View Full Version : 50 of the worst tv shows ever!


hippiechick60
12-19-2007, 07:46 PM
:lol: i found this on the net and thought i would share it! ( i've never heard of a lot of these so....!)

50. barney and friends

49. the ropers

48.bless this house

47.rango

46.me and the chimp

45.aka pablo

44.shes the sheriff

43.woops

42.the flying nun

41.the tom green show

40.makin it

39.still the beaver

38.hell town

37.satruday night live with howard
cosell

36.the misabventures of sheriff lobo

35.pink lady and jeff

34.alexander the great

33.holmes and yo yo

32.co ed fever

31.homeboys in outer space

30.unhappily ever after

29.the howard stearn show

28.supertrain

27.turn on

26.life with lucy

25.who wants to marry a mulitmillionaire

24.one of the boys

23.sammy and company

22.the powers of matthew star

21.baywatch

20.the pruitts of southampton

19.the ptl club

18. the ugliest girl in town

17.casablanca

16.the chevy chase show

15.manimal

14.baby bob

13.twenty one

12.hello larry

11.the secret diary of desmond pfeiffer

10.hee haw honeys

9.your in the picture

8.cop rock

7.after mast

6.celebrity boxing

5.hogans heroes

4.the brady bunch hour

3.xfl

2.my mother the car

1.the jerry springer show

MrRetro_08
12-19-2007, 08:14 PM
I hate Home Improvement, thats a show thats depressing and crap at the same time.

tv star collector
12-19-2007, 08:22 PM
At its peak of popularity, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY magazine proclaimed BAYWATCH to be "The Most Popular TV Series in the History of the Planet" and TV GUIDE on its cover stated that it had a billion viewers. After only one season on NBC, it went on to run for nine seasons in first-run syndication. It
also produced a spin-off, BAYWATCH NIGHTS, which only ran for two seasons.

Granted, the show did provide "eye candy" for both men and women. But, as Tim Brooks & Earle Marsh's book THE COMPLETE DIRECTORY TO PRIME-TIME NETWORK & CABLE TV SHOWS stated, "BAYWATCH was not all lightweight fun-in-the-sun. Mitch was locked in an ugly custody battle with his ex-wife Gayle over his son Hobie (he won) ... murderers, robbers, and rapists seemed to stalk the beach with uncommon frequency."

Characters died. In March 1990 Jill (Shawn Weatherly) died from an embolism she suffered while recovering from a shark attack. In February 1996 Stephanie (Alexandra Paul) died from injuries suffered when she was hit by the mast of a sailboat that fell on her during a storm.

In fact, it was the "soap opera elements" that gave the characters some depth and convinced star David Hasselhoff to invest his own money in reviving the series for first-run syndication. Several episodes, in fact, focused on the relationship between Mitch Buchannon (Hasselhoff) and his son Hobie. Hasselhoff once admitted to being "from the Michael Landon school of television." One
member of the regular cast, Michael Newman, was in fact a lifeguard in real life. Over the next decade, several new characters came and went. Eventually, the show moved its locale from California to Hawaii (and was retitled BAYWATCH HAWAII). Relying on a combination of veteran actors like Hasselhoff, Parker Stevenson,Monte Markham and Billy Warlock; and newcomers
who would soon become stars (Erika Eleniak, Nicole Eggert, Pamela Anderson, Yasmine Bleeth, Gena Lee Nolin, Donna D'Errico, Carmen Electra, Brooke Burns, etc.)--plus beautiful scenery and some pretty darn good plots, BAYWATCH just may be one of the most underrated (while, at the same time, one of the most enormously popular) series in the history of television.

Zoneboy
12-19-2007, 08:24 PM
What buffoon would include Hogan's Heroes among the 50 worst shows ever? :mad:

dawsongirl
12-19-2007, 11:18 PM
What buffoon would include Hogan's Heroes among the 50 worst shows ever? :mad:
That came from TV Guide a few years ago. One of their worst lists.

catlover79
12-20-2007, 12:04 AM
That list came out in 2002, I believe. That's why the train wreck known as My Big Fat Greek Life (2003) isn't listed. Pink Lady & Jeff was indeed a travesty. :rofl:

BensonFan
12-20-2007, 12:24 AM
I haven't seen much of it myself, but there is no way Hogan's Heroes should be on this list at all, let alone at #5. I would guess the person who comprised this list just has a personal dislike for the show because based on its popularity and appeal, there is just no way.

comedyfreak
12-20-2007, 02:28 AM
Hogan's Heroes is a true classic, they're nuts!

JT
12-20-2007, 03:01 AM
"Baywatch" was great from about 1989 until...1996. For me, its greatest time was when it was Mitch, Stephanie, Matt, Summer, Garner, and Hobie. That's classic "Baywatch" to me.

comedyfreak
12-20-2007, 09:16 AM
I didn't mind Bawatch Hawaii.

waichingliu81
12-20-2007, 09:29 AM
That list came out in 2002, I believe. That's why the train wreck known as My Big Fat Greek Life (2003) isn't listed. Pink Lady & Jeff was indeed a travesty. :rofl:

yeah, my big fat greek life sucked big time. :lol:

friendsfan77
12-20-2007, 11:17 AM
Hogan's Heroes is a true classic, they're nuts!
I agree and I don't even like that show.

catlover79
12-20-2007, 01:03 PM
Hogan's Heroes is a true classic, they're nuts!
Ditto - and I don't even watch the show that much!!

bencasey
12-23-2007, 04:07 PM
The Munsters Today isn't on there and that's the worst show I've ever seen.

Dean Winchester
12-23-2007, 04:28 PM
I don't have an opinion one way or the other, but it seems like a lot of people are horribly offended by Hogan's Heroes being a show set during WW2 but was comedy (but if that's the case, why aren't people so horribly offended over MASH?). I think the hatred from the show is solely based on PC reasons and not if the show was funny or not.

PlayOn
12-23-2007, 05:24 PM
I never saw a second of 'Hogan's Heroes' but I heard alot of talk and just from hearing the talk, it shouldn't be on that list. But PC probably is a big part of it.

Classicshowsgurl15
12-23-2007, 08:30 PM
I used to watch Barney and Friends all the time when I was a kid. It was very educational. Life With Lucy was pretty good from what I saw of it.

dawsongirl
12-24-2007, 03:24 AM
I don't have an opinion one way or the other, but it seems like a lot of people are horribly offended by Hogan's Heroes being a show set during WW2 but was comedy (but if that's the case, why aren't people so horribly offended over MASH?). I think the hatred from the show is solely based on PC reasons and not if the show was funny or not.
You're right. People seemed to ignore or overlook the fact that it was a satire and always made fun of the Nazis. I figure if the 4 cast members who were Jewish and affected negatively by the war in real life had no problem with the show, then why should anyone else?

dawsongirl
12-24-2007, 03:27 AM
I used to watch Barney and Friends all the time when I was a kid. It was very educational. Life With Lucy was pretty good from what I saw of it.
Life with Lucy wasn't the worst show ever made...but I've never seen such overacting in a sitcom! Her co-stars were pretty annoying (minus Gale Gordon). And the plots were preposterous.

hippiechick60
12-30-2007, 02:27 PM
At its peak of popularity, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY magazine proclaimed BAYWATCH to be "The Most Popular TV Series in the History of the Planet" and TV GUIDE on its cover stated that it had a billion viewers. After only one season on NBC, it went on to run for nine seasons in first-run syndication. It
also produced a spin-off, BAYWATCH NIGHTS, which only ran for two seasons.

Granted, the show did provide "eye candy" for both men and women. But, as Tim Brooks & Earle Marsh's book THE COMPLETE DIRECTORY TO PRIME-TIME NETWORK & CABLE TV SHOWS stated, "BAYWATCH was not all lightweight fun-in-the-sun. Mitch was locked in an ugly custody battle with his ex-wife Gayle over his son Hobie (he won) ... murderers, robbers, and rapists seemed to stalk the beach with uncommon frequency."

Characters died. In March 1990 Jill (Shawn Weatherly) died from an embolism she suffered while recovering from a shark attack. In February 1996 Stephanie (Alexandra Paul) died from injuries suffered when she was hit by the mast of a sailboat that fell on her during a storm.

In fact, it was the "soap opera elements" that gave the characters some depth and convinced star David Hasselhoff to invest his own money in reviving the series for first-run syndication. Several episodes, in fact, focused on the relationship between Mitch Buchannon (Hasselhoff) and his son Hobie. Hasselhoff once admitted to being "from the Michael Landon school of television." One
member of the regular cast, Michael Newman, was in fact a lifeguard in real life. Over the next decade, several new characters came and went. Eventually, the show moved its locale from California to Hawaii (and was retitled BAYWATCH HAWAII). Relying on a combination of veteran actors like Hasselhoff, Parker Stevenson,Monte Markham and Billy Warlock; and newcomers
who would soon become stars (Erika Eleniak, Nicole Eggert, Pamela Anderson, Yasmine Bleeth, Gena Lee Nolin, Donna D'Errico, Carmen Electra, Brooke Burns, etc.)--plus beautiful scenery and some pretty darn good plots, BAYWATCH just may be one of the most underrated (while, at the same time, one of the most enormously popular) series in the history of television.
oh give me a break! that show was nothing but a "sexes" show just shown for what men want women to look like in skippy bathing shouts running around in them sexes,sexes,sexes,

Corolla
12-30-2007, 05:31 PM
I hate Home Improvement, thats a show thats depressing and crap at the same time.
I agree. I never liked Home Improvement.

The TV shows I hate the most would have to be Jerry Springer Show and Maury.

wkomorow
12-30-2007, 06:50 PM
The Flying Nun is a classic as is Hogan's Heroes. She's the Sheriff wasn't great - but among the 50 worse tv shows of all time - I hardly think so.

JT
12-30-2007, 08:00 PM
oh give me a break! that show was nothing but a "sexes" show just shown for what men want women to look like in skippy bathing shouts running around in them sexes,sexes,sexes,
Watch the first five or six seasons, before the show got the reputation that it has today. It was actually a very different, very sincere show about lifeguards in the early years. It wasn't until the pervs who had nothing to do but play with themselves on Saturday afternoons started to obsess over the bathing suits and stuff that TPTB at the show decided to play on that factor more than actual plots and storylines.

When it was good, it was almost like "Melrose Place" on the beach.

Dean Winchester
12-30-2007, 08:04 PM
You're right. People seemed to ignore or overlook the fact that it was a satire and always made fun of the Nazis. I figure if the 4 cast members who were Jewish and affected negatively by the war in real life had no problem with the show, then why should anyone else?
wasn't one of the Nazi guards on the show actually a Holocaust survivor? I remember in grade school watching a documentary about the Holocaust, and he was there and revealed his branding scar.

IMO, if someone who survived the Holocaust could do a sitcom about the Nazis, people who are so horribly offended by the series need to chill out because unlike all the people worried about it being insensitive, one of the stars was actually there.

catlover79
12-30-2007, 08:59 PM
wasn't one of the Nazi guards on the show actually a Holocaust survivor? I remember in grade school watching a documentary about the Holocaust, and he was there and revealed his branding scar.

IMO, if someone who survived the Holocaust could do a sitcom about the Nazis, people who are so horribly offended by the series need to chill out because unlike all the people worried about it being insensitive, one of the stars was actually there.
I believe that was Robert Clary. He also had long-term roles on Days of Our Lives and Young & Restless back in the 1970s-80s.

gotsmart
12-30-2007, 09:03 PM
Why isn't 'After MASH' on this list?

dawsongirl
12-31-2007, 12:36 AM
wasn't one of the Nazi guards on the show actually a Holocaust survivor? I remember in grade school watching a documentary about the Holocaust, and he was there and revealed his branding scar.

IMO, if someone who survived the Holocaust could do a sitcom about the Nazis, people who are so horribly offended by the series need to chill out because unlike all the people worried about it being insensitive, one of the stars was actually there.
Yeah, it was Robert Clary (like Monkia said). Most if not all of his family was killed.

Zoneboy
12-31-2007, 02:18 AM
I believe that was Robert Clary. He also had long-term roles on Days of Our Lives and Young & Restless back in the 1970s-80s.

John Banner who played Sgt Schultz was Jewish and a holocaust survivor as well. Werner Klemperer who played Col. Klink was also Jewish.

livsforluv
12-31-2007, 12:47 PM
Wow.. I never heard of a lot of these... but the flying nun sounds interesting. ha ha :lol:

bingbangbaby
12-31-2007, 01:41 PM
I never got into Hogan's Heroes but obviously others did and it does seem to be a "classic."
Besides the obvious trash like Springer and Maury, I think Cop Rock tops my list. I'm still trying to understand what that was all about and why TPTB thought singing would mix well with crime. :confused:

LuLu Rogers
12-31-2007, 10:27 PM
Why isn't 'After MASH' on this list?

Yeah, M*A*S*H is my ALL TIME FAVORITE show, but it's spinoff sucked.

I don't think Hogan's Heros, Hello Larry or The Ropers belong on the list, but that's JMO. The Ropers wasn't that great, but the actors really did try to make it work, it wasn't their decision to do a spinoff anyway, Audra Lindley and Norman Fell wanted to stay with Three's Company.

TMC
04-27-2015, 06:24 PM
http://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/8-of-the-worst-tv-shows-of-the-1990s.html/?ref=YF

The TV world can be a brutal place. Show creators must appeal to the widest common denominator to get the ratings necessary to stay on air while satisfying their creative vision and making a show that’s original, thoughtful, and well-written enough to get decent reviews from critics. Even though making a television program is far from easy, the following shows from the 1990s are enough to make you wonder what their creators were thinking. From talk shows to sitcoms to police procedurals, the entries on this list rum the gamut from unknown duds to an extremely successful, truly awful show that’s still on the air today. We culled our choices from fan reception, critical vitriol, and TV Guide’s widely cited 2002 list of the worst TV shows of all time (http://www.imdb.com/list/ls000999108/).

Read more: http://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/8-of-the-worst-tv-shows-of-the-1990s.html/?a=viewall#ixzz3YYDRfMlF

bmasters9
04-27-2015, 07:04 PM
http://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/8-of-the-worst-tv-shows-of-the-1990s.html/?ref=YF

These people (JMO) were right on the money for including Friends on this list. Granted, it lasted for a decade and does have a fanbase, but to be sure, I never have been and never will be part of that fanbase.

tlc38tlc38
04-27-2015, 07:52 PM
These people (JMO) were right on the money for including Friends on this list. Granted, it lasted for a decade and does have a fanbase, but to be sure, I never have been and never will be part of that fanbase.
I'm not really a fan of "Friends" either. It never really thrilled me.

UMFaninMD
04-27-2015, 10:51 PM
I'm not really a fan of "Friends" either. It never really thrilled me.
Me neither. I tried to watch a few episodes and I couldn't get into it, mostly because of whiny Ross.

Edward216
04-28-2015, 01:11 AM
Count me as another one who isn't a fan of Friends. I'll never understand what woman in her right mind would've been interested in Ross.

I'm glad there's a worst list with Roseanne on it (I was going to mention it if there hadn't been) what an absolutely awful trainwreck of a show!

Ed.

Edward216
04-28-2015, 01:14 AM
But I have to completely disagree with Scrubs and Becker being on a worst shows list. They're 2 of my favorite sitcoms ever. But I will say I don't think Scrubs was ever quite as good after Zack Braff left the show.

Ed.

visaman666
04-28-2015, 02:42 AM
Roseanne was hit or miss, but it was the only thing on ABC in that time slot. :D

liane49
05-01-2015, 03:38 PM
I hate Jerry Springer, especially when I herd some of the fights and arguments are staged.

king of comedy
05-01-2015, 03:59 PM
Counted in as another anti Friends fan.

Tubehead
05-04-2015, 12:32 AM
I enjoy
whose the boss ??
family affair

TV shows should burn :
classic :
mash
cheers
Roseanne
married with children
the nanny
Laverne & Shirley
alf
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Hazel
father knows best
make room for daddy
green aces
bewitched
all in the family
I n the heat of the night
walker teax's ranger
touch by an angel
Little House on the Prairie
murder , she wrote
7th heaven


not classic but not older shows
heart land
law & order im getting sick of these shows
two & a half man
friends
how I met your mother
Seinfeld
the Simpsons

liane49
05-22-2015, 02:43 PM
Half of them I never even herd of.

Michael cole
10-16-2015, 08:20 PM
Hogans heroes sucked. But it shouldn't have been #5 it should've been # 40.

opus
10-16-2015, 08:25 PM
Here's thirty that I saw enough of to form an opinion, that had or have an audience.

I don't agree with the whole list of course, but I do love the qualifying statement.

TMC
01-20-2016, 04:07 AM
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Boy, there sure is some terrible television in the world…. Join http://www.WatchMojo.com as we count down our picks for the Top 10 Worst TV Shows of All Time.

Dude111
01-09-2025, 01:17 PM
Gosh the Jerry Springer show was aweful!

Also #9 on the list wasnt good either... (9 was the only one I ever have seen on that list)