Star Trek is 'most missed' series

BBC ^ | 12/28/05 | n/a

[kiriath_jearim]

Star Trek is 'most missed' series

Sci-fi series Star Trek is the show most people want to see returned to their TV screens, a survey has found. Originally broadcast in the US in 1966, it topped a poll of more than 1,000 viewers commissioned by UK interactive TV firm Home Media Networks.

Fantasy action series Buffy the Vampire Slayer was second, followed by long-running sitcom Friends.

Star Trek's latest spin-off TV series, Enterprise, was axed in February following poor ratings.

MOST MISSED TV SERIES 1. Star Trek 2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 3. Friends 4. Fawlty Towers 5. Blake's 7 6. The X-Files 7. Babylon 5 8. Stargate 9. Seinfeld 10. The A-Team Source: Home Media Networks

Star Trek also spawned 10 movie spin-offs, the most recent being Nemesis in 2002.

Sitcom Fawlty Towers was the highest ranking UK show in the list, in fourth place.

Sci-fi shows featured heavily in the top 10, including UK series Blake's 7 and US shows Babylon 5 and Stargate.

Popular US sitcom Seinfeld, which spawned ongoing series Curb Your Enthusiasm, was in ninth place.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

True, am I right in saying that they never made any more Sledge Hammer after that? I believe that was the end, but I'm not sure.

[x]

Most shows go stale after two seasons. The first season introduces the concept. The second fulfills its potential. Slippage or a falling off happens in season three, and then it's just exploitation of the same old material until cancellation. The cancellations that hurt aren't the long running shows that have exausted their premises, but the new concepts that never get off the ground and never get a chance to go stale.

I'd like for Arrested Development to stick around a while longer, though. The X-Files? Half the time I couldn't understand what was going on anway. I wouldn't mind if Harsh Realm had had a full season, Dark Skies more time or Millennium another year. Once the Millennium actually came around though, the show's concept -- the horrors to come -- would have been exposed as a fraud.

[Serb5150]

The nuclear explosion was the end of season one. They didn't think they were going to get renewed, so they decided to go out with a bang (so to speak). Once the show was renewed for another season, they needed to explain away the ending to season one so they inserted a tag onto the first episode of season two that read "The following season of Sledge Hammer! takes place five years before that nuclear explosion. Thank you."

Cheap cop out or not, I was grateful to get another season out of ABC. You can also buy them on DVD now!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

So we then got a prequel! That explains why I wasn't sure.

[Serb5150]

A prequel with loads of continuity errors, but still nothing to sneeze at=)

[Irish_Thatcherite]

So has all the Star Treks - but I still love Star Trek!

[WireAndWood]

I loved Sledge Hammer! It feels good to know that I'm not alone.

When it comes to Britcoms, I love Fawlty Towers but I think my favorite is Are You Being Served?

Mr. Mash (upon being insulted by Captain Peacock): I don't know what that word means but I shall get a dictionary and look it up, and if I dont' like it I shall come back and call you a very long word meaning 'twit'.

[metmom]

An awful lot of those old shows can be had by the season on DVD at Best Buy. I got the OLD Star Trek series there. It ain't cheap but it sure is worth it. And the best part is, there are no commercials.

[RabidBartender]

I miss the Patty Duke Show. =(