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10 TV Shows That Should Have Run Forever (Firefly number one!)
movieseum.com ^ | August 2014 | Unknown

Posted on 08/25/2014 10:32:04 AM PDT by Enterprise

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

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KEYWORDS: firefly; heroes; tv; tvprograms; tvseries
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To: Red Badger

I have the entire series on DVD..

Which one? Gilligan?


161 posted on 08/25/2014 11:25:18 AM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: cuban leaf

Which moment is your fave moment in Firefly? Please tell us!


162 posted on 08/25/2014 11:25:55 AM PDT by MeganC (It took Democrats four hours to deport Elian Gonzalez)
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To: cuban leaf

The followup to that scene being the Madam telling Mal that she wouldn’t have slept with him if she’d known Inara had feelings for him too. And Mal being “Whaaa??”

I’ve never heard a good reason for the show being cancelled. Always believed that the suits didn’t like how, as you pointed out, it had such a decidely Conservative bent to it.

Whedon strikes me as, if not a “Conservative” then a Classical Liberal (or even Objectivist). With a good perspective (for a Hollywood type) on religion. Recall the scene in The Avengers where Black Widow warns Captain America about going after Thor and Loki because “they’re basically gods” and Cap replies “Theres only one God, ma’am, and I’m pretty sure He doesn’t dress like that.”


164 posted on 08/25/2014 11:26:15 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: GreenHornet
Kelly Bundy!


165 posted on 08/25/2014 11:26:24 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Bon of Babble
Freaks & Geeks.

Yep.

166 posted on 08/25/2014 11:26:44 AM PDT by gdani (Every day, your Govt surveils you more than the day before)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
My issue with MASH is that it too often became The Alan Alda Self-Absorbed Angst Hour.
167 posted on 08/25/2014 11:26:50 AM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
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To: Red Badger
Gilligan’s Island?.....................

Cue the Thermians:

"Those Poor People...."

168 posted on 08/25/2014 11:26:58 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Squawk 8888

They brought it back in the 70’s for a season or so. I remember a particular episode where a woman, during a storm, ends up at a house where the adult couple are actually her toddler son all grown up with his wife (i.e. time travel). He pulls out this box about a foot square and punches in her address and rows of lights appear on it showing her the route home. She is duly amazed at the concept as was I as I watched it. I think about it from time to time as I look at my android phone on the dash telling me where to go.

We really do live in the future, you know.


169 posted on 08/25/2014 11:27:03 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: cuban leaf

My favorite scene was when Mal intends to kill Jayne for betraying a member of the crew. The situation, the dialogue the character development was wonderful. Were it not for a simple small act of contrition on Jayne’s part, he’d have been a smudge on an airlock.

It doesn’t treat good and evil as a simple cartoon. Good men are good. Evil men are evil. They can look a lot alike to an unsophisticated eye but they are different. Mal is a good man who keeps his wayward crew in the light. He cares for them like a shepherd. He loves them. All of them. Anyone tries to hurt them he will move heaven and earth to protect them.

A very deep character who Fillion shined as.


170 posted on 08/25/2014 11:27:04 AM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: Enterprise
Now this is how you handle your daughter's boyfriends.


171 posted on 08/25/2014 11:28:28 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Carbonsteel

SG-1 was great but showing signs of wear by the 10th and final season. Atlantis still had signs of life during the 5th and final season - that could have gone longer. Universe was bad and I quit on it after five or so episodes.


172 posted on 08/25/2014 11:28:47 AM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: Enterprise

Homefront, a show from the 90s on ABC. It took place in the 40s.

American Dreams, which was from Dick Clark Productions, it ran in the 00s on NBC. It was about the 60s.

Ghost Whisperer, abruptly canned off CBS right after actor and radio host Jay Mohr left the cast in 2010.

The Greatest American Hero, lasted too short and so it is never re-runed much anymore. Wish it had lasted longer. Ran from 1981 to 1983, I think.

The Crazy Ones, was rather good then CBS claimed ratings fell off and Aaron Sorkin wanted more money to produce shows so it was destined to get canned in May. Then Robin Williams committed suicide.

Star Man. Was based on the movie. It was canned after one season in 1986-87.

Quantum Leap was abruptly ended without a clear ending. At one point there was to be a spin-off but nothing materialized.

Samantha Who was going somewhere and got canned abruptly. Christina Applegate had amnesia and was trying to figure out her past.

Client List, the other Jennifer Love Hewitt show was beginning to catch steam when it was canned in the middle of a storyline.

Body Of Proof, canned as it was also gaining steam. The scheduling of the show was mishandled from day one. It had decent ratings.

The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. and The Flash, two shows Fox tried in the 90s that were canned too quickly and that I still recall to this day.

Just some of the top of my head.


173 posted on 08/25/2014 11:29:08 AM PDT by Mozilla
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To: dfwgator

I invoke the M*A*S*H Rule.....No show should run longer than the war it portrayed.

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Then M*A*S*H, started in 1972, should still be running until out next presidential election in 2016. The war represented in that show was the Cold War (of which the Korean Police Action was but a side show).


174 posted on 08/25/2014 11:29:33 AM PDT by dmz
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To: apillar
Lol! The only one on list I ever watched was “Twin Peaks”, and when was that?

I just watched for Sherilyn Fenn (the title attraction).

175 posted on 08/25/2014 11:29:34 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Vermont Lt

Shakesperean


176 posted on 08/25/2014 11:30:02 AM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: Squawk 8888

I agree.

I don’t think a real medical unit in the Korean War was anything like what was portrayed on MASH.

One could say the same about the POW camp portrayed by Hogan’s Heroes.

But at least HH was truly hilarious which is far more than we could ever say about MASH.


177 posted on 08/25/2014 11:30:10 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Carbonsteel

By the way, the 2 part episode of SG-1 “Heroes” is probably the best two hours of SF tv I have ever seen.


178 posted on 08/25/2014 11:30:10 AM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: Gefn

“The Simpsons, it’s starting season 26 next month.

Other than soaps, and news shows, is this the longest running TV show?

I think it may be unless you count Saturday Night Live?”


I believe Monday Night Raw might be on longer . . .

Meet The Press is the king.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-running_United_States_television_series

The Tonight Show
Hallmark Hall of Fame is still going!
The Pro Bowlers Tour!
General Hospital

Man, this list is longer than I thought!


179 posted on 08/25/2014 11:30:43 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: dmz

I suppose they could have reunited them all in Vietnam.


180 posted on 08/25/2014 11:30:59 AM PDT by dfwgator
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