Good Shows That Didnt Last Long
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The original Star Trek series: it only got three seasons.
If only they could have seen the true comedy gold in that show.
If only they could have seen the true comedy gold in that show.
Seconded, but that's almost better than seeing them last really long, get old, and die.CJ1145 said:
Shows for me:
Korgoth of Barbaria, the shortest of the short, only got that great little short about it that was intended to be its pilot. I'm such a huge fan of Conan the Barbarian that a show about it would be awesome.
I've seen only a few good shows listed, I'll reiterate them along with all the shows you monkeys missed.
Firefly; couldn't have gone bad even after 10 seasons
Futurama; had the potential to last longer than the Simpsons has (someone should create a similar thread for shows that should have long ago been ended, like Law & Order)
Enterprise; knew it was dying, so it whipped out the good stuff at the last moment. had little potential because of linearity constraints which they totally fucked in the Star Trek remake anyway.
Farscape; last season was balls in the face, but the creators themselves said they had 9 seasons planned.
Dead Like Me; could have gone another couple seasons, but there was never much room for expansion beyond the realm of a sitcom.
Sliders; literally limitless potential, but with casting issues axing every compelling character, funding issues leaving the scifi thriller in the show in the toolshed production making every episode more and more like old horror flicks, the show contracted leprosy and fell apart as inevitable as the tides.
Aquaman; lots of potential, but picked the wrong damn superhero to make a trendy show out of on a beach. Now Wonder Woman and her trysts on the island full of Xena-like babes and her adventures into the forbidden realms of man would have made a VERY compelling show.
Angel; as soon as Buffy The Vampire Slayer ended its 7th season, Angel barely limped on one last, terrible, plot-slaughtering season. If Greenwalt and Whedon had kept things safe and familiar that 5th season they could have done their Wolfram & Hart exec team season later on, but they changed the show too much in that season and lost their core, girl power fanbase by killing off Cordelia and Fred alike.
The Invisible Man; Still not sure why this show ended, other than having a 70's cop show about a sassy bald white guy and his wanna-be ghetto invisible white partner with a dead brother that lives inside his brain story-line. But I loved it, miss it, wish they hadn't axed it, but whatever, I felt like listing it anyway.
Now there are other shows I could have listed as well like Stargate: Atlantis, Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Hercules, Xena, all shows that could have gone much longer but their stagnating story-lines demanded execution anyway.
If you feel the need to dispute me, obviously you read to the last page of the thread which NOBODY EVER FUCKING DOES so I'll end my thread with the following close: why did I write all this when nobody is going to read it anyway?
Firefly; couldn't have gone bad even after 10 seasons
Futurama; had the potential to last longer than the Simpsons has (someone should create a similar thread for shows that should have long ago been ended, like Law & Order)
Enterprise; knew it was dying, so it whipped out the good stuff at the last moment. had little potential because of linearity constraints which they totally fucked in the Star Trek remake anyway.
Farscape; last season was balls in the face, but the creators themselves said they had 9 seasons planned.
Dead Like Me; could have gone another couple seasons, but there was never much room for expansion beyond the realm of a sitcom.
Sliders; literally limitless potential, but with casting issues axing every compelling character, funding issues leaving the scifi thriller in the show in the toolshed production making every episode more and more like old horror flicks, the show contracted leprosy and fell apart as inevitable as the tides.
Aquaman; lots of potential, but picked the wrong damn superhero to make a trendy show out of on a beach. Now Wonder Woman and her trysts on the island full of Xena-like babes and her adventures into the forbidden realms of man would have made a VERY compelling show.
Angel; as soon as Buffy The Vampire Slayer ended its 7th season, Angel barely limped on one last, terrible, plot-slaughtering season. If Greenwalt and Whedon had kept things safe and familiar that 5th season they could have done their Wolfram & Hart exec team season later on, but they changed the show too much in that season and lost their core, girl power fanbase by killing off Cordelia and Fred alike.
The Invisible Man; Still not sure why this show ended, other than having a 70's cop show about a sassy bald white guy and his wanna-be ghetto invisible white partner with a dead brother that lives inside his brain story-line. But I loved it, miss it, wish they hadn't axed it, but whatever, I felt like listing it anyway.
Now there are other shows I could have listed as well like Stargate: Atlantis, Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Hercules, Xena, all shows that could have gone much longer but their stagnating story-lines demanded execution anyway.
If you feel the need to dispute me, obviously you read to the last page of the thread which NOBODY EVER FUCKING DOES so I'll end my thread with the following close: why did I write all this when nobody is going to read it anyway?
Nothing latly on the Disney channel I can tell you that. The old shows were much better and needed a longer runtime.
Deadwood and Rome spring to mind. Although I actually quite liked the way Rome accelerated madly towards its conclusion.
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
NBC show about a struggling sketch comedy program, starring Matthew Perry and the guy from The West Wing.
Bitingly witty, truely compelling, with an ending I am convinced is only so weak because they told the writers half-way through the show's run that they're only getting one season, so wrap it up.
One of my favorite shows of all time.
and it only got ONE FUCKING SEASON.
NBC show about a struggling sketch comedy program, starring Matthew Perry and the guy from The West Wing.
Bitingly witty, truely compelling, with an ending I am convinced is only so weak because they told the writers half-way through the show's run that they're only getting one season, so wrap it up.
One of my favorite shows of all time.
and it only got ONE FUCKING SEASON.
Because sometimes I show up.stabnex said:
Most of those shows had a long enough run though.
Farscape was nasty because they were promised a 5th season and about 2 weeks before shooting the last footage for #4 they heard that the 5th season was cancelled. They didn't have the time to even try and wrap some stuff up. Ah well, Peacekeeper Wars was made and the comics are going strong in sales.
I'll add one more vote for Carnivale.
And add a show not mentioned yet:
Brimstone
13 episodes, didn't even make it to the end of the first season. The show had so much style and penache. Maybe not the most sofisticated stuff ever but the way it was presented was awesome. And it made me fall on love with Lori Petty all over again.
John Glover made an awesome devil as well by the way.
I was getting into that show Invasion when it was out, but they stopped making it after the first series finale.
I'm in the UK and I loved shows like Black Books, IT Crowd, Green Wing and the like. But I agree that by keeping the number of episodes short, they all remain brilliant. There are very few British comedies that last more than a few series.
I'm in the UK and I loved shows like Black Books, IT Crowd, Green Wing and the like. But I agree that by keeping the number of episodes short, they all remain brilliant. There are very few British comedies that last more than a few series.
