Hey, I Remember This Show: The Flying Nun

The original opening for the oddest sitcom I ever saw. The funny thing is that when I watched this show as a kid, it never occurred to me to question the logic of the show's premise. In fact, I remember being disappointed whenever Sally Field's character went a whole episode without flying.

Hey, I Remember This Show: Davey and Goliath

From the maker of Gumby, it's the Sunday morning Claymation effort that most hipsters -- apart from maybe Kevin Smith -- love to poke fun at. Yet I always had a soft spot for this show. Perhaps it is because I grew up watching it on Sunday mornings. Or perhaps because I appreciate the way it tried to get across moral lessons in a kid-friendly way that seems a considerable contrast to the glorified toy commercials that would dominate children's programming in later decades.

I am still haunted by the episode in which young Davey lost the chance to get a Good Neighbor prize because he was too busy helping out a young girl. The obvious moral: one should not always expect a reward for doing a good deed, even if said deed seems necessary, seems rather obvious to the adult me but to the me who first watched it as a child, it seemed like a major revelation.

Granted, it took me a few years of living to appreciate these cartoons. (After all, a lot of the life lessons they taught were not ones that little kids my age were particularly eager to learn.) But I eventually came around.

I hope you all enjoy it.

Hey, I Remember This Show: Joan of Arcadia

Wow! William Shakespeare, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, Neil Armstrong and Harold Lloyd? That's some company.

I really wanted to find out what happens in this show's third season but, alas, I'll never know.

Hey, I Remember This Show: Bridget Loves Bernie

It's a Tonio Kruger bonus post this week. Not only do you get the opening credits from a popular (for one season, at least) TV show from the early 1970s, but you can also get the pre-credit sequence from the first episode. It says something about how naive and unsophisticated I was when this show first came out that when the title characters said their full names, I had to ask my Catholic mother why that was such a big deal. If only more people would ask themselves that question...

Anyway, I knew David Doyle from Charlie's Angels starred on this series but I didn't realize that Audrey Lindley from Three's Company appeared on this show as well. Live and learn. And that Meredith Baxter was quite attractive when she did this show. I wonder what she's been up to lately...