# Best 1 season tv series that should not have been canceled
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**Created:** [January 30, 2004, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-season-tv-series-that-should-not-have-been-canceled/226819 "2004-01-30T20:18:09Z")
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### Author:  [@BioHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BioHazard)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2004, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-season-tv-series-that-should-not-have-been-canceled/226819/1 "2004-01-30T20:18:09Z")
my favs (all the same year)
Strange Luck- from the creators of Erie, Indiana- Very good premise, very good cast, Why did they cancel it? And what ever happened to the X-Files crossover hinted at in the last episode??
Kindred: The Embraced- Your typical vampire soap opera…based on white-wolf’s Vampire: The masquerade rpg. Hot goth girls, drama, action. Another corp mistake to kill it.
Proffit- Dude sleeps in a cardboard box and is trying to destroy the company that made that box. Corperate Espionage at its finest!
Anyone remember those? What are your fav 1 seasoners?
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### Author:  [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-season-tv-series-that-should-not-have-been-canceled/226819/2 "2004-01-30T20:24:26Z")
**Firefly**
> **[Firefly (TV Series 2002–2003) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303461/)**
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> Firefly: Created by Joss Whedon. With Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin. Five hundred years in the future, a renegade crew aboard a small spacecraft tries to survive as they travel the unknown parts of the galaxy and evade...
**Space: Above and Beyond**
> **[Space: Above and Beyond (TV Series 1995–1996) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112173/)**
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> Space: Above and Beyond: Created by Glen Morgan, James Wong. With Morgan Weisser, Kristen Cloke, Rodney Rowland, Joel de la Fuente. The Earth is embroiled in a desperate war against alien invaders, and this series focuses on one squadron of Marine...
Fox officially sucks.
:mad:
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### Author:  [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-season-tv-series-that-should-not-have-been-canceled/226819/3 "2004-01-30T20:25:29Z")
I still can’t believe [_My So-Called Life_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108872/) didn’t last at least three or four seasons.
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### Author:  [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-season-tv-series-that-should-not-have-been-canceled/226819/4 "2004-01-30T20:25:53Z")
_Cupid_, starring Jeremy Piven in a brilliantly written show. I will never, ever forgive ABC for killing this show in its crib, and I sincerely hope that what was produced is released on DVD.
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### Author:  [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2004, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-season-tv-series-that-should-not-have-been-canceled/226819/5 "2004-01-30T20:29:35Z")
> [@Atreyu](#):
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> _Cupid_, starring Jeremy Piven in a brilliantly written show. I will never, ever forgive ABC for killing this show in its crib, and I sincerely hope that what was produced is released on DVD.
I call your Cupid, and raise you a Bakersfield PD.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-season-tv-series-that-should-not-have-been-canceled/226819/6 "2004-01-30T20:31:10Z")
**FIREFLY!!!**
May the people responsible for its untimely demise rot forever, buried neck-deep in camel dung.
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### Author:  [@SuperNova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNova)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-season-tv-series-that-should-not-have-been-canceled/226819/7 "2004-01-30T20:36:48Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> **FIREFLY!!!**
> May the people responsible for its untimely demise rot forever, buried neck-deep in camel dung.
I third **Firefly**
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### Author:  [@jeevwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeevwoman)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-season-tv-series-that-should-not-have-been-canceled/226819/8 "2004-01-30T20:41:44Z")
I second _My So-Called Life_ and third _Cupid_.
And yet _Veronica’s Closet_ was on for years and years.
It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world.
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### Author:  [@Husker\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Husker_Dude)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-season-tv-series-that-should-not-have-been-canceled/226819/9 "2004-01-30T20:45:31Z")
**Freaks And Geeks!**
God I love that show.
Luckily it’s coming to DVD according to a fan site:
“April 6, 2004 has been announced as the release date for the six-disc DVD set featuring all eighteen episodes of “Freaks and Geeks,” including original music, a twenty-eight-page booklet and over forty hours of bonus material, including a “Director’s Cut” version of the pilot episode, twenty-eight audio commentaries, deleted scenes, outtakes, cast auditions and more!”
Also the animated **Clerks** show, which only lasted six episodes. “Who’s driving? Oh my God, Bear is driving. How can that be?” Good times.
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### Author:  [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2004, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-season-tv-series-that-should-not-have-been-canceled/226819/10 "2004-01-30T20:50:20Z")
I third **My So Called Life**.
There’s never been a fictional character I identified with more strongly than Brian Krakow.
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### Author:  [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-season-tv-series-that-should-not-have-been-canceled/226819/11 "2004-01-30T20:51:39Z")
**Firefly** - oh, yeah. Please, may the gods of entertainment money let the movie happen, and let that give rise to a new series. Please?
**Cupid** - hysterical show. Brilliant writing. ABC. Doomed.
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2004, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-season-tv-series-that-should-not-have-been-canceled/226819/12 "2004-01-30T20:59:56Z")
[The Job](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272980/). That show was absolutely hilarious. I tuned in evert week, and was dumbfounded that they cancelled it.
I also really liked _Lucky_ on F/X. More inexplicable b/c it was exactly the kind of “cutting-edged” show that F/X was building along with _The Shield_ and _Nip/Tuck_.
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### Author:  [@St\_Ides](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St_Ides)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2004, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-season-tv-series-that-should-not-have-been-canceled/226819/13 "2004-01-30T21:09:55Z")
I love that cartoon.
Word is that the Canadian half is willing to make more, but MTV holds half the rights, and isn’t willing. Blast their oily hides!
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### Author:  [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-season-tv-series-that-should-not-have-been-canceled/226819/14 "2004-01-30T21:18:53Z")
Andy Richter Rules the Universe
The Tick
The New Adventures of Beans Baxter
Freakazoid (or did that go for two?)
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### Author:  [@Husker\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Husker_Dude)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2004, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-season-tv-series-that-should-not-have-been-canceled/226819/15 "2004-01-30T21:21:25Z")
Oh yeah, **My So Called Life** was excellent. I didn’t recognize the name (had to look it up on IMDB), because when it ran in my country it was called **Angela.** I was only 10 or 11 when that show aired, and I remember that I thought Angela’s gay friend was actually a girl. God, I was a dumb kid.
I wonder if the show has aged horribly, or if it has held up. Probably the latter, because there’s some really memorable quotes on IMDB.
“Seeing a teacher’s actual lunch is, like, so depressing. Not to mention, her bra strap.”
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### Author:  [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2004, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-season-tv-series-that-should-not-have-been-canceled/226819/16 "2004-01-30T21:21:29Z")
Andy Richter **Controls** the Universe
mea culpa
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### Author:  [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2004, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-season-tv-series-that-should-not-have-been-canceled/226819/17 "2004-01-30T21:39:17Z")
[Ellery Queen](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072929/). Arguably the best mystery show ever on television. Certainly the only one whose mystery plots stood up against the best of mystery books. True figure-out-the-clue whodunnits. Perfect casting, perfect atmosphere (set in 1947), and plenty of big-name guest stars used well.
Went off the air because it was just too hard to find writers who could reach the level of writing required for the show and because star Jim Hutton was rumored to be impossible to work with.
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### Author:  [@foxymoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foxymoron)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2004, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-season-tv-series-that-should-not-have-been-canceled/226819/18 "2004-01-30T21:55:56Z")
In addition to _Freaks and Geeks_ and _My So-Called Life_, I mourn the loss of the not-even-a-full season _Maximum Bob_.
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### Author:  [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2004, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-season-tv-series-that-should-not-have-been-canceled/226819/19 "2004-01-30T21:56:51Z")
Another vote for **Fireflyl**. My other I’m-most-miserable-about-it-being-cancelled-before-it-even-finished-a-full-season vote would be **Babylon 5: Crusade**. Man, that had potential. Stupid TNT.
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### Author:  [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2004, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-season-tv-series-that-should-not-have-been-canceled/226819/20 "2004-01-30T22:04:58Z")
_SportsNight_
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