# The Thread for Lamenting Your Cancelled TV Shows **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 2, 2000, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-for-lamenting-your-cancelled-tv-shows/43668 "2000-12-02T02:18:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-for-lamenting-your-cancelled-tv-shows/43668/41 "2000-12-02T19:39:09Z")
That’s okay… BTW, I like being “Guiny”. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-for-lamenting-your-cancelled-tv-shows/43668/42 "2000-12-02T19:58:00Z")
Ooh! Ooh! I thought of one! [The Ben Stiller Show](http://srd.yahoo.com/srst/27838188/Ben+Stiller+Show/1/1/*http://members.tripod.com/~stillershow/) This only ran for 12 episodes, and featured in its cast Ben Stiller (of course), Janeane Garafolo, and Andy Dick. Even though it only ran for 12 episodes, it still won the Emmy in 1992 for Best Comedy Writing. ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-for-lamenting-your-cancelled-tv-shows/43668/43 "2000-12-02T20:01:53Z")
Personally I kind of miss the updated “Fantasy Island” that ABC ran a couple years back. Malcolm MacDowell was great as the semi-sinister Mr. Rourke. I also thought that “Cupid”, which followed “Fantasy Island”, was pretty damned good as well. I’m glad that I’m not the only one who misses “Get A Life”. Thank God USA Network shows reruns of it on weekdays. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-for-lamenting-your-cancelled-tv-shows/43668/44 "2000-12-02T20:11:50Z")
Am I the only one who watched _Now and Again_?? I adored that show, and was heartsick when it was cancelled after one short year. It was a sci-fi/adventure/musical/comedy/romance/cop-show. Fabulous stuff. It had a lousy time-slot (Fridays at 9) and was easily confused with that schlock-fest called _Once and Again_…but couldn’t they have tried to save it?? ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2000, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-for-lamenting-your-cancelled-tv-shows/43668/45 "2000-12-02T20:37:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eutychus55 \* > \*\ ***"The Adventures of Pete and Pete"** > > _snip_ > > Am I out here by myself? Did anyone else feel slighted when this show slowly faded away? > \*\* I did too! Anake mentioned **You Can’t Do That on Television** …funniest show I’ve ever seen! I only have about two episodes on tape, and I’ve watched them so much that the tape is about to wear out. You would think that Nickelodeon could air this stuff as some sort of “filler” from about 1-6 AM or so. ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-for-lamenting-your-cancelled-tv-shows/43668/46 "2000-12-03T01:45:18Z")
**MST3K**. I have about 20 episodes on tape from the Sci-Fi Channel years (seasons 8 through 10), but I missed the last two or three seasons on Comedy Central because we didn’t get that channel in the dorms. :mad: And I never got to tape the season 10 premiere when Joel and TV’s Frank came back! ::sobbing:: ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-for-lamenting-your-cancelled-tv-shows/43668/47 "2000-12-03T02:42:53Z")
I liked MTV’s _The Brothers Grunt_. It was hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-for-lamenting-your-cancelled-tv-shows/43668/48 "2000-12-03T03:03:12Z")
**SLEDGE HAMMER!** Tell me if this brings back memories…“Trust me, i know what im doing…” “HAMMER!!!” ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-for-lamenting-your-cancelled-tv-shows/43668/49 "2000-12-03T03:20:00Z")
_VR.5_ was the only show that depicts computer programmers and analysts as people, not as perverted, iconoclastic, hacking, snuff-film fans. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-for-lamenting-your-cancelled-tv-shows/43668/50 "2000-12-03T03:21:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cisco \* > \*\ ***SLEDGE HAMMER!** > > Tell me if this brings back memories…“Trust me, i know what im doing…” “HAMMER!!!” > \*\* I especially like the gimmick they used at the end of the first season when they didn’t know whether or not the show would be renewed. On the last episode, a nuclear bomb leveled the city. When the show was renewed, an on-screen blurb indicated that the second season took place 5 years BEFORE the first. Brilliant!! Beats the hell out of Bobby Ewing’s resurrection. ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-for-lamenting-your-cancelled-tv-shows/43668/51 "2000-12-03T04:57:13Z")
Ah…I have so many of these. Due South Homicide (only show I’ve ever watched EVERY EPISODE of from the beginning. _sob_) Sports Night Sentinel Magnificent Seven Cupid Thank god I have tapes… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AzRaek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/azraek/32/16739_2.png) [@AzRaek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AzRaek)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-for-lamenting-your-cancelled-tv-shows/43668/52 "2000-12-03T08:35:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AuntiePam \* > \*\*Whatever happened to that show (forgot the name) where the hero (also a bad guy) lived in a box? \*\* Profit…starring Adrian Pasdar, lasted all of 4 (or 5?) episodes, then was trashed by FOX. Come to think of it, FOX killed a lot of good shows before their time…Too Something, Brisco County… ---
**Author:** ![diamud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@diamud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diamud)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-for-lamenting-your-cancelled-tv-shows/43668/53 "2000-12-03T20:52:28Z")
I am glad to hear that I am not the only one who thought “Get a Life” was one of the funniest shows ever. I also used to really like Police Squad, and Solid Gold ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-for-lamenting-your-cancelled-tv-shows/43668/54 "2000-12-03T23:05:19Z")
I saw a show with Herb Edelman and Bob Denver in 1969, called _The Good Guys;_ it mysteriously disappeared and was replaced with a ridiculous series starring Tim Conway (also short-lived). More recently, I lament the sudden disappearance of _Full House_ and _Evening Shade,_ both axed with no explanation by the netrworks; and, several years earlier, _Benson,_ axed just before an election between Benson and Governor Gene Gatling. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-for-lamenting-your-cancelled-tv-shows/43668/55 "2000-12-04T01:44:07Z")
Tuesday nights haven’t been the same since ABC axed “thirtysomething.” There was also a show on a few years ago that took place during WWII that I really liked. Too bad the name escapes me at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-for-lamenting-your-cancelled-tv-shows/43668/56 "2000-12-04T03:53:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Green Bean \* > \*\*Am I the only one who watched _Now and Again_?? \*\* No, **Bean** , you’re not. I really liked that show for some reason. I know, it may have been a little far out, but who cares? If I want reality, I’ll watch the news. I like watching stuff like _Now and Again_. Thankfully, Nash Bridges is still on. I also miss _The Pretender_. I’ll never know what happened after the train blew up. The funny thing about that show is that the president of NBC (Brandon Tartikoff, I think?, anyway, his mother loves that show. He claimed that he could never cancel it mid-story because of that. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_A\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@Just\_A\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_A_Girl)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-for-lamenting-your-cancelled-tv-shows/43668/57 "2000-12-04T04:05:46Z")
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000! How did that get cancelled?! Blasphemy I tell you, blasphemy! :mad: Also, “Getting Personal” - It came on Fox for only a few month like, 3 years ago. It was hilarious! Can’t think of any more… ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-for-lamenting-your-cancelled-tv-shows/43668/58 "2000-12-04T04:17:13Z")
**Automan** , with Lucille Ball’s son and Bruce Boxcarbertha (I think) as the title character. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-for-lamenting-your-cancelled-tv-shows/43668/59 "2000-12-04T04:19:41Z")
Jack and Jill MST3K It’s Like, You Know Sports Night (totally un-friggin believable, also had one of the best set-ups leading to a superp final episode snub of the actual cancelling network) M.A.S.H. ---
**Author:** ![RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RocknRoll_Killing_Machine)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2000, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-for-lamenting-your-cancelled-tv-shows/43668/60 "2000-12-04T04:32:31Z")
One that needs mentioning is TV Nation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-for-lamenting-your-cancelled-tv-shows/43668.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-for-lamenting-your-cancelled-tv-shows/43668.md?page=4)