Worst TV show of all time

[RobertScorpio]

We are always list the best of this or that...but Wow, I could name many terrible tv shows..but what do you think was the worst TV show of all time. The only limit I will put on this is that it had to last at LEAST an entire 22-26 episode season. Heck, it could have gone on for several seasons (which includes my pick THE FACTS OF LIFE)....

Rob
Scorpio

 

[sidious618]

I already know which posters are going to say what.

 

[Dorian Thompson]

The Many Lives of Dobie Gillis. Made Gilligan look like Shakespeare. To think the Warren Beatty, Tuesday Weld, and a young Ellen Burstyn once appeared on it is hysterically funny.

 

[Aragorn]

What about all those WB and UPN sitcoms that lasted a full season or longer because there was nothing else to replace them with? Muscle? Homeboys in Outer Space? Of course, just because they were on the air doesn't mean anyone was watching.

 

[RobertScorpio]

What about all those WB and UPN sitcoms that lasted a full season or longer because there was nothing else to replace them with? Muscle? Homeboys in Outer Space? Of course, just because they were on the air doesn't mean anyone was watching.

Equal Opportunity at work it seemed...

Rob

 

[Level 2 Diagnostic]

My vote goes to Alice, a crushingly unfunny sitcom that lasted nine fucking seasons.

 

[Pingfah]

I have no idea, i never watched more than 5 minutes of a show that I thought was awful

 

[Mistral]

While TV has truely proven to be a wasteland more often than not, one show that hung on for a long time and made me grit my teeth whenever I noticed it was Saved By the Bell.

Some also rans-My Mother, the Car. Mr. Ed. The WB network, almost entirely. Pro Wrestling. Mama's House.(teeth hurt now, must stop!)

 

[Barbados Slim]

For me it's a toss up between Hee-Haw and Lawrence Welk. The worst of all variety shows, which is the worst of all TV genres.

 

[Rÿcher]

Starhunter

 

[Barbados Slim]

Starhunter

Really? The Fireflyness of the back box tempts me whenever I'm at Best Buy. What sucked about it and what was it about?

 

[Australis]

During the hols I watched a bit of a show called That's So Raven. Oh my.

Dawson's Creek, One Tree Hill, Orange County(or whatever it was called), all those angsty teen dramas give me the heaves.

In SF, never liked original BSG and the second season of the Powers of Matthew Starr was a complete washout.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The second season of War of the Worlds?

 

[Level 2 Diagnostic]

While TV has truely proven to be a wasteland more often than not, one show that hung on for a long time and made me grit my teeth whenever I noticed it was Saved By the Bell.

The one thing I'll give Saved by the Bell is that it at least had unintentional comedy value... Like that episode where Jessie finds out her ancestors were slave traders, and she spends the whole ep apologizing to Lisa for keeping her family as slaves. I'm not making this up.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

I agree with all of the previous shows mentioned but there are so many more. Working Stiffs http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078711/ with John Belushi and Michael Keaton is pretty bad. I'm not sure that anyone will even remember it. The only reason I know about it is because I bought this show on VHS for $1 when my local video store closed. Not worth it.

 

[JNG]

Yeah, this is only really fun if we pick shows that were somehow successful despite how lousy they were. Canceled and/or obscure shows got what they deserved already, right?

Now the animated "Laverne and Shirley in the Army" ran more than one season and would hence qualify, but somehow I had an urge to go after more elusive prey than that or "A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila."

I think "Small Wonder" comes up a lot in these sorts of discussions, and that's okay.

I have a strong urge to mention shows that really run for a long time and make money and such but are just so spectacularly awful. Shows that seem like they are over long before they stop making new episodes, that no one ever talks about as soon as they are over except to mention how awful they were. "According to Jim." "Dharma & Greg." "Ally McBeal." That last was some sort of pop culture phenomenon while it was on, then ratings nosedived, and by the time it was over it was like a shameful secret that anyone had ever gotten excited about it. Man, was it bad.

 

[Barbados Slim]

The worst hit show has got to be CSI:Miami. That is just unwatchable.

 

[Aragorn]

Walker, Texas Ranger went like 10 seasons? And Baywatch went 11? Star Trek: Voyager went 7.

 

[Pyrobaculum]

..."According to Jim." "Dharma & Greg." "Ally McBeal." That last was some sort of pop culture phenomenon while it was on, then ratings nosedived, and by the time it was over it was like a shameful secret that anyone had ever gotten excited about it. Man, was it bad.

I actually liked Dharma and Greg, probably because of the awkward innuendos and I got a few laughs out of it. I pretty much hate almost all day-time soap operas. I'm in New Zealand right now, and they have a soap-opera here called "Shortland Street". It is the most banal and idiotic show I have seen yet and worst of all, it on air pretty much constantly. There was even a story arc about a serial killer (the show is set in a cliched Hospital) where the actor playing it hammed it up to 11 for the cameras. The only saving grace of the series is the presence of Temuera Morrison, a.k.a Jango Fett of Star Wars fame.

 

[Starbreaker]

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