Forgotten TV Shows

[Zontar]

never understood why it didn't get a cult following.

Because it aired on UPN, the channel that had as its flagship series be Star Trek Voyager followed by Star Trek Enterprise. That was the flagship series for its 11 year run as a network.

On Topic: Drive. We only got 4 episodes of it (6 if you count the two posted online) and the premise was a great excuse for action and drama within a big ass race. I think it set a record for fastest Fox cancellation that wasn't an animated series (though don't quote me on that I'm not 100% on it given it's Fox we're talking about) and outside of Spider-Man lamenting its cancellation in one line of dialogue in a single comment I haven't seen a single reference to it nor anyone ever speak of it in the 9 years since it aired.

Reboot it damn it, the concept works.

 

[Phoenixmgs_v1legacy]

On Topic: Drive. We only got 4 episodes of it (6 if you count the two posted online) and the premise was a great excuse for action and drama within a big ass race. I think it set a record for fastest Fox cancellation that wasn't an animated series (though don't quote me on that I'm not 100% on it given it's Fox we're talking about) and outside of Spider-Man lamenting its cancellation in one line of dialogue in a single comment I haven't seen a single reference to it nor anyone ever speak of it in the 9 years since it aired.

Reboot it damn it, the concept works.

I remember watching Drive because of Nathan Fillion but I didn't care for it at all. I stopped watching it even before it got canned.

 

[Zontar]

I remember watching Drive because of Nathan Fillion but I didn't care for it at all. I stopped watching it even before it got canned.

Well the rise of petrohead culture in North America over the past decade is the perfect market for such a series. I liked it and wanted to see how things played out.

 

[WolfThomas]

The Unusuals was a decent police procedural with black humour based around some of the more mundane stuff of being a NYC detective. But with bursts of action and drama.

Had Jeremy Renner before he was famous.

 

[Evil Moo]

This thread reminded me to try and look up an old show I'd forgotten about. After about an hour of searching, I found it:

Spoiler: Heavy Gear

I think I have too much nostalgia for the slightly rubbish era of 3D animated shows, what with my vague memories of ReBoot and Beast Wars as well. I don't even think I saw many episodes of Heavy Gear, but part of me wants to go back and watch it again for some reason.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Got a couple of additions.

Dinosaurs: Live action people dressed up as dinosaurs living a normal US family life. Very violent baby. Fun show.

Operation Good Guys: An early 90s British satire of fly-on-the-wall police documentaries way before they became a thing. Some very memorable episodes with interesting adventures.

Eerie Indiana: Kid lives on street full of weird, colourful and most definitely paranormal episodes. Err...I mean people. But you can see how it sets itself up.

MonkeyDust: British dark adult animated sketch show, only had 2 seasons which is a hell of a pity. Recommended nonetheless.

 

[Remus]

Dinosaurs was basically Roseanne in dinosaur costumes. It was just as funny, just as cynical at times, and ended just as horribly. Chalk it up to 90s culture I guess.

American Gothic (1996) - Picket-fenced everytown with a supernatural darkside - had Lucas Black (Tokyo Drift, Legion) as a boy torn between the spirit of his dead sister, now a freshly ascended angel, and the sheriff, Buck, who may in fact be the devil, or at least a fallen. Heaven and hell fighting for the souls of a small town.

Millennium - Lance Henriksen as a psychic detective trying to prevent the apocalypse from being instigated by a shadow group. This was a solid part of my paranormal weekend right behind the X-Files until Fox decided to shuffle it around. I eventually caught the last 2 seasons in syndication. Favorite episodes included one about mercs who killed the man in the nextdoor apartment for snoring.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Dinosaurs was basically Roseanne in dinosaur costumes. It was just as funny, just as cynical at times, and ended just as horribly. Chalk it up to 90s culture I guess.

Didn't it end with climate change due to their own actions, and them all sitting around in a building waiting to freeze to death and promising they'll always be together?

Cause...um...ok.

 

[darkcalling]

I stumbled across a show called Terriers on Netflix about a year ago I think. Really good show about a private eye and his con man friend trying to solve a murder. Some of Donal Logue's best work. Not a single person I know has seen it. I'm not even sure what channel it may have originally aired on. Felt like an FX show maybe.

 

[DarthCoercis]

Brimstone & Almost Human.

Brimstone was a 90s cop procedural about a corrupt cop who gets killed, goes to hell, then makes a deal with the devil after 100&something of the worst souls in history escape satan's clutches. Wasn't an awesome show, but it was entertaining. Got canned after a season.

Almost Human was, well, it was kinda Deus Ex meets I, Robot in a tv show. It was only on air for about 10 episodes, sadly, and a couple of the episodes were aired out of order. Hell, it had Karl Urban as the primary lead. Unsurprisingly, Fox canned it like they do every show that's half-way niche.

 

[Loislane]

I remembered watching two or three episodes of Almost Human. Quite liked the show actually, got cancelled too soon imo

 

[Remus]

Dinosaurs was basically Roseanne in dinosaur costumes. It was just as funny, just as cynical at times, and ended just as horribly. Chalk it up to 90s culture I guess.

Didn't it end with climate change due to their own actions, and them all sitting around in a building waiting to freeze to death and promising they'll always be together?

Cause...um...ok.

Yea, the last scene was the baby, zoomed out, frozen in a block of ice.

 

[pookie101]

i grew up in the 80's so pretty much everything i watched haha

manimal, airwolf, greatest american hero, moonlighting, you cant do that on television, fraggle rock, hill street blues

i win

but the biggest would be max headroom.. the show that kindled my love of cyberpunk

 

[Sonmi]

I don't know... Moral Orel?

Make stuff like this again Adult Swim....not stuff like this:


Or this:

Probably my favourite moment in the whole series.

To be honest though, the show only really got good at Nature, before it was only a dark-ish parody of Davey and Goliath, Nature is where it really got dark, and where Orel dropped the happy-go-lucky attitude.

Season 3 is one of the greatest seasons of animation of all time.

 

[Tassit]

I just want Reaper to come back.. I loved that show.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaper_(TV_series)

 

[KissingSunlight]

i grew up in the 80's so pretty much everything i watched haha

manimal, airwolf, greatest american hero, moonlighting, you cant do that on television, fraggle rock, hill street blues

i win

but the biggest would be max headroom.. the show that kindled my love of cyberpunk

If you have El Rey Network, they are showing 80's shows Airwolf and Knight Rider. I usually watch 5 minutes of it. Just to remind myself how cheesy they were.

 

[twistedmic]

This may not be the right thread, but I have very vague recollections of a show (could have been a t.v. movie or miniseries) that I watched in the early nineties and cannot remember the title of the show.
I remember a trio of teenagers (two boys. one girl) from Earth are teleported to an alternate dimension where the bad guys had specially designed suits that used some form of magnetism to let them throw balls of electricity/lightning and I think they had zeppelin/airship/dirigibles.
One of the boys was a trouble maker/vandal and the other was his friend (possibly less of a troublemaker, possibly a co-conspirator) The girl was, I think a know-it-all/rule-stickler who knew they boys.
I also remember that one of the boys survived a lightning bolt with little to no injury because of the rubber soles on his shoes (something about the rubber grounding him, I think). And I think that the main bad guy was a woman with red hair.

 

[Phoenixmgs_v1legacy]

I stumbled across a show called Terriers on Netflix about a year ago I think. Really good show about a private eye and his con man friend trying to solve a murder. Some of Donal Logue's best work. Not a single person I know has seen it. I'm not even sure what channel it may have originally aired on. Felt like an FX show maybe.

Terriers was a really great show, I'm glad it got an ending at least (although it was obvious they had to fast forward and skip stuff). I watched it because Donal Logue was in it and he really showed that he's a really really good actor in Terriers. I think the name was one of the main reasons it didn't get enough viewers as I recall looking forward to Donal Logue's new show but then totally forgetting what it was called and ended up watching it after it finished airing.

 

[Cap'nPipsqueak]

Farscape.

That's all. Farscape.