Favorite short-lived TV series

[FilterFunk]

I saw "Sledge Hammer!" and "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr." mentioned in a couple of OT threads, and those are two of my favorite short-lived TV shows. Among the others are:

"Tenspeed and Brown Shoe," starring Ben Vereen and Jeff Goldblum

"It's Your Move," starring a young Jason Bateman

"Square Pegs," starring Sarah Jessica Parker

"Men Behaving Badly," starring Justine Bateman, Ron Eldard and Rob Schneider (for Season 1, anyway; Bateman and Eldard left the show after the first season and it went straight into the toilet)

"Millenium," starring Lance Henriksen

What are your favorite short-lived TV series?

 

[duff beer]

"The Tick"

 

[zarah825]

Arrested Development (is three seasons "short"?) !!

 

[DwaynieAD]

Prison break. I refuse to acknowledge the existence of seasons 2 & 3. so it only lasted one amazing season.

 

[nutso42]

Five posts in and no one has mentioned Firefly?

+1 on the Adventures of Brisco County Jr.

Police Squad! was good... at least we got three movies to continue it.


wow... tons of British series. The Thin Blue Line, IT Crowd...

 

[Thick McRunfast]

Firefly

Morena Baccarin -- oh my

 

[Handyman]

Here are my favorite:
Firefly
Andy Richter Controls the Universe
Carnivale

 

[elgecko]

"The Tick"

SPOON!

Arrested Development (is three seasons "short"?) !!

Also good! There's a rumor of a movie in the works.

 

[BioDriver]

Arrested Development (is three seasons "short"?) !!

HUGE +1. I'd also like to add Moral Orel to the list.

 

[yodedude2]

POLICE SQUAD! In Color.

 

[GregC]

Sports Night. Only two seasons. Aaron Sorkin scripts at their rapid-fire best, and before he got all preachy on West Wing (he let Sports Night die to work on that one ).

 

[Sequimite]

Firefly
Andy Richter Controls the Universe
Get a Life

 

[nutso42]

The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien

 

[Jim Nazium]

+1 Police Squad
+1 Firefly

Chapelle's Show
Lexx (sci-fi, circa 2000)

 

[fisticuffs]

Arrested Development (and yes it's coming back with new eps. on Netflix) and Freaks and Geeks.

 

[ShredderMaximus]

HUGE +1. I'd also like to add Moral Orel to the list.

Moral Orel, great show. Depressing ending.

I'll add the Chappelle Show.

*EDIT* Darn, Jim beat me to it.

 

[Bass_Thumper]

John from Cincinnati. They killed it just as it was starting to take off.

 

[lowfreq33]

The Misfits of Science

 

[JFOC]

+2 on brisco county

The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack

 

[Roscoe East]

Studio 50 On The Sunset Strip -- Aaron Sorkin's post-West Wing series, with Bradley Whitford and Matthew Perry. They got what, one full season out of that? When that show went off the air I officially stopped watching regularly scheduled television.