Obscure TV shows you remember

[GreyCrow]

Arcade on Ten - lasted about 3 weeks

 

[killer]

The Pretender

 

[dumb]

The Pretender

how could i forget?

 

[Roobs321]

as a kid the Pretender was peak dad’s show to me, something he was personally very into and tended to watch alone. Mum’s show around that same time would’ve been Heartbeat I guess.

 

[emuboy]

Arcade on Ten - lasted about 3 weeks

Channel 10s biggest cringe show ever would have been a 2004 drama series called 'The Cooks'.

The Cooks was intended to replace the enormously popular dramedy 'The Secret Life Of Us' which after three very good years in 2001, 2002 and 2003 had met an unexpectedly premature end, falling off a cliff earlier in the year when restructured so much that the 2004 series felt like a spin-off, a very bad spin-off losing thousands of viewers by the week and which was taken off the air and euthanized.

While obviously Ten wanted to promote their new show, something went very wrong with their promotions for 'The Cooks'. The many adverts for the show appeared fawning and self-congratulatory, as well as seemingly talking down to potential viewers. This showed, and on its debut night very few watched 'The Cooks' - and those who did mostly hated the show - and it was taken off air with remaining episodes screened around midnight in the summer non-ratings period, never to be heard of again.

Talking about cringe TV, reality show 'The Farmer Wants A Wife' - where a single farmer has a choice of potential brides and rather than picking the tomboy mechanic who works with agricultural machinery, the country vet, the girl from a regional city who has a degree in agricultural science or a farmer's daughter who grew up doing farm chores for two hours every morning before school and instead picks the influencer from Vaucluse or Toorak and then wonders six months later why things didn't work out and he is all alone again - is hardly obscure.

It did however have a hiatus in the mid 2010s and during that time a revised version of the show aired called 'When Love Comes To Town'. It had a similar premise to TFWAW, only it featured a group of single women travelling in a bus to regional towns in various parts of rural Australia to meet single men, which included farmers but also other professions. This changed format only lasted one short season and was quickly forgotten. Does anyone remember this show?

 

[killer]

Used to watch this tv show manimal.
Man who could change into any animal he wanted.

I watched about 10 minutes of this
A guy turns into a panther (CGI) to fight crime

 

[rocker_oz33]

I watched about 10 minutes of this
A guy turns into a panther (CGI) to fight crime

When I was a young rocker I'm thought that was cool.

I guess it hasn't aged well.


I liked Chips too...but alot of people watched that.

 

[killer]

Chips was cool
bit of a rehashed formula cop show but all good stuff

Eric Estrada was a voice actor for Sealab 2020
which was a 100% improvement on the original

 

[killer]

"Its a Knockout" was huge in the 80s

 

[rocker_oz33]

"Its a Knockout" was huge in the 80s

Gladiators .
Don't forget your toothbrush

 

[killer]

The Beachcombers
Cover Up
Lexx
Seeing Things
Forever Knight

 

[MJG14]

Rex the Runt. British kids stop-motion show from the late 90s/early 2000s.

 

[Plugger35]

Chips was cool
bit of a rehashed formula cop show but all good stuff

Eric Estrada was a voice actor for Sealab 2020
which was a 100% improvement on the original

Chips was quality primetime viewing when I was a kid back in the early 80s.




I didn't mind watching Hart to Hart back then either, another quality primetime early 80s show.

 

[rocker_oz33]

how could i forget?

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Got the face of a Karen..
Good body tho.

 

[Madas]

The Beachcombers
Cover Up
Lexx
Seeing Things
Forever Knight

Loved Beachcombers

Don’t recall the others though ?

Does anyone remember My Favourite Martian ?

 

[GreyCrow]

Loved Beachcombers

Don’t recall the others though ?

Does anyone remember My Favourite Martian ?

Yes but I wouldn't call it obscure

Especially as 9? are repeating them every week day

 

[Butters and Pepper]

Flash Gordon- 60s (?) TV show (not animation)

Dukes of Hazard wasn't obscure, but I loved it back in the day.

Lano & Woodley, sit com, circa 1997.

In school holidays in 80s, the ABC used to show a heap of cartoons - such as Squidly Didly, Quickdraw McGraw, Atom Ant etc etc. While some clips are on youtube, there really doesn't appear to be any channel or streaming service showing them (at least not available in Australia).

I remember watching a random US sit com after school in mid 80s, on I think ch 10. From a Google search, I think it was called "What's Happrning Now"!!

Zoo Family, mid 80s, I think it was Rebecca Gibney's first show in Australia.

TV TV - ABC show. James Valentine was one of the hosts I think. 6pm weeknights, 90s.

Super quiz - late 80s. Ch 10, with Mike Walsh and Deborah Hutton.

 

[killer]

TVTV was hosted by Simon Townsend Edith Bliss and Con the Fruiterer
James Valentine was on the Afternoon Show ( "You can't do that on TV")

 

[Gough]

Watching Richard Moorcroft host the old Letters and Numbers I remember the first time I saw him on tele was hosting BTN.

 

[brutus76]

Loved THE PRETENDER

I named my son Jarod on that show (my ex-wife had no idea)

 

[Mofra]

Arcade on Ten - lasted about 3 weeks

3 whole weeks! Lucky

 

[GreyCrow]

Towards 2000 and the follow up which more people may know Beyond 2000

 

[Madas]

Yes but I wouldn't call it obscure

Especially as 9? are repeating them every week day

Really ?

The original black and white one shown in the 70’s ?

 

[Madas]

Flash Gordon- 60s (?) TV show (not animation)

Dukes of Hazard wasn't obscure, but I loved it back in the day.

Lano & Woodley, sit com, circa 1997.

In school holidays in 80s, the ABC used to show a heap of cartoons - such as Squidly Didly, Quickdraw McGraw, Atom Ant etc etc. While some clips are on youtube, there really doesn't appear to be any channel or streaming service showing them (at least not available in Australia).

I remember watching a random US sit com after school in mid 80s, on I think ch 10. From a Google search, I think it was called "What's Happrning Now"!!

Zoo Family, mid 80s, I think it was Rebecca Gibney's first show in Australia.

TV TV - ABC show. James Valentine was one of the hosts I think. 6pm weeknights, 90s.

Super quiz - late 80s. Ch 10, with Mike Walsh and Deborah Hutton.

Loved the ABC toons back in the 70’s

My favourite was Secret Squirrel

 

[GreyCrow]

Really ?

The original black and white one shown in the 70’s ?