c/forgotten-tv-shows

PSA: People keep mixing up the show 'The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.' with a Western movie.

I keep seeing folks online say it was a film from the 90s, but it was actually a TV series that ran for one season in 1993. My favorite moment was when Brisco found the Orb and it started doing weird time jumps. It had Bruce Campbell and was a weird mix of Western and sci-fi that nobody else was doing. Does anyone else remember this show or am I the only one who watched it on Friday nights?

A comment on a rerun forum made me rethink a show from my childhood

I was reading about an old show called 'The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers' on a rerun forum, and someone wrote 'it was just a toy ad'. That stuck with me because I loved it as a kid. I went back and watched an episode, and I saw what they meant, but I also saw the cool animation and the weird stories. Has anyone else had a show they loved get a new light from a simple comment?

Found a box of VHS tapes at a garage sale in Tacoma with a show I haven't thought about in 20 years

I was picking through a garage sale last weekend and found a whole box of old, unlabeled tapes for a dollar. Took a chance, popped one in my old VCR, and it was an episode of 'The Adventures of Pete & Pete' from like 1994. Completely forgot that show existed. My favorite part was always the opening with Little Pete's tattoo and that weird theme song. It got me thinking about all those quirky 90s Nickelodeon shows that just vanished. Does anyone else have a memory of a specific scene from a show that time forgot?

Showerthought: I found a forgotten 80s show by looking up old commercials

I was trying to remember this weird cartoon from my childhood for years, but all I had was a vague memory of a blue car. I got the idea to search for old toy commercials from 1987 on a video site. After maybe 20 minutes, I found it: 'The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers'. That jingle unlocked everything. My favorite part was when the team had to outsmart a space squid by using a mirror. Has anyone else had luck finding a lost show this way?

Question about buying old TV show box sets online

I just wasted about 80 dollars trying to get a complete box set of 'The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.' from an online seller. The show is a real deep cut, a weird western sci-fi thing from the 90s with Bruce Campbell. I was so excited to find it, but when the DVDs showed up, half the discs were unreadable and the case was cracked. The seller ghosted me after I sent a message about it. I should have checked their feedback more closely, but I got caught up in finally finding it. Now I'm out the cash and still don't have the show. Has anyone else had a bad time trying to buy physical copies of forgotten shows like this? Are there any good sellers you trust?

Question about old VHS tapes and a show called 'The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers'

I used to keep my old show tapes in a big plastic tub, but after a flood in my basement two years ago, half of them got ruined. Now I digitize everything onto a hard drive the day I record it. Has anyone else lost a piece of TV history like that?

Spent a whole weekend trying to find a show I saw once in 2004

I mean, it was this weird cartoon about a family of aliens living in a suburb, and the dad was a floating eyeball. I could only remember one joke about a lawn gnome. I googled every combo of 'alien family cartoon 2000s' for like 12 hours over two days. Finally found it on a deep forum page, it was called 'The Zork Chronicles' and only had 6 episodes. Has anyone else had a random show memory stuck in their head for years?

Vent: My whole weekend got hijacked by a show called 'The Weird World of Wally Wombat'

I was cleaning out my parents' attic in Akron and found a box of VHS tapes, one labeled 'Wally Wombat Halloween Special'. I popped it in, and it was this bizarre 80s puppet show about a detective wombat. I got so hooked I spent the next two days watching all six tapes. The best part was an episode where Wally had to solve a crime at a cheese factory, and the villain was a mouse with a tiny fake mustache. Has anyone else ever stumbled on this show? I feel like I'm the only person who's seen it in 30 years.

My niece asked me what a 'rerun' was and I had to explain the whole concept of waiting a week for a new episode.

Showerthought: I was wrong about 'The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.' being a total flop

I was talking to my cousin in Omaha last week and he brought up the show. He said, 'That show wasn't forgotten, it just got buried by 'The X-Files' on the same night.' It hit different because I'd always blamed the weird western-sci-fi mix. My favorite part was when Brisco found the Orb and the theme music kicked in. Has anyone else had a show they misjudged like that?

Vent: I spent a whole weekend trying to remember a show from 2003 and it drove me nuts

It was this weird cartoon about a kid detective and his pet robot, I think it was called 'Milo's Mysteries' or something close. I could picture the blue robot and the theme song but couldn't find it anywhere online for days. Finally found an old forum post calling it 'Milo's Casebook' and it all came flooding back. Did anyone else watch this on Saturday mornings back then?

Found a VHS tape of a show called 'The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers' in a Portland thrift store.

The tape was moldy and the player ate it halfway through the episode. I had to stop, clean the heads with a q-tip and rubbing alcohol, and carefully rewind the tape by hand. Got to see the whole weird space western pilot from 1986. Anyone else remember this one or have a show that almost got lost to bad tape?

My friend said 'The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.' was just a weird western, so I made him watch the time travel episode.

He called it a mess, but I pointed out the show was always mixing genres, and that's why it got canceled after one season in 1993. Now he thinks it was ahead of its time, and I think it was just too weird for a Friday night. Which forgotten shows do you think were actually too strange for their own good?

Just learned a forgotten 80s show had a pilot filmed in my hometown

I was looking up an old show called 'The Last Resort' from 1988. It was about a family running a hotel, and it only lasted a few episodes. I found a fan site that said the original pilot was filmed in Branson, Missouri, which is where I grew up. I had no idea any TV was shot there back then. It made me want to see if any locals remember it being filmed. Has anyone else found a weird link like that to a forgotten show?

I was organizing my basement and found a VHS tape of 'The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.'

I used to just watch whatever was on, but finding that tape made me actually hunt down the whole series online (it's on a weird streaming service called Tubi). Does anyone else have a show they loved that just vanished from everywhere?

Back in '98 I had to choose between taping 'The Pretender' or 'Viper' on my VCR and I picked the one with the shape-shifting genius.

I went with 'The Pretender' and missed the car chase show, but watching Jarod solve a new case each week from a locked-down facility was worth it, even if I had to explain the whole plot to my confused dad the next morning.

My brother insisted 'The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.' was a waste of time, but I binged it anyway.

He said the 1993 sci-fi western was too weird, but the episode with the orb and the time traveler is my favorite thing ever now. Anyone else have a show a friend totally misjudged?

Warning: I think the 1998 show 'Brimstone' is better than 'The X-Files'

In my opinion, the one season of 'Brimstone' had a tighter story and a more interesting lead character, Detective Stone, than the later seasons of 'The X-Files'. I had to choose which show to rewatch last month, and I went with 'Brimstone', even though most people would pick the more famous show. It was a great choice, and I loved the episode where he hunts a demon in a New York subway. Does anyone else remember this show, or am I totally alone on this hill?

I found a VHS tape of a show called 'The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.' at a garage sale in Omaha

The guy running the sale saw me pick it up and said, 'My dad worked on that set, said Bruce Campbell did his own stunts on a horse named Buck.' He told me about a scene where Brisco had to lasso a moving train from horseback, which they shot in one take. I watched the tape later and that exact scene is just as wild as he described. Anyone else remember this weird western with sci-fi stuff mixed in?

Remember that show 'The Adventures of Pete and Pete'? There was this one episode where they tried to break a world record for the most people in a kiddie pool.

Shoutout to the weird 90s show 'The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.'

I found it on a random streaming service last month and the mix of sci-fi and westerns was way ahead of its time. Anyone else remember that show and its weird orb thing?

Hot take: I was wrong about 'The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.' being just a silly western

I caught a random late-night rerun on a local Chicago station last month, and the episode where Brisco finds the Orb in a 19th-century saloon completely flipped my view. It's not just a western, it's a weird sci-fi comedy mashup that was way ahead of its time in 1993. Anyone else have a show they totally misjudged from the channel-surfing days?

Just realized I'm the only person I know who remembers 'The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.'

Tried to explain the plot to my nephew last week, about a Harvard lawyer turned bounty hunter in the 1890s West chasing an orb with weird powers. His eyes just glazed over. I got so into describing the episode where Brisco rides a prototype rocket sled that I knocked my coffee right off the table. Anyone else have a show they love that feels like it vanished from the planet?

Just realized my old VHS tape of 'Space Cases' is starting to degrade and I had to choose between digitizing it or letting it go.

I found the tape in my parents' attic in Phoenix and the picture was getting really fuzzy, so I spent $75 on a converter box to save the episodes myself. It took a whole weekend but now I have a clear copy of that weird show about kids lost in space, especially the episode where the cat-alien character, Harlan, tries to cook space pancakes. Has anyone else had to rescue a forgotten show from a dying tape?

Trying to find that one episode of 'The Great Space Coaster' where the puppet sang about socks

Spent like 3 hours digging through old VHS rips on a sketchy forum before I found a grainy clip from 1981. Anyone else have a weirdly specific scene from an 80s kids show stuck in their head?