10 TV Shows That Should Have Run Forever (Firefly number one!)

movieseum.com ^ | August 2014 | Unknown

[Enterprise]

Firefly, Twin Peaks, Jericho, Carnivale, My So-Called Life, Undeclared, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip; Pushing Daisies, Veronica Mars, Heroes

[fieldmarshaldj]

Howard Cosell was hosting a show with the same title on ABC at the same time.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Wasn’t Broderick Crawford perpetually inebriated ?

[dfwgator]

Correct!

[GeronL]

get a haircut Gene Shalit!

[Political Junkie Too]

Kind of like Newhart, just in Vermont.

-PJ

[fieldmarshaldj]

There you go. ;-D

(Paddy Chayefsky was brilliant)

[Brother Cracker]

“If all the women in Texas is as ugly as yo momma, the Lone Ranger gonna be alone for a long time.”

George ‘Kingfish’ Stevens

[fieldmarshaldj]

It was a nice touch that the whole show was Bob Hartley’s nightmare... kinda like Vermont (or their voting habits).

[GeronL]

200Mph?

the high speed train in real life these days are going 350 or so.

so sad.

[patriot08]

I always thought John Lithgow was funny in ‘Third Rock From The Sun’. Don’t see him around much any more.

[Political Junkie Too]

Who would have thought that The Love Boat on wheels was a good idea?

They should have tried for Super Plane!

-PJ

[TangoLimaSierra]

The Tick

Oh, yeah.

[Mathews]

Quantum Leap. Loved that show.

[Neoliberalnot]

Gunsmoke, Andy Griffith, two of the best ever.

[Enterprise]

Don’t know the age of the list maker. But I get the feeling the list maker was born after many of the older shows aired.

[Neoliberalnot]

Breaking Bad is missing.””

Hear, hear. I almost forgot how addictive that series is. My bud loaned us all the DVDs and we watched it all way too soon.

[NKP_Vet]

“Do da name Ruby Begonia strike a familiar note?”.

~ George “Kingfish” Stevens

[GeronL]

here is a Canadian show that only ran because the network needed to meet Canadian content rules, it had an extremely limited budget and used scripts from old radio dramas instead of hiring writers. 130 episodes of this. They could not afford to cancel it I guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trouble_With_Tracy