Which series was shut down too soon in your opinion?

[the watcher]

True detective

 

[Correll]

Stargate SG-1 was good.

Atlantis was even better. IMO.

 

[Correll]

Fawlty Towers

Great show. Hilarious.

 

[Correll]

Stargate SG-1 was good.

Have you seen this?

 

[toobfreak]

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?

TV shows are just to attract viewers to watch advertisement. Star Trek cost way more than they were used to spending on TV back then, it needed tons of opticals they were not used to doing that were expensive. The Network did not understand nor like the show. The exec at NBC who liked the show moved on and the guy who replaced him did not.

Star Trek was not all that great a success nor very popular at the time. Gunsmoke was a big money maker.

 

[Ringo]

The Big Bang Theory.

Yes, inspite of 12 seasons it was too soon!

 

[22lcidw]

I think you're right.

If Star Trek had been more successful and lasted longer in prime time, it most probably wouldn't have become the phenomenon that it eventually became.

UHF and syndication turned that program legendary. I remember full page newspaper ads for TV's would have images of Star Trek characters, planets, the enterprise on them in the Sunday papers in color.

 

[22lcidw]

Stargate SG-1 was good.

The lead actor only did it if he was allowed to play the character loosely. Sometimes it was too loose and needed to control it a little.

 

[MostBoringManInTheWorld]

TV shows are just to attract viewers to watch advertisement. Star Trek cost way more than they were used to spending on TV back then, it needed tons of opticals they were not used to doing that were expensive. The Network did not understand nor like the show. The exec at NBC who liked the show moved on and the guy who replaced him did not.

Star Trek was not all that great a success nor very popular at the time. Gunsmoke was a big money maker.

And yet it was the only show from the 1960s and the first TV show to have a whole series of theatrical motion pictures starring the original cast years after the show ended.

None of the other TV series casts of the 1960s through the 1980s -- with the exception of course of the Next Generation cast later in the 1990s -- got to cash in like the original Star Trek cast did.

And by the time those other shows eventually became movies, they were reboots, remakes, or sequels with entirely different actors.

I'm sure Jack Lord regretted turning down the show. He obviously saw what became of it and tried to duplicate its success by trying to revive and continue Hawaii Five-O as a theatrical feature film franchise.

 

[toobfreak]

And yet it was the only show from the 1960s and the first TV show to have a whole series of theatrical motion pictures starring the original cast years after the show ended.

Well, hindsight is 2020. None of the cast ever thought Star Trek would go anywhere. Uhura wanted off the show. Nimoy almost didn't come back for the 2nd season. But they did make a Lost In Space movie. Don't forget, they also made a Star Trek animated series too.

I'm sure Jack Lord regretted turning down the show.

I'm not so sure. I don't think Lord was into the space stuff, he actually retired to Hawaii after he was done with television.
Kelley was a western guy but both Shatner and Nimoy both had significant careers in space stuff from The Twilight Zone to The Outer Limits.

 

[MostBoringManInTheWorld]

Well, hindsight is 2020. None of the cast ever thought Star Trek would go anywhere. Uhura wanted off the show. Nimoy almost didn't come back for the 2nd season. But they did make a Lost In Space movie. Don't forget, they also made a Star Trek animated series too.


I'm not so sure. I don't think Lord was into the space stuff, he actually retired to Hawaii after he was done with television.
Kelley was a western guy but both Shatner and Nimoy both had significant careers in space stuff from The Twilight Zone to The Outer Limits.

Well, the Lost in Space movie comes under what I called reboots, remakes, or sequels with entirely different actors. Plus, there was another Lost in Space series briefly. Aside from possible cameos, not a cash cow or anything of real worth for the original cast.

But the Star Trek cast thinking nothing of Star Trek's future makes their success all the more amazing, success that none of their TV peers had, at least not on the same level. And it's a good thing that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. convinced Nichelle Nichols to stay on the show. If she hadn't, she most likely wouldn't have been part of the regular cast of the movies. Maybe she might have had a few cameo appearances like Grace Lee Whitney and Majel Barrett Roddenberry.

And yes, they made a Star Trek animated series in between the 1960s TV show and the big-screen movies, although I don't think they were the only ones who did that with the original cast. Maybe they were the first, but they were definitely not the last. But they were definitely trailblazers among all the other TV shows from the 1960s and 1970s in terms of the movies.

Maybe Jack Lord may not have regretted it, but I'm sure the big-screen success of Star Trek was not lost on him. The Hawaii Five-O big-screen movie(s) that never happened was definitely something he was pushing for even though he was retired from TV.

 

[braalian]

True detective

I think it’s still going, just years between seasons

 

[Auld Phart]

Well, hindsight is 2020. None of the cast ever thought Star Trek would go anywhere. Uhura wanted off the show. Nimoy almost didn't come back for the 2nd season. But they did make a Lost In Space movie. Don't forget, they also made a Star Trek animated series too.


I'm not so sure. I don't think Lord was into the space stuff, he actually retired to Hawaii after he was done with television.
Kelley was a western guy but both Shatner and Nimoy both had significant careers in space stuff from The Twilight Zone to The Outer Limits.

I've seen Nimoy in a lot of old westerns, mostly as indians.

 

[toobfreak]

I've seen Nimoy in a lot of old westerns, mostly as indians.

Well, everyone did westerns at some point early in their career because back then in early TV, westerns were the mainstay of television.

 

[22lcidw]

Well, the Lost in Space movie comes under what I called reboots, remakes, or sequels with entirely different actors. Plus, there was another Lost in Space series briefly. Aside from possible cameos, not a cash cow or anything of real worth for the original cast.

But the Star Trek cast thinking nothing of Star Trek's future makes their success all the more amazing, success that none of their TV peers had, at least not on the same level. And it's a good thing that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. convinced Nichelle Nichols to stay on the show. If she hadn't, she most likely wouldn't have been part of the regular cast of the movies. Maybe she might have had a few cameo appearances like Grace Lee Whitney and Majel Barrett Roddenberry.

And yes, they made a Star Trek animated series in between the 1960s TV show and the big-screen movies, although I don't think they were the only ones who did that with the original cast. Maybe they were the first, but they were definitely not the last. But they were definitely trailblazers among all the other TV shows from the 1960s and 1970s in terms of the movies.

Maybe Jack Lord may not have regretted it, but I'm sure the big-screen success of Star Trek was not lost on him. The Hawaii Five-O big-screen movie(s) that never happened was definitely something he was pushing for even though he was retired from TV.

Nichols was a trailblazer. In the Voyager, TNG or Deep Space 9series she would have had more of a role in an ensemble cast. The original Star Trek was no that. It concentrated on the top three characters. We saw it for the three years it was on.

 

[MostBoringManInTheWorld]

Nichols was a trailblazer. In the Voyager, TNG or Deep Space 9series she would have had more of a role in an ensemble cast. The original Star Trek was no that. It concentrated on the top three characters. We saw it for the three years it was on.

Nichols was indeed a trailblazer.

She even went on to recruit women and minorities for NASA in the 1970s.

Sally Ride was one of her recruits.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

The original Star Trek.

The original Knight Rider.

Married With Children.

Superman & Lois.

Totally agree with everyone of them except Married with children.

i am going to list some that have been mentioned and others that have not.
the original star trek
the original Knight Rider
superman and Lois.
WKRP
TOUR OF DUTY
CRAZY LIKE A FOX
HARDCASTLE AND MCCORMICK.
RIPTIDE
FRANKS PLACE

The combination of crazy like a fox,hardcastle and mccormick,and riptide ll being cancelled in around the same time frame as they were made me stop watching new shows after that matter of fact,could not stand to start watching something just to be heartbroken and depressed over it being cancelled on me anymore so to avoid that,i just stopped watching NEW shows altogether after that.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

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. The main character and his friends had no choice but to grow older and grow up, graduate from high school. The main character got married, had a child, and then went off to join the Army, leaving his wife and child (and the show) to live with his parents while he was stationed in Greenland.

With Ritchie gone, the whole focus of the show changed, the original premise was gone, but somehow, it managed to thrive for a few years past that.

The phrase “Jump the Shark” refers to something that happened in one of the later seasons, where the character Fonzie, on waterskies, literally jumps over a corral containing a live shark. That is often cited as the moment that everyone involved in making this show realized and understood that it had long outlived its premise and purpose, and that the time was coming to bring it to an orderly end. And that is how the phrase came to be used in a more general sense, to represent any other show or endeavor having reached a similar point, where it's getting time to bring it to an end.

happy days was a show that lasted FAR TOO LONG than it ever should have.Once Richie was no longer going to be on the show anymore,the producers had they had any integrity and credibility,would have cancelled it right there and then.it could survive ralph mouth leaving but not Richie.

 

[MostBoringManInTheWorld]

Totally agree with everyone of them except Married with children.

i am going to list some that have been mentioned and others that have not.
the original star trek
the original Knight Rider
superman and Lois.
WKRP
TOUR OF DUTY
CRAZY LIKE A FOX
HARDCASTLE AND MCCORMICK.
RIPTIDE
FRANKS PLACE

The combination of crazy like a fox,hardcastle and mccormick,and riptide ll being cancelled in around the same time frame as they were made me stop watching new shows after that matter of fact,could not stand to start watching something just to be heartbroken and depressed over it being cancelled on me anymore so to avoid that,i just stopped watching NEW shows altogether after that.

I loved Hardcastle and McCormick.

Great theme song, great car, great buddy duo (judge and thief).

 

[Ringo]

Kepping up Appearances.

I wonder who else would like to spend a day in Mrs. Bouquet’s husband’s body and set her straight?