# unfinished tv shows **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 4, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfinished-tv-shows/624054 "2012-06-04T17:18:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![PrettyVacant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/49beb7/32.png) [@PrettyVacant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PrettyVacant)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfinished-tv-shows/624054/21 "2012-06-04T20:14:55Z")
I don’t think that’s really the story. David Milch was a little ‘intense’ for a while back then… ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfinished-tv-shows/624054/22 "2012-06-04T21:31:59Z")
Alien Nation ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfinished-tv-shows/624054/23 "2012-06-04T21:34:59Z")
The 4400, The Dead Zone, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, My Name is Earl and Kyle XY are shows you don’t want to start, in that case. All of them end without resolving the story. Most of them didn’t know they’d be canceled before they were and, thus, ended on cliffhangers. ---
**Author:** ![Flyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyer/32/7298_2.png) [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfinished-tv-shows/624054/24 "2012-06-04T21:43:50Z")
I’m still feeling pretty unhappy about _No Ordinary Family_. It needed **at least** a second season, probably 3 or 4. As my grandma used to say, “I don’t know what they’re using for sawdust, but it sure isn’t brains.” ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfinished-tv-shows/624054/25 "2012-06-04T21:46:28Z")
_Alcatraz_ is an example from this past season. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfinished-tv-shows/624054/26 "2012-06-04T23:59:30Z")
The Finder pretty much ended on a huge downer of a cliffhanger. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfinished-tv-shows/624054/27 "2012-06-05T00:45:58Z")
> [@adhemar](#): > > So is there another season or are you making this up? If you are gettng my hopes up with a woosh, I am going to be sooo disappointed. I was making it up. When it comes to cancelled shows, it’s anyones’ guess as to what might have happened in the future, unless the show’s creator had a “show bible” with the plotlines all written out ahead of time. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfinished-tv-shows/624054/28 "2012-06-05T01:01:30Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > The Finder pretty much ended on a huge downer of a cliffhanger. That’s true. But I mostly worry about the gypsy girl’s fate. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfinished-tv-shows/624054/29 "2012-06-05T01:05:27Z")
_Memphis Blues_ Short-lived police/detective show set in Memphis. Quirky ensemble. I got attached. ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfinished-tv-shows/624054/30 "2012-06-05T01:42:04Z")
\*Pushing Daisies \* has already been mentioned. Others that ended too soon (for me) were, _Wonderfalls_, _Better Off Ted_, _Andy Richter Controls the Universe_ and _Andy Barker, P.I._ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfinished-tv-shows/624054/31 "2012-06-05T01:45:49Z")
Twin Peaks. I’m dying to know how Annie is. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfinished-tv-shows/624054/32 "2012-06-05T01:55:00Z")
Carnivale. Did Ben become the new ‘Management’? Did he recover? Was Sophie good or evil? What about the atomic bomb?? ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfinished-tv-shows/624054/33 "2012-06-05T05:01:00Z")
Who was Peter Kingdom’s real father?!? ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfinished-tv-shows/624054/34 "2012-06-05T05:39:30Z")
Kings was an awesome show, the biblical story of David but set in modern times. It was a totally unique world and beautifully filmed. Some excellent intrigue was set up for season 2 but it was not to be. ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfinished-tv-shows/624054/35 "2012-06-05T06:21:14Z")
I’d pick _Coronet Blue_, but several of the loose ends for that Summer replacement were wrapped up in a recent thread. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfinished-tv-shows/624054/36 "2012-06-05T06:21:43Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > Alien Nation At least Alien Nation had a made for TV movie that wrapped up the cliffhanger and was followed by four more TV movies. And Gilligan’s Island had three movies in which they were rescued from the island, opened up a resort and hosted the Harlem Globetrotters. My Name Is Earl ended on a cliffhanger which was never resolved. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfinished-tv-shows/624054/37 "2012-06-05T06:30:42Z")
Joan of Arcadia. Not being religious myself, I’m not generally a fan of most religion-themed shows. Joan of Arcadia was different: entertaining, fascinating, and not at all preachy. They were just beginning to introduce an interesting Devil character when the series was cancelled after two years. The original Battlestar Galactica. I always wondered if they would ever find Earth. I prefer to believe that the existence of a series called “Galactica 1980” was a bad nightmare I once had. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfinished-tv-shows/624054/38 "2012-06-05T06:46:19Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > And Gilligan’s Island had three movies in which they were rescued from the island, opened up a resort and hosted the Harlem Globetrotters. Right, it left us hungry for more. (They never got a chance to do a farewell episode since the show was cancelled after the third season had ended.) And we had to wait (until, what, 1979?) to find out if they ever got off that island! ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfinished-tv-shows/624054/39 "2012-06-05T10:32:29Z")
I really like the idea of a thread where we make up our own ideas for what actually happened, based on what we know about the characters. Unfortunately, I’m currently not familiar enough with any shows to start one myself. Anyone want to give it a shot? ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfinished-tv-shows/624054/40 "2012-06-05T11:18:57Z")
> [@adhemar](#): > > I have been watching a Korean drama called Pasta, there apparently was only one season. I find myself wanting to know what the people on the show are doing now like they were real people. Did Chef and Junior Chef ever move beyond very chaste kissing? Did the chairman ever get his comeuppance, did CEO San and Chef Oh start dating? Did the Unni chefs and the italian chefs get along, did the Korean chefs learn anything in Italy and what happened when they came back.. are they now italian chefs too? Did the youngest ever move up? > > I know these are characters but i want to know more! Korean dramas never have more than 1 season, unless they are cable shows. We never had re-runs either - dramas just play straight from episode 1 to the finale and then it’s over. ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfinished-tv-shows/624054.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfinished-tv-shows/624054.md?page=3)