20 Sci-Fi Shows That Were Cancelled Too Soon

IMDb ^ | 9/18/12 | Jinime

[Kartographer]

1. Firefly 2. Space Above and Beyond 3. Jericho 4. Journeyman 5. The 4400 6. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 7. Heroes 8. Dark Angel 9. Star Trek: Enterprise 10. SGU Stargate Universe SGU Stargate Universe 11. Invasion 12. V 13. Caprica 14. FlashForward 15. Dollhouse 16. Threshold 17. Terra Nova 18. The Event 19. Defying Gravity 20. Farscape

[Wolfie]

Who cares why? It got Heather Menzies in this outfit to my TV once a week just when I needed it.

[PeteB570]

I loved Star Trek: Enterprise but it jumped the shark somewhere around season three and it was all downhill from there.

[US Navy Vet]

I like the early 1970s British Show “UFO”.

[GeronL]

That sounds like it could be good, for a while.

[scripter]

I forgot about that part. I thought his brother (the cop) was over the top at times.

[GeronL]

did it have a Quantum Leap/Sliders feel to it?

[dangus]

Uh... Star Trek: TOS, the poster child of premature cancellations?

[attiladhun2]

Until we start to actually live it, which I think will be all too soon.

[rarestia]

LOVED Terra Nova! Great cast, and the CG stuff was very tastefully done.

Sadly the budget was massive, as is the case with most Spielberg stuff.

[Noumenon]

Decent Wikipedia article on the Journeyman series.

[GeronL]

They could do a better list of sci-fi shows that lasted too long. Plenty of those.

[Olog-hai]

If the creators of “Star Trek Enterprise” really wanted to save the show, they could have gone right into the big war with the Romulans first referenced in the original series’ “Balance Of Terror”.

[Kartographer]

"I’d like to see a series set in the future about the certain global economic collapse that leftist policies will bring about. It’ll have it all—kooks with nukes, wierd science, gender-bending madness, hybrid monstrocities, jihadis gone wild—all set in an Escape from NY backdrop."

Why not just take a trip to NY City and see it live and in person? ;-)

[tanknetter]

Yeah, I thought Journeyman was very very good.

The DB Cooper ep (I think) where he pops onto a 1970s airliner with everyone standing up, smoking, kids playing with cap guns mid-flight was very well done.

As were the storylines where he convinces his wife and brother that he really is time travelling ...

[GeronL]

It was too expensive and it took too long to get to the dinosaurs

[Nachum]

I would have liked to see a few shows have at least one more season-

The Dresden files

New Amsterdam

And...

Alphas. The show ended on a cliff hanger and I really would liked to have seen where they would have gone with it.

[Chuzzlewit]

The original 1960s “The Outer Limits” ...with the haunting music composed by Dominic Frontiere...

Most specifically the episodes : “The Man Who was Never Born” starring Martin Landau, and “The Architects of Fear” with Robert Culp, are standouts.....The music and script for both is stunning and contains beautiful prose. “The Sixth Finger” completes my list of the best from the first season..

This series ran only 2 years.. Many, inlcuding Steven Spielberg, feel it’s the best Science Fiction american television has every produced.

[Hoffer Rand]

Wow, I haven’t watched a single episode of any of these shows. I haven’t even heard of most of them.

Firefly is excellent. Heartily recommend.

[Dr. Sivana]

They made a “Logan’s Run” series? and why?

They needed a vehicle for Heather Manzies? Hey, teh show was a lot of fun, and didn't take itself to seriously. I was a kid, and I loved it. You can probably find clips on YouTube. They kept Francis 7 alive for the series. Sort of like Lost in Space (with more Judy) meets the Fugitive.

[GeronL]

Not with a 10 mile pole