Harry and the Hendersons, rather like the vastly superior Star Trek in the seventies and eighties, was used as what we call schedule filler in Britain in the nineties. Basically these are mostly cheap imported, or repeated, shows to fill a television schedule, or if another station is showing a far more popular show that a broadcaster knows it can't compete with. Harry and the Hendersons seemed to crop up with monotonous regularity on BBC One in the nineties and I think there was scarcely a week where this dire sitcom didn't make an appearance.
The plot was ridiculous. An American suburban family find a yeti and invite it home to live with them. Sounds stupid, well it would have been OK if the comedy was amusing, but the fact it was as funny as food poisoning didn't help. I watched about three episodes and all the yeti seemed to do was grunt, the family made unfunny comments about their guest and the whole thing just didn't work. I'd probably say Harry and the Hendersons was the worst American sitcom ever and made worse by being shown on a loop in Britain for years on end.
The plot was ridiculous. An American suburban family find a yeti and invite it home to live with them. Sounds stupid, well it would have been OK if the comedy was amusing, but the fact it was as funny as food poisoning didn't help. I watched about three episodes and all the yeti seemed to do was grunt, the family made unfunny comments about their guest and the whole thing just didn't work. I'd probably say Harry and the Hendersons was the worst American sitcom ever and made worse by being shown on a loop in Britain for years on end.