What shows got canceled before they had a chance....

[Galethorn]

More votes for...

Firefly
Keen Eddie
Futurama
Wonderfalls
The Lone Gunmen

 

[weiknarf]

Freakylinks

Bravestar

 

[Mad Hatter]

Jeez, I agree with almost everything on this list. And to the person who said Freakozoid, I'm right there with ya. I would also add Earthworm Jim (loved the theme song).

As an aside, Witchblade wasn't cancelled so much as Yancy Butler (Sara) had a drinking problem. As for Kindred: The Embraced, it depends on what you're looking for as to whether you liked it. It was enjoyable to me because I wasn't expecting it to be hardcore vampire stuff. But as with Witchblade, it was not cancelled. Mark Frankel (Julian Luna) died in a motorcycle accident, so show production stopped for the obvious reasons.

 

[danzig138]

One I didn't see mentined was Friday the 13th: The Series. Ran only 2.5 years, but it was one of my favorites at the time (and I had a huge crush on the female lead, Mikki I think)

Friday the 13: The Series was a good show until they jacked with the cast. Then it was . . . less good.

Louise Robey was a fine woman certainly. I remember when I saw a movie at about 3 in the morning in which she got naked. It was like a dream come true. . .

 

[Napftor]

Season 2 of Millennium was one of the best seasons of TV I've ever seen. Morgan and Wong took the original premise (which was in danger of getting tired) and gave it a huge shot in the arm..!

Amen, brother! There's really been nothing like it since.

*clutches Millennium dvds tightly*

Millennium, Space: A&B, and another show Morgan and Wong worked on..The Others (?)...were all cancelled prematurely. I mean, can we at least run a show called "Millennium" to the actual millennium please? Sheesh.

 

[Rackhir]

Phoenix, starring Judson Scott (Khan's second in ST II). For years, I was the only person I knew who remembered this show. People thought I imagined it until a few months ago, when a question about it appeared in the TV Guide.

Back in 85'? At my first worldcon in Atlanta, I saw a flyer for a fanzine for The Phoenix (I too remember this show). It was then that I realized that any show no matter how dumb or silly had a devoted fan base out there somewhere.

I can't believe nobody has mentioned

Police Squad!

Only lasted 6 episodes, yet still one of the funniest things ever on TV.

I also mourn the loss of Dead Like Me. Damm you Showtime! Damm You!

Odyssey 5

Another casualty from Showtime. A great little show from Manny Coto who almost managed to make the last season of Enterprise worthwhile. For those of you wondering why this and Dead Like Me got cancelled, from what I've been able to put together on the Net, they were pet projects of the previous head of programing and when the new guy came in, well you can figure it out.

Strange

Starred Richard Coyle (Jeff "I've got too many legs" from the Original Coupling) as a defrocked priest who battles demons and Cannon Black (Ian Richardson - House of Cards).

Crusade - What other TV show would have had alien porn on it? I can't imagine them ever even mentioning pornography on any Trek show, never mind "Snow White and the Seven Pak'Mra".

Quark - Ah, I loved that show back in the day.

Jack of All Trades & Brisco County Jr. - I love Bruce Campbell and Jack of All Trades had one of the BEST Theme songs ever.

I don't mourn the loss of the Tick Live action show. It just didn't work as well as the cartoon did. I think a large part of the problem was that when you spend 18 hrs a day in a form fitting neopreme suit sweating your ass off under hot studio lights, its hard to capture The Tick's love of life. He LOVES being a superhero. He LOVES fighting crime. That was absent for me in Patrick Warburton's performance, though he did a great job capturing the Tick's bafflement and confusion.

Young Indiana Jones - The parts with the child Indy were generally forgetable, but the teen Indy (starring Sean Patrick Flannery - Now on The Dead Zone) were terrific! It is coming out on DVD I think sometime before christmas. They did such a marvelous job of bringing history to life and showing the events and people who shaped our century. The episode on the trench warfare in WWI captured the horror of war better than anything I've ever seen.

 

[DarrenGMiller]

The Lone Gunmen

Man, I forgot that one. Great show. I hereby add it to my list.

DM

 

[Staffan]

Crusade - What other TV show would have had alien porn on it? I can't imagine them ever even mentioning pornography on any Trek show, never mind "Snow White and the Seven Pak'Mra".

Quark's holosuites on DS9. I especially remember that there was one episode where Quark kept trying to get a holo-image of major Kira, which she did not appreciate.

 

[Rackhir]

Quark's holosuites on DS9. I especially remember that there was one episode where Quark kept trying to get a holo-image of major Kira, which she did not appreciate.

They often suggested that "naughty" things were going on at Quarks, but did they explicity mention sex?

 

[Atridis]

Dark Angel

I think I'm the only person I know who watched Dark Angel. I thought it was just beginning to "find itself" when they kicked it to the curb.

And then I saw an episode of it, and by the end of it, we were calling it Kindred: the Embarrassed. I HATED it, and was delighted when it was cancelled.

Of course, there's just the eensiest possibility that I took myself too seriously back in the day....

I recently rented the first disc from Netflix, and it was as awful as I remembered. On the other hand, Forever Knight is just as much fun as I remember, and is a far superior show for anyone pining for Vampire: The Masquerade days gone by (although I don't nominate it for this list - I think it was done).

Witchblade

Yancy Butler was great. iirc, the show folded its tents because of her substance-abuse problems.

Aw, no one mentioned Touching Evil. It was on USA. AWESOME show.

Yeah! Jeffrey Donovon and Vera Farmiga were great together. I totally fell for Farmiga when she did UC: Undercover with Oded Fehr (kind of a mediocre show, but she was cool). I hope she catches her wave somewhere - I thought Touching Evil was it - I'd be happy to see her onscreen for an hour a week. And I think Trent Reznor did the show's music.