# Television-Now we'll NEVER know! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905 "2010-05-18T17:00:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Apocalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Apocalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apocalypso)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/41 "2010-05-20T02:12:27Z")
My nomination is **Action** , a surprisingly little known series that only lasted 1 run. It never got a second series, so we’ll never know if Peter Dragon’s Beverly Hills Gun Club movie became a hit or not. It would have been funny the movie tanked and his boss made him do humiliating things for revenge. Great show, too bad it got cut short. I wasn’t 100% sure if it counts because it’s pretty coarse for regular television (I think it was an HBO series) But I did catch first on Comedy Central - usually unannounced showings ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/42 "2010-05-20T03:14:20Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > The original _V_, the one creator Kenneth Johnson had anything to do with, ends with the resistance sending a signal into space to try to get help, knowing it might take decades. “V: The Original Mini-Series” (1983) ended with the signal into space. “V: The Final Battle” (the second mini-series, 1984), humans were able to create the red-dust bacteria weapon, the visitors died and the earth was being poisoned against them. They tried to use one of their ships as a nuclear warhead type thing and crash it, but Elizabeth, the human-lizard hybrid child used some kind of “magic” psychokinetic powers to make the ship stop its ballistic heading. :rolleyes: “V: The Series” the lizards come back having developed a work-around of some kind to deal with the red-dust bacteria. It ended as described above, with the now adult Elizabeth going of into space sort of as an ambassador with the leader of the lizards and her boyfriend stows away. Really the original mini-series ending that was so ambiguous was the best of the three. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/43 "2010-05-20T03:51:05Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > “V: The Series” the lizards come back having developed a work-around of some kind to deal with the red-dust bacteria. IIRC, the bacteria needed a dormant period to survive more than six months or something. So cities in areas that got an actual winter were V-free, but cities in warmer areas weren’t. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/44 "2010-05-20T04:01:15Z")
I was always annoyed with the way **The Pretender** ended. It got cartoony at the end and just went down hill once the chick with the sucker fascination was added to the show, but I just wanted a resolution. Just a basic “Does Jarod get a normal life eventually?” would have been nice. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/45 "2010-05-20T05:10:14Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Huff on Showtime. Did Teddy kill his girlfriend? How’d Russell do with his baby and his terrible, terrible drug problem? Will Huff’s son go completely whacky? Will Huff’s wife take him back? Come ON!!! Oooooh! Damn you! I’d forgotten Huff and now I’m back to wondering what was going to happen!!! ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/46 "2010-05-20T05:18:04Z")
New Amsterdam-he finally meets his true love and she can’t accept his immortality? So she just leaves him there to bum around New York forever? ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/47 "2010-05-20T09:20:19Z")
The X-Files ended with a cliffhanger of Scully being pregnant and us not knowing who the father was; we also never got a definitive answer about what happened to Samantha. Still, I guess that was better than having two more seasons even though the show had clearly run its course. ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/48 "2010-05-20T09:25:43Z")
NOW AND AGAIN. I’ll never know the fate of Michael Wiseman and his family. Did she ever find out the truth? Did Dr Morris kill them? ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/49 "2010-05-20T09:57:06Z")
It’s possible the ending of \*\*Blake’s 7 \*\*was left to be deliberately ambiguous (as they weren’t sure if there would be a 5th series), but one would still like to know what happened after the screen went blank. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/50 "2010-05-20T12:54:31Z")
> [@Daddypants](#): > > Recently, I thought The Sarah Connor Chronicles had one of the best cliffhangers I’d seen. Then, the show was cancelled and we’ll never know what happened. Basically, John Connor was sent to the future, skipping over the years where he becomes the leader of the resistance. It ended with John meeting his uncle in the future and his uncle has no idea who he is. > > How does John Connor get back to 2008? We’ll never know… I thought the cliffhanger was “are they going to try to be more like ‘Touched by an Angel,’ or more like ‘The X-Files’”? 😉 (Seriously, though, I was pissed off by this one too. And it was really finally starting to come into it’s own…in the last two episodes. :smack: ) ---
**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:** [May 20, 2010, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/51 "2010-05-20T13:20:32Z")
> [@Apocalypso](#): > > My nomination is **Action** , a surprisingly little known series that only lasted 1 run. It never got a second series, so we’ll never know if Peter Dragon’s Beverly Hills Gun Club movie became a hit or not. It would have been funny the movie tanked and his boss made him do humiliating things for revenge. Great show, too bad it got cut short. > I wasn’t 100% sure if it counts because it’s pretty coarse for regular television (I think it was an HBO series) But I did catch first on Comedy Central - usually unannounced showings Action was a Fox show and the producers actually had an out planned. After it was canceled, the last aired episode included a scene where Peter Dragon had a heart attack and died. ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/52 "2010-05-20T13:35:56Z")
Am I strange for wondering, all these years, about the ending of “ALF”? (Yeah, I just checked Wikipedia to see that there was a movie made that resolves the cliff hanger, but a) the plot outline in Wikipedia seems like this one has unresolved questions as well, and b) fat lot of good it does finding this out _14 years_ after the movie was released! Probably didn’t do too well in the box office, as I didn’t even know it was out … ) ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/53 "2010-05-20T14:50:36Z")
Oh! _Crime Story_! We never found out who survived the plane crash! ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/54 "2010-05-20T15:02:39Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > New Amsterdam-he finally meets his true love and she can’t accept his immortality? So she just leaves him there to bum around New York forever? I thought that in the end it wasn’t the Doctor? ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/55 "2010-05-20T15:07:42Z")
> [@dhkendall](#): > > Am I strange for wondering, all these years, about the ending of “ALF”? > > (Yeah, I just checked Wikipedia to see that there was a movie made that resolves the cliff hanger, but a) the plot outline in Wikipedia seems like this one has unresolved questions as well, and b) fat lot of good it does finding this out _14 years_ after the movie was released! Probably didn’t do too well in the box office, as I didn’t even know it was out … ) It was actually a made-for-TV movie (aired on ABC I believe). But I too wondered about the ending when I was a kid. I saw an interview with the creators once, and they said they weren’t sure whether or not NBC was going to renew the show, but went ahead and did the cliffhanger anyway because the network supposedly promised that if they did cancel the show they would allow the producers one more episode to resolve the storyline. Of course NBC later ended up reneging on that promise. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/56 "2010-05-20T15:23:07Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > “V: The Original Mini-Series” (1983) ended with the signal into space. > > “V: The Final Battle” (the second mini-series, 1984), humans were able to create the red-dust bacteria weapon, the visitors died and the earth was being poisoned against them. They tried to use one of their ships as a nuclear warhead type thing and crash it, but Elizabeth, the human-lizard hybrid child used some kind of “magic” psychokinetic powers to make the ship stop its ballistic heading. :rolleyes: > > “V: The Series” the lizards come back having developed a work-around of some kind to deal with the red-dust bacteria. It ended as described above, with the now adult Elizabeth going of into space sort of as an ambassador with the leader of the lizards and her boyfriend stows away. > > Really the original mini-series ending that was so ambiguous was the best of the three. But when Elizabeth is getting on the spaceship, Diana turns to one of her guys and says, “I left a little surprise on board, and they should get a BIG BANG out of it.” Then it ended. At least that’s what I remember - I was a kid, so it may be fuzzy. ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/57 "2010-05-20T16:08:17Z")
I loved **The Nine**. What happened in the bank that bonded them for life, dammit??? ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/58 "2010-05-20T16:25:53Z")
_Deadwood_ ended somewhat abruptly. Did Bullock just let Hearst ride away? Also, it has to be said: _Sopranos_. Russian. Pine Barrens. ---
**Author:** ![akrako1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@akrako1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akrako1)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/59 "2010-05-20T16:30:36Z")
> [@scifisam2009](#): > > The X-Files ended with a cliffhanger of Scully being pregnant and us not knowing who the father was; we also never got a definitive answer about what happened to Samantha. Still, I guess that was better than having two more seasons even though the show had clearly run its course. Here’s another instance where they had a follow up movie (2 even!) and still we have questions. I can’t remember the 1st movie well enough anymore… did they address anything that was left hanging at the end of the series? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905/60 "2010-05-20T16:43:21Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > Also, it has to be said: _Sopranos_. Russian. Pine Barrens. My pet peeve is people who won’t leave this alone, followed by people who get it wrong. (He was a Czech “Interior Decorator” (because Paulie and Chris couldn’t remember Ministry of the Interior)). Hearst has to live at the end of Deadwood. While fictional, they did not kill off historical characters (unless they died for real, like the Preacher and Wild Bill). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-now-well-never-know/539905.md?page=4)