Little known/forgotten TV shows/movies you love

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Sounds like a doable movie. I'd see it.

Fluke (1995)

The Bots Master
This was a science-fiction cartoon about a robotics genius, his sister, and his robotic creations fighting a guerrilla war against an evil robotics corporation (which the protagonist used to work for) bent on world domination. The plan generally involved "upgrading" their robotic products with chips that would allow the corporation to effectively remote-control them. The show is action-packed and has a Pulfritch Effect 3D gimmick, but brings up several plots that reflect real-life corporate and political corruption, such as an episode involving the Corp trying to take a wealthy family's land in order to build a factory and another involving using the aforementioned installation of backdoors into their tech to rig an election in the CEO's favor.

Star Kid
Moving from small screen to big brings me to this little piece of what I call American Toku. It involves a shy 12-year-old kid finding an alien mech in a junkyard, which, at first, he uses to get back at the bully who has been tormenting him in school. Later, he must use the mech to stop an invading alien. By the way, the mech itself is a character by virtue of having an AI.

Yeah, two very robot-centric pieces of media. Robots have been an obsession of mine since about fourth grade.

Anybody remember Aagh!! ! It's the Mr. Hell Show? I wasn't around when it was actually on, but chanced upon it online.. If you enjoy cynical, sketch-comedic, adult cartoons, watch it!

I miss "movin' on" [1975-76, NBC] the first and ONLY truck driver's soap opera and travelogue. and in 1977 there was "rock follies" broadcast on PBS, a mini-soap opera about rock and roll.

I really enjoyed the Lovecraftian horror movie, Cthulhu, which is really a retelling of The Shadow Over Innsmouth, set in the near future, in the Pacific Northwest. While this movie perhaps captures Lovecraft's literary themes better than most other movies based on his fiction (human/inhuman hybrids, the growing realization of what horror you see is only the tip of the iceberg), it was such a limited release Indie film that it attracted little attention. That, and that it's now on DVD promoted by Here, which mostly deals with gay stories and themes, it gets even less attention than it should from people who shy away from that company's subject matter.

Every negative review I've read of that movie has made the same two stupid complaints: it doesn't follow the story 100%, and they made the main character gay. This is why I can't talk to people about movies anymore; they're all idiots.

For me, the best Lovecraft movies are the unofficial ones. If they ever get around to filming At the Mountains of Madness, it probably won't be as good as The Thing and Prometheus, which are practically the same story in both plot and themes, and the recent Godzilla is a better take on The Call of Cthulhu than the 2005 silent film. And I don't think anyone will disagree when I say that Alien and In the Mouth of Madness are better Lovecraft movies than Die Monster Die and The Dunwich Horror.

Not that there aren't good official Lovecraft movies, but Re-Animator was never a good representation of the bulk of his writing, and The Haunted Palace felt less like Lovecraft and more like Poe.

Gosh…

As a kid I was hooked to MacGyver (1985 to 1992)

… yes, I know, I know …

I was fond of "the time tunnel" too bad it was cancelled prematurely [despite good ratings] with some silly thing about custer.

I'm happy you share my insights perfectly!
As for a possible production of At The Mountains Of Madness - Guillermo Del Torro has actually been trying to make it for the last decade. The studio he was working with had thought Prometheus had scooped the idea of extraterrestrial creators of mankind, but as of late have become interested in the Lovecraft adaption, as Prometheus hadn't been a box office success.

All y'all are making me wanna watch Bubba Ho-tep. It's a movie I meant to watch years ago.

The only that I can think of is a Leslie Howard film called It's Love I'm After. It's a fun little movie and Leslie Howard is prettiful.

It's a damn hilarious movie.

incubus.

Most of my "forgotten" shows are game shows, but there are a couple of drama shows that are on my list.
Diamonds - a Canadian series that aired from 87-89 and reran on USA Network in 1990. I found a couple of old VHS tapes with several episodes of the show taped off USA Network, and Nicholas Campbell seems like a good actor. Seemed like the Canadian version of "Moonlighting."
Houston Knights - Like Diamonds, I have a couple of VHS tapes with this show on it. A short-lived show about a Chicago cop who moves to Houston and teams up with another officer. Michael Pare was the main star. A good crime drama - a short time on the air.
Of course, not very forgotten - but I love Miami Vice as well. Don Johnson rocked!

As for my game shows, there are several...
I grew up with the 2002-04 revival of Pyramid, also known as "Donnymid" by some game show fans, as it was hosted by Donny Osmond. That's where I first saw him; I was just 1 or 2 when the "Donny and Marie" talk show aired. I really enjoyed the different categories chosen and the winner's circle. I remember seeing a $100,000 tournament win once. Our local station aired Pyramid after the syndicated Millionaire (then hosted by Meredith Vieira).
We also had a local PAX (now Ion) affiliate in Seattle, KWPX. That's where I first saw my guilty pleasure, Supermarket Sweep, and my other guilty pleasure, Shop till You Drop. As a 4 year old I absolutely loved when the Big Sweep would happen on SS...all of the contestants running around grabbing big bricks of cheese, turkeys, chickens, coffee, etc. Shop Till You Drop I enjoyed because of the bonus round...players running around to different storefronts and grabbing boxes.
PAX would get rid of Supermarket Sweep around 2003-04, and in its place during 2004 was "On the Cover," hosted by Mark L. Walberg (host of Antiques Roadshow). That was also a favorite of mine...the show that would follow it weekdays, Balderdash with Elayne Boosler, not so much. Wasn't as interested with "truth or lies" from grade B and C celebrities I suppose.
We did not get GSN until upgrading to digital cable in 2007, so I missed out on a lot of good stuff.
Finally, there was a kids game show/music show hybrid called "Go for It!" which I remember seeing a lot when I was about 6 or 7, thanks to weekend syndicated reruns. I loved watching that show because it had lots of physical challenges and some teen group musical performances in between - like 3rd Faze. In my area, it ran Saturday afternoons after the sports were done for the day.

I probably have more game and talk and drama shows, but I can't think of anymore right now.

Scream Of The Wolf.

This was a made for TV movie from 1974 that I remember from my childhood. I recall, how at that tender age, it had scared the living hell out of me, and caused me countless sleepless nights. Essentially, people in a California town are being brutally murdered by what many of the townspeople believe is a werewolf. Recently, when I discovered it on Youtube, and watched it in it's entirety, I couldn't figure out what had frightened me so much about it. Worst, not only was it not scary, it also wasn't particularly good, either. It was woefully underwritten, with awful dialogue, a musical score that sounded like it had been swiped from a porno, and terrible acting. Even leading man Peter Graves, and Clint Walker as his suspiciously creepy friend, couldn't save this stinker. And as the late, great Richard Matheson had written the script, there was absolutely no excuse for it to have been so bad.
One interesting point that did stand out for me as an adult - Clint Walker's character was living with a man, in a relationship which other characters would comment on as being strange. Being that that was back in '74, nobody could really use the word "gay" on network TV.

Animorphs, by far. Though the TV show didn't last very long [it's based off a book series, fyi].