A Couple of Legendary TV Flops to Note

In this clip, one of three on YouTube, Jackie Gleason had tried in vain to save his disaster of a game show, You're in the Picture (1961), by issuing an on-air apology:



He made the show into a talk show format.

More about this turkey is here.


And over at Classic Television Showbiz, there are three clips from a complete episode of the legendary 1966 disaster, The Tammy Grimes Show, which was canceled by ABC after only four episodes. This episode also has the original commercials.

Both I have saved to my iPod.

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