Worst TV show ever

[Tobit]

Emergency is hard to watch now.  I remember more that I like than don't.  Likes include:

Green Acres (watched it with my dad)
Beverly Hillbillies  (especially the first couple of seasons.  The cultural differences were more focused)
Carol Burnette Show
Dragnet
Rowan and Martin's Laugh In
Pat Paulson's Half a Comedy Hour
Gomer Pyle (dad WAS Sgt. Carter)
Andy Griffith Show
I Dream of Jeannie    
The Avengers

Tobit

[Guzzistajohn]

Emergency is hard to watch now.  I remember more that I like than don't.  Likes include:

Green Acres (watched it with my dad)
Beverly Hillbillies  (especially the first couple of seasons.  The cultural differences were more focused)
Carol Burnette Show
Dragnet
Rowan and Martin's Laugh In
Pat Paulson's Half a Comedy Hour
Gomer Pyle (dad WAS Sgt. Carter)
Andy Griffith Show
I Dream of Jeannie    
The Avengers

Tobit

Those are all still my favs too. Although not crazy 'bout Andy Griffith w/o Barney, Warren wasn't all that funny.

Barbara Eden was hotter than donut Greece!

[oldbike54]

Those are all still my favs too. Although not crazy 'bout Andy Griffith w/o Barney, Warren wasn't all that funny.

Barbara Eden was hotter than donut Greece!

 American TV had a fascination with witches and genies for a while .

 I submit Bewitched as a REALLY bad show , although like Miss Eden , Liz Montgomery was , hmm , well , extremely attractive 

  Dusty

[Triple Jim]

Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.   would be tough to watch now,  but I watched it quite a bit back then.

d00d.  Beverly Hillbillies is some of the best comedy.  EVER!

Some of the old shows are funnier to me now than when I saw them in their first showings.  We recently watched the whole Green Acres series, one episode per dinner.  The plots are stupid, of course, but the background humor can be pretty funny.  On Gomer Pyle, Frank Sutton did a great job as Sgt. Carter, portraying a guy on the verge of exploding at all times.

The least watchable shows for me are the ones that have painfully obvious plots, hip music that competes with the dialog, and very bad acting and directing.  Or the "reality" that follow the "real" lives of "famous" people.

[Waltr]

  I really liked Miami Vice when it was on but happened across a rerun and God it was bad.
I always likes Rockford Files and Magnum P.I.

[oldbike54]

 The first time I really watched TV was in the Air Farce . Most day rooms had a TV , and in the early 70s the AF was rife with stoners , (not me of course) . Pot probably made those shows seem much funnier than they really were , maybe that is the secret .

 Dusty

[ritratto]

I'll give a second vote to "Dragnet". How can anyone be THAT boring?

[Gliderjohn]

And let's not forget some of the old game shows. When I was a little kid my mother always watched "Queen for a Day" and the "Price is Right".
GliderJohn

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

Two that were pretty bad "back in the day", but still fun to watch were "Quark" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(TV_series) (obvious draw here was the Barnstable twins) and "Sledge Hammer!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sledge_Hammer! (just so stupid it was funny).

[ken farr]

I actually enjoyed most of the stuff listed.
Haven't seen any of them in a while, though.

Any of the current crop of "reality" shows, well they just make me shudder.  Wife watches, dunno why, but she does.

Now, for some really bad martial arts moves, it has to be Mrs. Peel.  I love her to death, but she wasn't much of a martial artist.

Now with that being said, ( a small hijack here ), what is the correct answer to:

you're stuck on the desert island, is it Ginger or Mary Ann ?

....of course the correct answer is.......






.....Mrs. Peel.




You may now return to your regularly scheduled programming.


(  oh yeah, outer limits had some bad acting, good story lines, but bad acting)


kjf

[nc43bsa]

"Sledge Hammer!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sledge_Hammer! (just so stupid it was funny).

Yes, but "Sledge Hammer!", like "Police Squad!", was supposed to be stupid.

[Kev m]

  I really liked Miami Vice when it was on but happened across a rerun and God it was bad.

I still watch it when I catch a re-run.

Angry night time driving to a Genesis soundtrack! lol.

 

[rocker59]

The least watchable shows for me are the ones that have painfully obvious plots, hip music that competes with the dialog, and very bad acting and directing.   

Which is most of the "serious" shows of the 1970s.

[Triple Jim]

Which is most of the "serious" shows of the 1970s.

I'm afraid it spans all the decades of TV, including the present one.   

[ibis1]

The Partridge Family, it was just so phony, but a lot of shows from that era were too. It had to be one of the worst.

[dibble]

In the fabulous 80's never missed Magnum P.I.Hawaii, a Ferrari, babes on the beach, buddy with a helicopter... watched sn episode a couple of weeks ago on a Encore station.  Same plot week after week and the acting was pretty bad.

Everytime I see BOATDETECTIVE s user name I picture him like Magnum PI big moustache, winking at camera etc.

On the subject of Boat Dectectives I never realised the real reason why you actually need so many Carrier Battle Groups,I was told one at sea, one getting ready, one refitting, per ocean but after watching NCIS  realise it's one at sea, rest murdering each other.

[Dilliw]

ok so I have to admit to watching modern, reality TV.  I think it's corny and fake but I don't know I like it.  It started for me with The Real Life I guess but I also watched some of all of them except Big Brother and the Bachelxxx.  The first season is always the best and then goes down from there; first season of Ozzie was great!

 

[Guzzistajohn]

Just what the hell makes those Kardashians worthy of being on television anyway? I don't get it.

[rdbandkab]

Petticoat Junction.    I know it's probably used for something else,  but I can't shake the thought of the 3 hot babes bathing in the town's water supply...



Upon finding this pic,  I was reminded that the dog was in there also!

[oldbike54]

Just what the hell makes those Kardashians worthy of being on television anyway? I don't get it.

 Dunno , broadcast TV can't even show their best work  Ask Galveston Dave how we feel about the sisters from California and their marriedintas 

                                                                             Famous for being famous

 Wait , maybe we could do a reality show ,

                                                                              Big John and his friends

 Watch as these old guys sit around a campfire and poke relentless fun at each other 

 Hey , better than 99% of what's on at the moment 

  Dusty

[twhitaker]

but I can't shake the thought of the 3 hot babes bathing in the town's water supply...

Pretty sure that tank was for the locomotive steam engine.

[rdbandkab]

Why didn't I think of that?                        Nevermind...    Funny how my mind lost all ability for logical thought about that...


Had to dig deeper:

The train stop is nicknamed "petticoat junction" because the Bradley sisters often go skinny-dipping in the railway's water tower and leave their petticoats hanging over its side. The opening titles of the series show their petticoats hanging on the tower while they are swimming. The theme song has the double entendre "Lotsa curves, you bet, and even more when you get to the junction: Petticoat Junction," while shots show the train on a curving track, the petticoats, and the three naked sisters seen from shoulders up in the water tower.

[ajwood]

Those are all still my favs too. Although not crazy 'bout Andy Griffith w/o Barney, Warren wasn't all that funny.

Barbara Eden was hotter than donut Greece!

Yeah, where else can I hear a good looking female say "yes master' those many times.

[Sasquatch Jim]

I'll give a second vote to "Dragnet". How can anyone be THAT boring?

 Just the fax ma'm, just the fax.

[rodekyll]

I saw the new installment of FARGO last night.  It reminded me that for a perfect storm of clumsy acting, situations beyond suspension of disbelief, mad-libbed dialog and the most horrible accents ever recorded -- BURN NOTICE.

[Triple Jim]

Yeah, where else can I hear a good looking female say "yes master' those many times.

These days it's not difficult, what with the Internet and all.   

[rocker59]

Pretty sure that tank was for the locomotive steam engine.

Yep.  It's the railroad's water tank...

Something like this:

[Dilliw]

I saw the new installment of FARGO last night.  It reminded me that for a perfect storm of clumsy acting, situations beyond suspension of disbelief, mad-libbed dialog and the most horrible accents ever recorded -- BURN NOTICE.

The first couple of seasons of Burn Notice weren't that bad but the more spy lessons they had to come up with the harder it got to take.

If you want to watch a bad show then try the Bastard Executioner.   Kurt Sutter's Son's of Anarchy jumped the shark around Season 4 and he seems to have started BE about where SOA ended in Season 7.

[rodekyll]

The first couple of seasons of Burn Notice weren't that bad but the more spy lessons they had to come up with the harder it got to take.

If you want to watch a bad show then try the Bastard Executioner.   Kurt Sutter's Son's of Anarchy jumped the shark around Season 4 and he seems to have started BE about where SOA ended in Season 7.

Yeah, the 'lecture mode' narrative of BURN NOTICE was tedious.  It was especially hard to take when the narrative was factually wrong about what it was discussing.  The artificially forced directions of the plots were also painful to witness. 

[rdbandkab]

Yep.  It's the railroad's water tank...

Something like this:

Well....you ruined it for me....