# Favorite short-lived TV shows **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2002, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-short-lived-tv-shows/104055 "2002-04-17T02:09:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![bibliophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bibliophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophile)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-short-lived-tv-shows/104055/61 "2002-04-20T01:33:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lok \* > \*\ ***Cupid** and **Sports Night** , both intelligent, well written, good characters. Of course they didn’t make it. \*\* I have to agree. I thought Sports Night was great. Jeremy Piven is brillant in just about anything, I was sad to see Cupid go. I think they were both on ABC right? Relativity is another ABC show that I don’t think got a fair shot. ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-short-lived-tv-shows/104055/62 "2002-04-20T02:39:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by simply\_cats \* > \*\*My television habits are- at best- sporadic, but a show that I truly loved was “Stark Raving Mad” … mostly because I know a man who _is_ the Doogie Howser guy… I almost peed my pants every time he pulled out the hand sanitizer. > > Like I said, my tv-watching isn’t very predictable, so it might still be on. If it is, could someone tell me when??? 🙂 \*\* I thought I was the only one in the world who loved that show. I laughed out loud at almost every episode. Unfortunately, they canceled it. I don’t think it even lasted an entire season. Yet they kept bringing back that Tea Leoni sitcom back from the dead over and over. Go figure. Sheri ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-short-lived-tv-shows/104055/63 "2002-04-20T04:32:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by blur \* > \*\* My So Called Life. \*\* I loved that show. Probably because I’m a combination of Angela and Rayanne. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-short-lived-tv-shows/104055/64 "2002-04-20T05:22:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DesertGeezer \* > \*\*A resounding “hear, hear” (or is that “here, here”?) for **When Things Were Rotten**. I like anything assoiciated with Mel Brooks (with the single exception of a film a while back called **Life Sucks,** which was a real downer). Here, here. I agree, on both points. > [@](#): > > Dipping back in years a little farther, **The Charmings** was, I thought, really funny, especially the dliciously nasty Judy Parfitt as Queen Lillian White, and the hilariously sarcastic Paul Winfield as the Mirror. How was the queen less than the fairest? Let the Mirror count the ways! I have (I think) all of these on tape from their initial airing. > [@](#): > > But going really back (so many of you people are so young!) to the early seventies, a fine gentle comedy called **My World, And Welcome To It** , based on the writings of James Thurber, came and went seemingly in a flash. It starred William Windom. I guess its run was so short (I don’t think it passed 13 episodes) because the material was too sophisticated for audiences who howled at \*\*The Beverly Hillbillies[/] and its ilk. \*\* I loved this one too. I also thought **The Beverly Hillbillies** was pretty funny, which I suppose indicates that I have a wide range of comedic appreciation. This whole thread has been fascinating. My question to all of you who liked older shows: how many of you wish that video recorders had been around back then, so you’d have copies to re-watch now? ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-short-lived-tv-shows/104055/65 "2002-04-20T05:49:48Z")
The Irish/Channel 4 programme “ **Father Ted** ”. It was just SO inconsiderate for the principal actor - Dermot Morgan - to die. Grrr! It was a wonderful comedy programme. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-short-lived-tv-shows/104055/66 "2002-04-22T11:36:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Broken Doll \* > \*\*What was the name of the extremely short-lived sitcom which had the luscious Lori Petty in it playing a waitress at Hooters? > > I wanna see that again just for perving _pouts_ \*\* [Lush Life](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0115256). “I put 'em on when I get there!” ---
**Author:** ![Ura-Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Ura-Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ura-Maru)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-short-lived-tv-shows/104055/67 "2002-04-22T13:57:34Z")
Anamaniacs was never more than a shallow echo of the genuinely clever Tiny Toons. Most of it’s skits were funny the first time, but were just too stupid to work over and over. ‘He’s really a chicken!’ THAT’S your big punchline? It lasted five years, though, so I’m not sure it qualifies as ‘short lived.’ Freakazoid was awesome, though. 🙂 **Max Headroom.** **Duckman** (How long did that last?) **Big O** (You never specified it had to be an AMERICAN show) Sunrise seems to be having a run of bad luck. How could anyone in their right mind think of canceling Cowboy Bebop? A year ago I would have said **ReBoot** , but they managed to scrape a fourth season together. Now if there was only some way to SEE it, south of Canada . . . Pilot Candidate and Baby Blues somehow got picked over this, Cartoon Network? I saw a bit of Cyber-Six. It seemed ok, but I’d had way too much buildup to accept just ok. It couldn’t seem to make up its mind weather it wanted to be serious or not. You can do both at once, but usually not when your villains are that cartoony . . . – Yet another show that demonstrates this fundamental truth: With massive amounts of gentic manipulation, someday we can make a woman who’s almost as good as a man. ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-short-lived-tv-shows/104055/68 "2002-04-22T14:10:52Z")
Yet another reason why Fox sucks- The deaths of “Space: Above and Beyond” and “The Lone Gunmen”. Chris Carter worked many of the Space alumni into the X-files. The Lone Gunmen made some post–cancelation appearances on X-files- including last night. . . . . -me [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-short-lived-tv-shows/104055.md?page=3)