r/ForgottenTV

This made-for-TV movie, starting Michael J. Fox, aired on NBC just months before Back to the Future came out. It was a romantic comedy set at a summer camp. 9 year-old me recorded it on VHS and watched it all the time.

Mutant X (2001-2004).

Friday the 13th: The Series (no relation to the popular Crystal Lake set horror franchise of the same name) was a horror-drama series that ran 72 episodes from October 1987-May 1990 in first-run syndication.

Focusing on Vendredi’s Antiques a curio shop set in an unspecified US city (despite being filmed entirely in the Vancouver BC area) owner Lewis Vendredi (RG Armstrong) makes a deal with the devil to sell cursed objects to unsuspecting victims in exchange for wealth & magical powers. After years of being the devil’s puppet Lewis breaks the contract, is killed and the devil claims his soul. The shop is passed onto niece Miki (Louise Robey, credited simply as “Robey“ a stage name she used for most of her career) who immediately discovers that she must collect all the cursed artifacts her uncle sold if she wishes to lead a normal life.

Miki enlists the help of her terminally optimistic cousin Ryan (John LeMay) and Jack (Chris Wiggins) Lewis’s friend & confidante who is also an expert in the occult. Episodes consisted of the trio tracking down the objects using Lewis’ records and sealing them safely away in a magic vault. The endless array of artifacts included murderous dolls, a garden mulcher that turned victims into money, a kamikaze jacket that made the wearer invisible, car keys that gave you any car you desired, a World Series ring that told you sports scores and a sentient Cassandra-like radio that predicted events. The only cost of using these items was human sacrifice.

For a first-run syndication series it debuted to very strong ratings. Famously coming in #2 after the behemoth that was Star Trek: The Next Generation. It made a name for itself by airing a lot of horror related gore & violence typically reserved for R-rated movies of the time. Ultimately declining ratings in its 2nd season, budget (each episode cost around $500k which was very high for the time) and unpopular cast changes meant cancellation was looming. So looming in fact that the cast & crew was not told until they were filming a late 3rd season episode. It aired its final episode (a sexy Maquis de Sade time travel outing involving a double-sided painting) on May 26th 1990. The series larger narrative arc of finding all the objects remaining unsatisfied.

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Letterman was a young comedian who did successful guest stints on the 'Tonight Show with Johnny Carson'.NBC gave him a weekday morning talk show that ran for 90 minutes originally but was cut down to 60 minutes.It was said that the show's offbeat humor wasn't appealing to most of the morning show audience,it lasted only a few months in 1980.Though the show didn't last long,it gained a dedicated audience where the network gave a Letterman lucrative contract so he couldn't work for competitors(ABC,CBS).He was later signed to do 'Late Night with David Letterman' in 1982 and the rest is tv history......

Does anyone remember this show on Cartoon Network during their live action era?

Interesting concept but was cancelled too quickly. The show is still fun.

Set in a near-future world in which people fulfill erotic desires with virtual reality and androids. The 13-episode series is a combination of film noir science fiction and erotic thriller, focuses on the lives of the 4Ever Innovations staff.