# Worst TV Shows of All Time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 28, 2005, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259 "2005-06-28T19:54:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Gene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@Soylent\_Gene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Gene)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/1 "2005-06-28T19:54:22Z")
That’s Incredible Brady Bunch Variety Hour America’s Funniest Home Videos Real People The last 7 years of Happy Days The last 5 years of MASH AfterMASH ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/2 "2005-06-28T20:14:42Z")
Pffft. These shows aren’t even close to the worst of all time. Well, maybe AfterMASH. Remember “Small Wonder”? “girls club”? “Manimal”? ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/3 "2005-06-28T20:20:22Z")
One of the worst - in the sense of most disappointing - series I can recall was “Timecop.” Absolutely wretched. I had rather enjoyed the movie, even though it had Jean-Claude Van Damme in it, but the series was a large, stinking pile of timecrap. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/4 "2005-06-28T20:30:07Z")
Oh wow “ **Manimal** ”. That premiered and ended the same year that " **Mr Smith"** did. Remember Mr Smith? He was a talking chimp with an IQ of 256. Hard to believe this was around 1985. Seems more like a mid-60’s idiot sitcom doesn’t it? Hey might as well toss in “ **Supertrain** ”. Possibly , THE WORST TV show of all-time was a prime-time game show hosted by Jackie Gleason called “ **You’re In The Picture** ”. It lasted one episode. The next week, Jackie spent the half hour apologizing for the previous week’s show. He was hilarious. (He said something like “That H-Bomb we just tested in Nevada was NOTHING compared to the show we did last week!!!”) He was a class act. I beleive he spent the next 11 half-hours hosting an informal half hour talk show which was pretty good actually. Still, I’m glad that I was around to have seen that one episode. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/5 "2005-06-28T20:34:18Z")
How about [The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168373/)? Wow. I didn’t know that Chi McBride played Desmond. Or how about [Shasta McNasty](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206508/)? ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/6 "2005-06-28T20:34:21Z")
**The Swan** was just about the most reprehensible bit of TV ever to come down the pike. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/7 "2005-06-28T20:35:46Z")
May as well toss in **CopRock**. I actually saw that one. It was atrocious. Also, can’t do much worse than **The Paula Poundstone Show** - cancelled after one episode. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/8 "2005-06-28T20:44:12Z")
Tim Conway’s "Laugh-In clone … can’t remember the name … lasted just one episode, and was supposedly not worthy of that ep. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/9 "2005-06-28T20:55:00Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Remember “Small Wonder”? I liked Small Wonder. ☹ Now **Homeboys in Outer Space** sucked. As did **Hammerman**. ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/10 "2005-06-28T20:57:23Z")
Anybody remember this weird show that was on Fox back in the early days and was about a group of people who woke up after a nuclear holocaust to find themselves sequestered on a small farm? And they all had little patches of white in their hair. And it was a sitcom. It was very strange… ---
**Author:** ![pope\_hentai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@pope\_hentai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pope_hentai)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/11 "2005-06-28T21:01:36Z")
> [@tremorviolet](#): > > Anybody remember this weird show that was on Fox back in the early days and was about a group of people who woke up after a nuclear holocaust to find themselves sequestered on a small farm? And they all had little patches of white in their hair. And it was a sitcom. It was very strange… the name was whoops! if you were wondering… ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/12 "2005-06-28T21:03:43Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > Tim Conway’s "Laugh-In clone … can’t remember the name … lasted just one episode, and was supposedly not worthy of that ep. That would be “Turn-On”. Technically, Conway was only the guest host, but, as they never aired another episode, he might as well have been full-time. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/13 "2005-06-28T21:04:59Z")
> [@tremorviolet](#): > > Anybody remember this weird show that was on Fox back in the early days and was about a group of people who woke up after a nuclear holocaust to find themselves sequestered on a small farm? And they all had little patches of white in their hair. And it was a sitcom. It was very strange… Sounds almost as good as a comedy based on a WWII POW camp. ---
**Author:** ![RunAmok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@RunAmok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RunAmok)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/14 "2005-06-28T21:10:21Z")
Ladies and gentlemen, I submit the following: [Holmes and Yo-Yo](http://imdb.com/title/tt0074005/) . Yeah, I watched it. It was comedy gold for a 7-year-old, but I don’t think I was their target demographic. ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/15 "2005-06-28T21:13:54Z")
> [@pope\_hentai](#): > > the name was whoops! if you were wondering… Upon Googling, I see that’s right. I dunno if it was the worst show ever but it sure was one of the strangest… ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/16 "2005-06-28T21:14:07Z")
Anything with one or more of the following words in the title: **Brady** , **Partridge** , **Scooby** , or **Extreme**. ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/17 "2005-06-28T21:14:09Z")
> [@tremorviolet](#): > > Anybody remember this weird show that was on Fox back in the early days and was about a group of people who woke up after a nuclear holocaust to find themselves sequestered on a small farm? And they all had little patches of white in their hair. And it was a sitcom. It was very strange… I think you’re referring to [Woops!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103583/) I vaguely remember that show, but I had to hit Google to get the title. IIRC, it didn’t last very long. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/18 "2005-06-28T21:18:39Z")
I know that this will garner some opposition, but I really don’t think that any discussion about the worst shows of all time is complete with out mentioning _Gilligan’s Island_. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/19 "2005-06-28T21:23:19Z")
Do one-shot “specials” count? Because the _Star Wars Holiday Special_ was probably the worst thing ever broadcast on network television. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-tv-shows-of-all-time/310259/20 "2005-06-28T21:23:23Z")
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