Similar short-cut series?

POSTED BY: Crowley
UPDATED: Sunday, June 19, 2005 14:46
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CROWLEY

Sunday, July 25, 2004 10:53 PM

I was wondering what other series you people think are similar to Firefly in that they were great and then network executives pulled the plug for some reason or another. I'll list some I can think of. I thought of giving a brief description and thoughts on each show but frankly there isn't much that hasn't been already said somewhere on the internet. Try IMDB. Anyway, here are shows I have personally seen that were cancelled in the middle of everything and I can heartily recommend:

The Prisoner
Twin Peaks
Brimstone
Total Recall 2070
Odyssey 5
Sleepwalkers
Nowhere Man
Crusade

And I know someone will say Wonderfalls. Never seen it myself.

FILMCRITIC3000

Sunday, July 25, 2004 11:04 PM

Nothing Sacred
Cracker (1997 ABC version; damn shame Pastorelli died)
Spy Game
Brimstone
Freaks & Geeks
Futurama
Angel
The Invisible Man (2000 version)
That '80s Show (hey, I liked it more than That '70s Show...two words: Chyler Leigh)

And dozens of others whose names escape me now. I have "Wonderfalls" on TiVo; what I've seen is awesome..I'm nervous of watching them all, knowing that I'll have to wait until December for the DVD release, but I'm making progress.

FilmCritic3000

ECGORDON

Sunday, July 25, 2004 11:18 PM

American Gothic
Dark Skies
Prey
Roar
Clerks, the Animated Series
The Critic
That's My Bush

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

THEREALME

Sunday, July 25, 2004 11:31 PM

I like "Dark Angel"

The Real Me

SOUPCATCHER

Sunday, July 25, 2004 11:43 PM

I gotta second That's My Bush. That show had me rolling.

Usually there is one show a year that I think shows tremendous promise but never makes it but every so often I get the double whammy. One year I was really starting to like "Kindred the Embraced" and "Profit". Then they both got yanked. Kinda soured me on TV for a while (especially after the actor who played the head vampire in Kindred went home to England and got killed in a car accident - I always thought the network executives got some karma from that one). Then I saw two other shows, "Firefly" and "John Doe". ... ... I think we remember the rest.

editted to add: On a side note, one of the characters from Kindred went on to have a role on Angel as Virginia Bryce. And it was interesting that a show about vampires got canned one year before Buffy got started. Also, in Profit, the main character slept in a box naked. The opening credits for Firefly with the River in a box scene reminded me of that.

I shaved off my beard for you, devil woman!

DANFAN

Monday, July 26, 2004 12:18 AM

i give huge "I'm with ya" on Brimstone. I thought that show was extraordinary. I keep hoping that they will relase a boxed set of that show. Unfortunately, not only was it cult status... it was SMALL cult status. I fear that there will never be a boxed set release for it...

ECGORDON

Monday, July 26, 2004 12:27 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SoupCatcher:
I gotta second That's My Bush. That show had me rolling.

My only criticism of that show is I think they portrayed Bush as more intelligent than he really is.

PS: I forgot about VR5.

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

ARODIN

Monday, July 26, 2004 3:27 AM

Another nod to Dark Angel -- not nearly as good as Firefly, but it had its moments and got sacked by the same gorram network as Firefly.

One of my favorite failures is Earth 2, lasted about as long as Firefly. I wish someone would try again with the premise of a crew of folks colonizing a new world.

ARCPLAYER

Monday, July 26, 2004 3:47 AM

Brimstone
The Tick (cartoon and live action)
Strange Luck
Wolf Lake

One of the best Brimstone escapee's was Our Jubal Early playing a Carthaginian warrior.
The (cartoon) Tick was inspired lunacy. I loved the Dustin Hoffman-rainman inspired Sewer Urchin. Who can forget the Chamelian, "Can't....do.....Plaid!"

The first three picks are Fox victims.

CROWLEY

Monday, July 26, 2004 5:22 AM

I knew I'd forget some. Futurama, Earth 2 and American Gothic are definitely on my list too. One that hasn't been mentioned yet would be Chris Carter's Harsh Realm. That has one of my favourite scenes ever. Going from memory:

Some techie guy: "A retina scanner with a volfram-steel lock. We'll never get through this."
Pinocchio: "Oh really?" -Knocks on the door and when a soldier comes to open it Pinocchio knocks him down and goes in.

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