Worst 5 series on TV ever

Not to imply that DS9 is a bad show, though, as it's my favorite incarnation of Trek to date. http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/biggrin.gif

Not in any particular order ...

5. Knight Rider. Eventually, there was a new gadget every week, and the season ender always involved KITT being blown to spare parts and being put back together in time for the big finish. Not to mention the season where they replaced the not-unattractive brunette scientist/mechanic with redhead with bigger breasts. And, had Hasselhoff not had his career here, Baywatch might never have happened.

4. Survivor. In short, who cares? You have a 'reality' competition, but the challenges have nothing to do with surviving. Call it Almost Anything Goes meets Gilligan's Island. (Additionally, every single one of the 'contestants' in Survivor I got a nifty guest-star gig on a CBS show. Can we say 'payoff'?)This doesn't even touch on the fact that the producer has admitted to importing rats and restaging one competition for better pictures.

3. Space: 1999. Cool sets and models, but wooden acting and lackluster plots. Even the addition of the lovely Catherine Schell couldn't rescue the ratings.

2. Mrs. Colombo. Another Kate Mulgrew vehicle. I remember most of the other NBC Mystery Movie series, but Mrs. Colombo lasted one season, then went kablooie.

1. Star Academy (or whatever the short-lived CBS series was called). One in a series of kids-in-space entries (UPN tried one recently, too) where the plots are shorter than the female cadets' skirts.

I've refrained from trashing 70's/80's pablum such as Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Brady Bunch, etc. - they're on the list, but not as high. Lost in Space gets a reprieve because its theme music was scored by a guy named 'Johnny Williams' ... who later went on to score a trilogy made by some UCLA-reject named George Lucas.

Uhh, REG... Something tells me you meant to post that under Best, not Worst...

Whoops! Hehehe. http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/biggrin.gif

Well, I wouldn't call them the best (except Star Trek).

But the following I would consider craps are:

1. VIP (I'm tired of Pamela Anderson Lee ... besides, a hotdog-vendor-turned-famed-security-expert?)
2. Cop Rock (I don't know what is scary, getting beaten with batons or hearing them sing the Miranda)
3. The Roseanne Show
4. The Tom Arnold Show
5. NightMan

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Robert: it was called SPACE Academy. It had a companion show, Jason of STAR Command, that used the same sets and some of the models and fx.

Actually, they weren't too bad for being aimed at the 6-12 year old market.

Howabout this for a stinker (didn't even get picked up after the pilot flopped): EarthStar Voyager.

To each his own I guess, I thought EarthStar Voyager was alright for the time it came out. Only remember it being billed as Disney Movie of the Week thou, I don't think it was ever meant to be a series...I didn't hear anything about it anyway. If it had been a series I think it would have been "half ways decent". Better then alot of Sci-crap that has come out lately, the above mentioned Nightman (shudders), Earth Final Conflict, and First Wave.

Given how popular 'Nightman' is in this thread, how do people feel about other offerings in the superhero/scifi genre?

- M.A.N.T.I.S.
- The Flash
- The Sentinel

Not surprisingly, the team of Danny Bilson and Paul DiMeo was responsible for both The Flash and The Sentinel.

And if you want 'bad' ... anyone remember the ABC series, 'Automan'? Kind of a nerdy cop meets Tron rip off?

Bob

Actually, I like those three superhero genre shows. Unfortunately, it did not caught on with the mainstream.

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Yup, I liked them too. I was particularly upset that CBS did not keep the Flash around, it was a pretty decent adaptation of the comic book, and included some nice cameos such as Mark Hamill as the Trickster, and former teen rock idol David Cassidy as Mirror Master.

Bob

I liked Flash.

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The Trekkie Formerly Known As Surak, AKA The Coch, Humble Creator of the Bwuutut and Mensaeans, Aba and Zwickau, and the Perseus Federation, Guy Who Still Hasn't Actually Played The Game, And Who Finally Decided To Use A Signature.

Hey now, don't be dissin' Quark. It was a sitcom after all, and it was fun. I have even though about doing a character based around him fro my RPG.

I would kill for a Quark DVD. Watch out for the Gorgons! And line up your space baggie!