You must have watched only high class shows if you thought that one was the worst. Not great, and it sucked relative to their variety show, but I don’t remember it with pain, and I think I saw all the episodes. Better than Bill Cosby’s first solo show where he played a gym teacher.
BTW, the Smothers Brothers weren’t going to sing Waist Deep - Pete Seeger was (cite). He got censored the first time, but later sang the song, which he wrote.
Wow, I had blissfully forgotten about that one. I am amazed that Matt LeBlanc’s career survived it.
Two words:
Fish Police.
There are too many. I can maybe name the top three categories of TV shows I despise:
What they all seem to have in common is holding people up to ridicule.
Oh yeah, remember Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous? That was a twofer, you could hate the show and Robin Leech.
A few other dreadful shows come to mind
*Hee Haw
The Lawrence Welk Show
Knight Rider*
*Hee Haw Honeys
Jimmy Durante And The Lennon Sisters
Team Knight Rider*
Check and Mate. 
Seinfeld
Remember “ALF”? That was pretty bad. Not quite as much as some of these, but still pretty crappy.
The Amazing Race
Survivor
Dancing With The Stars.
With all the talk of Small Wonder and Too Close for Comfort, I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned another straight-to-syndication sitcom (actually, it might have started out as a prime-time network show; in any case, it didn’t last long in that capacity) called It’s A Living about a bunch of waitresses. Dumb as shit.
And unless I missed it, nobody’s mentioned Mama’s Family yet, which is a travesty.
Personally, I’ve never seen a sitcom from the '60s that I could stomach other than The Dick Van Dyke Show - Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, Gomer Pyle, The Beverly Hillbillies, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie - all absolute crap.
:rolleyes:
what?
Look, you don’t have to like Seinfeld. It’s perfectly valid to like the things you like and not like the things you don’t like. But Seinfeld was not the worst TV show you ever watched, unless it’s the only show you ever watched.
I assume just the idea that you’d think Seinfeld was the worst show ever. You may not like it. I, personally, hate *Sex & the City, Friends, The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men…*but there’s no reasonable metric by which these shows are worse than Small Wonder, BJ and the Bear, Mama’s Family, Babes, Hee Haw, or any of dozens of other truly worthless shows listed in this thread.
Yeah I can’t sit through any of those shows you mentioned either.
The Bugaloos was a crap show but let’s admit it: every boy wanted to DO JOY something fierce!
Speaking of crap kid’s shows:
Shazam which was dreadful live action show on Saturday mornings starring Les Tremayne. FYI I will give a “dishonorable mention” to Isis but again, like the Bugaloos, there was a REASON to watch Isis on Saturday morning, and it sure as hell wasn’t the scripts!
Run Joe Run. A Rin Tin Tin ripoff.
Electra Woman and Dyna Girl. Another show full of crap scripts and acting, HOWEVER…see my comments above.
As for regular prime time crap: there have been so many, where do I begin?
The Nanny…Fran Drescher. Need I say more?
Diff’rent Strokes…Unfunny kids with unfunny father and series of unfunny maids.
Fish…Abe Vigoda should have stayed on Barney Miller.
How about shows that started out well enough but overstayed there welcome? Perhaps I should start a new thread on that.
A lot of memories of a lot of crap.
Here’s some current ones that are just as bad:
Whitney
Swamp People
Ancient Aliens
Gold Rush (or whatever that idiotic prospector reality show is called)
Bigfoot Hunters
Wicked Tuna
Deadliest Catch
Whatever the name of the anti-whaling reality show is where they are pirates screwing with the Japanese whaling fleet. Whale Wars.
Two Broke Girls. The only thing that keeps me watching this show is the hope that Kat Denning’s blouse will bust open and the censors will be so bored that they will miss it.
Best of the West
I also was going to mention Woops!
Help Me Help You (I know you’ve never heard of it-I believe I was the only one watching.)
Cop Rock? Ha! There’s an even dumber Steven Bochco cop show.
Behold the first blind police detective. Yeah, that’s right, not a desk jockey, not a guy doing menial tasks. A detective. Who is blind. Not with Daredevil’s superpowers, just blind. A show done in complete and utter straight-faced seriousness, and all the worse for it.
Now, you may be asking: did they give him a gun? The answer is ‘yes’. Did he use it against suspects? You know it.
Bosom Buddies
The Facts of Life
Different Strokes
Good Times