5 More! Worst TV Shows [Viewer Suggestions] 

As a Welshman, I always feel like I'm automatically expected to be a fan of Gavin and Stacey... I can assure you I'm not!

Yus My Dear, a perpetual £2 plus pennies postpaid item in Network (RIP) sales. Like hundreds of others I'm sure that's the only reason I bought the DVD. Utterly terrible. Just like Arthur Mulard himself. I mean getting his This Is Your Life cancelled when it turns out none of his family wanted to be involved because he was an alcoholic domestic abuser who's first wife committed suicide after finding out he repeatedly sexually abused their daughter.

Here's a suggestion. Ninety five percent of tv in the last thirty years

Arthur Mullard gave John Travolta a run for his money😅

Cant stand James Corden constantly singing in Gavin and Stacey. Who the f acts like that?

I don't care what others may be saying, I''m enjoying these "worst" videos immensely and I thank you for them. I'm learning about shows I never knew existed and rediscovering some that I blocked out. 😆 Thanks too for including The Chair! I remember my mom laughing at it and saying it wasn't going to last and I got sad because I wanted it to as a McEnroe fan, hahaha.

Oh God! "The Chair" reminds me of another US game show. This one from Fox. "The Moment of Truth." Contestants were hooked up to a polygraph and had to answer questions truthfully to win a grand cash prize. But if they were caught lying, they lost the game. As the game went on, I remember the questions getting deeply personal (like "have you ever cheated on your spouse?" Often with their spouse sitting right beside them). In hindsight, it just felt really gross and exploitative

Keep em coming! These are great and why I subscribed.

Hi TFOOS, thank you for mentioning suggestions for forgotten TV shows, apart from Nightingales & Sapphire & Steel I've remembered another one, from 1959 The Larkins starring Peggy Mount (I wasn't born when it first aired but I watched it on Talking Pictures TV.)

Remember Mile High and was going to suggest it but beaten to the departure gate. Typical early 2000's Sky One tosh which replaced any decent acting with sex and drinking scenes

I remember hearing once that one of the worst uk tv shows or spin offs was "Don't drink the water" It was a on the buses Spin-off where Blakey retires & with his mum live aboard.

Excellent Stuart Lee reference there❤❤❤

My reaction to that description of The Chair was 'you cannot be serious!'. Oh, someone had to say it. I wouldn't have realised that snake was fake if you hadn't said. It does look convincing. As a qualified health and safety rep who does lots of risk assessments I would hope they checked all the contestants beforehand to make sure they didn't have any heart issues. Had totally forgotten Yus My dear. With good reason. Not sure Arthur Mullard's manner of speaking was really suited to acting. Don't think I've suggested: Park Ranger. 1980 ITV children's drama. Only lasted about six episodes. About a ranger in a national park on the border between England and Wales. How do you get drama from that situation? It couldn't manage it. I recall thinking everything about it was just bad. One episode still sticks in the mind though. There's a nuclear power plant on the edge of the park. Anti nuclear power protestors are protesting there. One breaks into the power plant and steals some material from inside. They go on the run in the park. Not knowing the stuff is unstable and if they're not found on time they're will be a very big explosion. It was utterly absurd.

Here's a few more suggestions: "Some girls" (BBC Three), "Coming of age," (BBC Three) "Drifters" (E4) and "Big Mood" (Channel 4). I've lumped all these in together because they are all shameless attempts to ride the coattails of era-defining shows (namely "Skins," "The Inbetweeners" and "Big Boys"). There's probably a lot more shows where the elevator-pitch was "it's [successful show] But...with girls."

I remember being excited back in 2014 to see Graham Linehan’s new show The Walshes. Being the co-creator of Father Ted and Black Books I had high hopes, but I watched the first five or so minutes and then switched it off, unbelievably bored by a total lack of anything happening and an utter dearth of humour.

Another suggestion Captain Butler, staring Craig Charles. Even Wikipedia says "There is not much of a plot in this series" when trying to describe the episodes. Looks like they broke into the local secondary school's drama department during half term and borrowed the sets and costumes. Remember it being on channel 4 late at night and not even lasting the full series before being dropped.

I’m going to answer your question by suggesting a show that I think is a good show. “Chef!”, with Sir Lenny Henry. It came stateside on PBS in the mid-90s and I only watched one or two episodes when it aired there but I did watch a lot of reruns during the 2010s and when the reruns stopped, I watched the final season on RU-vid. I find it to be hilarious.

Arthur Mullard, a truly dreadful excuse for a human being. Who in the grand scheme of things seems to have kind of got away with what he did.

Paul Merton's version of the Hancock Half Hour shows it was abysmal . The Liver birds 1996 an attempt to show how the girls are coping in the modern society but having the women as old women didn't work . All or nothing at all (1993) starred Hugh Laurie and Bob Monkhouse . Hugh Lawrie plays a conman who "fools around with other peoples money" and is blackmailed by his boss (monkhouse). It was a 6 part series shown on prime time Monday 9pm but after two episodes it was moved to the "graveyard" 11pm Saturday night and dropped after three episodes .

Anything with Leigh Francis please! How anyone can stand him and his alter ego's is beyond me

I feel like we all ought to nominate Monkey so you have to include it in one of these. 😀 I can't, though, it was great.

There was a show on TLC called Fat Chance where people would undergo a strict diet and training regime over a 3 month period in an attempt to lose weight so that their crushes would find them attractive. Seriously. And this show came out in 2016.

One that has to be included in a future episode it has to be coming of age which was on BBC3 2007 to about 2012 i think. It was a youth sitcom which was pretty terrible.

During "lock down" I remember watching fleabag as it was said to be amazing. I lasted 3 episodes before starting to realise this could be used as a new form of waterboarding!

I would recommend adding “In with the Flynns” to any list of worst TV shows. It’s a completely laugh free early 2010s BBC family sitcom with Will Mellor and that women from Catherine Tate’s show. Although you could add anything staring Will Mellor really - e.g. White Van Man.

Another shout out for There's Something About Miriam. I've given my reasons for it in previous comment sections of this series. Exploitative, tacky and just...very very bad

"The Chair" was mentioned by Robin Williams in his 2002 comedy special, along with "The Chamber", another god-awful "game show" that was in extremely poor taste!

Brian Murphy vehicle "L for Lester" in 1982. It's about a driving instructor where the learners are complete maniacs. One series of 6 episodes trying to capitalize on Murphy's popularity after the end of George and Mildred.

I have vague memories of, 'yus, my dear', but don't remember anything specific about it or even what it was about. I haven't a clue about all the other examples presented. Most were shown long after I stopped watching TV, and by the looks of some of them, with good reason.

What about "The Fairly Secret Army"???...a half arsed attempt at a sitcom, loosely based on Reggie Perrin's Uncle Jimmy, if I remember correctly...and not exactly one of Geoffrey Palmer's better roles.

John McEnroe? "You cannot be serious".

0:22 The Chair was also on the BBC. Also hosted by McEnroe.

I’ve got a game show to add, Hole in the Wall. I just had to google to check it really existed and wasn’t some kind of fever dream. The only thing I really remember is Anton du Beke in a skin tight silver catsuit and a crash helmet trying to fit himself through a weirdly shaped hole, which does sound like a nightmare induced by some kind of illegal substance, but the internet never forgets and that’s actually what it was.

The Salon. Early 2000s reality dross on channel 4 about the 'drama' of a salon.

Couple of suggestions: The Apprentice (UK and US) - Awful show about awful people competing awfully to win a shit job with an awful pompous and self-obsessed businessman. Golden balls - A game show where you needed an instruction manual the size of an encyclopaedia just to know what the fuck was supposed to be happening.

A couple of American shows for you. 'The Flying Nun' starring Sally Field ( it really has to be seen to be believed ), 'Charlie's Angels' ( with its brainless female characters, identikit plots and cartoon violence ) and 'Mystery Science Theatre 3000' in which a group of talentless people attempt painfully to ridicule old movies.

Yus my dear was a spin off from the early 70's comedy Romany Jones which starred the late James Beck of dad's army fame. YMD was originally planned in 1973 and was to star James Beck but with his death it was postponed with Mike Reid taking Becks role.

To add a modern example, what about The Wheel? What the hell is it about? It’s meant to be a vehicle for the ghastly Michael McIntyre, but he is as amusing as a half hour speech by Kier Starmer. It’s unfathomably awful, and makes you long for Larry Grayson.

I'm also a John McEnroe fan of a huge fan of his wife Patty Smyth who was a huge celebrity in the 80's and still is great !

I sadly remember that terrible remake of Reggy Perin with Martin clunes only a few years back !! Not a patch on the original ! "Mr Big" staring Peter Jones, a shocker of a sit com about a family of criminals, " Father dear father" with Patrick Cargill, a man I believe who was physically unable to laugh as I was watching this load of tripe ,and finally one with John Thaw, " Home to roost" , formulaic in every way, awful !!!!

Absolutely awful ones were Harry's On The Boat, and the indescribably bad Footballer's Wives. Along with Mile High mentioned here just beyond terrible. I remember a terrible sitcom too from around 1978 called Room Service. It only ran for one series and Matthew Kelly was in it.

The Reggie Perrin reboot with Martin Clunes was also dreadful.

we (UK) had a show like the chair where heart rate was a key factor. both wifey and me absolutely loved it but it didn't last that long, I believe.

And I could tell you a story about Adam Sinclair, actor who played the blonde air steward in Mile High. But I better not.

Say what you want but a bad episode of Miranda is still funnier then a good episode of Growing Pains, plus it doesn't have either of those smug bastards Alan Thicke or Kirk Cameron in it.

I tried watching "Gavin & Stacy" a few times it was shown here in the US and I kept waiting to see...Gavin and Stacy. I saw episodes that seemed to be about everybody else with the titular couple bookended at the open and close of the episodes I watched. I gave up after trying twice.

I actually like Up The Elephant. I think it's reputation is tarnished because a lot of people don't like Jim Davidson, but it's no better or worse than most also ran sitcoms

One show that I don't understand the love for is Rab C Nesbitt. It went on for absolutely ages and I really couldn't understand the scottish accents or bizarre plots. Seeing Rab, the crazy drunken lunatic main character, in that grim stringy vest, is enough to put me off my food. Seeing him drunk and talking waffle every episode wears thin quickly Oddly enough the more derided The Baldy Man, Gregor Fisher's interpretation of Mr Bean, is worth checking out

I really can't watch anything with Arthur Mullard in after what his daughter said about him and people who personally knew him said they believed her

Correct me if im wrong,but im sure this made an appearance on the BBC?...not for long though thankfully.(The Chair) Touchdown Television in association with BBC for BBC One, 31 August to 9 November 2002 (10 episodes in 1 series) ...Yeah thank you Google!!!

If only they ported "Cabin Fever" to TV. It worked great on the radio and would, with the right cast and settings work well on TV.

My god. I forgot about Mile High. Trying to cash in on the formula of Dream Team - which was also terrible, but sometimes so bad it was enjoyable.

I never saw The Fall & Rise Of Reginald Perrin so I also never saw The Legacy of RP. But its too bad that the late great Geoffrey Palmer was on it, he of course is known for the 1992-2005 As Time Goes By, which AFAIK is liked by a lot of people. It's still being played on my local PBS channel to this day. Also, Palmer did a "One Season Wonder" called The Savages in 2001. Meh, it was OK!

I am probably going to get a great deal of hate for this one... While I have laughed at a few episodes, I am sorry but I dont get FRIENDS... I have never seen the appeal of it... (Though I did have a bit of a crush on Lisa Kudrow...) - Just never liked it! ER - Dear bloody god how long did that show last??? JESUS! I personally preferred the early years of Casualty! ER just bored me to tears!!! And then we also got GREYS ANATOMY - ER 2.01... 1970's General Hospital with a bigger budget and better effects... But teh same tired worn out stories!!! And Finally, a Guilty Pleasure of mine... but even I look back and think OH DEAR GOD WHY??? From teh Seven Network of Australia... NO! Not HOME AND AWAY... I actually did unironically like that! Nope... It is the NON SENSICAL "Murdered Twin comes back from the dead after having plastic Surgery" Mem itself... SONS AND DAUGHTERS! I mean, I can sort of understand how I ended up watching it... Here in the UK it was On TV when I got home from school before the CITV channel started at 4pm... And there was bugger all else on unless you liked Snooker... So I woudl sit and watch it, and got quite hooked on it... But DEAR GOD IT WAS AWFUL! It made PRISONER CELL BLOCK H look like Shakespeare!!!! 9Christ, Prisoner had Sturdier Sets!!! And that's saying something!)

What about A Touch of Spice from BBC1 in the 80s, a comedy with no humour, no story, just 2 woman, who just bable on 😂 sound familiar

Likes - Fast forward (Seven network Australia) , The Tripods BBC. Dislikes - The big bang theory (garbage) , Friends... Yawn..

Mile High is the only one I am familar with on ths list as it was on BBC America whern BBC America actually showed BBC shows. I watched it as I like British televison as a whole. It was typical of the "Lads" shows that flooded the ariways on both sides of ther Pond.

The Joy of Txt, A BBC media studies graduate comes up with an Alan Partridge style pun title and some idiot green lights it for an actual show! Hosted by Ulrika Jonson and Terry Alderton. Highlights included asking the members of Hearsay if they text each other… The Michale Parkinson quiz show. Can’t remember the name but it was the BBC’s answer to WWTBAM. The prize wasn’t a million pounds, it was a fully paid year off work! 🤦‍♂️ when they realised this was a bit shit, they changed it to two years 😂 Co hosted by the awful Katy Hill who went around the audience asking them how much money they earned…truly dreadful Davina McCall’s chat show….’Please welcome my first guests, Vernon Kay and Tess Daly!’ 🤦‍♂️ Richard Whiteley’s chat show…the gimmick being he didn’t know who the guests would be….they had Patsy Palmer on. Cue embarrassing ten minutes as he struggled to ask her anything as he had literally no clue who she was! ‘Follow your dreams’ not sure of this was the correct title but it was a morally reprehensible BBC show that was similar to Channel 4’s ‘Faking it’ The idea was to get people who’d given up on a dream to pursue a normal career and ‘reset’ so they would have a second chance. They actually made these people SELL THEIR HOMES AND POSSESSIONS and give up their jobs to ‘follow their dream’. They had them stand naked on a plinth in the garden of Television Centre with nothing but a small suitcase to signify how they’d be back to starting with nothing. The people involved in this show should be ashamed of themselves. It was on at 10.30 on a Monday which is where they put shows they have no faith in and hope no one will notice.

Yus my dear is a funny show. Wish they made more series.

Here are some more terrible shows for your consideration... Lost in Space - the most recent one with the fantastic robot and terrible everything else. The 100 - a science fiction programme aimed at brain donors. The Brittas Empire - I can't believe you haven't covered this drivel yet. Doctor Who - the Thirteenth Doctor's run, in fact anything written by Chris Chibnall for this programme. Velma - everything about this plane wreck of a programme is bad.

How about "Chickens" written by 2 of the lads from Inbetweeners. Obviously the success of Inbetweeners went to their heads and they thought they could write something funny themselves. They were very, very wrong.

i know a lot of people love gavin and stacy but i could not stand it

Another mention of the awful Bonkers which starred Liza Tarbuck whuch was on ITV from 2007

There was a BBC version of The Chair

I was never a fan of Arthur Mullard, he played only one unfunny stereotypical Cockney character in his entire acting career, which was himself. He also had a very dark past as far as his wife and daughter are concerned if the allegations against him were true, and I have no reason to believe they were not as his daughter maintained her allegations against him for the rest of her life.

Arthur C Mullard's Mysterious "Comedy"; 'Yus My Dear'. It was bloody awful. It was almost as bad as "Sorry!". This is why I avoid British Comedy Shows as a rule.

I've never met James Corden and never had to work for/alongside him. If you have and it's true that he's a smarmy brat, you have my sympathies. However, ignoring the showbiz gossip and judging the show purely by what's on the screen, "Gavin & Stacey" is tremendous. Also, even if James Corden is a nobber, he's not killed or molested anybody. The way some people carry on about the chap, you'd think he'd held their parents at gunpoint and forced them to watch him eat the family pets.

The funniest bit is you trying to say people's user name

I did give Gavin and Stacey the benefit as my wife was/is a fan and I can honestly say I haven't fully recovered from the only two episodes I sat through. What a pile of depressing, unfunny crap. I've always said there is something to be said about a dictatorship and I'd ban this from ever being shown amongst all the other crap over the last two decades.

how the hell did terry and june keep getting re comissioned i will never know!

My nominations: Baby Bob Noel’s House Party Bo Selecta Whoops! Armageddon Unhappily Ever After

Joey was not alone one of the worst spin-offs of all time, it was one of the worst shows of all time. It only lasted for a series and a half. Not even Matt Le Blanc could save this monstrosity.

I don't think I have watched an episode of Gavin and Stacey but I can't say I'll make an effort to do so purely because the arrogant James Corden is in it.

Was Yus My Dear a Holiday On The Busses spin-off?

I would like to make this video's creators and viewers aware of things about Arthur Mullard which might make them rethink Yus My Dear's inclusion. Mullard was a National Front supporter and his own son told This Is Your Life producers not to feature him on the programme. Mullard's wife suffered horrific physical abuse and mental breakdowns resulting from it, spending much of her life in hospital. He also sexually abused his daughter and I think for the reasons I've just cited TV companies won't show his work now.

Slinger’s Day - absolute garbage

Sorry but that guy who suggested the royal family (thank God you didn't choose it) should be banned from your channel for life, it's one of the funniest and most realistic sitcoms ever, we've all sat there moaning and passing comments about the telly

Code. Sets my teeth on edge so I’ve never been a fan of Gavin and Stacy!

Omg so im not the only one who hates Gavin and Stacy. Never understood the hype.

I tried ...to watch legacy on RU-vid while its better than anything on BBC now. Still bad compared to the original

5:39 how can anyone think Gavin and Stacey is RUBBISH! Davepoole9520 obviously wouldn’t know a decent comedy if it walked up and slapped him in the face

You've probably already covered it but "The High Life" a comedy about air stewards was absolutely horrendous. It was like watching something you were allergic too, like your body and brain were rejecting it.

Well. me and wifey really liked Not Going Out. The other 2 though, I couldn't agree with him more. How anyone ever enjoyed these I will never know.

A couple I recommend include Game shakers which was standard dan Schneider fetishism but on the decline. A pair of school girls creat a video game and immediately become multimillionaires. They buy a large building in New York and fill it with all their game ideas. Yep. This was a real show. Space 1999. This show is as bad as ufo was great and that’s very. It was dry, dull and witless. The acting was as as wooden as the earlier puppets. And the whole thing seems to have been filmed through a smudged lens

The worst CH4 comedy of all time has got to go to the awful Dream Stuffing from 1984. It was the most unfunny sitcom about two women living together in a council flat. It had all your usual sterotypes and diverse characters which beggar belief. Only last one series and that just tells you everything you need to know about this lame comedy from the 1980's.

‘Filthy rich and catflap’ was desperately unfunny, the TV version of a trepaning. See also ‘Albion market’, a pile of horse shite that made me actually feel sick when it’s theme came on.

Hi honey I’m home - a 50s sitcom in the 90s real world

Anything with the cowardly James Cordon is up for grabs. Did he ever do anything for Sky? Everyone is shit with a Sky show! Also,what was that show he was in on Channel 4 where he was in a band and they used a song by the band A? I also agree with The Royal Family, Not Going Out and Having and Stacym

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Glam Metal Detectives! Absolute rubbish, but I loved it.

Never heard of the Chair, but it sounds and looks utter shit.

Gavin and Stacey is without a doubt the most overrated comedy show in television history it's a pile of steaming stinking unfunny shite...💩

Can I nominate Truckers from 2013 shown on BBC one. Boring and uninspiring drama following a group of truck drivers and their families. Lacked in any form of direction which a map would have helped with and the map would have had more depth than the script which obviously fell from the back of a Lorry

As time goes by!! A fucking boring sitcom with judi dench and Geoffrey palmer it seemed to be on for years!

Come back Mrs Noah, mollie sugden in space

What a negative and pointless exercise.We all have our own tastes.I cannot bear many programmes but I respect others opinions and simply dont watch them.

Filthy Rich and Catflap

I will agree with Gavin and Stacey, utter garbage, and really not funny.

Gavin and Stacey had it's moments, but it was unique in that every single main character was deeply dislikeable. I assume this was a deliberate "experiment", given that all the characters are named after British serial killers.

I'm sorry but can we stop with these viewers suggestion videos now. Every tv show ever made is hated by lots of people. If your gonna mention every show sumone hates we will be here for ever watching these. This is not why i subscribed to your otherewise excellent channel. This is not room 101. Lets get back to what we all like not what we all hate.