The Worst TV Shows from 1978

Here is our list of the ten worst TV shows which first aired in 1978. Let us know what you think in the comments!

First Aired: 02 January, 1978

Blake’s 7 is a TV series starring Michael Keating, Paul Darrow, and Peter Tuddenham. A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.

First Aired: 16 April, 1978

Holocaust is a TV mini-series starring Joseph Bottoms, Tovah Feldshuh, and Rosemary Harris. The saga of a Jewish family’s struggle to survive the horror of Nazi Germany’s systematic marginalization and extermination of their…

First Aired: 18 September, 1978

WKRP in Cincinnati is a TV series starring Gary Sandy, Gordon Jump, and Loni Anderson. The misadventures of the staff of a struggling Top 40 rock radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio.

First Aired: 09 September, 1978

The All-New Popeye Hour is a TV series starring Marilyn Schreffler, Jack Mercer, and Hal Smith. The new adventures of Popeye the Sailor Man and his friends.

First Aired: 12 September, 1978

Taxi is a TV series starring Judd Hirsch, Jeff Conaway, and Danny DeVito. The staff of a New York City taxicab company go about their job while they dream of greater things.

First Aired: 13 July, 1978

Top Gear is a TV series starring Tiff Needell, Jeremy Clarkson, and Quentin Willson. Quentin, Tiff, Vicki and others look at all things car-related.

First Aired: 14 September, 1978

Mork & Mindy is a TV series starring Robin Williams, Pam Dawber, and Ralph James. A wacky alien comes to Earth to study its residents and the life of the human woman he boards with is never the same.

First Aired: 17 September, 1978

Battlestar Galactica is a TV series starring Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch, and Dirk Benedict. After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet on a desperate…

First Aired: 03 November, 1978

Diff’rent Strokes is a TV series starring Gary Coleman, Todd Bridges, and Conrad Bain. The misadventures of a wealthy Manhattan family who adopted the children of their late African American housekeeper from Harlem.

First Aired: 02 April, 1978

Dallas is a TV series starring Larry Hagman, Ken Kercheval, and Patrick Duffy. J.R. Ewing, a Texas oil baron, uses manipulation and blackmail to achieve his ambitions, both business and personal. He often comes into conflict with…