# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/21 "2003-07-04T01:43:56Z")
Yes count me as another fan of **“Police Squad”**. Also, **“Adventures of Brisco County”** was hilarious and starred Bruce Campbell and Kelly Rutherford (who was in “Far and Away”). TNT used to broadcast Brisco reruns but hasn’t done so for many years. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/22 "2003-07-04T01:48:34Z")
Sledge Hammer The Tick The Bugs Bunny Show Connections Life On Earth ---
**Author:** ![HopeSL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5fc32e/32.png) [@HopeSL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HopeSL)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/23 "2003-07-04T01:53:41Z")
I wish I knew what happened to Firefly and John Doe. Anybody? \ :? ---
**Author:** ![Stage\_Manager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stage_manager/32/7267_2.png) [@Stage\_Manager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stage_Manager)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/24 "2003-07-04T03:57:57Z")
**Soap** and **We’ll Get By.** ---
**Author:** ![Fibber\_McGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a6a055/32.png) [@Fibber\_McGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fibber_McGee)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/25 "2003-07-04T04:08:19Z")
**Alien Nation** One of the rare instances where a series based on a movie was much better than the movie. Not only that, it’s right up there with the best Sci-Fi series ever in my opinion, right up there in the top ten. The only better ones in my opinion are Original Trek, The Twilight Zone, DS9, The X-Files (First five seasons only.) and Farscape. Cancelled after only a single season, it was an early victim of the curse that strikes almost every good Sci-Fi show on FOX. The later TV movies were welcome, but several years had passed and it just wasn’t the same as it would have been had the series continued. This show needs to be released on DVD. **Sliders** First FOX cancelled it, then they brought it back as a campy adventure show, then Sci-Fi Channel picked it up and turned it into a hideous mess of Sci-Fi cliches, bad acting and crappy plotlines, but in its first two seasons the show was brilliant. A good concept that was well executed, with great characters played by actors who were perfect in their respective roles. **Strange Luck** Anyone sensing a pattern here? Yet another victim of the FOX Sci-Fi curse, this was a great show about a guy with, as the title suggests, strange luck. Weird stuff happened to him. Really weird stuff. It was great, funny, exciting, and the premise was so wide open that you never knew what might happend from episode to episode. Another show that lasted only one season and another show that could really do with a DVD release. **Voyagers** No FOX this time, but definately Sci-Fi. A fun and entertaing comedy adventure about a couple of time-traveling screwups, this is one of my favorite series of all time. It’s also unique among all the shows listed in this topic as the show’s continued existance would have saved a man’s life. John Erik-Hexum, who played Phinneas Bogg, died in a tragic accident on the set of **Cover Up** the series he moved on to after the cancellation of **Voyagers**. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/26 "2003-07-04T04:17:12Z")
_Barney Miller_ _Dr.Who_ ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/27 "2003-07-04T04:27:03Z")
**Quantum Leap** StG ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/28 "2003-07-04T04:31:19Z")
I miss Xena so bad I feel like crying just remembering her. I missed it before it went off the air because I changed jobs shortly after Joxer died and couldn’t accept that he wasn’t coming back to life. If that show hadn’t gotten all screwed up and Aries had kept his powers then Kevin Smith would have been on more and wouldn’t have gotten his other job and died. I miss Maniac Mansion too. ---
**Author:** ![Fibber\_McGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a6a055/32.png) [@Fibber\_McGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fibber_McGee)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/29 "2003-07-04T05:07:15Z")
Gotta second **Maniac Mansion**. It was certainly a bizarre choice to turn that game into a live action series, especially since the show ended up be so different from the game, which didn’t have much of a name recognition factor going for it in the first place, but it was a great show and I miss it. Yet another show I wish would come out on DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/30 "2003-07-04T05:24:15Z")
**Dallas** Oh, come on, you know you loved it! Been to Southfork Ranch, and it ain’t all that, though ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/31 "2003-07-04T05:51:10Z")
I would love to get **The Greatest American Hero** on DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Duderdude2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/32 "2003-07-04T05:56:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lodrain \* > \*\*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? \*\* That’s weird… Right when I clicked on this thread, the first show I thought of that I missed was Dinosaurs, boy was I surprised to see that was the exact show you thought of. “Earl, ask me about my day” “Fran, I don’t give a damn about your day” ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/33 "2003-07-04T05:58:49Z")
**Fridays**. Not that I miss it _that_ much, but after its three year run on ABC it was never put into syndication, and never aired in reruns. It would be a perfect fit for Comedy Central, to break up the monotony of all those SNL reruns. ---
**Author:** ![Snake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Snake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snake)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/34 "2003-07-04T07:01:18Z")
Brimstone !!! Another would be , The Equalizer . The only way it’d feel right driving a Jag would be if that music was playin … ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/35 "2003-07-04T10:12:51Z")
Baa Baa Black Sheep. Also Peter Gunn 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Grousser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9d8465/32.png) [@Grousser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grousser)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/36 "2003-07-04T10:20:14Z")
**The Addams Family** with John Astin and Carolyn Jones) I think I was a weird guy since I was a kid. Another obscure one: **Sapphire & Steel** with David McCallum and Joanna Lumley. Dark, creepy and very imaginative. It’s a pity that it was underrated, in the late 70’s and early 80’s. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/37 "2003-07-04T10:52:27Z")
I was waiting for somebody else to mention shows that go back decades that are likely not to be DVD’ed (maybe they have been by now and I just haven’t noticed them): Thanks, Cicero, for **Peter Gunn**. I’ll add: Maverick (James Garner, Jack Kelly) Mannix The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Mission: Impossible (the ones in the Peter Graves era) Cheyenne (Clint Walker) You’ll Never Get Rich (aka Bilko – Phil Silvers) That Was The Week That Was (aka TW3) Playhouse 90 Omnibus Ed Sullivan Show (I know, they’d need to rename it) Steve Allen Show (ditto) Tonight Show (Allen, Paar, and Carson versions) Night Stalker (Darren McGavin) Odyssey (PBS show) Cosmos (with updates by Ann Druyan possibly, or some other scientist who could at least try to emulate Sagan’s style) Make Me Laugh dozens more, but I’ll stop there… ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/38 "2003-07-04T12:27:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by A wizard song for thee \* > \*\*Two words. **Fire**. **Fly**. Sniffle… \*\* Amen. I hope the plans for a [DVD release](http://www.syfyportal.com/article.php?id=924) in December come through. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/39 "2003-07-04T12:34:30Z")
**SportsNight** ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116/40 "2003-07-04T12:55:48Z")
_Due South_ - And missed my chance to tape them on TNT like a fool. _Firefly_ - Had potential, never given a chance. _Rockford Files Dr. Who Farscape Citizen Baines Myth America Travelers Later with Bob Costas The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne Connections Brimstone Kung Fu The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder The Greatest American Hero Nothing Sacred Cupid_ - the Paula Marshall/Jeremy Piven one [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-we-really-really-miss/186116.md?page=3)