My parents liked it too. It was horrible!
Have Gun Will Travel.
As a child, a believed Paladin to be an asshole.
I’ve been watching some of the old westerns on cable, and I was correct, Paladin was an asshole.
Mighty Mouse. I hated that asshole, always beating up cats. I love cats.
Little House on the Prairie. The setting, characters, and look and feel were very good. The plots though, so dramatic.
When I was a kid, we all thought soap operas were the stupidest things around. The, for some reason, we started watching All My Children one summer and got absofreakin-lutely hooked! Never watched them again after that one summer (it was either 1970 or '71).
I didn’t like cartoons with no dialogue such as Road Runner and Tom and Jerry. Bugs Bunny and Flintstones were more my cup of tea.
most of the 50s and 60s tv
see in early 80s in Indiana if you didn’t have cable you had 8 tv stations the big 3 2-3 indy stations and 2 (wgn and one other one) from Chicago…
and WTBS…which was nothing but things like Beverly hillbillies green acres and such and in mostly black and white …but since grandpa was involved in one church or another and worked most of his life he was seeing a lot of them for the first time … Only thing us grandkids liked about wtbs was 1 lost in space and Georgia champ wrestling/nwa/wcw which we had to watch at moms/my house ironically he became a fan in later years even though he “knew it was bs” …
same thing for stepgrandpa except he wasn’t religious and he worked the 2-11 shift for 30 years … and never liked wrestling
How could you dislike “Dale and Gail” singing One Toke Over the Line?
Three shows I hated because they meant that I couldn’t watch what I wanted to watch: Lawrence Welk, Hee Haw, and 60 Minutes. I don’t remember for sure what shows I preferred on other networks, but I want to say Wonderful World of Disney (or whatever it was called then), reruns of Star Trek, and In Search Of.
One show I hated because I thought it was unbearably stupid: The Brady Bunch.
The first thing among prime time I think of is The Lawrence Welk Show. Do I have to say why?
Several other shows tried to match Welk in awfulness. The closest was probably Sing Along With Mitch.
There were some pretty awful kid’s shows, some locally produced. I didn’t see the point of Romper Room, Captain Kangaroo, Ding Dong School etc.
There was a regionally distributed kids show called Wunda Wunda that was unbelievably bad.
Sesame Street (which came way too late for me) showed an entirely different way of doing things.
Why Howdy Doody was popular was a complete mystery to me.
We didn’t get Bozo The Clown as a kid, but based on what I saw later, I would have hated that, too.
(Flame proof suit on.) Scooby Doo was the epitome of bad cartoons. Crappy animation, repetitive and predictable “story” lines.
The Mickey Mouse Club
Never been a fan of Disney.
Soaps
News
Football/baseball
Any mini series that screwed my TV schedule.
I also specifically remember hating THE WATERGATE HEARINGS. I can be wrong, I was really young (born '68). It screwed up TV for what seemed like forever.
Like others have mentioned on this thread, soap operas. Fortunately, because they aired during the time I was in school, I usually didn’t have to deal with them unless I was home sick and there were no game shows to watch on the other channels.
Also, I know this probably blasphemy to people in my age group, I didn’t like* Speed Racer.* Compared with the other cartoons, everything about it seemed off-putting to me.
I baby sat my nieces one summer, they had to watch Barney and Teletubbies, oh my God I hated those shows. Sugary, sickeningly sweet. Both those girls grew up to be little terrorists and enraged teens. I blame it directly on those 2 shows.
Is there the urban legend in every city that when asked, “Do you walk to school or carry your lunch?” a kid replied, “Cram it, clown!” ?
The Lawrence Welk UL is that while reading a cue card, he said, “And here’s a little tune from double u double u eye.”
Agreed. In fact, I wish someone would set up a GoFundMe page for such a movie. It would be a service for the good of humanity.
There was one show on after Sesame Street and the Electric Co. that I couldn’t stand. I think it was called “Vegetable Soup”, it had an animation style that I considered weird and creepy looking. One of the regular segments featured a bunch of puppet kids in which the puppeteers just stuck their actual hands out of the puppets’ sides, making them look like some kind of thalidomide puppet kids. It just freaked me out so much.
My mother insisted on watchingThe Lawrence Welk Show every Saturday evening, I think it was. I could never fathom why.
I must be easy to amuse. The only time I remember hating TV was the day after Kennedy was assassinated. We were given the day off of school, which for any sixty’s kid would signal: TV Day! But all the channels had nothing on but the same repeating news segments. That may be a slight exaggeration, since it’s filtered through a seven-year-old’s memory, but it was unrelentingly quiet and somber.
Fucking Ding Dong School ! My youngest sister would throw a tantrum if I tried to watch a western show and I had to sit and that dumb ass show ! The soap opera too ! If I was home sick from school my mom had to watch her boring soap operas and Big Brother was on my shit list too.