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FirstNationalBastard		2012-06-26 06:56:34 AM

CarnySaur: Get A Life, which is supposedly being released in its entirety on DVD in September.

Not supposedly. It's been confirmed, is up for pre-order on Amazon, and word from the studio is that REM's "Stand" is intact as the opening theme.

Earguy		2012-06-26 07:03:57 AM

Gunny Highway		2012-06-26 07:06:22 AM

Samurai Jack
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
Boston Common
Symbiotic Titan
Chappell's Show

Gunny Highway		2012-06-26 07:07:00 AM

Gargoyles

Jizz Master Zero		2012-06-26 07:11:51 AM

I see my top five have been covered:

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Firefly
The 4400
Police Squad!
Nightmare Cafe

miss diminutive		2012-06-26 07:16:23 AM

All I want to know is: did Jack ever make it back and defeat Aku?

tdpatriots12		2012-06-26 07:17:51 AM

CTRL-F for "Terriers"

1 hit.

Sigh.

CarnySaur		2012-06-26 07:23:36 AM

FirstNationalBastard: CarnySaur: Get A Life, which is supposedly being released in its entirety on DVD in September.

Not supposedly. It's been confirmed, is up for pre-order on Amazon, and word from the studio is that REM's "Stand" is intact as the opening theme.

I won't believe it until I actually have a copy in my hands.

Onkel Buck		2012-06-26 07:25:07 AM

Manimal

Doctor, Doctor

Seth'n'Spectrum		2012-06-26 07:29:17 AM

Firefly
Party Down
Terriers
Rubicon
Freaks and Geeks
... and despite it having a three season run already, more Veronica Mars

Hershey Highway Patrol		2012-06-26 07:30:13 AM

tdpatriots12: CTRL-F for "Terriers"

1 hit.

Sigh.

Ditto... Man I really liked that show.

KellyKellyKelly		2012-06-26 07:34:17 AM

Sabyen91: Action.

Came here to say this.

Mugato		2012-06-26 07:34:42 AM

V (the original)
Terminator

and we never found out who won the election on Benson!

Underabridge		2012-06-26 07:38:20 AM

I'm not that mad that the shows were taken off too early but rather they didn't get a proper ending like in the case of Veronica Mars.

Then you get the shows with the rushed or shiatty endings like Dollhouse or Lost.

Then you get the shows that have really worn their welcome like Weeds.

OMG I farking hate Weeds.

sniderman		2012-06-26 07:44:35 AM

mynotsofictionallife.files.wordpress.com

And am I the only one who both remembers and liked "Game Over?"
images.zap2it.com

cschick2317		2012-06-26 07:47:22 AM

Better off Ted!

Gunny Highway		2012-06-26 07:52:36 AM

Mission Hill was pretty funny. I wish it had a few more seasons.

LarryDan43		2012-06-26 07:55:09 AM

bloobeary: Misfits Of Science
Street Hawk
Max Headroom

Manimal
Automan

taxandspend		2012-06-26 07:58:34 AM

Keeping Up With The Kardashians.

I'm sure the second season of that show would have been great if the entire family didn't die in that plane crash.

Gulper Eel		2012-06-26 07:59:04 AM

"Flying Blind".

Not that it was that great a show - but holy HELL, Tea Leoni was hot.

freetomato		2012-06-26 07:59:53 AM

loooongview1: I'm surprised to see the lack of "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr" on this list. C'mon farkers, I thought anything with Bruce Campbell would have appeared as soon as such a list was discussed. I also found "John from Cincinnati" to be taken way too short. Did the show make any sense at first? No, but I thought the ending really set up a bunch of possibilities for where the show could go.

That was the very first show I thought of - in fact I came into this thread to mention it. I also liked "Titus", "Quantuum Leap" and "Northern Exposure". I wish they could have found a way to keep those shows alive.

I just started watching "Breaking Bad" start to finish on Netflix. Had never seen it before and it is damn good - I'll be sorry to see it go.

Doctor Funkenstein		2012-06-26 08:01:06 AM

Sabyen91: //The Good Guys should have been more popular.

This. That was a really entertaining show.

highvaluetarget		2012-06-26 08:03:42 AM

loooongview1: I'm surprised to see the lack of "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr" on this list. C'mon farkers, I thought anything with Bruce Campbell would have appeared as soon as such a list was discussed. I also found "John from Cincinnati" to be taken way too short. Did the show make any sense at first? No, but I thought the ending really set up a bunch of possibilities for where the show could go.

This. For whatever reason, I couldn't get enough of "John from Cincinnati". It didn't hurt that they used a great Joe Strummer tune for the theme song.

FirstNationalBastard		2012-06-26 08:05:43 AM

freetomato: loooongview1: I'm surprised to see the lack of "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr" on this list. C'mon farkers, I thought anything with Bruce Campbell would have appeared as soon as such a list was discussed. I also found "John from Cincinnati" to be taken way too short. Did the show make any sense at first? No, but I thought the ending really set up a bunch of possibilities for where the show could go.

That was the very first show I thought of - in fact I came into this thread to mention it. I also liked "Titus", "Quantuum Leap" and "Northern Exposure". I wish they could have found a way to keep those shows alive.

Quantum Leap was about five years too early to be saved.

A Few years later, odds are Universal would have just shuffled it from NBC to Sci-Fi, like they did with Sliders.

cherryl taggart		2012-06-26 08:06:45 AM

Dinosaurs
Alien Nation

Mugato		2012-06-26 08:09:36 AM

freetomato: I just started watching "Breaking Bad" start to finish on Netflix. Had never seen it before and it is damn good - I'll be sorry to see it go.

Yeah, I started last season and tore through it from the beginning on Netflix. I'm glad I did it that way because it sucks watching one week at a time. I won't be sorry to see it go because it'll never jump the shark. Not a lot of popular shows can say that.

TheNyquilKid		2012-06-26 08:09:57 AM

Better Off Ted
Sports Night
Arrested Development (I know it's coming back but still)
Community (Sure it still has an abbreviated 4th season but without Dan Harmon as showrunner it's over.)

strangeguitar		2012-06-26 08:10:28 AM

Reaper
MST3K
Darkroom

Mugato		2012-06-26 08:13:37 AM

strangeguitar: MST3K

I was pissed when they canceled MST3K, especially given the shiat that they run on "SyFy" instead. But then Rifftrax is even better.

nitefallz		2012-06-26 08:16:36 AM

The Invisible Man from SciFi.

tooeasy		2012-06-26 08:17:48 AM

Profit

Vodka Zombie		2012-06-26 08:17:58 AM

taxandspend: Keeping Up With The Kardashians.

I'm sure the second season of that show would have been great if the entire family didn't die in that plane crash.

I want to live in your world.

/weeping

abhorrent1		2012-06-26 08:18:31 AM

I've only heard of two of those

tooeasy		2012-06-26 08:20:39 AM

EZ Streets, too

kukukupo		2012-06-26 08:21:19 AM

No firefly? Fail.

DjangoStonereaver		2012-06-26 08:25:49 AM

Gulper Eel: "Flying Blind".

Not that it was that great a show - but holy HELL, Tea Leoni was hot.

Holy hell, yes!

www.blogcdn.com

Oddly, though, FLYING BLIND did have an ending: at the end of the last
episode, the mismatched lovers broke up because they really had nothing
in common except for their mutual physical attraction.

MadMonk		2012-06-26 08:29:09 AM

Titus
Tour of Duty

We could use another Twilight Zone type show again or perhaps something along the lines of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

fatalvenom		2012-06-26 08:29:36 AM

yeomanfarmer: Any love for The Job? Nobody I know remembers it.

Seconded

KingKauff		2012-06-26 08:30:44 AM

No love for Mad About You?

OtherLittleGuy		2012-06-26 08:30:46 AM

Sabyen91: /Jenny Wade is so hawt.

i.gettysburgdaily.com

If you say so....

/Space Cases!

Jaws75		2012-06-26 08:33:18 AM

Dollhouse
Duckman
Profit
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Threshold
The Adventures of Brisco County
The Finder
Veronica Mars

LandOfChocolate		2012-06-26 08:36:24 AM

Doctor Funkenstein: Sabyen91: //The Good Guys should have been more popular.

This. That was a really entertaining show.

Agreed, that show was such a guilty pleasure of mine.

My additions to the list:

Better off Ted

Journeyman:

images.buddytv.com

liquidlen		2012-06-26 08:38:31 AM

Amen brudda:

It's Your Move
Open All Night

My humble submissions:
Korgoth of Barbaria
Heat Vision and Jack

/neither made it past the pilot episode

LandOfChocolate		2012-06-26 08:39:05 AM

Oh, and I forgot about Tell Me You Love Me

I never actually watched the show but I wanted more seasons of full frontal nudity from Sonya Walger

four95		2012-06-26 08:39:42 AM

Mentat: Twin Peaks went a year too long. A bit obscure, but I liked Stephan King's Golden Years. I also kind of liked Alcatraz. What can I say?

Alcatraz isn't gone too soon. It returns for season 2 this fall.

Madbassist1		2012-06-26 08:40:58 AM

tooeasy: Profit

Come on, now you know when you want someone to love you, open your heart. When you want someone to be obsessed with you, close it.

FirstNationalBastard		2012-06-26 08:41:38 AM

four95: Mentat: Twin Peaks went a year too long. A bit obscure, but I liked Stephan King's Golden Years. I also kind of liked Alcatraz. What can I say?

Alcatraz isn't gone too soon. It returns for season 2 this fall.

Maybe in your world. Here in this one, though, Alcatraz was part of Fox's great drama purge.

/great as in "large", not great as in "good show".

sidgoop		2012-06-26 08:41:51 AM

Do-over.

Seeing a kid screaming plot spoilers outside the premiere of 'The Empire Strikes Back' after getting bullied ruled.

Unicron74		2012-06-26 08:43:02 AM

magic_patch: I've never met anyone that watched it but I loved 'Threshold'.

Absolutely loved that show. Dinklage, Carla Gugino and Data all on one show together? Yes, please.

Dels		2012-06-26 08:44:57 AM

Like a couple of other posters said, When Things Were Rotten.
13 episodes was way too short, and it's unavailable on dvd. Come on Mel, pull some strings for this one.
I still become as indignant as I was when the show was first cancelled just thinking about it.

The Young Ones - yeah, I get the limited run of 12 episodes that BBC is partial to.
There was a lot of untapped territory for riotous fun here.

Making Fiends - cancelled after 6 episodes despite high ratings in the absence of any promotion.
This cancellation was just stupid.

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