Everyone loved Lucy, and most even loved Raymond, but much of TV heaven is littered with the carcasses of shows that looked great on the drawing board but flopped miserably on the small screen. Check out this list of some memorable flops and decide how many episodes you might have watched before tuning out.

1. Supertrain

If you can find romance on The Love Boat, why not on a train? The show Supertrain was filled with reasons why not, derailing after airing on NBC from February to May 1979. Actors such as Tony Danza, Vicki Lawrence, and Joyce DeWitt hopped onboard the Supertrain to cavort in an Olympic-size swimming pool, gym, and discotheque while traveling more than 200 miles per hour.

The original million-dollar, large-scale model electric train set with cameras attached crashed during its first demonstration, but nobody at the network saw this as a bad sign. The show suffered from poor reviews and low ratings, and the high production costs combined with the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics (which cost NBC millions in ad revenue), nearly bankrupted the network.

Pairing a TV star and a chimp made for the famous TV flop Me and the Chimp.

2. Pink Lady and Jeff

Pink Lady and Jeff aired for six weeks in 1980 and made network executives see red. The show combined musical numbers by a Japanese female singing duo called Pink Lady and sketch comedy starring comedian Jeff Altman. The show was produced by Sid and Marty Krofft, famous for creating the landmark children's series H. R. Pufnstuf and The Donny and Marie Show, and special guests included Sid Caeser, Sherman Hemsley, Blondie, and Jim Varney. The girls knew very little English and had to learn their song lyrics and lines phonetically, one reason why critics said sayonara.

3. The Chevy Chase Show

Chevy Chase, one of the original cast members of Saturday Night Live, was unable to use his humorous pratfalls to save The Chevy Chase Show, a weeknight talk show that was canceled in 1993 after only five weeks and is often referred to as "The Edsel of Television." Chase later appeared in a commercial for Doritos, in which he made a humorous reference to the show.

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