What's your favorite obscure, really bad TV show? Here's my new one.

[David__77]

"Pink Lady and Jeff." I have a soft spot for horrible television, especially from the past. I ordered this show, which only made it to six episodes before being cancelled. It was made in 1980, and features to Japanese pop stars who don't even speak English, and instead repeat phonetically-memorized lines with Jeff Altman, a really bad comedian. Then the girls bust out with renditions of Donna Summer or Abba songs. They sing with Donny Osmond and skits include Larry Hagman, Hugh Hefner, and Boomer the dog! It's doesn't get much worse-good than this!

What horrible gems are your "favorites?"

[meegbear]

1. Alice Cooper was on it too ...

he did the song "Clones".

[David__77]

9. Yes, I saw that, and Blondie... but they're videos!

Interetingly, one of the women would introduce their "special musical guest," and then it would cut to a piped-in video. Of course, in 1980, this WAS pre-MTV! Only Roy Orbison appeared in person--oh, and Donny Osmond (him singing "We Are Family" with the girls is hilarious!).

[readmylips]

2. Bad TV show: Reagan's Funeral.....

give me a break....the guy was 93 years old.

[bigwillq]

7. I second that one

Give it up. Put him in the ground already, I think he's starting to stink.

Plus, I know Young and Restless is going to get pre-empted. I'm so pissed.

[mistertrickster]

3. Whew! that sounds like a stinker . . . I always thought ALF was

about as bad as you could get. A frickin' stuffed animal as a main character . . . with canned laughter yucking up the non-jokes.

[Kid_A]

4. "MacGyver"

I LOVED that show when I was a kid, but when I saw it again recently I was amazed by how awful it was! Another treasured childhood memory down the drain...

[m-jean03]

19. Not bad OR obscure

You my friend, just make the dreadful mistake of GROWING UP!! :P

I just revert back to "little kid-mode" when I watch it, and it's still a lot of fun!

[ironflange]

5. On the Air

David Lynch's demented sitcom, set in a 50's TV studio. I don't think it's exactly BAD, just really really weird. Miguel Ferrer was in it, also David Landers. ABC had six episodes made, I think only three or four made it to air. Of course, I have them all on tape.

[LynneSin]

6. "Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

The description from IMDB.com:

Ben Vereen is E.L. "Tenspeed" Turner, an inveterate con-man and master of disguise. Jeff Goldblum is Lionel Whitney, a "brown shoe" (accountant). Through an unlikely series of circumstances, they form a detective agency. Tenspeed is the realist, while Lionel fantasizes of having adventures like the fictional private eye he idolizes, Mark Savage.

Only reason I watched it was because I though Jeff Goldblum was sexy. And btw, he's even sexier 25 years later!!!

[David__77]

8. Goldblum movie bomb.

Jeff Goldblum also appeared in a horrible disco movie also starring Donna Summer, "Thank God It's Friday." He plays a fast-talking gigolo trying to seduce a married woman. My friend used to constantly see Goldblum at the "El Pollo Loco" fast food restaurant in Hollywood.

[kmla]

17. That movie spawned a few other notables as well...

... one of Debra Winger's first movie roles.
... Terri Nunn, lead singer of Berlin, had a role in that movie.
... lest we forget The Commodores illustrious movie career.

That's all I've got for now...

[sus]

24. ohmygod you made that up! that's hilarious!

[Oddman]

10. Cop Rock and Hee Haw Honeys . . .

Only people that voted for bush could have enjoyed these disasters!


The Washington Memorial is proud to announce the
opening of the Ronald Reagan Restroom Facilities!
”Leave One for the Gipper!”

[Quahog]

11. "Stingray"

Sometimes I wonder if I dreamed this one in a very bad dream. It was on when I was a kid (mid-late '60's). It was a B&W marionette show, with these guys in a little submarine called Stingray. There was a mermaid puppet, but she didn't have a tail, she swam around underwater in a sequined gown. Her name was Marina. I still remember her theme song....

"Marina, aqua Marina...."

I hope one of you reads this and remembers that there was such a show, cuz I really wonder sometimes.

[Quahog]

15. OMG!

Forget that I'm answering my own post! The important thing is, Marina exists!!

Turns out the show did exist, it was the first show ever filmed in color by the BBC (I guess our TV was B&W!).

Gawd, no wonder I lusted after her as a boy! YOWZA!!

[BigMcLargehuge]

16. from the mind of Gerry Anderson (father of Supermarionation!)

I remember Stingray :)

I didn't like it as much as Captain Scarlet or Thunderbirds, but I did like it.

[Zolok]

12. I have a bunch...

"The Ugliest Girl in Town"

"The Hero" starring Richard Mulligan

"Karen" starring Debbie Watson (with a themesong by the Beach Boys!)

"My Living Doll" starring Julie Newmar

"It's About Time" with Imogene Coca and Joe E. Ross


www.chimesatmidnight.blogspot.com

[Oddman]

13. "It's About Time"

a classic!!

[David__77]

14. Brady Bunch's Sherwood Schwartz is the culprit here!

I think his shows are great for children, but no one would call it "sophisticated!" Speaking of the Brady Bunch, I hear there's also a "Brady Comedy Hour" from 1977. That would probably be really, really bad!

[Zolok]

21. "The Brady Bunch Variety Hour" oh yes...

produced by Sid and Marty Krofft...very weird and cheap.
Robert Reed did it because he thought it would be a stretch to become a song and dance man.
The vague prospect of mocking the BB phenom must've appealed as well.
Some nice singing from Florence Henderson though...you forget she had nice pipes.
If you ever get a chance check out "The World of Sid and Marty Krofft Live at the Hollywood Bowl"...the "Brady Bunch Kids" are the musical warm up act...the camera pans around the audience just before the show starts and you can clearly seem game old Robert Reed sneaking a swig of a beer!
:)
Oh and the two super hero shows:
Mr. Terrific (starring Stephen Strimpell_
and
Captain Nice (starring William "Saint Elsewhere" Daniels)

[David__77]

22. The Kroffts made the Pink Lady show...

Weird stuff. The cheese factor is great.

[darkstar]

20. It's about time, it's about space

it's about two men
in the strangest place...

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

26. oooh, I loved "My Living Doll"

That show had Bob Cummings in it, didn't it? I'll bet it did! :silly:

"The Ugliest Girl in Town"! Peter Kastner! He was supposed to be the next Robert Morse.

And speaking of Imogene Coca, do you remember "Grindl"?

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-4295/Grindl/

[x-g.o.p.er]

18. Airwolf

Jan Michael Vincent's last shot at fame, and he blew it.

[JCMach1]

23. a tossup between MANIMAL and SUPERTRAIN

http://epguides.com/Manimal/



http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-2206/Supertrain/

[sundog]

25. Friday the 13th - The Series

about a possessed antique shop