Modern Vespa

What 80's tv show would you consider to be the most under appreciated? My vote goes to "My Two Dads," but a close second would be "Out of this World."

Why square pegs of course!

Mork and Mindy, baby

They had TV in the '80s?

Never watched it back then, too crappy for even my simple mind.

P.

Small Wonder

Charles In Charge

Davey and Goliath

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Pee-Wee

I loved Square Pegs during its original run, but I saw it on reruns a few years back and I really didn't think it aged very well. Most of the jokes seemed pretty cornball. I guess it deserved points for being ahead of the curve, though. I way preferred Amy Linker to Sarah Jessica Parker.

Brendan

Don't forget "Check it Out," starring Don Adams. I loved that show, but not too many others did.

Brendan

I can go on forever...who can forget Fergie's debut on...

Beedee beedee beedee....

Though it straddled the '70s and '80s, I'll say WKRP in Cincinnati.

Most underrated sitcom of all time: Green Acres.

Tales of the Golden Monkey

Erin Grey in a flightsuit... Sigh...

HBO's "Not Necessarily the News" or USA's "Night Flight" ,,,
Both were welcomed respites from the Reagan Administration's land of make believe...

I loved that show. I'm going to get all LA name-droppy here (sorry)...
I see Stephen Collins a couple times a year, usually at some kind of press or media event. I'm always too embarrassed to go up to him and say is that I loved Tales of the Gold Monkey.

I think it's better that some of these shows have not appeared on DVD. I was also a huge Square Pegs fan (Johnny Slash, RIP!) but am now hesitant to go back and watch it for fear that it won't hold up to my memories.

Parker Lewis Can't Lose

It took forever to come out on DVD, but season 1 is now available.
Everything you saw on Scrubs was done here first.
I'll order season 2 as soon as it becomes available.

(I'll pass on season 3, it was "reworked" and "improved" by network executives and seriously sucked by comparison.


EDIT: My bad. I just looked it up...the series started in 1990.

im sorry but I had to do this.. I loved this show! lol

I loved Mork and Mindy and even went to see the house in boulder once years ago They had a marathon of old shows recently and i watched everyone of them. I will admit to also liking Lost In Space I loved Mr Smith

For the early 80's, at least, no one could beat this team!

I suspected as much. That's why I have never watched the DVDs. I prefer to keep the fond memories.

Bosom Buddies!

Holy crap, Tom Hanks hasn't changed one bit (except for the frizzy perm)



and seconding "Tales of the Gold Monkey". I loved that show.

The Larry Sanders Show. Nothing but nothing beats that for pace, laughs and originality.

Period.

Bill X

One of those men is wearing a wig. Can you tell which one children ?

Definitely not in the 80's.

whats up in Tallytown, lived there for for a few years on Mitchell ave. Went to Leon HS

What's a decade between friends ? Alright then Cristal Tips and the other bloke.

'Once upon a time life' i think this was called, I was hooked on this when I was younger. Channel 4 in the uk used to be great from 6am in the morning... those were the days...

Without a doubt, Max Headroom!



Main character was in a motorcycle accident. His mind was then downloaded into a computer.

Vroom

Bosom Buddies was great the first couple seasons, but really fell apart later. Before my wife and I started dating, we had a real bonding moment one night when we agreed that Peter Scolari was the funnier and more talented of the pair but didn't have Hanks' career because he was shorter and not as good looking. I told her of my plans for a website called The Scolari Files, which was going to be an alternate universe tribute to Scolari, with images of him photoshopped into famous Hanks roles. She later gave me a 2" thick stack of Peter Scolari press images boosted from the archives at the tv magazine where she worked at the time. Ah, young love! (I still have the stills but never got around to scanning them.) Another classic! Also not officially out on DVD, but you can get bootlegs off eBay. I actually did re-watch most of the series a couple of years ago when working at a magazine that did a tribute story to the show. Still brilliant and in some ways frighteningly prescient.

Another: Moonlighting. TV geniuses at work! They did musical pieces long before Buffy or Eli Stone, did theme episodes (black and white film noir ep.,"Taming of the Shrew" ep. done entirely in iambic pentameter)... Probably one of the most influential shows that people rarely seem to mention. I guess it most often comes up as the show that went downhill as soon as the leads hooked up, a cautionary tale for every tv show since.

Greatest American Hero, Magnum PI, Simon & Simon, Hardcastle and McCormick, Hart to Hart, Misfits of Science, Newhart, Powers of Matthew Star, Night Court, Miami Vice, St. Elsewhere, Hill St. Blues, thirtysomething, Riptide, V, Airwolf, Manimal, Scarecrow & Mrs. King, Galactica 1980...

I loved them all.

Hey! I was going to say this!

Still waiting for it to come out on DVD.

Hands down- Married with Children. Way ahead of it's time.

ahhhh Fennifer, how I miss her

Alright, maybe T.J. Hooker was about as bad as it gets, but when your drunk and stoned at college it was freakin hilarious!