Famous TV Flops, 4-7

Our list of famous TV flops continues with a failed musical/police drama.

4. Cop Rock

Cop Rock might have done better if it was called "Rock Around the Cop," but the combination musical/police drama went down the donut hole in 1990 after only 11 episodes. Even with a theme song by Randy Newman and scripts written by Steven Bochco (creator of Hill Street Blues), Cop Rock still bombed due to scenes such as a jury singing a gospel song "He's Guilty." Bochco later redeemed himself with NYPD Blue.

5. You're in the Picture

Jackie Gleason was famous for saying "How sweet it is," but a game show he hosted called You're in the Picture wasn't so sweet at all. The first and only episode aired live on January 20, 1961, and featured celebrity contestants sticking their heads into a scene painted on plywood, and then trying to guess what the scene was by asking Gleason questions. After the disaster aired, Gleason convinced CBS to let him go on the next week and apologize to viewers under the title The Jackie Gleason Show. He did, and The Jackie Gleason Show aired for eight more weeks as a talk show before the network pulled the plug for good.

6. Me and the Chimp

Working with animals on television is always a risk, something That Girl costar Ted Bessell found out when he shared top billing with a chimpanzee. From January to May 1972, Me and the Chimp was produced by Tom Miller and Garry Marshall, who later went on to create Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley. The show centered around a family who found a chimp wandering around the neighborhood and decided to keep it hidden from their neighbors. Bessell was able to change the original working title from The Chimp and I, so at least he was the top banana.

7. Turn-On

On February 5, 1969, Turn-On, became the first show to get canceled before the premier episode had finished airing. Created by Ed Friendly and George Schlatter, producers of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, this show used a barrage of "hi-tech" media such as computer graphics, animation, signs flashing sexual innuendos, and electronically distorted, synthesized music. Guests included Tim Conway, who later did a long run on The Carol Burnett Show, but Turn-On was turned off by most everyone who tuned in.

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