Ten most insane TV shows ever?

19 May 2007 Rob Buckley US TV 6 Comments

Some enterprising people have put together a list of the 10 most insane (US) TV shows in history. They are

  1. Manimal
  2. Alf
  3. Mr. Ed
  4. Cop Rock
  5. Out of This World
  6. Dinosaurs
  7. Mork and Mindy
  8. Small Wonder
  9. Herman’s Head
  10. Homeboys in Outer Space

Confession: The only one of those I haven’t seen is Homeboys in Outer Space; apparently, the acquisitions teams for British TV channels have some standards, just very, very low ones.

But you’ll notice that all 10 are US shows. Anyone want to nominate some British shows or even some shows from farther afield?

How about the follow-up to Treasure Hunt, Interceptor, in which various contestants ran around the countryside chased by a muscle shirt-clad man in a cape who’s armed with a laser? I’m sure Robert Popper would like to nominate Gyles Brandreth-hosted melding of talent show and game show, Star Quality, in which lucky winners got to demonstrate their ‘talent’. And if Cop Rock gets into the US list, then surely The Ritz and The Continental, delightful tales of gangsters who sing the songs of Cole Porter, need to be in there? Then there was the A Stab in the Dark debacle on Channel 4, Touch the Truck and the forthcoming “Wank Week” to look forward to. Such a potentially long list…

Over to you, then, my friends. Any nominations?

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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