# I Need Resolution **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 16, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-resolution/477412 "2008-12-16T16:42:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-resolution/477412/1 "2008-12-16T16:42:26Z")
[This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=497683) thread about the lack of resolution in a canceled TV program let me wondering how many others there are out there and the questions that go with them. Within 3 hours of the mainland and the professor never got them off the island? The little alien guy that eats cats, is he still stranded? Was Tony Soprano about to be assassinated? Will the reporter become a vampire to be with her one true love? Was Patrick Swayze’s heart attack fatal? Anybody have any theories, suggestions or inside scope on discontinued series that ended in cliffhangers? ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-resolution/477412/2 "2008-12-16T18:30:51Z")
There were two Gilligan’s Island made for TV movies. In the first movie they’re rescued but they decide they like it better on the island and open a resort. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-resolution/477412/3 "2008-12-16T19:23:46Z")
I used to watch Vegas with my GF, during the last season Tom Selleck was the casino owner. It was actually a pretty decent show, but the last episode was a sort of cliffhanger with one of the characters about to deliver a baby. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-resolution/477412/4 "2008-12-16T19:29:46Z")
You’re talking about [Las Vegas](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364828/) (Vegas was the Robert Urich series from the late '70s), and I was really disappointed they left that show hanging, too. I liked Tom Selleck in that role a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-resolution/477412/5 "2008-12-16T21:34:07Z")
The _Quantum Leap_ series finale got a big huge “huh?” from me and left a lot of questions unanswered. Ok, so Sam goes back and tells Beth to wait for Al. Good for them and everything, but won’t that change the course of Al’s life dramatically? Isn’t it possible that Al will never come across Sam in this new course and won’t be a part of the Quantum Leap project? Did this invalidate the entire series? There were a number of instances where, without Al, Sam wouldn’t have succeeded in his mission or even survived. And what was with “Dr. Sam Beckett never returned home”? Does that mean he just continued to leap forever? Until he died of old age? Did he even have a choice in the matter? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-resolution/477412/6 "2008-12-16T22:37:47Z")
The castaways weren’t “three hours” from Hawaii, they had been on a “three-hour tour” when caught by a typhoon. The best estimate of the island’s position was five hundred miles southeast of Hawaii. A TV movie showed Alf as more or less the pampered guest of the secret government agency studying him. ---
**Author:** ![Peanut\_Gallery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/838e76/32.png) [@Peanut\_Gallery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanut_Gallery)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-resolution/477412/7 "2008-12-16T22:56:37Z")
How’s Annie? ---
**Author:** ![Atrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Atrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atrael)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-resolution/477412/8 "2008-12-17T15:09:05Z")
John Doe ended after one season with a reveal that actually did catch me by surprise. Huge cliffhanger that was never resolved. ’ I think the show “7 Days” ended without any real wrap up or anything.