No, no. Small Wonder was a totally different show.
And somehow, while so many of the gems listed in this thread died too soon, “one of the worst TV shows of all time” lasted for almost 100 episodes.
While it lasted three seasons, there was a major quality drop off after the first season. Herman’s Head was so well written and innovative early on it should have lasted more seasons than it did. The concept alone should have carried it longer than it did.
Getting excited about the British TV show Heil Honey I’m Home (Hitler and Eva Braun living next door to Jewish neighbours) is understandable but it did get cancelled after one episode in 1990.
On the other hand between 1972 and 1976 Love Thy Neighbour clocked up 7 series (seasons if you will) plus a spin off movie plus a sequel series set in Australia. Good going for a British Sit-Com.
Say what you like now, but back then this light hearted situation comedy was popular family entertainment. The premise was a relatively poor, uneducated (unintelligent to be honest) slovenly White couple got new neighbours who were better educated, better looking, fitter, better off and… Black! Hilarity, as they say, ensued.
While the wives (who were friends) looked on with disdain, the husbands would get into sit-com conflicts and exchange racist insults back and forth including Nig-Nog and Sambo from the White husband and Honky and Snowflake from the Black.
It was considered, at the time, early evening viewing for all the family including the kids.
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Hilarious but dark humor. Too clever for the TV audience.
Great cast, but they kept ruining his life with the travel. It got hard to watch. I would have put my foot down and said “fuck you guys!”.
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There were several shows called “The Quest” evidently, but there was only oneThe Quest. Potential heirs to the throne of a small European country compete to win the crown. Per the link, it lasted 9 episodes and I think my family may have been the only to watch it.
I was hoping someone would jump on that. Nice job!
I just finished watching Heil Honey I’m Home. Absolute rock-bottom; I loved every nano-second of it. Please, don’t make me watch any more!
terentii, where do you want the eyeteeth sent to? A deal’s a deal.
“Love Thy Neighbour” I’m saving for the weekend.
Perhaps the ultimate example is Jackie Gleason’s game show You’re In The Picture. Depending on how one counts, it lasted one or two episodes – the second one consisting entirely of Gleason’s public apology for the first one.
I do too. Quark has a interesting history. It was meant as a summer replacement. It got decent ratings, so much so that the Network asked about another season. However, the sets had been destroyed and no one was on contract for the series, so another season would have been too costly.
To be exact per Brandon Camp and Mike Thompson "Make that someone who looked like John’s friend. The villain unmasked in the finale was actually just a Phoenix member with some fancy facial reconstruction. Turns out, the Phoenix believed Doe was the Messiah and its members were actually protecting Doe from a second group, which wanted him dead. The truth: Doe was injured in a boating accident. That mark on his chest? A scar left by a piece of shrapnel from the explosion. His Überbrain? A by-product of transcending his body during a near-death experience, traveling to a spiritual plane where all the universe’s questions are answered"
John Doe and Lost etc were the shows that made me promise to myself that in future shows the revolved around a mystery to the viewers, I wouldnt watch unless the solution was written down and sealed in a mayonnaise jar left on Funk & Wagnalls porch. 
That may well be the saddest thing I’ve ever heard. Thanks for the info.
No, the older son part- that’s from* Forever*, which is quite a bit like New Amsterdam.
Truly great.
I watched all three of these.
The original Patrick McGoohan The Prisoner from 1967 ran for a single season which, arguably, was quite enough for McGoohan who was the creative driving force.
Never seen the 2009 US “reboot / remake” but Wikipedia says that completed the planned 6 episodes and called it a day.
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Bad Judge has gotten the axe–too bad, it’s funnier than you’d expect and Kate Walsh is, as always, a delight to watch.
Hellcatswas fairly formulaic trash tv but it was scenic as hell and the cheering routines were stellar. Also, if this had continued perhaps that blond guy wouldn’t be crapping up Sleepy Hollow with his nonexistent acting skillz.
Depending on how you look at it, Dollhousenearly qualifies due to the first six eps being crapped up by Fox idiots who thought they knew what they were doing, then the second season was Joss trying to tell the basic story so as not to alienate the fans who really wanted to know how it all turned out. Would have been a barn burner if he’d been left alone to do it right.
IIRC, McGoohan actually wanted fewer episodes to be made of the series (it was always a one-off deal), but was subject to the desires of Lew Grade.
For all the griping about it people do these days, it wasn’t bad for its time for a sitcom aimed at kids. Also some retro subchannel station has recently started running it.
A friend of mine did the incidental back ground music for some of the Small Wonder episodes. He says that, for a while after it was no longer on here in the US, it was in syndication in Japan. He had received a few small royalty checks in Yen.