Best Cancelled Series (that you can get on dvd!)
POSTED BY: adlai
UPDATED: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 05:22
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How about Greatest American Hero ('81-'83)
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or Salvage ('79)
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Farscape
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Many on the above list are faves of mine, and I'll add;
Nowhere Man
VR5
Ultraviolet (UK version)
The Omega Factor (UK BBC occult investigation show of 1970s)
Batman - the Animated Series (the new one just don't cut it)
Crusade
And perhaps the saddest, killed before the pilot even (officially) aired...
Global Frequency
"You are what you do."
Andrew Vacchs
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Anyone else here remember the show PROFIT? I think it lasted a feww weeks. It was brilliant, but I guess not too many people got it.
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"Funny and sexy. You have no idea. And you never will."
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1. Firefly
2. Now and Again
"There are many fine ways to die, and I aint' waitin' for the Alliance to choose mine." Mal
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I had forgotten about Tru Calling. I thought that was a good series, just finding its stride.
--Victory and defeat are matters of the temporary force of circumstance. Even if it seems certain that you will lose, continue. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this.--
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I think I should have added a qualifier to the beginning of the post.
Best cancelled series that I can rent on dvd from Blockbuster online (I do like heartbreak... like right now with Firefly)
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NEEDY wrote, in part:
Quote:
Lots. It seems if I get into a series that's really good, it's gonna be cancelled...
Please stay away from "House M.D." and "Medium".
"House" -- or 'Hizzie', as I call it to make my teenaged kids giggle -- is a great show with a capable cast, led by the inimitable Hugh Laurie, whom I've liked since the Blackadder series. It's also got Sela Ward (Mmmm!) and Omar Epps. Unfortunately, it's on F*x, it's good and it's not 'Reality TV'; so it's already got 2 strikes and a foul tip going against it. So, please leave it alone, NEEDY (heh-heh). Everybody else can watch, unless you are likewise walking around with a dark cloud hovering over you and a scythe in your grip, like NEEDY.
F*x have another good one right before 'Hizz-ouse', called "Bones" starring Emily Deschanel (Zooey's older sis) and some guy named Boreanaz y'all may have heard of. Emily's pretty easy on the eyes, I've gotta say. Her team reconstruct and solve crimes based on human remains. She's even got a couple of computer geeks, which I'd swear was a tribute to 'The Lone Gunmen', if I didn't know F*x to be totally unsentimental about fan favorites.
"Medium" is on NBC and stars one of my favorite actresses, Patricia Arquette (exactly how many Arquettes are there anyway?). It's based on actual cases worked by a real-life clairvoyant, with the same name as the lead character. Good husband-and-wife-with-kids subplot, too, though not as good as Zoe's and Wash's was. Sigh...
So, I guess I hijacked the thread from 'dead shows' to 'live ones that still have hopes of staving off 'The Turk' '...
Cunningly,
zoid
P.S.
From the 'Where Were You When We Needed You?' department: F*x did not show new episodes of "Bones", "House" or their other evening lineups during MLB playoffs this year, in order to avoid them getting bad ratings from being moved around, preempted and re-slotted. That's a brilliant idea! If only they'd had it back in '02, we'd still have "Firefly".
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Police Squad, which was resurrected as the Naked Gun movies
Andy Richter Controls the Universe
Brimstone
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
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