Did we start with bad TV shows?

[Neon Noodle]

It seems to me lately that the choice of watching "bad" features is not limited to the silver screen - but what were our origins?

Aside from the classics of the Three Stooges and Our Gang, I vividly remember some pseudo-sci fi shows from the 80's that seemed to be created for the elite badmovies.org members. Among them, this partial list:

AUTOMAN
WHIZ KIDZ
MISFITS OF SCIENCE (Courtney Cox, back in the day!)
MAX HEADROOM

any others?

[illcos]

'misfits of science' - good one.

how about::

'manimal'
'my secret identity'
'small wonder'

+

the original 'in search of' with leonard nimoy and it's hilarious soundtrack that rivals the soundtrack of 'zombie holocaust'.

[raj]

Logan's Run went from the big screen to a poor imitation tv series.
The Hulk.
Supertrain
The Greatest American Hero
(I think those last two titles are correct)

The Bowery Boys -- way before my time, but they used to show those movies Saturday afternoons.  Usually more mystery than horror/sci-fi.

[Fearless Freep]

"Wizards And Warriors"

[Feathertop]

HELLO LARRY was an UNBELIEVABLY bad program. As were MAGRUDER AND LOUD, BEST OF THE WEST and Alex Trebek's incomprehensible gameshow from the 1970's THE WIZARD OF ODDS.

[JohnL]

Street Hawk
Beyond Westworld
Project UFO
Future Cop

Space Academy (kids)
Jason of Star Command (kids)
Mysterious Island (kids)

[spikesangel]

Buck Rogers!
Phoenix!
and my personal favorite, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA!

ooh, and let's not forget Manimal

[illcos]

oh man - i think i remember that (and liked it).  was that animated?

[Vermin Boy]

What about public access stuff? You gotta figure there are some fantastically bad shows to be mined there. Up here in New England, we have a guy who does infomercials on Sunday mornings called Dollar Bill, who owns a dollar store in New Hampshire. For the entire show, he just walks around his store (wearing an umbrella hat with dollar bills hanging off it) and rants NON-STOP about his merchandise. I'm honestly not sure how he breathes-- he sounds like the Micro Machines guy, only more frantic.

[Flangepart]

Comedy Central has a show called "Access America", hosted by ...ah, alzhimers!...the guy played the sports caster judge in "best of show". Yeah,That guy. Man , we got some weirdeies here on our Publick access....maby time to bring that show back!