You're absolutely right about Hogan's Heroes. If that's correct then I know.. nothing!! and hey.. I liked the Adventures Of Sheriff Lobo, too! But then.. what they're saying about you over on that private thread is probably all correct, too! Hee-hee!
Mr. Smith: an orangutan drinks a special formula and develops a really high IQ, including the ability to talk, play chess, and work for the government. I think he's still at the SEC.
V: A great miniseries was actually a pilot for a television series that was just too expensive to produce. So they decided to film a sequel-miniseries to wrap up all the loose ends. With all the loose ends wrapped up, NBC decided NOW was a good time to authorize a series, with half the actors, half the budget, half the scenes recycled and none of the suspense that made the original so much fun.
Condo: A white family is dismayed that they bought an expensive condo right next door to a Puerto Rican family.
Misfits of Science: a bunch of teens with unscientific abilities, including the ability to read that dialogue with a straight face.
Galactica 1980: Turns out getting there was ALL the fun. You know a show is doomed when it's named after the present year. I mean, if the show lasted until 1981, would they have had to rename it?
The New Odd Couple: Actually, the Old Odd Couple's scripts, read by new black actors.
Emeril: The pain! The pain! Make it go away!!!
Teletubbies: Please! Bring back Emeril!!!
Second Chance: This was really bad. Matthew Perry starred as the teenage version of a 40-something-year-old man who dies and comes back to the past to set himself on the right path.
The Tortelli's: Frasier may be the most intelligent series spinoff ever. The Tortelli's, spun-off from the same series (Cheers) may have been the worst.
Top of the Heap: Another really bad one. This was a spin-off of Married with Children (!) and starred Matt Le Blanc.
For those keeping track, we have THREE "Friends" stars covered (Courtney Cox was in Misfits of Science).
I liked "Hogan's Heroes" too. I guess it's not politically correct these days.
Excathie,
"Woops" - The world is destroyed when kids accidently set off a nuclear missile causing the Russians to counterattack. Only six people are left in the US; Mark, the narrator, an ex-school teacher; Alice, a feminist; Curtis, a yuppie stock broker; Jack, a homeless person; Frederick, a black pathologist; and Suzzane, a sexy dummy.
Lasted 10 weeks on Fox in 1992. Sounds hilarious, doesn't it?
"Three's Company" and "Love Boat" Both of these programs should be played in prison cells 24 hours a day, but only for people convicted of capital crimes.
Me too! I still like to watch Hogan's Heros if I'm up late at nite, can't sleep kinda thing...if I can find them somewhere.
I don't watch that much TV - so nobody would remember my least favorite...it was from the late '50's "Captain Video and his Video Rangers" - a pseudo sci-fi wannabe about space exploration. They used cardboard props.
This was in the days of live TV only! So if anybody made a boo boo and knocked one of the props, you could definitely tell it was cardboard...this was even in the days before plastic!
In 1954 we had the neighborhoods first TV and we were kinda poor! My dad built it from a Heath kit...and we even had a 12 inch screen! No magnifier for us! What a hoot, these memories are for me....probably boring for you...so I'll quit now!
oh cripes, why did i start that thread about private threads. y'all keep this up and i'm telling !!!
pirate, yes sounds hilarious !!!
why isn't that tv thing about women going to alaska to find husbands on that list ? adios ? i watched, what is wrong with me. i felt very yucky and embarrassed for everyone on there.
Was a great show, and it included many references to the masonic underground, it had a former concentration camp prisoner, and a former German soldier. What better cast to mock the Nazi's.
Baywatch:
Marketed world-wide, and a major cause of our current fighting. More titilation would be hard to compress into a single show, and it violates just about every religous group's standards. Great example of America.
Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?
I have heard of this one, but I thought it was just a one-time thing, was it a series?
Howard Stern:
I have heard about this show for years. last year when we returned stateside, I found that we could get it on our TV. So I finally was able to watch it, ugh. I have a difficult time understanding how this could be popular.
Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell:
SNL made fun of Cosell many times, I did not know that Cosell hosted one SNL, kewl.
The Flying Nun:
I grew up watching this one. as a kid I liked it. could be because she was cute. I dont remember enough about it, to say whether it was good programming.
Most of the shows on this list, I am not familiar with sorry.
I have heard of this one, but I thought it was just a one-time thing, was it a series?
As far as I know it was just a one time thing. With Rick Rockwell and Darva Conger who's marriage lasted about 5 minutes.
On a sidenote, for any Twilight Zone fans, Darva's mom was an actress named Susan Harrison. She played the ballerina in an episode called "5 characters in search of an exit"
Remember the one where the the five characters are trapped in a some sort of container with no memory of how they arrived there.
The Major hits on the idea of forming a human ladder to reach the top.
Then he falls into the snow below. and we realize they are dolls in a Christmas toy donation barrel.
...On the eighth day, God created Rottweilers...
[This message was edited by RottieGrrrl on July 18, 2002 at 5:52.]
Ditto on Hogan's Heroes... somebody was definately having a crabby day when they wrote this list: great cast, well-written humor. Yes, it was campy. It was SUPPOSED to be campy.
And I have to admit I liked Holmes and YoYo but I was a kid when it played and I thought it was funny. (nevermind that the actors couldn't act)
I also really liked Baby Bob. I'm sorry it didn't do better. Hilarious how they mixed an adult's verbal abilities with the cares and concerns of an infant.
Oh, I don't know about that one, Steve. Doctor Who did pretty well for such laughable special effects. Some of the plots were very well done, even if the monsters were just a sheet of aluminum foil...
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excathedra
not true about hogan's heroes
wonder what woops was about
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Ex,
You're absolutely right about Hogan's Heroes. If that's correct then I know.. nothing!! and hey.. I liked the Adventures Of Sheriff Lobo, too! But then.. what they're saying about you over on that private thread is probably all correct, too! Hee-hee!
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Happy to come out of retirement for this list!
My personal un-favorites...
Mr. Smith: an orangutan drinks a special formula and develops a really high IQ, including the ability to talk, play chess, and work for the government. I think he's still at the SEC.
V: A great miniseries was actually a pilot for a television series that was just too expensive to produce. So they decided to film a sequel-miniseries to wrap up all the loose ends. With all the loose ends wrapped up, NBC decided NOW was a good time to authorize a series, with half the actors, half the budget, half the scenes recycled and none of the suspense that made the original so much fun.
Condo: A white family is dismayed that they bought an expensive condo right next door to a Puerto Rican family.
Misfits of Science: a bunch of teens with unscientific abilities, including the ability to read that dialogue with a straight face.
Galactica 1980: Turns out getting there was ALL the fun. You know a show is doomed when it's named after the present year. I mean, if the show lasted until 1981, would they have had to rename it?
The New Odd Couple: Actually, the Old Odd Couple's scripts, read by new black actors.
Emeril: The pain! The pain! Make it go away!!!
Teletubbies: Please! Bring back Emeril!!!
Second Chance: This was really bad. Matthew Perry starred as the teenage version of a 40-something-year-old man who dies and comes back to the past to set himself on the right path.
The Tortelli's: Frasier may be the most intelligent series spinoff ever. The Tortelli's, spun-off from the same series (Cheers) may have been the worst.
Top of the Heap: Another really bad one. This was a spin-off of Married with Children (!) and starred Matt Le Blanc.
For those keeping track, we have THREE "Friends" stars covered (Courtney Cox was in Misfits of Science).
Ah, that was fun. Okay, back to retirement.
The Living Epistles Society
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I liked "Hogan's Heroes" too. I guess it's not politically correct these days.
Excathie,
"Woops" - The world is destroyed when kids accidently set off a nuclear missile causing the Russians to counterattack. Only six people are left in the US; Mark, the narrator, an ex-school teacher; Alice, a feminist; Curtis, a yuppie stock broker; Jack, a homeless person; Frederick, a black pathologist; and Suzzane, a sexy dummy.
Lasted 10 weeks on Fox in 1992. Sounds hilarious, doesn't it?
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Jerry Springer does suck
Cop Rock was horrid - but I give the creator kudos for trying something new.
My mother the car was far fetched
Jim Belushi's new tv show is not good, shame because I like him.
I think Gary Shanling (spelling) should be represented.
Big Brother is as exciting as watching people fish. (Which the fishing guys should be listed)
Brady Brides was the pits
And Watching Ellie (Julia Louis Dryfess deserved a better script)
Then, Bob Patterson with Jason Alexander
After Mash -- I wanted it to make it but it was poor
Dot Matrix
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"Three's Company" and "Love Boat" Both of these programs should be played in prison cells 24 hours a day, but only for people convicted of capital crimes.
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I'd move Howard Stern and the Tom Green Show up to spots 2 and 3, and I'd add bowling, fishing and billiards.
Why isn't Duke's of Hazard on that list?
I agree about Hogan's Heroes. I thought it was hilarious...great cast.
I've never heard of lots of those shows. I must have been busy stringing chairs...guess it was good for something!
Linda Z
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Me too! I still like to watch Hogan's Heros if I'm up late at nite, can't sleep kinda thing...if I can find them somewhere.
I don't watch that much TV - so nobody would remember my least favorite...it was from the late '50's "Captain Video and his Video Rangers" - a pseudo sci-fi wannabe about space exploration. They used cardboard props.
This was in the days of live TV only! So if anybody made a boo boo and knocked one of the props, you could definitely tell it was cardboard...this was even in the days before plastic!
In 1954 we had the neighborhoods first TV and we were kinda poor! My dad built it from a Heath kit...and we even had a 12 inch screen! No magnifier for us! What a hoot, these memories are for me....probably boring for you...so I'll quit now!
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oh cripes, why did i start that thread about private threads. y'all keep this up and i'm telling !!!
pirate, yes sounds hilarious !!!
why isn't that tv thing about women going to alaska to find husbands on that list ? adios ? i watched, what is wrong with me. i felt very yucky and embarrassed for everyone on there.
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Hogan's Heroes:
Was a great show, and it included many references to the masonic underground, it had a former concentration camp prisoner, and a former German soldier. What better cast to mock the Nazi's.
Baywatch:
Marketed world-wide, and a major cause of our current fighting. More titilation would be hard to compress into a single show, and it violates just about every religous group's standards. Great example of America.
Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?
I have heard of this one, but I thought it was just a one-time thing, was it a series?
Howard Stern:
I have heard about this show for years. last year when we returned stateside, I found that we could get it on our TV. So I finally was able to watch it, ugh. I have a difficult time understanding how this could be popular.
Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell:
SNL made fun of Cosell many times, I did not know that Cosell hosted one SNL, kewl.
The Flying Nun:
I grew up watching this one. as a kid I liked it. could be because she was cute. I dont remember enough about it, to say whether it was good programming.
Most of the shows on this list, I am not familiar with sorry.
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ChipS, the routine about CA Hwy Patrol, VIP, any soap opera, any talk show, modern day cartoons, and Cops.
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Hm.
In defense of a few shows on that list....
-AfterMASH wasn't awful. Not great, but not
terrible.
-Unhappily Ever After featured Nikki Cox. I think
it should not make the list for that reason
alone.
-Manimal runs on the SciFi Channel from time to
time. I finally got to see it a few months
ago. It was fine. I've seen worse.
If they wanted to dump on a 70's SciFi show,
they should have picked "Automan".
(Also on SciFi Channel, but not nearly as
often.)
-Woops! had an original concept. It actually
worked, kinda. It was a little like Gilligan's
Island, except there were no plans to get them
off the island.
-I don't think Hogan's Heroes was necessarily
that bad, but the concept is very strange.
To quote Gilbert Gottfried, "I'd like to meet the
guy who came up with the idea for 'Hogan's
Heroes'. He goes into a meeting with the big
studio heads. he says 'I have an idea for a new
TV show. It's about American POW's in a Nazi
war camp. IT'S A COMEDY!' "
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To address ideas proposed by others...
"Top of the Heap" wasn't a great show, but the
opening minutes had a great scene. Matt Le
Blanc's at home, with some airheaded "chicks".
His dad walks in, dressed with protective gear
from work. He's in coveralls with a mask
covering his face. (His entire body is covered.)
The "chicks" scream "Freddy!" & scamper out.
(You're thinking one thing-Matt Le Blanc says it.)
*looks over at Dad* "You don't look like Freddy,
you look like Jason."
Ok, that wasn't enough for a series, but I thought
it was a fair joke.
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I finally found out why "Galactica 1980" sucked
so badly.
Turns out the Battlestar Galactica series was
expensive to make.
(In a nutshell, the concept for the original
show was "Wagon Train" in space. It was about
the journey.)
The studio tells Larson "ok-have them reach
earth." "And THEN what?" "Who cares-everyone will
watch!"
The big problem came when they said
"we'll let you keep doing Galactica. However,
we're only giving a shoestring budget. So, you
can't bring back any of the regular actors
(he DID get to keep Lorne Greene), & you can't
shoot any new special effects scenes.
So, we had a version of Battlestar Galactica,
with NONE of the elements that people liked.
There was no hopeful journey (heck, what they
found at the end was a crushing of all their
hope that earth could mount a defense.)
The beloved regular characters were all gone.
There were no space scenes that weren't spliced
in from the old series.
That's why, when discussing the Galactica
timeline, everybody considers the "1980" series
non-canonical -they ignore it completely.
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My pick for worst tv shows ever to be released
is one entry from Saturday morning tv.
"Uncle Croc's Block."
This tv show featured a man in a crocodile suit,
played by Charles Nelson Reilly,
& who's foil, Basil Bitterbottom, was played
by-who was the professor in the old Lost in
Space series?
Then again, just about anything the "Kroft
Superstars" showed would make the list, in my
book-Far Out Space Nuts, the Bugaboos, HR
Pufenstuf, & let us not forget Land of the Lost,
or Sigmund & the Sea Monster.
Then again, I don't get why people are still
watching "Big Brother" or "the Mole".....
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As far as I know it was just a one time thing. With Rick Rockwell and Darva Conger who's marriage lasted about 5 minutes.
On a sidenote, for any Twilight Zone fans, Darva's mom was an actress named Susan Harrison. She played the ballerina in an episode called "5 characters in search of an exit"
Remember the one where the the five characters are trapped in a some sort of container with no memory of how they arrived there.
The Major hits on the idea of forming a human ladder to reach the top.
Then he falls into the snow below. and we realize they are dolls in a Christmas toy donation barrel.
...On the eighth day, God created Rottweilers...
[This message was edited by RottieGrrrl on July 18, 2002 at 5:52.]
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Steve!
I'll apologize beforehand, but at the top of my list would be 2 shows . . .
"Awful and Windy", er, I mean, "Oprah Winfrey"
and
"The View"
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Ditto on Hogan's Heroes... somebody was definately having a crabby day when they wrote this list: great cast, well-written humor. Yes, it was campy. It was SUPPOSED to be campy.
And I have to admit I liked Holmes and YoYo but I was a kid when it played and I thought it was funny. (nevermind that the actors couldn't act)
I also really liked Baby Bob. I'm sorry it didn't do better. Hilarious how they mixed an adult's verbal abilities with the cares and concerns of an infant.
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NO need to apolgize on this end. I don't care for Oprah at ALL.
Also, I was going to mention one of my personal picks, but didn't want to get slammed for it.
But since it's just my lil opinion..why not?
I Love Lucy, the original, I CAN'T STAND! I think it's hairbrained. If anyone acted like that in real life they'd be put away.
I kept this secret for many years, til one day this local horror show host "Son of Svenghoulie"
featured on his Saturday afternoon horror show, The Long long long trailer..staring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez.
He stated that anything with Lucille Ball in it was scary. EEEEEEEEK!
That's when I knew I wasn't alone.
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steve! double ditto !!! ha ha ha ha
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1.Greed
2.Tom Green
3. Howard Stern
4. Law and Order SVU
5. Rosie
6. Galactica 1980
7. Three's company
8. High Chapparal
9. After Mash
10. Cagney and lacy
11. NYPD blue
12. Where John Goodman played a gay guy
13. Will and Grace
14. Friends
15. Pax
16. WB
17. Voyager
18. Suddenly Susan
19. Medical Center
20. I can't go on
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I loved "The Long, Long, Long Trailer" movie with Lucy and Desi. It was hilarious with them trying to pull that thing up a mountain!
However, the worst TV of all time has to be the rash of attempted talk shows a few years back.
IE, Chevy Chase...remember that one? All these "celebrities" who thought they could do it better, that made for TV you love to hate.
Thanks Chevy!
corrydj
PS can't stand Oprah or the View either.
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Black Scorpion on the SCI-FI channel was terrible...
It was like a Batman spoof...
Poor plot...
week acting...
week supporting roles...
The only redeeming quality of the show was the star (I don't remember her name) was cute in her black leather outfit
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Zixar
I'm surprised that all Star Trek series after 1969 weren't on that list...
Bad show! No biscuit!
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That show with John (I'm as big as a house) Goodman was "Normal, Ohio".
Dare I say it, another really bad show, but so many people loved it -
Doctor Who
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Oh, I don't know about that one, Steve. Doctor Who did pretty well for such laughable special effects. Some of the plots were very well done, even if the monsters were just a sheet of aluminum foil...
Ex-ter-min-ate!
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The horribly-bad sitcom "Emeril" just earned an Emmy nomination for art direction in one episode.
Sheesh!
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