63-64's Worst Rated Shows: You Won't Believe Them!

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]Pakook, you appear to be in marvelous health. What's your secret? Well, every morning I drink milk from a Persian cat.

[00:00:05]Well, how do you get milk from a Persian cat? Easy. I take its saucer away.

[00:00:16]>> Hey, Big Daddy. You're kind of young to be blowing a horn in a club that caters to beatnicks. What would your mother think? Why don't you ask her? She's the one with the beard playing the drums.

[00:00:30]They say I I listen now. They say I can't hide a fly. Well, that's a lie.

[00:00:34]The last fly I swat was pretty badly bruised.

[00:00:46]Those strokes at the beginning, they were for sale kind of. That's coming up.

[00:00:51]1963, Froot Loops were the new cereal.

[00:00:54]Easy Bake Ovens and G.I. Joe's first hit the toy stores and cassette tapes were first introduced. But I'm talking about TV. The top shows of 6364 were the Beverly Hillbillies, Bonanza, and The Dick Van Dyke Show. But I'm not talking about shows that were falling over the Ottoman, just falling out of favor. Yep.

[00:01:13]This is my top 10 one-year lowrated shows of 6364. The episode count shrink as we get closer to number one. I count them down. You decide. Number 10, Grindle.

[00:01:53]Yeah. Imagine Koka and Edna plays Grindle who takes various temporary jobs and the fun begins.

[00:02:00]>> Where did you come from?

[00:02:01]>> Scranton originally.

[00:02:03]>> Who are you? What are you doing here?

[00:02:05]>> My name is Grindle. I'm from the Foster Employment Agency.

[00:02:08]>> Oh, yes. Yes, of course. Nice to meet you, Grindle. Uh, this is Jeff Blaine.

[00:02:13]He unstudies my leading man, Norman Butler. How do you do?

[00:02:17]>> Next time, knock.

[00:02:25]>> My requirements for a personal maid are very special. The person I hire must be me absolutely suited for the position.

[00:02:31]Of course. Now, tell me about yourself.

[00:02:34]Well, I cook and I sew and I think you're the best actress in the world.

[00:02:40]>> Really? And the most glamorous >> really and the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. You're hard.

[00:02:49]>> Some see it as a parody of the popular Hazel show at the time ran 32 episodes.

[00:02:54]Number nine. The greatest show on earth.

[00:02:57]>> Two new television programs of conspicuous excellence will be born on the new ABC.

[00:03:05]The greatest show on earth starring Jack Palance. Human drama against the background of the circus.

[00:03:13]>> Get inside.

[00:03:15]>> And you funny fella. I don't want to see you around here again because if I do, I'll feed your liver to those cats out there.

[00:03:24]>> Jack Palins plays the big boss of a traveling circus and it's a drama.

[00:03:28]Lasted 30 episodes. Number eight, Channing. Check out a very young Suzanne Plushette here, or as they call her, Susan Plushette.

[00:03:49]And to wind up the evening at 10 9 central time, a strong new entry.

[00:03:55]>> Hello, I'm Jason Evers. I play Professor Joe How in Channing. Henry Jones plays the role of Dean Baker.

[00:04:03]>> He made a serious charge against you, Gerald.

[00:04:06]>> About Lori, >> he claims you saw the two of you leaving your place last night.

[00:04:10]>> This is guest star Susan Plushette.

[00:04:12]>> I want to dance with you, Professor.

[00:04:14]>> Go ahead, dance with her, Professor.

[00:04:15]She's working awfully hard at getting to the head of the line.

[00:04:18]>> You shut up.

[00:04:19]>> I'm trying to help you. I'm trying to tell you that I do care.

[00:04:24]Lori, you have a very special talent for writing and for life. But real talent is giving, not wanting. Develop your talent, Lori. Don't trade on it. And look carefully at what you really want out of life.

[00:04:37]>> Words.

[00:04:39]>> Just a lot of pompous words.

[00:04:40]>> It's about the professors and students of Channing College. William Shatner was in one episode.

[00:04:46]>> I don't believe it.

[00:04:49]>> Come on, Tom. Tell her.

[00:04:52]>> You've got the wrong slant on us, Joe.

[00:04:53]>> Tell her, Tom. Under the circumstances, what do you expect? Better than this.

[00:04:58]I have to win the election.

[00:05:00]>> What is it? Your destiny?

[00:05:01]>> Bellamy started the mudslinging. I couldn't take the chance. Don't you see?

[00:05:04]>> No. Make it clear.

[00:05:05]>> It is clear. Come on, Joe. Get off your horse. We've known each other a long time. I'm the same man I was 12 years ago. I believe in what I'm doing. Look at my future. Don't condemn me for my past. Look at my plans, my platform.

[00:05:17]Look at me, Tom Ericson.

[00:05:19]>> I am.

[00:05:19]>> Well, who you for? Me or Bellamy?

[00:05:21]>> You're making it a harder choice every day. Oh, >> you're wrong, Joe. Dean Baker will understand. I'm sure of it.

[00:05:29]>> You really think so?

[00:05:30]>> Yes.

[00:05:31]>> I'll tell him what you said.

[00:05:38]>> Lasted 26 episodes. Number seven, The Travels of Jamie McFeeders. All just listen to a very young Kurt Russell.

[00:05:46]>> This town is Independence, Missouri.

[00:05:48]From here, we go by wagon train all the way to California in search of gold. I'm Jamie Mcedeers. It's 1849 and they travel from Paduca, Kentucky to California.

[00:05:58]>> The Beaver Company, that's our wagon train, left independence on June 12, 1849.

[00:06:03]>> Based on the 1959 Puler Prizewinning novel, It ran 26 episodes. Number six, Harry's Girls.

[00:07:04]Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey.

[00:07:17]Harry leads a three-girl vaudeville act.

[00:07:20]Now here their car breaks down while they're on the road.

[00:07:23]>> Harry, why are we stopping here?

[00:07:26]>> That's what I'm about to ask the car.

[00:07:29]>> Harry, what's wrong?

[00:07:31]>> How should I know? I'm in show business.

[00:07:33]>> Well, you're anything for a good imported car right now. IMPORTED FROM DETROIT.

[00:07:41]ALL RIGHT, LADIES.

[00:07:43]Get out of the car. We'll go back down to little town back there.

[00:07:47]>> Holy cow, Harry. Can't we get anywhere without a minor calamity?

[00:07:51]>> Oh, you wouldn't take a train to room.

[00:07:53]Oh, no. Get a little car. We'll have a little fun. Fun? I had more laughs during my tonsillestomy.

[00:08:01]>> All right. All right. I've been listening to you girls now for two hours. You'll be delighted to hear that my next act I'm going to work with seals. Trained seals. Male seals.

[00:08:12]The conclusion I'm working with the wrong creature.

[00:08:27]They eventually end up in Europe. Just 16 episodes. Coming up. My number two doesn't even have an IMDb page and my number one just two episodes. Hey, please share, like, and subscribe for more bad TV archaeology. Number five, Ready to go.

[00:09:15]Now the year before it was called Empire.

[00:09:33]Richard Egan plays Jim Reiggo, who owns a small southwestern ranch and runs it old school style with tense ranch scenes like this.

[00:09:42]>> Couldn't have been gone more than a few minutes when I came by. Jim, I just checked the herd a little sooner.

[00:09:47]>> They knew our routine, Frank. You can't be all over the ranch at once.

[00:09:52]>> Looks like something Geronimo might have done.

[00:09:59]Hit and run slaughter truck.

[00:10:03]>> They have to hit your breeding stock.

[00:10:05]>> They're after meat. And we wind up with the best bloodlines in the southwest fertilizing the ground.

[00:10:17]>> Rigo ran only 15 episodes. Number four, Destry, a western comedy.

[00:10:26]tree. Where will you ride tomorrow?

[00:10:30]What will your legend say?

[00:10:34]Will it recall a man on the run or a place in the sun or a drifter who passed his way?

[00:10:43]He was wild as the west. And yet they say a fight was not his game. He'd rather gamble and laugh and love when trouble came this way. He roy >> a sheriff who roams the west looking for the bad guys that framed him.

[00:11:07]>> Well, here we are.

[00:11:08]>> Destry, you got to help. I can't get it alone. Johnny said you were the one person in town I could trust.

[00:11:16]>> Did he tell you I don't want anything to do with that stuff? Tell you why? Yes.

[00:11:20]>> Then you know why I can't help you?

[00:11:21]>> I I I can't get it by myself. That gold weighs 400 lb.

[00:11:27]>> You could always take a wheelbarrow.

[00:11:28]>> Would you Would you please be serious? I need you.

[00:11:33]>> Uh-uh. Not me. And I can't be serious.

[00:11:36]Patience. Picture of you and me leading that parade.

[00:11:39]Well, so long. And thanks for letting me the room.

[00:11:44]>> Destry.

[00:11:46]You'll be back. $100,000 is no laughing matter.

[00:11:49]>> Then why am I laughing?

[00:11:52]>> Come on.

[00:11:54]>> Ran only 13 episodes. Number three, Glennice, not Peaches.

[00:11:59]>> Hold on, Buster. Now look, please take your hands off the merchandise. Besides, you're on the wrong side of the post.

[00:12:04]You got to buy a ticket if you want to dance with Peaches.

[00:12:08]>> Peaches.

[00:12:26]Glennice John plays Glennice Glennville.

[00:12:29]Now her and her husband are amateur detectives. Here she finds out that her husband used to visit dance girls.

[00:12:36]>> Oh, you have a beautiful ear. Yeah, but it's never been pointed at the right kind of girls. Now, you'd actually have to go down there and hear those girls to write the way they talk.

[00:12:44]>> How do you know?

[00:12:46]>> Oh, I I went to a diamond dance hall when I was in law school.

[00:12:49]>> You never told me this before we were married.

[00:12:53]>> Oh, you you never asked me.

[00:12:55]>> I told you all about myself before we were married.

[00:12:57]>> Oh, sure. You have nothing to hide.

[00:13:00]>> What do you mean?

[00:13:06]I'll get it. That's probably one of your girlfriends from the dance hall.

[00:13:12]>> I hope it's Peaches.

[00:13:14]She was mad for me.

[00:13:17]>> By the way, just one year later, Glennice John would star as Mrs. Banks and Mary Poppins. Glennice ran only 13 episodes. Number two, Laughs for Sale.

[00:13:31]Welcome to Laugh for Sale, the new look in comedy entertainment with tonight's guest stars, Cliff Arquette, Jackie Green, Paul Winell with Jerry Mahoney and your host, Hal March with Pete Rugalo's orchestra, and brought to you by >> ABCV, the network that brings you the Patty Duke Show, Wednesdays over most of these stations. This was a crazy game show where viewers would write comedy sketches, send them in, and see if they could sell them. Really?

[00:14:04]>> Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Hal March.

[00:14:06]Every week on ABC, you'll meet his most remarkable team of salesmen. Their product lasts.

[00:14:12]>> Come out there, fatten flies, and roll out that easy chair, and let's work off SOME OF THAT SLOT.

[00:14:18]COME ON, GET RID OF THAT BROTHER. NOW, each week on Last for Sale, a panel of well-known comedy performers will deliver brand new material written by you. Maybe >> you got to flatten out the dough. So, I give it a whack with swag.

[00:14:35]>> Chef, is it completely necessary that you treat the dough so violently?

[00:14:39]>> Oh, yes.

[00:14:40]>> Why is that?

[00:14:40]>> Because I hate pizza pie.

[00:14:44]>> Now, after the performer finishes doing the bit, the panelists will comment on the material. But this is a real real funny show.

[00:14:51]>> I hope you'll have as much fun as we do when Last for Sale comes your way every week on ABC.

[00:15:02]>> And apparently they won this award.

[00:15:04]>> That was that was a funny spot. Also, Alask for sale, I'm very proud to say, has been awarded a comedy achievement award by George Q. Lewis, director of the National Laugh Foundation, for the show's contribution to American humor and its overall encouragement of comedy writing. And for this we thank you, our audience, for your warm accepted, >> right? Branches 10 episodes. And here we are, my number one one-year wonder from 6364.

[00:15:32]100 grand.

[00:15:34]>> Greatest game show of them all, where the suspense runs as high as the prize.

[00:15:38]100 grand. This is the arena.

[00:15:42]In it, you will watch a man who claims he knows enough to win 100 grand.

[00:15:50]Sunday.

[00:15:50]>> Yes. A prime time game show. They were trying to bring back the game show genre after the 1950s game show scandals. An amateur had to prove that he knew more than everybody.

[00:16:02]>> This is the amateur William Neil. He is from Waterl, Wisconsin. He works in the shipping department of a packing company. He's a five beta kappa. William Neil claims he knows more about the Civil War than any five professional experts. And then even more than you, the entire viewing audience. If he is right, he will win $100,000.

[00:16:30]Audiences hated it. Only three episodes aired. There they are. The lowest rated shows of 1963, 1964. Which ones were good? H. There are a couple in there that seem decent. Which ones do you remember? Which ones do you think looked good? I don't know. Let me know in the comments. Also, please share and like, subscribe. Help me out. Oh, and check out my store in the comments. Also, if you like to see my worst rated shows of 1973 and see what Joan Van Arc was up to, well, I've got the list right here.

[00:17:01]Mhm.