can someone remember what tv programme i'm trying to remember

Hahahaha sweet. I think that show was somehow a 90210 spin-off but I could be wrong.

Possibly the reason that you thought that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYZachnIMPk

No, it was definitely a spin-off from 90210. If my memory serves, one of the lead guys dated Donna for a time.

I mean, that sounds right for some reason, but I can't find any evidence online to support it.

yeah that's the dreamy jamie walters of 90210 fame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_QGJE94iOM

Yeah, that dude! Blanked on his vanilla-ass boring name.

i'm wondering about another show: late 80's/early 90's super cheesy sitcom about a bodyguard/stuntman who retires and moves back to the foster home he was raised in, where his old mom is taking care of a new bunch of kids and he teaches them lessons and stuff. iirc he looked a lot like sylvester stallone and might have been called Jake or Jack, which possibly was also the name of the show but not quite... anyone?

This isn't a tv show but it might have been a made-for-tv movie. In any case I saw it on the late show about 20 years ago, and it's obviously from the 1970s.

A courier has to escort an old couple across the country. There's a hit out on the older man. His wife doesn't know anything about it and after they are attacked the first time she freaks out and leaves abruptly. There's a long sequence in which the courier fills a school bus with dummies as a diversionary tactic. I remember it being a good action movie, but don't think I recognized any actors.

This is a tricky one...

The movie version of Clue came out when I was 7 (in 1985) and I really wanted to see it, but did not get to until it was released on VHS. There was a TV special aired around the time of the film's theatrical release that my parents taped for me that I watched over and over as a kind of holdover until I finally got to see the film itself (the show was either taped over, or the tape itself lost or broken not long afterwards anyhow), and which featured a lot of clips from the film. From what I can remember, it also had an interview (possibly archival) with Peter Falk, in which he discusses the similarities between Columbo and Sherlock Holmes, and clips from other mystery shows (Murder, She Wrote definitely being one of them) and a bunch of classic mystery movies (one of which may or may not have been Niagara). IMDb doesn't turn up anything--I even checked the reference pages for Clue, Falk, MSW and Niagara, and nothing.

I don't expect to find it anywhere out there (though that would be amazing), so...maybe I'm just looking for confirmation that this wasn't something that my 7-year-old brain just made up?

@ sodrangerbot: Big Brother Jake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APR_xbw20zo

cryptosicko:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0483881/

Oh wow, there it is! Thanks!

Just remembered from looking at the page that Martin Mull hosted the thing.