There's a book, What Were They Thinking?: The 100 Dumbest Events In Television History by David Hofstede and Tom Bergeron, that chronicles the authors' opinions of the worst moments in (American) television history.
Anyway, I got this idea for a quiz: I'm going to give the dates and networks of numbers 11-1, skipping 6 (the quiz show scandals, which really didn't have a specific date), and let's see if you can guess what they were.
11. January 23, 1977-May 6, 1977, ABC
10. November 17, 1968, NBC
9. February 15, 2000, FOX
8. April 27, 1986, syndicated
7. September 22, 1979-September 6, 1986, ABC
5. January 5-6, 2002, CNN
4. January 20, 1961, CBS
3. September 30, 1991-present, syndicated
2. September 26, 1986, CBS
1. November 17, 1978, CBS
I say #3 is Jerry Springer
#9 is who wants to marry a millionaire
I'm lost for anything else.
Quote:I say #3 is Jerry Springer
#9 is who wants to marry a millionaire
Damn...right you are. Nice.
this is a really cool idea but I can't think of anything else.
Could 7 be battle of the network stars?
11 Brady bunch variety hour.
can we get more context? some of these things might not be "dumb" I wouldn't call the Quiz show thing "dumb". Without obviously tipping your hand, are we looking for scandals? Horrible shows? On air fuckups? big flops? Shows that were a discrace to standards?
Is #8 Al Capone's vault?
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Quote:Could 7 be battle of the network stars?
No, but a great guess. That show ran from 76 to 88...
Quote:11 Brady bunch variety hour.
Correct...how the fuck does a black man know this?
Quote:Is #8 Al Capone's vault?
Yes...you're good.
cuz if it's "dumb" why isn't Cop Rock on the list? or that time when Monday Night Football pre-empted the last 2 minutes to show some stupid gay TV movie? Or during the Election fiasco when they called the election for Gore and then Bush and then neither.
Quote:can we get more context? some of these things might not be "dumb" I wouldn't call the Quiz show thing "dumb". Without obviously tipping your hand, are we looking for scandals? Horrible shows? On air fuckups? big flops? Shows that were a discrace to standards?
I guess you could call it "TV moments/times that those responsible would rather forget".
Cop-rock was ranked much lower than it should have been...
2 must be the "Patrick Duffy isn't really dead" thing
Quote:or that time when Monday Night Football pre-empted the last 2 minutes to show some stupid gay TV movie?
um...guess
Quote:2 must be the "Patrick Duffy isn't really dead" thing
Indeed. The Dallas dream.
is 1 the heidi bowl? i'm pretty sure that was in the 70s, and thats the only 70s one in football season
Heidi Bowl is indeed one, but not #1.
i thought one would be too high for it, but i was going with the seventies...switching the guess to 10, since i'm pretty sure it was nbc now that i think about it
none of those could be the Heidi Bowl, could they? First, I thought it was on ABC. and Second, i thought it was in the mid-late 70s
Heidi Bowl was November 17, 1968, #10 on the list, as fdblingfrg correctly guessed. Unless the book is wrong, it was on NBC...but Google is telling me it's not
I'm sure the book is right. I had no idea Monday Night Football was ever on a station that wasn't ABC.