T2Bruno left off with:

Looking over this thread I realize I've watched entirely too much television over the years....

A man takes his family away from the big city to his hometown in Iowa.

Hints: The lead actor is more famous for his work with Eddie Murphy. One of the children became a teen idol in her next series.

The lead actor was Ronny Cox -- who played in Beverly Hills Cop, Robocop, Total Recall and has a recurring role on SG-1. In this series he was George Apple, a man who moved his family from 'the city' to Appleton, Iowa (a town his family founded and he was raised in).

The daughter in this series was originally one actress, then changed to Kristy McNichol after Kristy had played a supporting character in a previous episode. Kristy went on the star in another, more famous, series and became a teen idol.

The series was crap and only lasted one year.

/stabs in the dark

The Apple Family?

Well, it was about the Apple family and the word Apple is in the title -- close, but not quite.

Apple's Way was little too obscure...

How about this for a new program...

Tuesday is guest star day.

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hint, please...

This is a very old variety-type show for kids. They used to have mini-series shorts in the show (10 minutes each -- lasting for weeks): a kid that could read minds, mystery about stolen gold, etc.

"Why? Because we like you!"

Each day had it's own theme. And Tuesday was guest star day....

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:bang: The proper name escapes me...

The Mickey Mouse Club?

You have it kuemper.

A piece of wood is a boy's best friend in this show.

Ed, Edd, & Eddy?

Plank told me Jhonka would be right. :thumb:

One episode of this series featured a character shouting "death to the opposition!" during a baseball game.

That was Worf in a Star Trek DS9 episode.

Ayup.

Next up:

There are lights in the water.

Twin Peaks?

Nope.

Stingray?

SeaQuest?

Flipper?

The Snorks?

Lost?

Fish Police?

Danger Bay?

Aquaman? C'mon Mesmero, throw us a bone!

What did you expect, HB? I was sleeping, it was night on this side of the globe! :p

Nope to all, and I thought this would be a softie. This show is even more recent than Lost, but got cancelled after the first season for poor ratings. The lights are actually creatures that live in the water that give light. It's a Body Snatchers kind of thing.

You should have had some sort of alert tealling you to wake up because you thread had had so many replies.

Invasion?

So, does that mean you're volunteering for the Harbs Telephone Service :hmm: Everybody gives you their telephone number and you give them a ring when they are desperately needed on the BoM. :p

Anyway, Invasion it is :thumb: (And for those of you who don't know the show: watch it, it rocks).

No way, that was just another wild guess, like the other dozen guesses. No idea what the lights in the water are though.

OK, I am watching this show right now. Two of the models in this show also host their own reality TV shows.

Models as in supermodels. Nobody has any idea of a show that has at least two supermodels in it?

I can only think of 2 shows hosted by models - one's a talk show and the other only has one model (re: Playboy pinup).

This show only happens once a year. It's not a series.

Miss Universe pagent?

You're on the right track, but I don't think supermodels are in that. This one had real supermodels in it, including the two who now host their own reality shows (i.e. Tyra Banks and Heidi Klum). I believe this was the 10th annual running of this show.

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit? (I'm not sure what the exact title is.)

No (not sure if current supermodels would show up in the latest Sports Illustrated Swimsuit show).

This show claimed to be the most popular webcast of any show in history (although I'm not sure of the veracity of that claim). Surely I can't be the only person who watched it. Splunge, you must have seen this.

The second of my 2 guesses - Victoria's Secret? (again, I don't know the actual title).

Aha! I knew a man of Splunge's refined tastes would be able to get this. Yes, I was watching the 10th Annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.

Your turn, Splunge (aka 'The Body')

Lucky guess is more lie it.

Robbie, Chip, Mike (and Ernie)

Whoa, hold them horses, 10th Annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show? Where? When and why don't I get this show? More imporatantly is it on DVD, is there a best of?

But seriously, greater than 90% of the shows in these posts I've never even heard of, you guys must watch some real dross.

My Three Sons

Somehow, I figured Rally would be the one to get this. :)

Law enforcement takes on a new meaning in this town, which is also the name of the show.

A town called Eureka?

you're up!

Well there's one bloke who wants to make films

Extras?

Nope

One guy is a bit Zen

Clerks the animated series?

Futurama?

Nope to both

Two guys used to be best friends until they fell out over a woman

Sinchronicity?

Could be almost any episode of Friends

Nope and nope

The woman the best friends fell out over was a beauty pageant winner from another town

Two and a Half Men?

The Two Ronnies?

Nope and Nope, it is american.

The female lead tried to avoid new boyfriends, they had a tendency to die bizarrely

Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

Nope

Ok one of the best friends owns the only bar in town.

The other guy (multi-millionaire) basically owns the town and what he doesn't he thinks he does.
The guy who wants to make films works for him and has a spirit guide.
The guy who is a bit Zen, works for him as well as being the local clergyman, which he obtained by answering an ad in Rolling Stone.
The beauty pageant winner was brought to town in the hopes that she would marry the rich man, but hey as luck has it she falls for the bar-owner.
The female lead was a former debutante from back east.
And then there's the lead's receptionist; who is serenely placid, a Buddha-like dispenser of wisdom and common sense. She rarely speaks while the lead rarely stopped talking.

This sounds eerily like Northern Exposure to me.

That's because it is well done DR, have a generic cuddly toy. I honestly didn't think it would take that long to get. Ed was first, then Chris, then Maurice and Holling, and then Shelly and finally Maggie and Marilyn.

Oh my. Time for the IJA. :D

Goodnight, Johnboy.

:lol: I was going to give him a few more hours!

...but since you jumped the gun, I'll join in - The Waltons.

Obvious for us older folks, Rally. :thumb:

This show was the forerunner of the DIY trend.

Changing Rooms

Bob Vila's This Old House.

Groundforce?

Home Improvement?

No to all - but T2 is closest.

Wow, there was one before 1979?

Long before 1979! The trick to the question is, what was the host of the show teaching people to do?

Jim'll Fix It?

Stop thinking about home repair, folks. That's not the only skill you can learn from watching TV.

This host was the first person to make people - mostly Americans, but I'm pretty sure the show was distributed internationally - aware that a refined version of an everyday activity was readily available at home, and not something that had to be saved for a special occassion.

Cooking with Julia Child?

not quite... you have the right host, but she never had a show with that name! Certainly not her earliest work, which is what I have in mind - and which was so delighfully parodied by Dan Ackroyd on SNL when it was still good (IIRC, she loved the sketch).

Would it be The French Chef then, as I think that's the one that Dan took the **** out of, but I could be wrong

That would be the show!

/me taps DS on each shoulder with a baguette, "Next!"

It's a food show, my specialist subject :rolling:

This is a quiz show of sorts, that started life as a theatre show (in Leicester Square, London)

Have I got news for you?

Whose Line is it Anyway?

Well done Mags, thought I'd stick a good british one in, have a generic cuddly toy...

A cuddly toy! (Wa-hay!) :bigeyes:

Back to the quiz:

An Oxford philosophy graduate and a puffball.

Hint please?

It almost sounds like Cheers, but I don't recall Diane having gone to Oxford.

Puffball as in Toadstool, Dress, or other random connection I'm not grasping?

I'd say the X-files if it was Psychology not philosophy

An IJA softball, since Magpie seems to have forgotten about us...

It was a show about nothing

No need to wait for confirmation, folks, the first person to get it can post a new show.

Rainbow?

Seinfeld I believe

Of course it's Seinfeld! I'm astonished that took as long as it did.

Premiered in 1981

A gritty, realistic look at the life of cops in a large (and unnamed) metropolitan city.

21 Jump Street? :p

Nice try but not it.

Hill Street Blues?

Dead on HB. Your turn....

The opening credits to this show feature (amongst other things) the silhouettes of two men and a woman. These people are so disctinctive that you tell who they are just from those three silhouettes.

The Mod Squad

Charlie's Angels

Interesting answers, but these silhouettes are even more distinctive (who can really tell one big haired Angel outline from another?)

EDIT: Actually, how does two men and one woman translate into Charlie's Angels?

The Avengers?

The Avengers is one woman and one man. Try again with one woman and two men.

This show does feature more than just these three people but they are considered to be so famous that they get special silhouetted treatment.

Air Wolf?

I'm not sure that is or was anyone even remotely famous or distinctive in Air Wolf. I would predict that the three silhouettes in my show would be recognised by just about EVERY single person on these boards if they saw them.

Therein lies the key. There aren't very many people who are genuinely recognisable from their silhouette. Even the most famous people in the world (like Brad Pitt or George W. Bush) are barely recognisable in silhouette.

Now what sort of person is really recognisable in silhouette?

The Champions was two men and a woman (with super human powers), but I don't recall the silhouettes.

Edit:
Thinking about it, there was another threesome show with Robert Vaughn in, but I don't recall the name.

The new Avengers?

The New Batman Adventures?

... or Animaniacs (although Batman sounds right).

You are now on the right track.... Batman is indeed the sort of person who can be identified purely from his silhouette. Now, two men and one woman....

Hmm, Justice League had the team showing in silhouettes but that would be four people too many.

Batman?

IIRC, there were cutouts of Batman, Robin and Batgirl, but I don't think they were all together in one shot.

JSBB is right although he doesn't seem to believe it. At the end of the Justice League Unlimited opening sequence, there are silhouettes of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, with the myriad of other heroes zooming past in the air behind them. I suppose Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman must be considered to be the Big Three, although in my experience, Green Lantern seems to actually feature in the most episodes.

Your turn, JSBB.

The first season death toll was pretty impressive within the family of the lead female character in this series. In the first season her brother was murdered, she was killed, she killed her mother, her mother murdered her uncle, and she killed her mother again.

Alias?

Days of Our Lives? :p

Neither of those.

Charmed?

No it isn't Charmed.

Edit: I guess it is time for a hint. The main complaint about the series has been that the musician (he has actually done a fair bit of acting too) who is playing the male lead character on the tv series isn't as good as the actor who portrayed the character in the feature films.

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Blade: The Series?

You got it kuemper.

The Canadian Quincy

Wojeck

Edit: Well, actually Wojeck was first by a long margin so really we should say that Quincy, M.E. was the American Wojeck.

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Not what I'm thinking of. This show is less than 10 years old.

Da Vinci's Inquest?

Yes.

Wendy and Marvin appeared in this show but were replaced by Zan and Jayna when the show was resurrected under an expanded name.

Superfriends?

You got it Wiley One.

The main character had a little dog named Bandit.

Johnny Quest?

Great Gawain! Take it away.

The opening sequence of this show has a drawbridge coming down.

There is a giraffe and a rocking chair.

The Friendly Giant

You are right

(Too many Canadians for that one to get past)

On a similar to the wonder twins note - this show's hero cast included a young male/female set of twins who were noted tricksters. Their names were the same except for one letter.

Tintin! No hang on, Thompson and Thomson weren't male and female. Damn!

Powerpuff Girls? With Floyd and Lloyd?

Never thought I'd be able to come up with two sets of one letter different twins......

No, it isn't either of those.

Would that be Space Ghost?

No, not Space ghost.

Under the Mountain?

Family Affair?

Neither of those

Is it thundercats

That's it. Go ahead The mad haggis.

This show had a rocket made from a can of baked beans.

Blake's 7

Sounds like something that Mr. Dressup would have done but given that any particular arts and crafts project of his would amount to 5-10 minutes airtime on one of over 4000 shows it probably wouldn't be significant enough to the show to warrent mentioning.

Vision On?

MacGuyver?

None right yet, this was a kids show.

SuperTed?

Nope.

Button Moon?

You got it Carcaroth.

A frog that'll do anything for a milkshake.

mmm. Not doing too well I see. Said Frog was the musical conductor of his "amazing animal band."

Nararted by John Le Mesurier.

The Life and Times of Michigan J. Frog? :lol:

err... no.

No-one heard of Bod (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bod-John-Mesurier/dp/B00004VVRG/sr=8-1/qid=1159352002/ref=pd_ka_1/026-6707606-2493206?ie=UTF8&s=dvd) With Alberto frog and his amazing animal band?

Try another one

"I'm crushing your head"

Nope, but I don't watch European tv.

My guess: Kids in the Hall.

/puts up thumb for the block

Nobody home! :D

Correct-a-mondo

Tries pinching your face instead. :lol:

And Bod was shown on Nickelodeon as a segment of Pinwheel... apparently. T'was also shown in Oz, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Poland and Israel. Obviously I'm just too old.

This show's lead actor likes to purse his lips a lot.

The actor in question is also one of the producers. The show also has pseudo-spinoffs based in Miami and New York.

CSI?

Yes. Watch Grissom. He purses his lips an average of 3 times per episode.

This show's host has a high pitched, ear piercing giggle. And no nose.

The show is fiction despite having a host. He introduces the story of each episode.

No idea. The Muppet Show? Kermit has no noticeable nose.

Tales From The Crypt?

Barmy has it. It's Tales from the Crypt.

IJA...

Not plane, nor bird, nor even frog....

It's just little ol' me, Underdog.

You're up next, dmc.

Fake heart attacks, an ugly sister in law, a dumb son and a yard of junk.

That sounds exactly like The Simpsons to me!

Or Steptoe and Son?

Steptoe and Son could be correct, but it sound like the US version called "Sanford and Son"

Why do Americans keep taking perfectly good English shows and making American remakes of them? Why not just show the real version and save a lot of money? You can't do any better than Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett. They are what make Steptoe and Son so classic. That's like trying to do a Scottish version of "Friends" using six new Scottish actors. Pointless!

Sanford and Son is correct. I don't know about any Steptoe and Son, but if it was in the UK, it would make sense that I have never seen it. (By the by, Redd Foxx was fairly funny and hardly a nobody or a new actor.)

The only reason you never saw it is because some American TV person saw fit to take the original brilliant show and make a complete copy of it with American actors rather than just show the real version. Steptoe and Son rules!

Unless dmc's stated profession is 70's american tv network executive, I don't see how yelling at him and other Americans who didn't have anything to do with it helps, or stops execs from doing it. Assinine it might be, but it wasn't my idea, and propbably not anyone on this site's idea either. (If it was your adea I apologize profusely and for the sake of USA viewing public respectfully request that you knock it off and either be original or show the originals.)

Sorry. Just something that annoys me. On with the game!

A few reasons I can think of to copy a show rather thatn just air the origional, especially when the origional is from another country. And some reasons for this show in particular:

1. The humor does not translate well. Anytime they refer to English events, areas or politics, no one in the US will understand. The US version of english is different from British so sometimes a US viewer will not understand what was just said.

2. Many shows rely on actor recognition to attract viewers. Red Foxx was a well known comedian and took the part of Steptoe. Without him, the show might never have been watched.

3. In the US, this show was one of the early ones to bring blacks into American TV and to attract a black audience. It was a show that could appeal to mainstream viewers and to blacks. It featuread an almost all black cast. Redd Foxx was a big reason for its acceptance.

Steptoe would never have been a success on commercial TV. It could have been a success on PBS (Public Broadcasting System) which has shown a lot of British series over the years. But the PBS audiance is small compared to the commercial networks.


And finally the new game: :)

A psychiatrist that used to spend a lot of time in a bar.

Frasier.

(And, no, I'm not a TV exec, just a lawyer.)

Correct. Have a beer.

This TV show featured, very tangentially, Hercules, Zeus, Achilles, Atlas, Mercury, and Solomon.

Xena: Warrior Princess?

Nope.

Hercules?

Nope. (How could Hercules be featured very tangentially in a show with his name on it?)

Beastmaster?

Nope. Y'all are a decade or three off.

Wonder woman?

No again.

*ting* I'll take a hint please Bob!

*ting* the name is an acronym

:doh: methinks though hast been ultra-sneaky Shazam! doth be the answer, yea?

Yes indeed. Horrible show, stupid premise, totally campy.

His first name is Endeavour

Inspector Morse

Edit:

Fairly sure I'm right, but I think IJA applies anyway.

This show started in 2000, runs for about a month a year (one episode a week) and is narrated/presented by a member of the House of Lords.

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Said member is a staunch Labour party supporter, although he has had some high profile disagreements with them regarding government policy in his particular area of expertise.

Yeah Carcaroth you were right.

Cheers DS,
Have a go at mine dear liche?

Prospective parents, and those with young-un's would benefit from watching this show.

One of the following naughty kid fixup shows?
- Little Angels
- Supernanny
- Nanny 101
- From Demons to Darlings

Nope,

It's not a naugthy kid fixup show. More like the science of parenting. It started in 2000 with new born babes, and is following their life onwards.

The presenter has a great 'tash.

[ October 24, 2006, 09:33: Message edited by: Carcaroth ]

Child Of Our Time, and the presenter is Dr Robert Winston.

And he does have a great 'tash

Child of our Time is great. That show is on my "don't miss" list whenever it is on.

And Daie takes the Golden Globe award.

I want to thank my parents, my manager, my housemates, and of course, Jesus...

Um, this programme was about the Resistance in WW2 France

Probably not, but

Allo, allo ?

Allo Jaded Empath this is Night'awk.

:eek:

Oh, crappit - I was hoping there was another show about the Resistance...

um...

er...

:idea:

Okay; softball time:

This Starbuck isn't about coffee.

"What is Starbucking?"

Battlestar Gallactica.

Alright - pendantry time; which one :p


Nahhhhhh...I'll let ye have it - dazzle us with something more brilliant, Bruno! :D

Figalilly is such a silly name.

:bang: Gack! I watched this on Nick at Nite.

Is it Nanny and the Professor?

Yes, Phoebe Figalilly is the name of the Nanny on Nanny and the Professor.

Your turn.

*gasp* No one IJA'ed me? TYVM :)

The lead character talks to dead people.

Ghost Hunters?

Ghost Whisoerer?

Medium

DarkStrider is right with his misspelling of Ghost Whisperer. Sorry for the lateness of confirming...no access to the 'Net.

Another IJA:

This show was the more successful M*A*S*H* spin-off.

Trapper John, M.D.?

I'll console my lateness in posting a new one by watching its star Jennifer :love: Hewitt :love:

dmc is right as usual. Sorry DS, but I'm anxious.

It's ok Kuemp I still have Jennifer in my eyes :love:

Shoe Phone.

Tossing out a real softball?

Get Smart

I'm tired, I spent most of the day in court arguing with a dense judge, so, yes, it was a softball.

You're up.

A 'tennis bum' and his coach, saving the world.

I, Spy with my little eye, a show starring Bill Cosby and Robert Culp.

I Spy, You Spy, we all Spy for I Spy :rolleyes:

You are up.

The crazy antics of a pair of twins living in Des Moines, Iowa.

Sweet Valley High?

No. It's not based on any books.

Hardy Boys?

No again.

Show is from 1984. The lead characters were Kate and Allison Foster. In season 2, they went to New York to live with their aunt.

Double Trouble?

Yes, yes.

Have some dainty slippers.

Why thank you, not sure salmon is my colour

A Brooklyn guy seeks a better life for his family

Who's the Boss?

Yep HB have a shiny windmill on a stick

Wow, what a guess!!

This show featured some Disney themed graffitti

Gilligan's Island?

Well, obviously I'm correct since HB didn't contradict me within the 24 hour time limit, so here's the next clue:

Rhoda started out here.

That would be the Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Actually Splunge was wrong. The answer was supposed to have been "Happy Days". But carry on anyway.

T2 is correct.

And I used Gilligan's Island as a sort of IJ.

So take that, HB :p

Misadventures in isolationism.

Splunge, you can answer now.... (that's a hint)