# Shows you liked with unreleased episodes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 28, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-liked-with-unreleased-episodes/469959 "2008-10-28T16:48:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-liked-with-unreleased-episodes/469959/21 "2008-10-28T23:21:42Z")
**Ronald** , could it be _Surface_ or _Threshold_? Both of those shows premiered the same time as _Invasion_, which probably made SF fans crazy trying to decide which one to invest their time on. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Just\_Ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Ed)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-liked-with-unreleased-episodes/469959/22 "2008-10-28T23:23:01Z")
> [@Ronald\_C.Semone](#): > > The premise of the show I am thinking of is that a woman scientist had written a protocol of how we should deal with an alien invasion if it ever occurs and when it actually occurs she is hired to lead the small group of scientists who have to track down the aliens. I thought it was very good. I was heart-broken when it was cancelled. [Threshold](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_(TV_series))? I never saw it, but I was intrigued by the premise, and have been wondering whether or not I should pick up the [DVD set](http://www.amazon.com/Threshold-Complete-Norberto-Barba/dp/B000FIHN8O/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1225236069&sr=8-1). ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-liked-with-unreleased-episodes/469959/23 "2008-10-29T02:48:39Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > **Ronald** , could it be _Surface_ or _Threshold_? Both of those shows premiered the same time as _Invasion_, which probably made SF fans crazy trying to decide which one to invest their time on. _Threshold_! That’s it. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-liked-with-unreleased-episodes/469959/24 "2008-10-29T02:58:17Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > _Kidnapped_ from a couple years back on NBC. It starred Jeremy Sisto, Delroy Lindo, Dana Delaney, Tim Hutton – smart plot, good acting. NBC cancelled it after three episodes and released the rest on the website. It’s still the only time I’ve watched full episodes of TV on my computer. Not just watched, but sat at the PC Friday mornings at 9 a.m. waiting for the episode to come up. > > It might be out on DVD but I’m so mad at NBC for cancelling it, I’m not even gonna look. > > . It is out on DVD, and it actually finishes out the story. Well worth watching. Also, _My Own Worst Enemy_, which has just started on NBC this season, is by the same producers and seems to be just as smart and well-acted. ---
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-liked-with-unreleased-episodes/469959/25 "2008-10-29T03:02:36Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > There was a criminal drama that got cut after only an episode or two in the past few years, they pulled off a museum job or something but killed a guard. It looked interesting but I never got to find out how good it was. Sorry for two posts in a row, but I missed this the first time around. This was called _Smith_, and CBS had a couple episodes shot that they never showed, but had on their website, and they also had a few episode descriptions of ones they didn’t shoot but apparently finished out the story. Unfortunately, I waited too long and it is gone from their website, and I never got to see the unbroadcasted ones, nor did I read the descriptions of the later ones. If anyone knows where I could see those, I would be grateful. Also, there was a FOX show called _Drive_, I think, about a cross-country road race that seemed interesting, but it was cancelled quickly. My DVR said they had scheduled the two episodes they never showed a couple times that summer, but it was alway rescheduled at the last minute, and I never saw those. Again, if anyone knows where I could see those… ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Just\_Ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Ed)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-liked-with-unreleased-episodes/469959/26 "2008-10-29T08:44:33Z")
[_Drive_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_(TV)) only produced six episodes, four of which aired. The last two were made available online after their broadcast was pushed back and then cancelled, but they no longer seem available at [Fox.com](http://Fox.com). Too bad, although the series’ story arcs were nowhere near complete at six episodes. I don’t know what kind of profitability criteria a potential DVD release needs to meet, but I wouldn’t be hopeful this one would. The Wiki article has a link to an [interview](http://tvseriesfinale.com/articles/drive-what-wouldve-happened-on-the-cancelled-series/) with the creators talking about their once-future plans for the show. So _Drive_ is actually overqualified per the OP - not only were the unaired episodes not released to DVD, the series was never even finished in production. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-liked-with-unreleased-episodes/469959/27 "2008-10-29T08:56:52Z")
Firefly, of course. And Daybreak - a series about a cop who kept reliving the same day over and over. It was kind of silly that they didn’t just play the remainder of the episodes since they had already completed them all, or pretend it was a miniseries. It’s not like there was anything else on while we were waiting for Lost to come back. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-liked-with-unreleased-episodes/469959/28 "2008-10-29T14:44:18Z")
Were any episodes of Viva Laughlin ever shown online? Only 2 were broadcast. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-liked-with-unreleased-episodes/469959/29 "2008-10-29T15:21:57Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > **Wonderfalls**. Extra irritating b/c in the unaired episodes, Jewel Staite had a recurring role, pre-Firefly. > > …and they aired all of them later on Logo, a channel I don’t get for some annoying reason. Yes…but it’s out on DVD, right? I thought this thead was about shows _not_ on DVD that had unaired episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-liked-with-unreleased-episodes/469959/30 "2008-10-29T15:28:33Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Yes…but it’s out on DVD, right? I thought this thead was about shows _not_ on DVD that had unaired episodes. Aside from Drive and Smith, none of the shows mentioned in this thread qualify if you folow the rules of the OP. And if the complete series of stuff like The Black Donnelys is released, I think nearly everything that doesn’t get canned too early (like Drive) will eventually be released on DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-liked-with-unreleased-episodes/469959/31 "2008-10-29T15:44:31Z")
My wife liked a show called [Reunion](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reunion_(TV_series)) on Fox. I watched a bit of it here and there. They seemed to of had a few shows that were not aired at all and the killer wasn’t known though the wiki page says the producers said who it was. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-liked-with-unreleased-episodes/469959/32 "2008-10-29T15:56:38Z")
I don’t know if _Brimstone_ had any eps left in the can when it got (umm) canned by Fox, but you’d think so. Fox’s timing was especially egregrious because In the last aired episode, the lady cop (Ash) that Zach had befriended was actually revealed to be the ringleader of the escapees from Hell, and even the Devil himself warns Zach about her powers and wiles. I swear I want to bitchslap Fox execs sometimes… ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-liked-with-unreleased-episodes/469959/33 "2008-10-29T19:51:27Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Yes…but it’s out on DVD, right? I thought this thead was about shows _not_ on DVD that had unaired episodes. Post #14. I already threw myself out a window - what else do you want? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-liked-with-unreleased-episodes/469959/34 "2008-10-30T23:54:55Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > And Daybreak - a series about a cop who kept reliving the same day over and over. It was kind of silly that they didn’t just play the remainder of the episodes since they had already completed them all, or pretend it was a miniseries. It’s not like there was anything else on while we were waiting for Lost to come back. Yes! And, goddamnit, it was a really good frigging show! Leaving out Hugh Lauire in House and Chi McBride in Pushing Daisies, it also had the best casting calls ever frigging made. Taye Diggs is a brilliant actor, Adam Baldwin actually got to do a bit of fricking real drama, Moon Bloodgood is gorgeous as well as emotionally evocative and it bloody well was the only well-written time-jumping show I’ve seen. _Gods damnit!_ I’m _still_ pissed at ABC for pulling it. Only half the episodes were ever aired - gratefully, the rest were put on ABCs web-site and thoroughly pirated from there. For once, I’ve felt good about pirating, since this never even saw DVD release. ---
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-liked-with-unreleased-episodes/469959/35 "2008-10-31T14:42:09Z")
Unfortunately, _The Ex-List_ is the newest network casualty, with only 4 episodes (I think) shown and at least 6 more having been produced. Dang, I was really digging it, too. I really hate Les Moonves (OK, he’s just a convenient scapegoat, but still)… ---
**Author:** ![Shecky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shecky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shecky)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-liked-with-unreleased-episodes/469959/36 "2008-10-31T15:15:51Z")
Live Action _The Tick_ supposedly had 3 extra episodes, but I couldn’t find it on DVD. It was a HILARIOUS show, too bad it got canceled early. ---
**Author:** ![Dosipede](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dosipede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dosipede)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-liked-with-unreleased-episodes/469959/37 "2008-10-31T15:29:07Z")
I saw some anti-ABC sentiment a few posts up, and I have to agree. There was a sitcom my senior year called “It’s Like, You Know” about a writer who writes about L.A. but hates it. It tried to create a Seinfeld for the west coast, for which it was mercilessly ridiculed, then cancelled half a season into its run. There are episodes that were never released, and I have never seen even so much as a peep about DVDs. I still hold a grudge against ABC for canceling it right when I was getting into it, and that was almost a decade ago. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Just\_Ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Ed)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-liked-with-unreleased-episodes/469959/38 "2008-10-31T22:49:15Z")
> [@Shecky](#): > > Live Action _The Tick_ supposedly had 3 extra episodes, but I couldn’t find it on DVD. It was a HILARIOUS show, too bad it got canceled early. [The Tick](http://www.amazon.com/Tick-Entire-Patrick-Warburton/dp/B0000AUHQE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1225493238&sr=1-1) (Amazon). ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-liked-with-unreleased-episodes/469959/39 "2008-11-01T02:35:15Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Yes…but it’s out on DVD, right? I thought this thead was about shows _not_ on DVD that had unaired episodes. Sometimes a thread goes beyond what an OP intended, and as long as it isn’t a complete hijack, that often can be a good thing. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-liked-with-unreleased-episodes/469959/40 "2008-11-01T02:59:30Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Post Firefly actually. Wonderfalls was the first thing she did after Firefly was canceled (with unaired episodes, natch) and I think the only reason she was free was because Firefly was no more. Did she play Heidi-Ho? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-liked-with-unreleased-episodes/469959.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-liked-with-unreleased-episodes/469959.md?page=3)