TV Land usually features long-running shows now cancelled. I propose a new TV station of shows that were great, but sadly cancelled within three years. These shows were so good they had to be separated from the ‘vast wasteland’. Thus they have their own–TV Island. No mini-series allowed.
It would include these shows:
Police Squad!
Freaks and Geeks
My So-Called Life
Profit
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
Max Headroom
The Tracey Ullman Show
VR 5
Alien Nation
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (the pacing of the show alone makes it great)
The Prisoner
Nowhere Man (best finale ever–shhhh!!!)
and of course, the flagship so to speak:
Classic Star Trek
and from across the ocean:
Fawlty Towers
Monty Python
Not Necessarily the News
Prime Suspect (only exception to no mini-series I allow)
Oh man… Not Necessarily the News: I really miss this one. The MST3K-like bits, with news-footage voice overs by the cast, always cracked me up. Wonder what the odds are of getting HBO to release this stuff on DVD… or have they?
Herman’s Head: Mrs. Skeezix and I always loved this goofy show. Only ran 2 seasons, I think…
The Young Ones: This still runs on BBCAmerica, I think, though I keep missing it. (It is being released as a DVD-set next month, though.)
Once a Hero
Wish You Were Here
Arresting Behavior
Nightmare Cafe (now that’s a great series finale)
Action (even better finale)
Bakersfield PD
The New Twilight Zone
The Outer Limits
No, Honestly
NBC Experiment in Television
Best of the West
The Duck Factory
The Critic (With the writers from before it moved to fox. Keep “Alice”, though)
Cybersix
Big Guy and Rusty The Boy Robot
Fish Police (Just checking to see if you’re still reading. )
Mr. Sunshine
Crusade (Well, maybe)
The “Disney Afternoon” cartoons that Disney stopped producing to keep Fox from airing them.
Gargoyles
Stark Raving Mad
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