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Originally Posted by heyal256
Besides shows that have already been mentioned (most of them fox shows too), i'd like to add some more fox shows that I don't think have been mentioned Tru calling (I guess I was one of the few that liked that show),
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Tru Calling is back on the air as a mid-season replacement.
I'll second Voyagers! My high school history teacher showed us episodes of that show as a part of some of our lessons sometimes. It was actually part history lesson, part adventure. Quantum Leap, but set pre-1900.
I'll add
The Prisoner, which was concieved as a one season show.
Also
The Flash, which was a mid-eighties live action show. It was unusual, in that it ran from 8:30 to 9:30. NBC ruled Thursday Nights with The Cosby Show at 8, Cheers/Night Court from 9-10, and Hill Street Blues / LA Law from 10-11. Their weak spot was 8:30, where they kept trying out various crappy shows hoping that having ratings juggernauts Cosby and Cheers around them would make up for their being crappy. CBS counter programmed with The Flash, hoping to get kids channel switching at 8:30, and it worked. Cosby served as a defacto lead in for The Flash, which then stole part of Cheers' audience in it's second half. It was well done, good special effects for the time, and got good ratings, and was promptly cancelled. It was the most expensive show on tv, and CBS didn't want to pay for it.
It's too bad I don't have the entire run sitting around on VCD's from Hong Kong where I could watch them any time I want, but I wouldn't do that, because that would be unethical.
Most of these I've never heard of. I'd seen the advertising for
Firefly but it didn't appeal to me, and the commercials were actively annoying; I think I must have seen that "Who's flying this thing? Oh, that would be me." clip thirty times in the span of a couple of weeks.