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.

bbro wrote:

Laverne and Shirley :D

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!

SteveDallas wrote:

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.)

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!!

Elspode wrote:

Night Court

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.

Shawnee123 wrote:

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!

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.

Elspode wrote:

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

Here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000DIZSF/qid=1151000806/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-3514207-5398518?%5Fencoding=UTF8&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.

Shawnee123 wrote:

Here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000DIZSF/qid=1151000806/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-3514207-5398518?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=130

Amazon rocks!

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!!!

Griff wrote:

6 Million Dollar Man- love that opening sequence

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.

SteveBsjb wrote:

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.

SteveBsjb wrote:

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

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

Ultraman

Happy Monkey wrote:

3-2-1-Contact

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.

SteveBsjb wrote:

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

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

farscape.....


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

Griff wrote:

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

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.

SteveBsjb wrote:

I miss having a new Star Trek on every week.

I miss Firefly.

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)

Happy Monkey wrote:

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

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

Bill Nye the Science Guy

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.

Brianna wrote:

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.

Shawnee123 wrote:

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

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. ...

MsSparkie wrote:

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

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

MsSparkie wrote:

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

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

wolf wrote:

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

To quote the Buzzard from Warner Brothers -

"Ah, yup, yup, yup, yup, yup."

TNG was better. IMO if you took the 60s series and did it today it would seem too obvious and ham-handed. (Half the aliens are black on the left side and half are black on the right side? Didn't Dr. Suess already cover this fable?)

TNG had better production and scripts but it lost the edge of the original. I thought Janeway and company did better exploring exploration. Then again maybe it was just 7s speedsuit...

Here we freakin' go again with the Star Trek obsession! Everything comes back to Kirk V. Picard with you people, doesn't it?



;)

Yeah, but we're great in the sack.

What is the longest thread on the Cellar without a ST reference?

certainley not this one....

TNG was very good in the way it explored some fundamental topics.... like what is human?

The plotting in DS9 was excellent, up there with babylon5.

Voyager? more fiction than science...in a tight spot... re-align the sensor array and move on.....


as for Enterprise.....

These British shows:

All Creatures Great And Small
Red Dwarf
Lexx (highly sexual sci-fi show)
Blackadder (all of the time periods)
Yes Minister (and then Yes Prime Minister)


American Shows: (but catch them on syndication)

Seinfeld
Mash
Fraser

wolf wrote:

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 was a Biff (Doomsday) girl. That show was campy, and fun!

Thanks for the link...started my day off great!:3eye:

If only just for hidden adult humor they managed to weave into every episode.

"I don't need two balls to win this game!"

I love watching old Nick shows now, and catching all the things I couldnt get cause I was too young.

That episode with the weinies....maturity level dropped upon seeing it.

Shawnee123 wrote:

I was a Biff (Doomsday) girl.

I admit that I was hot for Cosie Costa.

I was shocked to find out that two of my favorite cable shows, Lucky Louie and Huff, have been canceled! They were too young to die...I sure hope Oliver Platt does another TV show soon.

Griff wrote:

What is the longest thread on the Cellar without a ST reference?

I'm guessing Doodads... at least until someone posts a ST doodad.

dar512 wrote:

I'm guessing Doodads... at least until someone posts a ST doodad.

I think Wolf already did.

The Muppet Show
Ren and Stimpy
Gummi Bears
M*A*S*H
Mary Tyler Moore
Carol Burnett

Wings
I loved that show, my cousin and I would watch it every day..

JAG
It still airs, but I don't think theres any new episodes.

SteveBsjb;245370 wrote:

I miss Babylon 5.

Thread necromancy!

This is pretty cool. The original notes on the idea for Babylon 5.

Anyone ever see a show called Strange Luck?

I used tolove that show. I was gutted when they cancelled it. Was it after one series, or two? I think one. I still remember the lead character, even though it must be a decade and a half since I saw it: Chance Harper.

Sheldonrs;278450 wrote:

The Muppet Show
Ren and Stimpy
Gummi Bears
M*A*S*H
Mary Tyler Moore
Carol Burnett

Ditto on the R&S Show, MASH & that crazy Carol Burnett.

[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]The Real McCoys[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]La Femme Nikita[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Dead Like Me (Have both seasons on DVD)[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Whose Line Is It Anyway? (I piss my pants laughing every time I see the Richard Simmons episode)[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]BJ and the Bear[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Turn-On (because of it's notoriety)[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Mork and Mindy[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Truth or Consequences (game show with Bob Barker)[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Dick Van Dyke Show[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Hazel[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]The Flip Wilson Show[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Hogan's Heroes[/FONT][/COLOR]

Invader ZIM

The Screen Savers with Leo LaPorte

The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Wild, Wild West
Time Tunnel
The Fugitive
Combat!

Beestie;550461 wrote:

The Screen Savers with Leo LaPorte

The ScreenSavers & Call For Help

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4GYg-5AdRw

$20,000 in pieces

Beestie wrote:

Invader ZIM

I highly recommend the DVDs. The commentary is hysterical and puts an even weirder spin on things.

My so called life
Northern exposure

and I'm definitely gonna look for Invader zim dvds

Deadwood.
Babylon 5.
Coupling (original BBC version)
My Favorite Martian

I second Hogan's Heroes. It would have been ripe for an after-war reunion show.

On a related note, under movie sequels I would have liked to have seen - Doctor Detroit II.:biggrinpi

Invader Zim - I still love my house-shaped DVD set.

Addams Family - I picked up the 2-pack at Target. I just need to find the 3rd season, and I'll be good to go.

The Critic - Andy Dick fears Jon Lovitz

The Honeymooners - I ruined this one for The Wife when we were watching it and I pointed out the fact that Alice's nipples were hard.

Puttin' On The Hitz - If you saw it, you'd know why.

ST:TNG, but only season three and after. Seasons one and two were merely warmups for the awesome show it would become. Best of all Treks, hands down.

I adored STG:TNG. And you are right about the first couple of series. Do you remember Troi in the first episode? Oh God she was painful.

I feel....Anger. I feel...Pain. .... her minidress positively quivered with emotion.

I'm sticking with my list as originally posted, and adding Oz and Rome from HBO.

I loved Rome.

I was a bit disappointed with Rome. I dunno. I think I'd worked myself up into thinking it wuold be like another I Claudius.

Oz! That was a great show.

Clodfobble;550479 wrote:

I highly recommend the DVDs. The commentary is hysterical and puts an even weirder spin on things.

Everything on my wish list just dropped one spot. A true 'must have.'

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7j1su_wonder-woman-the-return-of-wonder-w_shortfilms

WONDER WOMAN

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Oh.

My.

God.

(Yes, I'm trying it.) [COLOR="Wheat"]Not really.[/COLOR]

Studio 60

Twin Peaks
Quantum Leap
21 Jump Street
Land of the Lost
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
The Muppet Show
Deadwood
Fawlty Towers

Undertoad;550594 wrote:

ST:TNG, but only season three and after. Seasons one and two were merely warmups for the awesome show it would become. Best of all Treks, hands down.

Agree, completely, there. I use to be so in love with Captain Picard. I still swoon occasionally when the reruns are aired.

Also:
- Highlander (just watched a rerun last night)
- Rome
- The Golden Girls (don't laugh!)
- Sanford and Son (stop laughing!)
- Ren and Stimpy

The Sentinel! Although maybe I don't wish it, since I reside in it almost every day . . .

twin peaks

the X Files (when it was good)

Angry Beavers

Rocco's Modern Life

Space Ghost

Sapphire and Steel.

I wish I could go back in time and watch these again with my 8 year old eyes.

I tried watching them again with my 37 year old eyes but it was just toooooo paaaaiiinnnnffffuuulllyyyyy sllloooooww.


I loved this programme, my whole family watched it. We'd rush round and get ready for Sapphire and Steel (sandwiches, cups of tea, bag of sweets). It was a weekly event. We'd talk about it in the intervening week. I still remember the very last episode, and in fact the setting for it (a strange little waiting room, or cafe that wasn't really anywhere at all....out of time and space, just on its own) has settled so deep into my psyche that it's my benchmark for a certain kind of spookiness.

And here's a clip from the very first episode. The start of it with the opening credits. Gosh, how terribly modern. I still get a slight shiver from these credits. This programme, this episode frightened the shit out of me. Fed my nightmares for about a decade after.

I think David McCallum (Steel) might have been my first full on crush lol.

[youtube]vAMorsWt4W8&feature=related[/youtube]

Soap.

Oh! Soap! That was another show we watched as a family. It was must see tv.

DanaC;552735 wrote:

Sapphire and Steel.
I think David McCallum (Steel) might have been my first full on crush

Never saw Sapphire and Steel here, but will have to try.

I have been hot for David McCallum since The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

H.R. Pufnstuf

[COLOR=black]Sigmund and the Sea Monsters[/COLOR]

Autopsy

Six Feet Under

Dead Like Me

Hogan's Heros

Crimson Ghost;550585 wrote:

Invader Zim - I still love my house-shaped DVD set.

Addams Family - I picked up the 2-pack at Target. I just need to find the 3rd season, and I'll be good to go.

The Critic - Andy Dick fears Jon Lovitz

The Honeymooners - I ruined this one for The Wife when we were watching it and I pointed out the fact that Alice's nipples were hard.

Puttin' On The Hitz - If you saw it, you'd know why.

Heh, heh, heh.

Barnes & Noble had the 3rd set on sale.
Sometimes, things go right.

sheesh...how far back to I want to go? Maybe I just miss youth,sleep overs and waking up to the station identification page.:P

[COLOR="SlateGray"]hope that comes off funny haha.[/COLOR]:blush:

Yznhymr;552926 wrote:

H.R. Pufnstuf

[COLOR=black]Sigmund and the Sea Monsters[/COLOR]

:notworthy:

Happy Monkey;245502 wrote:

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

Amen to that! Loved Square 1 - I still talk about that one episode with the fibonnaci sequence on the pool tiles to this day! You can get WonderWorks movies on NetFlix.

Shows I miss:
Freaks and Geeks - cancelled too soon
Six Feet Under
ST TNG
Rugrats

Some shows from my childhood:

The Monkees
Batman
Patty Duke
I Spy
Man from U.N.C.L.E.
+1 for Lost in Space (Danger Will Robinson!)
Laugh-In
The Smothers Brothers

richlevy;550484 wrote:

Coupling (original BBC version)

I have all 28 episodes on Tivo. :D

Queen of the Ryche;552318 wrote:

Fawlty Towers

And I have all 12 of these episodes on Tivo, as well. :)

I miss Silk Stalkings (with the original cast -- Rob Estes and Mitzi Kapture), and Las Vegas. I'm actually pretty annoyed that they left so many stories hanging without giving us answers after the writers' strike.

Since a couple of people have mentioned Six Feet Under, I came across the last 10 minutes of the series. If you were hooked like I was, you know how great it was. I think it's a great series ending, even if you were not emotionally invested in the show. Why do I sometimes love television?

[YOUTUBE]el4eUKmLujg[/YOUTUBE]

'Six Feet Under' had a far better ending than 'The Sopranos'.

Don't tell me. I missed the last season and still have hopes of seeing it, though I've heard the ending sucked.

lol me too Shaw.

I have it pencilled in for summer viewing:P

Dexter should be here ANY DAY. :)

Oh! I remember one I wish would come back...Saxondale.

I went looking at BBC America on Youtube. Wanted to see what sort of stuff the BBC was carrying across. Saxondale is on there. If you haven't seen it and get a chance to, I can highly recommend it. It's a comedy, about a man named Tommy Saxondale; an aging pest control operative who spent the 70s and early 80s as a roadie.

Here's a clip:

[youtube]CO0yAuce9Hk&feature=PlayList&p=455D2FE32AE69AB4&index=2[/youtube]

It's doing that embedding diabled thing. Just click on it, it should be ok.