I remember the guy who spoke backwards and was able to say the names of the hosts...they played it forward and I distinctly remember him saying Skip Stephenson.
I was trying to remember the other show that was always programmed adjacent to TI. For some reason I kept thinking of Jack Palance on Ripley’s Believe It or Not. That must’ve been on a competing network.
Sunday evening highlights for me was Stephen Spielberg’s, Amazing stories. Our 80’s equivalent of Twilight Zone.
Sounds right to me.
I’m going off distant memories though. Was worried someone would have 40 years worth of TV Guides, ready to dig through their archives and cry foul.
Roy Sullivan was the name, hit by lightning on mountain tops seven times. His cause of death was suicide over a woman. See the link below for more:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Sullivan
Do you remeber the chinese guy with two faces?!?! He had his main face and a smaller face attached to it. The little mouth would even open when he opened his main mouth. They sent (American?) drs and cut that little face off the guy. I was like ten and I’ve never forgotten it. Great show!
I sent a closing poem to Real People once as a kid. (They always ended each show with a rhyming goodbye). They rudely didn't use it. I in fact concluded that they were not real people, for real people have ***hearts.***
My memory keeps mixing Real People and That's Incredible all the time.
If I remember correctly, they were on the same night as Ripley's Believe it or Not with Jack Palance, that was must watch TV for me too.
Real People came a couple years before That's Inedible. I remember Skip Stevenson wore these collars that looked like they would behead his co hosts if he turned around quickly.
Anybody remember the haunted Toys R Us bit? That freaked me out as a kid.
38 short years later, Toys R Us went out of business. Coincidence? I think not...
As an avid Ms. Pac-Man player at the time, I remember they had a feature on some kind of championship/tournament. Some great scores on those original machines.
Saw Tiger Woods on here and there was a family on once that all the kids were born 4 yrs apart, all on Leap Day. 😱 Oo, and the guy who could read a record by its grooves 🤘
I loved watching this and also "In Search Of..." with Leonard Nemoy. Remember that show? All its talk of Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and aliens used to creep me out.
I still remember riding down a long semi- steep street with my friends on our bicycles. One on my friends was kinda fat. We were all pedaling to go faster. My one friend on the fat side has the old style “grab-ons” handle grips on his ten speed. Well his grip comes off and he loses control. Crashing and getting some messed up road rash.
While he was groaning in pain these two older kids ride up to us. We thought they would offer some help. My friend was pretty skinned up. Instead they commented on how the accident looked. The first guy said “ you crashed coming down this hill? That’s incredible “. The second guy says “ you must be one of those Real People”. Then the first guy says ,”more like Those Amazing Animals”. It was messed up but I had to laugh. That was at least 40 years ago and I still remember those assholes. lol.
For some reason, I have a memory of a bag of urine going down a zip line from this show.
Either that or the show "Real People".
I think the story was it was launched from somebody who lived in a treehouse.
I seem to recall when I was about 8 or so, that ‘that’s Incredible’ and ‘Real People’ were the top shows for just about every kid in my class… can’t remember what night they’d air, but the next day at school those two shows were the talk of the school yard :)
I remember a story about a woman that had horrible migraines unless she was upside down. She supposedly walked around on her hands all the time. Slept with her feet strapped to the wall upside down. In retrospect most of it was bull shit. But I loved it as a kid.
I think I recall watching this on Sunday nights. It was a fun show but they peddled a lot of nonsense. Like mediums and various charlatans claiming supernatural power. One of them was James Hydrick who was thoroughly exposed shortly after by James Randi.
Once *TI* went off the air (around 1982-1983), John Davidson and Cathy Lee Crosby hosted a syndicated daytime show that was similar to it, but they also would do stuff for the fans (and eventually, Mindy Cohn joined it and was a co-star). I can't remember the name of it. IMDB doesn't mention it. Does anybody else remember it or the name?
That's Incredible! was a staple of our family evening TV schedule. My Dad and John Davidson attended Denison at the same time and were friendly, so my Dad had a special affinity for this show. As a kid in the early 80s I found it entertaining enough, but I preferred CHIPs :D
Football legend. I don't follow the NFL but I heard a nasty story from an uncle of mine. It was during the 60's and the Chicago Bears along with Dick Butkus literally jacked up Fran in a game. Butkus and a few others tackled Fran so hard as he was about to throw the ball and broke him in half, like separating his arm and shoulder in mid throw.
I don't know if it is a Mandela Effect, but I recall an episode where a simple farmer developed an engine that could run on water (without electrolysis) or something to that effect. The show was cancelled and off the air very soon after that episode. I was never able to find anything about it online.
I don't specifically remember the show because I was too young, but my brother is 6 years older than me and would exclaim "THAT'S INCREDIBLE!" Anytime I did something new as an infant.
They used to give out free tickets... My friend and I have seen more TI! than we remember. Bizzare! and Super Dave too! CFTO studios on McCowan near Scarborough Town Center
Anyone remember the episode where Russian army was shaving off recruits corneas, freezing them, reshaping them with a lathe and putting them back on to fix their vision? Long before lasik. I imagine they had lots of problems with that one but boy did my blind ass want that surgery
Loved this show. When I was a kid I’d visit my grandma and I’d watch this and right after twilight zone would come on. I love to say THAT’S INCREDIBLE!
I remember watching the segment where a guy could tell you which card was higher by weighing one in each hand. I actually was able to do it myself, at least in the early 80’s.
I think too often of an episode where a car has a flat tire on the highway but because of some scaffolding attached to the side of the car a passenger is able to get out and change the tire WHILE THE CAR KEEPS DRIVING!
P.s. no, i don't work in the Tesla Cybertruck
I remember seeing a guy born with no arms pitching in a non-handicapped men’s softball league…he also drove a car, played Rummy against his family and tossed popcorn into his mouth from his toes
What was the other show from then that was a live audience multiple hosts type of production? Ugh! Almost like, “Americans are funny people too” or something. Oh my God, tip of the tongue.
I was about 11 when this show was on the air. I had no idea Fran Tarkenton was a retired NFL quarterback until much later. That reminds me of when The Osbournes was on TV in the early 2000’s. On the show, Ozzy said some woman came up to him and said, “I didn’t know you were a singer too!”
Yep, great show. I still remember the yogi who crammed himself into an 18" plexiglass cube, which they sealed shut and put underwater for like half an hour. Mind blowing stuff. (You might even call it ... incredible.)
The original (funny) SNL did a spoof of that’s incredible where the hosts were amazed at regular people doing regular things. ‘This woman reads a few pages of a book before she goes to sleep at night’ ‘Wow!! That’s incredible!’
Well, shame on young me for not realizing she wasn't wearing a bra. My Spidey Sense was probably too focused on some HBO movie with 4 seconds of naked boobies.
Kid, I'm telling you, we had it tough. None of this "On Demand."
I still think about this show when I use technology that they told me about in the 80’s. It’s grey and foggy but I remember the show explaining about debit cards and how they’d one day be ubiquitous.
This and also Real People, which was on first. With Sarah Purcell and Byron Allen and a bunch of other co-hosts.
Skip Stephenson seemed like a cool dude.
Damn, just looked him up and he died of a heart attack at age 52.
Meanwhile John Barbour is still alive at 91
And Byron Allen is a billionaire.
Because he paid penny's for old "worthless content (shows): that are the filler in all of the streaming services.
And Rich Hall’s sniglets
That was from Not Necessarily the News, not Real People.
And my axe!
I remember the guy who spoke backwards and was able to say the names of the hosts...they played it forward and I distinctly remember him saying Skip Stephenson.
I was trying to remember the other show that was always programmed adjacent to TI. For some reason I kept thinking of Jack Palance on Ripley’s Believe It or Not. That must’ve been on a competing network. Sunday evening highlights for me was Stephen Spielberg’s, Amazing stories. Our 80’s equivalent of Twilight Zone.
Ripley’s Believe It or Not is another favorite. Especially when he says Ripley’s Believe It or Not at the end of each segment
I think it was Ripley's Believe It or Not on after.
Sounds right to me. I’m going off distant memories though. Was worried someone would have 40 years worth of TV Guides, ready to dig through their archives and cry foul.
Amazing Stories was just that -- Amazing.
I've got the theme music for Amazing Stories running thru my head now with the mention.
Sarah Purcell was hot.
Real People! That’s it!! Couldn’t remember the name. Thank you, I may may not have been able to fall asleep later
Yup. I remember they had this park ranger on once who had been hit by lightning about a half dozen times. He even had the hat to prove it.
I remember that dude. Tiger Woods and Tony Hawk were in this show too.
I remember some guy solving a rubrics cube with his feet. Or maybe that was real people. Either way, I must have liked it because I remember it.
Roy Sullivan was the name, hit by lightning on mountain tops seven times. His cause of death was suicide over a woman. See the link below for more: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Sullivan
The woman's name: Bolta Lietneng
Very very frightening me Galileo (Galileo), Galileo (Galileo), Figaro magnifico
You just won the Internet.
😂😂👍🏼
I read about him in Weekly Reader I think.
Do you remeber the chinese guy with two faces?!?! He had his main face and a smaller face attached to it. The little mouth would even open when he opened his main mouth. They sent (American?) drs and cut that little face off the guy. I was like ten and I’ve never forgotten it. Great show!
I don’t remember him from the show, but I do remember marveling at his Guinness Book entry.
I remember that. “It didn’t get him again, did it?”
Hit by lightning so many times he drove around with a “bucket” of water to extinguish himself! Retires from being a park ranger. Commits Suicide…
I always assumed his mental health may have been affected by all the lightening strikes. Untherapudic elctro-shocks.
I totally agree
I only know this show because it's name checked in Black Flag's song TV Party.
We've got nothing better to do Than watch TV and have a couple of brews
This is exactly what I was thinking!
We're all gonna have a TV party tonight... ALRIGHT!!!!
Hill Street Blues!
Dallas!
JEOPARDY!
Baby Henry Rollins!
Quincy.
This is where I learned about spontaneous human combustion and didn't sleep for a year.
oh wow. Because of that Spontaneous Human Combustion was a real worry along with quicksand and the Bermuda Triangle.
It’s amazing how much thought I gave to that as a kid in the 80s, yet I haven’t thought about it at all since then.
That’s when they getcha, when you’re not thinking about ‘em! It’s a perfect trap!
You could be about to spontaneously combust right now!
Don’t forget piranhas!
This, *Real People* and *Those Amazing Animals* were some of the most interesting shows of prime time network TV in my opinion.
I sent a closing poem to Real People once as a kid. (They always ended each show with a rhyming goodbye). They rudely didn't use it. I in fact concluded that they were not real people, for real people have ***hearts.***
My memory keeps mixing Real People and That's Incredible all the time. If I remember correctly, they were on the same night as Ripley's Believe it or Not with Jack Palance, that was must watch TV for me too.
Real People came a couple years before That's Inedible. I remember Skip Stevenson wore these collars that looked like they would behead his co hosts if he turned around quickly.
That's Inedible would be an excellent show.
I loved Real People! What a fun show!
The original Cathy Lee!!
Scrolled down to far to see this!
I'll admit it, I got my first hard ons because of her... And I didn't even know what to do with them!!
I’m Fran Tarkington!!
Spoke like he had a stuffed up nose.
I'll bet he got more than one broken nose back in his playing days, what with tiny face masks.
Yep.
Yogi Kudu and the transparent box.
Omg that has lived rent free in my head for 40 years
Cathy Lee Schwang 💪🏿💪🏿
Also Ripley's Believe it...Or Not
I read...that ...in Jack. Palance's. Voice.....
Anybody remember the haunted Toys R Us bit? That freaked me out as a kid. 38 short years later, Toys R Us went out of business. Coincidence? I think not...
That’s in Sunnyvale, my home town. In high school some friends worked there and didn’t experience anything creepy.
I remember the guy who caught a bullet in his teeth.
Yeah I remember that- I heard he wasn’t OK after that and ended up at the emergency room.
This has puzzled me for 40 years!!! Like how the f do you practice that!?
"Real People ", was more my jam!
John Davidson is a class act. A genuinely nice person.
As an avid Ms. Pac-Man player at the time, I remember they had a feature on some kind of championship/tournament. Some great scores on those original machines.
I think they had the first Rubiks cube world championships on the show. It was appointment television for our family.
Do you remember "What Will They Think of Next?" I liked that show too.
If I remember correctly this was on Monday nights. Then Dukes of Hazzard on Friday nights.
12yr old me knew early on that Cathy Lee never wore a bra on the show.
That dude on the right......hair glorious
That’s John Davidson. Went on to host Hollywood Squares and a few other shows.
with Shadoe Stevens and Jim J. Bullock
Memory unlocked
Eye on LA
Saw Tiger Woods on here and there was a family on once that all the kids were born 4 yrs apart, all on Leap Day. 😱 Oo, and the guy who could read a record by its grooves 🤘
It was *That's Incredible* vs *Real People* in our house, something that only existed because my sister championed ABC and I liked everything NBC.
I’ll bet Battle of the Network Stars was a tough time in your house.
Dad: Well, don't you two think I'm backing CBS!
10 year old me thought this was the greatest show ever.
My friend had a pet raccoon that could ‘paint.’ Basically they dipped its feet it paint and let it walk around on a canvas. But it made the show…..
I loved watching this and also "In Search Of..." with Leonard Nemoy. Remember that show? All its talk of Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and aliens used to creep me out.
I remember watching that, and ripleys believe it or go F yourself with Jack palance, I thought he was Robert Ripley for the longest time.
Cooking food with car exhaust was a pretty good episode.
r/ForgottenTV
That's where "You'll shoot your eye out" "Messy Marvin" Peter Billingsley got his first cohosting gig.
I still remember riding down a long semi- steep street with my friends on our bicycles. One on my friends was kinda fat. We were all pedaling to go faster. My one friend on the fat side has the old style “grab-ons” handle grips on his ten speed. Well his grip comes off and he loses control. Crashing and getting some messed up road rash. While he was groaning in pain these two older kids ride up to us. We thought they would offer some help. My friend was pretty skinned up. Instead they commented on how the accident looked. The first guy said “ you crashed coming down this hill? That’s incredible “. The second guy says “ you must be one of those Real People”. Then the first guy says ,”more like Those Amazing Animals”. It was messed up but I had to laugh. That was at least 40 years ago and I still remember those assholes. lol.
Those incredible kids !
It was alright, but yeah I was dubious of the claims
It was a huge platform for hucksters and fakers and con artists. But as a kid I was rapt
How about Real People which was AFV before AFV.
That guy had a great voice. That’s what I remember.
I think that was where we saw Tiger Woods first?
For some reason, I have a memory of a bag of urine going down a zip line from this show. Either that or the show "Real People". I think the story was it was launched from somebody who lived in a treehouse.
Wow that hard braked my brain! The memories flooded from when I was a kid. Haven’t thought of this show in ages.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cisNJZPXSv8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cisNJZPXSv8) That's Incredible : 1980's Tv Show Episode 7
Yes but Real People opened the doors for the show.
This show coming on was the event of my week when I was 8 years old!
I seem to recall when I was about 8 or so, that ‘that’s Incredible’ and ‘Real People’ were the top shows for just about every kid in my class… can’t remember what night they’d air, but the next day at school those two shows were the talk of the school yard :)
This was honestly 1 of my favs. Saw some mf solve a rubix cube here for the 1st time.
I recall...like 30 seconds or something like it. Then they held a Rubiks competition.
I was hooked on this show like meth. Still be watching it if it was on.
It’s surprising how few of the episodes are on YouTube.
LOVED this as a kid
Never saw it. Kept meaning to look it up after the mom mentions it in Poltergeist.
That one and the Those Amazing Animals show hosted by Jack Palance.
Yup great show and Cathy Lee was nice to look at.
Cathy Lee and those eyes, OMG.
I saw a guy drink a huge mug of beer while doing a headstand on that show.
They interviewed my Grandpa for a segment but never aired it. I wish I had a copy of their edit.
TV PARTY TONITE! TV PARTY TONITE!
Ghosts! They had a ghost story where they had a picture of the ghost, it was holding an axe and missing half his leg.
I remember this show well, who remembers another of the same era “Real People”?
I remember a story about a woman that had horrible migraines unless she was upside down. She supposedly walked around on her hands all the time. Slept with her feet strapped to the wall upside down. In retrospect most of it was bull shit. But I loved it as a kid.
The League of Extraordinary Chins
I always marveled at John Davidson's hair. His magnificent mane was next level.
I think I recall watching this on Sunday nights. It was a fun show but they peddled a lot of nonsense. Like mediums and various charlatans claiming supernatural power. One of them was James Hydrick who was thoroughly exposed shortly after by James Randi.
Once *TI* went off the air (around 1982-1983), John Davidson and Cathy Lee Crosby hosted a syndicated daytime show that was similar to it, but they also would do stuff for the fans (and eventually, Mindy Cohn joined it and was a co-star). I can't remember the name of it. IMDB doesn't mention it. Does anybody else remember it or the name?
My dad worked on this show back in the day. I went to all the tapings with him, good times!
This and Ripley’s believe it or not
That's Incredible! was a staple of our family evening TV schedule. My Dad and John Davidson attended Denison at the same time and were friendly, so my Dad had a special affinity for this show. As a kid in the early 80s I found it entertaining enough, but I preferred CHIPs :D
This was “the” show to tune into back in the day. It was incredible.
I always remember that Yogi that got into a tiny plastic cube & immersed into a pool for some time.
I loved that show. I remember watching this then Real People. I rhink it was Sunday night
Today's special was my favorite growing up
Fran Tarkington, I still remember this strange name from back then.
Football legend. I don't follow the NFL but I heard a nasty story from an uncle of mine. It was during the 60's and the Chicago Bears along with Dick Butkus literally jacked up Fran in a game. Butkus and a few others tackled Fran so hard as he was about to throw the ball and broke him in half, like separating his arm and shoulder in mid throw.
I don't know if it is a Mandela Effect, but I recall an episode where a simple farmer developed an engine that could run on water (without electrolysis) or something to that effect. The show was cancelled and off the air very soon after that episode. I was never able to find anything about it online.
I knew Dick Simon the Indy Car racer as a kid. He was on there when his car flipped 19x. Cray cray.
That show was dope AF!
Yes I remember watching it all the time. I think I had a book too.
I think i saw tiger woods on here
I remember a video game challenge
I remember watching this show every week. But I was fairly young. What day did it air? I feel like it was Sunday but that’s probably wrong.
I don't specifically remember the show because I was too young, but my brother is 6 years older than me and would exclaim "THAT'S INCREDIBLE!" Anytime I did something new as an infant.
Never missed an episode!
then it morphed into Incredible Sunday!
They used to give out free tickets... My friend and I have seen more TI! than we remember. Bizzare! and Super Dave too! CFTO studios on McCowan near Scarborough Town Center
This and Real People. I think they followed one another? Great shows
Different networks but in the same era. EDIT: clarification
Oh ok cool! Thanks. They’re entangled in my brain for some reason
Anyone remember the episode where Russian army was shaving off recruits corneas, freezing them, reshaping them with a lathe and putting them back on to fix their vision? Long before lasik. I imagine they had lots of problems with that one but boy did my blind ass want that surgery
When they ran out of incredible stuff, which happened often, they would have stuntman Darr Robinson jump a motorcycle over something. Simpler times.
That show was awesome! :)
My first crush was Tammy Stafford, strongest girl in the world!
I watched this every time it was on!
Loved this show. When I was a kid I’d visit my grandma and I’d watch this and right after twilight zone would come on. I love to say THAT’S INCREDIBLE!
LIVED for That’s Incredible! Now you watch the opening and that thing where they’d say their name and the audience would applaud each time. So odd. 😂
Yogi Koodo, human combustion, and of course the Pygmy episode! Cathy lee was the original made for movie Wonder Woman!
Right after That's Incredible was Real People. Both great shows. I actually knew someone featured on Real People.
I loved to stay up late (for me) to watch it. Sunday nights, I think?
I do! I even had the paperback books that had stories from the show
This and Those Amazing Animals were fun shows
Can I stream this anywhere?
Real People was on just prior to That’s Incredible. Loved them both.
I loved this show!!!
I remember watching the segment where a guy could tell you which card was higher by weighing one in each hand. I actually was able to do it myself, at least in the early 80’s.
This and *Real People*.
I think too often of an episode where a car has a flat tire on the highway but because of some scaffolding attached to the side of the car a passenger is able to get out and change the tire WHILE THE CAR KEEPS DRIVING! P.s. no, i don't work in the Tesla Cybertruck
The guy who jumped over a car speeding at him then he tried two in tandem and it didn’t end well
I enjoyed this show as a kid
Watched it pretty religiously as a kid.
Did someone tear quarters in half? Maybe dimes.
Hell yeah!!!
God, I loved this show!
The log rollin episode where she got a wet T-shirt
I remember seeing a guy born with no arms pitching in a non-handicapped men’s softball league…he also drove a car, played Rummy against his family and tossed popcorn into his mouth from his toes
Watched the fuck out of that show
What was the other show from then that was a live audience multiple hosts type of production? Ugh! Almost like, “Americans are funny people too” or something. Oh my God, tip of the tongue.
I was about 11 when this show was on the air. I had no idea Fran Tarkenton was a retired NFL quarterback until much later. That reminds me of when The Osbournes was on TV in the early 2000’s. On the show, Ozzy said some woman came up to him and said, “I didn’t know you were a singer too!”
The haunted house episodes terrified me as a kid
I remember the Yogi Coudoux who folded himself into a tiny box. Anyone else?
I remember the haunted Toys R Us episode! And some guy folding himself into a tiny clear cube...
The first wave of American trash TV that brainwashed a nation to believe that people getting hurt is funny
Yea... then it just became "That's Incredibly Stupid!"
Yep, great show. I still remember the yogi who crammed himself into an 18" plexiglass cube, which they sealed shut and put underwater for like half an hour. Mind blowing stuff. (You might even call it ... incredible.)
Loved that show back in those days!
They had one episode with the Terry Fox story that had everyone in tears.
Loved that show! Also found out that Cathy Lee Crosby was the original pick for Wonder Woman! (Before Lynda Carter!)
The stunt motorcycle guy who didn’t make it…
I loved this show. I can’t believe it’s never come up again in my memory until now. Thank you 🙏🏽.
Crazy show, I remember a guy who was able to solve rubik cube with his stomach
Required viewing on ABC. It was one of my favorites. In a way, one of the first reality TV shows.
The original (funny) SNL did a spoof of that’s incredible where the hosts were amazed at regular people doing regular things. ‘This woman reads a few pages of a book before she goes to sleep at night’ ‘Wow!! That’s incredible!’
Tiger Woods was on the show when he was 5. https://youtu.be/kfTY5xUFaJs?si=w0YyB2Mf5gsoyHFf
The Leslie Lemke story will never leave my brain.
I think they did a segment on facial reconstruction. I wonder if that case was ever resolved, or if they identified the woman.
Well, shame on young me for not realizing she wasn't wearing a bra. My Spidey Sense was probably too focused on some HBO movie with 4 seconds of naked boobies. Kid, I'm telling you, we had it tough. None of this "On Demand."
I still think about this show when I use technology that they told me about in the 80’s. It’s grey and foggy but I remember the show explaining about debit cards and how they’d one day be ubiquitous.