Cancelled tv shows you miss?

There are tons of shows I miss, but not too many I would want back, especially in the state they left us in.

Want more:
- Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The ending was so perfect, I'd hate to ruin it, but I seriously miss that show...
- Early Edition - I LOVED this show and I wish there were new episodes.
- Dead Like Me - Another great show, but it was a good call to end it if Rube left.

Deserved to be Cancelled (even though I liked it initially):
- seaQuest - Season 1 was awesome. it went downhill pretty quickly from there. Season three was terrible.
- Enterprise - Nothing was going to save Enterprise. As soon as they made the decision to go with the Xindii storyline for season three, it was over. Season three was a completely different series than season 1 & 2 (which would have been good except for the Temporal Cold War, sexy Vulcans, and Archer's non-acting (Bacula CAN act, I've seen it before). Season 4 was a hodge-podge of "we have no idea what to do now that we have more".
- Sliders - Another show that started good, but grew lame after the first two seasons (season three wasn't bad, it just wasn't good).
- Deadwood - I love this series, but by the time it ended, I couldn't figure out a good reason for it to continue.
 
History's Mysteries on history channel, axed because i think the reality shows had set it. The original UFO Files show before they got those goofballs running around interviewing folks.
 
Lost Tapes

It was a pseudo-documentary type show on Animal Planet that relied on the "found footage" motif amd involved cryptids, the supernatural, and aliens, but they flat out admit that the show is faked by saying at the beginning of every episode "The presence of hidden creatures is the subject of continued debate. The following story is inspired by the possibility of their existence."

While some of it was a bit hokey, there are plenty of good scares to go around.
 
NormanF said:
The original Iron Chef was a trip. The woman who did some of the voice overs would sometimes make a guest judge sound like a total idiot. And some of the episodes were comedy/horror shows. One time the secret ingredient was octopus. Still alive. Iron Chef Italian just sort of popped the head off and started beating the tentacles with a huge seven or eight inch thick daikon(?) radish while they squirmed around until he broke the radish.

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But did you like it? I always hoped they'd get the host (the one who bites the bell pepper) to host the Oscars -- who cares if he can't speak English. He can' do any worse than the last few hosts they've had.

Fiction Engineered said:
Lost Tapes

It was a pseudo-documentary type show on Animal Planet that relied on the "found footage" motif amd involved cryptids, the supernatural, and aliens, but they flat out admit that the show is faked by saying at the beginning of every episode "The presence of hidden creatures is the subject of continued debate. The following story is inspired by the possibility of their existence."

While some of it was a bit hokey, there are plenty of good scares to go around.
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Oh, man -- this show was so bad it was good. The first one I saw was there were these police investigating a domestic violence call -- when they got there they found this girl hiding and she stated telling them there were Vampires of Werewolves (can't remember which) in the house -- they check out the house and find almost everyone dead - the girl is freaking out so they hide her in a back room and when they turn around the girl turns out to be the vampire.
 
I love Scare Tactics and the off shoot from Animal Planet, Freak Encounters.

Seeing the reactions cracks me up. My favorite was when the guy gets in with a cult and actually consentually agrees to drink the Kool Aid!!:confused:facepalm
Fiction Engineered said:
Lost Tapes

It was a pseudo-documentary type show on Animal Planet that relied on the "found footage" motif amd involved cryptids, the supernatural, and aliens, but they flat out admit that the show is faked by saying at the beginning of every episode "The presence of hidden creatures is the subject of continued debate. The following story is inspired by the possibility of their existence."

While some of it was a bit hokey, there are plenty of good scares to go around.
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Jet Beetle said:
Oh, man -- this show was so bad it was good. The first one I saw was there were these police investigating a domestic violence call -- when they got there they found this girl hiding and she stated telling them there were Vampires of Werewolves (can't remember which) in the house -- they check out the house and find almost everyone dead - the girl is freaking out so they hide her in a back room and when they turn around the girl turns out to be the vampire.
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That... wasn't the plot of any of the episodes. There was a somewhat similar one, though. Season 3: Episode 4 "Werewolf." This is the episode synopsis:

"In 2003, following the death of twenty-one people at the hands of the so-called "Beast Killer," independent filmmaker Austin Pace arranged access to the investigation of the murders by Sergeants Clifford Warren and Javier Mendoza in order to make a documentary about the killings. The victims bear little similarity to one another, save that they were all seen at the same bar before being found dead, and the way in which they were killed, which included teeth and claw marks, post-mortem trauma, and traces of both human and animal DNA at the scene, as well as fur. Mendoza returned from the bar, having been undercover to watch out for suspicious individuals that fit their profile, and noticed a man flirting with a woman. The suspect and the woman leave shortly thereafter, and the officers follow them to a residence. It turns out that the man has been arrested before for assault, and the woman is acting strangely, as if drunk or drugged. At first, they think nothing of the man's criminal record, but he closes the blinds and they have no choice but to get closer to the house and try to establish visual contact again. As they approach, they hear a yell and growling, and decide to enter the house. Mendoza tells Pace to stay in the van while he enters the house after Warren, but they lose contact. As Mendoza enters the dark house, he suddenly sees a reflection in a mirror and turns around with his gun drawn, only to see that it is Pace, who has entered the house against all advice. Warren contacts Mendoza over their radio and they meet in the kitchen, where they discover a window that has been broken from the inside. As they wonder why the suspect did not just open the window, they discover fur and bloody paw prints on the floor and counter. The officers decide to clear the rest of the house, and Pace follows Mendoza into the basement. There, they find the woman, named Sophie Montero, who seems battered and bruised with a few cuts and scrapes, but is otherwise unhurt. She is barely able to speak, and Mendoza tells Pace to stay with her when he cannot raise Warren on the radio. Mendoza walks upstairs to a bedroom and is checking under the bed when he sees someone enter the room. He jumps up, only to find that it is Warren. They come to a stairwell where they see their suspect dead, apparently a victim of the Beast Killer. Meanwhile, in the basement, Pace tries to calm Sophie down, but she begins acting strangely, looking up as if something is there. She beckons him into a darker part of the basement, but then the officers run down the stairs and demand that he step away from her. Bewildered, Pace turns around only to see that Sophie, partially obscured by the darkness, has acquired a more beastly appearance and attacks him as the officers open fire, killing her. The murders of Pace and the suspect were posthumously attributed to Sophie's actions, and Warren and Mendoza were separately given paid psychiatric leave before resigning from the force. Because of the circumstances of each murder and questions left unanswered as to how Sophie was able to commit such grisly crimes, the case remains open. The term "werewolf" was not used in any of the official files, though Pace's film raises many questions."

I will concede, though, that this particular episode was one of the hokier ones.

I would say that, out of all the episodes that aired, "Bigfoot," "Devil Dragon," "Skinwalker," "Hellhound," "Vampire," "Lizard Man," "Zombies," "Poltergeist," "Wendigo: American Cannibal," "Beast of Bray Road," and "Reptilian" were my favorites.



crabra comander said:
I love Scare Tactics and the off shoot from Animal Planet, Freak Encounters.

Seeing the reactions cracks me up. My favorite was when the guy gets in with a cult and actually consentually agrees to drink the Kool Aid!!:confused:facepalm
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I watched the first episode of Freak Encounters on Netflix, and never watched another. It was truly terrible and made Scare Tactics look like Emmy material.
 
Three (with David Warner, Julie Bowen, Edward Atterton and Bumper Robinson)
Masquerade (with Rod Taylor, Kirstie Alley and Greg Evigan)
Outlaws (with Rod Taylor, Richard Roundtree, William Lucking and Charles Napier)
 
Fiction Engineered said:
That... wasn't the plot of any of the episodes. There was a somewhat similar one, though. Season 3: Episode 4 "Werewolf." This is the episode synopsis:

"In 2003, following the death of twenty-one people at the hands of the so-called "Beast Killer," independent filmmaker Austin Pace arranged access to the investigation of the murders by Sergeants Clifford Warren and Javier Mendoza in order to make a documentary about the killings. The victims bear little similarity to one another, save that they were all seen at the same bar before being found dead, and the way in which they were killed, which included teeth and claw marks, post-mortem trauma, and traces of both human and animal DNA at the scene, as well as fur. Mendoza returned from the bar, having been undercover to watch out for suspicious individuals that fit their profile, and noticed a man flirting with a woman. The suspect and the woman leave shortly thereafter, and the officers follow them to a residence. It turns out that the man has been arrested before for assault, and the woman is acting strangely, as if drunk or drugged. At first, they think nothing of the man's criminal record, but he closes the blinds and they have no choice but to get closer to the house and try to establish visual contact again. As they approach, they hear a yell and growling, and decide to enter the house. Mendoza tells Pace to stay in the van while he enters the house after Warren, but they lose contact. As Mendoza enters the dark house, he suddenly sees a reflection in a mirror and turns around with his gun drawn, only to see that it is Pace, who has entered the house against all advice. Warren contacts Mendoza over their radio and they meet in the kitchen, where they discover a window that has been broken from the inside. As they wonder why the suspect did not just open the window, they discover fur and bloody paw prints on the floor and counter. The officers decide to clear the rest of the house, and Pace follows Mendoza into the basement. There, they find the woman, named Sophie Montero, who seems battered and bruised with a few cuts and scrapes, but is otherwise unhurt. She is barely able to speak, and Mendoza tells Pace to stay with her when he cannot raise Warren on the radio. Mendoza walks upstairs to a bedroom and is checking under the bed when he sees someone enter the room. He jumps up, only to find that it is Warren. They come to a stairwell where they see their suspect dead, apparently a victim of the Beast Killer. Meanwhile, in the basement, Pace tries to calm Sophie down, but she begins acting strangely, looking up as if something is there. She beckons him into a darker part of the basement, but then the officers run down the stairs and demand that he step away from her. Bewildered, Pace turns around only to see that Sophie, partially obscured by the darkness, has acquired a more beastly appearance and attacks him as the officers open fire, killing her. The murders of Pace and the suspect were posthumously attributed to Sophie's actions, and Warren and Mendoza were separately given paid psychiatric leave before resigning from the force. Because of the circumstances of each murder and questions left unanswered as to how Sophie was able to commit such grisly crimes, the case remains open. The term "werewolf" was not used in any of the official files, though Pace's film raises many questions."

I will concede, though, that this particular episode was one of the hokier ones.

I would say that, out of all the episodes that aired, "Bigfoot," "Devil Dragon," "Skinwalker," "Hellhound," "Vampire," "Lizard Man," "Zombies," "Poltergeist," "Wendigo: American Cannibal," "Beast of Bray Road," and "Reptilian" were my favorites.





I watched the first episode of Freak Encounters on Netflix, and never watched another. It was truly terrible and made Scare Tactics look like Emmy material.
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Could be I just confused it with one of the other bajillion shows like it. How about the one with the lizard monster in the sewer and this reporter was down there trying to film it. Wasn't that one?
 
Knight Rider 2011

Young Justice (beware the batman and the new avengers aren't doing it for me)


and too many others people have listed. :(
 
Chicago Code

Eureka (lots of the problems in the last two seasons I think were due to problems with the schitzo SyFy more than anything else)

SG:U
 
Jet Beetle said:
MXE -- Most Extreme Elimination

DON'T GET ELIMINATED!!!
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It was Most Extreme Challenge - MXC, or as it was originally known "Takeshi's Castle" - and yeah, that show was AWESOME. I remember my brother-in-law explaining it to me as "imagine if real people had to get through an obstacle course inspired by video game environments." One of his friends and his father apparently watched the show at length while on a ski trip in Europe.

Takeshi's Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I do miss that show, and ABC's Wipeout is a poor rip-off.
 
Jericho they should have at least done a proper tv movie to end it or something. The Big O anime so they could finally explain what the hell it was all about. That should would have made JJ Abrams confused lol.
 
I really enjoyed Kings. I thought it was really well done, and had a lot of potential. And Ian McShane!
 
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