Other than FF, what's your favorite 1-season show?
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UPDATED: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 04:11
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Great thread
I can't believe nobody's mentioned it yet (unless I missed it) but for me, to pick one 1-season show, I'd have to go with Now and Again it really was a superb show with not one bad episode. Plus to make it that more heartbreaking, it ended on a cliffhanger that now will never be resolved.
As for other series:
Dark Skies - I loved this show that was a mixture of The X Files and Forrest Gump. Another series that ended on a cliffhanger that was never to be resolved
Freaks and Geeks - This is really my favourite cancelled show, but because it didn't end on a cliffhanger I can treat it as a miniseries, and a damn good one at that. This is the only series that every single member of my family loves.
Wonderfalls - Wonderfully wacky. At least it had a conclusion.
Harsh Realm - Hugely promising. Stupid Fox however had no faith in the show and maybe the show was just a little too intelligent for the majority of braindead viewers. Didn't end on a cliffhanger, but it wasn't resolved either. It only had 9 episodes!!!
The Lone Gunmen - Not perfect, but enjoyable enough, and it got better towards the end
Miracles - Granted I've only just started watching it and have thus seen but a handful of episodes, but so far I'm very impressed
Tru Calling - not sure if this counts as it's second season was only 6 episodes. I haven't yet watched the last two or three episodes, but I kinda don't want to cos then it's really over
and last but not least
My So Called Life - my first experience with losing a show after one season. "How could they do that?" I would scream. Maybe I should pick up the dvd set
Needy. Male Companion a.k.a. First Boy Whore of Destiny
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Freaks and Geeks.
"The thing about it, the thing is: crappy as life is, as wrong, as messed up, as blatently unfair as life is, what it's got going for it is hope." --John Ridley
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My favorites are:
American Gothic
Miracles
Wonderfalls
Nowhere Man
Freaky Links
Brimstone
Strange Luck
Freaky Links
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I agree. Freaks and Geeks was great! To bad it never made it. I've started watching the Undeclared, which has some of the same actors in it, and it seems decent as well.
Another favorite 1 season show is Max Headroom. This was a show WAY before its time, and it actully made fun of the tv exects/industry on its last show when it went off the air. I wish this was out on DVD! 
My other favorite was Police Squad! (In Color). Only 6 episodes, but it was a hoot!
Jayhawk
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Originally posted by patsrule:
Good question...
Its Your move (Jason Bateman after Silver Spoons and before Valerie)
Oh yeah! I'd forgotten about that show! It was hilarious! I loved the "Dregs of Hunanity" episode! I have that show somewhere on video, if I could ever find it.
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Zoë: Shepard, isn't the Bible kind of specific about killing?
Book: Very specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzy around the area of kneecaps.
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Originally posted by Jayhawk35:
I agree. Freaks and Geeks was great! To bad it never made it. I've started watching the Undeclared, which has some of the same actors in it, and it seems decent as well.
Another favorite 1 season show is Max Headroom. This was a show WAY before its time, and it actully made fun of the tv exects/industry on its last show when it went off the air. I wish this was out on DVD!
My other favorite was Police Squad! (In Color). Only 6 episodes, but it was a hoot!
Jayhawk
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Zoë: Shepard, isn't the Bible kind of specific about killing?
Book: Very specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzy around the area of kneecaps.
I haven't seen Undeclared before but am thinking of buying the set anywa due to my great love for Freaks and Geeks
I had no idea Police Squad only had 6 episodes! That's insane. Paramount channel must run them over and over becuase whenver its shown daily, it seems to run for weeks and weeks
Needy. Male Companion a.k.a. First Boy Whore of Destiny
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yeah, only 6 episodes of Police Squad, but thankfully they turned it into a couple of good Naked Gun movies. By the time they hit the 3rd one, I think they were running out a gags.
btw, if anyone is interested in a bunch of old 80's shows, check out http://www.goldmonkey.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc? I've never bought anything from them yet, but have a bunch of old 80's tv shows on DVD for sale. I'm sure they are copied from VHS tapes, but having something would be better than nothing. I'd love to buy Police Squad and Voyagers and Max Headroom from them sometime. They also have tv shows of Automan, Beyond Westworld, Blacke's Magic, Blue Thunder, Booker, Bring 'em Back Alive, Call To Glory, Captain Power, The Charmings, Darkroom, Fresno, Hard Time on Planet Earth, High Performance, Highwayman, The Last Precinct, Legwork, A Man Called Hawke, Manimal, Masquerade, The Master, MIsfits of Science, Otherworld, Outlaws, The Phoenix, The Powers of Matthew Star, Private Eye, Q.E.D., The Quest, Renegades, Sable, Shadow Chasers, Shell Game, Something is Out There, Star Man, Street Hawke, Supercarrier, Tucker's Witch, Unsub, Werewolf, Whiz Kids, and Wizards and Warriors.
If you remember all those, you're better than me. But some of them do ring a bell, especially when you see the screen shots from the show titles.
Let me know if anyone orders something from them. It would be interesting to know what the quality really is like.
Jayhawk
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Zoë: Shepard, isn't the Bible kind of specific about killing?
Book: Very specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzy around the area of kneecaps.
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•The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
•Alien Nation
•American Gothic
•Birdland
•Brimstone
•Broken Badges
•Brooklyn South
•C-16
•Call to Glory
•The Cape
•Chopper One
•The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
•Cupid
•Dark Skies
•Earth 2
•EZ Streets
•Fantastic Journey
•The Flash
•Fortune Hunter
•Future Cop
•Gemini Man
•Gideon's Crossing
•Good vs Evil (GvE)
•Harsh Realm
•The Hat Squad
•Holmes & Yoyo
•Hooperman
•Human Target
•Kindred: The Embraced
•Kolchak: The Night Stalker
•Logan's Run
•The Magician
•Mancuso, F.B.I.
•A Man Called Sloane
•Man From Atlantis
•Mann & Machine
•The Master
•Matrix
•Max Headroom
•Max Monroe: Loose Cannon
•Mercy Point
•Misfits of Science
•My Life and Times
•The New Adventures of Beans Baxter
•Odyssey 5
•Otherworld
•Over My Dead Body
•Perversions of Science
•The Phoenix
•Police Squad!
•Planet of the Apes
•Prey
•The Prisoner
•Probe
•Profit
•Rescue 77
•Roughnecks: Starship Trooper Chronicles
•Soldier of Fortune, Inc. (2nd season w/Dennis Rodman doesn't count)
•South Beach
•Space: Above and Beyond
•Space Precinct
•Spy Game
•Stingray (w/Nick Mancuso)
•Strange Luck
•Tales of the Gold Monkey
•The Tick (animated)
•TekWar
•Three
•UFO
•Under Cover
•V
•Vengeance Unlimited
•The Visitor
•Voyagers!
•Welcome to Paradox
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My list:
vr5 (glad to see someone else remembers this one - I was SO sad - I signed the petitions and wrote letters and all that stuff lol)
TekWar
Nowhere Man
Harsh Realm
Roar
Prey
Wonderfalls (not really my kind of show, but it was just SO unfair)
Getting kind of numb to it now - with the new SciFi shows, just sort of expecting the axe will fall as soon as I really begin to care about the characters and where the story is going. Oh well.
Dark Angel is the most ironic one - I kind of liked it, actually, but Firefly was a vastly better series, and could have been the "next X-Files" FOX has been hoping for, if they had just given it a chance.
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Originally posted by imaleaf:
DEAD LIKE ME
isnt that in its 2nd season?
Good call. Dead Like Me was canceled after the second season.
As for me, definitely Eerie Indiana (the original because The Next Dimension was just dumb).
Other good ones: Run of the House
Odyessy5 (was that really just one season?)
Dead Last
http://www.simple-assault.com/Firefly.htm
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