These Well Known Shows Almost Bankrupted NBC Before They Became Popular (8 Most Expensive TV Shows)

Facts Verse takes a telling look at the 8 most expensive TV shows of the '60s and '70s. In a time that was rife with socio-political change, audiences demanded shows with mores substance than previous generations that relied on low budgets and simple set designs.

Networks and producers alike took tremendous risks when dishing out shows with skyrocketing budgets that were unheard of at the time. Big cinema film franchises like Planet of the Apes took to the small screen while novel shows imitated the big-budget Hollywood films to appeal to the growing demand for series with impressive special effects and on-location shooting.

Some of these expensive long-shot investments resulted in lucrative long-running and critically acclaimed franchises. Star Trek was birthed during this experimental era and has enjoyed enduring success even today. Other shows couldn't be justified by their monstrous budgets and would see the swooping ax of network cancelation.

No better example of this sort of monumental flop is the 1970s Love Boat-esque serial drama Supertrain which was plagued with production problems from the beginning and would subsequently be remembered as one of the biggest failures in television history. It was a super-flop of such a magnitude that it almost bankrupted NBC.

Was Supertrain worth it's budget? Should Planet of the Apes have gone on for more seasons? Was the Time Tunnel worth its $500,000 budget? You be the judge with Facts Verse Presents: TV Super-flop "Supertrain" Almost Bankrupted NBC (8 Most Expensive TV Shows).
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