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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Good question...
Some good ones that I liked:
Line of Fire
The Fugitive (the modern one with Tim Daly)
John Doe
Its Your move (Jason Bateman after Silver Spoons and before Valerie)
Wolf Lake
Push, Nevada
Kingdom Hospital
Wonderfalls
My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss
Hawaii
The Contender (although it looks like this may come back to ESPN)
Eyes
The Inside
Murder in Small Town X
If I had to pick a favorite, I guess I'd go with the Fugitive.
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I was wondering when someone would mention UltraViolet. Brilliant. Absolutely Brilliant.
John Doe
Wonderfalls
SAAB
American Gothic
Brimstone - I'd almost forgotten that - another great show.
"This movie may be a beautiful butterfly, but I loved that damn caterpillar." Joss Whedon.
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Originally posted by patsrule:
Good question...
Murder in Small Town X
Speaking of reality shows that died because of 9/11 (well, I'm not sure if it's actually the reason MiSTX didn't continue, I just know the first winner died there), there was another show called Lost, before the current one, in 2001. It was a reality show where basically the concept was they dropped the contestants almost literally in the middle of nowhere somewhere in the world, with no instructions about which direction to walk, just a satellite phone for emergencies and some other junk... the first tasks was figuring out what country they were in, and the first team to get to the Statue of Liberty (I think) in the US won. It only aired a couple episodes, then 9/11 hit, and then it never aired again as far as I could tell, but I always thought it was a pretty cool concept and I would have liked to have given it a chance.
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That version of Lost still gets shown on the Reality Channel (250 on DirecTV). It was pretty good. It was kind of like Trading Mommies on Fox, in that they were two episode reality shows, then new people would race in every other episode. The reality channel also featured up-to-date interviews with several contestants and what they thought of the show and how it was a shame that the show got canceled in the wake of 9/11.
Murder in Small Town X got terrible ratings, so it wouldn't have come back regardless, but I enjoyed it. Of course I was sad about 9/11 anyways, but it was very disturbing to know the winner lost his life as a firefighter in the towers that day.
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you nailed it. thanks.
Oliver Bean was only on one season right? i liked that show... when i had time to watch it.
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Hope somebody remembers this one and knows the name. Around 1990 there was a show about some goofy guy on the lam/incommunicado in an airstream trailer. It was very funny, had a theme song by Jimmy Buffett, who I believe ghost wrote a few of the episodes. I can't remeber the name for the life of me.
My #1 (sorry Joss) show in this catagory is the aforementioned Wonderfalls. A brillient show that had the misfortune of launching at the hieght of the reality craze.
Max Headroom and Pivin's Cupid also rate.
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A little research and I answered my own question. The show was "Johnny Bego", from 1993.
Q.E.D.
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I would say Alien Nation too, that was a show I became committed to, wrote for a newsletter for 9 years for and fought like hell for. It was a great one, and I have on order the DVD set too. I even got to meet Eric and Gary, Eric Pierpoint is a sweetheart. ( Hope I get to meet Nathan one day). But, Alien Nation for sure.
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"Jack and Bobby" is the only other I can think of right now. It really made me think...so I guess that's why it didn't do too well. The majority of people nowadays would rather watch mindless reality TV than think.
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Wonderfalls
followed closely by Alien Nation.
Seeing Wonderfalls cancelled was the straw that broke the camel's back. We watched too many good shows get the axe and things like "The Littlest Groom" reality show get a green light. So except for 3 shows we do not watch network TV anymore. They lost their ability to know what is good TV a while back. Cable gets the majority of our attention.
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