Futurama
Clerks: The Animated Series
God, the Devil, and Bob
The Critic
Clone High
Undergrads
Yeah…I like cartoons.
I’ll agree on Futurama, and add the Dilbert cartoon. I can tell from watching the DVD that the second season was much better than the first, and it seemed like it had found its comedy rhythm. Unfortunately, the audience, which probably was confused or bored by the first season, didn’t really return to discover that.
Freaks and Geeks lasted one beautiful year on NBC before being cancelled. It was a drama/comedy that focused on the high school “out” crowd – the polar opposite of something like Beverly Hills 90210.
The season is out on DVD and I heartily recommend renting it.
Ninth circle, seventh circle is the violent (which is where we all would be if we got our hands on him)
I second Brimstone (the eyes have it).
I will add Raven, which started with a cool premise, but went downhill the second season and was replaced by Walker Texas Ranger.
Re: Action - FX channel showed the unseen episodes; there was a resolution of sorts:
[SPOILER]BEVERLY HILLS GUN CLUB changed plots and directors like Paris Hilton changes pets, but death and disaster and a near-fatal heart attack couldn’t stand in Peter Dragon’s way. In the last episode, after the previous director OD’d and poor Adam the writer was finally fired, Peter had to go hat in hand in two odious rich producers, brothers who were almost but not quite entirely unlike the Weinsteins. Turned out they would give him the money to finish the film but on condition they could have a night with Wendy the hooker–they’d long lusted after The Elephant Princess. Wendy was grossed out but volunteered for the job, and went to the estate in full Princess costume in Peter’s limo.
Peter sat out there, uncharacteristically serious, the whole night, with Uncle Lonny asleep at the wheel, until Wendy came out, her hair matted, her body bruised, and her costume all torn up–but she’d saved the picture and told Peter so. Her next declaration was that she was leaving LA and the whole movie business, to go “someplace clean”, and she left in a taxi after hugging Lonny and giving Peter one last kiss. Peter somberly watched her taxi leave and then went home himself. End of series.[/SPOILER]
It’s Your Move was almost ruined mid-season by network suits who insisted that the clueless mother learn about her son’s scheming and therefore messed up the whole premise of the show, but with such talents as Jason Bateman and David Garrison there was still potential. Oh well.
Also Undeclared, which was also excellent and from the same creative team. The only problem is that if Freaks and Geeks had survived, they probably would not have made Undeclared.
Nowhere Man is coming out on DVD 12/27.
you can get it on Amazon
I was recently watching the DVDs for the Babylon 5 spin-off “Crusade”–only 13 episodes and it was still finding its way, but I think that if it had gone on a little longer (and maybe not spent the whole 5 years searching for a cure for the plague), it might have developed into something pretty good.
Agree with Jake 2.0 and Strange Luck, already mentioned.
Also, of course, Firefly.
How about a series cancelled just in time? 7 Days…the one where the NSA guy went back in time 7 days to prevent disaster. Was cancelled after the 2000 season. If it hadn’t been, how the hell would they have explained why he didn’t prevent 9-11?
FYI: The entire Wonderfalls set is available on DVD and Netflix.
Max Headroom – 20 Minutes into the Future. Seems kind of prescient now, what with its dystopian view of a television-obsessed future. No home video release in recent memory, either…
Thanks, Reep.
For extra points, who are the other two guys he’s chewing on? One of them is some political guy who cheesed off Dante, if I recall.
The “Slap” Maxwell Story. Super pairing of Dabney Coleman with the scrumptious Megan Gallagher, but it was axed after just one season.
It was a sin that ABC cancelled Cupid with Jeremy Piven. I still hate that network for that.
Good one. I agree, I really enjoyed that. People just didn’t get it. 
Another vote for Brimstone. He had to capture 113 souls. That would have been enough for 5 seasons.
I picture the series ending with Satan (brilliantly played by John Glover) trying to screw Zeke over on his deal, but with Zeke turning the tables somehow.
I read in a interview with a producer that he’s died and when you die you “know everything” but not about the boat
Good point. I would feel I’d wasted several hours of my life if that were the finale.
I lost interest half-way through the third episode.
Again, another series I didn’t really think was all that great.
Star Trek lost me in the pilot when they started the stupid Temporal War.
Marc
Joan of Arcadia has been mentioned already, so I will just add Sports Night.
I’m still in mourning.
I heartily agree with the previously mentioned:
Firefly
Futurama
Freaks and Geeks
Undeclared
Wonderfalls
Sports Night
Angel
And would like to add:
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
Greg the Bunny