There was NightMan, a superhero show that was adapted from an UltraVerse comic book that I thought I was the only person to have ever read (though it was actually a decent book). I was floored when I saw that they’d made it into a TV show.
Let’s not forget Baywatch Nights, sort of a cross between Baywatch and X-Files. 
And there’s the Highlander spin-off, The Raven. It was pretty bad, but I watched it every chance I got because of Elizabeth Gracen’s hotness.
For some reason, the Sci-fi Channel launches and then abandons interesting shows.
The Chronicle–a fun show about the staff of a supermarket tabloid tackling monsters. The vampire Elvis imitators ep was the best.
The Invisible Man–about a thief turned invisible and forced to work for the government
Tripping The Rift–Haven’t seen any new eps in a year, so I’m guessing it’s dead.
Tremors: The Series–Like it sounds. I enjoyed the episodes featuring the genetic monsters caused by the GM virus.
Wasn’t there something called VR-5? It had Lori Singer in it or someone llike that.
Cyberpunk never seems to work on TV. It barely works in film, the Matrix being a singular exception, and even that’s arguable.
OK, I had to assure myself that this show wasn’t a dream:
Tales Of The Gold Monkey --very nifty Raider rip. I look on it fondly.
The Man From Atlantis —starred Patrick Duffy. Aquaman-lite, but nice.
There was Harsh Realm. Sort of a cross between The Matrix and Tour of Duty, as envisaged by Chris Carter. Cancelled after nine episodes, which was at least four, and more likely nine, too many.
Ah, let’s not forget Highlander: The Raven a spinoff series for the character Amanda. An immortal chick who died from the plague and has a penchant for cat-burglary.
Witchblade based on the comic. Had a lot of potential but a disasterous production manager and a lead actress who had, uh, “personal problems”. Rumour has it the may be back but they would likely recast the lead role to avoid future problems.
My favourite TV shows as a kid (and oh, the were bad) was a show called Phoenix about an astonaught from an ancient civilization, named Benu. Only lasted something like 5 episodes. LOVED it as a kid.
And I had a really weird thing for The Powers of Matthew Star. I thin I was brain damaged at the time and had really low expectations.
Oh, yeah, I had high hopes for VR5, but it never really worked.
Which reminds me, anybody remember “The Lone Gunmen”? They DEFINITELY coulda let that one go a little longer … had some potential. I mean, what was Fox dropping it for? Some teen mellerdrammer, I bet.
And wasn’t there a series about some kind of elite group of young hackers who fought evil stuff on the Internet?
Is it “freakylinks” that you’re thinking of?
Brimstone – putting bad people back in hell – gotta go for the eyes.
Forever Knight – Vampire/Cop who wants to be human.
Now, in its defense, Mortal Kombat: Conquest had my favorite series finale ever (even if it was obviously just because they expected the show to go on for another season).
Nightman has got to be the absolute worst sci-fi-ish show I’ve ever seen. (and I even kinda liked Cleopatra2525 so that says a lot)
“tuned to the frequency of evil” :dubious: And then there was the incredibly cheesy costume and the horribly miscast lead actor - who, from his IMDB listing looks to actually be a stuntman.
Sinbad- Awful. It lacked the Ray Harryhausen monsters that made the movies great. Plus, Sinbad is thoroughly caucasian, and beardless for the first season. It also featured a mute black guy, a nutty inventor, a villianess guided by the still living head of her sorcerer father, and a jolly fat guy with a big sword as Sinbad’s brother (Said fat guy now plays a member of The Dominion on Mutant X).
Conan- I saw a few episodes. IMHO Not that bad. Conan’s performance was lacking, but I liked some of the SFX and supporting cast. The dwarf actor from Seinfeld was one of the sidekicks. I know without clicking the link that the dark wizard Hyss Hazuul had a demon servant that manifested as a sarcastic talking skull in a cauldron of bubbling goo. He and Hyss Hazuul pass the time by wagering rubies. You have to remember that while the original Howard stories were great stuff, they were as cheezy as they come.
Cleopatra 2525- This IMHO had potential. The acting could be good. The writing could be good. It strated out as SS T&A but started to become much more. Then it got cancelled.
Special Unit 2- Once you realized that the writers knew how screwed up the science on the show was, it was a lot of fun. ‘Yes, we know this show makes no sense according to basic evolutionary theory, chemistry, or biology. But, just shut off that bit of your brain and have some fun.’
Black Scorpion- I disagree that her butt was the only good thing on the show. She had nice boobs and lips too.
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Kindred The Embraced- Lets’s give every clan all the disciplines, and ignore the rules.
Dead At 21- MTV made this series about government experiments with implanting microchips in the brains of embryos. The subjects are born with strange powers, and all die at 21. Every scene had loud background music from the top of the charts.
???- Nickelodeon did a teens in space show featuring a chick with a rainbow wig, and the original American black Power Ranger.
Strange World- A doctor is dying of an incurable disease. A mysterious (adn hot) Asian babe comes to his hospital room and cures him. She continues to provide him with this mysterious drug in return for his investigating cases for the mysterious agency she works for. All the episodes I saw had a medical theme.
Jake 2.0-Nerd is given superpowers by nanites. Never watched it.
StarHunter- Gruff dude runs spaceship and wants to find his son (kidnapped by a group of ex-military revolutionaries who are sterile due to exposure to biowarfare). There’s a young hacker chick, a black Kiwi chick, and a holographic AI named Caravaggio. Mostly crap. However, one episode actually dealt with a comic relief conman’s same sex relationship in a sympathetic and sensitive way.
Vanishing Son- The above mentioned Action Pack martial artist flees to US series. The guy either speaks to the ghost of his brother or hallucinates. I never bothered to find out.
Wiliam Shatner’s Tekworld-Hoo boy. Future cops. Hackers. Digital drugs. Bad acting. Bad writing.
Do cartoons count?
Gargoyles- Not cheezy, darn good stuff. Still ‘Stone by day, warriors by night’ adventures included meeting King Arthur, Oberon, Puck. Macbeth and the three weird sisters were recurring characters. Voices included Marina Sirtis, Johnathan Frakes, and Brent Spiner.
The Zeta Project- Oswald (or is it Lewis? The dark haired UPS driver) voices an android built by the government as an assassin. He achieves sentience, gets a conscience, and escapes. Red Forman (of That 70’s Show) voices the government agent trying to track him down. The beginning credits end with Ro (Z’s teenage sidekick) saying “We’ll get you your freedom Z. I know we will.”
Did everyone die?
Space Cases. Dreadful show, even to a sixteen year old who loves vaguely sci-fi-ish shows.
Very cool show. I loved it for the ten or so episodes it was on.
Wasn’t one of the main premises of the Highlander “thing” that to become immortal, they had to die violently? I remember the episode where she has plague and they trundle her out in a cart, but wasn’t paying close attention. I do know that when her detective friend was diseased and dying, it was a big deal that she had to kill him in order to save him.
Witchblade was OK, but that stupid “Let’s reboot the whole thing” really annoyed me. That and the “Time is wound around itself like a spool of film” nonsense.
“Bring out your dead!..”
They fiddled around with that in the canon of the series, IIRC. I think it started out as a less specific “premature” death rather than a “living out your natural lifespan” death, and then they changed it to “death by violence” (whether accidental or otherwise) later.
Kinda like the inconsistencies in how long it took to wake up from being killed. Sometimes they could be shot dead and pop right back up within seconds, other times there was enough of a lag for them to be processed at the scene of the crime and end up in the morgue naked, wearing nothing but a toe tag.
I thought this also had potential. But, instead of dealing with things like the nature of sin and redemption, or even just giving Stone tattoos that actually had anything to do with the souls he was capturing, they went for generic action. One episode did stand out. The devil tells Stone that he was hellbound long before he killed Gilbert Jax (the man who raped his wife). An angel, played by the same actor as the devil, tries to convince Stone that the devil is just lying to him, that he’s done a lot of good, and that he almost made it into heaven.
Doc you just reminded me of a short-lived show I liked. (IMO) I think it was a Sci-fi channel show, it was called Good vs. Evil.
According to IMDb, the title is now G vs E. It was a rather quirky show, with twists and bits of surrealness. It was cancelled before it really got a chance to take off.
Why does the Sci Fi channel kill so many of their shows?
Don’t know where that IMO came from… hmmm.
Once A Hero- Comic book hero leaves comic to live in the real world
Werewolf- The series
“time and again” or something like that- guy is killed and given a new super body, but must be a government agent.