# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/41 "2008-04-05T21:46:57Z")
_Arrested Development_, _Deadwood_ & _Wonderfalls_. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/42 "2008-04-05T21:55:47Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Alien Nation [/QUOTE] I really wish they’d make another TV movie. [QUOTE=supervenusfreak] …”The Golden Girls“. I still wish that I had my Saturday night GG fix… [/QUOTE] While I’d love a reunion special showing what Dorothy, Blanche, and Rose are up to now that they’d be in their 80s (Blanche would claim to be in her 60s 😉 ) Sophia would be [del]over 120[/del] dead ☹ . Golden Girls without her is just wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/43 "2008-04-05T21:56:19Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] 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?) [/QUOTE] She looked pretty damned good in **Last King of Scotland**. Her appeal never was based on her resemblance to swimsuit models. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/44 "2008-04-05T22:04:29Z")
Futurama - still haven’t seen Bender’s Big Score yet so no opinion on whether its inferior to the original Carnivale - the show had such potential, it’s a shame it didn’t continue past two series Firefly - I’m no fanboy but it was a good show, and definitely deserved to run longer than one series I want to say Six Feet Under because it’s probably my favourite show ever, but it ended well (and the only way it really could) and it had a good run. The characters all developed and I think if they’d run it any longer it would have started to get either stagnant or silly (or both). I see there’s no love for Enterprise in this thread - none from me either (I never watched it) but I would have thought with the geek quotient on the Dope being what it is that some people might have mentioned it. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/45 "2008-04-05T22:12:48Z")
[QUOTE=Illuminatiprimus] I see there’s no love for Enterprise in this thread - none from me either (I never watched it) but I would have thought with the geek quotient on the Dope being what it is that some people might have mentioned it. [/QUOTE] Nope, it died the death it deserved, one season too late. I hated the way it shoehorned every bloody bit of Trek history it possibly could to one ship. That and the way they rubbished the Time War. Someone’s already mentioned Futurama and Firefly, I’ll follow up with Dark Skies. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/46 "2008-04-05T22:26:04Z")
I actually liked Invasion, even though it was a re-hash of the Siegel movie. It had great potential though. There was another kidnapped show about a senator’s wife gone missing ( I forget the title) where I liked the premise and many plot things, but the execution (killing off the main protagonist after 7 eps) was done poorly. I dearly miss the CSI [LV] of the first season. Bab5 ran its course and I can’t really see any reason to continue. I still miss getting a new episode, though. ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/47 "2008-04-05T23:24:08Z")
Your Show of Shows The Ed Sullivan Show Playhouse 90 Colgate Comedy Hour Maverick ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/48 "2008-04-05T23:28:40Z")
Friends and Huff. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/49 "2008-04-06T01:58:37Z")
I was going to say Arrested Development, but on reviewing this thread, it’s Mystery Science Theater 3000. Arrested’s third season was hit and miss - the Charlize Theron storyline was pretty awful, the last few episodes were great - but MST is a show that could have run forever. Some of the framing plots were goofy, and I admit the Pearl-Bobo-Brain Guy lineup was not my favorite. But if you’ve got those guys making fun of bad movies, it’s all good. I consider the show an inspiration to this day. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/50 "2008-04-06T02:22:50Z")
Carnivale Rome Deadwood Nowhere Man John Doe Wonderfalls Firefly ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/51 "2008-04-06T02:27:41Z")
Deadwood was cancelled because it cost about 5 mill per episode. ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/52 "2008-04-06T02:32:12Z")
remember WENN ---
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No, I don’t. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/54 "2008-04-06T03:01:53Z")
The (original) Twilight Zone Alfred Hitchcock Presents Picket Fences Northern Exposure The Dick Van Dyke Show Hill Street Blues ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/55 "2008-04-06T03:26:57Z")
Any sign of the **Dead Like Me** Movie/DVD? ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/56 "2008-04-06T03:41:00Z")
No official word on the Dead Like Me Movie DVD. Unofficially it is July 2008. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/57 "2008-04-06T03:43:28Z")
**Twin Peaks** (I loved it to the very end) **Due South** (with the original Ray) **Cupid** (I will not watch a Piven-less Cupid) **Chicago Hope** (I liked it better than **ER** and I really liked **ER** ) Oldies but goodies (to me, anyway) **The New People** (the original **Lost** ) **Then Came Bronson** \*\*Columbo \*\* ---
**Author:** ![D-bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@D-bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D-bear)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/58 "2008-04-06T03:56:51Z")
I miss the late “Book of Daniel” a kind sweet show killed by the religious right… ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/59 "2008-04-06T04:04:17Z")
_Joan of Arcadia_ for intelligent discussion about religion and compelling portraits of adolecents. The acting was also really, really good. ---
**Author:** ![kitemaker\_chuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a88e4f/32.png) [@kitemaker\_chuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitemaker_chuck)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095/60 "2008-04-06T05:01:24Z")
Here’s two: _The Prisoner_ _Mr.Ed_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-cancelled-or-defunct-tv-series-do-you-miss-most/444095.md?page=4)