# Which cancelled or defunct TV series do you miss most? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 5, 2008, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095 "2008-04-05T17:12:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/21 "2008-04-05T18:17:55Z")
[QUOTE=Krokodil] Homicide: Life on the Streets Sunday Night (Music show hosted by David Sanborn) Tomorrow with Tom Snyder NBC Mystery Movie (McCloud, McMillan $ Wife, Columbo in rotation) The Magician (Bill Bixby) [/QUOTE] Nicely done! Even if there may be access to some of the really old shows on cable channels that specialize in reruns, it would be great to see some new episodes, too. Things from way back that I still miss (I think): Peter Gunn The Bob Cummings Show Night Gallery The Twilight Zone Alfred Hitchcock Presents Mission: Impossible The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Secret Agent The Avengers The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-in God, this could go on for pages! ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/22 "2008-04-05T18:23:19Z")
Hands down, _MST3K_. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/23 "2008-04-05T18:28:01Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] I thought it was poorly acted, boring, whiney, and the premise didn’t really make sense. [/QUOTE] Funny, I thought the same thing about _Arrested Development_… ---
**Author:** ![Qwertyasdfg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ecc23a/32.png) [@Qwertyasdfg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwertyasdfg)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/24 "2008-04-05T18:30:19Z")
Chappelle’s Show ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/25 "2008-04-05T18:34:50Z")
_Sports Night_ deserved better. It was a great show. ---
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/26 "2008-04-05T18:41:25Z")
[QUOTE=Mosier] Arrested Development and Firefly. I didn’t even know these shows existed until they had already been canceled, which I can never forgive Fox for. I watched Fox for a couple of hours every week at the least, and I never saw one ad for either show. [/QUOTE] Agreed on both. ---
**Author:** ![Pixilated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aeb1de/32.png) [@Pixilated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixilated)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/27 "2008-04-05T18:44:44Z")
oops - The Gallery should be corrected to Night Gallery (thanks Zeldar!) I also wish their were more of Will & Grace and Sex in the City ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/28 "2008-04-05T18:46:04Z")
I suppose we should exclude from consideration shows that ended because the director/producer always intended a story arc with a conclusion, such as _Babylon 5_. I miss _Dark Angel._ ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/29 "2008-04-05T18:48:10Z")
[QUOTE=Jayn\_Newell] Funny, I thought the same thing about _Arrested Development_… [/QUOTE] [The premise of **Arrested Development** was pretty simple: the one (relatively) sane and responsible member of the family tries to keep the family together and solvent. The second season was brilliant, but it went into a death spiral in the abbreviated third season culminating in an abysmal finale._Maybe_ I could overlook making a run for it in a famous steamship that lost its boilers 40 years ago if you hadn’t pointed out _earlier in the samepi esode_ that it was "welded to the dock."The last few episodes of the series pretty much trashed the original premise. ---
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/30 "2008-04-05T19:03:37Z")
[QUOTE=TWDuke] [The premise of **Arrested Development** was pretty simple: the one (relatively) sane and responsible member of the family tries to keep the family together and solvent. The second season was brilliant, but it went into a death spiral in the abbreviated third season culminating in an abysmal finale._Maybe_ I could overlook making a run for it in a famous steamship that lost its boilers 40 years ago if you hadn’t pointed out _earlier in the samepi esode_ that it was "welded to the dock."The last few episodes of the series pretty much trashed the original premise. [/QUOTE] Well, I believe that the third season was a direct response to the need for them to simply stay afloat. The format wasn’t keeping them alive and they did a bunch of different stuff in the last season to try and keep it going. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/31 "2008-04-05T19:07:17Z")
_ER_ ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/32 "2008-04-05T19:08:03Z")
The X-Files!! ---
**Author:** ![3waygeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e95f7d/32.png) [@3waygeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3waygeek)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/33 "2008-04-05T19:09:32Z")
[QUOTE=USCDiver] _ER_ [/QUOTE] New episodes starting next week. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/34 "2008-04-05T19:13:36Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Does anybody know if Jimmy Smits’s CBS _Cane_ will be back? Or _The Unit_, or _The Shield_? [/QUOTE] I’ve been jonesing for more of The Shield, too. I found this: “Q: When does the new season of The Shield start? A: At long last, answers! An FX insider tells me that the highly anticipated seventh and final season of The Shield will debut in September.” (from [TV Guide](http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/shield/100518).) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/35 "2008-04-05T19:16:27Z")
Firefly. That’s it. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/36 "2008-04-05T19:16:45Z")
I guess the show I miss the most is _The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr._ I got the DVD set as a gift, and it made me want more. Bruce Campbell’s cult status apparently wasn’t enough to rustle up viewers for this quirky, wacko western/scifi show. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/37 "2008-04-05T19:17:02Z")
[QUOTE=Oregon sunshine] The X-Files!! [/QUOTE] I didn’t watch more than an isolated episode or two when it was on first-run, but **Zoe** and I have started with Netflix at Season 1 (finished it already) and are into Season 2 at the moment. I had been hooked until the Season 2 episode called “The Host” (or thereabouts) about the Toxic Avenger the Russians were dumping off the New Jersey shore and that wound up in the sewers. The A-1 grossest imagery I have ever seen, and it’s slowed me down from plowing ahead with the series. In fact, I have schedule some new releases to come in ahead of the next X-Files disks. That image is still seared in my brain. Besides, hasn’t it been long enough that they’ll need a replacement for Gillian if they want to keep the hotness factor going? Duchovny, not so much, but then I’m a guy. (She is schedule to be in the new movie, though, right?) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/38 "2008-04-05T19:18:55Z")
Thanks for the _The Shield_ update, **pinkfreud**. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/39 "2008-04-05T20:18:18Z")
[QUOTE=3waygeek] New episodes starting next week. [/QUOTE] **Sticks fingers in ears** LALALA I can’t hear you… I was leaning more toward the defunct side of the OP. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/40 "2008-04-05T21:42:06Z")
_The Misfits of Science_ and _WKRP in Cincinatti_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095.md?page=3)