Great series you somehow missed during their original runs

Picket Fences

Firefly
Survivors

I’ll Fly Away - I love Regina Taylor and Sam Waterston (sp?)
The Wire
The Corner

News Radio
Suddenly Susan

This. Exactly. I didn’t know that there even was a series until after I saw Serenity. And that was a couple of years after it came out.

Then, I was telling a buddy of mine (who is a big time Whedon fan) about how I was bummed that there’ll be no more adventures of Cpt Reynolds and he told me to watch Buffy and Angel. I was quite dubious. Why would a 30 YO guy want to watch a show about high schoolers chasing vampires?

Yup, watched every season of both shows. I never watched them at all when they were actually one the air.

Except for the time I thought I was tuning in for Dark Angel because that chick is hawt and accidentally tuned into some show about a broody vampire with a soul that I didn’t bother giving a chance.

I’d never seen an episode of Spaced, from the writer and director of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz until I was given the first series on DVD. That was a good present.

Another predictable mention for Firefly, which I’d never even heard of until Serenity was released.