• The Worst Sitcom Ever Made

  • By: RNZ
  • Podcast

The Worst Sitcom Ever Made

By: RNZ
  • Summary

  • Geoff Houtman was part of the team that created the worst sitcom ever made. It's haunted him for 25 years. Now he's on a quest to see what lessons we can learn about failure in general.
    (C) Radio New Zealand 2024
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Episodes
  • The mess, the 25 year old monkey and me
    Mar 10 2019
    It's been a monkey on his back for 25 years. It's time to try to understand what happened to bring about such a monstrous failure.
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    2 mins
  • 'I think of it like a cult'
    Mar 12 2019
    Kiwi TV show 'Melody Rules' came out in the 90s and is widely regarded as one of worst sitcoms ever made. But just how bad was it? Geoff Houtman - one of the show's original writers - embarks on a quest to find out what went wrong.
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    25 mins
  • 'What? You want us to write a kids' show?'
    Mar 19 2019
    Geoff and some of the original writing group talk about the 'odd' way Melody Rules came to be chosen, and how micro-management from the outset set the course for sitcom-disaster.
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    25 mins

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