TV Shows You Miss
 

...or even "TV shows killed off before their time".

They recently started airing Mission Hill again on Adult Swim and I was reminded how much I really enojyed that odd style of comic book-like animation and the way they approached difficult social issues in their episodes. They weren't too serious, weren't too over the top. Mission Hill was just fun to watch.

So, of course they killed it after less than a full season. Damnit.

Anyone care to share stuff they miss?

I really, really miss Spitting Image. It was a satirical puppet show from the 1980s. It may not have been as funny as I remember, but my brother & I still laugh when we remember some of the episodes we videoed and watched to ribbons.
Spitting Image

l miss NYPD Blue. lt wasn't cancelled before its time, but it was a really good show. lt's probably best that it's off the air now that the FCC is run by puritans.

l miss Homicide, the cop show based in Baltimore. That was a really good one.

l don't see how these two fine shows were cancelled when tripe like all the Law and Order and CSl clones are on.

l miss Undeclared, a show that apparently nobody but me watched.


l don't miss Alf.

Firefly
The Tick - both versions
Red Dwarf
Carnivale
Sports Night

You know, I think there's another thread about this...

Daria

I know a lot of people thought it was crap, but I loved La Femme Nikita.

Beautiful, kick-ass female heroine, complex technology, the ambiguity of training vs humanity, great soundtracks, cool wardwrobes, lots of action, in-depth character development and decent acting.

I miss it...

Laverne and Shirley :D

The Super

Wonderland
Wiseguy
Stingray

My So-called Life

The old SNL

In Living Color

Bosom Buddies

Early Cheers, before Kirstie Alley took over the bar.

Are we counting shows that are out on DVD? Somehow that seems to make it hard to "miss". (I'm not picking on Laverne and Shirley, just that I saw a promo for the DVD.)

(Speaking of Laverne and Shirley, my then-boss and I used to have adjoining offices, and I would often open the door and walk in when I wanted to talk to him. He compared these occasions to the entrances of Kramer into Jerry Seinfeld's apartment. I told him I could see the comparison, but I preferred to think of it differently. On Laverne & Shirley whenever there would be a line like "Oh come on Laverne, that is ridiculous! Only a complete moron would go along with that plan!", Lenny and Squiggy would, right on cue, pop through the door with a "Hello!")

Oh, yeah. I liked La Femme Nikita, too. The actors on that show were perfect.

Dead Like Me
Carnivale
Night Court
NBC News Overnight (the greatest news program in TV history, period)
Connections w/James Burke

Wow, Elspode, I was actually thinking of Connections, too...but didn't post it. I found that you can get them on DVD. I LOVED that show!

Sorry, I thought it was just those that you don't see on TV that often. I didn't know they had DVD's for them!!


I completely forgot about Night Court! I loved it, until they replaced Christine. I think they ended up replacing Dan, too didn't they? I can't remember who went first either.

On DVD? I *must* know where and how much, please?

You can get them on his site... I want them too but cannot afford them.

G-Force.

Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...v=glance&n=130

Amazon rocks!

I think season 2 was the best.

Please Don't Eat the Daisies!:apaw:

Pete and Pete
GOOD Simpsons
Red Dwarf!
Firefly
Frasier, kinda... Wasn't thaaaat good but it beats Beauty and the Geek and American Idol and crap like that.

Nope...this is the *second* series. I want the original. I don't think the sequel series had nearly the "oh, wow!" impact of the original, not by half.

Does anyone remember a show from the sixties called "The Time Tunnel"
It showed in the UK for 1 series I think,(I was only a kid when it was on)..
The plot was about two scientists lost in time and they were getting bounced around different times as their control were trying to get them back.
If it ran longer in the US what I want to know did they get back ,or was the show pulled?

6 Million Dollar Man- love that opening sequence

I watched most of the Time Tunnel, but I don't know if there was ever a real resolution to the series. I know that the show is available on DVD but I haven't really pursued getting it, because although it was entertaining, I wasn't that into it ... however, there is potential for a drinking game in there ... identify prop pieces from Lost In Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, or any other Irwin Allen production.

You know, kind of like catching old Dr. Who shows reusing stuff from Blakes 7 and vice versa ...

That reminds me ... I want Blakes 7 on DVD!!!

Oh yeah!!! I remember seeing that crash footage in one of the exhibits at the National Air and Space Museum. Pilot supposedly walked away from that, though.

The books were kind of cool, but very different from the series.

I miss having a new Star Trek on every week.

I miss Firefly.

I miss Babylon 5.

Six Million Dollar Man will be a movie soon starring Jim Carrey. I think it's Six Billion Dollar Man, though.

For Pete's sake, is nothing sacred?

We can rebuild him. We have the technology.

MST 3K (with Joel, not Mike) and Lost in Space.

Please say it ain't so ...

The Wonderful World of Disney

Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom

The Twilight Zone

Samauri Jack

Courtesy of a coworker I gave Samurai Jack a try ... he had the movie. I thought it was interesting, but not interesting enough to attempt the remainder of the series.

WonderWorks
Powerhouse
3-2-1-Contact
Electric Company
Square 1

So Cool
 

Ultraman


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I loved that show. One day after I'd been watching it for a year or two, it occured to me that I was an adult, watching a kid's show, and was thoroughly enjoying it. It was part of my regular viewing habit.

Those PBS kids shows of that era were fun - oh, yeah: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. I don't know how good the current batch is. It may be fun to check it out.

Crap, I'd have liked to see it done straight.

farscape.....


easily the most innotive sci-fi show of recent times.

Who knows, it still might be. He's done a few straight films already, some science fiction.

But probably not.

I also doubt that it will be played for anything other than laughs.

Come on, admit it. You are all picturing him doing the slo-mo run. You see it in your mind's eye. The tension of the muscles, the bizarre facial contortions.

I already don't want to see it.

Me too. And I miss Farscape and don't like there won't be more Charmed after this season ends. It might not be the highest quality in acting at times but I like it a lot. And I miss Dead Like Me, and 7th Heaven actually. They used to show that here but stopped after the 5th season never to pick it up again. The show is so damn sweet it'll give you toothache but I liked it nonetheless :)

I miss...
Firefly
John Doe
Dark Angel
MST3K (with Joel)

You reminded me of Zoom! I wanted to be a Zoom kid so bad.
:p

Oh, man. That is so cool. That toad blinking its left eye while swallowing... the flaming scissors... Cool.

La Femme Nikita
It's About Time
My Mother, The Car

The Muppet Show

Saturday morning cartoons (**especially Warner Brothers**)

Bill Nye the Science Guy

Fraggle Rock

Third Watch

Boomtown

Amen.

Monty Python's Flying Circus (Can't miss it, cuz I wasn't around when it was, but still)
Top Gear (Don't show it in America anymore)
and finally...



INVADER ZIM!!!!!!!!

Invader Zim

The Kids from C.A.P.E.R

The Flying Nun

All Warner Bros. Cartoons, esp. Bugs, Daffy and Elmer. I sooo miss those guys. They were brilliant.

You are so right! I am partial to early Daffy. All the writing was wonderful.

"What a maroon. What an ignoranamus" ---Bugs
:)

A new Star Trek series would be cool, rather than replays.

I had no idea that anyone else remembered that. I totally had the hots for several of them. They were not as good as the Monkees, but they were cool.

We're the kids, we're the kids, we're the kids from C.A.P.E.R. ...

I know I'm going to get argument, but none of the Post-Gene attempts have been anywhere near as good as TOS.

If it went back to the old formula with new personalities. The newer ones got too soap opera like.:yelsick: