How about Flo’s Yellow Rose (I believe) It was a spinoff from Alice and did not last long. Flo was on her way to Houston for a big waitress job, I think, and ended up in some little town. That is all I can remember.
To paraphrase Tom Servo "a piece of my soul died the first time I heard Flo say “kiss my grits”.
And a few reasons why I hated popular shows:
CHARLIE"S ANGELS> The worst cockteases in history. They never did real detective works or made deductions or solved crimes by reasoning. They just pranced about as close to nude as possible to get the suspects so worked up they could be tricking into giving themselves away. Jessica Fletcher and Lt. Columbo would have despised these women.
THREE'S COMPANY> All about deceit, lies and manipulation. None of the characters actually cared about each other. You wouldn't want any of them in your life.
WELCOME BACK KOTTER> More negative self hatred than you would think could be packed into a half hour. Did any of the Sweat Hogs ever try to make their lives better or experience any spiritual awakening? No, they were the Walking Dead, going through the pointless cruelties of their days without hope.
i read this thread in three segments, and i don’t think they were mentioned, so my nominations are: the dukes of hazard, and who’s the boss.
btw: for the people mentioning small wonder: a friend of mine composed the incidental background music for the dhow. it is still plying in japan. he occasionally gets royalty checks for 4,000 or 5,000 yen.
During the early 1970s, the 7:30 time slot (6:30 central) was the subject of some wrangling between networks and affiliates over who controlled the programming. The affiliates were given the slot, but they were required to show original programs and not reruns.
And to fill that time slot, there was a lot of crap, among them, the ill-fated “Dr. Simon Locke” aka “Police Surgeon”. It had bad acting, bad writing, bad directing, and absolutely no production values. And it was on the air for three seasons.
Chico and the boy, I think.
The show that went on after Freddie prinze died.
They had some kid named Gabriel Melgar on, but it wasn’t the same.
There was no sarcastic funny stuff like Freddie could give.
They even brought Charo on as his aunt to salvage it! LOL
The mind-numbing stupidity of shows like “Lexx” would be ahrd to top, but I saw about ten seconds of the X-Files spinoff “Lone Gunmen” show and it’s off to a horrendous start.
I was flipping channels and happened upon Lone Gunmen, and here’s the clown who looks like Garth from “Wayne’s World” saying to some nameless actress, and here’s his big line: “The American people deserve to know!”