# The worst television shows of all time. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 1, 1999, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-television-shows-of-all-time/8601 "1999-09-01T18:15:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-television-shows-of-all-time/8601/101 "2001-02-08T22:08:47Z")
> [@](#): > > The entire cast must have been sleeping with a television studio. BWAHAHAHA!! _That’s_ funny. I’m sure things have changed, since television has since projectile vomited so many awful programs since, but I recall that at one time the lowest prime-time Nielson rating ever recorded was for a 1979 sit-com pilot called [The Last Resort.](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0078640) How bad was it? Nobody knows. ---
**Author:** ![monkeylucifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@monkeylucifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monkeylucifer)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-television-shows-of-all-time/8601/102 "2001-02-08T22:08:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CalMeacham \* > \*\*egkelley: > > That was “Sea Hunt”. I never watched it, so I can’t tell you how bad it was. I think they filmed it at Weekee Watchee springs in Florida (Home of the Mermaids – they used it because it was very clear water). \*\* Aahhhhh… **Sea Hunt** Where Lloyd would say just about every week _“By that time my lungs were aching for air!”_ 😛 I do have to concede the point that [Small Wonder](http://smallwonder.hispeed.com/index.html) is probably the worst piece of donkey dung every foisted upon the American viewing public, but I can’t believe that nobody has mentioned [Charles In Charge](http://ch-i-ch.narod.ru/)!!! God, that show was as bad as the come…I mean, was there anyone who didn’t want to bit the living piss out of [Willie Aames](http://www.bibleman.com/)? Somebody mentioned [Automan](http://www.projectmonkey.com/automan.html), so I just have to toot my own horn and say that my write-up on that crap-ified show is linked by the Internet Movie Database!!! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-television-shows-of-all-time/8601/103 "2001-02-08T22:11:18Z")
BTW: I’d bet that the same people who still faithfully watch these shows would have also went out to see those “cliffhanger” serials that were popular 50-60 years ago. Sure, we know that good will always triumph over evil in these shows, none of the main characters will ever get killed until the end of the series (if even then), and all loose ends will be tied up within the end of the episode. You want something to laugh at? Check out Adam-12 on TV Land! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-television-shows-of-all-time/8601/104 "2001-02-08T22:19:16Z")
Wrong time for a simulpost. Here’s what I was referring to: > [@](#): > > But I gotta ask, who out there watches all these bad shows? Who watches all those carbon-copied action hero/private eye shows? I can barely sit through one of their promo’s, much less an entire show! I can’t even begin to > name them > all - Magnum PI, Heart to Heart, Walker Texas Ranger, Hunter, Renegade, Air Wolf - I’m sure I’m missing a ton of them. Who are they supposed to appeal to? Who gets into them? Talk about a snorefest! > Yaaaafuckinaaaaawn. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2001, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-television-shows-of-all-time/8601/105 "2001-02-08T22:28:45Z")
**Q.U.A.R.K.** Richard Benjamin and two hotties flying through space and collecting garbage? **Those Amazing Animals** **Touched by an Angel** I’d rather spoon sacharrine into my mouth by the dumptruck load. **The Greatest American Hero** William Katt. Never heard of him? That’s a GOOD thing. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2001, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-television-shows-of-all-time/8601/106 "2001-02-09T00:26:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBill \* > **The Greatest American Hero** William Katt. Never heard of him? That’s a GOOD thing. Aw, c’mon. TGAH wasn’t high on production values, but that was part of the point – it was a _realistic_ counterpart to the nigh-invincible Superman stereotypes. Admittedly, the scripts got pretty cornball around the third season, but it was nowhere as bad as _Small Wonder_ or _Full House_… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-television-shows-of-all-time/8601.md?page=5)