What’s not to love about a show with a convention of Elvis-impersonator vampires? And I get my steampunk where I can. 
I second Forever Knight . Far superior to Moonlight or Angel in the “good vampire” sub-genre.
And let me add Alien Nation . Granted, they probably had the right idea to turn it into a series of TV movies, but I really missed watching it every week.
Werewolf --One of Fox’s first shows, so not surprising that it didn’t last, but I loved it! And it had Chuck Connors!
Best of the West --80s sitcom starring Joel Higgins as a city slicker who becomes sheriff of a small Old West town.
Max Headroom
SCTV
Murder One
How could you forget Jamie Lee Curtis? :eek:
It sort of fades out season 4, when the firemen and fire part disappears, and they drop half the actors…
I suppose its a common thing, bit like Chicago Hope firing most of its actors in two of its seasons…
I loved it.
However, all reviews I’ve read of it seem to think its a comedy. It isn’t. It has its comedy moments, but its a drama set on the set of a comedy show…
They often pick 30 Rock as the example of what Studio 60 should have been. But it shouldn’t have. Both are great shows, and the critics who compare them together should be taken out and shot…
(IN COLOR)
Anyone remember VR5?
Also, a secret agent parody from Fox’s early years- “The New Adventures of Beans Baxter Jr.”
Bonus! Elanor Donohue was Beans’ Mom (also Chris’ Mom in GET A LIFE).
Double Bonus- the special guest star on one ep was G. GORDON LIDDY!
Definitely. That was fun.
Well it was enough to plumb the comedic depths of the main writer, Cleese. It was his choice to stop the show on 12 episodes, though perhaps this was affected by his divorce from his co-writer Connie Booth.
I must admit, if it had any other writers, it wouldn’t be the same show…
Not true. The third series was the final series ever planned. The writers decided to finish it then (though perhaps there may have been room for an occasional special after that).
They wanted to follow the example that Cleese had set with Fawlty Towers and have a finite amount of good episodes.
The sad death of the actor/comedian who played Father Ted (Dermot Morgan) happened after the series was finished, 24 hours after filming the final episode…
As a fan of it, I had already reckoned the third series to be a lot weaker than the first two, but It certainly has its episodes…
I liked Chicago Hope.
I however, thought Northern Exposure had ran its course with the same amount of season.
I liked The Handler from a couple of years ago, but it got weaker in second half of the season and never showed its final episodes.
I also liked the first season of the Dragnet remake, however, when the dropped the main detective and filled it with young good looking people, it lost a hell of a lot.
Someone else mentioned Boomtown. That was good, and not sure if there were any second season episodes… I’m sure I saw some of them, but maybe confused them with final episodes of Season 1.
Early Edition. Hey, I liked the cat, okay?
God, the Devil and Bob.
For me, it’s The Dresden Files. It’s another series that suffered from episodes shown out of order (that’s my understanding, at least) and I’ll never be able to figure out why the execs at SciFi will cancel something like this and yet produce and continually air absolute crap. YMMV, of course.
Yeah, but you gotta admit: it went out with a style unmatched by any other show, before or since.
Not everyone does. I thought it was just dumb. But then, I think Whedon is a hack, so what do I know?
In a similar vein (pun) was Kindred: The Embraced, a show about vampires based on the Vampire: Masquerade role playing game. It was extremely good and showed an interesting take on vampire society. Unfortunately it never made it past the second series as the lead actor was killed shortly after the end of the first.
Yeah, Crusade, now there was a show on the brink of greatness. But the way I heard it, the reason it got cancelled is that the ever-stupid Sci-Fi channel told JMS (the creator) to make a bunch of changes that they thought would make it more popular (stuff like “More action”, “More explosions”), and he just refused to sacrifice his creative vision of the show. So maybe it’s just as well. Too bad that he couldn’t find a different home for it, though.
The Odyssey
It was about a boy in a coma who finds himself in a world where adults do not exist. Yes, it was a kid’s series, but I loved that show.
I really wanted to follow that show when I was younger, but it was on cable at a time that clashed with something on terrestrial television that my mum wanted to watch and we couldn’t watch or record both at the same time, so I only saw part of three episodes and one in full. :mad:
Was it even on Scifi? I seem to recall it was on a different network but they’d only show it at random late-night times so you never really knew when it would be on. Someone wanted that show dead.