What Show Have You Always Wanted To See But Can't?

[Shine]

Perhaps this thread belongs on the General Board, but I posted it here because this question applys to any type of show not just sitcoms. The question is what show have you always wanted to see but can't, not simply haven't, but can't?

The show I have most wanted to see for a few years now is The L Word. I'm a big fan of Jennifer Beals and I like shows and movies that push the envelope a little. I think too many television shows and movies play it safe. The L Word seems to me to be one that doesn't. The reason I have never seen this show is because I don't have Showtime or whatever channel it is on. I know that it is out on DVD, but I WOULD NEVER buy a show on DVD that I have not seen.

[Rene]

well ive seen it and all but i love sex and the city but the reruns on TBS are edited to death so its not as good

[Dean Winchester]

you should be able to rent The L Word at Blockbuster

[dawsongirl]

The New Dick Van Dyke Show- Season 3. I didn't have Goodlife when it was on there and now I can't get ahold of anyone who taped it. :crying:

And a large handfull of individual episodes of shows that guest starred so-and-so that I have never seen anywhere.

[Courtnee]

The new episodes of SNL but I don't have NBC :(




Damn Cox cable serivce :rant:

[Hollow]

LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE!!!! :rofl:

[Shine]

you should be able to rent The L Word at Blockbuster

You would think, wouldn't you? However, the five Blockbusters near my house only rent Alias, Sex and the City and The Sorpranos. I even stopped in a Blockbuster that was about 45 minutes from where I live...same deal.

[Brian]

I wasn't able to watch Hart to Hart, My Three Sons, The Muppet Show when they were on Hallmark. Back then I only got the channel in the mornings, Midnight to 9:00 AM on weekdays and Midnight to Noon on weekends. The Muppet Show has been taken care of as will Hart to Hart later this month.

One show that I absolutely want to see is Mission: Impossible, the one from the 1960s. It has never been on TV here. It's aired in TV Land Canada.

Another show is The Fugitive. I could have watched it when it was on TV Land but it wasn't until after they stopped airing it that I realized what I was missing.

[Cactus Jack]

The new episodes of SNL but I don't have NBC :(




Damn Cox cable serivce :rant:
:eek: Wow thats a network


Cox? Is this a porn cable service?

[Shine]

I wasn't able to watch Hart to Hart, My Three Sons, The Muppet Show when they were on Hallmark. Back then I only got the channel in the mornings, Midnight to 9:00 AM on weekdays and Midnight to Noon on weekends. The Muppet Show has been taken care of as will Hart to Hart later this month.

One show that I absolutely want to see is Mission: Impossible, the one from the 1960s. It has never been on TV here. It's aired in TV Land Canada.

Another show is The Fugitive. I could have watched it when it was on TV Land but it wasn't until after they stopped airing it that I realized what I was missing.


Actually, FX aired Mission Impossible back in 1996 at the sametime that the movie came out. So then people could comment on how the movie and the show were nothing alike. :lol:

[Brian]

Actually, FX aired Mission Impossible back in 1996 at the sametime that the movie came out. So then people could comment on how the movie and the show were nothing alike. :lol:


I didn't get FX until much later. That was in the early 2000s.

[dawsongirl]

Oh yeah...and the 2000 remake of the Fugitive.

[PZelda]

Would you believe Alice and Facts of Life? :eek:

I've had Nickelodeon/N@N and TV Land since they were both born as channels in 1985 and 1996, respectively. My family had cable in the 80's, so we were able to get Nickelodeon/N@N back then. Ditto for TV Land.

I was a HEAVY watcher of both channels when I was growing up and VERY strangely enough, I have ABSOLUTELY no memory of watching either when they aired on N@N/TV Land. It's like I fell over, suffered amnesia and regained my memory. I remember The Jeffersons, Silver Spoon, Phyllis, Rhoda, Taxi, etc. all being on N@N at one point but FOL was on N@N from 2000 to 2001, a time period where I obsessively watched N@N and suffice it to say, no memory. :(

Whew...I feel better now. Surely I cannot be the only 20 year old here who has never caught a single rerun of FOL. :eek:

[seventies_sitcoms]

The biggest show right now I want to see but can't because nobody has played it for years is One Day At A Time.

[Shine]

Would you believe Alice and Facts of Life? :eek:

I've had Nickelodeon/N@N and TV Land since they were both born as channels in 1985 and 1996, respectively. My family had cable in the 80's, so we were able to get Nickelodeon/N@N back then. Ditto for TV Land.

I was a HEAVY watcher of both channels when I was growing up and VERY strangely enough, I have ABSOLUTELY no memory of watching either when they aired on N@N/TV Land. It's like I fell over, suffered amnesia and regained my memory. I remember The Jeffersons, Silver Spoon, Phyllis, Rhoda, Taxi, etc. all being on N@N at one point but FOL was on N@N from 2000 to 2001, a time period where I obsessively watched N@N and suffice it to say, no memory. :(

Whew...I feel better now. Surely I cannot be the only 20 year old here who has never caught a single rerun of FOL. :eek:

Don't feel bad. I'm 29 and I have never seen The Facts of Life, except for maybe once or twice. :lol:

[Stuck In The '70's]

I've seen most of the hit shows from the 70's until the present. The sitcoms I'd like to see are older ones like December Bride, Topper, Farmer's Daughter, and Please Don't Eat The Daisies. I'd like to some some old dramas like the Defenders or Highway Patrol.

[Courtnee]

LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE!!!! :rofl:
:brent

[Courtnee]

:eek: Wow thats a network


Cox? Is this a porn cable service?
NO! :nonono:


Cox Cable Comuntications-We suck ass! :grady:

[Brad Russ]

It's not really a show for me, but a channel called WWE 24/7. It's a 24 hour a day wrestling channel, featuring archival footage from 5 or 6 different wrestling organizations from the past. I'm hoping they'll bring it to my area soon.

[RustyShackleford]

I want to see Idol shows from different countries like Canada, Australia etc. they get to watch American Idol but we don't get to see thiers its not fair.

[PZelda]

I want to see Idol shows from different countries like Canada, Australia etc. they get to watch American Idol but we don't get to see thiers its not fair.
You just reminded me. Trading Spaces is America's version of the popular British hit with the exact same premiere -- Changing Rooms. TS debuted in 2000, and CR debuted sometime in the mid-90's. I have NEVER been able to catch an episode of CR here, even tho other people here in America say they have seen CR. :mad: Not fair...The people in the UK get to see TS but I don't get to. It's too late for that now, as they cancelled CR. Hmph.

[Superstar]

:eek: Wow thats a network


Cox? Is this a porn cable service?
:brent :rolleyes:

[Mijada]

I've wanted to see Six Feet Under and Curb Your Enthusiasm but I don't get HBO. I won't go and buy the DVDs because I don't know if I will like the shows or not.
There was also a show that came on in the late 60's or early 70's called Then Came Bronson that I wish some network would pick up. This guy at work is always talking about that show and how good it was.

[Mysty Eyes]

I've always wanted to see the first season of The Avengers, with Patrick Macnee as John Steed.

That first season starred Ian Hendry, with Macnee as his co-star. A&E at one point in time, years ago, said that they would be airing these episodes. But they never did, and I have never seen them on VHS or DVD.

:(

[Cactus Jack]

:brent :rolleyes:
:D

[Mikado]

The fifth ( and final ) season of GET SMART..because of a network change in the final year, those shows are almost never shown in syndication

[Mikado]

The show I have most wanted to see for a few years now is The L Word. .
Save yourself the trouble, this show is just a really dull, cheesy soap opera, that just HAPPENS to feature a cast of lesbians ( Though most of the shows actresses are apparently heretosexual :lol: )...even worse, the love scenes are hyper-lame ;) :lol:

[Pus$y Galore]

I've wanted to see Six Feet Under and Curb Your Enthusiasm but I don't get HBO. I won't go and buy the DVDs because I don't know if I will like the shows or not.
There was also a show that came on in the late 60's or early 70's called Then Came Bronson that I wish some network would pick up. This guy at work is always talking about that show and how good it was.


You should see if you can rent them at all - both shows are quite good, but because they're a little "off the beaten path" you should rent first at least.

Yeah - I remember Then Came Bronson - it was a good show! I think they came up with it after the movie Easy Rider (although its not as "hippy-ish"). I still have the Mad Magazine where they did the spoof on it.

I wish they'd show "It Takes Two" - it didn't last long at all - only a season or less, but it would still be fun to see if they ran it on TVLand over a weekend marathon type of thing. It had Patty Duke, Richard Crenna and a young Helen Hunt as their daughter in it.

Also with BBC America or something would air "Some Mother's Do Have Em". It was a great show!

[TJL]

There are a handful of short lived sitcoms in the 70's that I remember, but I doubt they will ever see the light of day.

Also, I would love to see some of the variety shows from TV's golden age, like Milton Bearle or Sid Caesar's Show Of Shows.

[Mijada]

You should see if you can rent them at all - both shows are quite good, but because they're a little "off the beaten path" you should rent first at least.


You know, I hadn't even thought of that. I don't rent movies much. Usually when someone at work rents a movie they bring it in and everyone takes turns watching it and if i have something that they are interested in I will loan it to them so I never really had the need to go and rent myself. A guy who posts here offered to make me copies of both shows but I should probably see if I can rent them to save him the trouble.

[Pus$y Galore]

There are a handful of short lived sitcoms in the 70's that I remember, but I doubt they will ever see the light of day.

Also, I would love to see some of the variety shows from TV's golden age, like Milton Bearle or Sid Caesar's Show Of Shows.


Or even the old Red Skelton Show (a little later on, but still good)

[crystals]

I want to see "My Sister Sam" and "Silver Spoons". I don't think I ever watched either of those shows.

[JT]

Right now for me, it would be these cancelled daytime soaps...

"Ryan's Hope" (1975-1989) - seen six episodes in February 2004, but that's it
"Another World" (1964-1999) - seen three episodes in Feb 04
"The Doctors" (1963-1982) - seen one episode this year
"Search for Tomorrow" (1951-1986) - seen most of an episode
"Love of Life" (1951-1980) - never seen, not even a clip
"The Edge of Night" (1956-1984) - seen most of three episodes
"Loving" (1983-1995) - seen some of an episode
"Santa Barbara" (1984-1993) - seen some of an episode
"Texas" (1980-1982) - seen some of an episode

But, even after seeing 5 episodes, and after three years on the top of the list, the television show that I want to see the most, but I can't (on a regular basis) is...

Knots Landing.

[Brad Russ]

"Another World" (1964-1999) - seen three episodes in Feb 04.

I loved that show as a kid!! I use to watch it everyday during the Summer, along with "Days Of Our Lives", and "The Young And The Restless". Then NBC replaced it with that idiotic show that only lasted a year, "Sunset Beach". "Another World" was a far superior show, with much better actors. It never should have went off the air.

[rusyd]

Curb your Enthusiasm- I don't have HBO or whatever station it is on and it is too expensive to buy on DVD.

[Mikado]

Curb your Enthusiasm- I don't have HBO or whatever station it is on and it is too expensive to buy on DVD.
I have NO enthusiasm for that show, its dull :lol:

[rusyd]

I have NO enthusiasm for that show, its dull :lol:

:lol: I have had people say they love it or hate it. It was like that w Seinfeld also.

[Stuck In The '70's]

There are a handful of short lived sitcoms in the 70's that I remember, but I doubt they will ever see the light of day.

Also, I would love to see some of the variety shows from TV's golden age, like Milton Bearle or Sid Caesar's Show Of Shows.


Yea I would love to see a bunch of those sitcoms too. I remember watching Holmes And Yoyo, Doc, The Practice, All's Fair, Hot L Baltimore. Alas they are probably gone forever.


I would love to see them and anything really from tv's golden age. Except for a few sitcoms, the 50's seem to be forgotten.

[moeee]

Amos and Andy.

[Brian]

Here are some short-lived TV shows I want to see.

Bridget Loves Bernie (1972-73)
When Things Were Rotten (1975) - It was a Mel Brooks TV show about Robin Hood
The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1975-76)
Nero Wolfe (1981)


Other shows I haven't been able to see

*The Donna Reed Show
The 60s version of Route 66 (Cathy traded me two episodes of this show a couple of years or so ago but I haven't watched them :lol:)
*Car 54, Where Are You?
*The Defenders
*Dr. Kildare
*The Lucy Show - I saw part of one episode on Nick at Nite years and years ago, it was the one where Lucy and Vivian install a shower but the door gets stuck and the shower fills up. At the time I thought it was an episode of I Love Lucy
*Burke's Law (1963-66)
*The Wild Wild West
*Ironside
*Here's Lucy
*Cannon

[Pus$y Galore]

Other shows I haven't been able to see

*The Donna Reed Show

*The Lucy Show - I saw part of one episode on Nick at Nite years and years ago, it was the one where Lucy and Vivian install a shower but the door gets stuck and the shower fills up. At the time I thought it was an episode of I Love Lucy

*Here's Lucy


Didn't you catch The Donna Reed Show when it was running on TV Land - I think either last year, or the year before. It was great - the first time I had ever got a chance to see it - the guy who played her husband looked just like my dentist! :lol: It was enjoyable for sure.

And yeah - I'd like to see the Lucy shows again (other than I Love... - I've got the scripts memorized on those). I remember that shower one! They both end up floating and swimming in it. I loved the idea of being able to do that as a kid. Good thing we didn't have one of those enclosed stalls! :lol:
I also remember the one when she had Liz Taylor and Richard Burton on shortly after they remarried. She had tried on "The Ring" and couldn't get it off. I don't know why no stations seem to run those.

[robyrob]

there's a bunch of old shows that I will probably never get to see again, most of them were so long ago I can't even remember the names... of what I do remember:

Mr Merlin (starring Clark Brandon)
Concrete Cowboys (can't even find ANY info on that show, it only lasted a few episodes)
Misfits of Science (with Courtney Cox)
the old Spiderman live action series from the early eighties
Fantasy Island and the Love Boat
Its a Living
B.J. and the Bear and the Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo

[Rachel3118]

I have always wanted to watch the Joey show but too much comes on Thursdays at that time that even with taping it I can't watch it. At least I can by the dvd when it comes out but I'm not sure I want to waste my money on it since I've heard it's bad.

[dawsongirl]

The 60s version of Route 66 (Cathy traded me two episodes of this show a couple of years or so ago but I haven't watched them :lol:)


I did? :lol: I don't remember that.

I'd like to see the epsidoes of that show I don't have.

I also want to see Goodnight, Beantown.

[Dean Winchester]

DAX, do you have a Hollywood Video by you?

I was there today and notice they do have The L Word to rent

[Shine]

DAX, do you have a Hollywood Video by you?

I was there today and notice they do have The L Word to rent


We used to have quite a few Hollywood Videos here. There was two with in a half our of my house. I never rented any videos there, but I remember buying one or two. I think I bought The Shining at Hollywood Video on VHS in 1996. However, both stores closed in the last two years.

My Mom works at Meijer and they have The L Word there for pretty cheap and she also gets an employee discount, not to mention that I have a gift card for there. So I might use my gift card and buy it there. I normally don't like spending money on DVDs that I have never seen, but since I will not be spending any actual money, I might just go for it. :)

[JT]

I loved that show as a kid!! I use to watch it everyday during the Summer, along with "Days Of Our Lives", and "The Young And The Restless". Then NBC replaced it with that idiotic show that only lasted a year, "Sunset Beach". "Another World" was a far superior show, with much better actors. It never should have went off the air.
Well, really, AW wasn't replaced by SB. SB came out in 1997, two years before AW ended. As a matter of fact, SB ended just a few months after AW did in 1999. "Passions" replaced AW.

[Gizmo1]

Picket Fences, The Facts of Life, One Day at A Time and Kate and Allie

[tvfan 2]

The Inrcdabile Hulk TV Show I would like to see all the epsiodes of the show. I got all 3 movies and some epsiodes on tape.

[TJL]

The Inrcdabile Hulk TV Show I would like to see all the epsiodes of the show. I got all 3 movies and some epsiodes on tape.

Keep your eyes on the Sci Fi Channel schedule. Just last week they showed a bunch of Incredible Hulk eps in a day long block.