OT: The best TV show nobody watched

[Ares]

Mantis

[topofthetotem]

How about Star Trek (if no body mentioned it already) it was shut down in the first 2 or 3 seasons it only developed a following in reruns.

[Mister_Comics]

EVERGLADES

Can't remember who starred in it but I would watch it all the time. I think it only lasted one or two seasons.

 

WEREWOLF. Starred Chuck Conners as a wolfman.

[Mr. Zipper]

Speaking of interesting, does anybody remember Paperboy with Chris Elliot?

 

 

I don't know who was funnier, Chris or his crusty old man (Bob Elliot).

[Sharkey]

The 1970 British TV show "UFO", created by Gerry & Sylvia Anderson, who previously created the "Supermarionation" puppet TV series in the 1960's (THUNDERBIRDS, FIREBALL XL-5, etc.), and would later create SPACE: 1999.

 

It only ran 1 season, 26 episodes. But it ROCKED.

[Ze-man]

Space 1999

[Illiterati-migration]

Speaking of interesting, does anybody remember Paperboy with Chris Elliot?

 

You mean "Get A Life"? One of the greatest, most awful shows ever.

[Red Hook]

Strange Report......a british import starring Anthony Quayle as an investigator of strange phenomena......kind of an early X-Files. Late 60's? I barely remember it, I just remember it was pretty good.

 

 

Here...found an image.....

 

[CJ]

Patrick Duffy as "The Man from Atlantis"

[143ksk]

My favorite show nobody watched was "Flying Blind". It was only on Sunday nights at Midnight. But it started a young Téa Leoni.

 

I haven't seen it since it was first aired in 1992-3.

 

I think it was on after Herman's Head which was also very good!

[sckao]

The Tick Live Action Series (only 8 episodes)

 

[dzminn]

Speaking of interesting, does anybody remember Paperboy with Chris Elliot?

 

You mean "Get A Life"? One of the greatest, most awful shows ever.

 

Exactly Thanks for the correction.

 

What about Max Headroom?

[supapimp]

eeire, indiana

[Smokinghawk]

Freaks and Geeks. Great show, with the same writer as The 40 Year Old Virgin. Cancelled after one season.

 

I agree 100%....there were even two or three episodes on the DVD that were never aired...all brilliant. How can you not like a series that ends with a Grateful Dead song

 

Oh and when I was a kid I liked a show called "Automan"....saw the series once and then never again. Would love to see it again

 

Not only do I agree with Freaks and Geek 100%, but I JUST WATCHED that very episode again TODAY! ("Discos and Dragons")

[Bonds25]

"The Adventures of Beans Baxter" from first year of Fox.

[Smokinghawk]

Does anyone remember a short lived sit-com from the 80's called "IT'S YOUR MOVE"??? If memory serves correct, it starred Jason Bateman & the guy who played the first husband of Marcy Darcy in Married w/Children.

 

I was probably in 6th grade when this was on, and I don't think it even made it one whole season before it was yanked. I remember being really let down when I went to watch it on its scheduled night to see the conclusion of the two part "Dregs of Humanity" rock group episodes & it was simply not aired.

 

Don't know if I'd even like it today, but back then the practical jokes & one upmanship were great stuff for a young guy to enjoy.

 

"We are the Dregs!"

"Yeah!"

 

Damn, I thought I was the only one who remembered that show! Come to think of it, more than two decades later I *still* wonder sometimes, "Whatever happened to that stupid 'Dregs of Humanity' plot line?"

[october]

Freaks and Geeks. Great show, with the same writer as The 40 Year Old Virgin. Cancelled after one season.

 

I agree 100%....there were even two or three episodes on the DVD that were never aired...all brilliant. How can you not like a series that ends with a Grateful Dead song

 

Oh and when I was a kid I liked a show called "Automan"....saw the series once and then never again. Would love to see it again

 

Not only do I agree with Freaks and Geek 100%, but I JUST WATCHED that very episode again TODAY! ("Discos and Dragons")

 

Did you watch the extras? I remember there being some funny deleted scenes from that episode involving the D&D night.

[johnenock]

I vote for Millenium. I think it survived three seasons before getting pulled. Very creepy show starring Mr. Creepy himself Lance Henrickson.

 

As much as I liked it, very few people that I knew seemed to follow the show at the time, but its developed quite a "cult" following since its demise. I'm sure the executives at Fox were surprised when it actually survived the difficult Friday evening time slot during its first season.

 

I've got the first two seasons on DVD and it's among my fave shows of all time.

 

Also, I half-nominate The Lone Gunmen, which ultimately was disappointing. They played if for laughs and it never reached it's "potential".

 

I loved the Lone Gunmen, especially the episode where they had the deaf football team. HIlarious.

[heinlein99]

Did the Dregs ever get to play the Palladium? I remember that episode too.

 

Every time I think of 'Get A Life' I think of the song "Alley Cat" which in one episode was played over, and over, and over...

[johnenock]

Here are my choices:

 

Flash: Ultra cheese but fun to watch. A side note: the lead(John Wesley Shipp) was Dawson's dad on Dawson's Creek(OK I probably shouldn't have said that -- Loved that show) Side note 2: Mark Hamill played one of the Rogues

 

Invisible Man(Sci-Fi channel) Never missed an episode and the lead was pretty funny.

 

Next Wave Also one about a guy following the quatrains of Nostradamus to foil an alien invasion. I can't remember the name, but I sometimes watch that on the Sci-Fi marathons during the day. And I do beleive that the great actress Traci Lords entered the show in the last couple of seasons

 

Loved Farscape, but I think that had a pretty strong following.

 

And I concur with other forumites on Millenium and Monk(best show on TV)