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Okay this is inspired by Marcopolos favorite long running show thread. While posting there I thought of several good ones that were never given a chance. I am going to say the clerks animated series (just should never have been put on abc) and downtown (mtv cartoon from a few years ago)

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The Dana Carvey Show!!!!

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Grondar

I like Push, Nevada, but then I missed an episode or two and got lost.

Probably the same reason it was taken off the air.. Too hard to follow, even if you miss just one episode.

I think they finished it out, only because they were legally bound to, due to the reward prize they offered to a viewer that solved it.

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Clone High on MTV. I thought this show was brilliant. Those bastards at MTV wouldn't know good TV if it kicked them in the crotch.

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K-Billy

Clerks. The DVD with all the episodes was great. ABC ruined the series by showing the episodes outta order.

KillerYoda

Definately Clerks, they purposely ran than one into the ground. ABC put it up against the first season of Survivor, for fuck's sake.

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The Michael Richards show. Sure it wasn't very good, but it was Kramer. Sorta.

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TV Funhouse...it was on Comedy Central, but only made it to eight episodes.

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TV funhouse was good. I heard a rumor back before it was cancled that they were going to make new episodes do out in 2003(!) but I doubt that info was correct

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Police Squad. Back when Leslie Neilsen and Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker were still funny. 6 episodes with great running gags.

MahlerIsGod

Even if this doesn't count because it actually made to a full season but Space: Above and Beyond was one of the best shows on TV. Ever.

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TV Funhouse and Clerks, I've downloaded the eps of clerks, but I want them on DVD.

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<i>Roar</i>. It broke my heart to see that show end so quickly!

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finally

Umm, Clone High isn't over. At the end of the last episode (ep 13) they mentioned next seasion. It was just not a full season thing. Most things on MTv aren't.

monody

Birds of Prey.

True, it was a little 'girl-power' and a little touchy-feely, but i firmly believe they would have outgrown it...

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Nowhere Man.... thought it was quite interesting.

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Clerks and if Greg the Bunny counts then I'll pick that one too

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Man from Atlantis!

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Ditto on Firefly. FOX killed that in favor of crap like Fastlane.

dankitti

i was going to say police squad. but you beat me too it.

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Clerks

yournamehere

I think it may have lasted more than a season (so hard to tell nowadays with all the midseason replacements) but I couldn't believe they cancelled <i>Sportsnight</i> - it was one of the quickest, intelligent, and witty shows on television. The writing and acting were genius.

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The Pat Sajak show. NOT!!

The one starring Chris Elliott - I think it was called "Get a Life". Pretty stupid moronic humour. I can see why it didn't last. A couple of the episodes had me rolling on the floor for the whole time.....well at least for 25 minutes.

WhoaitsZ

The Tick - live action. it was fucking h a l a r i o u s but it was pulled.

greg the bunny was terrific, too.

Spinach_Indeed

I agree. The Tick live action was Terrific, and Greg the Bunny was great too.

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quest1mark

andy richter controls the universe....TWICE! i dont know if they actually cancelled it the first time, but every time fox airs the show, they air like 3 episodes and somehow its the end of the season...

i think they finally cancelled it though. what a shame...andy richter is freakin hilarious

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Definitely the Tick. What cruel irony that the episode that was to have played the night of 9/11 was titled "The Terror".

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Read or Die, or Blue Submarine 6.
Hell a lot of anime is meant to made into a whole series, but turns into OVA's because of budget contraints. *pout*


Another vote would be for Greg the bunny. I have all those on DVD, even though i had to make it myself...
Clerks was pretty good too.. Though I can understand ABC's point; It does cost a lot to make a cartoon, and if no one is watching that's money that can be spent on other projects.

Troublebot

Hate to break it to you, but Firefly is dead and gone. No chance of revival anywhere. Too bad, cause it was better that 80% of the dreck Fox throws at our screens nightly.

The good news is that Whedon's planning a Firefly DVD with all the shows, in the correct order, including those that didn't make it to air.

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kgb

i pretty sure that this lasted more than one season. You can even buy them on DVD http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...374868-2723064

JumpinJesus

Freakylinks on Fox about 2 years ago. Ethan Embry played a webmaster of a site that investigated and then chronicled Art Bell type stuff. I enjoyed it but it only lasted about 6 or 7 episodes.

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Three words. Greg. The. Bunny.

fugue_life

I thinkI would cry if clone high was gone already. Downtown was good and i wish they would start that back up again. I used to like Dead at 21 but I was only like 13 when that was on so if I watched it again Im sure I would think it was crap now. But my nod has to go to ABC's Cupid from a few years ago starring Jeremy Piven. It was cheesy as well but liked it.

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forseti-6

What about "Freaks and Geeks"? I'm not actually sure if that finished the first season or not.

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kgb

What was that show about college that FOX had on for awhile? I think it went about a year and a half. I can't for the life of me remember what it was called but I thought it was really good.

BubblegumTeflon

Did the Critic last a full season? that show was so great, I would pick that one if it didn't.

gco12586

I don't think this lasted a whole season (was quite some time ago) but there was a comedy with Richard Mulligan called The Hero (or perhaps just plain Hero) -- it was hilarious. And short lived.

heyal256

I don't know if anybody else has heard of this show but there was a show on fox that aired before x-files (when it was still on friday nights) called Strange Luck. It was basically about a guy who managed to get caught up in situations because of his strange luck.
Another show that probably died before it had a chance was a show called profit, where you actually wanted to root for the bad guy.