I can't argue. I've seen hardly any of these.
What were the worst? We put together a list of the 25 worst TV shows.
Let the debate begin!"
Thursday, October 02, 2008
25 Worst TV Shows
What were the worst? We put together a list of the 25 worst TV shows.
Let the debate begin!"
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I haven't seen too many of these either--it's sort of refreshing to see that they didn't resort to putting the "usual suspects" on the list like Gilligan's Island or Hogan's Heroes.
Veronica's Closet was not a good sitcom by any measure of the yardstick but to say that it couldn't hold the audience after Seinfeld isn't entirely accurate. It was among the Nielsen's Top Ten programs every season it was on and while that doesn't make it good you can't say it wasn't popular.
The Ropers' British cousin, George & Mildred, was a far-more successful series on that side of the pond...and funnier, too.
Aftermash, The Ropers, and Beauty and The Beast I've seen. None of the rest. The first two were rather lame. Beauty and The Beast, while not a favorite, I probably wouldn't include on the list.
My Mother, The Car, Knightrider's spiritual ancestor, would be a better fit on this list.
I thought STACKED was pretty funny at times and that the writers actually knew a little about the book publishing business (as opposed to most movies and TV shows where novel manuscripts are shown as being about half an inch thick and come in colored binders like, oh, say, scripts).
Okay, I was waiting for someone else to admit having seen that one before I said anything. Now that James has spoken up, I have to say I had a few laughs from that one, too.
I'm ashamed to say I watched Manimal. In my defense I was 11.
Note how many were spinoffs. A few weren't worth this dishonor. I'd add Roseanne, anything with Barbara Walters, The Montefuscos, anything with Jerry Lewis, Alice, Starsky and Hutch, and that one with the car called The General Lee--wish I could think of it--despite the sight of Catherine Bach in cutoffs. Hell, 99% of the shows ever aired sucked.
THE DUKES OF HAZZARD, Bob. And despite Bach's presence, you're right. I've seen at least a bit of all of these, and there have been much worse than most cited...and STACKED was indeed not all that shabby, and HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS wasn't a UPN show but instead a syndicated original, in the manner of STAR TREK: TNG or HIGHWAY PATROL.
Among the worst: ah, later. But my list always includes THREE'S COMPANY, WHAT'S HAPPENING? and THE LAND OF THE GIANTS.
And WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT, WORLD?, the attempt at a rightwing answer to the SmoBro show and to some extent LAUGH IN, which is worth every word of insult Harlan Ellison delivers in one of the two GLASS TEAT books. The Nolstalgia Channel was kind/evil enough to run it some years back.
And the listmakers missed the most salient fact about BAYWATCH NIGHTS, which is perhaps the most insane show on their list--that the Hoff's character is not only moonlighting as a detective, but that all his cases are bad X FILES kncockoffs.
If any of their choices are truly among the worst (and THE ROPERS and JOANNIE LOVES CHACHI genuinely are close to the worst ever), BAYWATCH NIGHTS is the strongest candidate.
I don't watch much series TV anymore, so the bad shows that are stuck in my synapses go back decades. I wonder if anyone else recalls HAPPY (a precursor to the Look Who's Talking movies) or BRINGING UP BUDDY, for example. Ellison's Glass Teat books mentioned by Todd are real time capsules of the Nixon-era TV landscape, when every made-for-TV movie seemed to star Lloyd Bridges, Carl Betz, or Howard Duff.
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