Sitcom set in a radio shack

I remember watching a sitcom set in a Radio Shack type of store, or perhaps a
TV repair shop, in the mid 1980s.

I believe there were rather few episodes and all of them were shown in a
rather short time span. Of course they could have been reruns of an older
show, but I seem to remember that the TV stressed that there were very few
episodes and that all of them were being run at once, over perhaps 2 or 3
weeks.

I saw the show on a TV station in the Los Angeles area.

RichA...

They ought to make one set in a Radio Shack. The imbecile highschool
dropouts who work there coupled with the mogoloid customers would be
fodder for the comedy mills.

bklyntv...

Not all imbeciles and "mogoloids" are funny.

Obveeus...

Mogoloid: someone living on the planet Mogo?

et472...

Wasn't Ming the Merciless a Mogo?

Rob Jensen...

Not unless Ming was a sentient planet that became a Green Lantern.

Obveeus...

Ah, Green Lantern. That is where Mogo is from. I remembered a year or so
back reading a Star Wars novel with a 'sentient' planet, then reading online
about some fungus up in Oregon that covers several hundred thousand acres
(as a single lifeform). At that point, I got to thinking that maybe a whole

Victor Velazquez...

How cool is that!

planet carrying one life form might really be possible and did some internet
searching on 'sentient planets'. As I recall, there were quite a few of
them in Sci-Fi reading, including Mogo (which I thought would make a great
name for a dog).

-- Rob

It's the Principle!...

Radio Shack didn't used to be that way. Before they started carrying
predominantly prefab consumer products, it was a cool place in a geeky
electronic builder sort of way.

Yes, I was a customer! What of it?

Anim8rFSK...

Yep, back when you could actually buy resistors. Back when there was
actually a reason to buy resistors.

A friend of mine who is a card carrying rocket scientist (honest, he has
little cards that say "rocket scientist") went into Radio Shack recently
for the first time in 10 or 15 years and was horrified. He needed parts
to fix something and they no longer carried anything of that nature.

I go there for the occassional cable, but that's about it.

Anim8rFSK...

Yep

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and you can click to find the closest store too. :-)

Obveeus...

I think that was the traditional East Asian tie-in: planet 'Mongo'.

bklyntv...

Maybe a growth on a mogul?

Iago...

Sounds like it could be The Tortellis, the first spinoff from Cheers.
Nick owned a TV repair business, and the show was short-lived.

Never seen it myself so not sure how much of it was set in the business.

stonej...

Most of show was set in the home if I remember right. Nick Tortelli
was certainly annoying but pretty funny. I don't think it lasted more
than a few months.

et472...

That sounds possible. I saw it but can't remember much of it (the characters
that move to the show from Cheers are stronger memories when they were on
Cheers).

The only thing that had come to mind was the time WKRP did a remote from
a stereo store, and the store got robbed. But that was an episode, not
a whole show.