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Not long ago, we looked at those TV shows from the ’80s and ’90s that always seemed to be on — no matter when you turned on the TV, they were just… there, whether you were watching or not.
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What we have here is kind of the flip side of that idea.
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This TV NostalgiaWill HaveYou Questioning Reality
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Instead of TV shows that blended into the background, these are the ones that, for one reason or another, almost feel like they weren’t real at all. These are the half-remembered, blurry brain-fog bits of TV nostalgia that pop into your head out of nowhere and make you question your own sanity.
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MORE:Classic TV Shows With Only One Surviving Cast Member
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And what’s really crazy is that some of these picks are so utterly out there, so completely bonkers, that it’s hard to believe they even were made in the first place, especially looking at it from today’s world of safer, more IP-driven TV.
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Some of These TV Shows Were Ahead of Their Time… Most Were Not
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You could even make the case that some of these shows were ahead of their time, so much so that they feel like early versions of things that came later. In fact, one show on this list (seen above) has a pretty strong case for being a precursor to Heroes in the early 2000s. In most cases … well, there’s a reason they didn’t last.
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So what are we talking about here? We’ve got sitcoms built around fairy tale characters dealing with the complexities of modern life. How about a family of dinosaurs living in the suburbs? Even a procedural police drama … as a musical. Not just one special episode … but every single episode.
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These bizarre, half-remembered TV shows from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s feel more like dreams than reality — but every single one of them actually aired.
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After the intense werewolf transformation in 1981’s An American Werewolf in London, you can almost see a network exec wanting a piece of that and saying, “Let’s take a guy, have him transform into animals, and solve crimes,” because this was the ’80s and everyone solved crimes on TV. Well, that was the premise of Manimal, and it infamously lasted just eight episodes after being put up against — gulp — Dallas.
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Some of these stories are actually pretty convincing.
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The Wizard of Oz, while never considered a horror movie (except for those of us who were terrified of the flying monkeys as children), had probably the most famous “cursed” production of any Hollywood film. The problems were varied and innumerable: two stars — Buddy Ebsen, the original Tin Man, and Margaret Hamilton, the Wicked Witch — were poisoned by their makeup; a couple of flying monkey stunt actors fell when their wires broke; the Wicked Witch’s stunt double injured her leg when her broom exploded; and someone even stepped on one of the dogs that played Toto.
Many other stories from the set are apocryphal (none of the actors hanged themselves during production), but the chaotic environment invited plenty of chatter about how uniquely difficult it all felt — perhaps cursed. However, many of these problems can be chalked up not to a curse but to the fact that The Wizard of Oz was attempting to put things and techniques on film that had never been done before. It only makes sense that there would be some chaos here and there.
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