Favorite TV shows that didn't last?
Sledge Hammer
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Brilliant!
The Good Guys was one of the best shows on tv in recent years. The writing was excellent and I actually LAUGHED at this show! How many comedies now can we say that about?
I also liked Memphis Beat and In Plain Sight which is going off the air after this season! All the best shows get cancelled! 
I just didn't care for the main character all that much.
I am a little surprised that I'm the only one that has mentioned B5: Crusade. I'm guessing people have either never heard of it, or they hated it 
those lyrics might work (she said as she remembered him sitting on the rock). 
I loved that show!
Thanks for the clip. It was a good one, for sure! 
I taped all the MST episodes, and I bought a bunch of MST memorabilia at the 1996 MST3K ConventioCon Expo Fest-A-Rama 2: Electric Boogaloo in Minneapolis, so I have a lot of MST stuff. When they went over to Comedy Central, I had an idea it was the beginning of the end for the show. 
But totally enjoyed the clip!
I saw him do live standup where he talked about getting drunk with Tracy Morgan and racking up a $4,000 bar tab - "Thats what you get for paying the bills Jay Mohrs!!"
a little late, but welcome nonetheless!
Two quirky, original shows that were canceled way too soon.
I learn something new every day. 
Wow. I loved Paul Winfield as The Mirror. for kick starting that memory.
Carnivale was brilliant in so many ways -- casting, directing, cinematography, plot, storytelling, character development, etc. I understand the series creators had planned for a six-season story arc overall, but HBO only picked up the show for two seasons prior to cancelling it. There was so much more to those characters that was waiting to be explored and shared, and it's still disappointing to me (all these years later) that this show will never get a conclusion fitting its brilliance.
Or how the episode title was completely different from the narrator's (ex "A Bird in The Hand (The Butler Did It)". Or how at the end they'd freeze while something else was going on in the background.
Rendezvous At Big Gulch
"Why don't you run along Timmy and next time we'll discuss ten things you can do with lightning."
I'm calling you out, Initech! You're obviously a person of class and taste, but no peeking, now, and let's see who's the last one standing after this duel of Police Squad quotes!
"So sorry, mrs Twice. We'd have told you earlier, but your husband wasn't dead yet then."
"Why don't you run along Katie and next time remember to bring three items from your mom's dresser."
Dammit, I was going to use that one next!
Alright then, here's another one I didn't "get" until the 4th viewing or so....
"He owns a piece of every boxer in town..."
cut to a picture of a locker room full of body parts, gloves, arms, etc.
I have the DVD and it along with the Naked Gun collection - get frequent play in my DVD player.
"Sorry - no sax before a fight."
"Well it's very impressive yes."
"She wanted to meet me at the club right away. Well since I didn't know where the Club Right Away was, I went to the Club Du Jour."
I also like the exchange where Frank and the captain are interrogating a suspect and Nordberg is the background:
"All right! What's the charge?"
"$4.50."
"What do you think we are? Insulted???"
"Fine. $3.50 and the coffee is on me."
"Do you really expect us to swallow that?"
"Fine! I'll eat it!'
"Why don't you run along Timmy and next week we'll discuss 10 things you can do with a carrot."
Priest sits down to have his shoes shined.
Priest: "What can you tell me about God, Johnny?
Johnny: "I don't know nuttin' about it"
Priest looks both ways and secretly slips Johnny a 20 dollar bill
Johnny: "It depends. Are we talking your basic anthropological deity or epistomological prime mover?"
I think I've about run dry. The last two quotes I was about to post were actually from Airplane! To think I didn't pick on the Mayo Clinic/Shelf full of mayonnaise jars gag until the 6th viewing
Here's a clip for those who never saw this series:
Police Squad! In Colour!
Brilliant -- I noticed I mangled every single one of those quotes!
"Now why don't you run along Timmy and next time we'll conduct experiments using discarded swimwear."
That is, according to their reasoning on why to cancel it: people had to pay attention to it. They couldn't be doing something else, with it on in the background because they had to actively pay attention to what was being said and shown. To the suits, that was too much to ask of your average American TV-watching audience.
I guess they also don't seem to have a problem, then, with the fact that people are not paying attention to the commercials! You'd think they would have noticed that flaw in their statement...
I don't have it memorized like you and Initech, so I think I may have to Netflix it and makes some "copies" 
Remember the "shootout" between Drebin and whoever the bad guy was, where they were separated by only about five feet?
But that just shows you that there's been a major dumbing down of society if they have to cancel a show because people have to pay attention to it.
And I don't have it completely memorized - I did grow up watching the Naked Gun movies and Mel Brooks flicks like Spaceballs and Blazing Saddles.
And Fox was in such a hurry to get it off the air that they didn't even air both parts of the two-hour finale they desperately tried to cobble together to bring it all to a close.
Fucking Fox. 
Although I know one reason it failed: too many diehard SG1 fans hated it. I got into an argument with one at the last place I worked, and she hated it because it wasn't about exploration, but about survival, which I liked. It had plenty of potential.
Of course, their biggest stumbling block was the "SYFY" channel, and how they wanted to "get away from" science fiction entirely 
Eight whole episodes. Adrian Pasdar, ruthless businessman by day, sleeps naked in a cardboard box by night.
Oh, we hardly knew ye.
There was a lot of story left. There was talk for awhile that there would be a Deadwood movie, but I haven't seen anything new about that in a long time
Both were funny. 
Pink helicopter and a robot were in the cast I barely remember it but I still remember it.
Oh and WizKids. Hacxorz before it was cool.
"Yes I'm sorry but I'm afraid I prematurely shot my wad on what was supposed to be a dry run if you will, so now I'm afraid I have a mess on my hands."
Not my post though
I frickin love Bonnie Hunt - she is hilarious but none of her shows ever last
3 brilliant seasons, then replaced by fighting robots. It still makes me sick.
That was a cool show.
Tikki
So we all watched it on the Washington station. 
er, ABC, yanked it
One season on Fox. Claymation.
Produced by Ron Howard and Eddie Murphy.
The main character, the "super" (fix it man) in the projects was named Thurgood Orenthal Stubbs.
The resident crackhead was named Smokey. He wore a button that said "Lose Weight Now. Ask Me How."
Funny as hell.
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Also, Dinosaurs. Muppet dinosaurs. Great stuff!
World, meet Sarah Jessica Parker. 
And I still remember Chimpy's harassment of Tommy Chong via Mary Beth Buchan
an.
One of the very few police shows worth watching. Intelligent writing, great dialogue, fantastic main characters, fascinating back story. It had to break up its first season after only 11 episodes due to the screenwriters strike. The second season was the last because NBC decided to cancel it, together with four (!) other shows to make room for Jay Leno's new late night show. Which flopped horribly, just like EVERYBODY PREDICTED beforehand! The one good show in YEARS and they cancel it! 
