Posting for a second time, I had to add that I too liked Boston Common. Anthony Clark’s sister was soooooo hot. And I got to see her goodies, in a movie called Foxfire!
Another one to add to the list: Freakylinks. You never even watched it, did you? Sheesh. It had potential, I tells ya! But, it was taken from us. They also shoulda stuck with the original title: Fearsum.
I really enjoyed last year’s run of Peter Benchley’s Amazon. It wasn’t a great show, but it had a complex, interwoven plotline and solid performances by an ensemble cast. I would have loved to see what they could have done with it over the course of a couple of seasons, but alas, one is all it got.
And now, I have to try and figure out what happened after C. Thomas Howell showed up on top of that waterfall with the Bible and an assault rifle.
So has any Doper ever actually seen the Straight Dope TV Show?
(Raises hand) Me! Me!
I have fond memories of “Dog on Chocolate” (A german shepherd supposedly high on chocolate ripping a man in padding to shreds). Hilarious!
The entire series is avaiable on video. Saw it in the store just a few weeks ago in a (I think) six tape set.
I was sure no one was going to beat me to Key West. Curse you bgr. Seamus was one of my favorite characters ever. “That Irish boy is gooood.”
Another vote for John Laroquette. The first season was so good that even when they downgraded the quality in the second, it was still one of the best shows around.
It’ll be cancelled again…don’t you worry. I think that show has more “coming out of retirements” than Michael Jordan.
Remember WENN AMCs first original series.
Brilliant writing and plotting and acting. It was an amazing show - it did last 4 seasons - but they were short 13 episode seasons.
The next to last episode ended with the announcement that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor (it took place in the late 30s, early 40s). The final episode ended with multiple cliffhangers - who was going to war? Who would the heroine choose? Was there going to be a secret marriage? Was there already a secret marriage?
AMC gave pathetic reasons for cancelling the show and treated the writer and actors horribly.
Murder One First season was amazing up until the final episode - which wasn’t half bad. But it had horrible jumping time slots and ABC never trusted it. Second season, they ripped away it’s heart and soul and turned it into a much lesser show (still with jumping time slots). This year’s 24 seems like a cheap copy to me.
Also on the list:
Cupid
SportsNight
Frank’s Place
Nothing Sacred (which I didn’t like, but was still quality tv)
Now & Again (same)
Freaks & Geeks (which I couldn’t watch, but was still quality tv)
Due South (inevitable death, given what happened between seasons 2 & 3. CBS should have treated it better.)
Another vote for Due South. WTF were they thinking, switching Ray Vecchio’s character like that? David Marciano was Vecchio. Their new version was just bad. I have nothing against Callum Keith Rennie, but he could’t get the same chemistry with Paul Gross as Marciano could. I think they were actually trying to kill the show.
I can’t believe no one mentionned American Gothic. That was my favorite show when it was on. Creepy, weird, unnerving, all good stuff! 
Ask us just how much we loved Cupid and how we thought it was one of the best shows in T.V. in a very long time.
Ask us how upset we were when we heard that it was being cancelled.
Ask me how much this still pisses us off.
Lola built a Cupid site that rocks and even got serious mention in the local news when she was trying to save the show along with thousands of other devoted fans.
She’s be happy to tell you all about it or send you to the website which has somewhere around 30,000 hits. Not bad for a show that no-one watched huh?
I still hate ABC for cancelling one of my favourite shows.
And yes… there are tapes out there.
Mission Hill. The funniest cartoon EVER was given to the WB! And they killed it! TWICE!!! 
The Critic
The Tick (Animated Series)
Family Guy
Tiny Toon Adventures (so many more things they could have covered!)
Animaniacs - See above
God, The Devil and Bob was ok, just ok. Nothing great. It sure as hell wasn’t as horrible as the bad press it recieved from the noise stirred wacko church groups, which killed it.
Murder Call
Denton
The Late Show
All fine Australian shows, treated like crap by the networks and eventually dumped. Sigh.
Feynn…can I have some? 
[sub](Jeremy Piven cracks my ass up; what a good comic actor.)[/sub]
I was heartbroken when they cancelled that one.
Sports Night-- just another reason why Disney and everything it owns must DIE! :rabid, slavering smily: When will network TV realize that shows without laugh tracks are pure, solid gold? And that you cannot, ever, switch a show’s timeslot?
The John Larroquette show-- fabulous, fabulous dark gritty and laugh out loud funny.
“I’m retiring” “I’ve never seen you before. What do you do?”
“You have to tape your keys together or you’ll be killed.”
Sledge Hammer-- I totally forgot about that! Loved it.
First show that came to my mind was I’ll Fly Away…not predominately black, but featured one of the strongest African-American roles ever created in the character Lily, played by Regina Taylor. This was a beautiful, moving program.
…and let me be the first and probably only person to add the Adventures of Mark and Brian.
The Tick - Can’t believe that they pulled it. I wonder what the live action show is going to be like.
Parker Lewis Can’t Lose - Although once they made Jerry less geeky, calmed down Parker’s hair, and featured Ms. Musso less (all of this in season 3, I think) the show wasn’t the same.
I sneakliy got a chance to see a poorly dubbed copy of the pilot episode through my work – the live action series is spectacular… even better than the cartoon if you’ll believe that.
I loved both Cupid and Sports Night. There is nothing worse than pulling an excellent show after one season. Great shows must be given time to develop an audience. Let people discover the show and stay. Some shows are instant hits but the best are the ones that grow into a hit.
Brisco County, Jr., we hardly knew ye. What a great show. Got shafted 'cause it was just too weird for the execs.
Sliders- great concept. Kept going WAY too long, and went downhill way too fast. Should’ve died a long time before it did, but I really enjoyed the first season.
Strange Luck- come on! Was I the only one who watched this wonderful, wonderful show? Some of those episodes gave me chills! And oh, the red-headed waitress… sigh