Shows I wish had lasted longer

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I’m certain these (at least some) have been discoursed, but I didn’t get the chance to partake. Also, I feel the desire to lament.

Joan of Arcadia - I know there are numerous other fans of this show on the Boards, so you know where I’m coming from. This show was, to my mind, the best on TV when it aired. It was heartfelt, poignant, and looked at serious issues of family, faith, coming of age, and crime in the modern world all rolled into a really touching way. This show - almost by definition - always kept us guessing and was so very well written.

Lament.

Blade: The Series - Not nearly so esoteric, I know, but damn. The convoluted politics, high-tech violence and lets say it: vampires made it pretty stinkin’ cool. It wasn’t the best written show, but it was always interesting and shootem-up enough to keep a person at the end of a long day of work on the edge.

Lament.

Threshold - An entirely too short-lived series by SciFi, this show gave us a mapped-out and smart alien invasion unfolding smartly in a world of really blase thoughts about the subject. Again, it wasn’t incredible, but it was very smart and fairly easily believable in the suspension area. Now world-shattering combat like Stargate - step-by-step subjigation of the Earth and what out Top People were doing to stop it.

[sigh] Lament.

I miss these shows and wish they had all lasted a little longer.

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Arrested Development.

Man, do I miss that show.

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Can’t believe I get to be the first person to mention Firefly. I wouldn’t have wanted it to last more than three years, though. That’s when suckiness tends to set in. (For the five Dopers who aren’t Firefly fans, it only lasted one year.)

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I really miss “Third Watch”. I watch the reruns all the time and hope to get the series on DVD at some point.

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I may be the only one, but I really liked Studio 60 and I was very cross with the rest of the country for not “getting it”.

And from a few years ago, Cupid. Jeremy Pivens was freaking hilarious on that show, and still ABC pulled the plug. stupid wankers.

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I can’t believe The Simpsons has been allowed to putter along half or quarter assed for so long when Futurama was cut down in it’s prime.

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Firefly
Freaks and Geeks
Futurama
Sports Night
Wonderfalls
Journeyman

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Get a Life

Austin Stories

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Brimstone. Not only did Fox can it after 2/3rds of a season, but they did so right after a major revelation about one of the regular characters:

Ash, the female cop and seeming ally of Zach, actually was the ringleader of Hell’s escapees.

I’d love to have seen all that play out. Alas not.

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Going to second Wonderfalls, Joan of Arcadia and Journeyman as well as Threshold and, of course, Firefly.

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I really liked The Tick, and was very cross when it abruptly vanished.

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Veronica Mars just broke my heart ending as it did. Yes, season 3 sucked. I so desperately needed that fourth season to resolve things.

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Cop Rock.
No, I’m serious. The premise was bizarre which is always fun, and there was singing and dancing. I loved it!

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Journeyman
John Doe
Pete and Pete!

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The Chronicle. The stories a tabloid wrote about were real. Sort of a Men In Black theme. This particular story sent one of the reporters back in time with her lover who was in a time travel witness protection program. It ended the series. It would have been so easy to write another episode, because Stern would have owned the time machine. Not a time machine, but the Time Machine written about by H G Wells. :slight_smile:

Star Trek: Enterprise. Hell, it was getting better, even if they had that Fan Fic couple writing for it. And the bastards killed off Trip!

Thief. One season on FX, dammit.

Touching Evil. A cop show I actually liked. Jeffrey Donovan (Burn Notice) was a seriously messed up guy after being clinically dead for a bit after a gunshot wound.

The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne. Steampunk! On the Sci Fi channel. G-d hates me.

And of course, Firefly.

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I wasn’t crazy about what they did with Doc but I liked it until it became Cop Watch. We already had enough cop shows. I started to hate it when it became Brassy Hispanic Chick Cop Watch.
Here’s an old one:
Shadow Chasers, a precursor to X-Files with Trevor Eve and Dennis Duggan. It didn’t last long.

Also;
Wonderfalls
Futurama
Surface
Earth 2, mostly because Tim Curry is deliciously evil

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MST3K is the only show I actively lament.

Well, maybe the monster episodes of the X-Files, too.

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Oh, well *Firefly * was really effing good. Two more season would not have hurt that at all, I’ll agree.

And *Enterprise * I think was not nearly so bad as people think it was. I’m cathcing up on the many episodes I missed currently on SciFi and they are really quite good.

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I liked what Donovan did with the character. I’m glad Burn Notice is coming back. If you liked Touching Evil you should check out the original British version. It’s on Netflix.
And as for the OP, I give you Frank’s Place.

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Blade: The Series should have gone on as long as Highlander: The Series.