Your favorite CANCELED TV show

Anubis · Post by **Anubis** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:14 pm

what i mean by canceled is that they WILL not make any new ones, they don't have to be necassaraly airing or not.

My favorite show is M*A*S*H, man i love Allan Alda he is so funny

Silverclaw · Post by **Silverclaw** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:08 pm

Gargoyles, Futurama, Invader Zim, Beyond Belief, Project Greenlight, Wonderfalls...so basically if I show an interest in it, its gonna get canned soon

Hamster · Post by **Hamster** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:22 pm

Invader Zim, Ren & Stimpy (Both the G rated and the MA rated), Angry Beavers, Rocko's Modern life, Are you afraid of the Dark? and a few others I can't think of now.

I miss Rocko the most.

Stone Wolf · Post by **Stone Wolf** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:55 pm

Invader Zim, Futurama and Witchblade.

I'm sure there are more.. I just can't remember right now...

Miguel · Post by **Miguel** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:54 pm

Rocko's Modern Life, Two Stupid Dogs.

forsaken_wolf · Post by **forsaken_wolf** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 12:18 am

Duck Man and a few more, to tired to remember a few cartoons and shows.

Terastas · Post by **Terastas** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:28 am

Top of the list: Father of the Pride, hands down.

And 2nd place definitely goes to Brimstone.

And I'll give the bronze to Angry Beavers.

Runners up include Gargoyles, Road Rovers, Cybersix, Samurai Pizza Cats and Ronin Warriors.

Morkulv · Post by **Morkulv** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:41 am

Hamster wrote:Invader Zim, Ren & Stimpy (Both the G rated and the MA rated), Angry Beavers, Rocko's Modern life, Are you afraid of the Dark? and a few others I can't think of now.

I miss Rocko the most.

Especially Ren & Stimpy was great fun! But on the other hand, R&S started to suck anyway when the original founder was fired by Nickelodeon because the TV-show was becoming too 'scary' for kids (!).

Renorei · Post by **Renorei** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:28 am

Gargoyles, Andy Richter Controlls the Universe, Family Guy (yeah, I know that it is now 'uncancelled'...but those few years where they didn't make new episodes was awful!), Kristin.......more to come later

Hearth · Post by **Hearth** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:35 am

Friends.

That's all I have to say....

Scott Gardener · Post by **Scott Gardener** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:59 am

Some favorite short-lived shows:

The Phoenix: aired around 1982, a show about an anicent astronaut awakened on Earth. He seeks his mate Mira, who is the only one who knows what his purpose is on Earth. The being wears a phoenix medallion that channels his psychic powers and helps him adapt to life on Earth.

I drove my fourth grade teacher nuts making and distributing fan medallions. It looked a bit like the Trans Am hood logo in a triangle inside a circle.

Manimal: aired around 1984, a show about a man who inherited a family ability to transform into various animals. (You can see why I liked it, huh?) He used these powers to help people in need.

Both Manimal and The Phoenix resurfaced a few years ago on the Sci Fi channel, and I hope to see them some time make it to DVD, though both are obscure enough that it's probably not likely soon.

Kindred: the Embraced: based on White Wolf's Vampire game, but unfortunately adapted by Arron Spelling. It none-the-less started getting good around the time it got the axe.

Werewolf: aired around 1988 on Fox when it was a brand new network, I saw it a year later when USA picked it up and it was finally available in Nacogdoches. It was basically an Incredible Hulk variant, with soap opera star John J. York playing the young displaced vagabond, searching for the werewolf who infected him. It was worth it alone for Chuck Conners as Jonas Scorziny, the said werewolf, though Lance LeGault played an equally memorable bounty hunter turned werewolf hunter.

Wolf Lake: recent victim of the same kill-the-series-as-it's-starting-to-get-good principle of the network executives. Lou Diamond Philips plays a police officer investigating the disappearance of a woman who briefly courted him; the trail led to a small town populated by eccentric people who were in fact wolves who had taken on a human form. You probably would never guess why I was so sad to see this show get axed so quickly.

Bottom line: Hollywood likes werewolves if they look really screwy, but TV network execs must work for Pentex.

PariahPoet · Post by **PariahPoet** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 12:03 pm

First Wave, The original Nickelodeon Doug(Disney royally screwed that one up),Pink Panther, Twilight Zone (Rod Serling version)

Anubis · Post by **Anubis** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:30 pm

am i the only one who likes M*A*S*H

Stone Wolf · Post by **Stone Wolf** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:23 pm

Anubis wrote:am' i the only one who likes M*A*S*H

No, I like it too.. I just see it almost everyday.. so yeah...

Vuldari · Post by **Vuldari** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:40 pm

Megas XLR

Gargoyles

Knight Rider (Yeah...David Hasselhoff sucks as an actor...but KITT Rocked!)

The Muppet Show

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Duck Tales

"The Screen Savers" (As it was before the G4 corruption started)

Monty Pythons Flying Circus

Red Dwarf

...and I'm sure there are others that slip my mind at the moment.

M.A.S.H. was good too...though I never liked it nearly as much as my sister does.

PariahPoet · Post by **PariahPoet** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:15 pm

Oh heck yeah I miss Megas XLR too!
*mutters* stupid face cartoon network....

Anubis · Post by **Anubis** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:58 am

Me three i loved Megas XLR!! i loved it to, bad its gone

Aki · Post by **Aki** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:39 am

I alree with many of these. But instead of reiterating, I'll throw another one out there.

Samurai Jack.

Such a cool show...

Terastas · Post by **Terastas** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:45 am

Aki wrote:I alree with many of these. But instead of reiterating, I'll throw another one out there.

Samurai Jack.

Such a cool show...

That was cancelled?!! I thought they just put the new season off so Genndy could make those stupid Clone Wars episodes!

*sigh* If I'm wrong. . . Put that at the top of my list.

Veruth · Post by **Veruth** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:48 am

The whole techtv network.

I really do despise G4.

Invader Zim.
And I didn't even know these two got killed, but I liked them both a lot too
Futurama
Duck Man

PariahPoet · Post by **PariahPoet** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 5:45 pm

Veruth wrote:The whole techtv network. I really do despise G4.

Thank you! G4TV should die!
I miss Eye Drops and Screen Savers

Vuldari · Post by **Vuldari** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 10:40 pm

PariahPoet wrote:
Veruth wrote:The whole techtv network. I really do despise G4.
Thank you! G4TV should die!
I miss Eye Drops and Screen Savers

So sad...so true.

G4 sucks. TechTV ruled. The only good show left is "X-Play".

...I swear...G4 killed the entire TechTV channel just to snag that one show, because of thier entire channel of Videogame shows, that one show was better then all of thiers. ...and still is.

Anubis · Post by **Anubis** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 10:55 pm

same here G4 should die!! this is one of the reasons i hate corpate america!!!

garouda · Post by **garouda** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:00 am

Hmmmm, hope folks don't mind if I do comments instead of making a list of my own.

Witchblade
The first season was over the top fantastic from the very first episode to the very last. During the interval between filming season one and season two, the star of the film, apparently developed some serious problems, which I guess were dealt with sufficiently to allow filming season two. Big problem was this, the writers had not a clue what to do for the second season. The writing was clearly and obviously lost and meandering all over the place with out any plan or purpose.

I have speculated since, that the only way they will sell any volume of season Two DVDs, is to bundle them with season One.

Manimal
There was not ONE drop of pathos or difficulty in the star character's life. All of his shape changing and challenges were just too damned easy. The entire series suffered from terminally vacuous and perfunctory writing. I kept hoping, but it NEVER got better. That a series could have so much potential for emotionally connecting to a characer, and the writers could not be bothered to do this, really REALLY annoyed me.

Werewolf on FOX
Ho Hum. I had high hopes for this. But it was formulaic to a fault. And that was the problem with the series. The writing was nothing to crow about and one could create a chart of events in a few episodes and essentially chart and anticipate the rest from this. And frankly lumbering lug werewolves are just not very impressive.

Wolf Lake
Hot damn. I really liked this. An excellent ensemble cast and writing that actually demonstrated that there is indeed intelligent life on Planet Earth. The titles of some of the episodes were often quite tongue in cheek and humorous. I think the one that stands out as titles goes, and sticks in my mind is: "Tastes Like Chicken".

The pacing was clearly not revelatory at a sufficient rate to hold an audience of persons with the attention span of a fruit fly. I however loved the way that various episodes revealed, bit by bit, more and more about the residents of Wolf Lake and how they interacted with one another. The great shame is that nowadays series television demands that any title hits the ground running at full speed and if it cannot garner a HUGE audience and hold on to it, the series will be toast in nearly the blink of an eye.

That's enough for now.

Leighlia · Post by **Leighlia** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:18 am

FireFly
Manimal
John Doe
The original BattleStar Galactica. (Yes this dates me)
Star Trek: Next Generation

There's more, I just can't remember them now.