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For what ever reason, either you became so emotional involved with the characters, you loved the story line or you simply loved and looked forward to the next show. What are the TV series you hated to see end. Mine, in no order:
NYPD Blue
Sons of Anarchy
MASH
The Sopranos
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
Rome
The Wire
What are some of yours?
htuttle
(23,738 posts)None more than that one.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)And here I was going to say Stargate Universe.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)Firefly had years left in it. There were a lot of really interesting threads to be followed.
Star Trek came back after 18 years. So who knows.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)We finally found out where the reevers came from. Wash and Shepherd died. I forget what happened to the whole Mal and Inara thing.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)depending on how much money it made. They wrapped up all the threads relatively nicely but also left room for more if the movie did really well. Unfortunately, it didn't. It just about broke even, which wasn't enough for the studio to justify making any more of them.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)That's how I'm going to look at it anyway. You think about Buffy in the later years. That series went through some very slow times, and some of the things they did to keep it alive were questionable. No offense to Joss Whedon. I still enjoyed every minute of it. I blame the executives who were trying not to lose their money maker.
exboyfil
(17,862 posts)Star Trek: TOS (only if the production value went up - the third season had issues)
Torchwood
Hannibal
Penny Dreadful
Fringe
MuseRider
(34,104 posts)Firefly, I did not see it when it was originally run but love it later and wish there was more. The movie was good but......
Torchwood I could not believe that was taken down so quickly here. I need to watch the British version.
There are lots for me but most recently these were 2 I really loved.
First TV show I thought of when I saw the OP.
Gothmog
(145,047 posts)thesquanderer
(11,982 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,013 posts)Thanks to jogging my memory below
add Mad Men and Boardwalk Empire
Funtatlaguy
(10,868 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)The Americans, the most underated show ever. To me the best series I have ever seen. And I have seen many on this thread.
Funtatlaguy
(10,868 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Funtatlaguy
(10,868 posts)Popcorn and we could binge watch. lol.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)red dog 1
(27,792 posts)But Six Feet Under was getting weird after "Stretch Cunningham" became the old lady's live-in boyfriend.
[remember him "trimming" her prized pear tree?"]
madaboutharry
(40,200 posts)Treme
iZombi (this is the last season)
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)The Americans
The Sopranos
Homicide
Dexter
radical noodle
(8,000 posts)I still miss it.
Also MASH
and <blush> Captain Kangaroo
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)"Hill Street Blues". Great show.
Wolf Frankula
(3,600 posts)the original, I loved that show.
Wolf
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)justgamma
(3,665 posts)He just seemed really creepy to me, but I guess the kids liked it.
leftieNanner
(15,076 posts)And the "creepy" thing was just him being genuine, thoughtful, and kind. My children loved him, and when I watched his show through their eyes, I finally understood.
The new movie "Won't you be my Neighbor?" is wonderful. If you get a chance to see it, you will understand. He really was that guy.
took to that show either and I was a kid at the time. I was born being skeeved by anything but very small doses of the warm and fuzzies.
aeromanKC
(3,322 posts)Breaking Bad
oswaldactedalone
(3,490 posts)when I learned that Barney Fife was no longer going to be a character on the Andy Griffith Show. My mom and I would watch the episodes after that and lament the fact that Barney was no longer on the show. Goes without saying that even though the last three years of the show were not that good, I still hated to hear that the Andy Griffith Show was ending.
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)Don Knotts played the mysterious TV repairman in the movie Pleasantville. He magically adjusts the TV set so that it sucks the two teenagers into a Leave it To Beaver like 50s TV series. I always thought Knotts was an odd choice for that role but now that I think of it, after he left the Andy Griffith Show, the series turned from B/W into color the next year. The same way the series in the movie changed from B/W into color, or at least the more enlightened characters did. Do you think it was just a coincidence or did they hire Knotts for that reason?
rurallib
(62,403 posts)although Ellery Queen kind of reincarnated as Murder, She Wrote.
PennyK
(2,302 posts)I've actually read all the books and loved them.
And I sometimes play the theme song from the show lol.
leftieNanner
(15,076 posts)It was so sad that he died so young.
blur256
(979 posts)Glad someone else remembers it!
onecaliberal
(32,812 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Great show
onecaliberal
(32,812 posts)Tech
(1,770 posts)royable
(1,264 posts)I hated to see it decline, but I hated even more to see it end.
IADEMO2004
(5,554 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,164 posts)flying rabbit
(4,631 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,376 posts)And I think I read they're using many of the original cast.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)But I don't think Janine Taylor (or whatever her name is) does acting, any more. And the cute radio guy is too famous now and is bf to Bo Derek, so I wouldn't think he'd do it. I can believe the original lead dr. does it because his career didn't go places after he left this show.
I'd love to see a reboot, though. Such a different way of life up there.
Laffy Kat
(16,376 posts)I'll try to find the piece I read about it and post it.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,376 posts)It would better on cable or Netflix, IMO.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/northern-exposure-revival-rob-morrow-works-at-cbs-1163110
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)It looks like the only actor who played a key character returning is Rob Morrow. John Corbett, the cute guy, is producing.
Hmmm. I'm doubtful about this. It's sort of like Will & Grace returning with only Will and none of the other characters.
If they make it, I'll watch it and see. Thanks.
shanny
(6,709 posts)Blue_playwright
(1,568 posts)hlthe2b
(102,192 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,110 posts)the sea. time tunnel. battlestar galactica legacy (loren green etc.).
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)exboyfil
(17,862 posts)I was very happy with when it ended. It was Walter White's story, and it completed his character arc. It follows my five season rule for series.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)show, I miss it though.
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)It might be the greatest TV drama series ever.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)KT2000
(20,571 posts)both have changed my life. I catch reruns of NYPD Blue at 1 in the morning and I have given up on late night talk shows.
Dem2theMax
(9,650 posts)The Sopranos
Mad Men
Downton Abbey
Versailles
Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report.
But the top one was definitely Homicide: Life On The Street. I will forever miss that show and all of the wonderful characters. They auctioned off practically everything from the set, and I actually bought a few things on eBay. I really wanted the board. Anyone who watched Homicide will know what I mean by that.
hotrod0808
(323 posts)The network really screwed that series the entire time it was on.
Dem2theMax
(9,650 posts)But I still have incredible memories from that show. I wish I could forget all of the episodes, so I could go back and watch them again, 'for the first time.'
Chipper Chat
(9,676 posts)End of an era. Last big band on TV (Doc Severinson-Tommy Newsome). I still remember the last show with better midler.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Chipper Chat
(9,676 posts)Dominant to tonic. [The end]
Duppers
(28,117 posts)And Bet had me crying. I adored Carson.
global1
(25,237 posts)The Middle
Scorpion
Timeless
Episodes
West End Salvage
Californication
Cartoonist
(7,314 posts)And
Where the Action Is
skylucy
(3,737 posts)glad i scanned down before posting the smothers bros.
Croney
(4,657 posts)House of Roberts
(5,168 posts)red dog 1
(27,792 posts)Heck no, we won't go!
elleng
(130,834 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,407 posts)Lot of other ones, but those were the big ones in my mind. It's like television died in the early sixties.
IADEMO2004
(5,554 posts)flying rabbit
(4,631 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)"The Locator" with Geoff Stults
"Firefly"
And my biggest disappointment is what they did to "Criminal Minds." Thomas Gibson ("Hotch" was the glue in that show. Kicking him to the curb over a disagreement with a wise-ass, problematic producer was S T U P I D. The show went straight into the latrine after that.
littlemissmartypants
(22,628 posts)Beringia
(4,316 posts)ER, well the beginning and middle ERs, at the end they got bad I think.
MyOwnPeace
(16,924 posts)Only got into some of them later thanks to Amazon, but:
Deadwood (can't WAIT for the movie to tell more of the story!)
Justified
The Wire
Jon Stewart (my GAWD, what fun/frustration he'd be having with IQ45)
Johnny Carson (but got tired of him being a parody of himself towards the end of his run)
MASH
Cheers
St. Elsewhere (loved the "snow globe" ending!)
Hill Street Blues ("hey, be careful out there!"
It's funny, but I will admit that I did grow tired of some of them - the "jump the shark" thing
happybird
(4,600 posts)With the same actors? That would be AWESOME!
Off to google ...
MyOwnPeace
(16,924 posts)You'll find lots about it - the only 2 "main" characters not returning are Cy (Powers Boothe - RIP) and Richardson (Ralph Richeson - RIP).
It supposedly takes place 8-10 years later and brings everything up-to-date.
Can't wait!
happybird
(4,600 posts)Just watched the 3 second clip in the "What's coming in 2019" trailer and freaked out with the hubby. We are SO stoked!!
Dave in VA
(2,037 posts)Shed a tear when the last show ended. I was only 8 years old then, tho...
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)It was replaced by the Shari Lewis show and I held a long time grudge against her and her puppets.
Chemisse
(30,807 posts)GeoWilliam750
(2,522 posts)Meanwhile, over in the UK...
Foyle's War
Inspector George Gently
DasMadchen
(19 posts)N/t
That should have gone on longer.
Loved that series!
chowder66
(9,065 posts)happybird
(4,600 posts)and I am dreading the eventual end of Supernatural. It will end bloody or sad, probably both.
RGinNJ
(1,019 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,105 posts)IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)I'm still a pissed about that.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,105 posts)Deadwood is a close second.
I am an anime addict, so not getting finished series' is a commonplace happening for me.
Stargleamer
(1,989 posts)and Kung Fu and Buffy
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Phoenix61
(16,999 posts)applegrove
(118,588 posts)madamesilverspurs
(15,800 posts)Also, Brooklyn Bridge and the old Mission Impossible.
.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Though it had to end after Phil Hartman's murder. They limped along for one more season with Jon Lovitz. He was all right, but not as good as Hartman. I have the two seasons with him on DVD.
I also miss Joan of Arcadia. It ran for two seasons, and had a third season set-up for some kind of confrontation between Joan and the devil incarnate, but the show was canceled. I thought the premise was very intriguing, with Joan talking to "God" in several different forms and several different venues. But the secondary story threads were also pretty good.
NanceGreggs
(27,813 posts)Also NYPD Blue, The West Wing, and Grounded for Life.
dem4decades
(11,282 posts)No show. A five year old can't understand a cancelled show, especially one with Annette and Cubby.
Chipper Chat
(9,676 posts)To watch Spin and Marty. I think that was always the third segment. Around 5:45.
dem4decades
(11,282 posts)Chipper Chat
(9,676 posts)Spin was a good ol boy. Marty was a rich goody 2shoes. Spin took him under his wing and made a cowboy out of him.
OhZone
(3,212 posts)Tikki
(14,556 posts)I could almost see GRIMM coming to an end, but I will miss Travelers and Dirk Gently's
Holistic Detective Agency...I think they both had some push left in them.
Glad that The Expanse is coming back and, also, Search Party.
Tikki
RockRaven
(14,951 posts)Those shows had very well developed characters with real humanity, warts and all.
steventh
(2,143 posts)Gone but not forgotten
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)The original Hawaii 5-0
The original Star Trek
GE College Bowl
Rowan and Martin's Laugh In
Hee Haw
The Beverly Hillbillies
My World and Welcome To It
The Mandrel Sisters
Twilight Zone
This Is Your Life
Your Show of Shows
The Jack Benny Program
And so many more...
Chemisse
(30,807 posts)Such an excellent and funny show.
Snackshack
(2,541 posts)West Wing.
Rome.
Deadwood.
The Sopranos.
Wiseguy.
Band of Brothers.
John Adams.
Me.
(35,454 posts)AncientGeezer
(2,146 posts)3catwoman3
(23,965 posts)St. Elsewhere
Downton Abbey - there's going to be a movie!
L.A. Law
Going waaaay back - Medical Center/ The Bold Ones/ Ben Casey
CurtEastPoint
(18,635 posts)Mme. Defarge
(8,024 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)catrose
(5,065 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Sopranos (worst show finale ever)
American Gothic
Big Love
yellowdogintexas
(22,250 posts)was the last episode of the second Bob Newhart series. Nothing will ever top that one.
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)Capt. America
(2,477 posts)volstork
(5,399 posts)West Wing
Thirtysomething
Rhiannon12866
(205,074 posts)Texasgal
(17,042 posts)and Cagney and Lacey.
BlueTsunami2018
(3,490 posts)Best show ever.
Rome and Carnivale were two other great HBO shows cut too soon.
pecosbob
(7,534 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)looking forward to the movie coming this fall. It was a masterpiece of having so many people interacting on the set.
Chemisse
(30,807 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I just totally lost myself in that world.
True Blue American
(17,982 posts)Of British History and novels based on earlier times.
True Blue American
(17,982 posts)We finally were able to see the last series,but ACORN has a strangle hold on it.
I have heard there may be an American version. It is a dumb little show but addicting. I love British shows and British books.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)Highlander
Kung Fu
Forever knight
Under the Dome
Drop Dead Diva
Golden Girls
Those are the ones I remember.
Oh yeah, Eureka.
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)I loved that show!
Doreen
(11,686 posts)accept something from a religion other than Christianity.
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)I thought David Carradine did a very good job as Kwai Chang Caine.[despite all his "squinting"]
Philip Ahn and Keye Luke were also very good in their respective roles.
area51
(11,902 posts)nevergiveup
(4,759 posts)rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)red dog 1
(27,792 posts)I got to listen to a few of the old Gunsmoke radio shows a while back on a local public radio station, and they were great too.
LibinMo
(533 posts)Battlestar Galactica (2005)
Space: Above and Beyond
Deep Space Nine
Caprica
Firefly
Eureka
nmgaucho
(527 posts)pressbox69
(2,252 posts)The Wild Wild West, The Fugitive, The Man From UNCLE, I Claudius, Hill St Blues, Frazier, House and Sherlock.
Mike Nelson
(9,950 posts)The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Twin Peaks
Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)The best series ever.
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)bluescribbler
(2,114 posts)It was Shakespearean.
littlemissmartypants
(22,628 posts)Duppers
(28,117 posts)M*A*S*H
Carson
Jon Stewart
The Colbert Report
WKRP in Cincinnati
The West Wing
St. Elsewhere
Frazier
The Newsroom (son's friends with Kelen Coleman)
The Dean Martin Show (going way back)
Dinosaurs sitcom - "Not the mama!"
The Carol Burnett Show
These are decades old tv shows. My tv viewing for the two decades has been news programming. You can discern the slants and weed out the liars.
Demovictory9
(32,444 posts)But they had run out of story ideas
exboyfil
(17,862 posts)They should have considered fracturing the crew (which is what really does happen in actual organizations) and gone with a more anthology construct while occasionally bringing the characters back together for an epic event.
Demovictory9
(32,444 posts)No relationship could stick - Picard and a woman, Number one and the empath, everyone stuck in one spot. Number one never moved to his own ship. Only real change was Worf having a kid.
Siwsan
(26,256 posts)Hands down the best television show I've ever seen. The name came from the fictional settlement where the stories took place, Lynx River, which was located in the sub-Arctic northern boreal forest (north of 60° north latitude). The show was a great showcase for some amazing Native talent. Tom Jackson, Tina Keeper, Gordon Tootoosis, Jimmy Herman, Willene Tootoosis, Adam Beach, Michael Horse, Dakota House. And the list goes on and on.
The storylines were gripping, the acting was so believable. The plots wove around the interactions between the native and white population of Lynx River - their friendships, conflicts and cooperation.
mrs_p
(3,014 posts)rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)much more about it without posting major spoilers!
roscoeroscoe
(1,369 posts)Original gangster please
Butterflylady
(3,541 posts)Just think what they could do with it now.
billcantdeal
(6 posts)Loved it!
exboyfil
(17,862 posts)The hurry up on Season 4 before the renewal kind of harmed the arc. I thought the time jump final episode was very powerful, and the death of Sheridan was handled very well (note the episode was mostly filmed in Season 4 production). The follow on series Crusader wasn't very good.
Babylon 5 has some classic moments. Sheridan's demon wife (being the actor's actual wife) was a great arc.
I think five seasons is about right for a series to tell a complete arc. Breaking Bad is the classic example. Battlestar Galactica was kind of petering out towards the end.
The X-Files went on too long. Star Trek: TNG probably went on to long.
I notice folks listed Sons of Anarchy. I thought it might have gone on slightly longer that it should, and the emotional deaths at the end should have been spaced better. I guess it did play out like what it was - Hamlet on Harleys. Shakespeare was one for the bloody final.
Too often series try to keep their characters stunted in known roles. TNG was a classic example of that.
bif
(22,693 posts)ailsagirl
(22,893 posts)Barney Miller
Crazy Like a Fox
Frasier
enid602
(8,607 posts)3rd Rock. Saw one last night where Dick goes to a costume party dressed as a pirate. Someone asked him where are your Buccaneers? He replied under my buccan hat.
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)"Dr Solomon, I've never seen you with a turtleneck before!"
And Dick replied: "Oh, That's Harry!"
Afromania
(2,768 posts)lark
(23,083 posts)Oh no, its ending this year
yesphan
(1,587 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(9,958 posts)Chemisse
(30,807 posts)True Blue American
(17,982 posts)JuJuYoshida
(2,215 posts)akraven
(1,975 posts)Always!
tymorial
(3,433 posts)I am a big scifi/fantasy fan and those shows tend to not bring in a large audience unfortunately. I definitely agree with the Sopranos though.
Stargate Atlantis
Grimm
Sanctuary
Angel
Star Trek Enterprise (the last season had some solid material and Manny Coto is awesome. Also Jeffrey Combs was going to be a regular)
Babylon 5
Luke Cage (I'm pissed)
Bones
House
Doctor Who (when it ended in 1989)
Shows that are ending that I'm disappointed about
Elementary
Criminal Minds
Golden Raisin
(4,608 posts)El Supremo
(20,365 posts)That was it the end of the Julian-Claudian Dynasty.
Bantamfancier
(366 posts)12 was not near enough.
Kaleva
(36,291 posts)world wide wally
(21,739 posts)IcyPeas
(21,856 posts)and a lot of shows previously mentioned:
Sopranos
The Wire
Dem2theMax
(9,650 posts)Ballykissangel.
IcyPeas
(21,856 posts)it was not my usual genre to watch but I really enjoyed it. usually more into gritty crime dramas.
Dem2theMax
(9,650 posts)But Ballykissangel was such a wonderful find.
I have really fond memories of that show. My mom had passed away, and I was staying with my dad because he could not have been by himself after almost 66 years of marriage.
He and my mom used to watch evening shows together, so I found Ballykissangel, and my dad and I started to watch it together, and he loved it too.
Sadly, dad passed away five months after my mom, and I had to finish watching the show by myself. Every time I watched a new episode I thought about how much my dad would have enjoyed seeing it.
IcyPeas
(21,856 posts)66 years
oh yes, I know this feeling: "Every time I watched a new episode I thought about how much my dad would have enjoyed seeing it. "
Dem2theMax
(9,650 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,364 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)appalachiablue
(41,113 posts)BHDem53
(1,061 posts)MTM
Newhart
Barney Miller
The Outer Limits
Northern Exposure
Police Squad
The Real McCoys
Sky King
Highway Patrol
State Trooper
Liberty Belle
(9,533 posts)Mary Tyler Moore Show, Time Tunnel, and Tonight Show with Johnny Carson come to mind.
llmart
(15,536 posts)Just kidding.
Seriously though, MASH, All in the Family (Archie Bunker's Place just didn't do it for me), and Phil Donahue.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)LOST
West Wing
Mad Men
The Middle
Downtown Abbey
Beakybird
(3,332 posts)red dog 1
(27,792 posts)They had no violent crimes to solve?
Or to investigate crimes that had actual victims?
It was great seeing Pee Wee in "Cheech & Chong's Next Movie"
blur256
(979 posts)I was so pissed when HBO didn't renew this show. It was supposed to be 6 seasons long and made it 2 because it was expensive to make apparently. Ugh. I'm not sure I will ever get over this one. Brilliant show and it leaves you on a cliffhanger season 2. But that being said, even though it is infuriating, it was a fantastic show and I recommend watching it.
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)IcyPeas
(21,856 posts)I forgot about this one. I also loved the opening sequence. the 3D effect was beautiful. memories:
AJT
(5,240 posts)Two most people have not heard of.
LyndaG
(683 posts)The Soup
Girls
Sex and the City
beveeheart
(1,369 posts)Also The Ed Sullivan Show
Justified
Maverick
Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (OK I admit I had a crush on Ricky)
The Twilight Zone
The Rockford Files (another crush on James Garner)
Welcome Back, Kotter
Lunabell
(6,068 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)nocoincidences
(2,218 posts)Fascinating Brit series, 3 seasons, that was so smart and engrossing I kept wanting more and more!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Mary Tyler Moore, The Chew, original Will & Grace, Frasier,
Ohiya
(2,228 posts)Tim Reid, (Venus Flytrap from WKRP) stars, some of the best TV I"ve seen! Only one season!
FreeWheatForever
(53 posts)Friday Night Lights
Sports Night
Gymbo
(133 posts)My favorites,
The Avengers
Naked City
Carol Burnett
Twilight Zone
L.A. Law
Thirty Something
Laverne and Shirley.
So many more....
LAS14
(13,780 posts)I really liked a lot of the shows mentioned here, but I was really sad to see this one go because it had such a short run.
BigmanPigman
(51,582 posts)pazzyanne
(6,546 posts)Golden Girls
Criminal Minds
House
Monk
All of Star Trek
Flashpoint
Mash
Murder She Wrote - love Angela Lansbury
SNL
In Plain Sight
Gunsmoke
Rosemary and Thyme
Heartland
Almost forgot - MacGyver
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Rowan&Martins LaughIn
Wild Wild West
Soap
XFiles
Deep Space 9
Babylon 5
Moonlight (2007)
Kindred: The Embraced
Forever Knight
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)That hilarious sit-com was ahead of it's time, imo.
Going to Jackson
(25 posts)I hated to see them end, but it was time. I watched Seinfeld in reruns, and did not like the last two years. They'd run out of scripts. They also took the Sopranos as far as it could go.
I think most shows are good for 3 years, and these two shows far exceeded that.
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)They could have had a better finale for The Sopranos.
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Xolodno
(6,390 posts)The Colbert Show
Bugs Bunny and Road Runner Show
The various Disney movies on Sunday night.
Benny Hill Show
Robotech
Star Blazers
The Elvira Show
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)Theres only so much there but Tina Louise was something.
Laffy Kat
(16,376 posts)It was brilliant.
petronius
(26,602 posts)Kablooie
(18,623 posts)Last edited Sat Mar 2, 2019, 04:23 AM - Edit history (1)
I cried when Clarabelle whispered Goodbye kids.
murielm99
(30,730 posts)of the word "poignant."
Kablooie
(18,623 posts)He was a Disney artist.
Olafjoy
(937 posts)Downton Abbey
Breaking Bad
Band of Brothers
Doodley
(9,078 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Wow, do I miss Keith Olbermann.
I STILL don't buy the reason they gave for taking him off the air - he contributed $$$ to a political campaign - what BS.
We NEED him back on the air. NOW !!
murielm99
(30,730 posts)but I would like to add Da Vinci's Inquest.
gopiscrap
(23,733 posts)Bob Newhart Show
Seinfeld
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)a list of ones I was GLAD to see end.
Reason being, that so often the producers just keep milking the cash cow and eventually storyline and quality goes off the rails.
IMHO, theres a precious few that ended exactly at the right time:
Breaking Bad, Treme, The Wire
Freaks & Geeks, My So Called Life (even though short lived the season finales were well done &satisfying)
So many were brilliant the first year or 2, and then storyline just falls apart and by the time it ends you think "finally."
In this digital age of watching series in its entirety in short period of time, I think its fair to start judging them in their entirety, as a whole.
David Simon has said that he approaches his series as a visual novel, with a beginning, middle, and conclusion solidly based on what came before it. I think this approach keeps it on track, writiers know what they have to say and don't have to pad it with a lot of meandering pointless plot twists. Although some padding may still occur. None of this business of they don't know what theyre going to do to the characters from one season to the next.
Hope by posting this Im not a thread killer - feel free to carry on! Just thought it had to be said!
Piratedog
(256 posts)Ive probably watched it from beginning To end 10 times on netflix
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Arrested Development
Murder She Wrote
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Carol Burnett Show
House of Cards (Netflix)
The Duchess of Duke Street (PBS/BBC)
Downton Abbey (BBC/PBS)
Upstairs, Downstairs (BBC/PBS)
Agatha Christie's Poirot (BBC/PBS)
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (BBC/PBS)
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)I loved the original Murphy Brown, MASH, Carol Burnett and Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show.
malchickiwick
(1,474 posts)In the alternative, I'd take another season of Black Adder, maybe set in the 1960s, or the Thatcher years?
Runningdawg
(4,514 posts)Anon-C
(3,430 posts)ms liberty
(8,572 posts)There are several good shows named in this thread.
lapfog_1
(29,198 posts)Game of Thrones
tonight show with carson
Letterman
Futurama
House M.D.
red dog 1
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House of Roberts
(5,168 posts)It was called The Two Of Us.
Starred Mimi Kennedy and Peter Cook. Twenty episodes only because that's all they could get Peter Cook to sign a contract to do.
bluescribbler
(2,114 posts)They never wrapped up the story. The street fight scene was the most brutal thing I'd seen on TV, at least unyil the Battle of the Bastards.
Zoonart
(11,844 posts)My friends and I called it Fuckwood. It was like Shakespeare with cursing. The dialogue was brilliant and the acting superb.
Blue_playwright
(1,568 posts)Native
(5,939 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,061 posts)Wait til the very end . . . . . .
LAS14
(13,780 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,061 posts)1. The theme for St. Elsewhere
2. The kitten is lying moribund on the floor as opposed to the usual kitten mewing, wearing a surgical mask. (Variation of the end of the Mary Tyler Moore show) Here it is:
3. Listen carefully to the youtube I posted: over the music, you hear the beep-beep-beep of the heart monitor -- until the music ends and holds the last note. The beeping stops; there is a long sustained pitch, indicating a flat-line and the heart stopping. Thereby indicating that the series was officially over. As a viewer, you were surprised but got the medical reference.
LAS14
(13,780 posts)Phentex
(16,334 posts)the humor in that show was underrated in my opinion. A classy soap, if you will.
GP6971
(31,133 posts)vsrazdem
(2,177 posts)DFW
(54,330 posts)Other than that: The News Room, West Wing, The Avengers (with Diana Rigg), St. Elsewhere (pre-Ronny Cox), NYPD Blue.
Moral Compass
(1,516 posts)WKRP
Cheers
Friends
Seinfeld
Bob Newhart
Mary Tyler Moore
Bewitched
The Daily Show w Jon Steward
ebbie15644
(1,214 posts)randr
(12,409 posts)red dog 1
(27,792 posts)God, that show was funny!
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)Yeah I'm old.
Owl
(3,641 posts)Owl
(3,641 posts)Capt. America
(2,477 posts)Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)The River, Lights Out, Revolution, and Angel.
Also, Under the Dome left a lot of unanswered questions, but it had started to get stale so I wasn't too upset about that one. But it started off so good that I would have like to seen it wrap up in a more satisfying way.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)love_katz
(2,578 posts)I can add a couple: The Adams Family, and Get Smart! Around our house, we often used the phrase, "Sorry about that, Chief."
EveHammond13
(2,855 posts)El Supremo
(20,365 posts)By James Thurber
GWC58
(2,678 posts)Homicide: Life on the streets. It was a well acted series you never hear about. No Netflix & no Hulu. I dont understand why. 🤔
The Wizard
(12,541 posts)red dog 1
(27,792 posts)"I'm the chef of the future!"
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)The Good Wife
Capt. America
(2,477 posts)Honorable Mention:
Enterprise. The fourth season was sooooooo good. It was definitely trending upward.
Penny Dreadful.
hibbing
(10,095 posts)So different, only two short seasons. I wanted to learn so much more about her character and the others.
Peace
OxQQme
(2,550 posts)Laugh In
Cheers
Mash
Smothers Brothers
Get Smart
I Dream of Genie
I Love Lucy
DoctorJoJo
(1,134 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It wasn't on the air for very long, but it was so unusual. I really liked it and it just abruptly ended.
Doodley
(9,078 posts)maddiemom
(5,106 posts)For every show that I've, personally, hated to see end, there were at least two that dragged on for many more seasons that became increasingly bad and embarrassing. Better to end a series that is badly missed, than to remember a series for dragging on long after it stopped being funny/dramatic./original. With the former, there is always the possibility of a successful movie, reboot with a secondary character as the focus, or with a different twist.
catbyte
(34,360 posts)The remake of "V"
The 4400
Invasion
The Arrangement
The Event
catbyte
(34,360 posts)I guess you have to be from Michigan...
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Without a doubt, some of the best writing on TV.
I'll also throw in a vote for Mad Men.
Have to wonder, though, how All in the Family would be treated/received during these politically and social correct days. Think it would survive?
ashling
(25,771 posts)Westwing
Newsroom
LisaM
(27,800 posts)They never really gave it a chance, but I loved it.
There was also an Al Franken takeoff of "Nightline" called "Lateline" that I found excruciatingly funny, but it vanished quickly, too.
jg10003
(975 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)Grasswire2
(13,565 posts)Loved it. It ended after Benedict Arnold was adjudicated.
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Shoonra
(518 posts)The Borgias .... it quit just as history was getting really interesting (Countess of Forli was taken captive).
MandelaObama
(25 posts)Hogan's Heroes (NB, this was from watching the series in reruns, I wasn't alive when it originally aired)
The Cosby Show (yes, I know, and I'm not defending the creep nor his vile, perverted behaviour. I'm talking about my feelings before I knew all we do now)
The Golden Girls
Unsolved Mysteries
The Charmings
Family Ties
Nay
(12,051 posts)lastlib
(23,197 posts)MASH
The Time Tunnel
The Twilight Zone