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Apparently some things must be presented seriously in order to be accepted, while others must be comedies. A talking car in a sit-com was unacceptable, but a talking car in Knight Rider lasted four seasons.
The opposite effect is seen where The Blue Light, a 1966 drama series with Robert Goulet as a spy behind Nazi lines, lasted but a single season. However, the year before that saw the first of a seven season run for Hogan's Heroes, a sit-com featuring slap happy, bungling Nazis outwitted by POWs operating behind German lines.
Crap shows that I can't believe ever took off? The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. I can't believe audiences actually think those "relationships" are real. No one behaves normally when they're in front of a camera crew and know that hundreds of thousands (millions?) of people will eventually watch their most intimate moments on TV. What a crock!
I saw a commercial for the latest edition last night, and I felt exactly the way you're describing. I've never watched these shows. The premise is just too ridiculous. And the current guy isn't even that good-looking.
Apparently some things must be presented seriously in order to be accepted, while others must be comedies. A talking car in a sit-com was unacceptable, but a talking car in Knight Rider lasted four seasons.
The opposite effect is seen where The Blue Light, a 1966 drama series with Robert Goulet as a spy behind Nazi lines, lasted but a single season. However, the year before that saw the first of a seven season run for Hogan's Heroes, a sit-com featuring slap happy, bungling Nazis outwitted by POWs operating behind German lines.
"....a professional freelance itinerant trucker who travels the country's highways in a red and white Kenworth K-100 Aerodyne... with his pet chimpanzee Bear"
Sister Wives. Show about a bunch of whiners being dominated by an ugly little control freak.
Also Dr Pimple Popper is a show i cant bring myself to watch.
"....a professional freelance itinerant trucker who travels the country's highways in a red and white Kenworth K-100 Aerodyne... with his pet chimpanzee Bear"
I loved that show when I was a kid. It's high time they re-made it. Only this time, it should be Chris Pratt's character from the Jurassic movies. And rather than a hero trucker driver and his chimp, it would be Pratt roaming the highways of America on his motorcycle with his best friend, Blue the Velociraptor. Every week they'll have adventures, saving pretty ladies from peril.
"....a professional freelance itinerant trucker who travels the country's highways in a red and white Kenworth K-100 Aerodyne... with his pet chimpanzee Bear"
Lassie
Gentle Ben
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
The 'Dirty Harry and his Orangutan Friend' movies
Flipper
Fiction about friendships between a human and a (non-human) animal are common. They're not an unusual idea but a recurring one. No one should be surprised that they exist and are enjoyed.
This thread seems to be yet another one where people just list examples that they don't like, because if they didn't like them it's inexplicable to them that anyone else does. There are many series that don't interest e in the slightest, yet I am not at all surprised that others do. I don't think my personal viewing tastes are some sort of gold standard by which the masses must be measured.
What TV Show that you cant believe took off and lasted more than a season because the premise seemed to be so out there
I have two that I still cant believe they lasted awhile on the air and became hugely popular:
Mister ED
Alf
both shows were funny, but I cant believe the premise of these shows (a talking horse and a wisecracking alien life form took off the way that it did)
What are yours?
In the 60's and early 70's, any idiotic plot line was fair game.
Green Acres
My Mother The Car
I Dream of Jeannie
Gilligan's Island*
My Favorite Martian
The Beverly Hillbillies
And what was with all the dead parents?
Bachelor Father
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
The Brady Bunch
Family Affair
The Andy Griffith Show
Nanny and the Professor
*NO ONE expected Gilligan's Island to succeed, including the producers. Natalie Schaffer took the role of Lovey Howell because she would get a free trip to Hawaii out of it; she was actually pissed when CBS picked up the series, as she was looking forward to retirement.
Also, Dawn Wells was the only cast member to get rich off the show. Her agent/husband negotiated syndication royalties into her contract; no one else thought the series had a chance of being picked up, so they didn't bother. The producers didn't balk at the demand, as they thought that they had nothing to lose by granting it. Go, Mary Ann...she earned millions off that one little concession.
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The Patty Duke Show with its weird “identical cousins” conceit. Lasted three seasons.
Several of the teen and kid appeal shows like The Brady Bunch, Welcome Back Kotter, and The Partridge Family also qualify. Five, four, and four seasons each for these three. Unwatchable then, unwatchable now.
And yeah, My Mother the Car is every bit as bad as advertised.
MAD Magazine once proposed a rib-tickling, yuck-a-minute spinoff set in a concentration camp.
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