# TV Shows We Really, Really Miss. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 3, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116 "2003-07-03T21:34:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/1 "2003-07-03T21:34:13Z")
This was inspired by the Rocko thread. But what about Dinosaurs? It showed quite a bit on TV as long as I could remember, but a while ago, I stopped seeing episodes. It broke my heart. (sniffle) I loved that show. ‘Not the momma, not the momma!’ Classic. Every time I hear that line, I get warm, fuzzy memories of my childhood and the early nineties I so dearly loved. The terrible twos, Earl getting superpowers–I think I’m gonna cry. What shows do you miss the most? ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/2 "2003-07-03T21:40:55Z")
**Police Squad!** **Sledge Hammer!** (Why do my favorite TV shows have exclamation points in the titles?) And a really obscure one, **Mighty Orbots.** ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/3 "2003-07-03T21:43:25Z")
Homicide has not only been canceled for the better part of a decade now. I can’t even find it in reruns any more. The single best ensemble cast of any show I can remember. I still can’t imagine why so few people watched it when it was on. ---
**Author:** ![FairyDust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ccd318/32.png) [@FairyDust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyDust)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/4 "2003-07-03T21:47:03Z")
**Now and Again** They left us with a cliffhanger. I wish they’d at least give us a made-for-tv movie to finish the story. ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/5 "2003-07-03T21:49:37Z")
**Northern Exposure** **Freaks and Geeks** - I still have a hard time believing that it only lasted one season. It was a truly great show. ---
**Author:** ![A\_wizard\_song\_for\_thee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/46a35a/32.png) [@A\_wizard\_song\_for\_thee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_wizard_song_for_thee)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/6 "2003-07-03T21:59:34Z")
Two words. **Fire**. **Fly**. Sniffle… ---
**Author:** ![Thunderclap\_Monolith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@Thunderclap\_Monolith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thunderclap_Monolith)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/7 "2003-07-03T22:01:15Z")
The two that I miss the most: **You Can’t Do That On Television** and **Dangermouse** Remember how cool Nickelodeon was when it first came on the air? These shows meant so much to me during a certain awkward time of my youth. There’s a lot of other shows I miss, but I can catch them on reruns or on video. These two shows may be available somewhere, but it won’t be the same, I’m thinking. I miss the time, the place, the era they represented in my life. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/8 "2003-07-03T22:08:19Z")
My So Called Life ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/9 "2003-07-03T22:08:23Z")
I still miss [Popular](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0202748), one of the funniest, sharpest, campest shows _ever._ It was to those teen shows what _Green Acres_ was to _Beverly Hillbillies_: a brilliant parody. Too brilliant to last, and very poorly promoted . . . ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/10 "2003-07-03T22:17:45Z")
**Homicide: Life on the Street**. Better than NYPD Blue and Law & Order, but those two are stil on. ---
**Author:** ![shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/11 "2003-07-03T22:53:49Z")
Northern Exposure ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/12 "2003-07-03T22:53:53Z")
**Profit.** I forget what network it was on, but it was about an amoral, Machiavellian, rabidly ambitious business exec. I wonder if its mid-season cancellation resulted from it being just a little too realistic. **Hill Street Blues.**'Nuff said. I second **My So-Called Life.** ---
**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/13 "2003-07-03T23:15:23Z")
Farscape. I always wanted to see more episodes about Pilot. Was his real name ever revealed anywhere? ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/14 "2003-07-03T23:19:35Z")
Four words **W K R P**. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/15 "2003-07-03T23:22:01Z")
The ones I miss the most are the ones that didn’t really get a chance. This year, Firefly and John Doe. Farther in the past, Tales From the Gold Monkey, and The Tick (animated series). ---
**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:** [July 3, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/16 "2003-07-03T23:30:01Z")
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (new eps, anyway) ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/17 "2003-07-03T23:33:44Z")
Another vote for **Dinosaurs** – and I was an adult when it was on. ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/18 "2003-07-03T23:34:37Z")
Fantasy Island, I liked both versions Ricardo Montaban and Malcolm McDowell. Mission Impossible Wonder Woman ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/19 "2003-07-04T00:43:27Z")
Laugh-In The Carol Burnett Show The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/20 "2003-07-04T01:29:33Z")
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