Why isn’t “The Gong Show” on that list?
psrtly, they ain’t going to list a top 50 best show (Buffy) as one of the worst 50.
Hogan’s Heroes was on TV while I was being born. I asked my older brothers if they were watching it then, but they said they were already in bed.
Baby Bob should be closer to the top of the list.
And I think Gomer Pyle should be on that list, maybe around number 3.
Looking at this thread title, a few shows immediately came to mind. Two of them were on the list, and another one was mentioned.
AKA Pablo
Manimal
Small Wonder
More that have not been mentioned:
Street Hawk
Misfits of Science
Jennifer Slept Here
Thunder in Paradise Yeah, Hulk Hogan driving a robot boat and fighting crime. That gets my vote for # 1.
DragonballZ and all its wannabees
Lousy animation
over acting
too big of mouths
predictable story lines (kill Goku… that will be a surprise)
too many screeching females…
but hey my SIX year old likes it
if my memory serves me correcty i would say one my worst memories wuld be a show called mantra and to make things worse followed by sonny spoon gotta see tv on nbc
I never particularly cared for the show but it didn’t seem any worse to me then many others. I don’t see how something that successful worldwide could be one of the 50 worst shows.
Marc
- Holmes & Yoyo (ABC, 1976)
- Pink Lady…and Jeff (NBC, 1980)
I liked these.
Exactly how was Hogan’s Heros was about Nazi atrocities? I certainly don’t remember it that way. IIRC the whole thing was about allied POWs. The Gestapo were portrayed as the bad guys, especially to Klink and Schultz. You could even argue that it took great steps in bridging race and ethnic barriers since it brought English, French and Americans (and occasionally even Germans) together for a common goal. It even had, Kinch, a black man as a primary operator in the prisoner underground.
Wasn’t Hogan’s Heroes loosely based on the William Holden film Stalag 17?
Pretty much, though IIRC, the producers got the idea from a stage production of S17. Apparently, the dark humor that derived from the POW’s attempts at keeping morale up appealed to the producers, so they went with the idea for a TV series.
Bob Crane, in promoting the show on the talk circuit before it aired, said it was “somewhere between Combat and McHale’s Navy, with a bit of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. thrown in.” He’s got a point: watch the early episodes sometime – they’re a bit more serious in tone than the bulk of the series.
I find it ironic that both Werner Klemperer (Klink) and John Banner (Schultz) emigrated to America in the mid-thirties to escape the Nazis. Talk about being able to leave your past behind, but your past never leaves you. Worse than being in the Witness Relocation Program.
Just for the record, Stalag 17 was a play before it was a film. It was written by a couple of guys who had been in a POW camp, so they knew whereof they spoke. Their camp was an enlisted man’s camp, not an officer’s camp like Stalg Luft Drei (the one in The Great Escape and The Wooden Horse), so conditions were even worse. The play differs somewhat from the film, BTW.
Not according to the TV Guide article (all I have is a hardcopy a colleague brought in)
I can’t find anything in the write up that justifies a #5 ranking. My guess is that one of the editors had a burr under his saddle about the show and #5 is the result.
Who can forget the wacky, loveable Colonel Klink (Werner Klemperor-the ironic thing was that he was Jewish-and his father (the famous conductor) was a refugee from Nazi germany). Or loveable Sergeant Schultz (“I know nothing”). So what if Bob Crane met his end ina rather kinky way…the show was funny!
Forced To Wear A Mullet - The Susan Smegma Story.
Locked In A Nordstroms Dressing Room - The Dianne Dyan Story.
Made To Watch Crappy Lifetime Movies - The DMark Story.
and anything that looks, sounds or appears to be like those sappy crappy films.
My wife and I have had this discussion many times before. I think we have settled on the two worst shows during our lifetime.
The first is Mama’s Family with the execrable Vicki Lawrence. My big brother used to hold me down and turn up Mama’s family to top volume so I had to hear that voice. God save us all from the fact it is still in reruns.
The second is Rags to Riches, an Annie ripoff with hordes of singing orphans. It was like Newsies for the small screen. At any one time there might be one child cute enough to get away with signing. This was chorus of ragamuffins bellowing out five songs a show. Truly the hardest piece of television to watch.
Hey, now. Don’t you dare dis the Misfits!
Oh yes, Fruitbat…Mama’s Family was truly wretched.
Vicki Lawrence was just here in Las Vegas at the Orleans hotel and her show was advertised as being half Vicki in concert and the other half was Vicki as the “hilarious” Mama from Mama’s Family.
Gee - bet Mr. & Mrs. Fruitbat wish they were here for that, huh?