lamestest of the lame tv shows...ever

[kreinke]

I'm sittin' up too late thinkin' 'bout wacky **** like bad TV shows. Most of these shows are so lame I can't get through the beginning credits.

Lame TV show #10.. you youngsters probably don't remember this one. It was on in re-runs when I was a kid. The kid was Ugly. Bill Bixby was better as David Banner
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/eddiesfathercomic1.jpg

Lame show #9....no explanation necessary here

http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~nh52/brady_bunch.jpg

#8 Ah the trucker's life. He could have had choice of even the best lot lizards. This dude slept every night in a truck sleeper with a god damned monkey! I guess the song said it all. "If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with"
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#7 Four guys traveling together shooting everything in sight with machine guns sounds like a recipe for a cool show right? Wrong. One of them suffers from mental illness but can fly. The others are just weird. George Peppard has this Howard Hughes thing with never taking his gloves off.
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#6 Sorry guys. The dukes may be cool. Daisy may be hot. But the Sheriff and Boss Hog make this show lame. A guy named Cooter don't help either.
http://runrabbitrun.net/the_dukes_of_hazzard/the_dukes_of_hazzard_large.jpg

#5 Jeff Foxworthy opined that you might be a redneck if ane episode of this show "changed your life." We all agree that Chuck Norris is a badass mutha. But this show is soooo lame on so many levels right from Chuck's lame assed singing in the beginning. Chuck, you sing like a pussy. Chuck is such a badass he could sing the walker song in a pink tutu and no one would question it though.

Just one more thing Chuck....How many more times are you and Trevitt going to rescue that stupid lady DA because she got caught and tied up by a bad guy? If she ain't learned her lesson by season 3 than it's time to find a new girlfriend.
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#4 My kids were trying to watch this one. It was so disturbing I pulled up some GWAR videos on YouTube to de-program them.
http://www.lesjones.com/www/images/posts/wiggles.jpg

#3
http://wwwimage.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/images/2007/05/30/image2868696.jpg

#2 I seem to remember watching this show (yes I was a fan of it kind of) and thinking "Boy. This guy's even a worse actor than Shatner."
http://www.davidhasselhoffonline.com/KnightRiderPoster01.jpg

And finally....the mostest lamest TV show....ever.....thank God there will never be a reunion show.

#1
http://www.tvshowsondvd.net/graphics/news3/FullHouse_S4.jpg

[GSJIHAD]

Sheriff Lobo skipped the list?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5832503229954922771&q=Sheriff+lobo&total=35&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

[larrydk]

What about the "Breakin Away" series and that one where Tom Hanks dresses like a woman to live in a womens apartment building

[kreinke]

What about the "Breakin Away" series and that one where Tom Hanks dresses like a woman to live in a womens apartment building

That definitely gets and honorable mention.
Right next to What's Happenin'
http://www.tvacres.com/images/whats_happening_new.jpg

[PAGoldsby]

#7? Really? :confused:

For the recored, PAGoldsby does NOT pity the fool that disses Mr. T. :stick

[PAGoldsby]

... that one where Tom Hanks dresses like a woman to live in a womens apartment buildingThe high school reunion episode of "Bosom Buddies" is probably among the top-10 funniest thirty minutes of television ever. Boy, Peter Scolari's career really took off after that show, dinnit?

[screwtop]

Well Kreinke, you certainly have hit upon a few. If I may, allow me to open it up to some of the incredibly lame Satuardy morning crap that used to pollute the big three every week:

1) Land of the lost
2) Wonder Bug
3) Big John, Little John
4) Sigmond and the Sea Monsters
5) Jabber Jaw

If these aren't enough to make a kid opt to clean his room in the 70's instead of watch Satuarday morning TV, I don't know what other motivation would. I used to watch Looney Tunes and Scooby-Doo (pre-Scrappy, please) then I'd hit the Big Wheel.

[JohnHall]

I might add shows that allowed themselves to become lame.

Happy Days ( which coined the brilliant term "Jumping the Shark")
MASH(As soon as original cast members get replaced, watch out)

Or just good old fashioned bad:
Love Boat
Fantasy Island
She's the sherriff
Carter Country
On our own

It's going to be easier to name very few good shows.
Barney Miller.
Lance Link Secret Chimp:laugh

[Mongo]

How can you forget TJ Hooker? #1 on my list

http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Mptv/1063/4396-0014.jpg

[henzilla]

Mama's Family & Blossom haunt me:laugh :laugh :laugh

what was the stunt man show with Lee Majors?...the gal was hot until she found the COKE:bolt

[ltljohn]

A-Team
A lesson in how to fire 400 rounds into a crowded elevator and not actually hit anyone.

Dukes of Hazzard
One of the funniest things I have ever seen on TV is Dukes of Hazzard dubbed into French

[Gil]

How about Renegade. Yup...all Motorcycle hero's drive a bike with no known registration, plate, helmet (and hair is always perfect!) and the bike rides with no glitches, rain or shine.
Boring...

[aerialfilm1]

what was the stunt man show with Lee Majors?...the gal was hot until she found the COKE:bolt

A. Fall Guy.


Don't forget "Too Close for Comfort". I was okay with Ted Knight, but Jim J. Bullock creeped me out to no end.

[Pat Carol]

MASH was great. The Love Boat and Fantasy Island had some hot babes every once in a while.
Barney Miller was funny as all get go. Jack Soo and Abe Vigoda made that show a hit.

PC

I might add shows that allowed themselves to become lame.

Happy Days ( which coined the brilliant term "Jumping the Shark")
MASH(As soon as original cast members get replaced, watch out)

Or just good old fashioned bad:
Love Boat
Fantasy Island
She's the sherriff
Carter Country
On our own

It's going to be easier to name very few good shows.
Barney Miller.
Lance Link Secret Chimp:laugh

[Bob_M]

Too many to list,
but we should not forget
Petticoat Junction (the Baywatch of the 70s)
Beverly Hillbillies
and the long running series that never failed to insult one's intelligence
Gilligan's Island

[jgr451]

Man there's a lot of badly affected brain cells out there!I don't know some of those bad shows,thank Gawd!
But good picks all.

How about Flipper?

Or The Rifleman "Branded:Marked as the one who ran".They cut off his buttons etc at the start of every episode.Hey,he wasn't that much of a coward!!

[henzilla]

How about Renegade. Yup...all Motorcycle hero's drive a bike with no known registration, plate, helmet (and hair is always perfect!) and the bike rides with no glitches, rain or shine.
Boring...

:laugh :laugh :laugh was channel surfing last weekend and saw mr Lamas doing a Can I find a Career Now reality show...he jumped a Honda over cars with MUCH drama...seems like a Baldwin brother and Vanilla Ice were on same stunt show

[GlobalRider]

Every wonder why TV remote controls were invented?

American televison programming!

[riderR1150GSAdv]

With all these bad shows, it is no wonder a lot of Americans are messed up..:stick :stick :rofl :rofl
















:hide

[sjbmw]

Yeah, we have Discovery Channel and History Channel now, my kid is so much more enlightened, in spite of MTV2.

My Favorite as a kid:

http://www.webraw.com/blog/ultraman.jpg

http://10kbullets.com/images/2006/07/ultraman-s1v1-03.jpg

[screwtop]

and the long running series that never failed to insult one's intelligence
Gilligan's Island

Yeah, but Mary Anne had a nice little turd-cutter on 'er, and overall much hotter than Ginger IMHO.

[henzilla]

Every wonder why TV remote controls were invented?

American televison programming!

with Canadian Actors!:bolt :laugh :laugh :laugh

[dbOnIce]

So all of this means that those of us who did the Bonanza, MASH, Star Trek route are OK?? :brad

[henzilla]

So all of this means that those of us who did the Bonanza, MASH, Star Trek route are OK?? :brad

and Perry Mason....! here's a sampling...lots of greats...a few y'all prob don't claim!

http://www.canadiancontent.net/people/actors/

[GeneT]

I l look at it this way, if it only lasts for 30 minutes it can't be much and I don't even consider watching any of these. If it lasts an hour it may have some hope, seems to vary as to which ones.

Then comes NetFlix, order what you want, watch it when you want to, nuf said.

:dance

[userw5]

TV, like anything else is good in moderation.

Memorable quotes for
Night Shift (1982)

Leonard: Oh, that Barney Rubble. What an actor.
:laugh

[Stuff2C]

Yeah, but Mary Anne had a nice little turd-cutter on 'er, and overall much hotter than Ginger IMHO.


On such a PC site that was.... :ha :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl

[KGT1200]

"Daniel Boone was a man
he was a B...I...G man,
He fought with the indians
tadada da da da...
I used to sing that damn song on my walk a couple miles to school...
A stupid little kid sucking on lemon drops and singing "Daniel Boone was a man'
What a grade a doofus

Now that was a show!

I have been reading this thread and am astounded nobody mentioned

Raw hide, How could you all forget my hero Rowdy Yates?

there was a couple army shows in the 60s, I watched exclusively along with Man From U.N.C.L.E...Can't remember their names.

[henzilla]

"Daniel Boone was a man
he was a B...I...G man,
He fought with the indians
tadada da da da...
I used to sing that damn song on my walk a couple miles to school...
A stupid little kid sucking on lemon drops and singing "Daniel Boone was a man'
What a grade a doofus

Now that was a show!

I have been reading this thread and am astounded nobody mentioned

Raw hide, How could you all forget my hero Rowdy Yates?

there was a couple army shows in the 60s, I watched exclusively along with Man From U.N.C.L.E...Can't remember their names.


Rat Patrol was cool! and before that I remember Combat and wasn't 12 o'clock High a series for awhile? Illya Kuraykyn from U.N.C.L.E...doesn't he make harley parts now?:laugh speaking of UNCLE...let's not forget the spoof Get Smart, which is coming back to the big screen

BTW...I also was a doofus singing D.Boone! and had buddies with smelly coon hats they wore in the summer

[The_Veg]

Nice one Herb! I also watched a lot of The Space Giants, and I own a VHS of Godzilla Vs. Megalon. I think that Jet Jaguar was just Ultra-Man recycled.

http://www.podster.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/fotos/tv_sgiants.jpg

http://www.insidepulse.com/columnImages2006/image31114.jpg

[GlobalRider]

with Canadian Actors!:bolt :laugh :laugh :laugh

They're only found in the successful shows...like Star Trek.

Could you imagine Seinfeld as Captain Kirk?

[lamble]

Lost in Space.

Good!
Leave the whinging bleeders there!

Happy Days
Misery!

Muppets
Frog on a stick, with a hand up his arse.

A-Team
Never heard of camouflage. Mr T. I can guess what the T stands for, and it's not talent.

Six Million Dollar Man
Steve Austin running so slowly he'd not catch a slug with arthritis and a punctured flip flop.

I've managed to remove most of the other mental scars.

[r11rs94]

:lurk My Mother the Car has to be one of the lamest shows of all time.

[KGT1200]

Rat Patrol was cool! and before that I remember Combat and wasn't 12 o'clock High a series for awhile? Illya Kuraykyn from U.N.C.L.E...doesn't he make harley parts now?:laugh speaking of UNCLE...let's not forget the spoof Get Smart, which is coming back to the big screen

BTW...I also was a doofus singing D.Boone! and had buddies with smelly coon hats they wore in the summer

Rat Patrol! Of course! How could my 50 yr old brain forget that? and yes we too wore our silly stinky coon skin caps everywhere, and we all had little red plastic knifes and hatchets with plastic covers we could hang on our belts.

Henzilla, how old are you?

Isn't America Great!? God I miss that stuff!

Red

[Rapid_Roy]

Nowadays, a kid can be spray painted for wearing a coon skin cap.:laugh

[drharveys]

Four words:

Pink Lady and Jeff

In the entire history of popular entertainment, nothing else even comes close!

Pink_Lady_and_Jeff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Lady_and_Jeff)

This one has it with color pictures:

With Photos (http://www.tvparty.com/pink.html)

[jgr451]

Thank the Lhorrd I managed to miss that one.

[RandallIsland]

Every wonder why TV remote controls were invented?

American televison programming!

No doubt!

Was I the only one who as a kid never got more than three minutes into Matlock or the Agatha Christie-old-woman-looking-stupefied-show?

But I am getting a kick out of Mad Men (http://www.amctv.com/originals/madmen/?s_cid=google1) this season.

[GSJIHAD]

Hands down......Bigfoot and Wildboy...Find one worse, I dare anyone.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=446740268453556141&q=bigfoot+and+wildboy&total=39&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

[kreinke]

Hands down......Bigfoot and Wildboy...Find one worse, I dare anyone.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=446740268453556141&q=bigfoot+and+wildboy&total=39&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
I see your Bigfoot and raise you a
a Land of the Lost (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1126702332640845878&q=land+of+the+lost&total=1883&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0)

Equally disturbing.... (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1039255019889795930&q=far+out+space+nuts&total=52&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1)

[kreinke]

Four words:

Pink Lady and Jeff

In the entire history of popular entertainment, nothing else even comes close!

Pink_Lady_and_Jeff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Lady_and_Jeff)

This one has it with color pictures:

With Photos (http://www.tvparty.com/pink.html)

This was the way I spent every Friday night as a kid....

(http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3654903547994478403&q=donnie+and+marie&total=277&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=3)

WTF ever thought that mimes had any place on prime time TV much less anywhere else for that matter? (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1345364094990747833&q=shields+and+yarnell&total=8&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=4)

[Newstar]

Nice one Herb! I also watched a lot of The Space Giants, and I own a VHS of Godzilla Vs. Megalon. I think that Jet Jaguar was just Ultra-Man recycled.

http://www.podster.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/fotos/tv_sgiants.jpg

http://www.insidepulse.com/columnImages2006/image31114.jpg



Where can I get a helmet like that? Is it DOT??

[dbOnIce]

Rat Patrol was cool! and before that I remember Combat and wasn't 12 o'clock High a series for awhile? Illya Kuraykyn from U.N.C.L.E...doesn't he make harley parts now?:laugh speaking of UNCLE...let's not forget the spoof Get Smart, which is coming back to the big screen



99 ...almost as hot as I dream of Jeannie. :heart

[Hodag]

They're only found in the successful shows...like Star Trek.

Could you imagine Seinfeld as Captain Kirk?

Kramer would be Spock
George... Bones
Elaine..ohura

"whats the deal with all those Klingons?"

thats gold I tell you.... gold

[Mongo]

Kramer would be Spock
George... Bones
Elaine..ohura

"whats the deal with all those Klingons?"

thats gold I tell you.... gold

Oh man, that would be priceless!:rofl

[henzilla]

:lurk My Mother the Car has to be one of the lamest shows of all time.

HAHAHAHA you are:gerg to remember that nice piece of work... Jerry Van Dyke was finally a little funny in Coach as Luther

[henzilla]

Rat Patrol! Of course! How could my 50 yr old brain forget that? and yes we too wore our silly stinky coon skin caps everywhere, and we all had little red plastic knifes and hatchets with plastic covers we could hang on our belts.

Henzilla, how old are you?

Isn't America Great!? God I miss that stuff!

Red

turned 50 in June...youngest of 7 so was exposed to EVERYTHING!

[GlobalRider]

Kramer would be Spock
George... Bones
Elaine..ohura

"whats the deal with all those Klingons?"

thats gold I tell you.... gold

Well I'd have trouble imagining that since I've never watched Seinfeld, other than in passing during your typical Channel flicking common to us (due to lame TV).

Its sad that as big as Hollywood is, they put out very few movies of any quality. The same goes for TV shows. I coined the phrase years ago...mindless crap for the mindless masses.

Take U 571 for example; what a joke compared to Das Boot. Then I just saw the "Downfall" on History Channel...talk about a performance by Bruno Ganz, a Swiss actor in the part of Adolf Hitler. Simply incredible!

Even European commercials, as short as they are, have far more entertainment value than regular North American programming.

[bubbagazoo]

Canadian programming has had its bad series as well --

Remember "Coming up Rosie" with a very young Dan Ackroyd? Or how about the animated shows "Rocket Robin Hood" and "Hercules".

[KGT1200]

turned 50 in June...youngest of 7 so was exposed to EVERYTHING!

June of 57, what a good month and year!

Red

[KGT1200]

Replace "Flipper" with "Big Ben"

What do you have? A bear who does back flips and has a social consciousness.


Lamo animal "park ranger" themed shows sort of Lassie spin offs

[JKERSH1]

Too many to list,
but we should not forget
Petticoat Junction (the Baywatch of the 70s)
Beverly Hillbillies
and the long running series that never failed to insult one's intelligence
Gilligan's Island

70's?? Sherman, set the wayback machine to the 60's and take me back to Hooterville.

[119240]

Hong Kong Phooey
Man From Atlandic
Days And Nights Of Molley Dodd

[bubbagazoo]

I should not have mentioned this thread to my wife. She came up with some doozies -- Hardy Boys (Shawn Cassidy and Parker Stevenson)
Nancy Drew (Pamela Sue Martin)
Hogan's Heroes
Batman (I like it but she doesn't)
The Munsters
and her nominee for the absolute lamest show ever on TV -- The Monkees .

Me, I would add the Partridge Family, H.R. PufnStuf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.R._Puffinstuff) and the Banana Splits (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Splits).

[Bob_M]

70's?? Sherman, set the wayback machine to the 60's and take me back to Hooterville.

I suppose the dishonor is slight in being corrected on this subject. Going back farther, we might look at the Morning Reads series on our own forum to see reruns of that obscure cartoon Crusader Rabbit

[Hodag]

Well I'd have trouble imagining that since I've never watched Seinfeld, other than in passing during your typical Channel flicking common to us (due to lame TV).

Its sad that as big as Hollywood is, they put out very few movies of any quality. The same goes for TV shows. I coined the phrase years ago...mindless crap for the mindless masses.

Take U 571 for example; what a joke compared to Das Boot. Then I just saw the "Downfall" on History Channel...talk about a performance by Bruno Ganz, a Swiss actor in the part of Adolf Hitler. Simply incredible!

Even European commercials, as short as they are, have far more entertainment value than regular North American programming.


I watch war movies and think stuff like
"that cartridge belt is so 1944, why is he wearing that in 1943"
then my wife says "no we are not watching it again so you can make sure"

[Newstar]

and her nominee for the absolute lamest show ever on TV -- The Monkees .
H.R. PufnStuf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.R._Puffinstuff) and the Banana Splits (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Splits).

Hey, don't mess with the Monkees! :stick That was my absolute favorite show as a kid! Granted, they were reruns at that point but still, even today, I'm a diehard Monkees fan.

Ok, there....I said it...outloud!

[KGT1200]

I watch war movies and think stuff like
"that cartridge belt is so 1944, why is he wearing that in 1943"
then my wife says "no we are not watching it again so you can make sure"

I watch westerns for the horses. Some great bloodlines running around on the old silver screen. The fallacy is that all horses are shod (wear metal shoes).The actual horses in the 1800s wore no shoes UNLESS they had some corrective issue going on with the hooves. I watch these old westerns set mid 1800s all of em have fancy shoes! Whets wrong here? Tom Mix westerns and westerns of early silent films had no horse shoes.
Bits are another giveaway. Stainless steel mechanical hackamore bits didn't come on the scene until 1970!

When you ride every day, or in the case of wild mustangs, no need for shoes..the earth acts as sandpaper, polishing the new growth into a hardened hoof. Today’s horses are soft in comparison.

[Seeker]

I think bad TV is a really good thing, Its so bad that anyone with a brain can't watch, I mean really, Do they take for morons, so in the end its forcing people to do other things like maybe talk to each other, or god help us go outside. Maybe even take up motorcycling.

[RandallIsland]

I should not have mentioned this thread to my wife. She came up with some doozies ...
Hogan's Heroes
... and her nominee for the absolute lamest show ever on TV -- The Monkees .

Me, I would add the Partridge Family...

The former I take issue with, because really, Colonel Klink & Sergeant Schultz are totally my kind of heroes. I completely respect dumb Krauts. The dumber the better. :german

That was my absolute favorite show as a kid! ... even today, I'm a diehard Monkees fan.

Ok, there....I said it...outloud!

Oh Lord!
Consider yourself extorted when you run for President, Newstar, that's like waving your monkey around the dining room and asking how people feel about the Twister set and a 2nd dessert with Vaseline for 6th course...:brow :dance

[GlobalRider]

I watch war movies and think stuff like
"that cartridge belt is so 1944, why is he wearing that in 1943"
then my wife says "no we are not watching it again so you can make sure"

Yeah, its tough being informed.

In Iron Eagle, that young kid asks Lou Gossett Jr. what he's doing to his mixture on his C150/152...through the cowl opening where you check the oil...you can't do anything from there other than check the oil and pull the fuel strainer drain.

Then in another scene he is racing some motorcycle in a canyon...with 40° of flaps extended. Try retracting them hot shot and you might pick up some speed. LOL.

Hollywood really cracks me up!

Ever notice the shadow of the camera helicopter in the opening scene in the Shining as they are driving up that mountain road. Pretty sloppy on Stanley Kubrick's part if you ask me.

I can't remember the last time I watched any TV series...maybe 15 or 20 years ago. There is nothing worth watching...thank God for TV remotes. LOL.

[aerialfilm1]

I can't remember the last time I watched any TV series...maybe 15 or 20 years ago. There is nothing worth watching...thank God for TV remotes. LOL.

Anybody remember the Springsteen song " 57 Channels (and nothing's on)"? I think now we get 100 channels or so with just basic cable. My wife and I fondly remember back in the leaner years we had our cable disconnected against our will. We then only had 5 terrestrial channels, a VCR and just about every Northern Exposure episode on tape. Losing our cable seemed tragic then, but those really were the best times. :bliss

Let me also add "CPO Sharkey" was probably not one of Don Rickles' proudest moments.

[Layton]

Green Acres was pretty stupid too.i kinda liked gomer pyle though.and my wife likes the old i love lucy shows too. lucy wasn't bad but i can't stand Ricky Retardo

[dlearl476]

IMHO, there is not a single TV show mentioned so far that holds a candle, lameness-wise, to the stuff that's on today. "The Simple Life"? Give me a break.

[iRene]

Canadian programming has had its bad series as well --

Remember "Coming up Rosie" with a very young Dan Ackroyd? Or how about the animated shows "Rocket Robin Hood" and "Hercules".

I remember Rosie! We got Canandian channels on cable in Burlington, VT, and I remember seeing Dan on Saturday Night Live and recalling him on Rosie.
I think the "Old Norge" skit with the repairman showing butt crack was based on his Rosie work.

[bubbagazoo]

The former I take issue with, because really, Colonel Klink & Sergeant Schultz are totally my kind of heroes. I completely respect dumb Krauts. The dumber the better. :german


I liked Hogan's Heroes. It was my wife who thought the show was lame.

[RandallIsland]

I liked Hogan's Heroes. It was my wife who thought the show was lame.

This is where I say nothing.
Sometimes I don't like myself.
:ha

[r11rs94]

Who could forget STINGRAY, staring Capt Troy Tempest of the World Aquanaut Security Patrol (WASP) , from the mid 1960's. A true classic .:gerg