I still remember really liking Safe Harbor on The WB there back in 1999 that had Rue McClanahan as the grandmother and a young Chyler Leigh as some barely legal junkie living with a family in a Florida motel. I think it was created by Brenda "Cookies" Hampton herself but the show was a lot less preachy like 7th Heaven was. 

They've been mentioned here before, but soaps like SAVANNAH and FLAMINGO ROAD could easily be released. The most obvious choice, of course, would be MODELS, INC. with its one, long season. I always dream of Shout! releasing it, with a lovely package, option to watch the last episode with or without the additional ending, and whatever few extras they can scrounge up. There are several actors (Linda Gray, Emma Samms, Carrie Ann Moss, to name a few) that could promote it and be used as incentive to buy. 

8 hours ago, soapfan770 said:

 I think it was created by Brenda "Cookies" Hampton herself but the show was a lot less preachy like 7th Heaven was. 

 

I've always wanted to know -- why do people on the Internet call her "Cookies"?

Pacific Palisades. 

28 minutes ago, Nothin'ButAttitude said:

Pacific Palisades. 

 

+1

8 hours ago, Khan said:

 

I've always wanted to know -- why do people on the Internet call her "Cookies"?

 

If I recall right, it was from all the cookies served up and eaten on a regular basis in the Camden household as well as episodes surrounding cookies. It was also a reflection of Hampton's personality that she gave off in interviews. After all, it was Hampton who wrote Mary Camden off after Mary committed a piggy bank heist!!

Edited November 25, 20178 yr by soapfan770

How about Manimal? As a bonus feature, they could string together all of Dave Letterman's monologue jokes about it from Late Night. 😉😂

On Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 7:57 PM, SoapDope said:

Rocky Road

 

Yes, with Maylo McCaslin. Was this show before or after her short stint as Sally Taylor on SB?

8 hours ago, amybrickwallace said:

 

Yes, with Maylo McCaslin. Was this show before or after her short stint as Sally Taylor on SB?

According to IMDB  she was on SB 1984-85, then on Rocky Road in 1985 for 13 episodes. She was replaced with Desiree Boschetti who played the part of Jessica 1985-1987. 

 

Cable had several sitcoms on around that time like Safe At Home, Down To Earth, Throb, Check It Out, Sanchez Of Bel Air, The New Gidget

Edited November 27, 20178 yr by SoapDope

8 hours ago, SoapDope said:

According to IMDB  she was on SB 1984-85, then on Rocky Road in 1985 for 13 episodes. She was replaced with Desiree Boschetti who played the part of Jessica 1985-1987.

 

Thank you. According to the book she wrote with then-husband Willie Aames, Maylo left RR because she had a drug problem.

I used to watch Down to Earth on the Goodlife TV Network (also home to my beloved Flamingo Road), and it was such a cute and harmless show. I'd definitely watch it again if it turned up on Antenna (which, let's be honest, is the most likely home it would ever find today).

Goodlife TV aired a lot of good, short-lived/forgotten shows. Flamingo Road, The New Dick Van Dyke Show, Apple's Way, My Sister Sam, The Jimmy Stewart Show, One Big Family, Down to Earth, Finder of Lost Loves (another one I'd scoop up on DVD right away), The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, It's a Great Life, The Gallant Men, Twelve O'Clock High, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, and a few others I'm forgetting.

Now this is a show I used to watch as a kid. Here in Cleveland, our local independent station (WUAB 43) would show it on Saturday afternoons. This was the first show I saw Steve Burton in, before he was on GH. Of course, Donna Pescow would be on GH briefly herself (around 1999-2000), and before this was on AMC.

 

 

For some reason I never watched Out Of This World. I know Donna Pescow did that short lived series with Robert Hays (Airplane) called Angie 1979-1980. 

 

I remember watching Small Wonder about Vicki the little robot girl. Dick Christie (Charlie on B&B) played the Dad. I also remember the syndicated version of 9 to 5 with Sally Struthers. Dorian Lopinto from The Doctors played her boss at one point. 

Yup, I watched Small Wonder as a kid. That and Out of This World often aired back-to-back in many markets, probably due to the sci-fi/supernatural angle.

19 hours ago, amybrickwallace said:

Yup, I watched Small Wonder as a kid. That and Out of This World often aired back-to-back in many markets, probably due to the sci-fi/supernatural angle.

 

 

Yes a lot of shows were syndicated like that back in the day. I remember when we had one of those old huge satellite dishes in the 80's there would be channels that would run blocks of shows. 

 

I miss the days of the old WTBS (now TBS) and USA network. They had some awesome programming back then.