One of these days when some entertainment company wises up and starts The Obscure Sitcom Network (or whatever they'll call it), they're going to make a hot tub full o' money. What they need to do is to dig out all those comedy shows which ran a few seasons but never had much of a life in syndication…shows like Occasional Wife and Hank and I'm Dickens, He's Fenster and It's About Time and The Queen and I and Ensign O'Toole and My Living Doll and Camp Runamuck and He and She and Car 54, Where Are You? and Julia and I'm sure anyone reading this site can name twenty more. Don't bother sending me your picks.
A show I'd like to see again is The Good Guys, which starred Herb Edelman and Bob Denver and which ran on CBS from September 25, 1968 to January 23, 1970. It was about two lifelong friends — Bert Gramus (Edelman) who ran a diner and Rufus Butterworth (Denver) who drove a taxicab. At arm's length, it was a slapsticky, broad show but I recall it being quite witty underneath its pie-in-the-face veneer. I also liked its theme song which went through different arrangements and several sets of lyrics during the show's two year run. Here's the show's opening and closing…and like I said, I wish someone would put this one back on the air or out on DVD or something.
