Reviews

I am way out of the demographic this show is aiming at, but I still enjoyed it as harmless entertainment. I don't quite understand the point of Kyra living with her step-father, meaning that both her parents have died.

While I can accept the idea of magic existing in the context of the show, I have real trouble accepting that Kyra is supposed to be the star of her basketball team. I don't believe that the level of basketball is this low in Australia. Everyone dribbles the ball much too high and can barely shoot. This is jarring and takes me out of my suspension of belief every time.

I thought this show really deserved more of a chance. Marcia and Jan are both newly married and are house-hunting. They quickly realize that they only way they can afford a nice house in California is to pool their resources and buy a house together.

The comedy comes from the fact that the man Marcia married is an easygoing slob, while Jan's husband is an uptight, neat-freak professor. Sound familiar? If Neil Simon did not demand royalties, it was only because the show disappeared so quickly.

Another appeal for me as a young man was that Eve Plumb had grown up to be a total babe. Despite her role as the awkward middle child on "The Brady Bunch", she played a self-assured young woman whose beauty completely outshone that of Maureen McCormick (who was still very attractive).

Perhaps this show would have done better without the Brady connection. Brady fans were probably disappointed that the show featured only two of the Brady family, while those who scorned "The Brady Bunch" never gave it a chance.

My rating of seven (one for each aired episode) may be higher that the show actually deserves, but I give credit for the potential of a show that never really got a chance to find itself

I have just discovered this show via GetTV. I had never seen or heard of this show; my family did not own a television in 1965.

"A Man Called Shenandoah" only lasted one season. I would guess that this was due to it being on ABC (a poor third in television ratings at the time), and coming near the end of the run of Western shows on television. The show may have also suffered by having somewhat more adult themes than most other Westerns, although that never seemed to hurt "Gunsmoke"…

At any rate, Horton is excellent as a man who has lost his memory due to being shot in the head (a grazing shot, one would assume). He wanders to various places in the West, searching for clues to his identity. While we initially know nothing about Shenandoah's past, we find him to be a competent man of great integrity who finds interesting situations wherever he goes.

While lasting only one season, shows produced more episodes back then. There were 34 episodes made, although apparently about five are lost. Watchers will recognize many of the guest stars; in just a few episodes, I have seen Sally Kellerman, Leonard Nimoy, George Kennedy, and John Dehner.

It's too bad that the show only got one season. While amnesia has been long used as a gimmick in movies and television, I thought it worked in this show. Perhaps eventually, the producers would have let him find out about his past and moved on to other conflicts.