A Season or Less, What a Mess...
These T.V. shows may have sounded like sure things, but they only lasted a season... or less. There are many reasons why a series can get cancelled; it doesn't always mean it's a terrible show. Which of these short-lived series do you wish would've kept running? Arranged by year, oldest to newest.
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- CreatorAlan ShayneStarsHelen HayesMildred NatwickLou AntonioA spinster and her widowed sister, who are also mystery writers, try to solve mysterious murders.Two elderly mystery novelists solve real crimes.
- CreatorDale McRavenStarsJack ElamGary BuseyMark HamillEarthy comedy about the four motherless Wheeler children and their lovable, but cantankerous, father Zack. With Zack avoiding work, Truckie led the clan, with Doobie, Boo, and T. J.Zack Wheeler returns to raise his children Truckie, Doobie, Boo, and T.J. in rural Texas after their mother dies.
- CreatorGeorge KirgoPeter NelsonStarsTeresa GravesDennis RuckerCharles CioffiAdventures of sexy and sassy black undercover cop Christie Love.A Los Angeles policewoman goes undercover to solve crimes.
- CreatorJerry MayerStarsLisa HartmanRobert UrichMel StewartThis spin-off of Bewitched (1964) follows Tabitha Stephens; Samantha and Darrin's daughter as an adult.A sequel to "Bewitched" follows the adventures of Samantha and Darrin's grown-up daughter.
- StarsBen MurphyKatherine CrawfordWilliam SylvesterA man has a watch that makes him invisible when pressed. However he can only remain invisible for 15 minutes or else he will stay invisible forever.Agent Sam Casey gains the power of invisibility, which is controlled by a watch.
- CreatorAllen S. EpsteinAnthony WilsonStarsErnest BorgnineMichael ShannonJohn AmosA veteran patrol officer gets an android for a partner.A veteran police officer gets an android for a partner.
- StarsGregory HarrisonHeather Menzies-UrichDonald MoffatIn a futuristic society where reaching the age of 30 is a death sentence, a rebellious law enforcement agent goes on the run in search of Sanctuary.Logan, a 26-year-old police assassin (known as a Sandman) begins to question the lethal bureaucracy under which he lives and works.
- CreatorMayo SimonHerbert F. SolowStarsPatrick DuffyAlan FudgeBelinda MontgomeryThe adventures of an amphibious man, the last survivor of the legendary sunken city.An Atlantis survivor works with a crew to study oceanography.
- CreatorAllen DucovnyStarsJonathan HarrisPamelyn FerdinRic CarrottThe adventures of the students of an outer space military school.The adventures of the students of an outer space military school.
- CreatorSteve TesichStarsBarbara BarrieShaun CassidyJackie Earle HaleyFour buddies live in Bloomington, Indiana, facing life as working class "cutters" in a college town. Focus is on Dave and his $1200 La Strada bike.Four high school friends grow up near a university.
- CreatorDon ReoStarsJeff ConawayWalter OlkewiczDuncan RegehrThe legendary Kingdom of Camarand is ruled by good King Baaldorf and Queen Lattinia. Their daughter, Ariel, is engaged to Prince Erik, who becomes Camarand's Champion against a neighboring kingdom ruled by evil Prince Dirk Blackpool.The legendary Kingdom of Camarand is ruled by good King Baaldorf and Queen Lattinia.
- CreatorGlen A. LarsonStarsDesi Arnaz Jr.Chuck WagnerHeather McNairA computer-generated superhero and his human creator fight crime in the city.A police computer expert creates his alter ego.
- CreatorPaul M. BelousRobert WolterstorffBruce LansburyStarsRex SmithRichard VentureJoe RegalbutoA desk bound cop secretly fights crime as the test pilot for a prototype combat motorcycle.An ex-motorcycle cop injured in the line of duty is recruited for a top-secret government mission to ride Street Hawk - a combat motorbike designed to fight crime.
Suggested by Nikolay Yerioman - CreatorRoderick TaylorStarsSam GroomGretchen CorbettTony O'DellThrown into another dimension, a family must keep ahead of a tyrannical state's hunters while searching for a way home.A family searches for a way out of a bizarre parallel world.
- CreatorFrank LupoStarsJohn J. YorkLance LeGaultChuck ConnorsGrad student Eric Cord becomes infected with lycanthropy after his friend turns into a werewolf and attacks him. Now, Eric and his girlfriend are after the monster that infected his friend, and a tough cowboy bounty hunter pursues Eric.When Eric is bitten by a werewolf, he must track down the rough sailor who started his wolf bloodline.
- CreatorPrudence FraserRobert SterninStarsChristopher RichJudy ParfittCork HubbertThis sequel to the classic fairy tale finds Snow White and her family transported to, and trying to adjust to, life in 1980s America.Snow White and her family are thrust out of their fairy tale life and into modern times.
- CreatorDanny BilsonPaul De MeoStarsJohn Wesley ShippAmanda PaysAlex DésertA police forensic scientist, Barry Allen, battles crimes as the super-fast superhero "The Flash."An accident gives a police chemist superhuman speed.
Suggested by Nikolay Yeriomin - CreatorWinnie HolzmanStarsBess ArmstrongWilson CruzClaire DanesA 15-year-old girl and her trials and tribulations of being a teenager and dealing with friends, guys, parents, and school.Angela is a high schooler in constant turmoil over her exposure to boys, friends, drugs... basically the usual 1990's teen trappings.
- CreatorLinda Bloodworth-ThomasonStarsDelta BurkeTeri GarrPatricia HeatonSuzanne Sugarbaker of Designing Women (1986) rocks the U.S. Capitol when she takes over her recently-deceased husband's seat in Congress.In this spin-off of "Designing Women," Suzanne Sugarbaker and her new comrades represent the State of Georgia in politics.
- CreatorJ. Michael StraczynskiStarsGary ColeTracy ScogginsDaniel Dae KimSet right after the events of Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (1999), a team of soldiers and scientists led by Capt. Matthew Gideon have five years to find a cure for an alien plague decimating Earth.A team of soldiers and scientists has five years to find a cure for a plague decimating Earth.
Suggested by Dan Dassow - CreatorPaul FeigStarsLinda CardelliniJohn Francis DaleyJames FrancoA high school mathlete starts hanging out with a group of burnouts while her younger brother navigates his freshman year.Growing up circa 1980, a misfit teen and his pals are stuck in school, where all the girls are a foot taller and bullies terrorize the gym class.
- CreatorJoss WhedonStarsNathan FillionGina TorresAlan TudykFive hundred years in the future, a renegade crew aboard a small spacecraft tries to survive as they travel the unknown parts of the galaxy and evade warring factions as well as authority agents out to get them.The disparate men and women of a small spaceship just want to survive, but they face constant challenges on the new frontier, such as flesh-eating mongrels.
Suggested by Ed Jones - CreatorCarrie GerlachEmily KapnekStarsHeather GrahamNadia DajaniJames Patrick StuartEmily Sanders is a successful young woman with fabulous job in publishing and great friends. She got to where she is by working hard and always followed a set of self-imposed guidelines referred to as the "Reasons", as in reasons why not to do something that could have consequences in her life. However, when Emily gets involved with a roguishly handsome, two-timing author, she realized that somewhere she took a wrong turn in her life. She now has to get back on track, and once again be heedful of the trustworthy reasons that help her navigate her way through life.After breaking up with her most recent boyfriend, Emily institutes a set of self-imposed guidelines, referred to as the "Reasons Why Not." What are those guidelines? If Emily, with the help of her friends, can come up with just five reasons why she should break up with a beau, she does.
- CreatorRemi AubuchonRonald D. MooreStarsEric StoltzEsai MoralesPaula MalcomsonTwo families, the Graystones and the Adamas, live together on a peaceful planet known as Caprica, where a startling breakthrough in artificial intelligence brings about unforeseen consequences.Set nearly 60 years before the "Battlestar Galactica" series, this prequel traces the progress of two prominent families, the Greystones and the Adamas.
Suggested by Jeorj Euler - CreatorBrannon BragaDavid S. GoyerStarsCourtney B. VanceJoseph FiennesJack DavenportA special task force in the FBI investigates after every person on Earth simultaneously blacks out and awakens with a short vision of their future.Residents of Los Angeles go about their day unaware that a mysterious event is about to change their lives.
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