I was surprised to find this hereI was looking it up as a joke. I, too, saw it in a consumer preference event in Northern California in the early 80's and it was such a stinker that I thought it had been created as a short film for the purposes of "punking" the unsuspecting, innocent attendees of the event. I can't believe it was actually intended to be a series, as I can't imagine that the rest of the audience graded it any higher than my friend and I did. How on earth was it ever green-lighted? Everything about it was startlingly bad, with the writing taking dubious top honors. Shockingly awful TV, even for a "summer replacement" in the 1980's. At least each of us got $50 for allowing this crapola to be burned into our retinas.
Review of The Ugily Family
