" McGlade.
She also appeared on another show produced by, I think, the same company. It was called "Turkey TV". The show was a combination of original skits and clips from European TV shows. Moose and Les Lye did a series of sketches called "Nichols and Diane" where Les was a businessman and Moose was his secretary. Some other original running sketches were "Those Good Ole Kentucky Boys" and there was another one that was conversations between 2 young teenage girls. It was the first place I saw Dana Carvey, before he went on SNL. They had a clip of him doing his 'Chopping Broccoli' bit. Only lasted one season.
(A late correction of myself. Turkey TV lasted 2 seasons.)

we found a dana carvey fansite at work with soundbytes and played Chopping Broccoli several times, it's quite catchy ;-)

I just bought Pete and Pete Season 1

That was a Bizarre show if I ever saw one

Well, for instance, I remember an episode starring (I think) Vincent Price
in which he has a daughter who is auditioning for a part for a movie or
perhaps a theatrical production.  The scene opens in an agent's office.

Price demonstrates her talent by telling her a joke at which time she
begins crying.  He then spanks her and she breaks out in gales of
laughter.  He brags to the agent at her ability to control her performance
under any circumstance.

After audtioning, they are outside in a street which is obviously in
a backlot.  The father is struck by an out-of-control speeding vehicle.
Dying, and from his POV, he sees the daughter looking down at him.
As his eyes dim, the last thing he sees before death overtakes him
is his daughter laughing uncontrollably.

As yet, no one I know has any knowledge of this episode and I can
find no reference to it.  It may have been on a show like Alcoa Presents???

Here's a vague show memory that fits in perfectly with the focus of this thread:

Approximately mid-`70's, I watched a show(I don't recall if it was an episode of something, or a TV movie, or what) that featured a guy that hung out with the hippies in the park of a major metropolitan area.  I think he sold drugs.  His distinguishing trademark was, he was blue.  I think they even called him the 'Blue Boy', or the 'Blue Kid', or something similar.  I mean, this guy was blue like those performance artists, the Blue Men blue.  All's I recall is, at some point, two women get him in a tub and make him permanently blue, using dyes or something.

I know.  I know.  I really don't expect any solutions to this conundrum.  I saw this thing, but memory may be abit hazy on certain specifics.  I'm thinking it might've been an episode of some detective show.  But which one?  There were so damn many back then, between Cannon, Barnaby Jones, Baretta, Ironside, etc. etc...

I remember a similar episode of Dragnet where this kid paints himself blue and yellow and runs amok after dropping acid. He called himself "Blueboy".

DAMN!  You guys are good!  That's gotta be the very one(perhaps minus some faulty memory elaborations on my part)!  Many thanks for solving what I imagined to be the unsolvable, Master Blaster.

Now, to locate that one episode...

....you guys mentioned some good shows.....I used to love to watch Ultra Man.....I would run around and raise my hand like I was turning into him...(you'll know what I mean if you saw the show) .........My sister  used to like some show called 'The Phoenix'.............the  earliest memory of tv I have is of some cartoon of a boy that was always underwater & had some kind of gum that gave him air.....if anybody knows what I am talking about, I would love to look it up.......thanks

I don't I'm quite sure this existed but I don't think it was a show. Around VERY early in the morning I'd sometimes wake up and see this (When I was about 8 or 9...8 years ago about) It was odd but somebody was supposedly interviewing animals in a zoo. I don't know what they were talking about but it was done seriously. The only thing that could be considered humoress was I think they were intereviewing the Rhinos and we could see the back end of one in the background, it lifted it's taile and pooped. This always made me giggle a little being a little kid an all.  Everything else went over my head because I was too young to understand it.


....Poop...

Re: Mofo

Hey!  I remember that show!  It wasn't You Can't Do That On Television though but it was most of the cast from that show - Alister ?(if I remember right?) and they were in a space ship where they could summon food and the Alister character always wanted anchovies - they ended up ditching their alien captives and Alister was trying to fly the ship back to Earth (through the sun?)  but they ended it when they asked if it would take them to the right Earth or something.  It was a Nicolodean special with cast from some of the other shows.  Well that's what I remember of it.

Speaking of shows we've seen that can't remember ....  when I was little I used to watch the same sh!t my babysitters watched -and for some reason I remeber them being soo much scarier than they probably were.  One I barely remember were people taking mud baths and turning into some kinda monsters.  

The other one, which I wish I could remember the name, was about an old hotel ran by an old man and old lady (not Motel Hell -it was before that I think) -this might have been on the Movie Channel back when it was the only one.  Anyway, the old folks would wear old people masks(?), taunt, and murder folks who stayed -the old guy usually used an axe.  I barely remember much else except for rusty old chain elavators, an early scene where a woman gets axed while trying to use a phone, and the last scene, the old man accidently axes his wife!  Anyone remember this flick?  I'm guessing it was in the late '70s but can't be sure.

clockworkcanary wrote:

> Re: Mofo
>
> Hey!  I remember that show!  It wasn't You Can't Do That On
> Television though but it was most of the cast from that show -
> Alister ?(if I remember right?) and they were in a space ship
> where they could summon food and the Alister character always
> wanted anchovies - they ended up ditching their alien captives
> and Alister was trying to fly the ship back to Earth (through
> the sun?)  but they ended it when they asked if it would take
> them to the right Earth or something.  It was a Nicolodean
> special with cast from some of the other shows.  Well that's
> what I remember of it.
>

Well that explains why it didn't feel like an average YCDTOT episode.  It doesn't bring up any new memories, but at least it's been verified outside myself.

And here it is (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0155304/)!  Wow.  Look at the comments page (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0155304/usercomments).  Almost every person who commented is getting at the same experience which prompted me to start this thread.

Thank you, clockworkcanary.  You've solved a mystery that's been bugging me for years.

P.S. I've written a bit more about it on my blog (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=MofoRising), but it's not really badmovie related so I'm only posting the link.



Post Edited (06-15-05 16:49)

Figured i'm briefly revive this thread to provide a link for the YCDTOT intro

YOU CAN"T DO THAT ON TELEVISION (http://www.retrojunk.com/details_theme/183/)

I'm getting a vague recollection of another Nickelodeon program. I forget the name of the show, but basically they'd show a condensed version of a venerable old movie, with a re-dubbed comic dialogue.

I remember it was hosted by a Kenny Loggins lookalike (and honestly, what white man didn't look like Kenny Loggins in the 80's?) . The only episode I clearly remember was the showing of DOA, starring Edmond O'Brian, they constantly riffed on his resemblance to Ricky Ricardo, and I remember a scene of him running through a crowd yelling "TAG, You're IT!!".  Of Course, I drank quite a bit in the 90's, so this could all be the product of delayed DT's.

I remember this show hosted by Kukla, Fran and Ollie (Fran was a woman, the other two were puppets).  They stood around and chatted for a while, then they showed some kids movie.  I think they were usually foreign films, quite good (if my taste as a 5 year old is to be trusted).  Seemed like it was on every week.

The New Avengers - this had Patrick McNee in it, but Diana Rigg was replaced by two characters named Purdy and Gambit.  Really cool show, better than the original I'd say.  Wish they would put it on DVD.  Oh, I just looked it up, it is available on DVD.  There's another pair of $70 season sets to put on the wishlist.

The Animated Star Trek - now there was a bizarre show.  They showed it a while back on the Cartoon Network, but I only caught a few episodes.  I guess it's available on video tape.

There was some weird show I remember watching back in the '70s, it was about a husband and wife, but the wife had ESP and could read her husbands mind.  I imagine this led to many comedic scenes.  Can't remember anything about it except the premise.