Speaking of Cancellations...

[oykib]

I know we had a thread about this a few months back. But what show would you like to rescue from the junkpile of history?

Don't just give us the show. Tell what could have been done had the show lasted to syndication.

[Abe Sargent]

The Prisoner. Wish Patrick McGoohan would have brought some more creative talent to bear that would have given us more unique and inventive episodes. Imagine, The Prisoner is already hailed as the most unique, inventive, allegorical, and sometimes, difficult shows to watch - and that's only with 17 episodes from start to finish. I'd love to see what other minds could have done as well.

-Anxiety

[KWhit]

Twin Peaks.

It got fairly silly from time to time, but the better episodes were some of the best and scariest TV at the time. I thought the 2 hour ending was just excellent. The subsequent movie was just decent, though.

[bbor]

Miricles.....i loved that show:(

[Maple Leafs]

This probably isn't quite what you're looking for, but I still maintain that at it's peak, Married With Children was one of the ten best sitcomes in history, maybe in the top five.

The first season was rough around the edges, and the last few years of the run were just terrible (which is why I suspect most people have a negative impression of the show). But from midway through season two to about season six, there wasn't a better sitcom on TV.

Among the early Fox shows, The Simpsons gets a lot of well-deserved credit, but you could argue that Married With Children was far more influential (and in fact took the beating from critics that was necessary to allow Simpsons to really hit its stride).

[CHEMICAL SOLDIER]

Well a FOX Show that was canned that was very promising was Space Abovve and Beyond,,,which was replaced with LA Firefighters which lasted 3 weeks .

[Samdari]

Sports Night

[Bearcat729]

The greatest american hero

:)

[Jesus Christ]

They should bring back The Schwartz show .

[QuikSand]

How about Police Squad? Only six episodes...

It translated pretty directly into the "Naked Gun" movies though (they even recycled about half the original gags from the TV show in the first movie).

[clintl]

My four nominees:

Max Headroom - some great political satire, and perhaps the only example of a science fiction TV show that wasn't at least a decade or more behind written science fiction thematically.

Gidget - This was recently on TV Land, the first time I had ever seen the show. It only lasted a year, but it might be the best TV sitcom ever about teenagers. I was surprised at how good it was. It was well-written, much funnier than most '60s sitcoms, and had one of the best TV dads ever.

Square Pegs - Also has been on TV Land lately. I remembered it as being quirkier during its original run than it seems now, 20 years later, but it's still not like any other sitcom. Though it's hard to see how someone could think that putting glasses on Sarah Jessica Parker would make her nerdy and unattractive.

Quark - I don't remember the show very well, I just remember thinking it was really funny at the time. I'd like to see it again to see if I still think so.

[Pumpy Tudors]

Originally posted by clintl

[...] it's hard to see how someone could think that putting glasses on Sarah Jessica Parker would make her nerdy and unattractive.

Yeah, her horse face does a pretty good job of that already.

"Sarah Jessica Parker walks into a bar..."

[oykib]

Originally posted by CHEMICAL SOLDIER
Well a FOX Show that was canned that was very promising was Space Abovve and Beyond,,,which was replaced with LA Firefighters which lasted 3 weeks .

Ughh... I couldn't stand thaat show. It was more mind-numbing drivel dressed up in the sci-fi fig leaf. It was also hurt by the X-Files syndrome where everything in TV land had to be the result of a conspiracy.

Great CG, though.

On Twin Peaks, basically ABC came in and told David Lynch and Scott Frost the same thing that NBC is telling the West Wing now. "Shorter, dumbed-down story arcs for the short attention span morons they felt lived in America."

[GrantDawg]

Originally posted by Samdari
Sports Night

Agreed.