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TVFactFan · 12-13-2005, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by bencasey

Not as many rarities as you think. Never showed Ugliest Girl in Town, Love on a Rooftop, Nancy, and many other short run shows.

I don;t think any Cable network ever showed Out of the Blue

#1MrTerrificFan · 12-16-2005, 08:37 PM

I think "The Ugliest Girl in Town" was a pretty good show...

bencasey · 12-16-2005, 11:47 PM

Compared to what, The Munsters Today?

#1MrTerrificFan · 12-17-2005, 06:51 PM

For example, yes.

bencasey · 12-18-2005, 03:33 AM

Well, UGIT was a network show so it stands to reason that it's better than syndicated crap. However, comparing it to other network sitcoms of it's era it really doesn't hold up too well.

comedyfreak · 12-28-2005, 11:07 AM

I remember The Ugliest Girl In Town being on prime time and I liked it when I was a kid. I bought a copy on Ebay and I thought it was boring.

bencasey · 12-30-2005, 07:12 PM

Hey I liked Baileys of Balboa. Of course I was 7 at the time.

TVFactFan · 12-30-2005, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by bencasey

Hey I liked Baileys of Balboa. Of course I was 7 at the time.

Bencasey I'm still waiting to see your TV list

bencasey · 01-31-2006, 03:52 AM

Another note on Ugliest Girl is that it's one of the very few shows of the 60s that was cancelled with unaired episodes. The only other show I can recall that also had unaireds was Tammy Grimes Show.

EmpressDR · 12-27-2006, 03:07 AM

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Originally Posted by seventies_sitcoms

Does anybody remember seeing this show? I'm certain a local TV station played this in the mid-80's along with a bunch of flop short-lived shows like Bridget Loves Bernie, Temperatures Rising, Girl with Something Extra, Bob Carol Ted and Alice, The Second Hundred Years, Here Come the Brides...

Anyway, is Ugliest Girl really one of the worst shows ever made? I heard it was absolutely attrocious...that means it makes me interested in seeing it. Does anybody remember actually watching this? I think it was originally on in 1969-70.

I enjoyed the show, because I loved the theme song. Peter Kastner's "girl" character was named 'Timmy" and I saw it as a spoof of the Twiggy craze. As a 10-year-old, I thought Twiggy looked hideous. I wondered what anyone saw in her? My idol at the time was Raquel Welch. Or Sophia Loren. WOMEN who looked like WOMEN.

Poor Twiggy. She didn't like being skinny with short hair. She looked very pretty years later, with longer hair, and filled out --when she was in The Blues Brothers.

The man wanted to be close to "Julie" the girl he loved, and so he was able to go to London, and work with her. That premise worked for me. I remember one ep where someone thought that Timmy was pregnant! And Peter Kastner's character worried about the medical examination forced on "Timmy"! Julie ended up standing in for "Timmy" ( rather lying on a gyn/ob's couch. A nurse or female doctor examined her, and left many bewildered by saying as she left, "Timmy is a very beautiful woman." )

I missed the last aired ep, because, ironically, it was the day of the stupid child's beauty pageant, and I didn't want to miss being in it. It was SUCH a rip-off! It really was just a lottery situation, with someone picking numbers from a barrell, though I had thought it really mattered what I said and wore and how I looked. I was distraught, not only for again losing, not even making semi-finals, but missing my TV show! I wanted to SUE the louses who put on that putrid pageant!

All of that, plus my insight into the stupid phenomenon that propelled the starveling Twiggy into a beauty ideal seemed like such a joke in itself.

Consider the show a commentary of sorts on that thinking. I'd say it would be very funny, viewed in that regard.

bencasey · 01-02-2007, 03:17 AM

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Originally Posted by TVResearcher

Bencasey I'm still waiting to see your TV list

I don't have one. Let's see, 50,000 tapes, appr. 4 shows per, you know how long that would take to type?

Zoneboy · 01-18-2010, 02:25 AM

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Originally Posted by boredlurker

The guy was Peter Kastner - who starred in the movie "You're a Big Boy Now"

Peter Kastner's career went almost nowhere after The Ugliest Girl in Town. His only other regular series role was on ABC's Delta House which lasted all of 13 episodes in 1979. He passed away in 2008.

12-16-2005, 08:37 PM	#17
#1MrTerrificFan Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Dec 16, 2005 Posts: 74	I think "The Ugliest Girl in Town" was a pretty good show...

12-16-2005, 11:47 PM	#18
bencasey Member Senior Member Join Date: Dec 29, 2001 Location: Long Beach Posts: 1,692	Compared to what, The Munsters Today?

12-17-2005, 06:51 PM	#19
#1MrTerrificFan Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Dec 16, 2005 Posts: 74	For example, yes.

12-18-2005, 03:33 AM	#20
bencasey Member Senior Member Join Date: Dec 29, 2001 Location: Long Beach Posts: 1,692	Well, UGIT was a network show so it stands to reason that it's better than syndicated crap. However, comparing it to other network sitcoms of it's era it really doesn't hold up too well.

12-28-2005, 11:07 AM	#21
comedyfreak Cheers! Forum Fanatic Join Date: Dec 14, 2005 Location: Sunny California Posts: 11,060	I remember The Ugliest Girl In Town being on prime time and I liked it when I was a kid. I bought a copy on Ebay and I thought it was boring.

12-30-2005, 07:12 PM	#22
bencasey Member Senior Member Join Date: Dec 29, 2001 Location: Long Beach Posts: 1,692	Hey I liked Baileys of Balboa. Of course I was 7 at the time.

01-31-2006, 03:52 AM	#24
bencasey Member Senior Member Join Date: Dec 29, 2001 Location: Long Beach Posts: 1,692	Another note on Ugliest Girl is that it's one of the very few shows of the 60s that was cancelled with unaired episodes. The only other show I can recall that also had unaireds was Tammy Grimes Show.