Top 10 Most Hated 1970s TV Shows

[@WalterFrith]

PAT MORITA, not Pat Moriarty.

[@tracyroth-myers5574]

😆😆😆

[@stevenrussell5340]

What can you expect from badly programmed AI? The programmer needs to be fired.

[@WalterFrith]

@@stevenrussell5340 You know, I never thought of that but it makes perfect sense. The voicing does sort of sound like a drone.

[@Fast_Eddy_Magic]

I am Sherlock Holmes, and I approve of this comment.

[@Fast_Eddy_Magic]

Mee-ogg-ee! 😂

[@EricNTammy304]

Robert. Robert Reed.

[@DonBair]

And Pat Moriarity. 🤣

[@tomg5304]

And Robert was part of the show

[@florencerohrick9710]

Right, not "Richard."

[@smorgasbroad1132]

Reed was highly promiscuous. My brother-in-law ran into him many times in that community in Chgo. back in the day. (Probably on Halsted St.) I was not aware of his dislike of all things Brady Bunch. But he clearly WAS on that "BB Hour" show.

[@harveyabel1500]

There were train shows before Super Train. Iron Horse was one, Casey Jones another.

[@scottr5661]

Pat Moriarty?? It's Pat Morita.

[@paulwatters9225]

Thanks, I was going through the comments to see if anyone caught that before I said anything...

[@JJHowell884]

@@paulwatters9225yeah, me too!

[@QueenOfTheNorth65]

It’s Robert Reed, not Richard Reed, and the Brady Bunch Hour wasn’t “killed off.” Back then, there were shows that were known as “summer replacements,” which aired when regular shows where on summer break. Rather than air reruns of regular shows, new shows were made to run for the summer period only.

[@NITE_SHIFTING]

It's Gilligan's Island not Gilligan's Apartment Building....Jeeze. 😂

[@RSGill1903]

...but it still sucked.

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

well, at least we didn't, yet, have to suffer through MTV's reality-show crap, "big brother," "american idol," "the kardashians" and "the apprentice."

[@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety]

Who's Richard Reed? Robert Reed was on the show. I think the one missing was Eve Plumb...

[@jfryza]

Reed Richards is Mr. Fantastic.

[@luisreyes1963]

Eve Plumb wisely rejected a spot on The Brady Bunch Hour. Her spot was filled by Geri Reischl.

[@jfryza]

@@luisreyes1963 I remember hearing about someone commenting on the show. They said except for Florence Henderson, they had never seen such a talentless group.

[@acholl980]

@@luisreyes1963 Another who wisely refused this was Alan Melvin (Sam the Butcher) who went to play Archie's buddy Barney Hefner on All in the Family.

[@RayChiTown]

@@luisreyes1963 To this day, Geri Reischl still has the nickname "Fake Jan."

[@ac9559]

I enjoyed Holmes and YoYo. I was a kid and I do not recall anyone hating the show.

[@stephenghumenesky5013]

Forrest Tucker was NOT the skipper on Gillian’s Island

[@darkallegiance666]

He was the Sarge on “F Troop” - I loved that show.😊

[@michaelnash2138]

I think he actually meant "playing the part that corresponded to Skipper". At least that's how I remember it.

[@cynthiaweston767]

Alan Hale Jr.was the skipper.

[@Laceykat66]

This guy really does not know what he is talking about. I wonder who wrote the script for him.

[@scottmcgraw3749]

I once saw a movie with Richard Reed and Pat Moriarty. It was called Happy Bunch. It was about this father of six who moved his family to Compton and enrolled his kids in Crenshaw High. When the middle girl, Fake Jan, started getting harassed by the Potsie Webber gang for always crashing her bike into them because she NEVER wore her damn glasses, she started taking fake karate lessons from an ex-shaolin short order cook named Arnold Miyagi. With her newfound skills in bullshido, she killed Potsie himself and took over as the 'big boss' and now cooks shaolin burgers for her family with her mother Carol, played by Shirley Hemphill. It was awesome. She still refuses to wear her glasses though. The sequel, "Potsie's Revenge" Starring Florence Handleman as the widow of Richard Reed's character, Mike Bundy, on the other hand was garbage, because it came out before the first movie, so no one understood anything that was happening. It was nice to see Ann B. David reprise her role as Alice, the mob boss. Might be worth a review.

[@WookieeMonster1]

Was that the one with the bicycle gang leader Arthur "Cunzie" Cunningham? He jumped over that Plymouth Duster, "Sergeant Bilko", from the soap opera "The Days of Hazzard", and was then abducted by the alien played by William Robins, Mork Rogers From Planet UNCLE? Or am I thinking of a different show?

[@luisreyes1963]

Better than The Hee Haw Honeys, I reckon. 😆

[@oksteve6368]

You should be writing for sitcoms rather than the hacks they usually employ.That was comedy gold.

[@melodiefrances3898]

😂😂😂😂

[@Stephen-to7jx]

Michael J. Fox was an adult who played a teenager on Family Ties.

[@MiladyMacabre]

I fondly remember Holmes and Yoyo -- it was stupid fun

[@paulleckner9148]

Me too! Reminded me of Don Adams and Hymie on Get Smart

[@MiladyMacabre]

@@paulleckner9148 Dick Gautier was great as Hymie.

[@jfryza]

@@paulleckner9148 That's what the show reminded me of more.

[@jfryza]

@@MiladyMacabre Kill the light Hymie, you knock me out.

[@Laceykat66]

It was one of a few Mann & Machine (pun intended) shows that have been floated for the last 60 years starting with Living Doll.

[@redbarron1010]

I thought Robert Reed did participate in the Brady Bunch variety hour. I thought it was jan who refused to star in it?

[@dhenderson1810]

I heard that Reed didn't enjoy doing "The Brady Bunch" but did like doing "The Brady Bunch Variety Hour" as it played closer to his musical theatre roots.

[@luisreyes1963]

Eve Plumb wanted nothing to do with that turkey, The Brady Bunch Hour. She was replaced by Geri Reischl.

[@tomg5304]

You can have added the other Three’s a Crowd. It was unwatchable even back then.

[@marcstevens8576]

Same with The Ropers.

[@andirosenthal2410]

Amazed that Pink Lady and Jeff didn’t make it on to this list.

[@FourBudgies87]

When I first heard the title "Mr. T and Tina" I was thinking you were referring to the "A-Team" Mr. T.

[@henryscafe8364]

I think the Mr. T here was Takahashi

[@dizzysdoings]

So did I 😂

[@geraldn.6871]

As an elementary school age kid, I liked Holmes and Yo-yo.

[@BannerSound]

How 'bout a little Roller Derby... Anyone?? 😅😅😂😂

[@Steve-gc5nt]

Still better than most of today's TV 😅

[@jflaugher]

The guy playing the Wagon Master was not the same guy who played the Skipper.

[@josemejia9349]

No Eve Plum on the Brady Bunch Hour

[@marcstevens8576]

Don't blame her for not appearing on it.

[@josemejia9349]

@@marcstevens8576 nah, it would have been nice, but I don’t blame her

[@afwalker1921]

I was born in 1963. I recently married a woman born in 1996. I must constantly explain myself! She has no idea...

[@williamwilkinson6665]

@afwalker1921.....you married a gold digger dude 😂😂😂😂

[@afwalker1921]

@@williamwilkinson6665 I wish that was true, for it would flatter me. The truth is that she is an actress, an A-lister, and wealthier than I will ever be. I'm a filmmaker. I met her at Pink's, just before Christmas in 2009... she's a goddess!

[@YMagoulo]

@@afwalker1921 Good for you, enjoy the hell out of her.

[@DanieVargas]

I used to watch a LOT of tv when I was a kid and I don’t remember ANY of these shows… and I was a BIG Brady Bunch fan…

[@mhm92267]

Ditto

[@Drew-bc7zj]

Same here. Mandela effect? LOL

[@johntracy9398]

I think I saw one episode of the Brady Bunch Variety Show; but, the others I never heard of any of them. Not that I would have. I was more into smoking pot and tripping on acid at the time.

[@chazarcola7639]

David Cassidy : Man Undercover became a series thanks to the former Partridge Family teen idol garnering an EMMY nomination for his guest role in an episode of the drama series Police Story.

[@up0820]

I wouldn't actually give thanks for that disaster becoming a supposed show.

[@paulleckner9148]

It worked for Ron Howard on one episode of Love, American Style. Happy Days @@up0820

[@allisons3663]

How did CBS even green light "Me and the Chimp" when they were promoting new, socially conscious shows like "Alli in the Family", "MASH" and "Maude"?

[@luisreyes1963]

Maybe it was some anonymous CBS programmer upset over the cancellation of Gunsmoke. 😆

[@simonesaidso9375]

I wrote an essay for a class assignment on Holmes and Yoyo. Our teacher wanted us to write an essay critiquing a tv show. I was only 14 at the time. I wrote how bad this show was to me. I guess I was right because the sow went off the air a couple of weeks later after I wrote my essay. I guess they listen to a 14 year old critque.

[@gallery7596]

*NBC* saw "Love Boat" crushing it Saturday nights and tried to make their own version of a multi-story sitcom set on a massive mode of convenience and that's how we got "Supertrain." One episode even featured Dick Van Dyke.

[@thenotoriousgryyn342]

All these shows still better than what's on today.

[@robertstock9568]

Supertrain was supposed to be The Love Boat on land.

[@luisreyes1963]

You're not far from wrong. 😅

[@davidponseigo8811]

I grew up watching Hee Haw with my grandparents when I stayed with them on Saturday night and I wouldn't trade those memories for anything on earth.

[@tlady62]

Yes, the original “Hee Haw” was hilarious. Sure, the jokes were corny, but still funny.😂

[@StevenRogers-hw9dj]

I liked Hee Haw a LOT more than 'All in the Family' or 'Happy Days' after it became the 'Fonzie Show'.

[@High_Deer]

Yep, great old Saturday Night memories as a kid, Hee-Haw!

[@geraldscott4302]

Being from 1959, I grew up in the '70s. Most wonderful decade ever. But I never heard of a single one of those shows.

[@angel4everable]

Fast Rule: Anything starring McLean Stevenson is automatically bad TV: Hello, Larry, In the Beginning, The McLean Stevenson Show...The horror, the horror.

[@traceynomatterwhat383]

My brother and I loved Hello, Larry 😂😂

[@dhenderson1810]

Stevenson was in "MASH".

[@angel4everable]

True, but not the star. @@dhenderson1810

[@kenlompart9905]

He was great in MASH but sucked in everything else he was in, even he said "I guess it wasn't me they liked it was colonel Blake."

[@angel4everable]

In an 'it's so bad it's god" sort of way I agree with you.@@traceynomatterwhat383

[@michaelnash2138]

I actually watched 'Dusty's Trail". Even in 5th grade I recognized it as a Gilligan clone (Especially with Gilligan as Dusty). I thought the premise was a bit weak as surely they'd be able to follow a river or smoke and find SOME civilization and therefore get back to their route. Oh well, at 10 years old I didn't particularly care.

[@henryscafe8364]

I read they stitched episodes together to make a movie titled The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West

[@royallison5307]

Does anyone remember a spin-off from Bewitched called Tabitha?

[@matthewkeisling2776]

Maybe they should have started a show that starred Richard Reed at Pat Moriarty. Maybe that would have worked. 😂

[@RightURKen7]

Where's Quark with Richard Benjamin? The worst attempt at a Sci Fi T.V. show in history. Look it up, there's episodes here on KZbin.

[@johammond9359]

NEVER SAW ANY OF THOSE SHOWS, not until seeing them here.

[@02bher1]

I sadly tried watching some of these but unfortunately slept in the middle of them.

[@thomasfulmer9638]

after watching the remainder of the video, i saw holmes and yoyo. as a kid i enjoyed it; whether i would like to see it now is debatable, but then i loved it.

[@brerrabbit9585]

'Battle of the Network Stars'.

[@p.d.l7023]

The android in that Sherlock Holmes show went on to play Herman on the early 90s Munsters.

[@RobertWilke]

He was also in McMillan and wife with Rock Hudson and Jill St James. He’s done plenty of work over the decades. He was the Klingon Ambassador in ST III.

[@acholl980]

Trivia: He made his debut in the original M.A,S.H movie.

[@sandrabonner8208]

Wow, I lived through that era and never saw, nor heard of, any of these.

[@EDDIETRUJILLO-q8p]

Pat Moriarty was awesome in Sherlock Holmes.

[@wiseguymaybe]

David Cassidyt was NEVER a former child actor he was a teen idol. If I remember right, Man Undercover was a spinoff from the popular police drama Police Story. Somebody can correct me, but that's what I remember. The Police Story episode with David Cassidy did really well so they decided to make this story into a series of it's own, that didn't do so well.

[@kevingiven3463]

I think I'll do my own list of hated 1970's tv shows, thanks for the idea, I'll credit you as inspiration for my own show!

[@MaxPower-md1kz]

These couldn't have been half as bad as the garbage that's on tv now.

[@post1113]

Holmes & Yoyo was underrated.

[@DXKramer]

Pat Morita* There was an attempt at a reboot of 3s a Crowd. It aired in 1999 and lasted five months. Alan Thicke hosted it, and instead of wife/secretary, the pairings could vary (girlfriend/best friend, girlfriend/mother, etc).

[@fredgarv79]

I was 11 and just loved chimps, I wanted to have one dearly, I heard this series was coming out and could not wait. I loved the actor since he was in That Girl. Even as an 11 year old I was so bored, it was so bad.

[@rollandnewcomb5524]

As a teenager in the 1970's, I don't remember ANY of those 10!

[@smorgasbroad1132]

Ditto me. 🤷🏼

[@jamessatterfield7667]

Does anyone remember The Starlost with Kier Dullea ? It was a Canadian SciFi series that sadly failed in the U.S. market. I thought it was pretty darned good.

[@davekiddie4467]

Low budget Sci fi, not very memorable

[@luisreyes1963]

A Canadian Sci-fi show that was so poorly made, it's creative consultant Harlan Ellison had his name removed from the credits & used a pseudonym: Cordwainer Bird.

[@csumme7]

I remember and loved several of those. The 70s were a fast changing decade as things would come and go after just a half a season many times.

[@davidroddick91]

I remember Holmes and Yoyo. I liked it. Of course, I was just a kid, so I probably would have liked any show with an android in it. BTW, Mike Brady was played by Robert Reed, not Richard Reed.

[@DavidUrban-y3c]

I like Super Train when I was a kid because of the Train. Didn't realize how ridiculous it really was. Now the only thing that it's got for it was a catchy into theme. Heard of a few of them. Just never watched them. Have a blessed day everyone

[@johnbonardi9819]

I actually liked Holmes and Yoyo.

[@MrGolyat1]

3's a Crowd was reality trash TV before reality trash TV came along (you forgot 1.98 beauty show). I actually liked Holmes & YoYot

[@sammylane21]

The Brady Bunch Hour, reminds me of the parody by The Simpsons in BEST OF episode.

[@maryphil7]

I don't remember any of these shows. I watched alot of TV in the 70's.

[@alexanderdantonio8999]

You've given me my yt searches for today 😂

[@joshsalwen]

I remember the ads for Supertrain, but never watched.

[@staceybrooks8991]

I remember Holmes & Yo Yo. Don’t remember why!😅

[@thatguyagain2693]

Same I was only like 3 or 4 years old but when they showed the actors, I remembered that guy being a robot lol

[@walte153]

The same reason people remember kidney stones.

[@maryk.madachy2368]

David Cassidy was NOT a child star. He was, however, a teen idol.

[@jackleg2007]

Supertrain evolved to Snowpiercer! ;)

[@luisreyes1963]

Quite the coincidence, eh? 🤔

[@Lkydog8165]

I don't agree with your choice of Dusty's Trail it actually was really good BTW it's not Richard Reed it's Robert Reed who is Mike Brady in The Brady Bunch and The Brady Bunch hour variety show

[@DonBair]

Nick, forgot Manimal. Pee-YOO!

[@michaelallen9294]

Even as a 9-yo at the time, I remember being offended by the blatant laziness of reproducing exactly "Gilligan's Island" in the Old West without a shred of original thought.

[@DiecastD414]

I only remembered "Super Train", which I think the producers wanted to make a "The Love Boat" on train tracks sitcom & "Holmes & Yoyo" in which ( I think ) wanted ( the producers) to make a spin off of another "lost" '70s TV show- "Super Cop".

[@dougmorris9317]

I was born in 1961 and I remember all of these! Personally, I thought the musical numbers on The Brady Variety Hour were the only good things about the show. Did you know Fake Jan wound up marrying Mason Reese, the 70s tv commercial child star? Anyway, I liked David Cassidy Man Undercover, saw reruns of it 10 years ago on USA and it held up! 😊

[@JFAOwner]

Supertrain was NBC's attempt to mimic the Love Boat.

[@lurkerrekrul]

Supertrain - I remember this. Not really any plot details, just the show in general. It always stuck in my head because I've always loved trains, so naturally, I'd remember a show about a train. Fun fact: Shortly after the show was canceled, I started seeing ads in model railroad magazines advertising that the scale version of the train used in the show was for sale. I have no idea how much they were asking for it, but I know it wouldn't have been cheap. I wonder if anyone ever bought it, or if it got scrapped. Holmes and Yoyo - Again, I remember this, but not any of the plots. I've always loved robots, so that's why this one stands out to me.

[@juanitacamacho5395]

I never heard of any of these shows 😊

[@geoffk777]

There was a Canadian Sci-Fi show called "The Starlost" which could absolutely be on this list.

[@JL-rd5gn]

pat moriarty???? it's pat morita

[@AWeekLastTuesday]

i was born in 71, so never seen any of them, stuff I saw were repeats of Little Rascals, 3 Stooges, I dream of Jeanie, 60s Batman, BeWitched, sanford and Son, Chico and Man, Benny Hilll and Three's Company to name a few. DId watch Gillians Island, but never heard of Dusty's Trail. I also seen Hee Haw, but never heard of the followup. I think I would have liked Dusty's Trail.

[@leogeee1]

Did you say Richard Reed? It's Robert Reed. No proofreaders available?

[@nancyblizzard7295]

I can proudly say I don’t remember any of these shows. I guess I was too busy watching the actual good ones.

[@patrickcolliano]

4:55 His name is Robert Reed, not Richard Reed.

[@MisterMikeTexas]

Maybe the consolation prizes on "Three's A Crowd" were there to save the marriages?

[@ogr7771]

I graduated high school in 79 , right in the wheel house of growing up in the 70s........... I never saw any of these.

[@DonBair]

The TV must not have been your babysitter.

[@ogr7771]

Nope, not really. In Jr. High I was in sports then got home to do my Paper route, then High School I was in sports, then went to work then home ...bed time and during the summers I wored and lived the whole summers working at a Boy Scout summer camp. Bury I guess.@@DonBair

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

THREE'S A CROWD was the work of Chuck Barris, who also created THE DATING GAME, THE NEWLYWED GAME and THE GONG SHOW.

[@bridgemanjr]

Yes but they showed the spin-off of three's company with John Ritter and Robert Mandan of SOAP. Remember... the name of the segment is horrible tv shows... NOT GAME SHOWS

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

@@bridgemanjr And that spinoff actually came out in 1984!

[@leondillon8723]

6:27) It is Heave Haul. What is yelled to get the mules to pull.

[@dhenderson1810]

I pity the fool who produced "Mr T and Tina". In fact, it might have done better if it actually had the "A-Team" star in it.

[@lanceschmidt28]

Never saw any of them unless I blocked them from my memory because they were so bad.

[@westzed23]

The only one that I watched was Supertrain, but for 20 minutes. It was bad. It was a take on the huge diaster movies like Airport, Towering Inferno, Posiedon Adventure.

[@towerjunkie19]

I loved Dustys Trail and was disappointed when it was cancled. There was also a show with California beach bums. I forgot the name of it. If anybody remembers please let me know. That didn’t last long either maybe a year. The song at the beginning of the show was a catchy tune and I still remember part of it. But all the other shows that were top shows I loved.

[@germeister6917]

"The San Pedro Beach Bums"

[@jeffreycone7504]

I think it was Schools Out. That tune was catchy.

[@royallison5307]

Jaclyn Smith and Kate Jackson did a cameo appearance on the show.

[@majcorbin]

gratefully,I was spared,from these flops,while I wore,a HELMET,& carried a RIFLE,in GERMANY,1976-1979

[@rev.leonidasw.smiley6300]

The Brady Bunch Hour was way hyped!

[@robothunter1035]

"Super" always makes a show better!

[@stebaer]

Yes it's a very good follow-up of old-time TV-shows but M*A*S*H*and Happy Days were popular even if Happy Days was Silly while M*AS*H* as a TV-Series is better than the Movie that inspired it Also Me and The Chimp had a limited premise for appreciation among certain others included in this this follow-up.A another good example of this is Dusty's Trails which as a Western like version of Gilligan's Island because more realistically these people of the Wagon Train would find there destination than The Castaways would at having trouble getting off of The Island.Another Example of like this of Bob Denver being a Type cast away is as he is seen as one in Farout Space Nuts an Saturday Morning Show that was seen on Saturday Mornings on CBS-TV.

[@onknight]

I think super train was ahead of its time.. A few years ago we had Snowpiercer it was a massive hit

[@Ij-jan]

I was in my 20s in 1970 and I have not even heard of these shows.😊

[@griffruby8756]

Spinning off from Laverne and Shirley was a series based on a couple of characters occasionally seen, called Lenny and Squiggy.

[@harveyabel1500]

THAT I don't remember at all!

[@Christiane247]

As some have mentionned, the Brady patriarch was played by Robert Reed, not Richard. Just sayin'!!😎🇨🇦

[@bradley7723]

Luckily I do not recall any of those shows. 😮

[@teejaye6226]

MASH was hated....HATED in my household growing up back in the day

[@kelleyhagan960]

M A S H sucked big time !!

[@SeptemberChild1835]

Why?

[@jaengen]

It was one of those shows you either loved or hated. I too was in the 2nd group,

[@SeptemberChild1835]

@@jaengen Why?

[@steveswangler6373]

Who seriously thinks every show from any decade or era was “simply amazing”? No one thinks that.

[@MisterMikeTexas]

I believe the retro channel Antenna TV aired reruns of "The Ropers", another "Three's Company" spinoff. I watched a few episodes of that.

[@MyNameIsUnavailable]

Chimpin' Ain't Easy.

[@SweetUniverse]

Nope. My parents used the tv as a babysitter & I've never seen any of these 😅😅✌

[@antibishonen]

By the way, Three's a Crowd was remade with the host Alan Thicke, father of Robin Thicke and the star of Growing Pains.

[@cjpreach]

Great List. I spent a lot of time before the television in the 70s, and I've only ever heard of one of these bad shows.

[@MrToombstone]

As a child of the 60’s and a young man of the 70’s I was prepared to be upset about some possibly bad mouthing of some of my favorite shows. But out of the 10 I only heard of one of them and that was Holmes and Yo-yo which I kinda liked. I’m glad that none of my favorites were on this list.

[@WalterFrith]

Another stinker was 'The San Pedro Beach Bums'.