What TV show started out as your favorite and then just went "Pfft"?

[WillParkinson]

Mine was Highlander. I loved the show! Duncan, Richie, Tessa.

And then they killed Tessa and the show went Pfft.

I tried to get back into it a while later (though I did watch one episode where they brought the actress who played Tessa back) and then they had Duncan kill Richie.

Hated the show after that and never watched it again.

[Dufaeth]

1. 3rd Watch

It used to be brilliant, but this season and some of the last have been horrid.

[mapster]

17. Same here

I quit watching it just before they killed off Amy Carlson. It really got to be too much of a cop show and not enough about the fire station. I hear they had Michael Beach (Dod) go 'round the bend, too. Too bad, it was a good show the first couple of years. And that Cruz person was awful.

[belladonna]

34. I still watch when I remember

Lately I find myself forgetting about it most of the time. It's gone seriously downhill, first with the Jimmy and Kim getting back together storyline, which ended in a ridiculous way. The Doc going nuts storyline was the worst though, and I've just lost interest since.

[Cush]

2. Farscape

Great the first two seasons, then it took a nose in season 3. During Season 3 it began to focus more and more on John and Aeryn (plus Scorpius), pushing the other characters to the side. And when the other characters did get their own stories, they were often "Very B Grade". They just seemed to be filler until the next John/Aeryn ep.

[bhunt70]

5. I agree with this assessment

[WillParkinson]

7. I stopped watching Farscape when they killed off Za'an...

And brought in that weird woman with the funky hair.

Though, once again, I did watch an episode where they brought back Virginia Hey (Za'an).

[neverborn]

9. Yes.

[Commendatori]

54. When John got split, I split

It pissed me off that instead of having the whole cast and two Johns, they had half a cast with one and half the cast with the other. I felt like I had been blown off in favor of cost-cutting, so I blew off the show.

[Syrinx]

3. I loved Sport's Night and then it was cancelled

And I'm afraid the same thing is going to happen to Arrested Development.

(I don't think this is exactly what you mean, but getting cancelled is a major "pfft.")

[Beaker]

18. Sports Night would be my pick too...we bought the DVDs of the series.

it was a great show, wit great characters.

[Ladyhawk]

4. The X-Files

I never bothered to watch the last two seasons. During the third to the last season, it just became incredibly stupid. And I loved David Duchovny.

[NightTrain]

6. Kolchak: The Night Stalker

The original 1971 made-for-TV movie was awesome. The 1973 made-for-TV follow-up, "The Night Strangler," was also very good.

But then came the 1974-75 series, which was a case study in television bi-polar disorder. One week's episode could be excellent, only to be followed the next week by one that was truly abysmal. The show lasted all of 20 episodes, at which time Carl Kolchak hung up his $2.00 hat and retired to Salem, Mass. :)

[TheDebbieDee]

12. I loved this show. I guess we were one of the few in America........

watching it. I think this was the scariest show on TV. Ever.

[WillParkinson]

13. The Headless Motorcycle Rider...

To this day I have trouble watching that episode.

[SideshowScott]

30. ROFL that ep scared me silly..The maniquins one too

The one where the dummys chase him around gave me nightmares when i was a kid..

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

33. Who else...

...wants to see a revival of that series? In my dreams, Jay Thomas would have the role.

[fudge stripe cookays]

42. Yup, mannequin nightmares here, too.

Were we kids of the 70s or what??

[BigMcLargehuge]

58. the one that got me was the robot with the clay face

that one scared the hell out of me. But I remember the headless motorcycle rider well (many many nights hearing motorcycles in the distance and shaking) and the one with the coven of witches, specifically, the woman scalded to death in the shower.

Yeesh...

What a great show :) My memories of it are one of the reasons I started writing fiction.

[mitchum]

14. That's the one!

[Piperay]

22. I LOVED it too

at first but gradually lost all interest in it when it became a series. :-(

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

8. Dream On, Sopranos, LA Law

Dream On was really funny and cute for awhile but suddenly, eh. Just had enough. Not even boobs could save it.

Sopranos was really gripping and interesting but then Nancy Marchand died and eh. They were never able to replace that dimension of the story. And then Joe Pantoliano's character was so unpleasant that even his death didn't redeem him. That's around when I stopped watching.

LA Law I don't even remember what happened, but I stopped. I hate that feeling of being held hostage by continuity series - that if you miss one episode you'll never catch up, so you have to arrange your life around watching it. Hate that! It's really smart of HBO to run episodes of their series several times a week

[flowomo]

10. ER

great for years.... but then every character turned into a self-indulgent, piss-and-moan pain in the ass. No character was likeable!

[Skittles]

53. um flow

that was my assessment of that show from day one

[CrownPrinceBandar]

11. The Tick..............

live and cartoon. Patrick Warburton always cracks me up.

[Zomby Woof]

15. The West Wing

It was once inconceivable I would ever miss an episode.

Now, with Sorkin gone, I never watch an episode.

[RoyGBiv]

19. Same here...

Same reason too.

[MissMillie]

27. Gets my vote too

I guess it's a good thing Bartlet is deep into his second term.

[opiate69]

16. 24

Watched the first season religiously... then, when the second season came on, my practice schedule had changed, and I just completely lost track.

[Jack_Dawson]

47. Itz called "TiVO"

24 Rulez

[Borgnine]

20. The Simpsons.

Ugh, what HAPPENED? It used to be brilliant, and now it panders to the lowest-common denominator.

The West Wing has also taken a one-way ticket to dullsville without Sorkin's writing.

[Piperay]

21. The O.C.

I was hooked on it at first but been losing interest and the last one I taped but FF thru it to the end. I just knew what that the twist would be Ryan's ex was going to be pregnant, ho hum. :boring: :shrug:

[Jack_Dawson]

41. O C Rulez!

[Piperay]

57. :-) nt

:-)

[DEM FAN]

23. ER. Just To Many Damn Changes For My Taste. I Used To Love ER.

:-(

[peekaloo]

29. I just started watching within the last 2 years

too much Abby and Pratt lately.

A big mistake killing off Romano.

A local station has the show in syndication so I watch the early ones when I can and the decline is obvious.

[noonwitch]

24. Twin Peaks

It started off so good, with the prom queen washing up dead and wrapped in plastic, the goofball high school football idiots barking like dogs, the cherry pie and damned fine coffee. Then the second season began and it all went to hell.

[Enraged_Ape]

26. It was clear that David Lynch was making it up as he went along

The whole thing fell apart when it was obvious that the central mystery was, in fact, no mystery at all, but only a bunch of horseshit that Lynch and Frost were just shoveling out to fill airtime.

The same thing happened with the X-Files. About three seasons into the show, it became obvious that there was no central mystery to all the weird goings-on, and then the fascination died and there was absolutely no reason to spend even another minute trying to figure it all out.

[mac56]

25. "Mad About You"

It was must-see, appointment TV for me for many years. Then they introduced the "having a baby" thread, and jumped that ol' shark.

[WoodrowFan]

59. yep

And they suddenly introduced marriage problem/ Loved it until then.

[terrya]

28. "Malcolm in the Middle"

Once a great show. Now it's just boring. The kids are growing up, and it's just not the same, IMO.

[dryan]

31. West Wing

Used to really enjoy it--until Bartlett's daughter was kidnapped and that whole set of shows. There is absolutely no way that the president could have someone be a "co-president" during a crisis. Now it has become too absurd and I don't watch.

[bluedeminredstate]

32. Friends

What can I say? Six people, who for ten years, only hang out with, date and marry each other. They only go to one hangout/coffee shop and spend most of the time discussing sex or the lack of it.
I'm glad Survivor is on Thursdays at 8:00!

[skippysmom]

35. Will and Grace

It was one of the funniest, cleverest shows on TV -- and now it's just stupid. I date the transformation to the arrival of Harry Connick Jr. -- great singer, horrible actor.

Second place goes to the West Wing. Without Sorkin it's crap.

[yellowcanine]

36. "Ed" - the on/off friends and lovers theme between Ed and Carol proved to

be unsustainable. Now it is just another show and not very funny either.

[Zomby Woof]

40. it had its series finale a few months ago

But I agree, it wore down after a great start.

Ed and Carol finally do get married in the finale. Once they got engaged, it ran out of gas.

[bmbmd]

46. Nobody liked Carol.

Nearly every one was rooting for the principal, what's her name.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

37. Nowhere Man

Not that it went bad, but Brazilian TV aired the first few episodes and then poof. I hear it was cancelled without warning and without resolution in the USA, is that right? Did we get to know why the protagonist was un-personified in the first place?

[tishaLA]

38. Homicide: Life on the Street

When Michael Michele arrives on your set, you know the show is DONE (witness her work on ER). When John Seda appears, put a fork in it. Still, for 5 years it was the best show ever on TV.

[Missy Vixen]

39. Frasier

The show was brilliant during the first couple of seasons -- terrific acting, great scriptwriting, truly funny.

The show started tanking when Daphne and Niles got together, and I found out about Kelsey Grammer's wingnuttery.

We also loved "Sports Night," "Mad About You" pre-baby, and "Life Goes On," which I'm still pissed at ABC about.

Julie

[fudge stripe cookays]

44. Yup. Same for me. Grammer's a d*$^

When Niels and Daphne got together it was bad enough, but after I found out about Grammer, I was appalled.

And I didn't understand why Paul and Jamie HAD to reproduce.

It was such a great show for so long. Childfree couple. What a novelty! I wanted to be in a relationship just like that. Now I am! But with no eventual baby!

[demgurl]

43. Alias, 24 and Survivor.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

45. Oz.

It was great for the first four or five seasons, then the whole thing just fell apart. By the end, nothing that happened on that show made the slightest bit of sense.

[TXlib]

48. Adventures of Brisco County Jr.

Strange Luck
Brimstone

Fox had lots of intriguing shows that lasted one season or less.

[FunBobbyMucha]

49. "Pfft" might be a little strong, but the last two seasons of Buffy

got kinda painful. Joss Whedon, the creator, was busy with other shows and the writing really began to suffer. They came up with hamfisted parables for real-life issues, ie, witchcraft being an addiction like drugs. The central characters and their relationships were marginalized or simplified, and continuity began to whirl away like an errant Frisbee. By the time a bad guy was trying to DROWN a vampire (which doesn't exchange oxygen), a lot of us faithful were just shaking our heads. They came up with a strong last episode, at least.

[tsakshaug]

50. MASH

After Henry and Trapper left....
pfffft

[Bunny]

51. I was still good with M*A*S*H

after Trapper and Hawkeye left. For me it was all over when Frank Burns left. He was an outstanding comic foil. I rarely watch any of the ones after Winchester joined the cast. The show just got way too earnest and preachy for me.

[Canuckistanian]

56. Yeah, then Hotlips suddenly became completely different

Klinger started getting philosophical and the plots got more and more unlikely.

[AngryAmish]

52. The Fallguy

"I'm the unknown stuntman..."

[Commendatori]

55. WillBowden, they had to kill Richie

because he was starting to look older (not to mention that the actor wanted out). Personally, I was glad to see him go, but the sixth season was so bad that I was actually rooting for Duncan to lose his head.