The thread on whether ‘Moonlight’ is the worst show ever got me thinking, trying to remember the worst t.v. show I’ve seen. There’s been some really terrible stuff, but snippets of one keep coming to mind. Only I can’t recall the name of it.
It was about some prince from another planet with a lot of magical or mental abilities, and he was on the run either from the Feds, alien enemies or both. He had some sidekick adviser or mentor who was alway calling him ‘your majesty’ or ‘your highness’ or ‘sire’. I think it was maybe one or two seasons before ‘Manimal’.
Good lord, I remember that. I thought it was the Best. Show. Ever. And was disappointed when it went off after half a season or so. In my defense, I was 8 at the time.
I just remember thinking the producers musta had incriminating photos of Gossett to get him to do this after his big sucess in “An Officer and A Gentleman.” Looking back, perhaps he contracted for it before his Oscar-winning turn in the latter.
I remember having a major crush on Peter Barton (pics )during that time- even before that show actually (I was about 13 when he co-starred on a shortlived show with Shirley Jones before Matthew Star). He was seriously injured in a fiery stunt for the show- major burns over his body that delayed production and possibly led to the end of the show (he recovered) and I’ve read that ever since he’s donated time and money to assisting people with similar injuries. He’s a full-time trainer and businessman (gyms and fitness equipment) now.
Trivia according to imdb: Tom Cruise was the almost-star of that series.
You Yanks missed out on a Brit soap called Crossroads about a motel in the English midlands .
I always recall fondly one of the main characters supposedly pulling a pint of draught ale from a bar pump, except that the already full pint glass prepositioned on a shelf below the counter was in full shot for the entire duration of the actors performance .
Not I hasten to add ,just in shot, but totally in the viewers face.
With stuff like that you didn’t even notice the wobbly walls or fluffed lines.
Ah happy days!
That was pretty awful. I should know; my mother liked that show.
The last season of Laverne and Shirley was a sort of shit frosting atop a previously good show. Cindy Williams had left, so it was just the Laverne show, relocated to California, with Penny Marshall too old to be a convincing bobby-soxer but still trying to play one. Excruciating.
Apparently no one in this thread saw the ill-fated pilot of McGurk , where Barney “Morty Seinfeld” Martin played a family dog, who thought he was going to be euthanized. Quite the laugh-fest, this sitcom.
There was one dog named Camille, who looked just fine in her nearly skin-tight dog suit (I was twelve at the time), so I’m surprised the actress seems to have spent the rest of her career doing voice-over work.
