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.
Sledge Hammer
The Tick
The Bugs Bunny Show
Connections
Life On Earth
I wish I knew what happened to Firefly and John Doe. Anybody?
<What was he!?!!?> :?
Soap and We’ll Get By.
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.
Barney Miller
Dr.Who
Quantum Leap
StG
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.
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.
Dallas
Oh, come on, you know you loved it!
Been to Southfork Ranch, and it ain’t all that, though
I would love to get The Greatest American Hero on DVD.
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”
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.
Brimstone !!! Another would be , The Equalizer . The only way it’d feel right driving a Jag would be if that music was playin …
Baa Baa Black Sheep. Also Peter Gunn
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.
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…
Amen. I hope the plans for a DVD release in December come through.
SportsNight
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