# The Graveyard of Television Crib-Death **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 31, 2015, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-graveyard-of-television-crib-death/711394 "2015-01-31T01:05:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [January 31, 2015, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-graveyard-of-television-crib-death/711394/41 "2015-01-31T07:22:47Z")
> [@pachabel](#): > > [Wonder falls](http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0361256/) on Fox in 2004. They only aired four episodes, which ran out of order. The whole 13 episode season is on DVD. The last episode is a good ending for the series so they must have known it was ending. They did. Sort of. The producers realized very early on that Wonderfalls was the kind of show that early 2000s Fox loved to cancel after a single season. But they also realized that, due to some scheduling quirk, they’d be able to film every episode of the season before the show premiered on TV. So they made it a self-contained story that could be continued if they somehow got renewed. They didn’t, but we got the DVD. ---
**Author:** ![toast\_pakora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@toast\_pakora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toast_pakora)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-graveyard-of-television-crib-death/711394/42 "2015-01-31T11:06:55Z")
I also love time-travel. \*Journeyman \*had real potential. All time best one-season show: [**Frank’s Place**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092354/). So good it’s not even on DVD so it lives on as perfection in my mind. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-graveyard-of-television-crib-death/711394/43 "2015-01-31T13:14:57Z")
This series supposedly ran for “two” seasons, but they were back-to-back over the winter of 1966-67 and totalled only 29 episodes. I would have loved to have seen it: [Adam Adamant Lives! - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Adamant_Lives)! ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-graveyard-of-television-crib-death/711394/44 "2015-01-31T14:30:47Z")
I’m going to pick two recent ones (that were both already said but oh well :)) Almost Human. I really was getting into this show. I liked that it wasn’t a terrible future, just a future. A to Z. Cristin Milioti has charisma to spare and the show was just getting interesting when it was canceled. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-graveyard-of-television-crib-death/711394/45 "2015-01-31T14:49:48Z")
I mentioned this in a different thread a short while ago when Elizabeth Peña passed away: “I Married Dora” had an incredible [finale](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvVR99yafr8). Knocked me on my can when I first saw it. 13 episodes. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-graveyard-of-television-crib-death/711394/46 "2015-01-31T15:05:39Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > I wouldn’t have minded more _Eerie, Indiana_ either. There was another season several years later on Saturday mornings. It wasn’t very good; I knew not to bother in the opening scenes where new actors were in all the roles, and that wasn’t a basis for the plot (“Mom, you look different! I look different!” “Oh, Marshall, don’t be ridiculous. We look just the way we always did.”). **Once a Hero**. A great parody of the comic book genre; ran only three episodes. The fourth episode was about an actor who had gotten too well identified with a comic book character he played (shades of **Birdman** ) and had Adam West in the role. ---
**Author:** ![alted315](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@alted315](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alted315)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-graveyard-of-television-crib-death/711394/47 "2015-01-31T15:07:35Z")
I can’t believe that no one has mentioned, Max Headroom a great sci-fi series from a dystopian future that isn’t too fetched looking at it 30 years later ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-graveyard-of-television-crib-death/711394/48 "2015-01-31T17:08:00Z")
[Hot Pursuit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvVR99yafr8) from 1984. Basically it was _The Fugitive_ with a couple on the run. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-graveyard-of-television-crib-death/711394/49 "2015-01-31T17:10:28Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > There was another season several years later on Saturday mornings. It wasn’t very good; I knew not to bother in the opening scenes where new actors were in all the roles, and that wasn’t a basis for the plot It actually WAS the basis for the plot. The premise of the series was that it was the Eerie of another universe, and that the weirdness from the first Eerie was leaking in. They actually spoke to the characters from the original series. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-graveyard-of-television-crib-death/711394/50 "2015-01-31T17:45:20Z")
This actually ran two seasons, but the second one wasn’t as good as the first, and it’s not on DVD, either. It was on The N, and would have done better on Adult Swim; it’s a cartoon called “O’Grady” and I just found out a few days ago that it’s on You Tube. > **[O'Grady](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Grady)** > > O'Grady (stylized as O\*gRAdY) is an American animated television series created by Tom Snyder, Carl W. Adams, and Holly Schlesinger for Noggin's teen-oriented programming block, The N. The show was animated at Snyder's Soup2Nuts studio. It features the voices of H. Jon Benjamin, Melissa Bardin Galsky, Patrice O'Neal, and Holly Schlesinger playing a group of four 17-year-old teenagers living in the town of O'Grady. In each episode, the characters experience a different supernatural phenomenon whil... ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-graveyard-of-television-crib-death/711394/51 "2015-01-31T17:46:09Z")
[_Babes_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babes), A 1990-91 sitcom about 3 overweight sisters sharing a small NYC apartment. I thought it was funny, and so did a lot of other people. But there weren’t enough of us for a second season. ---
**Author:** ![RiCu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@RiCu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiCu)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-graveyard-of-television-crib-death/711394/52 "2015-01-31T17:51:23Z")
I think I was the only person who enjoyed recent sit-com Friends With Better Lives. I thought they were quite a likeable bunch. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-graveyard-of-television-crib-death/711394/53 "2015-01-31T18:12:12Z")
[Day Break](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_Break)was one of several ‘what’s the mystery?’ shows that were produced in the wake of Lost’s runaway ratings. I don’t know if any of them went past one season. Day Break certainly didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-graveyard-of-television-crib-death/711394/54 "2015-01-31T18:16:48Z")
Sheldon’s Leonard’s [Big Eddie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072477/) (1975). My wife and I use this show as the standard we measure all bad TV by. So far, we haven’t found one to surpass its awfulness. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-graveyard-of-television-crib-death/711394/55 "2015-01-31T18:25:12Z")
Re _Memphis Beat_ > [@MsKaren](#): > > All of this. I totally agree. I really liked that show and admired the Lieutenant as well. The plots were thoughtful and well-written, and characters grew more interesting. The hang out and sing endings? Well, it _was_ Memphis. 🙂 I coulda managed to enjoy it more if I’d of had a big plate of ribs in front of me…to distract me. 😉 I’m so glad someone else remembered and enjoyed this show. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-graveyard-of-television-crib-death/711394/56 "2015-01-31T18:47:30Z")
“[The Famous Teddy Z](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Famous_Teddy_Z)” Jon Cryer, highly regarded at the time. 20 episodes, 5 of them never aired. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-graveyard-of-television-crib-death/711394/57 "2015-01-31T19:11:21Z")
“F/X: The Series”, a syndicated show starring Cameron Daddo as Rollie Tyler. Lasted two seasons but I never got to see the second. After the success of “Mork & Mindy”, ABC had Fonzie meet an exotic female bodyguard with the goal of giving the bodyguard her own show. “Katmandu” didn’t get past the pilot. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-graveyard-of-television-crib-death/711394/58 "2015-01-31T19:57:29Z")
Aw man. Rip off the scab. [The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Brisco_County,_Jr.) starring Bruce Campbell as a old West lawyer turned bounty hunter as he chases a time travelling uber-bad intent on taking over the science fictiony powers of a set of mysterious orbs from the future. It was awesome. It debuted the same year as X-Files and Fox decided it would only renew one of them. I still have never watched X-Files just for spite. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-graveyard-of-television-crib-death/711394/59 "2015-01-31T20:38:01Z")
[Bridget Loves Bernie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Loves_Bernie) ran for the 1972-1973 season on CBS. [Occasional Wife](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occasional_Wife) ran for the 1966-1967 season on NBC ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-graveyard-of-television-crib-death/711394/60 "2015-01-31T20:57:34Z")
“[He & She](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061261/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)” Real life husband and wife Paula Prentiss and Richard Benjamin starred. 26 episodes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-graveyard-of-television-crib-death/711394.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-graveyard-of-television-crib-death/711394.md?page=4)