US TV Guide's 50 Worst US TV Shows of All Time

Are we voting for the worst?

Because I actually liked My Mother The Car.

springer is great

Yeah, worst, sorry.

I have a crystal clear memory of Still the Beaver, a fact which frightens the living shit out of me.

Oh, man, The P.T.L. Club

But c'mon, Hogan’s Heroes?!

baby merchant

XFL FTW

TS: XFL vs. USFL

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I remember rather enjoying She's the Sheriff, but I was ten years old at the time.

Most of these I've either never seen, heard of, or had the good sense to avoid.

wtf @ "barney and friends"

This list isn't right. 29. Howard Stern (E!, 1994-present) That went off tv years ago.

two plus two is four. two plus two is four. two plus two is four. two plus two is four.

This list isn't right. 29. Howard Stern (E!, 1994-present) That went off tv years ago.

― svend, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 16:39 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The list could be years old, I didn't see a date.

I haven't seen a date in years either.

hello larry ftw?

meadowlark lemon as meadowlark!

nbc spent like a billion dollars on supertrain but not on the cast apparently

there's a disco on the supertrain?

sammy & company

^i want this to be my life

Alexander the Great wasn't a series, but a three(I think) episode pilot that ABC pulled from the vault and ran after Shatner's Star Trek premiered.

Whoever put that list together seems to be parroting the popular wisdom (Hello Larry, Barney) or read synopses of various shows that seemed stupid ("It's set in a Nazi prison camp, and it's a comedy? Whaaaah??") without having seen them. The Flying Nun is one of the better (top 40 anyway) sitcoms in TV history I think.

And The Ugliest Girl In Town was one I liked as a kid but haven't seen since, I wonder if it would hold up.

The list seems to be from 2002 or 2003 because surely Baby Bob didn't last more than one season.

This list is worthless without "Tequila and Bonetti."

Automan anyone?
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Sammy & Company does seem like it could have been the best thing ever.

^^the inspiration for sctv's The Sammy Maudlin Show

Hogan’s Heroes (CBS, 1965-71)

unlike most of these shows H's Hs was hugely popular and lived on in syndication for years. in high school this show and star trek reruns were my favorites, don't know what that means (though the prevalence of german-americans in my hometown must have something to do w/it.)

Supertrain looks amazing.

The series took place on the "Supertrain", an imagined nuclear-powered bullet train that was equipped with amenities more appropriate to a cruise ship than a train, such as swimming pools and shopping centers.

What's not to love?

Yeah, this list must be about 6 years old. According to wiki, Baby Bob only lasted eight episodes out of the original 14 produced. Which means this must have come out towards the end of 2002.

7 and a half minutes of pure tedium followed by 30 second of O_o racism.

Who could vote for anything else?

That clip from Sammy and Company is one of the best things ever.

homeboys in outerspace.the only episode of that show I saw featured a space Sherman Helmsley and he was trying to set up a space friend chicken joint.

The Ropers had the great Jeffrey Tambor and is thus ineligible for this list.

haven't seen many of these but the Chevy Chase show sure was stupid.

The Ropers had the great Jeffrey Tambor and is thus ineligible for this list.

― The Five-Dollar Footlong Song (Pancakes Hackman), Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:19 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, Tambor's never been in a bad show..."Welcome To The Captain," "Twenty Good Years," all classics that the public just wasn't ready for.

...sometimes it happens privately...like when you've seen Liza perform the entirety of Chicago in your living room...before you go to the show...hahaha

he said that just when I was thinking "sammy looks like his nose is frosted with coke" LOL

"life with lucy" does sound pretty depressing:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090473/

The lead character of the series, Nico ("Nick") Bonetti (Jack Scalia), is a policeman from New York City who is proud of his Italian heritage and very fond of his vintage rose-colored Cadillac convertible, which he inherited from his father. After he erroneously shoots a young girl during a gunfight, he relocates to a beachfront Los Angeles precinct on temporary assignment. Here he meets his new partners, Tequila (a large, burrito-eating dog), and Officer Angela Garcia (Mariska Hargitay), who joined the department after her policeman husband's death. Their boss is Captain Midian Knight (Charles Rocket), who is almost as interested in selling a screenplay as he is in police work. The series shows their investigations of crimes and the evolving relationships between the characters. This show has the peculiarity that television viewers are able to hear Tequila's thoughts.

Great poll! I was obsessed with this list for a while and still have the TV Guide issue. I'll post some blurbs if I can find it. The ones I most wanted to see after reading it were The Pruitts of Southampton and The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer. I saw a few minutes of the latter on youtube and it was fucking excruciating.

You’re in the Picture is actually hilarious if only for the spectacle of the celebrity guests trying to work with the asinine concept.

nbc spent like a billion dollars on supertrain but not on the cast apparently

Yeah really. I was stunned when I found out there were no stars on board. Guess the train itself hate up all the cash.

Pink Lady…and Jeff was indeed painful. But you MUST watch Episode 5 for Jerry Lewis' guest spot which he wrote himself. Typically meta. Typically genius. We are not worthy.

oops "ATE up all the cash..."

read synopses of various shows that seemed stupid ("It's set in a Nazi prison camp, and it's a comedy? Whaaaah??")

Right, sure, there's no other possible reason someone might think Hogan's Heroes was crappy, it's "inconceivable"

Cavemen needs to be on this list along with The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage and the creepy Small Wonder

no star trek voyager?

When I was 10 years old, Hello Larry and Supertrain didn't seem so bad. Clearly I was the demographic they were aimed at.

Why not is the Love Boat on this list!!!

Accidentally voted Cosell. Worst? Baby Bob, gotta be.

Pink Lady…and Jeff was indeed painful.

I'm pretty sure I saw every episode when it first broadcast.

no star trek voyager?

― the sir weeze, Wednesday, November 19, 2008 8:34 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

star trek voyager is shitty compared to like o.g. star trek but no way its one of the top 500 worst shows ever

the worst of these that I've actually seen and remember, for some reason, is the pink lady and jeff.

only seen jerry springer - jerry is great though.

i am so disappointed to learn that baby bob is not still on ;_;

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Cop Rock was a brave experiment, to say the least.

I voted for Marry a MultiMillionaire, but those youtube clips.... Supertrain, oh my...

Voted "Hello Larry" for the "wtf, THIS is what you left M*A*S*H for?" factor.

But...but...NO FAIR CATCHES IN THE XFL! SMASHMOUTH FOOTBALL!

Surely, AfterMASH has to win this.

"We can't get Alan Alda...not even Radar?...OK, so we'll get Potter and Klinger (maybe he can wear a dress again?) and The Priest and we'll put them in...a hospital?"

Sammy & Company does seem like it could have been the best thing ever.

― the table is the table, Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:03 AM (1 week ago)

^^the inspiration for sctv's The Sammy Maudlin Show

― m coleman, Wednesday, November 19, 2008 5:42 AM (1 week ago)

How come Pink Lady and Jeff but no Starland Vocal Band? Which one was Letterman a writer for?

The worst show ever really is Everybody Loves Raymond.

OK, Jeff Altman had previously been on the Starland Vocal Band program before he, um, got his own show.

This exchange from The Simpsons is better than Everybody Loves Raymond in its entirety:

(Mad Magazine workers are coming up with ideas for the magazine.)
Mad Magazine Executive #1: Why don't we call it "Everybody Hates Raymond."
(The entire room laughs)
Mad Magazine Executive #2: Well we stayed up all night but it was worth it.

Voted Life with Lucy narrowly over Chevy Chase. Man, there's some crud on that list.

I liked Manimal when I was a kid.

The episode where he learns kung-fu by copying the videotaped movements of different animals is clearly a piss-take of the similar scene from Kung Fu ("from the snake, we learn", etc., etc..)

I can imagine the pitch meeting for "Homeboys From Outer Space":

It's like a cross between Fresh Prince and that English show Red Dwarf! You know, that show we tried to make a US version of already that didn't work?

these youtube videos of Cop Rock are blowin' my mind

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