What Are the Worst Game Shows of All Time?

On Jan. 27, 1961, CBS television viewers were treated to one of the most bizarre half hours of television ever seen. On a nearly bare stage, comic superstar Jackie Gleason sat on a chair and, in a monologue, apologized for the previous week’s premiere episode of You’re in the Picture, perhaps the worst game show ever inflicted on the public.

In the series, four celebrities stuck their heads into a life-size illustration of a scene or song lyric, with each taking guesses or getting hints from Gleason, who hosted. The result wasn’t pretty, so Gleason took to the air the following week to say that the now-canceled show “laid, without a doubt, the biggest bomb … this would make the H-bomb look like a 2-inch salute.”