No one’s mentioned Homicide yet?
Dark Angel
Birds of Prey
Firefly
And I might as well add FastLane, cuz it’ll probably be cancelled soon enough…it’s been moved to the Friday of Doom slot.
“Homicide: Life on the Streets” was indeed a great show, and one of my Hall Of Famers, but it certainly didn’t get cancelled before it’s time. It had a pretty long run (especially considering the crappy ratings), and a great finale TV movie to close things up…Timmy
Cupid!!!
[sub]geeze, I get all the way down here and noone has mentioned Cupid yet. Has it already been forgotten?[/sub]
I’ll second Profit and It’s your move…both cool shows and add one I haven’t seen listed yet.
American Gothic…To be honest I don’t really see how it could of lasted more than a couple seasons anyway but to kill it before it made it to the end of it’s first season seemed to me premature.
Here’s a second to the nomination of Doctor, Doctor–a truly hilarious show that was snuffed out way too early.
Lok!!! Yes! definitely Cupid!!
I don’t believe I had forgotten that show. I thought I was the only one who watched it! Whenever I’d mention it to someone I’d just get that dull, blank look. It is because of that series that I adore Jeremy Piven as much as I do.
sigh
I don’t know that this is really the point. Yes, maybe it’s incorrect to say any of these shows shouldn’t have been cancelled, but the tragedy (and maybe the fault, dear Brutus, lies not within the suits but in our selves) is that you can no longer see these programs every week and yet “According to Jim” and “The District” continue on.
As to letter-writing campaigns, sure, they typically don’t work, but they have worked at least twice (Cagney & Lacey and the original Star Trek). The second in particular was quite important – although it lasted only one extra season (and that a rather lackluster one), that bumped the number of available episodes up to the syndication minimum of 79, making possible all the later movies and series.
–Cliffy
Well apparently you and I were just about all that watched it. I do have to admit, I really enjoyed the writing, especially the dialogue. Jeremy Pivens does not do much for me. 
Jack and Jill.
I loved that show.
So, nobody’s lamenting David E. Kelley’s Girls Club?
Not I.
I’ll add another vote for Firefly, if only because my family’s sick of hearing me rant about it.
My So-Called Life. I loved that show.
And I can’t forget MST3K. I don’t care if it ran for 10 seasons. I want more!
Actually, ladybug, there were 11 seasons of MST3K including the KTMA days. Although they did later redo several of the KTMA movies in the earlier years (Godzillas, Mighty Jack, etc.)
Aeon Flux went off the air after far too few episodes. Ditto to Sifl + Olly… it would seem that MTV can’t hold on to anything too good for any extended period of time. Hoo boy, can’t keep going on with this “unique” and “entertaining” crap!! Quick, schedule another rerun of the 2002 Mtv Whatchamahickey Awards Extravaganza Supreme hosted by Jill Celebrity!
Freaks and Geeks is also sorely missed.
Thanks, Vanyel. 
I thought of that while I was posting, but I wasn’t sure if the 10 seasons included the KTMA days.
I still want more episodes, though.
Then come one over to the Digital Archive Project and start downloading!
Crap. At least now I know whose fault it was and how the travesty happened. I’ve always loathed Star Trek in all of its incarnations, and now I discover that if a few more people would have just pocketed their pens and shelved their typewriters like they should have, the world could have been saved all those terrible hours of continuously recycled drek.
Darn.
Two series I can’t believe got yanked were Square Pegs (It was on when I was in 7th grade and gave me a lifelong lust for Sarah Jessica Parker), and Key West, which was killed by Fox after 12 episodes but had some of the best writing in the history of television.
BTW: I met Johnen Vasquez and the rest of the ZIM crew ehre in Phoenix around Halloween. To say that it’s unlikely JV will ever work with Nick again is a mild understatement. He feels he’s been “repeatedly ass-raped by those monkey-brained wastrels” and with pretty good reason, given the suit-mandated direction he was forced to put up with on every episode despite the promise of creative control and artistic freedom in his contract.
On the upside, though, I DID get to see the never-to-be released final episode of ZIM that night. Glorious.
Thanks to The Wrong Girl for remembering Frank’s Place, which lacked car chases, smutty double entendres, in-jokes and other accoutrements of successful shows and simply featured quality writing and acting. What a concept - a show that inspires you to think instead of turning off that facility.