Oh yeah, good example. I also remember seeing that and being pissed they never made more.
Thinking that this is shows not readily available, as opposed to new episodes of canceled shows, I will go with New Amsterdam, the 2008 one with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Only one season.
Or Forever (2014 TV series), also one season.
Of course, sure more seasons would be nice.
For a Film- the sequel to Doc Savage, Man of Bronze, where the rumor is a lot was shot, but dumped.
House isn’t a lost show. It airs on the Pop network in the US and streams for free on Peacock as well as on H&I.
“Here Come the Brides” is shown on getTV. I was a fan when it was current. I was recently scrolling the listings and was shocked to find it available for me to watch.
Well, I sat through about ten minutes of an episode and had enough. Some things are best left in our memories.
Although it was cool to see the opening and hear Bobby Sherman’s title song again.
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I’d like to see the American version of That Was the Week that Was. I gather that not much of it survives, but the bits I’ve seen (and heard) were viciously satirical.
Astro Boy: They have the compete set on Rightstuf. I personally think it holds up. YMMV
Anime
Minki Momo
The Amazing Three
The British science fiction TV series Out of this World, which adapted several sf stories. Apparently only Asimov’s Little Lost Robot survives (and I’ve never seen it)
http://www.britishtelevisiondrama.org.uk/?p=213
Similarly, the British TV series Out of the Unknown, which also did adaptations of classic SF. Apparently a couple of episodes survive
And, while we’re on the topic of British TV science fiction, it’d be nice to see the other episodes of The Quatermass Experiment. Only two of the original dsix survive (I’ve seen them). The original TV serial versions of the 1950s Quatermass series were different from the movie adaptations that followed.
That might be fun.
I would like to see The Strange Report with Anthony Quayle (all 15 episodes) and Night Heat.
Many years ago I went to the Museum of Broadcasting in New York (Now the Paley Media Center), because they had a large collection of TV shows that were not then (or even now, for that matter) available on home media, including several episodes of That Was The Week That Was, and I requested and watched some of them there (you had to watch in their playback center – no taking out videotapes).
I just checked their site – they’ve got at least a dozen of the original shows – Search Paley’s permanent media collection of television and radio programs and advertisements
That’s the same place I watched it; think it may have been called the Museum of Television and Radio at the time. As I remember, they only had a few episodes, which makes me think that the ones they don’t have are probably lost.
I also bought a CD of some highlights from the series. It’s edited as if it were two distinct episodes, but it’s really selections from through the show’s run.
I’d love to be able to see episodes of Captain Video. It’s a landmark in TV science fiction, but all the tapes are at the bottom of the East River in NY.
This is hardly “great,” but is something I’d like to see just out of curiosity:
Attempting to cash in on the corn-pone humor of “Hee Haw,” someone came up with a syndicated series called. . . “Corn Pone” (1970). There’s basically no information on that series, other than my memory, though.
Lots of old variety shows I’d like seeing again. Jim Stafford and Jerry Reed both had summer replacement series for (probably) Dean Martin.
There are a ton of shows that appealed to 9-to-13-year-old me that I’m sure don’t hold up even in the slightest, but I’d love to watch for the nostalgic dopamine rush someday. Misfits of Science, Automan, Tales of the Gold Monkey and the like. About ten years ago I frequented a shady streaming site (yeah, yeah) where I found the complete run of Voyagers, that time travel show starring the actor who shot himself accidentally with a blank round on his next TV gig.
There was a cop show called Broken Badges that lasted seven episodes, which starred Miguel Ferrer and Don S. Davis while they were both on Twin Peaks at the same time. I remember thinking it wasn’t bad, but it vanished. Speaking of David Lynch, I thought On The Air was a blast, but even watching the existing episodes on an SLP-speed VHS tape, I recognize that the concept couldn’t possibly be sustained for a proper season length.
I think the Skins is one of the best British TV shows of the past couple of decades, and it had an American (yet shot here in Toronto) remake that got axed due to content complaints and advertiser boycott threats. I’d like to be able to see that, just out of curiosity.
The original UK Skins was an awesome show (particularly the first generation, or the first two series/seasons). I never liked the subsequent series/seasons as much. The US adaptation was OK (not great), but it was unfortunate that it got canceled.
I don’t recall that show but in the 70’s I ran across a couple of UHF country music shows that looked to follow the Hee-Haw pattern. These shows would appear late at night, at least after 1AM, apparently sponsored by Ron Popeil and other early telemarketers, somebody had to be paying the channel to stay on the air that late.
For sheer horrific curiosity I always wished that Saturday Morning Cartoon version of Aliens dubbed Operation: Aliens came out. You can see animation they made intended to air to hype a kids action figure line on YouTube (similar to how GI Joe’s first animation was for you commercials) that was supposed to be their way of pitching the series to Fox but Fox outright rejected them because they felt it would hurt the actual Aliens brand by having a crappy kids cartoon. They were right, but I would love to see it.
Speaking of Saturday morning shows…
When I was a wee one, in the late 1960s, my favorite TV show was The Banana Splits Adventure Hour. It was a sort of a variety show; the “Banana Splits” was a fictional rock band, consisting of four costumed characters (anthropomorphic animals), and the show featured those characters in live-action segments, and several unrelated cartoons (plus one live-action adventure series). The live-action segments with the Banana Splits were sort of a cross between the Monkees’ TV show, and Three Stooges-style slaptstick humor.
I loved that show so much as a little kid that I got my parents to mail away for a membership for me in the Banana Splits Fan Club, and I named my stuffed dog Fleegle, after the dog character in the group.
Sometime in the 1990s, I caught a couple of episodes of it, when reruns were being shown on either Cartoon Network or Boomerang…and I was crushed when I discovered that, to my adult eyes, it was a really, really terrible show. In particular, the segments with the Banana Splits themselves, which I had loved so much, were incredibly cheesy, as well as being really poorly filmed. I also realized that my parents must have really loved me, to allow me to watch that show that I loved so much, because I’m sure that they hated it.
At any rate, it’s not available on any streaming service, and has never been issued on DVD or Blu-Ray in the U.S. So, it’s “lost,” and probably should stay that way.
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After the Banana Splits went nuts and went on an axe murdering spree, that ship has probably sailed.
