# What tv show that's off the air do you miss the most? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 22, 2014, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-thats-off-the-air-do-you-miss-the-most/684267 "2014-03-22T05:47:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-thats-off-the-air-do-you-miss-the-most/684267/21 "2014-03-22T13:06:57Z")
Keen Eddie had a lot of promise, I thought. Wow, I have a big list! ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-thats-off-the-air-do-you-miss-the-most/684267/22 "2014-03-22T13:07:35Z")
Countdown with Keith Olbermann. I miss that pompous, crazy bastard. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-thats-off-the-air-do-you-miss-the-most/684267/23 "2014-03-22T13:20:48Z")
HBO’s _Rome_. Only 2 seasons, and it was the best series I have ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-thats-off-the-air-do-you-miss-the-most/684267/24 "2014-03-22T13:26:32Z")
I’d at least like to see Dale Cooper rescued from the Red Room in a Finale’ to Twin Peaks. And another vote for My Name is Earl! ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-thats-off-the-air-do-you-miss-the-most/684267/25 "2014-03-22T13:29:46Z")
Northern Exposure. The Wonder Years. ER. House. Lost. There aren’t any re-runs of any of these, though I see House now and then. I’d love to see original Star Trek. I’d love to see episodes weekend mornings. Some of these I suppose I can get DVDs I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![nevadaexile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nevadaexile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevadaexile)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-thats-off-the-air-do-you-miss-the-most/684267/26 "2014-03-22T13:37:16Z")
Alphas. I felt that the series had a lot more to offer and it got canceled before it could do so. What a waste. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-thats-off-the-air-do-you-miss-the-most/684267/27 "2014-03-22T13:45:03Z")
**Firefly** ,\*\* Rome\*\* and **MST3K**. As much as I loved \*\*The Sopranos \*\*and **The Wire** , they had run their course and ended at about the right time in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-thats-off-the-air-do-you-miss-the-most/684267/28 "2014-03-22T13:47:21Z")
_Dead Like Me_ And _Firefly_, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-thats-off-the-air-do-you-miss-the-most/684267/29 "2014-03-22T13:52:41Z")
Babylon Five ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-thats-off-the-air-do-you-miss-the-most/684267/30 "2014-03-22T13:54:16Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > Burn Notice, Firefly, Adventures of Brisco County Jr, Star Trek TNG, Soap, Voyagers, **Johnny Quest** That’s a BIG “Oh, Hell, Yeah!” ---
**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:** [March 22, 2014, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-thats-off-the-air-do-you-miss-the-most/684267/31 "2014-03-22T14:24:21Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > Burn Notice, Firefly, Adventures of Brisco County Jr, Star Trek TNG, Soap, Voyagers, Johnny Quest _ **TNG** _ is off the air?!? :eek: Not where I live! It’s followed by _ **Voyager** _ three times a day! Even _ **TOS** _ was on this time last year! I do wish they’d show _ **DS9** _ again, though. I still haven’t seen most of the episodes of that series. I hardly ever watch first-run major-network TV anymore, but I do miss _ **Pushing Daisies** _, probably the most original series in the last fifty years. And yeah, I’d love to see another season of _ **Rome** _. I’d watch _ **Jonny Quest** _ again if I could be sure that the episodes hadn’t been Bowdlerized in the name of PC. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-thats-off-the-air-do-you-miss-the-most/684267/32 "2014-03-22T14:28:40Z")
The West Wing. I thought it would be interesting to keep it going post Bartlett. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-thats-off-the-air-do-you-miss-the-most/684267/33 "2014-03-22T14:34:58Z")
Not of all time but right now Happy Endings. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-thats-off-the-air-do-you-miss-the-most/684267/34 "2014-03-22T15:26:47Z")
Another vote for **30 Rock**. I could watch Liz Lemon do Lemon-y things all. day. long. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-thats-off-the-air-do-you-miss-the-most/684267/35 "2014-03-22T16:04:22Z")
Yeah, I’ll go along with _Monk_. How about _Dark Shadows_? and I don’t mean the Johnny Depp film. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-thats-off-the-air-do-you-miss-the-most/684267/36 "2014-03-22T16:21:41Z")
I would have kept watching Deadwood, Rome, Carnivale, Firefly, My Name Is Earl, Terriers, the one where Jeff Goldblum solves crimes with the help of the spirits of the victims, Kidnapped, Upstairs Downstairs. But if I had to pick just one, it’d be My Name Is Earl. And will soon be Raising Hope. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-thats-off-the-air-do-you-miss-the-most/684267/37 "2014-03-22T16:32:07Z")
This is going back a long way, but I would have loved to have seen another season or two of “The Invaders”, with a proper finale, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-thats-off-the-air-do-you-miss-the-most/684267/38 "2014-03-22T16:39:12Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > I would have kept watching Deadwood, Rome, Carnivale, Firefly, My Name Is Earl, Terriers, **the one where Jeff Goldblum solves crimes with the help of the spirits of the victims** , Kidnapped, Upstairs Downstairs. The Jeff Goldblum one is not [Tenspeed and Brown Shoe](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080289/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1), but I remember being bummed when it went off after only one season. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-thats-off-the-air-do-you-miss-the-most/684267/39 "2014-03-22T16:45:10Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > I would have kept watching Deadwood, Rome, Carnivale, Firefly, My Name Is Earl, Terriers, the one where Jeff Goldblum solves crimes with the help of the spirits of the victims, Kidnapped, Upstairs Downstairs. > > But if I had to pick just one, it’d be My Name Is Earl. And will soon be Raising Hope. > [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > The Jeff Goldblum one is not [Tenspeed and Brown Shoe](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080289/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1), but I remember being bummed when it went off after only one season. I also was enjoying [Raines (2007– )](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0802148/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_16) when they yanked the plug on it. I guess it wasn’t zombie or vampire oriented enough for those execs who demand plausibility in their offerings. Shithooks! ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-thats-off-the-air-do-you-miss-the-most/684267/40 "2014-03-22T16:52:43Z")
> [@nevadaexile](#): > > Alphas. > I felt that the series had a lot more to offer and it got canceled before it could do so. > What a waste. Alphas had potential, but it was pretty much a fumble from the start - I was really hoping it would gain creative traction but nope. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-thats-off-the-air-do-you-miss-the-most/684267.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-show-thats-off-the-air-do-you-miss-the-most/684267.md?page=3)