Which series was shut down too soon in your opinion?

[The Duke]

Nobody said "Highlander", I am disappoint.

 

[The Duke]

I'll add Stargate Universe to the above Firefly mentions.

Stargate SG-1 was good.

 

[The Duke]

Nobody said X-Files?! Are you serious?!
MisterBeale

 

[Montrovant]

Some of the shows people are listing were on for quite a few years. I enjoyed Highlander and The X Files, for example, but both of those shows were on for enough years that I wouldn’t include them in a “shut down too soon” list, even if I would have liked more seasons.
I will add my vote for Firefly. There is an animated show being worked on now, apparently, so there’s some hope there.
I enjoyed the show John Doe with Dominic Purcell. A man wakes up not knowing anything about himself, but somehow seems to know about almost everything else.

 

[citygator]

Nobody said X-Files?! Are you serious?!
MisterBeale

That ran a looong time. Great show but I dont know that it ended too early.

 

[MostBoringManInTheWorld]

Come on! I like it too, but 12 seasons is "too soon"?

Yes!

It should have gone on forever!

And it's way overdue for a reunion!

 

[MostBoringManInTheWorld]

That ran a looong time. Great show but I dont know that it ended too early.

Yeah, it ran originally for nine seasons, had two theatrical feature films ten years apart, and came back in the mid 2010s for two more seasons.

What more could you want, besides a Toyota?

 

[Concerned American]

Northern Exposure

 

[toobfreak]

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (TV Series 1993–1997) ⭐ 6.5 | Action, Crime, Drama

1h | Not Rated

www.imdb.com

Actually, the original Kung Fu was. The series ended with Caine finding his brother, the point to the whole series. They had an ideal platform from which to begin a whole new series with Caine, his brother and and his nephew Zeke, the two of them a team now with Caine watching out for chinese assassins and his brother Danny watching out for marshals. They even joked about it in the last episode, but apparently Carradine never considered it and just wanted out of television and working in movies instead.

 

[toobfreak]

The executives that canceled the original Star Trek must have spent the rest of their lives regretting that one.

Hell, NBC fought tooth and nail trying to kill the series after it managed to get on with needing two pilots just to sell the show.

CBS passed on it for Lost In Space instead. NBC basically killed Star Trek because it conflicted with their schedule for Laugh-In and Gunsmoke.

 

[MostBoringManInTheWorld]

Hell, NBC fought tooth and nail trying to kill the series after it managed to get on with needing two pilots just to sell the show.

CBS passed on it for Lost In Space instead. NBC basically killed Star Trek because it conflicted with their schedule for Laugh-In and Gunsmoke.

So why didn't NBC just reject the show a second time?

Why didn't NBC just reject the show the first time?

And if there was a scheduling conflict, couldn't have NBC changed the schedule?

It was their schedule, after all.

 

[SaxonJackson]

Fawlty Towers

 

[toobfreak]

So why didn't NBC just reject the show a second time?

The 2nd pilot was more action and less cerebral. Apparently brain power was very limited there at NBC.

Why didn't NBC just reject the show the first time?

They did, but saw enough in it to see potential in it, they just needed more action and they did not like a woman 2nd in command.

And if there was a scheduling conflict, couldn't have NBC changed the schedule?

They did, they bumped Star Trek out of the way to a Friday 10PM time slot where it died.

 

[Kruska]

Fawlty Towers

How about "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em"?

 

[HikerGuy83]

Police Squad!
Max Headroom
WKRP in Cincinnati

Loved Max !!!!!

 

[SaxonJackson]

How about "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em"?

I haven't heard of that one but if it's British comedy, it's probably good. I'll have to look it up.

 

[Auld Phart]

I haven't heard of that one but if it's British comedy, it's probably good. I'll have to look it up.

starred a pre-Phantom of the Opera mike Crawford, if I remember correctly

 

[Auld Phart]

starred a pre-Phantom of the Opera mike Crawford, if I remember correctly

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069634/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_in_0_q_some%20mothers

yup.

 

[JoeMoma]

Happy Days, was originally a sitcom about a teenage boy growing in Milwaukee in the 1950s. Of course, teenage boys don't stay that way forever

In the case of Happy Days, the teenage boys may very well be men in their 20s.

 

[MostBoringManInTheWorld]

The 2nd pilot was more action and less cerebral. Apparently brain power was very limited there at NBC.


They did, but saw enough in it to see potential in it, they just needed more action and they did not like a woman 2nd in command.


They did, they bumped Star Trek out of the way to a Friday 10PM time slot where it died.

So were they trying to kill the series intentionally or unintentionally?

Why would they try to kill a series they themselves commissioned a second pilot for and which they bought?