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Old 12-25-08 | 09:35 AM
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Its a little creepy he made a little robot girl to live with him.

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Old 12-25-08 | 09:51 AM
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How about 2 David Hasselhoff vehicles:

Baywatch
What about Baywatch Nights? Lifeguards by day...Monster hunters by night
Old 12-25-08 | 10:11 AM
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The Flying Nun should be on the list.
Old 12-25-08 | 10:22 AM
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Small Wonder
Old 12-25-08 | 10:36 AM
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Holy crap, Small Wonder. I never could have told anyone about it off the top of my head, but watching that opening I remember it almost perfectly.
Old 12-25-08 | 11:19 AM
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IT'S ABOUT TIME

"SUMMARY
Airs Next:CBS at Sunday 7:30 PM (30 min.)Status:Ended Premiered:September 11, 1966 Last Aired:August 27, 1967 Show Categories:Comedy, Science-FictionWelcome to the
It's About Time
guide at TV.com.

It's about time, it's about space about, strange people in the strangest place. That is what this show is about. Hector and Mac are two astronauts who break the time barrier and travel back in time to the prehistoric. Gronk is a cave man with his wife Shadd. In the middle of it's run do to low ratings the creators reversed the concept so that Hector and Mac made it to the twentieth century."

MY LIVING DOLL

"SUMMARY
Airs Next:CBS at Sunday 9:00 PM (30 min.)Status:Ended Premiered:September 27, 1964 Last Aired:March 17, 1965 Show Categories:Comedy, Science-FictionThe inventor of a robot that looks like a woman leaves it in the care of the base psychiatrist, to secretly train how to behave properly."

The robot was played by Julie Newmar and the psychiatrist never tried to nail her. That what made this show so weird.

Sunday nights on CBS were weird back in the day
Old 12-25-08 | 11:41 AM
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I Dream Of Jeannie

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Old 12-25-08 | 12:14 PM
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Still don't know what it's supposed to be about, but it's funny as hell.
Old 12-25-08 | 01:12 PM
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I always got a few laughs out of "Holmes and Yoyo", even though the premise was kind of weird. It was easier to suspend disbelief for a comedy rather than trying to take the concept of a robot partner seriously like Fox's later "Mann and Machine".
Old 12-25-08 | 02:25 PM
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Wow. I remember Small Wonder but couldn't have told you the name of that show if you had made it multiple choice.
Old 12-25-08 | 05:49 PM
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But they're cousins, identical cousins all the way. One pair of matching bookends, different as night and day.
Old 12-25-08 | 06:29 PM
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"The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer". The show deserved to be cancelled just judging by the title.
And along those historical comedy lines...

"Thanks"

The Winthrops are just a typical 17th century family of Puritans living in a newly-settled colony in the New World, coping with famine, plague, and the stodginess of their fellow colonists.
Old 12-25-08 | 06:56 PM
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Hogan's Heros
Is that the one where Hogan and Schultz open a sandwich place after the war?
Old 12-25-08 | 07:14 PM
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"Turnabout" (NBC) in 1979.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078706/

I remember that show from when I was a kid. Kinda like a "Freaky Friday" but involving a married couple.
Old 12-25-08 | 07:39 PM
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Still don't know what it's supposed to be about, but it's funny as hell.
What he said!
Old 12-26-08 | 08:34 AM
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I always thought THE COSBY SHOW was kind of weird. You have a pediatrician married to a lawyer both of whom never take their work home, show any signs of stress from two highly stressful jobs and have time to just hang out all day.
Old 12-26-08 | 09:14 AM
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From: Northern New Jersey...or as we say it "Sopranos Country USA"
Originally Posted by ChrisHicks
What about Baywatch Nights? Lifeguards by day...Monster hunters by night
Totally stole my post. And wasn't there an additional spin off from this as well? Or was that a spin off from the main series? I know there was two of them.

EDIT - Nevermind it was Baywatch Hawaii, which was equally weird/bad.
Old 12-26-08 | 09:18 AM
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Old 12-27-08 | 04:57 PM
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Out of this World

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You take Angie, add in a cute teenage daughter that can freeze time with her fingers, and Burt Reynolds in a crystal talking cube and you've got comedy gold!
Old 12-28-08 | 07:13 PM
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I just thought of another. It was short lived on NBC, "Nearly Departed" where this English dude and his wife die, go back to the house, and new people move in. Only Grandpa can see them.
Wasn't Michael Keaton in that?
Old 12-28-08 | 07:40 PM
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Any time topics like this come up I immediately think of Mr. Smith, the sitcom about the talking orangutan/genius political advisor.
Old 12-28-08 | 08:02 PM
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Old 12-28-08 | 08:04 PM
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I would have to say that Pushing Daisies will eventually be on this list.
Old 12-28-08 | 09:52 PM
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X-Files.

Two FBI agents search for extraterrestrials, get attacked by government conspiracies, and solve crimes.
Old 12-28-08 | 09:57 PM
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"On The Rocks" a sitcom set in a prison, with the main characters being prisoners.

"Mighty Man and Yuk" a Saturday morning cartoon, supposedly fit for children. The concept was a superhero who owned the world's ugliest dog. The dog is also really stupid. The dog ALSO handles the super-power granting ray Mighty Man needs to do his heroic work.

"Charlie's Angels" Three beautiful women solve mysteries and crimes. Basically they poke around until the bad guys get nervous and take pot shots at them. Then they know who the bad guys are.

"Jazzercize" Just show women exercising.

"Real People" So, it's not that strange any more. It was wierd when it came out.


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