Other than FF, what's your favorite 1-season show? by Storymark

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Other than FF, what's your favorite 1-season show?

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 9:00 AM

I though of this as an offshoot of the Favorite series thread. What shows, other than Firefly of course, did you love, but only lasted 1 season, or less.

Here's my list, for what it's worth:

Brimstone
The Adventures of Brisco County, JR
Space: Above and Beyond

Come to think of it... these were all Friday night shows on FOX, which were cancelled too soon.

Sounds familiar.

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 9:18 AM

WILDHEAVENFARM

Greg The Bunny
The Tick
Jim Henson's Storyteller
and you can kinda count Forever Knight, since it got cancelled three times and each season ran independant of the last.

I didn't realize Space and Brisco County's runs were that brief.

Mary
Always a beast, never a burden.

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 10:03 AM

DONCOAT

How many seasons of The Prisoner were there?

Added: I checked IMDB and indeed, The Prisoner ran for only one season. It may have been planned that way from the start, but it still ranks as my second-fav one year wonder.

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 10:07 AM

FISHSPEAKER

My favorite too-short series were:

Brimstone
Briscoe County Jr.
The Lone Gunmen

all Friday Night Fox shows.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid."

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 11:08 AM

GROUNDED

Miracles

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 11:16 AM

CYBERSNARK

Space: Above and Beyond
The Lone Gunmen
God, the Devil, and Bob
Veritas: the Quest

Hell, Veritas only had what, four episodes aired?

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 11:19 AM

GIANTEVILHEAD

Andy Richter Controls the Universe
Brimstone
The Tick
Wonderfalls

"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 11:24 AM

UNREGISTEREDCOMPANION

Profit
and the Tick

SPPOOONNNNN!

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 11:25 AM

FELIDAE

American Gothic
Eerie, Indiana

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 11:36 AM

DIETCOKE

Profit. Yep, another Fox cancellation.

NY/NJ Browncoats: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firefly_nyc

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 11:50 AM

SPIKEANDJEZEBEL

"Roar" was quite good, and very self-contained in one season if I remember rightly. I'd love to see that on DVD.

Oh, and hi Cadry, if you are reading this!

"I have never understood why it should be necessary to become irrational in order to prove that you care. Or indeed, why it should be necessary to prove it at all." -Kerr Avon

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 12:05 PM

CHIPMUNK

Just two:

Space: Above and Beyond
Alien Nation

I've already got SAAB, and round about mid-day on 3-Jan-2006 I'll have Alien Nation:

http://tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=4249

Yeah, it's eerie that all my fav one-season series are Fox axe murder victims.

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 12:16 PM

BLACKEYEDGIRL

Wonderfalls
Greg the Bunny

And technically barely 1-2 season:
Tru Calling
Dead Like Me

Bastards kill everything I love!!

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 12:23 PM

RIVERSGUY

UNDECLARED was absolutely great. Loved, loved, loved it.

That was another TV show that my mate got me into thru the power of internet downloads

I had the pleasure of meeting UNDECLARED star Charlie Hunnam at the Green Street Hooligans premiere and we spoke about Undeclared for around 5 minutes, he is the greatest guy.

Other than when I met the BDHs at the Serenity premiere, that was the coolest moment of my life

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"Miranda"

The Original Grr Aggh boy

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 12:28 PM

INDIANABANZAI

I could swear that there was more than one season of Brisco County, but then again, I never watched it.

Here's an old one:

Tenspeed and Brownshoe

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 12:37 PM

BRAVESIRROBIN

Freaks and Geeks

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 12:59 PM

OBIWAN

Young Indiana Jones

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"Butcher's Knife..."

www.browncoatpatches.com

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 1:01 PM

REGINAROADIE

Some of them have been mentioned already, so I'm going to throw two that havn't been mentioned into the ring.

One show that I think only lasted two eps, and one I keep waiting to show up on DVD, is this show from 2000 called WONDERLAND. It had Martin Donovan, and the guy that played Buffalo Bill in SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. It was like ER, but it was set in a mental institution, and it followed the lives of these folks who worked in the psychiatric ward. Pilot ep was the most riveting thing I've ever seen, and the Madonna/William Orbit theme song to it is one of the most beautiful, haunting electronic songs I've ever heard.

The other show that lasted two years, but its second season was only 9 episodes long, was BOOMTOWN. It came on the same year as FIREFLY, and was as screwed around by NBC, as FIREFLY was by FOX. It took a Rashomon-like pov of this group of L.A. cops and people in their circles. And the character of David McNorris, played by Neal McDonough, is by far the most complex character ever created for network tv. Keep waiting for the second season to come out on DVD to finish up the set.

Those are my two.

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C'mon, who's a lit-tle fear demon?
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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 1:14 PM

11THHOUR

My other most favorite one season, brilliant, cruelly cancelled shows, is:

Max Headroom

11th Hour

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"Because teenage pranks are fun when you're about to die!" - Hoban Washburne

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 1:42 PM

ALLARTICULATE

A lot of good ones mentioned already.
I fell completely in love with another Friday death-trapped show that ran before the X-Files (I think) Season 3:

Strange Luck

Fox, never learning from it's biggest dramatic success...

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 3:01 PM

STARPILOTGRAINGER

The Prisoner
Nowhere Man
American Gothic
My So-Called Life

Star Pilot Grainger
"Remember, the enemy's gate is down."
LJ: http://www.livejournal.com/users/newnumber6 (real)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/alternaljournal (fictional, travelling through other worlds)
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This week: My spoiler-free Serenity review

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 4:21 PM

SHINYCRYSTAL

Undeclared
Freaks and Geeks

and the way things are looking, I'll be able to add "Stella" to the list fairly shortly.

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 4:31 PM

FILLIONFLAN

I second "My So Called Life". LOVED that show.

ZOE: “It’s just, the Captain’s so tense…”
WASH: “Of course he’s tense. He’s awake.”

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 5:27 PM

MUFFINMANISTHESKIES

Greg the Bunny
Freeks and Geeks
Tru Calling (i know it started its 2nd season but Fux screwed it up)
Point Pleasent (stupid Fux)

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 5:41 PM

VISITINGMYINTENTIONS

Ultra-Violet.

Okay, so it's the only other (less than) 1-season fling I've watched, but I'm confident that were there others, Ultra-Violet would still come out on top of the non-Firefly list.

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 5:56 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

John Doe

Wonderfalls.

( that's all I can think of at the moment )

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 7:22 PM

NOSADSEVEN

Oh so many...

Favorites:
EZ Streets
Cupid (not the Simon Cowell reality show)
Strange Luck
The Tick (live action)
Andy Richter Controls the Universe

Honorable Mentions:
Harsh Realm
Boston South
Cracker (US version w/ Robert Pastorelli)
Miracles
Freaks and Geeks

I'm sure there are more that have faded from my memory...

If I could get just one back (besides Firefly, of course, which is, of course, my all time favorite ever, of course...) I'd have to go with Andy Richter Controls the Universe.

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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 8:23 PM

BOOMERGOODHEART

I'm glad someone else included Cupid! Jeremy Piven was great in it.

BoomerGoodheart
"I love my Captain."

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Wednesday, November 2, 2005 5:35 AM

BISHAMON

If I had to pick just one (in addition to Firefly :)), it would be Space: Above and Beyond.

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Wednesday, November 2, 2005 5:55 AM

IMALEAF

DEAD LIKE ME.......that was such and great show, I really miss Wonderfalls too

~~River: Bible's broken. Contradictions, false logics. Doesn't make sense.~~

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Wednesday, November 2, 2005 6:30 AM

ZAPACTIONSDOWER

Cupid! I totally forgot that show existed, wow that was a good one.

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Wednesday, November 2, 2005 6:36 AM

ZAPACTIONSDOWER

I just remembered this one and I don't think anybody has mentioned it yet, VR.5. Another really interesting show cancelled by fox.

Whoooooooo

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Wednesday, November 2, 2005 6:39 AM

PURPLEYIN

Quote:
Originally posted by imaleaf:
DEAD LIKE ME

isnt that in its 2nd season?

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Wednesday, November 2, 2005 6:39 AM

ETERNALS

Well, FX which = Fox just cancelled Over There which was pretty damn awesome, with great character development and that was visually stunning.

Dark Angel only ran 2 and I cry myself to sleep about that often.

Space Above and Beyond was awesome.

I also loved Special Unit 2. It was a great show, funny, with the freaky scifi stuff going on.

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Wednesday, November 2, 2005 6:47 AM

XEROGRAVITY

Automan.

Corny as hell. Cursor rawked, but the whole slamming of the face up against the window when they turned corners was unbelievable even to a simple preteen mind.

Nonetheless... it felt like the Tron videogame on TV. And I loved videogames. A whole lot of grass got mowed so I could pump an endless stream of quarters into the Tron video game.

Betcha hollywood will make a Tron movie next. Someone please, whore my memories.

XG

No such thing as gravity. Thanks for the memories. ...crooning a Bing&Bob toon...

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Wednesday, November 2, 2005 6:52 AM

MEANGOLDFISH

The Andy Dick Show

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Wednesday, November 2, 2005 7:05 AM

BROWNTROUSERS

I like to call "Gene Roddenberrys : Andromeda" a one season show, even though it actually went on to last 5 seasons.

The reason i do so, is because the shows creator, developer and cheif writer, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, left after the first season.

Its a shame - i really enjoyed the first season of Andromeda - dont much care what others think -but Season 2,3,4 and 5 declined greatly in quality, due to a change of writters\producers, and for this reason we Drom fans see Season 1 of Andromeda a different show to the later seasons.

It might as well have been a different show - all continutiy and storyline was completly lost once the writters changed after the first season. The characters changed completly, Hell even the sets changed.

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Wednesday, November 2, 2005 7:11 AM

CAPTAINCDC

WONDERFALLS

FREAKS & GEEKS

OVER THERE

UNDECLARED

MY SO CALLED LIFE

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The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason!

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 7:15 AM

CORNCOBROB

i cant belive how long it took someone to say Freaks and Geeks. that has to be my favorite 1 season show ever.

was Andy Richter Controlls the Universe the one where he was telling the story about when he was a kid, and it was set in like the 50-60's-ish?

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 7:30 AM

BRITCHICK

wonder wonder wonder wonderfalls

and

Greg the Bunny.

I would not have heard of either of these (as they weren't shown in the UK) if I hadn't been coming to this board.... peopke were talking about them, so I ordered the dvds, and they were FAB.

Wonderfalls has since aired in the UK.

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 12:38 PM

CORWYN

Strange Luck

and reaching back...

Quark

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 1:13 PM

SHOJOHOLIC

Wonderfalls
Jake 2.0
The Inside
Brimstone
Good vs Evil (GvE)

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 2:28 PM

UNREGISTEREDCOMPANION

I forgot all about Max Headroom! I LOVED that show.

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 2:36 PM

CHRISISALL

THE ADVENTURES OF BRISCO COUNTY,JR. !!!!!!

Oh, also THE FLASH, THE PRISONER, MAX HEADROOM.

Chrisisall

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 2:50 PM

WOLFCHILD

Roar
Brisco County Jr.
Earth 2
Space: Above & Beyond
Touching Evil

and really reaching out there . . .

Nightmare Cafe; ran all of six episodes, but it was a GREAT concept for it's day.

"Mercy is the mark of a great man."
*viciously pokes Ath with the sword*
"Guess I'm just a good man."
*pokes him again*
"Well, I'm alright."

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 3:03 PM

IWASAFRYCOOK

Dark Angel (Another Fri night Fox show, technically 2 seasons but with a cliffhanger ending)
God, the Devil, and Bob
Greg the Bunny

Am I the only one who has second thoughts about starting to watch new series on Fox because of Fox's penchant for cancelling the good ones?

I really wanted to watch Prison Break, it looked interesting, but I was afraid they'd cancel it, so I never started to watch it. Now it's too late for me to get into it. Same with 24.

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 3:20 PM

WORKEROFEVIL

I liked Clone High. Also, many of the others that have already been mentioned.

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Friday, November 4, 2005 7:33 AM

NOSADSEVEN

Quote:
Originally posted by CornCobRob:
was Andy Richter Controlls the Universe the one where he was telling the story about when he was a kid, and it was set in like the 50-60's-ish?

Nope. Present day. Andy Richter as a technical writer dealing with all the little things life brings - contrasting how he imagines dealing with them with how he actually does deal with them. Funny and sweet.

Are you thinking of Oliver Beane maybe?

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Friday, November 4, 2005 8:11 AM

LUPINADDAMS

For me...

US shows:
Nowhere Man
VR5
(Nice to see so many shout-outs for these two!)
Crusade (I can't believe I'm the first to say it!)
Wonderfalls
GvE

UK Shows:
The Prisoner
UltraViolet (The original one - the US version never got here, perhaps thankfully...)
The Omega Factor
(Almost forgotten BBC occult investigation show of the 1970s - creepier and more coherent than X-Files, effectively banned by intervention of the infamous Mary Whitehouse.)
Dark Season
Century Falls
(Both occult-related kids BBC shows of the'80s by the now-famous-for-reviving-Doctor-Who-and-creating-Queer-As-Folk Russell T Davies)

I'm sure I'll remember many more later.

"You are what you do."
Andrew Vacchs

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Friday, November 4, 2005 8:26 AM

STILLTHEREWAITING

I agree with some of the above, Wonderfalls in particular, but there is one show that no one has mentioned yet. It doesn't really surprise me that no one has because I meet almost no one who has ever seen it.
That show, on the Fox network (go figure) in 1992/3 was "Flying Blind". It was a brilliantly written sitcom, and showed that Tea Leoni, besides being gorgeous, had the best comedic timing of any actress on TV.

Laugh while you can, monkey-boy.

If I were you, I'd run!
If you were me, you'd be good-looking

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