Normal Bean: Just to mention shows no one else has...

Krod Mandoon
Wizards and Warriors
San Pedro Beach Bums

Yes, none of these were popular...


Can't believe someone beat me to it. Football, you bet.

Journeyman

Y'all remember that one? Time jumping dude in San Francisco? It was just getting good when NBC cancelled it.

gmacbeth: Night Court was axed when it was still high in the ratings. They should have at least been given a "good-bye" episode.

Night Court DID get a series finale. The show ended with beings from Jupiter taking Bull up in their space ship. They needed someone tall to reach things on their top shelves. Yes, that's how it ended. Oh, and Dan finally realized he was in love with Christine and Harry entertains multiple job offers but decides to remain where he is. But it ended with aliens taking Bull back to their planet.

Night Court left just in time, if you ask me.

Sabyen91: //The Good Guys

The Good Guys gave me appreciation for Foghat and caused me to grow a big mustache.

MadSkillz: G vs E.

Goddamnit so much. Not popular enough to make it to DVD; I farking LOVED this show. To anyone who hadn't seen it, it was a quasi-blaxploitation fighting demons with a slick soundtrack. Stupid? Yes... but... it was just awesome.

OMG! I can't believe someone else mentioned this. I would have but figured no one cared. The smooth black DA from Law and Order playing the mush-mouth streetwise black dude was hilarious. Loved that show and I can't find it anywhere.

Persnickety:
San Pedro Beach Bums


Can't believe someone beat me to it. Football, you bet.

That line is pretty much all I remember to be honest.

And another vote for...

Guntram Shatterhand: I never got My So-Called Life. It came off as more wish fulfillment by someone who graduated in the early '80s and then turned their Mary Sue fiction into scripts. Outside of Claire Danes being at her hottest, the show was just boring as all fark.

The first episode was awesome. Then it ran off the rails in episode 2, and got progressively worse and worse with each episode. They used up ten seasons worth of angst in ten episodes, and then there was nowhere to go. They would have just been repeating themselves past that. I'm glad ABC put it out of its misery.

Firefly
Better Off Ted
Enterprise
Terminator

Angel had two more seasons left in it. But Buffy jumped the shark in season 6. Dollhouse ran two seasons too long.

/ For those unfamiliar with Dollhouse: It only ran for two (half-) seasons.

The second season, without the bald guy* never happened.

*Bald guy was also on Jericho, which should be on the list, too

Serious Black: Here's my personal list:

M*A*S*H
Friends
Seinfeld
Gunsmoke
Dallas
Bonanza
ER
Lassie

You are suppose to list tv shows that ended to soon, not shows that went well past the "sell by date".

Apos: Nowhere Man

This.

/my name is Thomas Vale...

Seth'n'Spectrum: Rubicon

Yeah. I miss that one too.

karnal: Loved Millennium....but at least they "kind of" tied everything together with that one X-Files episode.

Yes, kind of, but the fact that they cancelled a show titled Millennium in 1999 is the pretty much the definition of taking it away too early.

amd1433: American Gothic and Brimstone were some favorites of mine, too.

Somebody actually thought "My So Called Life" should have continued?

LIquid Television

Pushing Daisies ended because of the damn writers strike.

PsyLord: I only caught a few episodes of The Dresden Files and thought it was interesting. Guess not enough people liked it enough for it to last past a season.

Oh! I forgot this. YES, it deserved more time. I enjoyed every episode. But the vehicle should have been a Beetle.

Still waiting for Men Behaving Badly to come back on

/hot like the first Marta

spman: FirstNationalBastard: spman: No one ever remembers the short lived David E Kelly drama on Fox, Boston public which featured several very delicious looking actresses including Jeri Ryan and Michelle Monaghan. .

Short lived?

It was on for four years.

Three and a half seasons, it was canned in the middle of Season 4 with several loose ends staying untied. Either way, it was cancelled too soon, they could have easily cranked out several more years of storylines based on where everything was headed.

You do know it was quasi-combined with The Practice into Boston Legal, right. Same creative minds, same whacky plot in a serious setting, and even a plot line or two carried over. Not to mention James Spader + Captain Kirk + Murphy Brown FTW. The show was hysterical.

It also went away too soon, but at least had a (IIRC) five season run.

/Didn't read the whole thread, so this might be redundant

Lone Gunmen
Odyssey 5
Brisco
Spaceballs the cartoon
Tripping the Rift

SomeTexan: PsyLord: I only caught a few episodes of The Dresden Files and thought it was interesting. Guess not enough people liked it enough for it to last past a season.

Oh! I forgot this. YES, it deserved more time. I enjoyed every episode. But the vehicle should have been a Beetle.

Didn't quite capture the books for me but it was fine I suppose. Would have liked a bit more edge. And the dude who played Harry is a fine actor he just didn't feel like Harry to me.

Dabney Coleman playing his then-standard self-centred ass character to perfection, Introduced a young Geena Davis to us. Joanna Cassidy fresh off of Blade Runner, a pre-ALF Max Wright, pre-Night Court Max Robinson, and nebbish character actor John Fiedler. Outstanding writing, and what a cast.

Reaper, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Caprica were rather lousy at the start, and were cancelled just when they had started to get quite compelling.

Oh, and Grace & Favour (known in the U.S. as Are You Being Served, Again?), but such is the nature of British shows; just do a few episodes.

JohnBigBootay: SomeTexan: PsyLord: I only caught a few episodes of The Dresden Files and thought it was interesting. Guess not enough people liked it enough for it to last past a season.

Oh! I forgot this. YES, it deserved more time. I enjoyed every episode. But the vehicle should have been a Beetle.

Didn't quite capture the books for me but it was fine I suppose. Would have liked a bit more edge. And the dude who played Harry is a fine actor he just didn't feel like Harry to me.

Yeah, Harry is softer-looking, but tougher. I picture a guy about like Jim Butcher himself. (Look him up on YouTube, he's cut off all that hair.)

I'm seriously shocked that nobody in this thread has mentioned Firefly.

I also vote for-

Better off Ted
FireFly
Life

I really miss Life it was a good show and it was just getting better when it got canned at the end of the 2nd season. So sad to see it go. Better off Ted was kind of in the same boat, very funny well written stuff that your joe sixpack would never watch. The sensors not recognizing black people alone was one of the funniest episodes I have ever seen on TV.

Oh also The Good Guys.

SomeTexan: Yeah, Harry is softer-looking, but tougher. I picture a guy about like Jim Butcher himself. (Look him up on YouTube, he's cut off all that hair.)

That's cool. I always pictured him looking like old Jim Henson pics with the flowing wizard hair. Which he sort of actually used to look like I guess.

PsyLord: I only caught a few episodes of The Dresden Files and thought it was interesting. Guess not enough people liked it enough for it to last past a season.

Dresden Files had some of the highest ratings on the Syflis chanel, but the biatch in charge hated it so it got cancelled. Hopefully now that Jim Butcher has the rights back to it we will see a movie or another series.

DON.MAC: Danger 5
:30 Seconds

Yes Minister will be back soon.
Better of Ted
Blake's 7
Soap
Futurama (4 times now or is it 5 yet?)

Ending shows early can screw them up so bad even when they are extended as with Babylon 5

There were some that ended too early but could not continue.
The Sarah Jane Adventures (RIP ES)

Yes Minister was awesome, but Nigel Hawthorne and the other guy are long dead, so I don't know how much ofa revival it can be

/then again, recycling is hardly a modern invention. The ancient Greeks used the same characters over and over

FunkyBlue: Botkin of the Yard: Keen Eddie only got one season. One of Fox's greatest crimes.

This. Feckin' incredible series when played in the correct order. Another case of Fox showing a series out of order and confusing the progression of the characters. Instead of Fiona starting out hating Eddie and eventually falling for him she appeared bipolar. One epsode, they're friendly and almost congenial and the next she would be throwing things at him the whole show. I figured it out watching the show when it aired because I would pay attention to how many matchbooks he pinned to the map and one week, he had 3, the next he had 7, and the next he had 4. When the DVD season came out, I figured out the right order and watched them in order and it really made the show shine. No idea why the hell they did that. And the Scottish/American Bar was genius.

The Tick. The episode with the Immortal made me laugh like nothing else. The whole show, but especially the twin scorch marks on the ceiling of Captain Liberty's bedroom just made me chortle. That and The Tick launching the corpse up to the balcony and missing.

Back on the Mark Valley kick, Loved the first season of Human Target. Didn't care for the plot progression in the second season with the rich heiress/love interest coming into it, but the characters were great and made the rest worth forgiving. Guerrero was so over the top, it was hilarious. I do think they canceled it right when it was starting to take off.

the real crime was that they never even really considered it a viable show- it only aired in the summer burnoff. I think Fox gets a bad rap for giving up on quality shows, as these shows would never have gotten to air if not for Fox, but it still sucks that they gave up on so many promising titles

Eureka.

I know it ain't over yet, but 3(?) more episodes and it's done. Another show with good ratings that just isn't making enough money for the shiatheads running syfy.

It's all about squeezing every nickel they can out of every minute on tv. Forget about quality. WHAT WE NEED ARE MOAR KARDASHIANS! MOAR MOAR MOAR!

Human Target
Lie to Me
Roar
Life
The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Relativity
Joan of Arcadia
I'm a Big Girl Now

oh, and terriers, though it was perfect as is

The Mole. It's how I was introduced to Anderson Cooper. Season 2 was pure genius.

For those of you posting lists using words, just stop. I need to search quickly through the comments to see what's been posted and what's not. If you can't spend a little extra time to get images of your shows then don't post at all. Dumbasses.

John from Cincinnati

NeedlesslyCanadian: Stuff I'm still sad ended (I thought) prematurely:


The 4400
Caprica (the second half of the season was actually GOOD, dammit!)
Carnivale
Crusade
Deadwood
Defying Gravity
Farscape
Firefly
Fringe (I want ANOTHER 5 seasons, damn you)
Outcasts
Party Down
Rome
Stargate Universe
Star Trek
Twin Peaks
Undergrads

Undergrads was farking spectacular; I can't believe it died after one season. fark you, MTV.

Rubicon? check.
Space: Above and Beyond? check.
Brisco County? check.
Nowhere Man? check.

It's awesome that these have all been covered.

6 months ago I would have agreed with The Ticket but I watched it recently and was not surprised at all that it got cancelled.