Click on the link (to CNN, not to TV Guide), read the list and come back here. Are there any other shows that could’ve made the list? Are there any of your favorites on there? I definitely agree that Jerry Springer, Tom Green and Barney belong there, but how they could have left off any of Irwin Allen’s sci-fi shows (Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Time Tunnel,etc.) is beyond me.
Left off the link! :o http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/13/worst.shows.reut/index.html
I know the people at TV guide are opinionated- thats their job- but to do a list of TV’s “least redeeming programs” on the basis of their supposed sleaziness? Is this helping anyone?
I’m suprised “AfterMASH” scored so high. It wasn’t horrible. Just sort of dull.
And “The Flying Nun” wasn’t awful. It was just a weird concept. But the 1960s was full of sitcoms with weird concepts.
Why aren’t their any reality shows on the list? They’ve made prime-time a joke over the past three or so years…
Hogan’s Hero’s? HOGAN’S HEROS??!!!??
I don’t know how to respond to something like that. I feel like I’ve been kicked in the stomach. I’m not saying it’s the best show ever, or anything like that, but to be among the 50 worst is really saying something.
I wonder if Bob Crane’s personal life played a part in this?
Suffering from high expectations.
Oh, on the plus side, I’m glad that “Unhappily Everafter” made the list. I can’t watch 2 minutes of that without becoming annoyed.
“Barney” made that list? I mean, it’s certainly not to adults’ taste, but it wasn’t meant to be. It’s a kiddie show, and for what it’s worth, it engages them and educates them and imparts decent values.
I certainly hope that “Teletubbies” is “worse” on that list than Barney. That inarticulate quartet has no redeeming value whatsoever. It teaches kids nothing - except, possibly, how to babble in baby talk, to leave Tubby Toast crumbs all over for Mom’s magic vacuum cleaner to suck up, and the existence of rabbits.
OK, now I spotted the link to the complete list - sorry.
I can’t believe that Barney was deemed worse than Teletubbies. Someone ought to firce the guys who wrote this to watch a 24-hour Teletubbies marathon.
Chaim Mattis Keller
15. Manimal
CBG/
Worst Show Ever.
CBG/
I remember how Letterman used to tear this show to absolute littleteeny tiny bits and pieces.
I want to know how many of TV Guide’s editors are even old enough to have seen My Mother the Car (1965-66). A lot of older shows, from I Love Lucy to Leave It to Beaver to Superman, are known because they have been in syndication. I can’t imagine that My Mother the Car has been.
I’m guessing that pick rests more on reptuation than fresh assessment.
P.S. I am old enough to have seen My Mother the Car. Dumb show, but any number of today’s reality shows are more embarrassing.
Just had to make sure…Yep…Cop Rock…number 8…all is right with the world.
How is it that Small Wonder isn’t in the top 50? The list does seem to be weighted to broadcast shows. In fact, Baywatch seems to be the only syndicated show on the list.
I agree, Hogan’s Heroes was the best WWII prison camp comedy situation comedy EVER! 
Seriously, you might deem it disrespectful, but not awful.
What about a few other shows, like:
Family Feud
The Gong Show
Three’s Company
Archie Bunker’s Place
Different Strokes
The Dukes of Hazard
CHIPS
And didn’t The Jeffersons have some even worse spinoff?
I wonder what crack they were smoking when they came up with this list?
Hey, at least She’s the Sheriff was mentioned. I still have nightmares about that bit o’ dreck. This is one of those times i wish there was a vomiting smiley.
:o (close enough, I guess)
Anybody with a nine month old baby and the need to quiet her down for a half hour would NOT call Barney one of the worst shows of all time! Nosiree, noway.
I swear, after sitting through two years of Barney with my daughter, I actually came to enjoy the time. Not the show so much, but it’s just all so…soothing. Barney’s voice, and that soothing purple color, and the kids singing songs from my childhood and… I’m zoned. It’s like crack, I tell ya.
Barney’s okay. Better than a lot of crap that’s made for kids. More fun than watching “The Big Comfy Couch” to see where Lunette the Clown is on her weight/loss/gain roller coaster this week.
Just because it’s useful doesn’t mean it can’t also be evil. Hell, usefulness is often a hallmark of evil.