OMG! Now you’ve done it! THE PAULA MARSHALL CURSE!
There is not enough time in the next week for me to pretty-up a list of Paula Marshall’s 1-or-less-than-one-season TV shows–I think it’s at least 8!! I love her to death and it’s not her fault they all tanked, but, talk about bad luck! :eek:
See for yourself: Paula Marshall on IMdB:
Meanwhile, across the pond, Heil, Honey, I’m Home! was canceled after 1 episode. Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun live next door to Arny and Rosa Goldenstein.
The Tim Conway Show got a year and two months. I think it deserved more.
Whenever I see Schuck I first think of him as the lovable flunky from Rock Hudson’s McMillan & Wife, then I think of him as a Klingon (from STIV:TVY and Enterprise).
I though this show was great, ahead of its time really (also starred Andy Dick BTW). Fox never believed in it and gave it a shitty time slot. Think I have them all on a VHS someplace…
I had high hopes for this as a kid (I’d seen Animal House on HBO). The pilot was good but then it petered-out. I read that this was because only the pilot was written by the National Lampoon writers.
Yeah, way better than NBC’s version, the goofy Gemini Man (though I liked it as an 11-year-old!) A&E used to run this show and some of the others mentioned here in a slot they called Brilliant, But Cancelled.
Won the Emmy for Outstanding Writing nine months after it was canceled. (And those writers are Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, like you said; along with Ben Stiller, like you’d expect; plus everyone else from Judd Apatow to Starburns!)
I would give all four of my eyeteeth to see that. Imagine John Cleese as Adolf?
My wife binge-watched McMillan & Wife some months ago so, of course, I checked in occasionally. Susan St. James was great, Schuck was great, Nancy Walker was REAL great. Rock Hudson acted like he didn’t want to be there. Am I imagining things?
The “Seinfeld” curse continues:
“Bob Patterson” Jason Alexander. 10 episodes filmed, 5 shown.
“Listen Up” Jason Alexander and Malcolm-Jamal Warner (who wasn’t bad, at all). 22 episodes.
A few more:
Dweebs(1995): a proto-Big Bang Theory sitcom with a group of software dweebs (including their millionaire, Bill Gates/Sheldon Cooper-type boss, played by Peter Scolari) who hired a pretty non-geek woman as an office manager when they moved their company out of the garage. It had a very similar dynamic to BBT: the guys taught the technophobe girl about tech, while she taught them about normal human interaction. I loved this show. Only lasted a few episodes, with a few more that were never aired.
Queen of Swords (2000-01), an old-west fantasy about a female Zorro type. It also starred Peter Wingfield (Methos from Highlander).
Peacemakers(or as we call it in our house, CSI: Horsie) - a 2003 CSI-style police procedural set in the old west.
Unfortunately, it’s looking like Constantine might end up on this list, but I’m not giving up hope yet.
Nope. I watched MacMillan the other week. St. James was cute and sexy, Shuck and Walker added just the right humor. I thought Mac as played by Hudson came across as a first-class asshole. What did his wife see in him?
I loved that one! My best friend and I got hooked and we were so disappointed when it was cancelled.
Who remembers a show called “Flying Blind”? I can still sing the theme song and totally wanted to be Tea Leoni’s character.
There was also a really stupid show, I think it was called “Oops” or something, where these people survive a nuclear bomb and find their way to a farmhouse. Someone survives because they were in a bank vault, someone else survives because they were in a drive-thru in their Lada (IIRC), “the world’s safest car”. I’ve mentioned it here before.
Anyone know it?
Ivan the Terrible. Family sitcom set in Soviet Moscow. 5 episodes.
…it was a Volvo, thank you. I knew Lada didn’t sound right. No surprise here:
VR.5?
Mary Tyler Moore has four:
“The Mary Tyler Moore Hour” 11 episodes.
“Mary” 13 episodes.
“Annie McGuire” 10 episodes.
“New York News” 13 episodes.
Over There. Highly topical show about American troops in Iraq. Maybe too topical. 13 episodes.
Space: Above and Beyond. Space war. 1 season, 24 eps.
That’s the one. Damn! Two months it lasted!