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TV Shows that ended too soon

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cool_guy82

This is a list of tv shows that ended too soon and could of went on for years.

Twin Peaks (ABC, 2 Seasons)
Father Dowling Mysteries (NBC/ABC, 3 Seasons)
Mission Impossible (ABC, 2 Seasons)
Dark Angel (FOX, 2 Seasons)
V.R. 5 (FOX, 1 Season)
Young Hercules (FOX, 1 Season)
Mystic Knights (FOX, 1 Season)
The O.C. (FOX, 4 Seasons)
Tru Calling (FOX, 2 Seasons)
Point Pleasant (Fox, 1 Season)
Dark Shadows (NBC, 1 Season)
Birds Of Prey (WB, 1 Season)
Thundercats (Cartoon Network, 1 Season, even though the 1985 series was better)
What About Brian (ABC, 2 Seasons)
Touch (Fox, 2 Seasons)
The Finder (Fox, 1 season)
Toxic Crusaiders (Synd., 1 season)
Bucky O Hare (Synd., 1 Season)
Melrose Place (The CW, 1 Season)
Knight Rider (NBC, 1 Season, 2008 series)
The Young Riders (ABC, 3 Seasons)
My Two Dads (NBC, 3 Seasons)
Something So Right (NBC/ABC, 2 Seasons)
Just The Ten Of Us (ABC, 3 Seasons)
 
F Troop (ABC, 2 seasons)
The Munsters (CBS, 2 seasons)
The Addams Family (ABC, 2 seasons)
Mr. Terrific (CBS, 1 season)
Captain Nice (NBC, 1 season)
The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show (NBC, 1/3 season)

OK, I'm kidding about the last three, but the first three could easily have lasted another season or two.
 
Ninja Turtles The Next Mutation (Fox, 1 Season)
Freddy's Nightmares (Synd., 2 Seasons)
Alien Nation (Fox, 1 Season)
Earth 2 (NBC, 1 Season)
Brisco County Jr. (Fox, 1 Season)
 
WKRP in Cincinnati (CBS, 4 seasons)
Rocky & Bullwinkle (ABC, 2 seasons & NBC, 3 seasons)
 
Lateline (two partial seasons)
Cybill (four seasons with an unresolved cliff-hanger)
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (six seasons also with an unresolved cliff-hanger)
WKRP in Cincinnati
 
'The OC' had a big change when Mischa Barton left and they wrote her out by having her killed. Perhaps the show's writers wanted to do an anti-90210 where instead of main cast members just leaving off for a different city, death would be more creative way. But death of a main liked character wasn't somehow better.

They also got rid of her dad as a main cast member. By that next season, the series was no longer simple and it seemed like the show was in direction to be canceled.
 
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FredLeonard said:
Cybill (four seasons with an unresolved cliff-hanger)
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Definitely agreed!!

Hart to Hart (ABC, 4 (or 5?) seasons), had some gas in it's tank left; there were a few reunion movies, after all...
Living Single, preferably without the extra roommate at the end

Hopefully some daytime examples are welcome:

The $____ Pyramid (Dick Clark network version), could have gone on for years IMO
The Edge of Night, with Henry Slesar's writing (with red AND blue herrings!) and those classic music stingers
Another World, lots of stories still to tell, if only a certain network had left well enough alone.... :-(
 
Sports Night (ABC) Aaron Sorkin was working on this take-off of an ESPN like network at the same time West Wing started on NBC. The show was moved around a number of times and failed to gather a decent following of viewers. The dialog on Sports Night followed the same fast pace as seen in the early years of The West Wing. Robert Guillaume as the station manager, Felicity Huffman as the show's executive director, Josh Charles and Peter Krause as the two lead sports anchors and many more.
 
Someone mentioned Melrose Place from the CW. I however believed that the 1992 version of Melrose Place on Fox could have gone on longer. That was on for 7 seasons, & I believe it still had life in the show, instead of Beverly Hills 90210, which went on for 1 additional season. As for the CW version of Melrose Place, that too was good, & sort of picked up where the show left off. CW didn't give that show a chance.
 
Batman (1966 ABC Series) could've went on at least 1-2 seasons even on a different network.

Detroit 187 should've had 2-3 more seasons instead of a season.
 
The Batman series was running out of credible villains....you know it's at the bottom when Liberace is a guest villain.
 
desertv said:
The Batman series was running out of credible villains....you know it's at the bottom when Liberace is a guest villain.
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NBC was interested in picking up 'Batman' in 1968...but when someone at the network called ABC to ask, they were told that the sets had just been struck, and NBC would have to pay to have new ones built. NBC decided to drop the subject. Holy Budgetary Constraints!
 
I'm shocked nobody has mentioned Super train, Pink Lady and Jeff, The Brady Bunch Hour, My Mother the Car and Cop Rock. Just Kidding.

A few shows that I liked as a kid come to mind
Salvage One-Andy Griffith as a junk man who builds a space ship and goes to the moon to salvage left over space junk.
Holmes and Yo-Yo. A cop show featuring a robot cop
Sledge Hammer-Silly Naked Gun-type show about a bumbling cop. could have been funnier but had some funny sight gags in it.
That fox show from a couple of years ago that had the dinosaurs. Can't remember the name.
The Last Precinct (?) Another Police Squad-type show with lots of sight gags and other sillyness. Premiered after the Superbowl. Favorite bit. Someone was bumping off Elvis empersonators and their was a chalk outline of Elvis on the sidewalk complete with bell bottom pants.
 
I'll nominate Wise Guy (1987 - 90) starring Kevin Wahl who plays an undercover cop masquerading as a criminal. The plots were intricate and clever. The show is also notable for starring a young Kevin Spacey as criminal Mel Profitt. Wahl's actng career more or less sunk without a trace, unlike Spacey.

According to imdb, they reprised the show in a 1997 TV movie, but I missed it.
 
RE: Knight Rider

Which version? The original series or the reincarnated version?

IMHO the original series was great up until the 4th season. When they added SPM to KITT, it was too obvious that they simply increased the film speed playback to make it appear the car was going ultra fast. I only wonder what they could have done with CGI back in those days!

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MAD-TV could have continued on evolving much as SNL has and IIRC MAD was with new comics replacing departing ones. MAD was always much better than SNL except for the SNL filmed segments where they're about equal. Maybe this experiment in live TV should be shelved for good TV. ;)
 
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