Favorite short-lived TV series

[MAJOR METAL]

Alien Nation.

 

[bluesblaster]

The Good Guys

 

[Atoz]

The Good Guys

Was that Bob Denver's show after Gilligan's Island? It was about an ice cream shop or something.


Police Squad
UFO (Predecessor to Space:1999, but WAY better)
The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret

 

[Passinwind]

Night Music

 

[LiamCohl]

Caprica. Just starting to get good when they cut it.

Too bad it is so rare for a good sci fi show to make it far enough in for the plot to really be allowed to develop

 

[Duke21]

Fawlty Towers!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawlty_Towers

 

[JacoLesFlea]

Veronica Mars

 

[JimK]

The Good Guys

Was that Bob Denver's show after Gilligan's Island? It was about an ice cream shop or something.

Yeah...I was trying to remember (or forget?) that one.
IIRC, it was a shop on a pier?
For awhile, I thought it was Denver & Alan Hale, Jr...just looked-
The 2nd banana is Herb Edelman.
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[JimK]

After the Animal House success...TV tried its luck with Delta House
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_House

Some of the personnel from the movie were in this show...did not translate to TV...at all!

 

[JimK]

Richland-
Here's a couple up your alley-

Mr. Terrific
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Captain Nice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Nice

 

[mongo2]

I liked Flash Forward.

 

[jamis]

The Good Guys

+1

 

[Atoz]

After the Animal House success...TV tried its luck with Delta House
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_House

Some of the personnel from the movie were in this show...did not translate to TV...at all!

I vaguely remember this one. IIRC, neither the original Otter nor Bluto were in it, so it was kind of doomed from the start. The only scene I can remember is when some guy named Blotto (Bluto's brother maybe?) punched a tree and knocked it over.

 

[burk48237]

Arrested Development

Happy Town w/ Sam Neil and Lauren German, a pretty intelligent show with lots of plot twists.

Firefly

Life on Mars, really underrated.


Jericho, jumped the shark by getting way to political in season two, season one was excellent.

Terminator, the Sara Connor Chronicles suffered from the Malady a lot of CW series suffer from, a series featuring a hot chick doesn't do well on Fri nights when most young men w/ hormones are out chasing hot chicks. This is the reason Nikita is struggling and Hellcats got canceled. Only losers like me are home to watch them.

 

[i_got_a_mohawk]

I loved Life on Mars (well, the UK version, haven't seen the US adaptation). And while it was relatively short, I think it ran it's course well.

I'd rather see something have a good run instead of being run into the ground

 

[Handyman]

I loved Life on Mars (well, the UK version, haven't seen the US adaptation). And while it was relatively short, I think it ran it's course well.

I'd rather see something have a good run instead of being run into the ground

Ashes to Ashes did a pretty good job of wrapping up all the loose ends in the Life on Mars world, too. It also gave us another three great seasons of Gene Hunt.

The US adaptation was not worth watching.

 

[Richland123]

Richland-
Here's a couple up your alley-

Mr. Terrific
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Captain Nice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Nice

Thanks. You are right. I forgot about those two shows.

How about

The Flash (not the cartoon) - it ran for 1 season and 22 episodes in 1990

The Mighty Heroes cartoon - it ran for 1 season for 21 episodes

Nanny And The Professor

The Ghost And Mrs. Muir

Drew Carey's Green Screen Show - 12 episodes

Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - 1 season and 40 episodes

 

[FilterFunk]

I almost forgot about "The Greatest American Hero" starring William Katt and Robert Culp. It lasted 3 seasons, but I'd still call it short-lived.

 

[turbo chicken]

Freaks and Geeks

 

[Joey3313]

Clone High
Undergrads
Undeclared
Freaks and Geeks
Greg the Bunny


But mostly just Clone high.