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.
<font color="orange">Uhh, REG... Something tells me you meant to post that under Best, not Worst...</font>
Whoops! Hehehe.
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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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.
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.
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