Most obscure program you remember

[anotherguyTN]

I think WEWS-5 in Cleveland was one station that yanked "Turn-On" midway through the show, even though guest star Tim Conway was a Cleveland-area native.

There may have been one or two others.

Three and a half years later, then-ABC affiliate WKRC-12 in Cincinnati yanked the premiere episode of ABC's late-night rock music series "In Concert" after a performance by Alice Cooper (one of the first "shock rockers") so infuriated the station manager (who was watching) that he called the station's master control room and ordered the program yanked. Supposedly, WKRC filled the rest of the timeslot with a "Rawhide" rerun.

The station was bombarded with angry phone calls and even bomb threats.

WHBQ 13 in Memphis, which was ABC at the time, also dropped that episode of In Concert early and claimed it was due to " technical difficulties" and if I remember correctly signed off early because it was scheduled to be the last show of the night anyway.

 

[CommunicationsMajor]

House of Buggin' which aired on Fox from January to April on Sunday nights in 1995. The series was similar in tone to In Living Color but wasn't as good and starred John Legiozimo who around the time played Lugi in the Super Mario Bros. Movie. Fox considered picking it up for a second season but recasting the entire cast with John Legiozimo refuzing and Fox canceling the series after one season of ten episodes.

I remember that show. There was an epsiode where the different sketches were based on ubran legends like the rat in the fried chicken.

 

[ercjncpr]

Roomies 1987 NBC

 

[ercjncpr]

Roomies 1987 NBC

 

[landtuna]

It had a good cast, including host David Frost (who also hosted the original BBC series), Henry Morgan, Alan Alda and Tom Lehrer, but it was probably too "high-brow" for the average viewer.

I don't consider myself any sort of high brow but I loved that show! TW3 for short.

 

[Mediafrog+]

Here’s another one: New Amsterdam.

What? The medical series that just ended a five year run on NBC?

No, not that, but the 2008 Fox series of the same name that only lasted eight episodes.

New Amsterdam (2008 TV series) - Wikipedia

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Happened to think of this while watching the NBC series finale on the DVR. I also remember watching the 2008 show, whose basic premise was pretty much replicated in the 2014-15 ABC series Forever, which was a one-and-done.

Forever (2014 TV series) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

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In 1989, Ron pioneered the concept of reality-based, on-location home improvement television with The House Doctor. The series of more than 200 episodes, which he originally created, co-produced, and hosted for KGO-TV in San Francisco, aired for several years on the Home and Garden Television Network (HGTV).

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