Bakersfield P.D.
Posted on 07/19/2014 8:28:11 PM PDT by MNDude
Most TV series "jump the shark" or get bad long before they end. But there's always a few that you wish that went on at least another season. Which TV series or program(s) do you wish hadn't ended when it did but continued on at least another year?
A lot of good ones already (double dittos on Firefly).
My short list:
-WKRP in Cincinnati: Great show that CBS never really treated right, IMHO.
-SPACE: Above and Beyond. The early eps were pretty lousy, but the show was showing flashes of potential towards the end of their lone season. Would have liked to have seen where it would have gone had it been renewed.
-The Critic: One of the funniest, most smartly written animated shows ever. Cancelled too soon by two networks.
Then you might like IT Crowd.
The Prisoner, Star Trek, Buffalo Bill, America2Night, Wild Wild West, Secret Agent Man.
One more from the mid 70s, When Things Were Rotten
Along those lines, I liked Max Headroom for its brief existence.
I was really disappointed the way Jericho ended. The studio could have made at least two episodes to tie up loose ends.
Taxi
WKRP in Cincinnati
Barney Miller
Absolutely.
The last episode of The Prisoner was really strange.
I love Faulty Towers —hilarious!
“Awake”
Ditto
The first six seasons of Homicide were some of the best TV ever created. I’ll always think it was better - a lot better, actually - that The Wire. But that last season without Braugher and without David Simon writing most of the episodes was brutal. They pulled the plug at the right time.
Seriously, it was a sci-fi show on another solar system with many habitable planets. The first colonized were urbanized and very high tech. The outer and most recently settled ones were less populated and relatively low tech with horses as the primary on-planet transportation method and many of the standard western themes.
It had a great mix of main characters with wonderful writing. Unfortunately it only lasted part of a season before it was canceled because Fox put it on the Friday night death slot, showed the episodes in the wrong order and skipped weeks because of baseball playoffs.
Definitely Warehouse 13.
Arrested Development. One of the few sitcom that made me laugh.
If you like IT Crowd, dial 0118999881999119725............3
Babylon 5 should’t have been cancelled at the end of season 4. It should have been allowed to finish on-schedule. I know they reinstated it, but the initial result was that Straczynski had to hack together a “finale” episode for the end of season 4 because he thought he wasn’t going to get the fifth season he needed to wrap it up properly, and when it was reinstated, season 5 wasn’t as cleanly produced, and felt rushed.
Bakersfield P.D.
Have you ever watched 'Allo 'Allo! Hilarious. I love Britcoms.
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