I liked both Cupid and Titus!
:dubious:
Home Movies. Brilliant show with one of the greatest characters ever created, Coach McGuirk. Perhaps I feel it ended too early because I wasn’t expecting it to end. There was no hype or fanfare or notice given at all. I watched the last episode without realizing it was the last episode until the very end, at which point I was struck by a sense of finality previously unknown to the series.
Samurai Jack. Poor Jack never made it home.
Damn you Cartoon Network and your rule of 52!
The Byrds of Paradise
Second Noah
I don’t know how good these were; I was a little kid when they were on. But I remember my mom liking them, and she’s a pretty good critic, and I have good memories of the programs!
Second that.
Too bad, I wanted them to do “The Father Hunt”.
I nominate Cop Rock. That shoulda gone on for a few more seasons.
>duck and cover<
Titus was definetly an underrated show! Good stuff, but I always forgot when it was on… :(.
I’ll also second both ‘Wonderfalls’ and ‘Andy Richter Controls the Universe’. With all the shows Fox prematurely canceled you could start a network that would kick ass in the ratings (they just needed a bit of time to find their audience… like Seinfeld did).
Mission Hill
I’ve seen a whole week of TV watching already posted on this thread. When you consider some of the crap that’s on TV now it’s pretty amazing that all of these good shows are gone.
Two more in my list are-
Going to Extremes
Loved the writing in this one and escpecially loved the side story with Charlie (Andrew Lauer) and the local natives.
and
Life with Bonnie
This one just had a dialogue that was both uneasy and yet refreshing. The conversation to me was the most realistic dialogue in a sitcom.
Boomtown
I knew for a while that there was something I wanted to post on this thread, but could never remember it 'til today. (Was reminded by the IMDB ‘please meet’ for Bonnie Somerville)
Grosse Pointe! That was a really hilarious show, and it never seemed to get the attention it deserved. All of the satirical jabs of teen prime-time soaps just seemed so dead on. (sigh.) And it didn’t even quite get a full year IIRC.
Oh, and while I’m at theWB’s graveyard… (yikes!) Glory Days was really pretty good too.
The only consolation of shows like this is that almost always the actors pop up in other places. Irene Malloy went from grosse point to andy richter, bonnie to friends and the oc. whatsername from glory days moved on to everwood, and the doctor chick is on ‘without a trace’ now, isn’t she??
First of all, I want to mention that both Police Squad and Quark were not meant to have any more episodes. (In fact, Quark was where I first heard the term mini-series, although what it has come to mean now isn’t the same thing) I loved both those show but they ended when the creators wanted them to end.
I’ll add a little known show from about 20 years ago. Masquerade. It was about three government agents running Project Masquerade.
The idea was that most of the current intelligence community would be recognized or background checks would reveal them so they would hire civillians with the skills necessary for the job. One classic example was when the hired an old lady with a bad driving record to “accidentally” crash into a known enemy engent film drop.
The show never revealed the government agents’ plans so you never knew if the civillians were screwing up or following the plan. And if something went wrong, you never knew if it was really wrong or if that was part of the scheme.