# Shows I wish had lasted longer **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 24, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-i-wish-had-lasted-longer/438918 "2008-02-24T03:57:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-i-wish-had-lasted-longer/438918/1 "2008-02-24T03:57:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-i-wish-had-lasted-longer/438918/2 "2008-02-24T04:02:03Z")
_Arrested Development_. Man, do I miss that show. ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-i-wish-had-lasted-longer/438918/3 "2008-02-24T04:04:04Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![BrknButterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@BrknButterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrknButterfly)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-i-wish-had-lasted-longer/438918/4 "2008-02-24T04:06:27Z")
I really miss “_Third Watch_”. I watch the reruns all the time and hope to get the series on DVD at some point. ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-i-wish-had-lasted-longer/438918/5 "2008-02-24T04:11:49Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-i-wish-had-lasted-longer/438918/6 "2008-02-24T04:12:15Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-i-wish-had-lasted-longer/438918/7 "2008-02-24T04:24:52Z")
Firefly Freaks and Geeks Futurama Sports Night Wonderfalls Journeyman ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-i-wish-had-lasted-longer/438918/8 "2008-02-24T04:26:19Z")
_Get a Life_ _Austin Stories_ ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-i-wish-had-lasted-longer/438918/9 "2008-02-24T04:47:42Z")
_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. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-i-wish-had-lasted-longer/438918/10 "2008-02-24T04:50:37Z")
Going to second Wonderfalls, Joan of Arcadia and Journeyman as well as Threshold and, of course, Firefly. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-i-wish-had-lasted-longer/438918/11 "2008-02-24T05:19:21Z")
I really liked _The Tick_, and was very cross when it abruptly vanished. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-i-wish-had-lasted-longer/438918/12 "2008-02-24T05:21:55Z")
_Veronica Mars_ just broke my heart ending as it did. Yes, season 3 sucked. I so desperately needed that fourth season to resolve things. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveroptic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiveroptic/32/8257_2.png) [@Fiveroptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveroptic)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-i-wish-had-lasted-longer/438918/13 "2008-02-24T05:22:41Z")
_Cop Rock._ No, I’m serious. The premise was bizarre which is always fun, and there was singing and dancing. I loved it! ---
**Author:** ![ChrisBooth12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@ChrisBooth12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisBooth12)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-i-wish-had-lasted-longer/438918/14 "2008-02-24T05:38:43Z")
Journeyman John Doe Pete and Pete! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-i-wish-had-lasted-longer/438918/15 "2008-02-24T05:45:02Z")
[The Chronicle.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0540957/) 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. 🙂 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.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383153/) 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.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Adventures_of_Jules_Verne) Steampunk! On the Sci Fi channel. G-d hates me. And of course, _Firefly._ ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-i-wish-had-lasted-longer/438918/16 "2008-02-24T05:48:38Z")
[QUOTE=BrknButterfly] I really miss “_Third Watch_”. I watch the reruns all the time and hope to get the series on DVD at some point. [/QUOTE] 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 ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-i-wish-had-lasted-longer/438918/17 "2008-02-24T05:51:19Z")
MST3K is the only show I actively lament. Well, maybe the monster episodes of the X-Files, too. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-i-wish-had-lasted-longer/438918/18 "2008-02-24T06:08:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-i-wish-had-lasted-longer/438918/19 "2008-02-24T06:15:07Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] [Touching Evil.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383153/) 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. [/QUOTE] 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.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank's_Place) ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-i-wish-had-lasted-longer/438918/20 "2008-02-24T06:16:40Z")
_Blade: The Series_ should have gone on as long as _Highlander: The Series_. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-i-wish-had-lasted-longer/438918.md?page=2)