Good TV Sitcoms that only lasted a few episodes

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Carnac, I remember Heartland. I thought it was pretty good - the only episode I remember, though, is when the grandfather took his granddaughter to NYC for a Julliard audition and then ended up staying at a skeezy rent-by-the-hour hotel.

I also liked Partners, a sort-of-ripoff of Friends with Tate Donovan and John Cryer.

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I liked this one too and am surprised it’s remembered by anybody else. Susan Tyrrell played the wife on that- she went on to play some really memorable horrid women in Cry Baby and on Wings. (She recently had her legs amputated but is still acting.)

For some reason known only to the gods of the Pittsburgh mass transit system, the theme song for that actually stuck in my head to this day (along with the one for Best of the West):

*This is the story of Gordon Feester
born in Cincinatti on the day before Easter
didn’t go to college but he wasn’t a fool…
*
Oh well, I’ve made my pointlessness.

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I liked “Partners” too…for some unknown reason. I don’t really like “Friends”

Three cheers for “The Tick” & “Andy Richter”, and I’ll add “Sports Night” to the discussion.

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Oh my god, I LOVED that show! Faked illness to get out of dinner with my grandma so I could watch the ep where JFK was killed.

And Cupid was great, too!

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TV Tome agrees with Mr. Blue Sky regarding Family Dog’s number of episodes.

I see where the confusion is, one of the user comments at IMDb says there are indeed 10 eps. but only half were shown in the US.

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I seem to remember one called Pig Sty that I think was made by UPN …
Agree on Brisco County jnr, Now and Again and Bakersfield PD

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**Spencer ** was a funny show way back in the mid-eighties starring Chad Lowe. I only remember it lasting about 4 or 5 episodes.

And I’ll second The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.

Does Futurama count? Or is 4 seasons not considered early in the running?

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How about The Thorns ?
A Reagan-era satire about a shamelesssly social-climbing family of New Yorkers.
The theme song include the classic lines: “We’re upping our income/so why don’t you up yours?”

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Brisco County Jr. was fun.

And, it figures, having just started watching TV again after a 2 year hiatus, I sort of liked Wonder Falls, and now it’s cancelled. After 4 episodes? WTF? Oh well.