Green Acres with a doubt. The theme song and show itself was a bad combination for my stomach.

It is actually a good show once you get into it

I used to like "Gilligan's Island," but now you couldn't make me watch it! :p

The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres. I don't know which one is worse.

Wasn't around for long but... My Mother The Car.

I'll go with My Mother The Car since I like most of the hit sitcoms of the 1960's.

I cannot watch Gilligan's Island at all. It is just way too boring for me.

One thing the 60s shows have going for them is that I don't feel uncomfortable having them on with small kids in the room. They are more innocent. I grew up watching reruns of those shows during the 70s and early 80s and they are charming in their own way, not revolutionary for the most part but charming still. The fact that they couldn't be risque made them have to be more inventive about how to suggest certain things.

As for unwatchability I never did like Green Acres or Petticoat Junction. I hear Green Acres had drug references in it, so I wouldn't mind watching it now to see if I could find them. The Monkees was a favorite when I was 8 but I watched it as an adult and can't understand what I found so appealing about that show. The drug references are very obvious in that series, like everybody bonged up before they started filming.

The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Arces; two of the worst, mindless shows I have ever seen..Complete Crap...

my vote goes to the "Beverly Hillbillies". I like Green Acres though

Hogan's Heroes: the stupidest premise for a sitcom in the history of TV.

Originally posted by hawaii five-o
Hogan's Heroes: the stupidest premise for a sitcom in the history of TV.


I forgot about Hogan Heroes-LOL

The Beverly Hillbillies is not only the worst 60's sitcom (the 60's were the worst decade for sitcoms IMO) but it's also the worst sitcom ever! #2 is The Andy Griffith Show and other 60's "classics" like "Leave it to Beaver" are on that list too!

Originally posted by hawaii five-o
Hogan's Heroes: the stupidest premise for a sitcom in the history of TV.
Watcha talking about Willis?:D

It's a toss up between "Hogan's Heroes" and "The Beverly Hillbillies" but Jethro gives the "Hillbillies" the nod

hazel
the doris day show
both boring and unfunny!

Originally posted by APPLEI
hazel
the doris day show
both boring and unfunny!


Doris Day show was more of a early 70's show like the brady bunch

The Flying Nun
i mean, comon?!

When people talk about being nostalgic for the sixties, they're usually talking about the music. If they're talking about TV, they're talking about "Gunsmoke" or the Smothers Brothers! :lol:

Originally posted by Steve M.
When people talk about being nostalgic for the sixties, they're usually talking about the music. If they're talking about TV, they're talking about "Gunsmoke" or the Smothers Brothers! :lol:


Good Thing for Gunsmoke it wasn't any Cable between 1955-1975-LOL

Originally posted by TVShow Analyzer
Good Thing for Gunsmoke it wasn't any Cable between 1955-1975-LOL

I do not understand your continued fixation on telling everyone that there is no way that Gunsmoke would've made it if there had been cable when it was on. Not only does it not matter, there wasn't cable, but the only point I can see in this repeated comment of yours is that you don't like Gunsmoke. That's great. But is it really necessary to bring it up over and over again? Honestly.

Originally posted by tvobscurities
I do not understand your continued fixation on telling everyone that there is no way that Gunsmoke would've made it if there had been cable when it was on. Not only does it not matter, there wasn't cable, but the only point I can see in this repeated comment of yours is that you don't like Gunsmoke. That's great. But is it really necessary to bring it up over and over again? Honestly.


I said it before and I will say it again, GUNSMOKE would have been UNWATCHABLE if Direct TV was sold in the 50's.

Bewitched. How can you watch a show that replaces a lead actor(Dick York) in the middle of the series and pretends everything is the same? Those producers should be burned at the stake!!!LOL:lol:

There are so many great sitcoms, but I would say my least favorite is The Flying Nun--not unwatchable, just my least favorite.

On the whole, I love 60s sitcoms. Beverly Hillbillies, Hogan's Heroes, Dick Van Dyke, Green Acres, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Andy Griffith, Gomer Pyle = all awesome!!!

Originally posted by Marvo301
Bewitched. How can you watch a show that replaces a lead actor(Dick York) in the middle of the series and pretends everything is the same? Those producers should be burned at the stake!!!LOL:lol:

Well, Dick York had cancer, so they couldnt have kept him, and Darrin was a HUGE part of the show!

~Edited~

Originally posted by ClassicComedyFan2
There are so many great sitcoms, but I would say my least favorite is The Flying Nun--not unwatchable, just my least favorite.

On the whole, I love 60s sitcoms. Beverly Hillbillies, Hogan's Heroes, Dick Van Dyke, Green Acres, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Andy Griffith, Gomer Pyle = all awesome!!!

I agree!

The Flying Nun!! :faint: :eek: :eek2:

Originally posted by Rurry007
The Flying Nun!! :faint: :eek: :eek2:

How funny that you do that just mintues after you say you like the series, but its not a favorite.
whatever.

and maybe this is supposed to be a joke or something.... but under your avatar where it says location, its say "unTIed states"

Originally posted by Rurry007
Well, Dick York had cancer, so they couldnt have kept him, and Darrin was a HUGE part of the show!

He didn't quit because he had cancer. He was having problems with his back.

There are so many sitcoms from the 60's that were unwatchable. It would be real hard for me to choose just one.

I can't think of exactly one, but personally, I could not stand Hogan's Heroes or Get Smart.

My favorite: Green Acres
Most hated: Hogan's Heroes

I couldn't stand I Dream Of Jeannie. It seemed like a bad version of Bewitched. But while Bewitched had a great supporting cast and plots that could be occasionally sentimental, IDOJ had no one beyond Bill Daily in its supporting cast that was worth watching, and the plots were asinine.

Runner-up was Here's Lucy. I Love Lucy was the greatest sitcom ever, and The Lucy Show was okay in its early years, but with Here's Lucy, there was no one to rein in Lucy's mugging, or fire those two no-talent kids of hers.

I liked almost all of the shows from the 60's except for The Monkees.

Dennis The Menace

I honestly don't know enough about 1960's sitcoms to render an appropriate response.

With that said, I would have to say "Gilligan's Island"; only because it's a famous sitcom that I don't find funny but at the same time realize it's a famous TV show that most people are familiar with.

I do not understand your continued fixation on telling everyone that there is no way that Gunsmoke would've made it if there had been cable when it was on. Not only does it not matter, there wasn't cable, but the only point I can see in this repeated comment of yours is that you don't like Gunsmoke. That's great. But is it really necessary to bring it up over and over again? Honestly.
^^^This^^^ I have noticed it too. I have shows I dislike, but they were hits at the time the ran on the available technology and beat their competition in the existing marketplace - so why should anyone gripe about it?

"I Love Lucy" might not have made it, or "Andy Griffith" or any other classic shows after cable came along. But it had not. A lot of shows people love today wouldn't have likely made it pre-cable either.

We live in the time we live in and exist in the world as it is at that time. Why transport "Gunsmoke" 20 years into the future? Just because the person dislikes it??

Hogan's Heroes

HOGANS HEROES

HOGANS HEROES

And since when, indeed, was being imprisoned in a German POW camp funny? :confused: :o

I think some of the younger viewers who've posted here will begin to expand on the number of older shows they're interested in. Years ago I almost never watched Get Smart, Hogan's Heroes and McHale's Navy, but I slowly began to add them to my viewing routine and now I'm a fan of all three.

Don't deprive yourselves unnecessarily -- there were good actors and funny scripts on practically all of the shows mentioned in this thread. I can't think of ANY 60's sitcoms I'd consider "unwatchable." It was a great decade for TV.

"Get Smart" was funny for spoofing the whole '60s spy craze. Would you believe? :D

I say "The Beverly Hillbillies." I know it's a beloved sitcom but I just don't get why. And to last nine seasons! I don't know, the show annoys me. This is the only sitcom from the 60s I will never buy on DVD. Everything else (including "My Mother the Car, which I own) I would gladly buy on DVD.

I think some of the younger viewers who've posted here will begin to expand on the number of older shows they're interested in. Years ago I almost never watched Get Smart, Hogan's Heroes and McHale's Navy, but I slowly began to add them to my viewing routine and now I'm a fan of all three.

Don't deprive yourselves unnecessarily -- there were good actors and funny scripts on practically all of the shows mentioned in this thread. I can't think of ANY 60's sitcoms I'd consider "unwatchable." It was a great decade for TV.


Thank you! My sentiments exactly!

The Beverly Hillbillies.
The fact that this show was No. 1 for at least their first 2 seasons, is a sign that there was not much else on TV.
It's also a sign, IMO, that viewers by the time BH came along were probably tired of all the westerns that were still dominating TV in the early 1960's.
I can't stand BH because the characters (minus Jed) are so stupid.
I find it hard to sit through any episode.

As for Hogan's Heroes two of the actors themselves were prisoners of war (don't have details). So it the actors who experienced war had no problem with the show, then neither should viewers.

Generally though, I like 60's TV.

"The Beverly Hillbillies" is actually one of my favorite shows from the sixties. In fact, Granny is one of my all-time favorite sitcom characters from any decade.

only two I can think of are:
Gilligan's Island
green acres

The Beverly Hillbillies.
The fact that this show was No. 1 for at least their first 2 seasons, is a sign that there was not much else on TV.
It's also a sign, IMO, that viewers by the time BH came along were probably tired of all the westerns that were still dominating TV in the early 1960's.


Generally though, I like 60's TV.


You're right, there was "not much else on TV" to watch during those two seasons, except maybe for....

"The Andy Griffith Show", "My Three Sons", "The Dick Van Dyke Show", "Leave It To Beaver", "The Lucy Show", "Ozzie & Harriet", "The Donna Reed Show", "Dennis The Menace", "Dobie Gillis", "Petticoat Junction", "Mister Ed", "McHale's Navy", "The Real McCoys", "My Favorite Martian", "Candid Camera", "The Twilight Zone", "The Outer Limits", "Ben Casey", "Dr Kildare", "The Rifleman", "Bonanza", "Gunsmoke", and about a million other Westerns.

And in those two seasons, "The Beverly Hillbillies", a series that was almost universally destroyed by the critics of that era, (and even a few from this era, including on this very page), absolutely trounced all of the above series and more in the ratings.

Speaking of ratings, the series was #1 in its first two seasons averaging audience shares of 36 and 39, which translates to about 40 million viewers in its 2nd year. No series will ever approach those numbers again in our lifetime. Those numbers include the episode "The Giant Jackrabbit", which still holds an unofficial record for the highest rating ever received for a regular sitcom episode. That's a normal half-hour episode that has no special significance whatsoever like a special guest star or a series finale. There are also at least 8 other episodes from those first two seasons that still rank as being among the top 100 most watched US TV broadcasts of all time. Once you take out all the Super Bowls, Oscars, and Bob Hope specials, the Clampetts dominate the rest of the list.

Top 100 rated TV series of all time (http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2009/03/21/top-100-rated-tv-shows-of-all-time/14922/)

That means despite all the criticisms, all the bad jokes, the nonsensical behaviour of its main characters, all the elements that were already in place to label this series as a big fat disaster, instead it thrived in a big way. The viewers who watched it loved it tremendously and have continued to watch it and love it ever since, including myself.

So there you are. The Hillbillies rule and always will.

Y'all come back now, y'hear!

"The Beverly Hillbillies", a series that was almost universally destroyed by the critics of that era, (and even a few from this era, including on this very page), absolutely trounced all of the above series and more in the ratings.

So there you are. The Hillbillies rule and always will.


What do critics know anyway?!

Granny for president!

"Here's your choice for Possum Queen
Granny... Granny
She don't ride no limousine
Granny all the way!"

Sal (sorry, I don't know how to edit)
Some of those shows you mentioned I wouldn't mind seeing because I have never seen them such as Dennis the Menace, Dobie Gillis and the Donna Reed Show.
I would especially love to see the Twilight Zone and the 2 medical dramas, Ben Casey and Dr.Kildare.

What I do know is quite a few of the shows you posted were nearing the end of their run when BH premiered.

I also read somewhere that in 1962 with the Cuban Missle Crisis, BH helped take people's minds of it.

You can't really enforce tastes, but the Hillbillies were a ratings power right through the sixties:

1962–63 1 36.0
1963–64 1 39.1
1964–65 12 25.6
1965–66 7 25.9 tied with Bewitched
1966–67 7 23.4 tied with Daktari and Bewitched
1967–68 12 23.3
1968–69 10 23.5
1969–70 18 21.7
1970–71 33

What's with huge drop in S3, it can't be only with show moving to 8:30pm?

The Flying Nun

Sal (sorry, I don't know how to edit)
Some of those shows you mentioned I wouldn't mind seeing because I have never seen them such as Dennis the Menace, Dobie Gillis and the Donna Reed Show.
I would especially love to see the Twilight Zone and the 2 medical dramas, Ben Casey and Dr.Kildare.

What I do know is quite a few of the shows you posted were nearing the end of their run when BH premiered.

I also read somewhere that in 1962 with the Cuban Missle Crisis, BH helped take people's minds of it.

And don't forget that a year later JFK was shot so, more than ever, the series, with its campy light-hearted touch, became even more of an escape for Americans who were in need of a good laugh after the awful grief they had to endure.