Creepiest tv series of all time?

[Orrex]

I'd have to go with Small Wonder, about a robot girl who lived in the closet of the boy who grew up to be not Billy Corgan.

Your thoughts?

[HopeHoops]

1. Gilligan's Island

[absyntheminded]

14. and the age old question.....

Ginger or Mary Ann?

[HopeHoops]

29. No contest. Mary Ann would be WAY better.

Although a three-way did cross my mind - with the Professor!!!

[nuxvomica]

2. My Mother the Car

Freud would've had a field day with that one.

[mucifer]

8. I tried watching that one online.

I couldn't make it through more than 5 minutes. I was curious about it. I must say it probably is the worst sit com ever.

[hifiguy]

47. Unquestionably the worst show ever.

I remember seeing it once as a kid and knew that my intelligence had just been insulted on an epic level.

[pipi_k]

3. Dark Shadows

Although my two friends and I would rush home from school each day to see Barnabas Collins...

[YankeyMCC]

4. Leave it to Beaver

[pipi_k]

12. You got a point there...

I always thought it was real weird for the Beav's mom to be cleaning the house in a nice dress, high heels, and a pearl necklace, and his dad sitting around the house in his suit and tie.

They were polite to each other.

Nothing at all like my family.

Just once I would have loved to see Ward Cleaver tell Beaver to "Pull my finger".

[Justice wanted]

61. Barbara Billingsley-Beaver's Mom explained that She ended up wearing the Heels because Tony

and Jerry (Wally and Beaver) where growing so quickly. The Pearls came about because there was a mole or wart (can't remember which) on her neck they used the pearls to hide.

[siligut]

5. Petticoat Junction

Mainly because, as a kid, I had to wonder if one of those girls pee'd in the town's water supply as she was always shown, during the opening, swimming in it.

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[WCGreen]

6. I was always hoping that this would be the show where they popped out too far as they

bounced up from the railroad water tower and I would see six wonderful, lovely, unfurled....

lady parts....

The things a ten year old yearns for....

[siligut]

7. I am sure you were not alone in your hopes

In fact, I believe that scene was specifically filmed for the purpose of creating fantasies

[Art_from_Ark]

56. Ah yes, Billie Jo, Betty Jo and Bobbie Jo

made watching the introduction that much more worthwhile

[Pat Riot]

98. probably why

Uncle Joe was a-movin' kinda slow

[Canis Mala]

100. It's a funny joke, but...

The water tower was for the train (or trains). It was at the junction afterall. It wouldn't matter if the girls went swimming in it or not. Pee would make the train smell funny, but I think they were too well brought up to do that.

[siligut]

103. The Hootersville Cannonball was a steam train!

Of course it is obvious if you look and think about it, after all, the train is shown in the old into.

And the dog is swimming with them too, I really didn't remember it that well when I posted, like you said, I thought it was funny. Thanks

[nolabear]

9. Remember My Living Doll?

Sort of like Small Wonder but with Julie Newmar as a robot woman who was kept by...I can't recall who...Bob Cummings (!) maybe? Even as a teeny tiny kid, I knew something could very possibly be being left out of the equation.

Of course I Dream of Jeannie kept the male fantasy alive, I'm sure.

On edit, it's every bit as weird as I remember.

[pipi_k]

10. Yes!

I used to watch that show...

"That does not compute..."

[Orrex]

15. Wow. Never even heard of that one before.

Now I have to hate you.


I'll still vote for Small Wonder because of the kid factor, but My Living Doll is undeniably creepy, Newmar or no Newmar.

[nolabear]

33. I forgive you.

Btw you can FB friend Tiffany Brissette, who played Vickie. Apparently she's a nurse now.

[NewJeffCT]

11. The O'Reilly Factor

[siligut]

16. The most vomitous, that's for sure

And it is hosted by a real creep.

[hay rick]

83. We have a winner.

[alphafemale]

13. Manimal!

Revel in the late 70's Cheesiosity!

[Darth_Kitten]

17. Seinfeld.

n/t

[Initech]

19. Elaborate please.

[Brother Buzz]

18. Captain Kangaroo

[Capn Sunshine]

20. Funny story about Mr. Green Jeans

my little sister was maybe three , and she thought his name was "Mr. Cream Jeans". I was five so did not understand why my dad thought this was hilarious and my mom told her not to say that ever again.....

[TheCentepedeShoes]

38. You made me

sort good Svedla out my nose

[Myrina]

112. Thanks to that show, I used to have nightmares about bears ...

... for some reason, Dancing Bear got into my head and as a 4-5 year old, I'd have screaming nightmares about 'bears' (basically people in bear costumes).

[2ndAmForComputers]

21. The Honeymooners

Threatening to beat your wife every episode is supposed to be funny?

[pipi_k]

22. Yep...

And to me it was "normal"...

as opposed to Leave It To Beaver, as I stated somewhere above.

Spousal abuse was not a stranger to my house when I was a kid. And it wasn't just threats, either.

[undeterred]

26. Its the same era as "I Love Lucy"

Manipulating your husband by wailing all the time is something an adult does?

The male female relationships in the shows of the fifties and sixties are either so sterile as to be unbelievable or they have an edge of truth that is pretty scary.

[nolabear]

27. No, but being a complete paper tiger can be.

C'mon. You stop way too soon, before the joke becomes a joke. Alice was about as afraid of Ralph as Lucy was of Charlie Brown. The humor wasn't that he ever beat her or ever would have; it was that he was a big, blustery shlub who didn't know life could be any other way and so continuously reverted to the delusion that he was Stanley Kowalski (which is funny in and of itself because Stanley was every bit as big a baby) when things didn't go his way.

Watchi this episode and don't cry. Double dog dare.

[Orrex]

30. In defense of the show, those dames were asking for it

[Bucky]

99. If I'd posted this my post would've been reported and deleted by a jury.

Cause all those bitches are haters.

[Justice wanted]

60. I know at first a lot of people can be turned off by that BUT you knew Ralph would never do it. If

anything he would anything to Alice. IF anything he was scared of Alice.


Maybe it is my Italian family background but our family yells(vents) get fustration out but nothing is truly meant.

[Drahthaardogs]

69. Being Italian-American means

you should never say something in ten words if you can say it in fifty. Also, being loud about it is great too! My German-heritage wife and her stoic family just do not understand. Their foods needs some big time help too!

[pscot]

104. Get outta my life

[Brickbat]

23. Vegetable Soup, esp. the "Outerscope" bit.

It was a PBS show that scarred many people who are now between the ages of 38 and 45.

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[UnrepentantLiberal]

24. Hee Haw

[Art_from_Ark]

57. Creepy?

Naw, it was just too dad-blasted silly.
Except for the farm girls popping out of the cornfield, of course-- Sa-LUTE!

[Bertha Venation]

81. Gloom...

Gloom, despair and agony on me
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all
Gloom, despair and agony on me

[undeterred]

25. Twin Peaks

Too dark for television.

[nolabear]

28. Oh, no...PERFECT for television! But soooo creepy!

How could I have forgotten? Especially since it was filmed near here and we used to go WADE through the Japanese tourists at the Mar T Diner for a piece of their cherry pie, which was damn fine btw. I've been in love with Snoqualmie Falls forever and even kind of like the Salish Lodge, which on the inside bears no resemblance to the one in the series but is a high end getaway.

But man, what fun it was to have such a challenging show in the midst of things that were on then.

[Orrex]

34. I love most of Twin Peaks

The entire James-goes-on-a-quest subplot can be eliminated without losing anything, as can the Ben-goes-crazy arc. But there are moments of brilliance in the series that haven't been equaled since.

Cooper's dream @ the end of episode 2 or 3 remains one of the best television sequences ever aired IMO. Great stuff.

[Dr. Strange]

31. And the answer, of course, is...

[Orrex]

32. Nonsense!

Anything with CNR in it is a pure good.

[Dr. Strange]

35. You're clearly out of control and can't be reasoned with.

Here, watch Jason of Star Command. That should settle you down.

Watch out for the attack (around 2 min 10 sec) on quadrant five* of the Star Command Academy.

*Because apparently the Academy was designed by Spinal Tap.

[BootinUp]

66. omg, I have seen this before, don't know when...don't know where, lol.

so when the commander saw "something" before he vanished, that was a pretty creepy damn scene.

[Tom Ripley]

43. This is the correct answer.

Oh man...

[deucemagnet]

72. I had COMPLETELY forgotten about that.

Then, in the last five seconds, CNR delivers his line and I'm sitting on the floor in front of a maple-encased RCA TV in my pajamas eating a bowl of cereal. Nostalgia'd hard!

[El Supremo]

36. One Step Beyond

But it was supposed to be creepy.

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[LynneSin]

37. 2012 GOP Debates

Really - I win hands down!

[Capn Sunshine]

59. FTW, Totally

why does anyone else bother?

[Tabasco_Dave]

39. Donny and Marie

There was just a little too much affection between those two siblings.

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[ScreamingMeemie]

40. Hogan's Heroes...

...ummmm...not too much to say about that.

[mucifer]

54. I totally agree.

[DefenseLawyer]

117. What was creepy about Hogan's Heroes?

Campy, yes. But creepy?

[ScreamingMeemie]

118. Where to begin? I guess I find it rather creepy that one can think

that prison camps of the Third Reich, during the Holocaust, can be funny. I guess I'll just leave it at that. What makes it creepier still, now, is that I had to explain it.

[DefenseLawyer]

119. It was a prisoner of war camp

not a concentration camp. And the Germans were idiots while the "prisoners" used their prison as a base to help defeat the Nazis. I guess if you are of the view that there can be no attempts at comedy regarding WWII because of the Holocaust (and that's a perfectly acceptable view) then it's definitely creepy. But the show itself did nothing to trivialize the Holocaust or to glorify the Nazis. Sorry you had to explain it.

[ScreamingMeemie]

120. I guess, when you lose family members to WWII, you don't find much about a POW

camp funny. The show itself was creepy.

[unionworks]

41. "Dark Shadows"

....hands down.

[Orrex]

42. I hate to be a stick in the mud, but...

I've made several honest attempts to like Dark Shadows, and I've failed every time. No matter how I try, the show still seems dull and plodding to me. It's sort of atmospheric, I suppose, but overall it leaves me kind of blah.

What am I missing?

[TreasonousBastard]

44. A vagina?

[Orrex]

46. Guilty as charged!

[nolabear]

48. *snort!*

So true. Take it from this Vagina-American.

[NYC_SKP]

96. That explains it. I, too, am "vaginally challenged"...

...never had one, prolly never will.

[csziggy]

90. You realize that the series was an afternoon soap opera?

It ran daily - they couldn't have fast moving plots - the people who watched it probably missed half the episodes so there had to be a lot of repetition to keep them updated on what was happening.

I had friends who would rush home from school to watch the wretched thing. I had other things to do with my afternoons and never could understand the draw, even though I do have the requisite body parts.

[RiffRandell]

45. X-Files and Friday the 13th.

My least favorite X-Files episodes were about the aliens, but the one with the twins--that was good. Friday the 13th was old but I always liked to see which antique was possessed--ohh the Nazi one--yuck.

[geardaddy]

49. The one creepy episode of the X-Files for me was...

the one about the incestuous family.

[nomorenomore08]

58. That one's like a really good short horror film. Genuinely disturbing.

nt

[progressoid]

64. The Peacock family! Ewwwww.

[davsand]

94. Was that the one with a family member under the bed on a mechanic's cart?

I saw that the night I found out I was pregnant with our daughter. We loved that show and watched it every week. That particular episode, however, absolutely freaked me the hell out--to the point I had to leave the room. I remember reading once that it was only aired one time because it freaked people out so bad.




Laura

[SWTORFanatic]

71. You've got to be kidding me

The alien plotline was great. At least until mid season 6 (the last great alien episodes was the two part tell all where the syndicate got wiped out by the rebel aliens). After that it was kind of blah. And especially the super soldier crap in seasons 8 and 9.

[Ter]

50. The Charmings

Anyone remember that?

[ms liberty]

75. I do! I loved that show...

It had Judy Parfitt as the Wicked Stepmother and Paul Winfield as The Mirror, IIRC. I thought it was funny. I had some of the episodes on VHS at one time...still do, if they haven't deteriorated too much!

[Pendrench]

51. Dead Like Me

I really enjoyed this show....but it was creepy.

Tim

[SecularMotion]

52. To Catch a Predator

It was a toss-up on who was creepier - Chris Hansen or the predators.

[Justice wanted]

62. YES!!! who's more creepy the "predators" -innocent until proven guilty unless on that show- or the

host.

[Zanzoobar]

87. Hanson is not creepy. He gouges the underbelly.

The content is creepy as hell. The guy is a f*cking hero, but I can't stand to watch it. Makes me sick. Everyone of the people he's exposed, even if not guilty, should be taught a lesson.

[geardaddy]

53. Fantasy Island

[miyazaki]

55. H.R. Pufnstuf n/t

[Zanzoobar]

85. +1

The guy with the talking flute in his shirt pocket. Messed up.

[Justice wanted]

63. Cheaters. Stupid show was either stage or just the lowest form of entertainment. Confronting

cheating men and woman in the middle of cheating.

[retread]

65. "Creepiest tv series of all time?"

Meet the Press.

[cliffordu]

107. DING DING DING We have a winnah!!

[RFKHumphreyObama]

67. Hey Dad...

American viewers wouldn't have heard of this show -unless it was shown on one of the US channels, which I seriously doubt but it was a very popular sitcom here in Australia in the 1980s and early 1990s and it was also screened in Southeast Asia and some European countries. The storyline was about a single father who ran an architectural business from home (with a somewhat dim-witted secretary to help him) while raising his three children and all the dilemmas that came with that. The show ran for seven years and kind of entered Australian television folklore.

Then suddenly in 2010 the actress who played the youngest daughter came forward and alleged that she had been sexually molested while on the show (she would only have been about ten at the time). It was subsequently revealed that the guy she accused of sexually molesting her was the lead actor who was portraying the single Dad (Robert Hughes). Then another member of the cast revealed that he had caught Robert Hughes acting inappropriately with another member of the cast and the actress who played the eldest daughter on the show also alleged that her on-screen Dad had inappropriately propositioned her at one point during the series. The list of allegations against the main star of the show keeps getting longer and longer and, while of course innocent until being proven guilty, I must say that the evidence against him looks pretty strong. The director of the show was confronted by at least a few members of the cast about Hughes's inappropriate behavior but basically told them to keep their mouths shut and (if I remember correctly) threatened their future careers. After initially denying he knew anything about what was going on , the director admitted that he knew about the allegations.

Thinking about the episodes in retrospect it's quite creepy because there are quite a few scenes where the youngest daughter (the actress who was being sexually molested) was sitting on her on-screen father's lap or in other affectionate father-daughter poses with the lead actor and you just know what was going on behind the scenes and how frightening and uncomfortable those scenes must have been for her and that she was too scared to do anything about it

You cannot imagine how shocking this all was to those of us of my generation who had grown up with the show. It'd kind of be the equivalent to hearing that this stuff had happened on something like the Brady Bunch in the US.

Needless to say, the series is no longer shown in synidcation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Dad..!

[Codeine]

68. Wonderpets.

Creeps me out when our four-year-old watches it.

[AngryOldDem]

78. My youngest watched that.

And I would have those damn songs bouncing around in my brain for the rest of the day.

Yecch.

[Burma Jones]

80. This is Sewriews

This show, a favorite of my youngest kid, is a tad odd.......

[underpants]

70. Unhappily Ever After

a Married with Children ripoff with a talking stuffed animal voiced by Bobcat Goldwait

[XemaSab]

73. No votes for "American Horror Story?"

That show scared the snot out of me.

[Wait Wut]

74. Got my vote.

I didn't start watching (reruns) until a couple of months ago. I'm addicted and find myself talking to the TV for the first time in my life.

[XemaSab]

84. It was the only show I've ever seen

where I was hiding my eyes and going "Oh god, why am I watching this?"

And usually my tolerance for horror is pretty high. Like I think the only other thing I've seen that provoked that reaction was teh Shinning, and that was scary as hell.

[JCMach1]

89. Just finished the series and yeah there were parts that would squeeg anyone out...

[jpak]

76. Queen For A Day

Women wold compete for prizes by telling their tales of woe.

The worst story teller "won"

and was crowned and caped "Queen For a Day"

yuck

[NYC_SKP]

92. Well now you're really gone and dated yourself (and me mine).

[HopeHoops]

77. "Love Boat"

[Burma Jones]

79. Boobahs

http://www.boohbah.tv/zone.html

[rurallib]

82. for scaring up fear out of nothing, I'd go with

Glenn Beck!

[opiate69]

86. Davey and Goliath.....

*shudders*

[Dragonbreathp9d]

88. Are You Afraid of the Dark

Its an old school nichalodeon program that actually had some VERY creepy twilight zone-esque stories

[fizzgig]

106. i loved that show

nick was so good back then

[chknltl]

91. fox news

Du-uh!

[NYC_SKP]

93. - T E L E T U B B I E S -

They're sick and scary, no SHIT!

[davsand]

95. My kid LOVED that show.

I remember being freaking sick of it. One time my husband found some website that was titled something along the lines of Teletubbies Must Die. It was nothing except animations of various spectacular ways to kill off Teletubbies. He waited until she went down for a nap and we sat and watched it for an hour laughing like hyenas.




Laura

[lapislzi]

97. The Prisoner

Ran on the BBC for 17 episodes, and was picked up by PBS in the USA (I think). It's Ground Hog Day on acid. Creepy paranoia abounding...to this day, those big tricycles creep me out.

[Frank Cannon]

102. Incredibly, CBS ran The Prisoner in "prime time" not once, but twice.

Every episode except for the "western" where McGoohan's character refuses to use a gun to take down a bully. It was deemed to controversial at the time because of the Vietnam war.

No way would a TV network--even on cable--run a show like that today. It was avant-garde even by today's standards.

[hifiguy]

109. To this day, I think "The Prisoner" is the best

dramatic series in the history of television. All of its themes continue to resonate - one could say now more deeply than ever. The penultimate scene in the final episode, with the butler at the door of Number Six's apartment in London, froze my blood the first time I saw it. Patrick McGoohan was a genius.

[Frank Cannon]

110. I agree with you.

I don't think I've ever pondered a television series more than I have that one, particularly that last episode. I rewatch the whole series every couple of years. It will just never get old.

Be seeing you.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

101. "Dead Like Me" was pretty creepy in a funny kind of way.

[AnneD]

105. What ! Now Twilight Zone...

No Night Gallery, No Outer Limits. I dared not watch it before going to sleep. The only antidote was Lawrence Welk and he was not on those nights!

[Taverner]

108. The Nightly News, any channel, any version

[Myrina]

111. Anything on TLC lately ...

"Swamp people"
"19 kids and counting"
"Toddlers and Tiaras"
"Hillbilly Handfishin'"

and the new one coming up on the Food Channel "Meat Men" (or some such insanity, inside a butcher shop)

[Orrex]

114. I'm old enough to remember when TLC was a good channel

Wait a minute--no I'm not. No one is. "TLC" has never been a good channel. The Learning Channel was terrific for a while in the early 90s, but it went to crap and then disappeared, only to be replaced by the utter and relentless stupidity of TLC.

[raccoon]

113. "Fear Factor." nt

[Johnny Rico]

115. The Brady Bunch Hour.

Beware the horror of the Brady kids doing a disco medley!

I've managed to acquire every episode in AVI format...God help me.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

116. Tales from the Crypt

I haven't seen the show for a long time but I remember a lot of the eps when I was a child. Some genuinely creepy (and gory) stuff IMHO but it was always hard to stop watching once I started watching. Outer Limits was another creepy series though most of those stories ended up being more "tragic" than really scary. Loved Twilight Zone too of course.

[quakerboy]

121. Vegitales

Its not precisely a TV series, but close enough. And it is fucked up creepy. Vegetables talking, and defying gravity? Tis the stuff of nightmares. Literally. the only thing that I know of that guarantees me to have night mares. I refuse to watch it.