Cancelled TV Shows That Never Provided A Proper Ending

[DToTheJ]

Sparing time to sift through this ten-page (now eleven pages with this post) thread, my submission is "ALF".

 

[urielb22]

full house, because the two-parter was a regular cliffhanger.

 

[nightfly61]

Not sure if "Voyagers!" had a grand finale either. ???

 

[bpatrick]

I was en route from Alabama back to North Carolina
the night "Lois & Clark" had its finale. They were
trying to have a baby but because of Clark's Kryptonian
origins, he was deemed to be of a different species and
thus it was biologically impossible for them to conceive
(like a dog and a cat can never mate with each other).
Lois's dad was trying to work out a way where they could
have a child, but I never found out what happened. What
did?

 

[WMC2006]

What did?

They decided to use a surrogate but couldn't afford it so they invited Batman in from Gotham City and Lois had sex with him and she carried the baby fullterm. Alfred and Aunt Harriet serve as the kid's godparents. Robin the Boy Wonder is his aunt. ;D

 

[tlyle]

It would have been good to see closure of the show "Emergency". I would be very interested to see how many current firemen became firemen because of this show. I know they did 2 later movies to do some tie up, but it still would have been neat to see what happened to the other characters. I often wonder if the characters John and Chet would have a knock down drag out fight at the station over some of Chet's antics.

 

[mleach]

The Flintstones, which ran for 6 seasons on ABC, definitely should have had a proper resolution, it had that much going for it.
ixnay

Actually the Flintstones did have a proper ending though not on TV but rather it was at the local movie theatre....thanks to the 1966 movie "The Man Called Flintstone".

I bought the DVD recently and the more I watched this more, the more I became convinced that Hanna-Barbera had planned that this movie was to be the end of the Flintstones...and it was as far as featuring baby Pebbles and Bam-Bam was concerned.

 

[jake1966]

It would have been good to see closure of the show "Emergency". I would be very interested to see how many current firemen became firemen because of this show. I know they did 2 later movies to do some tie up, but it still would have been neat to see what happened to the other characters. I often wonder if the characters John and Chet would have a knock down drag out fight at the station over some of Chet's antics.

They did have a special episode in 1978 called Greatest Rescues of Emergency, where Roy and John get promoted to Captain. Unfortunately none of the actors from Engine 51 where in it other than clips from past show.

 

[onairb]

The Flintstones, which ran for 6 seasons on ABC, definitely should have had a proper resolution, it had that much going for it.
ixnay

Actually the Flintstones did have a proper ending though not on TV but rather it was at the local movie theatre....thanks to the 1966 movie "The Man Called Flintstone".

I bought the DVD recently and the more I watched this more, the more I became convinced that Hanna-Barbera had planned that this movie was to be the end of the Flintstones...and it was as far as featuring baby Pebbles and Bam-Bam was concerned.

ABC ran a couple of 'Flintstones' TV-movies in the mid '90s-'I Yabba-Dabba Do!'(in which Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm 'really' got married(a situation shown in dream sequences in other versions of the series); and 'Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby', in which Pebbles gives birth to twins. That movie ended with a sort of 'montage' showing 'snapshots' of the Flintstones and Rubbles as the years go by, and the grandchildren grow up-the last we see of Fred, Wilma, Barney, and Betty, they are all elderly,(Fred and Barney are in wheelchairs!), all have white hair, and are shown with their GREAT-grandchildren!
These would have been the last projects where Henry Corden did Fred's voice, and thus are the last 'canonical' 'Flintstones' episodes.

 

[DToTheJ]

...the Flintstones did have a proper ending though not on TV but rather it was at the local movie theatre....thanks to the 1966 movie "The Man Called Flintstone".

I bought the DVD recently and the more I watched this more, the more I became convinced that Hanna-Barbera had planned that this movie was to be the end of the Flintstones...

Which makes me think about another series that had a rather abrupt ending: "The Sopranos."

♫ Don't stop -- ♫

 

[Corky Marlowe]

They decided to use a surrogate but couldn't afford it so they invited Batman in from Gotham City and Lois had sex with him and she carried the baby fullterm. Alfred and Aunt Harriet serve as the kid's godparents. Robin the Boy Wonder is his aunt.

And Ace and Gary are his babysitters.

 

[MikeyBos]

FYI - You do NOT contract HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) from kissing...not unless both individuals both have open sores in their mouths (EXTREMELY RARE) and exchange bodily fluids (blood) from the infected individual to the non-infected individual. And as another poster mentioned, Reed likely did not contact HIV (NOT AIDS) until later in the 70s when it was first brought to North America. My point - you can kiss someone who is HIV+ on the lips and you're not gonna "catch it"...trust me from personal experience. Thanks

They could have put Tiger the dog in the middle square-which brings to mind their cat. I think you only ever saw the girl's cat in the pilot where Tiger chases him & they knock the cake over. Which also brings to mind Robert Reed...he died of Bladder Cancer but had AIDS. With all the kissing they did on the show you'd think Florence Henderson may have contracted it. Wasn't his daughter in the episode with the itching powder?

 

[nightfly61]

Since the "quote" feature is still broken on here, re: Emergency! A friend who's a firefighter said they actually had to watch reran episodes of the show as training, I guess to see how it was done in the seventies.
I remember a couple hour or 2 hour specials...similar to "Towering Inferno".

I also wonder if Mr. Rogers had a grand finale episode?

 

[imhomerjay]

I also wonder if Mr. Rogers had a grand finale episode?

Sure--the magic trolley crashed into King Friday's castle, causing an inferno that eventually engulfed the entire land of Make Believe.

 

[gr8oldies]

The fish on the stick, Trogladytydyty, tragically lost its life and then some kid was flushed down the toilet never to be seen again

 

[azumanga]

The fish on the stick, Trogladytydyty, tragically lost its life and then some kid was flushed down the toilet never to be seen again

Actually, King Friday's pet-on-a-stick was a wren.

 

[mleach]

I also wonder if Mr. Rogers had a grand finale episode?

Sure--the magic trolley crashed into King Friday's castle, causing an inferno that eventually engulfed the entire land of Make Believe.

..........but not before Lady Elaine Fairchilde..got laid !!

 

[WMC2006]

..........but not before Lady Elaine Fairchilde..got laid !!
[/quote]

which happened when the trolley took her into the tunnel that ran between Fred's house and the Land of Make Believe.

 

[nightfly61]

I meow meow wonder if Henrietta Pussycat ended up going into heat & had kittens meow, meow!

 

[WMC2006]

She probably got involved with Bob Dog:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJTYw1yGLfA


On a sweeter note, here's Fred Roger's goodbye speech on his very last show:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcvRMHz4mb4