The WORST episodes of Great Performances

#1 - Forget-Me-Not Lane

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/12/1975

#2 - The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/8/1974

#3 - Monkey, Monkey, Bottle of Beer, How Many Monkeys Have We Here?

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/22/1974

#4 - Concertgebouw Orchestra: Rubinstein

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/16/1974

#5 - Berlin Philharmonic: Herbert von Karajan

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/13/1974

#6 - Bernstein at Tanglewood

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/25/1974

#7 - Zalmen, or The Madness of God

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/8/1975

Joseph Wiseman stars in Elie Wiesel's drama set in post-Stalinist Russia. (THEATER IN AMERICA)

#8 - The Seagull

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/29/1975

This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin (Frank Langella), an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.

#9 - Brother To Dragons

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/19/1975

#10 - A Touch of the Poet

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/24/1974

#11 - Pagliacci

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/19/1975

#12 - The School For Scandal

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/2/1975

#13 - Rules of the Game

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/30/1975

The main characters are an impulsive young woman, Silvia Gala (Joan Van Ark), the lover she exasperates (David Dukes) and her cynical, sneering spouse, Leone (John McMartin). The husband's apathetic attitude is that life is a game played by arbitrary rules, and his role is that of an unemotional observer. His philosophy is severely put to the test when his wife draws him into a duel with a nobleman who drunkenly accosted her.

#14 - Jennie - Lady Randolph Churchill: (1) Jennie Jerome

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/8/1975

#15 - Jennie - Lady Randolph Churchill: (2) Lady Randolph

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/15/1975

#16 - Jennie - Lady Randolph Churchill: (3) Recovery

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/22/1975

#17 - Jennie - Lady Randolph Churchill: (4) Triumph and Tragedy

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/29/1975

#18 - Jennie - Lady Randolph Churchill: (5) A Perfect Darling

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/5/1975

#19 - Antigone

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/13/1974

#20 - Rodgers & Hammerstein's 'Oklahoma'

Season 41 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/2013

Hugh Jackman returns in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” in time for the landmark musical’s 70th anniversary. Jackman — who recently starred in the hit film version of “Les Miserables” — can be seen again in his breakout musical role as cowpoke Curly in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!,” Friday, November 15 at 9 p.m. on THIRTEEN’s Great Performances as part of the PBS Arts Fall Festival.

#21 - Pavarotti: A Voice for the Ages

Season 41 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/2013

#22 - The Gospel at Colonus

Season 14 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/8/1985

A renowned collaboration between experimental theater director Lee Breuer and composer Bob Telson, THE GOSPEL AT COLONUS retells Sophocles' classical tragedy Oedipus at Colonus through the medium of modern gospel. This filmed version of the much-lauded 1985 Philadelphia performance traces the epic storyline of the original text, while also interweaving aspects of Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and the Christian salvific narrative. Taking up the dramatic tension and emotional turmoil of classical tragedy and infusing it with passionate, inventive performances and an electrifying gospel and soul inflected musical montage, the production also features an unforgettable cast, including Javetta Steele, Isabell Monk, Robert Earl Jones, Carl Lumbly, Clarence Fountain and the Blind Boys of Alabama (who collectively play Oedipus), and, as the Messenger (and here Pentecostal preacher), Morgan Freeman. Freeman's commanding oratory to a rapt live audience recasts classical rhetoric in an African-American gospel mode, impressively fusing Hellenistic myth and Christian parable.

#23 - Andrea Bocelli Live in Central Park

Season 39 - Episode 30 - Aired 12/2/2011

The program: La Forza del Destino Ouverture Alan Gilbert, New York Philharmonic “La donna ė mobile” (Rigoletto) Andrea Bocelli “Di quella pira” (Il Trovatore) Andrea Bocelli “Va Tosca! (Te Deum)” (Tosca) Bryn Terfel, Choir “Ave Maria ‘Ellens dritter Gesang’” Andrea Bocelli “Vicino a te s’acqueta” (Andrea Chenier) Andrea Bocelli, Ana Maria Martinez “Au fond du temple saint” (Les Pêcheurs de Perles) Andrea Bocelli, Bryn Terfel “O Soave Fanciulla” (La Bohème) Andrea Bocelli, Pretty Yende “Libiano ne’lieti calici” (La Traviata) Andrea Bocelli, Pretty Yende, Choir “Home on the Range” Bryn Terfel, Choir “En Aranjuez con tu amor” Andrea Bocelli, Nicola Benedetti (violin) “’O Sole Mio” Andrea Bocelli, Choir “Once Upon a Time in the West” Andrea Bocelli Andrea Bocelli, David Foster, Chris Botti (trumpet) “Volare” Andrea Bocelli, David Foster “The Prayer” Andrea Bocelli, Celine Dion, David Foster “New York, New York” Andrea Bocelli, Tony Bennett “Amazing Grace” Andrea Bocelli, Choir “Time to Say Goodbye” Andrea Bocelli, Ana Maria Martinez, Choir “Nessun Dorma” (Turandot) (encore) Andrea Bocelli, Choir Bocelli’s performance was the latest in a rich tradition of memorable free concerts in Central Park which, over the years, has included such notable performers as Barbra Streisand, Simon and Garfunkel, Diana Ross, Garth Brooks, Bob Marley and the Wailers, and Bon Jovi.

#24 - Hogan's Goat

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/12/1973

#25 - Enemies

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/23/1974

Maxim Gorky’s drama about social unrest in prerevolutionary Russia, performed by members of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center and directed by Ellis Rabb. With Peter Donat, Frances Sternhagen, Carrie Nye, Kate Reid, Susan Sharkey, and Mr. Rabb.