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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Friday, November 4, 2005 8:40 AM

Good question...

Some good ones that I liked:

Line of Fire
The Fugitive (the modern one with Tim Daly)
John Doe
Its Your move (Jason Bateman after Silver Spoons and before Valerie)
Wolf Lake
Push, Nevada
Kingdom Hospital
Wonderfalls
My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss
Hawaii
The Contender (although it looks like this may come back to ESPN)
Eyes
The Inside
Murder in Small Town X

If I had to pick a favorite, I guess I'd go with the Fugitive.

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Friday, November 4, 2005 8:53 AM

MRSKBORG

I was wondering when someone would mention UltraViolet. Brilliant. Absolutely Brilliant.

John Doe
Wonderfalls
SAAB
American Gothic
Brimstone - I'd almost forgotten that - another great show.

"This movie may be a beautiful butterfly, but I loved that damn caterpillar." Joss Whedon.

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Friday, November 4, 2005 9:03 AM

STARPILOTGRAINGER

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Originally posted by patsrule:
Good question...

Murder in Small Town X

Speaking of reality shows that died because of 9/11 (well, I'm not sure if it's actually the reason MiSTX didn't continue, I just know the first winner died there), there was another show called Lost, before the current one, in 2001. It was a reality show where basically the concept was they dropped the contestants almost literally in the middle of nowhere somewhere in the world, with no instructions about which direction to walk, just a satellite phone for emergencies and some other junk... the first tasks was figuring out what country they were in, and the first team to get to the Statue of Liberty (I think) in the US won. It only aired a couple episodes, then 9/11 hit, and then it never aired again as far as I could tell, but I always thought it was a pretty cool concept and I would have liked to have given it a chance.

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Friday, November 4, 2005 9:12 AM

PATSRULE

That version of Lost still gets shown on the Reality Channel (250 on DirecTV). It was pretty good. It was kind of like Trading Mommies on Fox, in that they were two episode reality shows, then new people would race in every other episode. The reality channel also featured up-to-date interviews with several contestants and what they thought of the show and how it was a shame that the show got canceled in the wake of 9/11.

Murder in Small Town X got terrible ratings, so it wouldn't have come back regardless, but I enjoyed it. Of course I was sad about 9/11 anyways, but it was very disturbing to know the winner lost his life as a firefighter in the towers that day.

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Friday, November 4, 2005 1:30 PM

CORNCOBROB

you nailed it. thanks.
Oliver Bean was only on one season right? i liked that show... when i had time to watch it.

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

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Friday, November 4, 2005 2:46 PM

ERUDITE1

Hope somebody remembers this one and knows the name. Around 1990 there was a show about some goofy guy on the lam/incommunicado in an airstream trailer. It was very funny, had a theme song by Jimmy Buffett, who I believe ghost wrote a few of the episodes. I can't remeber the name for the life of me.

My #1 (sorry Joss) show in this catagory is the aforementioned Wonderfalls. A brillient show that had the misfortune of launching at the hieght of the reality craze.

Max Headroom and Pivin's Cupid also rate.

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Friday, November 4, 2005 6:51 PM

ERUDITE1

A little research and I answered my own question. The show was "Johnny Bego", from 1993.
Q.E.D.

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Friday, November 4, 2005 7:17 PM

REYNOLDSFAN34

I would say Alien Nation too, that was a show I became committed to, wrote for a newsletter for 9 years for and fought like hell for. It was a great one, and I have on order the DVD set too. I even got to meet Eric and Gary, Eric Pierpoint is a sweetheart. ( Hope I get to meet Nathan one day). But, Alien Nation for sure.

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Friday, November 4, 2005 7:43 PM

GPAG03

"Jack and Bobby" is the only other I can think of right now. It really made me think...so I guess that's why it didn't do too well. The majority of people nowadays would rather watch mindless reality TV than think.

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Monday, November 7, 2005 5:38 AM

EIEN

Wonderfalls

followed closely by Alien Nation.

Seeing Wonderfalls cancelled was the straw that broke the camel's back. We watched too many good shows get the axe and things like "The Littlest Groom" reality show get a green light. So except for 3 shows we do not watch network TV anymore. They lost their ability to know what is good TV a while back. Cable gets the majority of our attention.

I promise to shoot you politely.

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Monday, November 7, 2005 11:44 AM

DAISYCUTTER

Space: A&B
Brimstone

I've only seen two episodes of the lone gunmen, but I liked th idea of an X-files spin-off

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Monday, November 7, 2005 12:22 PM

MAXGREMLIN

I can't tell you how happy I am that so many of you guys remember Space: Above and Beyond. The first few episodes were rough but once that show hit its stride it was some of the best sci-fi I had ever seen on tv (in my opinion). Of cource SAAB was a show that Fox royally screwed which to this day doesn't make any sense since they were paying 1 million an episode. And they set it up to fail. Ill never understand that.

When Serenity got greenlighted that was almost a vindication no only for Firefly and its fans but for SAAB as well. At least to me it did.

As for other shows: John Doe, Brisco County Jr and Nowhere Man(Where are the Negatives, Tom?).

Gotta hand it to fox. They greenlight good shows. Now if they just gave em a chance.....

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Monday, November 7, 2005 12:28 PM

DAISYCUTTER

LOL, SAAB. For a minute there I thought you got mixed up with the Car/Aircraft manufacturer

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Monday, November 7, 2005 12:57 PM

ROLAND

The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. Its strange, I don't normally like westerns but two of my favorite t.v. shows ever are half western.

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Monday, November 7, 2005 1:09 PM

DAISYCUTTER

Sky TV was taken away from me, so I never knew what happened at the end of Space: A&B. So if somebody could gives us a hint it would help.

Dark Skies was a pretty descent show as well, and I'm pretty sure that appeared for only one season, but I think that was deliberate

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Monday, November 7, 2005 5:43 PM

MSCKAREN

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Originally posted by iwasafrycook:
God, the Devil, and Bob

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.

From what I've seen of Prison Break, it's quite good but dark, as you might imagine. The great thing about 24 is each season is a pretty self-contained story. I didn't start watching it until half way through season 2 and I really didn't have a problem picking up the pieces. The last season I LOVED. I'll be there in January.

Anyway, my list would include all previous mentions:

God, The Devil and Bob
Cupid
Brimstone

But if I could pick just one, it would be AMERICAN GOTHIC. OMG Fantastic!

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Monday, November 7, 2005 6:49 PM

JCDELATORRE

The Crow: Stairway to Heaven

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Author of Ancient Rising
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Monday, November 7, 2005 7:07 PM

PASTORHALE

Earth 2 ... loved it! I still break out my VHS copies from the original broadcasts from time to time to watch again.

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Sunday, November 13, 2005 1:20 AM

XEROGRAVITY

Not that is much matters now, but the very next best thing to Firefly is "Red Dwarf". It's a BBC show that always seemed to be (1) underfunded, and (2) teetering on the edge of cancellation.

It triumphed over all the aforementioned adversity and ranks up there as the only show I love more than Firefly.

Infintely clever.

Damn you Britain! I narrowly escaped Monty Python and Douglas Adams, only to get sucked in by Red Dwarf.

A plague and pox on all your peoples. (which is a wish I will forego if you give me just one more season of Red Doorf ~ including Rimmer).

XG

No such thing as gravity. The "Earth-that-was" just sucks.

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Sunday, November 13, 2005 5:13 AM

NEEDY

The road to Hel is paved with good intentions

Quote:
Originally posted by DaisyCutter:
Sky TV was taken away from me, so I never knew what happened at the end of Space: A&B. So if somebody could gives us a hint it would help.

Dark Skies was a pretty descent show as well, and I'm pretty sure that appeared for only one season, but I think that was deliberate

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Grenade Ping Pong is pointless as both players loose, unless the grenade is whacked into the crowd, in which case its a lawsuit

Space Above and Beyond is going to be released on DVD in the US very soon (or might have already been released) - check www.tvshowsondvd.com for details

As for Dark Skies, it soooo wasn't supposed to last one season. It had a five year arc, but was cancelled after only one, meaning that a lot of it was unresolved. There was talk about continuing the story through novels and comics but it never came about... shame really, considering I really loved the series

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Sunday, November 13, 2005 5:22 AM

NEEDY

The road to Hel is paved with good intentions

Great thread

I can't believe nobody's mentioned it yet (unless I missed it) but for me, to pick one 1-season show, I'd have to go with Now and Again it really was a superb show with not one bad episode. Plus to make it that more heartbreaking, it ended on a cliffhanger that now will never be resolved.

As for other series:

Dark Skies - I loved this show that was a mixture of The X Files and Forrest Gump. Another series that ended on a cliffhanger that was never to be resolved

Freaks and Geeks - This is really my favourite cancelled show, but because it didn't end on a cliffhanger I can treat it as a miniseries, and a damn good one at that. This is the only series that every single member of my family loves.

Wonderfalls - Wonderfully wacky. At least it had a conclusion.

Harsh Realm - Hugely promising. Stupid Fox however had no faith in the show and maybe the show was just a little too intelligent for the majority of braindead viewers. Didn't end on a cliffhanger, but it wasn't resolved either. It only had 9 episodes!!!

The Lone Gunmen - Not perfect, but enjoyable enough, and it got better towards the end

Miracles - Granted I've only just started watching it and have thus seen but a handful of episodes, but so far I'm very impressed

Tru Calling - not sure if this counts as it's second season was only 6 episodes. I haven't yet watched the last two or three episodes, but I kinda don't want to cos then it's really over

and last but not least

My So Called Life - my first experience with losing a show after one season. "How could they do that?" I would scream. Maybe I should pick up the dvd set

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Sunday, November 13, 2005 7:59 AM

MIDNIGHTER2K

Freaks and Geeks.

"The thing about it, the thing is: crappy as life is, as wrong, as messed up, as blatently unfair as life is, what it's got going for it is hope." --John Ridley

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Sunday, November 13, 2005 11:59 AM

DRU

My favorites are:

American Gothic
Miracles
Wonderfalls
Nowhere Man
Freaky Links
Brimstone
Strange Luck
Freaky Links

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Sunday, November 13, 2005 12:19 PM

JAYHAWK35

I agree. Freaks and Geeks was great! To bad it never made it. I've started watching the Undeclared, which has some of the same actors in it, and it seems decent as well.

Another favorite 1 season show is Max Headroom. This was a show WAY before its time, and it actully made fun of the tv exects/industry on its last show when it went off the air. I wish this was out on DVD!

My other favorite was Police Squad! (In Color). Only 6 episodes, but it was a hoot!

Jayhawk

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Sunday, November 13, 2005 12:23 PM

JAYHAWK35

Quote:
Originally posted by patsrule:
Good question...

Its Your move (Jason Bateman after Silver Spoons and before Valerie)

Oh yeah! I'd forgotten about that show! It was hilarious! I loved the "Dregs of Hunanity" episode! I have that show somewhere on video, if I could ever find it.

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Zoë: Shepard, isn't the Bible kind of specific about killing?
Book: Very specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzy around the area of kneecaps.

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Sunday, November 13, 2005 2:52 PM

NEEDY

The road to Hel is paved with good intentions

Quote:
Originally posted by Jayhawk35:
I agree. Freaks and Geeks was great! To bad it never made it. I've started watching the Undeclared, which has some of the same actors in it, and it seems decent as well.

Another favorite 1 season show is Max Headroom. This was a show WAY before its time, and it actully made fun of the tv exects/industry on its last show when it went off the air. I wish this was out on DVD!

My other favorite was Police Squad! (In Color). Only 6 episodes, but it was a hoot!

Jayhawk

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Zoë: Shepard, isn't the Bible kind of specific about killing?
Book: Very specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzy around the area of kneecaps.

I haven't seen Undeclared before but am thinking of buying the set anywa due to my great love for Freaks and Geeks

I had no idea Police Squad only had 6 episodes! That's insane. Paramount channel must run them over and over becuase whenver its shown daily, it seems to run for weeks and weeks

Needy. Male Companion a.k.a. First Boy Whore of Destiny

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Sunday, November 13, 2005 5:32 PM

JAYHAWK35

yeah, only 6 episodes of Police Squad, but thankfully they turned it into a couple of good Naked Gun movies. By the time they hit the 3rd one, I think they were running out a gags.

btw, if anyone is interested in a bunch of old 80's shows, check out http://www.goldmonkey.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc? I've never bought anything from them yet, but have a bunch of old 80's tv shows on DVD for sale. I'm sure they are copied from VHS tapes, but having something would be better than nothing. I'd love to buy Police Squad and Voyagers and Max Headroom from them sometime. They also have tv shows of Automan, Beyond Westworld, Blacke's Magic, Blue Thunder, Booker, Bring 'em Back Alive, Call To Glory, Captain Power, The Charmings, Darkroom, Fresno, Hard Time on Planet Earth, High Performance, Highwayman, The Last Precinct, Legwork, A Man Called Hawke, Manimal, Masquerade, The Master, MIsfits of Science, Otherworld, Outlaws, The Phoenix, The Powers of Matthew Star, Private Eye, Q.E.D., The Quest, Renegades, Sable, Shadow Chasers, Shell Game, Something is Out There, Star Man, Street Hawke, Supercarrier, Tucker's Witch, Unsub, Werewolf, Whiz Kids, and Wizards and Warriors.

If you remember all those, you're better than me. But some of them do ring a bell, especially when you see the screen shots from the show titles.

Let me know if anyone orders something from them. It would be interesting to know what the quality really is like.

Jayhawk

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Zoë: Shepard, isn't the Bible kind of specific about killing?
Book: Very specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzy around the area of kneecaps.

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Sunday, November 13, 2005 7:03 PM

CLJOHNSTON108

•The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
•Alien Nation
•American Gothic
•Birdland
•Brimstone
•Broken Badges
•Brooklyn South
•C-16
•Call to Glory
•The Cape
•Chopper One
•The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
•Cupid
•Dark Skies
•Earth 2
•EZ Streets
•Fantastic Journey
•The Flash
•Fortune Hunter
•Future Cop
•Gemini Man
•Gideon's Crossing
•Good vs Evil (GvE)
•Harsh Realm
•The Hat Squad
•Holmes & Yoyo
•Hooperman
•Human Target
•Kindred: The Embraced
•Kolchak: The Night Stalker
•Logan's Run
•The Magician
•Mancuso, F.B.I.
•A Man Called Sloane
•Man From Atlantis
•Mann & Machine
•The Master
•Matrix
•Max Headroom
•Max Monroe: Loose Cannon
•Mercy Point
•Misfits of Science
•My Life and Times
•The New Adventures of Beans Baxter
•Odyssey 5
•Otherworld
•Over My Dead Body
•Perversions of Science
•The Phoenix
•Police Squad!
•Planet of the Apes
•Prey
•The Prisoner
•Probe
•Profit
•Rescue 77
•Roughnecks: Starship Trooper Chronicles
•Soldier of Fortune, Inc. (2nd season w/Dennis Rodman doesn't count)
•South Beach
•Space: Above and Beyond
•Space Precinct
•Spy Game
•Stingray (w/Nick Mancuso)
•Strange Luck
•Tales of the Gold Monkey
•The Tick (animated)
•TekWar
•Three
•UFO
•Under Cover
•V
•Vengeance Unlimited
•The Visitor
•Voyagers!
•Welcome to Paradox

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Deep Thoughts...
...by Jack Handey...

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Sunday, November 13, 2005 11:53 PM

BLACKDRAGON

My list:

vr5 (glad to see someone else remembers this one - I was SO sad - I signed the petitions and wrote letters and all that stuff lol)
TekWar
Nowhere Man
Harsh Realm
Roar
Prey
Wonderfalls (not really my kind of show, but it was just SO unfair)

Getting kind of numb to it now - with the new SciFi shows, just sort of expecting the axe will fall as soon as I really begin to care about the characters and where the story is going. Oh well.

Dark Angel is the most ironic one - I kind of liked it, actually, but Firefly was a vastly better series, and could have been the "next X-Files" FOX has been hoping for, if they had just given it a chance.

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Monday, November 14, 2005 6:11 AM

SERENITYVALLEY

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Originally posted by PurpleYin:
Quote:
Originally posted by imaleaf:
DEAD LIKE ME

isnt that in its 2nd season?

Good call. Dead Like Me was canceled after the second season.

As for me, definitely Eerie Indiana (the original because The Next Dimension was just dumb).

Other good ones: Run of the House
Odyessy5 (was that really just one season?)
Dead Last

http://www.simple-assault.com/Firefly.htm

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Sunday, November 20, 2005 3:43 PM

PEULSAR5

We sniff the air, we don't kiss the dirt.

The Flash
Sable
Birds of Prey

Like Firefly, none were given a chance to find their audience before the suits who know nothing about what the people want cancelled them.

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Monday, November 21, 2005 9:44 AM

MER

Probably haven't mentioned this, but...

*Greg The Bunny
*The Tick
*The Oblongs

*_* There should be more...but I can't think of any at the moment...

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Monday, November 21, 2005 5:24 PM

ALAND

Twitch City - a quirky Canadian comedy about a rooming house landlord who never leaves the building, and spends most of his time sitting on the sofa in his bathrobe watching TV and eating cereal. No really, it was funny.

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Monday, November 21, 2005 6:11 PM

BROWNCOATER

You mentioned the main two. Brisco County and S:AAB. Great shows.

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