Television Turkeys - The Worst TV Shows of All Time

[Vladd67]

I liked Manimal.

 

[BAYLOR]

I liked Manimal.

That might actually have worked better as a seers of TV movies.

 

[BAYLOR]

It seems like the key to hating Top Gear is to like it enough to watch a considerable amount of Top Gear.

I think ive watched maybe one epside of this show . I found it uninteresting.

 

[Rodders]

It's just three boys playing.

I've always had a soft spot for it.

 

[BAYLOR]

Big Top - it ran for 6 episodes. I remember it being a completely unfunny show about a Circus.

I think I missed that one.

 

[Vladd67]

It's just three boys playing.

I've always had a soft spot for it.

I recently saw a clip of Sean Lock complaining that Top Gear was too blokey and other people criticised it and called for it to be axed, which resulted in a reply from a fan asking that people like him be left one programme they could enjoy.

 

[CupofJoe]

I think I missed that one.

Amanda Holden running a falling-apart Circus. It had a good cast with people like Tony Robinson, John Thompson, Ruth Madoc and Sophie Thompson [I had to look that up]. It isn't even so-bad-its-good. The writing felt more like something from the 70s and not 2010. It was just tired and dated.
I can remember Amanda Holden's legs as she seemed to spend the entire show dressed as the Ringmaster/Ringmistress.

 

[JunkMonkey]

I recently saw a clip of Sean Lock complaining that Top Gear was too blokey and other people criticised it and called for it to be axed, which resulted in a reply from a fan asking that people like him be left one programme they could enjoy.

What I think of as The Spanish Bullfight Pleading. After bear baiting, dog fighting, public executions and all those other fun days out for all the family were done away with surely it wouldn't be too hard to let sadists have one death ritual to indulge themselves with would it?

 

[Vladd67]

What I think of as The Spanish Bullfight Pleading. After bear baiting, dog fighting, public executions and all those other fun days out for all the family were done away with surely it wouldn't be too hard to let sadists have one death ritual to indulge themselves with would it?

Last of the Summer Gear, which was paid for out of the public purse, can hardly be compared with blood sports and public executions. Those that enjoyed watching three middle aged men mucking about with cars shouldn't have such a programme removed because metropolitan snobs dont agree with it. I would gladly see the removal of help I'm a has been save my career, slut island, and all other such brain dead "reality" dross, but it is acceptable dross to keep the masses happy so I just dont watch it. Personally I felt Top Gear had passed it's best a few years before Clarkson was quite rightly not renewed but as long as it had viewing figures to justify its existence there it was.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Last of the Summer Gear, which was paid for out of the public purse, can hardly be compared with blood sports and public executions. Those that enjoyed watching three middle aged men mucking about with cars shouldn't have such a programme removed because metropolitan snobs dont agree with it. I would gladly see the removal of help I'm a has been save my career, slut island, and all other such brain dead "reality" dross, but it is acceptable dross to keep the masses happy so I just dont watch it. Personally I felt Top Gear had passed it's best a few years before Clarkson was quite rightly not renewed but as long as it had viewing figures to justify its existence there it was.

I'm not saying they are the same. I'm saying the "leave us one programme/thing that is now/becoming socially unacceptable" argument is the same. Totally agree with you about "reality" dross. But even that to me is an irrelevance as I don't watch any TV. They could switch the whole thing off (broadcast and streaming) and I probably wouldn't notice. (Or care.)

 

[Toby Frost]

As Jane Austen said, "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other". Or was it Pinhead?

I'm always surprised that Clarkson never went into politics. He'd probably be Prime Minister by now if he had. And I'll stop there.

 

[BAYLOR]

Just about every television incarnation of Lassie ive ever seen include the really wretched Filmation animated tv series.

 

[BAYLOR]

The 1960's version of Dragnet. A Jack Webb police procedural and sequel series to his 1950's Dragnet series. Banal, boring and like the original . a completely unrealistic portrayal of the police.

 

[BAYLOR]

Blansky's Beauties 1977 staring Nancy Walker . Unfunny sitcom lasted I season.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Powers of Mathew Star 1982 -83 Mathew a teenage from anther planet and his mentor an are hiding from an enemy that taken over his planet . And No he on Earth trying to be like a ordinary teen. Mostly the seizures ia about his angst fitting in of not being able to tell his earth frinds he's from another planet and can do amazing things. There is only one time the enemy shows up and it was unmemorable . The people that did the series didn't know what to do with it. If they gone the festive adage and trying to worn earth authorizes this show might have had a longer life then it did.

 

[BAYLOR]

Has anyone seen Beyond Westworld ? It was spinoff of the the films Westworld and Futureworld. Produced in 1980 , It was quickly called after 5 episodes.

 

[Vladd67]

Was that the one where they were hunting down androids loose in the world. I remember seeing it once or twice on itv , either Sunday afternoons or during the week if I was off school.

 

[BAYLOR]

Was that the one where they were hunting down androids loose in the world. I remember seeing it once or twice on itv , either Sunday afternoons or during the week if I was off school.

The guy that ran Future World II think , escaped with materials to build androids, Ive not seen it in 43 years . Pretty wrecked stuff.

 

[BAYLOR]

It's About Time. from the people who gave us Gilligan's Island . In this show , two us astronauts and the space caps get sent back in ot the prehistoric past encounter cave people and ultimately the Astonauts scalp back the 20 century talking Cave Person with them and the show devolves further into a fish out water type series as the Cave people try to adapt to the modern world. It lasted about season.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Man from Atlantis with Patrick Duffy started out as a series of tv movies which quite good. 1977 The network decide to try it as a series , It last 13 episodes and lacked magic of the films. The network should just ket I the realm of tv movies.