TV: Favorite Show that only lasted 1 season or less?

[Tkachuk4MVP]

Came in here thinking Clone High, was reminded immediately of Firefly and Clerks: The Animated Series.



Those are good ones too. It didn't seem like Norm had enough material to keep the show going too long though. And Sad Bill Cosby is just a weird skit in retrospect

With a break between seasons and the fact that sports take place year-round, I think he could have continued to put good shows together.

 

[frisco]

Titans (think 2000's Dynasty).
Harsh Realm (Chris Carter).
Human Target (1989).

My Best-Carey

 

[John Price]

@Osprey will not agree but that Muppet show on ABC was damn awesome before it was cancelled

 

[Bures Elbow]

Jericho

 

[Spring in Fialta]

Horace and Pete and Dekalog.

 

[Osprey]

@Osprey will not agree but that Muppet show on ABC was damn awesome before it was cancelled

Ok, that's a weird reference to me out of nowhere. You actually remember that I was critical of the show? That was what, a year and a half ago? Have you been bitter towards me ever since?

 

[TP]

Kid Nation

Freaks and Geeks

No Ordinary Family

 

[NyQuil]

Nice to see Almost Human mentioned.

Also liked Space: Above and Beyond.

 

[End on a Hinote]

Back To You
Go On
The Great Indoors - Loved how it poked fun of millenials
Freaks and Geeks
American Inventor

 

[SJSharksfan39]

I liked Alcatraz on Fox a few years ago. I also liked Firefly but that discussion has been had over and over.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

It was a really dumb show, but I enjoyed Fastlane. Mentioning it since Firefly and Clone High have been said a bunch already.

 

[montreal]

Firefly, BSG the original, Awake, Terra Nova, Jericho, all good ones. I'll add Forever, it stared Ioan Gruffudd and Judd Hirsch, was a little hokey but enjoyed it. I might be the only one but I really enjoyed That 80's show. The guy from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Chyler Leigh were good in it.

 

[Babe Ruth]

Galaxy High

Old 8os Saturday cartoon, only lasted for a partial season. Had Bart Simpson's voice (Nancy Cartwright) before she got big. Cool concept, where a reserved, female nerd & a jock from Earth are transferred to an intergalactic high school. Whole series in on DVD now..

Also V, the original tv series.. another one & done season.

 

[Stylizer1]

Gang Related
Son of Zorn

 

[Babe Ruth]

Son of Zorn

I liked Son of Zorn. Thought it was funny & unique.
Fox gave it a good foundation, premiering it right after football. So it would have a target audience delivered to it's time slot. But unfortunately only survived half-a-season..

I'm thinking Zorn could succeed on a cable network. Maybe with a more specific, niche audience. Like a Cartoon Network, or Spike TV (if that still exists). I think Fox's prime time audience was too broad for a macho cartoon.

 

[Amorgus]

Damn SyFy for cancelling Blood Drive, but I don't know if it could continue on after killing off one of the most entertaining characters I've seen in anything in a good long time.

 

[Adz]

Max Headroom
Frank's Place
Backstrom
Battle Creek
When Things Were Rotten
SportsNight (as mentioned before, 2 years, but it wasn't enough)

 

[Babe Ruth]

Frank's Place

Adz, You're going deep with that one.. That was the show where Venus Flytrap ran a restaurant no (?)

Another show from late-8os era, that seems virtually forgotten is Tour of Duty. It ran longer than a single season, but I've never seen it rerun/syndicated. And I never hear it referenced. It was an interesting Vietnam War drama..

 

[Adz]

Adz, You're going deep with that one.. That was the show where Venus Flytrap ran a restaurant no (?)

Another show from late-8os era, that seems virtually forgotten is Tour of Duty. It ran longer than a single season, but I've never seen it rerun/syndicated. And I never hear it referenced. It was an interesting Vietnam War drama..

Yes, it was Venus Flytrap, aka Tim Reid. I loved that show. They showed it on BET for awhile and I watched it again (even that was probably a decade ago!) Memory wasn't playing tricks on me. It was a great show.

I remember the name Tour of Duty but don't guess I watched that one. That was during the time when I had 2 little kids running around depending on me for sustenance and safety and such things. It is available on Amazon and you might be able to find it or parts of it on youtube.

 

[Babe Ruth]

Venus Flytrap, aka Tim Reid.

I remember the name Tour of Duty but don't guess I watched that one. That was during the time when I had 2 little kids running around depending on me for sustenance and safety.. It is available on Amazon and you might be able to find it or parts of it on youtube.

Adz, thanks for the heads-up. If u were a young parent during Frank's Place, u got a couple years on me. I was probably in the 8th/9th grade during it's run. I was one of those kids who would be outside all afternoon & then when the sun went down I'd post up in front of the TV all night. Watching any & everything.
I'm a Tim Reid fan, both the actor & human being. I remember him collaborating with his alma mater (Norfolk St), to do a lot of charity work. And besides Flytrap, I also dug him as Downtown Brown (San Diego cop on Simon & Simon). peace

 

[missingmika]

For ones not mentioned yet:
The River - awesome scaryish TV show. Takes place on the Amazon river where a bunch of crazy things happen.
Carpoolers - Jerry O'Connell and a bunch of other guys in a carpool. TJ Millers first TV/movie work. Best scene is where he is doing an online job interview with no pants on.

Kind of 1 season show is The Loop. It was 2 seasons, but they re-tooled after season 1 and Season 2 was almost a different show with the same characters. Season 2 was the better of the two seasons. Comedy about a guy who wrote a thesis about airplanes in college and now he's starting his career as an airline exec. Bret Harrison, Philip Baker Hall, Eric Christianson Olson, Mimi Rogers in the cast.

For the 2 seasons that don't seem like 2 seasons... Reaper. Awesome show about a guy who makes a deal with the devil and now has to catch escaped souls from hell.

 

[RobBrown4PM]

How has no one mentioned space above and beyond yet.

 

[Adz]

Adz, thanks for the heads-up. If u were a young parent during Frank's Place, u got a couple years on me.

Yes, most definitely!

 

[Bubba Thudd]

I (and 7 other people in the world) liked Roadies, on Showtime.

 

[Babe Ruth]

Another one I'll mention.. the 2002 Twilight Zone(s), hosted by Forrest Whitaker.

I didn't think Whitaker was a great host (& in his defense he had big shoes to fill, stepping in to Serling's place).. but the single season had a lot of good guest stars & writing. Korn's Jonathan Davis remixed the original Twilight Zone theme..

Brian Austin Green starred in a good episode about a (surreal) second chance to reconcile w/estranged family.