# TV shows you wish had not been cancelled **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 9, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-had-not-been-cancelled/153812 "2003-02-09T02:38:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lockfist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/838e76/32.png) [@Lockfist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockfist)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-had-not-been-cancelled/153812/21 "2003-02-09T03:19:25Z")
I always liked this show called “Renegades” or something from a long time ago. I distinctly remember one guy dressed as a policeman, throwing his baton between someone’s ankles and causing them to trip and fall. This maneauver was practiced countless times by me in the early 80s always to no avail. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-had-not-been-cancelled/153812/22 "2003-02-09T03:20:12Z")
Special Unit 2 (oh, it wasn’t great or anything, but it WAS fun). I’ll second The Lone Gunmen. ---
**Author:** ![jeanster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@jeanster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeanster)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-had-not-been-cancelled/153812/23 "2003-02-09T03:23:05Z")
I’ll third The Lone Gunmen. Also add to my list: The Huntress [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0250157](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0250157) ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-had-not-been-cancelled/153812/24 "2003-02-09T03:35:02Z")
_Mystery Science Theater 3000_. There were so many more bad movies to shread. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-had-not-been-cancelled/153812/25 "2003-02-09T03:52:49Z")
_Max Headroom_ And I’ll second _Cupid._ ---
**Author:** ![SadTomato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@SadTomato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SadTomato)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-had-not-been-cancelled/153812/26 "2003-02-09T04:01:15Z")
**Off Centre** The weird thing is it used to do horribly in the ratings–but the WB brought it back anyway. Then they killed it after about two shows into its second season. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-had-not-been-cancelled/153812/27 "2003-02-09T04:07:13Z")
Police Squad! (in Color) Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-had-not-been-cancelled/153812/28 "2003-02-09T04:29:49Z")
I wish **The Lone Gunmen** had more of an opportunity to find it’s “nitch”. I really wish the series was more like the two “Lone Gunmen” episodes on **The X-Files**. They weren’t as silly as the series. There was an episode in the series that spoofed **The Green Mile** , after an inmate got out of prison, he opened up a hospital for roaches, that’s just stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Wearia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wearia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wearia)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-had-not-been-cancelled/153812/29 "2003-02-09T05:08:33Z")
Family Guy most. Quantum Leap, The Pretender, Firefly as well. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-had-not-been-cancelled/153812/30 "2003-02-09T05:08:52Z")
_WKRP in Cincinatti_ _The Misfits of Science_ ---
**Author:** ![Deadly\_Nightlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Deadly\_Nightlight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deadly_Nightlight)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-had-not-been-cancelled/153812/31 "2003-02-09T05:26:52Z")
Emeril ☹ ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-had-not-been-cancelled/153812/32 "2003-02-09T05:31:53Z")
Barney Miller ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-had-not-been-cancelled/153812/33 "2003-02-09T05:33:18Z")
_Millenium_, I wish they’d pulled the plug on entirely after second season if the only other option was the third one it did have. It was curious–it had characters of the same name being played by the same actors, but yet…ah well. _American Gothic_ I’m still bitter about, but I suspect that it wouldn’t hold up to my memories of it. ---
**Author:** ![Hermann\_Cheruscan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b782af/32.png) [@Hermann\_Cheruscan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermann_Cheruscan)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-had-not-been-cancelled/153812/34 "2003-02-09T05:39:27Z")
Kolshak, the Night Stalker, should never have been cancelled. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-had-not-been-cancelled/153812/35 "2003-02-09T05:44:08Z")
MachineHead, my comment was a reference to the disappearance of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, the show that replaced Clerks. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-had-not-been-cancelled/153812/36 "2003-02-09T06:19:15Z")
-_Now and Again_ -_Sports Night_ -_Cupid_ which has Jeremy Piven AND that rather attractive actress who I can never remember the name of, you can’t lose!) -_LA Doctors_ -_Dharma and Greg_ -_Traders_ I know there’s more, it seems that there are three or four shows cancelled every year that I like… ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-had-not-been-cancelled/153812/37 "2003-02-09T06:36:14Z")
The Tick. Birds of Prey (OK, it sucked, but it didn’t get much time to find it’s way. Maybe if they’d fired the director, the producer and all the writers and started over … oh, maybe I don’t mind so much that it was cancelled…) ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-had-not-been-cancelled/153812/38 "2003-02-09T06:38:07Z")
…and I will fourth the Lone Gunman. I miss those guys… ☹ and I haven’t seen it when the X Files Jumps the Shark ( 😉 ) but when I do, I fully intend to turn the TV off before the last five minutes… ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-had-not-been-cancelled/153812/39 "2003-02-09T07:08:30Z")
I’ll chime in on Quantum Leap and The Pretender and Early Edition. Also Strange Luck and Nothing Sacred. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-wish-had-not-been-cancelled/153812/40 "2003-02-09T07:10:29Z")
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