Sitcoms That Got Cancelled Too Soon

[tv star collector]

There's a thread for shows that overstayed their welcome, so why not the
flip side of the coin?

Comedies that were gone too soon:

Car 54, Where Are You? (1961-1963)
The Munsters (1964-1966)
The Addams Family (1964-1966)
F Troop (1965-1967)
Gidget (1965-1966)
My World and Welcome to It (1969-1970)
CPO Sharkey (1976-1978)
Carter Country (1977-1979)
Fish (1977-1978)
Sledge Hammer! (1986-1988)
The Charmings (1987-1988)

[Mikado]

I agree with Sledge Hammer.........I'd also add Julia; although, I think someone at SO said that Diann Carrol actually had to quit the show for some reason, so it wouldnt really qualify. Can anyone confirm that for me?

[Chocoholic]

NewsRadio
Andy Richter Controls the Universe
Sports Night
Futurama

[tv star collector]

NewsRadio
Andy Richter Controls the Universe
Sports Night
Futurama

I agree with Futurama, although for my purposes here I decided to narrow it
down to shows that only ran less than three seasons (Futurama was on for
four seasons). I think it would have lasted longer if it had had a better timeslot; it was pre-empted or delayed so many times by football games.
Now, thanks to DVD, TV shows--like movies--get a second chance at finding
an audience.

[JulieSomoski]

8 Simple Rules - I think it still could have been a great show if they hadn't moved it to Friday nights. It was the highest rated show on TGIF it's last 2 seasons, and was still cancelled. They should have just left it at Tuesday where it was it's first season.

Surface - it was a show a couple seasons ago that was doing good at first, but then they put it on hiatus, and kept moving it's timeslots nonstop, and viewers eventually got lost and it was cancelled.

[EmoJoe]

i agree with 8 Simple Rules. it could've gone to five seasons i think, even without John Ritter.

[JulieSomoski]

i agree with 8 Simple Rules. it could've gone to five seasons i think, even without John Ritter.

Completely. The show was great no matter what, but for some reason, after John Ritter died, it felt like ABC was trying to cancel the show. And, if it could have gone another season, they would have reached the syndication bar.

[friendsfan77]

I agree with Futurama, although for my purposes here I decided to narrow it
down to shows that only ran less than three seasons (Futurama was on for
four seasons). I think it would have lasted longer if it had had a better timeslot; it was pre-empted or delayed so many times by football games.
Now, thanks to DVD, TV shows--like movies--get a second chance at finding
an audience.
I agree Futurama always got screwed when it was on Fox. Thankfully I think Cartoon Network is still bringing it back for new episodes next year.

[friendsfan77]

Greetings from Tuscon (2002-03)

[treky]

WKRP IN CINNCINATI
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GOMER PYLE: U.S.M.C.
BRET MAVERICK

[Adamantium]

Andy Richter Controls the Universe - One of the funniest shows I've ever seen, and I miss it to this day. It made 19 episodes (though only 14 aired).

George & Leo - Hey, I liked it, lol. Although I don't think Bob Newhart and Judd Hirsch were great together, the show in general was hilarious. Jason Bateman was great, and he had real chemistry with both Newhart and Hirsch.

[sunshinefizzy]

I know this is a very recent cancellation but The Class, that ticked me off. I thought the show was good enough that Jason didn't need the label of "son of..."

[dawsongirl]

I know this is a very recent cancellation but The Class, that ticked me off. I thought the show was good enough that Jason didn't need the label of "son of..."
That show grew on me too. Better than Rules of Engagement. That show is not funny.

[Shine]

Square Pegs

[Dean Winchester]

Ellen, granted 4 1/2 years is a respectable run, but I thought the series still had a good two seasons left in the tank when ABC cancelled it.

[friendsfan77]

That show grew on me too. Better than Rules of Engagement. That show is not funny.
Oh wow I forgot about The Class. And I agree on Rules of Engagement.

[Scoobiedoo30]

I agree Sports Night got Cancelled to soon.

[snl 70s show fan]

he and she hello larry the brady brides and the class

[Scoobiedoo30]

yes The Class was to soon to be Cancelled

[JulieSomoski]

Ellen, granted 4 1/2 years is a respectable run, but I thought the series still had a good two seasons left in the tank when ABC cancelled it.

I have to disagree with you here. The show was losing its edge by the time it was cancelled. If it went any longer, it would have only gotten worse.

[Dean Winchester]

I have to disagree with you here. The show was losing its edge by the time it was cancelled. If it went any longer, it would have only gotten worse.
I felt that way in first run, but rewatching them on DVD, I was really getting into the fifth season and then suddenly it was the series finale. Season 3 was the best season but I thought there were still a good year or two left in the tank before the show would've overstayed it's welcome. It was probably just too "gay" for a pre-Will And Grace environment, and plus people were sick of Ellen's overexposure at the time that the show's ratings suffered.

[JulieSomoski]

I felt that way in first run, but rewatching them on DVD, I was really getting into the fifth season and then suddenly it was the series finale. Season 3 was the best season but I thought there were still a good year or two left in the tank before the show would've overstayed it's welcome. It was probably just too "gay" for a pre-Will And Grace environment, and plus people were sick of Ellen's overexposure at the time that the show's ratings suffered.

Yeah, Ellen was getting way too much exposure at the time. About the time she came out on the show, that was the climax, and then the quality of the show began to fall. I was mad too that the fifth season was shortened. They could have at least let it go a full 22 episodes. I think if they renewed it for a sixth season, I probably wouldn't have watched.

[Dean Winchester]

Yeah, Ellen was getting way too much exposure at the time. About the time she came out on the show, that was the climax, and then the quality of the show began to fall. I was mad too that the fifth season was shortened. They could have at least let it go a full 22 episodes. I think if they renewed it for a sixth season, I probably wouldn't have watched.
actually, there are 22 episodes on my season five DVD, but ABC held a few of the episodes until the summer of 98 and burned them off quietly after they aired the hour-long finale.

The last season on DVD is a mess. There is a three-part episode that is seriously placed out of order on DVD. On the DVD's order of episode, Ellen and her girlfriend had just made up in an episode when it began, then in the next episode, Ellen misses her after the breakup, so they go to reconcile, and the next episode after that is when they first broke up. It made no sense, the episodes weren't either in production order OR airdate order.

[JulieSomoski]

actually, there are 22 episodes on my season five DVD, but ABC held a few of the episodes until the summer of 98 and burned them off quietly after they aired the hour-long finale.

The last season on DVD is a mess. There is a three-part episode that is seriously placed out of order on DVD. On the DVD's order of episode, Ellen and her girlfriend had just made up in an episode when it began, then in the next episode, Ellen misses her after the breakup, so they go to reconcile, and the next episode after that is when they first broke up. It made no sense, the episodes weren't either in production order OR airdate order.

I don't know any of the DVD's. I just remember watching it, and we got the finale around midseason. I didn't even know they burned off episodes during the summer.

[tanquant]

My Brother and Me. It only had 13 episodes but I loved that show.

[JulieSomoski]

My Brother and Me. It only had 13 episodes but I loved that show.

When was it on?

[Zebra 3]

ABC's Police Squad! (6 eps.), later turned into the successful Naked Gun movies.

[Furienna]

When was it on?
It was on Nickelodeon back in the 90s. I didn't know it only had 13 episodes though.

[hughpuppies]

I agree on My Brother and Me. I also would say. You, Again, Spencer, Me and Max, The Powers That Be, Flo, Fish, Toklesons.

Here is a list of most of the short lived shows. Take a look and see if any you like. This way you don't have to keep searching though tons of pages to find the shows.


The Powers that be.
You Again with Jack Klugman and John Stamos
All American Girl
Hudson Street
A.K.A. Pablo
Torkleson(Almost Home)
A.U.S.A.
Abby
Accidental Family
Ace Crawford, Private Eye
Action
Adam's Rib
The New Addams Family
Flo
Enos
Fish
The Adventures of Hiram Holliday
The Adventures of Pete & Pete
AfterMASH
Airwaves
Aliens in the Family
All About the Andersons
All About Us
All Around Towne
All Is Forgiven
All That Glitters
All Together Now
All's Fair
Almost Perfect
Aloha Paradise
Alright Already
Amanda's
America 2-Night
American Dreamer
The New Andy Griffith Show
Angel
Angie
Ann Jillian
Anna and the King
Annie McGuire
Another Day
Apt. 2-F
Apple Pie
The Army Show
Arnie
Arresting Behavior
Arsenio
Ask Harriet
The Associates
At Ease
Austin Stories

Babes
Baby Blues
Baby Bob
Baby Boom
Baby, I'm Back
Baby Makes five
Baby Talk
The Bad Girl's Guide
Bad News Bears
Bagdad Cafe
The Baileys of Balboa
Baker's Dozen
Bakersfield P.D.
Ball Four
Barbershop: The Series
Barefoot in the Park
Battery Park
The Baxters
The Ben Stiller Show
Best of the West
Bette
Better Days
The Betty Hutton Show
The Betty White Show
Between Brothers
Beulah
Beverly Hills Buntz
Beware of Dog
Big Day
Big Eddie
Big House
Big John, Little John
Big Wave Dave's
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures
The Bill Cosby Show(1969-1971)
The Bill Dana Show
Billy(1979)
Billy(1992)
The Bing Crosby Show
Black Tie Affair
Blansky's Beauties
Bless this House
Blondie
Blue Skies
Bob
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
The Bob Crane Show
Bob Patterson
Bonino
The Bonnie Hunt Show
Bosom Buddies
Boss Lady
Boston Common
The Boys
The Boys are Back
Boys Will Be Boys
Brady Brides
The Brady Bunch Hour
Braum and Alice
Brand New Life
Breaker High
The Brian Benben Show
The Brian Keith Show
Bridget Loves Bernie
Bringing Up Buddy
Bringing Up Jack
Broadside
Brooklyn Bridge
Brotherly Love
The Brothers
Brothers and Sisters
The Brothers Garcia
Brother's Keeper
Brutally Normal
Buddies
Buffalo Bill
The Building
Built to Last
Bustin' Loose
Busting Loose

C.P.O. Sharkey
Cafe Americain
Calucci's Department
Camp Runamuck
Camp Wilder
Campus Cops
Can't Hurry Love
Capitol Critters
Captain Nice
Car 54, Where Are You?
The Cara Williams Show
Carter Country
Center of the Universe
Champs
Charlie & Co.
Charlie Hoover
Charlie Lawrence
The Charmings
Checking In
Chicago Sons
he Chicago Teddy Bears
Chicken Soup
The Chimp Channel
City
The Class
Claude's Crib
Cleghorne!
The Closer
Co-ed Fever
Colonel Humphrey Flack
Come to Papa
The Comeback
Coming of Age
Committed
Complete Savages
Condo
Conrad Bloom
The Cop and the Kid
The Corner Bar
Costello
Coupling
Courting Alex
Cracking Up
The Crew
Crumbs
Cursed
Cuts
Cutters

D.C. Follies
Daddio
Daddy Dearest
Daddy's Girls
Dads
DAG
Damon
Danger Theatre
Danny
A Date with Judy
Date with the Angels
Davis Rules
Day by Day
Dear Phoebe
The Debbie Reynolds Show
Delta
Delta House
The Dennis Day Show
The Dennis O'Keefe Show
Detective School
Diana
Dick and the Duchess
Dilbert
Dinosaurs
DiResta
Dirty Dancing
Do Over
Doc
Doc Corkle
Doctor, Doctor
The Dom DeLuise Show
Domestic Life
The Don Rickles Show
The Donald O'Connor Texaco Show
Don't Call Me Charlie
Dorothy
The Double Life of Henry Phyfe
Double Trouble
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Down Home
Down the Shore
Down to Earth
Dreams
Drexell's Class
The Duck Factory
Dudley
Duet
Duffy's Tavern
The Duke
The Dumplings
Dweebs
Dusty's Trail

E/R
Easy Street
Ed
The Ed Wynn Show
Eisenhower & Lutz
The Ellen Burstyn Show
The Ellen Show
Emeril
Emily's Reasons Why Not
Empire
Encore! Encore!
Ensign O'Toole
The Eve Arden Show
Even Stevens
Everything's Relative(1987)
Everything's Relative(1999)

FM
F Troop
The Faculty
Fair Exchange
Family Affair(2002-2003)
Family Album
A Family for Joe
Family Man
The Family Man
Family Rules
The Famous Teddy Z
The Fanelli Boys
Far Out Space Nuts
Fast Times (at Ridgemont High)
Fat Actress
Father of the Bride
Father of the Bride(2004)
Fathers and Sons
Fay
Ferris Bueller
Fibber McGee and Molly
The Fighting Fitzgeralds
Filthy Rich
Fired Up
First Impressions
First Time Out
The 5 Mrs. Buchanans
Flatbush
Flesh 'n' Blood
Flying Blind
Foley Square
Foot in the Door
Four Kings
The Four Seasons
Frank's Place
Frannie's Turn
Freddie
Free Country
Free Ride
Free Spirit
From a Bird's Eye View
Fudge
Funny Face

The Gale Storm Show
The Geena Davis Show
George
George & Leo
The George Burns Show
The George Carlin Show
The George Wendt Show
The Gertrude Berg Show
Get a Life
The New Get Smart
Getting By
Getting Personal
Getting Together
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The Ghost Busters
Gidget
The New Gidget
The Girl with Something Extra
The Girls
Glynis
Go Fish
Going my Way
Going Places
The Golden Palace
Goldie
Good Advice
Good and Evil
Good Company
Good Girls Don't
Good Grief
The Good Guys
Good Heavens
The Good Life(1971-1972)
The Good Life(1994)
Good Morning, Miami
Good Morning, World
Good News
Good Sports
Good Times Harry
Goode Behavior
Goodnight Beantown
Goodtime Girls
The Governor & J.J.
Grady
Grand
Grandpa Goes to Washington
Grapevine(1992)
Grapevine(2000)
The Great Gildersleeve
Great Scott!
Greetings from Tucson
Greg the Bunny
The Gregory Hines Show
Grindl
Grosse Pointe
The Growing Paynes
Growing Up
Grown Ups
Guestward Ho!
Gun Shy
Gung Ho
Guys Like Us

Hail to the Chief
Half & Half
The Halls of Ivy
Hanging In
Hank
The Hank McCune Show
Happy
Happy Family
Happy Hour
Hardball
Harper Valley P.T.A.
Harrigan and Son
Harris Against the World
Harry
Harry and the Hendersons
Harry's Girls
The Hartmans
The Harvey Korman Show
The Hathaways
Have Faith
He & She
Head Over Heels
Heartland
Heaven for Betsy
Hello, Larry
The Help
Help Me Help You
Hennesey
Herbie, the Love Bug
Here and Now
Here Come the Brides
Here Comes Donald
Here We Go Again
Herman's Head
The Hero
He's the Mayor
Hey Dude
Hey, Jeannie!
Hey, Landlord
Hey Mulligan
Hi Honey, I'm Home
Hidden Hills
High Society
Highcliffe Manor
Hiller and Diller
Hiram Holliday
His & Hers
Hitz
Holding the Baby
Holiday Lodge
Holmes and Yoyo
The Home Court
Home Fires
Home Free
Home Movies
Homeboys in Outer Space
Homeroom
Honestly, Celeste!
The Honeymooners
Hooperman
Hope & Gloria
Hot L Baltimore
Hot Off the Wire
Hot Properties
House of Buggin'
House Rules
How to Marry a Millionaire
Hudson Street
Husbands, Wives & Lovers
Hype

I Married Dora
I Married Joan
I Was a Sixth Grade Alien!
Ichabod and Me
If Not for You
I'm a Big Girl Now
I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
I'm with Her
Imagine That
The Imogene Coca Show
In-Laws
In Case of Emergency
In the Beginning
In the House
Ink
Inside Schwartz
It Had to Be You
It Takes Two
It's a Business?
It's a Great Life
It's a Man's World
It's About Time
It's All Relative
It's Always Jan
It's Garry Shandling's Show
It's Like, You Know...
It's Not Easy
It's Your Move
Ivan the Terrible

The Jackie Thomas Show
Jack in Progress
Jamie
The Jean Arthur Show
The Jean Carroll Show
The Jeanie Carson Show
The Jeff Foxworthy Show
Jennifer Slept Here
Jenny
Jesse
The Jim Backus Show
The Jimmy Stewart Show
Joanie Loves Chachi
The Job
Joe & Mabel
Joe and Sons
Joe & Valerie
Joe Bash
Joe's Life
Joe's World
Joey
The Joey Bishop Show
The John Forsythe Show
Julia
Julie
Just in Time
Just Our Luck
Just the Ten of Us

The Kallikaks
Karen(1964-1965)
Karen(1977)
Karen's Song
Katie Joplin
Kelly Kelly
Kenan & Kel
Kirk
Kitchen Confidential
Knight & Daye
The Knights of Prosperity
Kristin

Ladies Man
Ladies' Man
The Last Frontier
The Last Precinct
The Last Resort
LateLine
Laurie Hill
The Laytons
A League of Their Own
Leap of Faith
Learning the Ropes
Leave It to Larry
Lenny
Less Than Perfect
Lewis & Clark
Life... and Stuff
Life on a Stick
Life With Bonnie
Life with Elizabeth
Life With Father
Life with Lucy
Life with Luigi
Life with Roger
Life's Work
Like Family
Listen Up
Live-In
Living Dolls
Living in Captivity
Living with Fran
Local Heroes
The Loop
Lost at Home
Lost on Earth
Lotsa Luck
The Louie Show
Love & Marriage(1959-1960)
Love & Marriage(1996)
Love & Money
The Love Boat: The Next Wave
Love, Inc.
Love on a Rooftop
Love, Sidney
Love That Bob
Love That Jill
Love Thy Neighbor
Loves Me, Loves Me Not
The Lucie Arnaz Show
Lucky
Lucky Louie
Luis
Lush Life

M.Y.O.B.
Madame's Place
Madigan Men
Madman of the People
Maggie(1982-1982)
Maggie(1998-1999)
Maggie Winters
Make Room for Granddaddy
Makin' It
Making the Grade
Malibu, CA
Mama Malone
Mama Rosa
Mama's Boy
The Man in the Family
Man of the People
Manhattan, AZ
Maniac Mansion
Many Happy Returns
Marblehead Manor
The Marge and Gower Champion Show
Marge and Jeff
Margie
The Marriage
Married People
Married to the Kellys
The Marshall Chronicles
The Martin Short Show
Mary
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Mary Kay and Johnny
The Mary Tyler Moore Hour
Maybe It's Me
Maybe This Time
McKeever and the Colonel
The McLean Stevenson Show
Me and Maxx
Me & Mrs. C.
Me and the Boys
Me and the Chimp
Meego
Meet Corliss Archer
Meet Millie
Meet Mr. McNutley
Melba
Men Behaving Badly
Men, Women & Dogs
Method & Red
The Michael Richards Show
Mickey
The Mickey Rooney Show
The Mighty Jungle
The Mike O'Malley Show
Minor Adjustments
A Minute with Stan Hooper
Misery Loves Company
Miss Winslow and Son
Mr. Adams and Eve
Mr. and Mrs. Dracula
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Mr. Merlin
Mr. President
Mr. Rhodes
Mr. Roberts
Mr. Smith
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mr. Sunshine
Mr. T and Tina
Mr. Terrific
Modern Men
Moesha
Molly
Molloy
The Mommies
Mona McCluskey
The Monkees
The Monkees
The Montefuscos
Monty
Morton & Hayes
The Mothers-in-Law
Movie Stars
Muddling Through
The Mullets
The Munsters
The Munsters Today
Muscle
My Adventures in Television
My Big Fat Greek Life
My Favorite Husband
My Friend Irma
My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star
My Guys
My Hero
My Hometown
My Little Margie
My Living Doll
My Mother the Car
My Secret Identity
My Sister Eileen
My Sister Sam
My Son Jeep
My Talk Show
My Two Dads
My Wildest Dreams
My World and Welcome To It

The Naked Truth
Nancy
The Nancy Walker Show
The Nanette Fabray Show
Nanny and the Professor
Nearly Departed
Ned and Stacey
Needles and Pins
The New Addams Family
The New Andy Griffith Show
New Attitude
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
The New Get Smart
The New Gidget
A New Kind of Family
The New Monkees
The New Odd Couple
The New Phil Silvers Show
New York Daze
The New WKRP in Cincinnati
Nick & Hillary
Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher
Night Stand with Dick Dietrick
Nikki
90 Bristol Court
No Soap, Radio
No Time For Sergeants
Noah Knows Best
Nobody's Perfect
Norby
Norm
Normal Life
Normal, Ohio
Notes from the Underbelly
Nothing in Common
Nothing Is Easy
Nurses
The Nutt House

O.K. Crackerby
The Oblongs
Occasional Wife
Odd Man Out
Off Centre
Off the Rack
The Office(1995)
Oh Baby
Oh Grow Up
Oh Madeline
Oh, Those Bells
Oliver Beene
On Our Own(1977-1978)
On Our Own(1994-1995)
On the Air
On the Rocks
On the Spot
One Big Family
One Happy Family
100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd
One in a Million
One of the Boys(1982)
One of the Boys(1989)
One World
Open All Night
Open House
Operation Petticoat
Our Man Higgins
Out All Night
Out of Practice
Out of the Blue(1979)
Out of the Blue(1995-1996)
Over the Top
Ozzie's Girls

Pacific Station
The PJs
Paper Moon
The Parent 'Hood
Parenthood
Park Place
Parker Lewis Can't Lose
Partners
The Partners
Party Girl
The Patty Duke Show
The Paul Lynde Show
Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers
Pauly
Payne
Pearl
Peck's Bad Girl
The People Next Door
The People's Choice
Pete and Gladys
The Peter Lind Hayes Show
Phenom
Phil of the Future
The Phil Silvers Show
The New Phil Silvers Show
Phyl & Mikhy
Phyllis
The Phyllis Diller Show
Pig Sty
The Pinky Lee Show
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
The Pitts
Platypus Man
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Please Standy By
Police Academy: The Series
Police Squad!
The Popcorn Kid
Popi
Power Play
The Practice
The Preston Episodes
Pride & Joy
The Pride of the Family
Princesses
Private Benjamin
Private Secretary
Professional Father
Public Morals
Pursuit of Happiness
The Pursuit of Happiness

Quark
The Queen and I
Quintuplets

The RCA Victor Show
Rachel Gunn, R.N.
Rags to Riches
Raising Dad
Raising Miranda
Rango
The Ray Bolger Show
The Ray Milland Show
The Redd Foxx Show
Reggie
Regular Joe
Report to Murphy
The Rerun Show
Reunited
Rhythm & Blues
The Robert Guillaume Show
Rock Me Baby
Roc
Rocky Road
Rodney
Roll Out
The Roller Girls
Room For One More
Room for Two
Roomies
The Ropers
The Rounders
Roxie
The Royal Family
The Ruggles
Run Buddy Run
Run of the House
Running the Halls

Safe at Home
Sally
Salute Your Shorts
Sammy
Sanchez of Bel Air
The San Pedro Beach Bums
The Sandy Duncan Show
Sanford
The Sanford Arms
Sara
Saved by the Bell: The College Years
Scorch
Second Chance
The Second Half
The Second Hundred Years
Second Time Around
The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer
The Secret Lives of Men
Semi-Tough
Sergeant Bilko
704 Hauser
Shaky Ground
Shaping Up
Shasta (McNasty)
She's the Sheriff
Shirley's World
The Show
Sibs
Significant Others
Simon
The Simple Life
The Sinbad Show
Singer & Sons
The Single Guy
Sirota's Court
Sister Kate
The Six O'Clock Follies
The Slap Maxwell Story
Sledge Hammer!
Small & Frye
Smart Guy
The Smothers Brothers Show
So Little Time
so NoTORIous
So This Is Hollywood
Soap
Social Studies
The Soldiers
Some of My Best Friends
Someone Like Me
Something So Right
Something Wilder
Sons & Daughters
Soul Man
Sparks
Spencer
Sports Night
Square Pegs
Stacked
Stand by Your Man
Stanley
Star of the Family
Stark Raving Mad
Starting From Scratch
Starved
Stat
Stockard Channing in Just Friends
The Stockard Channing Show
The Stones
Strangers with Candy
Strip Mall
Struck by Lightning
Student Bodies
Style and Substance
Sugar and Spice
Sugar Time!
Sunday Dinner
Sunshine
The Super
Susie
Suzanne Pleshette Is Maggie Briggs
Sweet Surrender
Sydney
Szysznyk

The Tab Hunter Show
Tabitha
Taina
Take Five
Take It From Me
Talk to Me
Tall Hopes
Tammy
The Tammy Grimes Show
Tattingers
Teachers
Teachers Only
The Ted Knight Show
Teech
Teen Angel
Temperatures Rising
Temporarily Yours
The Texas Wheelers
Thanks
That '80s Show
That Wonderful Guy
That's Life
That's My Bush!
That's My Mama
Thea
Then Came You
Thicker Than Water
The Thin Man
13 East
13 Queens Boulevard
This Hour Has 22 Minutes
This Is Alice
The Thorns
Those Endearing Young Charms
Those Two
Those Whiting Girls
Three Sisters
Three's a Crowd
Throb
Thunder Alley
The Tick
The Tim Conway Show
Time to Smile
Titus
To Rome with Love
Together We Stand
Tom
Tom, Dick and Mary
The Tom Ewell Show
The Tom Show
The Tony Danza Show
The Tony Randall Show
Too Something
Too Young to Go Steady
Top of the Heap
Topper
The Tortellis
A Touch of Grace
Tough Cookies
Townies
The Tracy Morgan Show
Trial and Error
Trouble with Father
The Trouble with Larry
The Trouble with Normal
True Colors
Trying Times
Tucker
The Adventures of Tugboat Annie
Turnabout
Twenty Good Years
Twins
Two Guys and a Girl
Two of a Kind
The Two of Us
The Tycoon

The Ugliest Girl in Town
Uncle Buck
Undeclared
Union Square
Upwardly Mobile
USA High

Valentine's Day
The Van Dyke Show
Veronica's Closet
Vinnie & Bobby
Viva Valdez

Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
Walter and Emily
Wanda at Large
The War at Home
The War Next Door
Washingtoon
Watching Ellie
The Waverly Wonders
We Got It Made
The Weber Show
Wednesday 9:30
Welcome Freshmen
Welcome to New York
We'll Get By
Wendy and Me
We've Got Each Other
What a Country
What a Dummy
What About Joan
When the Whistle Blows
When Things Were Rotten
Where I Live
Where's Raymond?
A Whole New Ballgame
Whoopi
Who's Watching the Kids?
Wild Oats
Willy
Window on Main Street
The Winner
Wish You Were Here
Women in Prison
Women of the House
Woops!
Work With Me
Working
Working Girl
Working It Out
Working Stiffs

A Year at the Top
You Can't Take It With You
You Take the Kids
You Wish
Young and Gay
Young Mr. Bobbin
You're the One

[Furienna]

Wow! That's some list!

[hughpuppies]

It is just a list of the short lived tv show. The ones I would have kept longer are clear at the top.

As you can see alot of tv shows didn't last long.

[Zebra 3]

Here is a list of most of the short lived shows. Take a look and see if any you like. This way you don't have to keep searching though tons of pages to find the shows. (...)

The Honeymooners
Police Squad!
This Hour Has 22 Minutes
The real standouts for me are The Honeymooners, as I already mentioned Police Squad!, but the long running Canadian sketch comedy This Hour Has 22 Minutes is still airing.

[angel676]

Just The Ten Of Us
Not sure if it was a sitcom, but also "Rags to Riches".

[Scoobiedoo30]

How long was Just The 10 of Us on befor they got cancelled

[James]

Joan of Arcadia (CBS, 2003-05): Why did CBS let this go? Not only that, why is CBS still running Big Brother?

Our House (NBC, 1986-88): I used to watch this show with my parents growing up, and it brings back pleasant memories. (I wonder if this was a victim of the five-month writers' strike in 1988. Wikipedia doesn't list it.)

State of Grace (FOX/ABC Family, 2001-02): I thought this was the second coming of The Wonder Years, although with a girl as the main character instead of a boy. The network, for some odd reason, let it go after 38 episodes.

Three Wishes (NBC, 2005): NBC found a gem in a feel good show starring Amy Grant. It's too bad they didn't let it last a season. What were they thinking?

The Wonder Years (ABC, 1988-93): Had ABC been smart and given it one, ONE!, more season, we would have gotten to see Kevin and Co. graduate from high school, giving it closure. Of note, graduation could have been a popular "jump the shark" point had they shown them go to college. Instead we viewers were left hanging in the summer before senior year.


I am consoled by the fact that many, if not all, of the writers whose shows have replaced those above have been forced out of work by the writers' strike. Talk about justice!

[oz615]

How long was Just The 10 of Us on befor they got cancelled

3 Season,also i read somewhere that the DIDN'T because of ratings,i was canceled because of their bull**** "network politics,"

(Caution:It's a Wikipedia article so take it for a grain of salt)

ABC network politics, not ratings issues, cancelled Just the Ten Of Us in the spring of 1990. Since ABC was moving forward to prominently market their family-friendly Friday night sitcom lineup with the new TGIF moniker that fall, the brass decided that all 4 comedies were to be produced by Miller-Boyett Productions. The 3 current Friday stablemates of Just the Ten Of Us (as of the end of the 1989-90 season) were produced by that company: Full House, Family Matters, and Perfect Strangers. (Another non-Miller-Boyett show, Mr. Belvedere, had already been off the schedule for months, and aired its last episodes on Sunday nights that summer.) Warner Bros. Television and producers Guntzelman/Marshall entered a battle over their show's fate, and Ten's show runners had a solid case: the series consistently won its time slot, provided an excellent lead-in to newsmagazine 20/20, and had a great fan base carried over from Growing Pains viewership. When it came down to the network upfronts, ABC concluded that there would be no other suitable time slot for Just the Ten Of Us, and they had already committed to a new Miller-Boyett sitcom to join its existing three in the TGIF lineup: Going Places.

Alas, the show wasn't picked up for another season, with no other network as a prospect for giving it a new home. Just the Ten Of Us left ABC during summer reruns in late July, 1990, with fans shocked, but not for long, at least. Cable's USA Network picked up the entire series in reruns shortly after. For fans, it did help relieve the blow, and continued doing so, as USA aired the show on a daily basis until 1996.

Although ABC saw even greater success with its TGIF lineup in the 1990-91 season, the series that took Ten's place, Going Places, only lasted a single season before getting the Nielsen axe. In the wake of this action, the Head of Entertainment at ABC filed a press statement nearly 1 year after the abrupt cancellation of Just the Ten Of Us, where he was reported to admit that the network brass "moved too quickly" in cancelling the show.

[jo1973646]

the show hardball with richard tyson was good. nbc was always trying to cancel great shows. they tried to get rid of quantum leap more than once!

[Cactus Jack]

Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared

[Du Mont]

Using hughpuppies comprehensive list, here are the shows that I miss the most:


Already On DVD:
The Honeymooners -> the all-time best one season wonder; still enjoy watching the lost episodes and Colour Honeymooners
Action, The Loop -> brilliantly scathing FOX comedies
Baby Blues, Mission Hill & The Oblongs -> WB animation treasures
Dilbert -> UPN animation gold
Needed on DVD
Bette, Phyllis -> two all too brief CBS sitcoms that both should have run for at least seven seasons
Complete Savages, Crumbs, Life with Lucy, Viva Valdez, When Things Were Rotten, On the Air -> all ABC sitcoms that were too briefly on the air but not forgotten
Hot L Baltimore -> Learian classic that hopefully will make a DVD comeback

[waichingliu81]

caroline in the city- lasted 4 seasons, could've done with an extra season to wrap things up properly
stacked- 2 seasons- another 2 seasons would've been enough
hangin' with mr cooper- lasted 5 seasons, should've had one more episode to close the series with or at least another season

[catlover79]

Just the 10 of Us is a great example - I would've liked to see that show go on. All-American Girl (with Margaret Cho) was a show I totally enjoyed as a teen and was sorry when it got the ax after one season.

[friendsfan77]

My Brother and Me. It only had 13 episodes but I loved that show.
I liked that show too. They made more episodes of that than I thought. It seemed more like 9 to me the way they kept running it over and over. lol

[Scoobiedoo30]

8 Simple Rules

[JulieSomoski]

8 Simple Rules

I think it ended at the right time, actually. Another season would have been a little over the edge, since the show had already gone through it's share of jump the shark moments.

[rebafan1]

Another show is Hope and Faith. That was a great show!

[HuntingtonM15]

All-American Girl
Jesse
Ladies Man
Can't Hurry Love

[GSU2004]

My Brother and Me. It only had 13 episodes but I loved that show.

I remember that show also too. Fall 1994 on Nickelodeon Sunday nights at 6:30pm EST. I always thought that show could have been better placed on SNICK. They could have easily bumped Are you Afraid of the Dark. When they changed that show for the worse (making it toddler friendly even though SNICK was for teens), I was done.

[GSU2004]

All American Girl
Social Studies
All About the Andersons
Wanda at Large
Me and the Boys
Half and Half
New York Undercover
Royal Family
Where I Live
Under One Roof
South Central
Fastlane
My Brother and Me
Roc
Reba
Welcome Freshmen
Bernie Mac Show
Cedric the Entertainer presents
Getting Personal
Living in Captivity
The Crew
Cleghorne
Out All Night
Here and Now
True Colors
Parker Lewis Can't Lose
Welcome Back Kotter
Whats Happening
Whats Happening Now
Thea

[Big C]

Put me down for David Rules.

BTW, here's an interesting fact: a soon-to-be teen heartthrob briefly was on that show before going on to something much bigger.

Anyone know?

[GARFIELDKOOL]

Bagdad Cafe (1990) This was a good comedy, and from what I know, it had decent ratings, but Whoopi Goldberg didn't want to do the show anymore.

[Dr. Thong]

I agree Futurama always got screwed when it was on Fox. Thankfully I think Cartoon Network is still bringing it back for new episodes next year.

Matt Groening said in an interview that when he was negotiating with Fox, he wanted complete creative control and no interference. He got it, but he said that to get back with him, they put it in bad time slot as a sacrificial lamb.

Most seasons had as many as 10 unaired episodes because if a football game ran over, they would pre-empt the show and move on to the other shows airing that night.

It's really foolish to have unaired shows, because they could have shown them during the summer, but Fox wanted to stick it to Groening and they did. Which makes no sense, because The Simpsons has made quite a chunk of change for the network in the last twenty years.

Oh well, as Krusty The Klown would have said, "Yeah, but it's on Fox." (grimaces)

[Furienna]

Put me down for David Rules.

BTW, here's an interesting fact: a soon-to-be teen heartthrob briefly was on that show before going on to something much bigger.

Anyone know?
No, please tell us! :)

Matt Groening said in an interview that when he was negotiating with Fox, he wanted complete creative control and no interference. He got it, but he said that to get back with him, they put it in bad time slot as a sacrificial lamb.

Most seasons had as many as 10 unaired episodes because if a football game ran over, they would pre-empt the show and move on to the other shows airing that night.

It's really foolish to have unaired shows, because they could have shown them during the summer, but Fox wanted to stick it to Groening and they did. Which makes no sense, because The Simpsons has made quite a chunk of change for the network in the last twenty years.

Oh well, as Krusty The Klown would have said, "Yeah, but it's on Fox." (grimaces)

Such slimeballs! :mad: Not that I ever watched "Futurama", but that just sounds mean.

[Big C]

No, please tell us! :)

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Her.

[jimpickens]

Shasta McNasty, danger theater, When Things Were Rotten, Last Precinct, Police Squad, misadventures of sheriff Lobo, Gilligan's Island, and Sledge Hammer .

[treky]

never heard of "Shasta McNasty", "Danger Theater", and "Last Precinct". Deatails??

[ryan423]

8 Simple Rules - It could have at least gotten a 13 episode season 4 order to give the show closure!

George Lopez - This show could've definitely still been on this year for a 7th season! Think...this show was cancelled for the already cancelled CAVEMEN! CAVEMEN!

Joey - The only reason this show got cancelled was 'cause stupid NBC put it up againist one of the highest rated reality shows, AMERICAN IDOL! One episode aired up againist American Idol and NBC pulled Joey for bad ratings!

Reba - This show wasn't treated well by the WB starting with season 4. Then the CW came around and only gave season 6 13 episodes. This show had potential to be one of the longest running sitcoms on the WB if the network had stayed and treated the show right!

What I Like About You - Good show...I think season 3 jumped the shark with the addition of Ben and disappearance of Henry. Ben was horrible and definitely was one of the reasons for the shows' drop in ratings in season 3. When season 4 came, I thought to myself, "Wow, where has this been?" Season 4 in my opinion was the second best season in the show's short-lived four year run. This show would have probably been on for 5 or 6 years if the writers didnt screw up season 3 with Ben.

Raising Dad - I was never a Bob Saget fan. I love Full House but never liked him personally. Danny Tanner was good writing...not the best acting however Bob's comeback with this show was quite impressive. I quite enjoyed this show and wish it had seen the light of day.

Brotherly Love - Another good show. After switching from NBC to the Wb, the ratings declined after horrible promotion was made to inform the switch. Cou;d've at least gotten a proper finale.

Twins - I actaully liked this show. I can't say it was a favorite but quite enjoyable and could've been a big hit for CBS.

Living with Fran - HORRIBLE FINALE. You can't leave us with a cliff-hanger like a proposal. Come on...at least sum it up! SCREW WHAT WAS THE WB.

[jimpickens]

Shasta McNasty was a UPN comedy that ran from 1999 to 2001 it was one of those stupid funny shows. Last precinct was a police squad type comedy that stared Adam west that ran in 1986 and danger theater was skit comedy that parodied action and adventure TV shows that starred Robert Vaughn and Adam West that ran in 1993.

[bencasey]

Accidental Family
The Tycoon
Occasional Wife
Love on a Rooftop
He and She
Good Morning World
Governor and JJ
The Good Guys
Run Buddy Run
Nancy
The Little People
Adam's Rib
The Good Life
Many Happy Returns
Second Hundred Years
Temperatures Rising
The Paul Lynde Show
Bridget Loves Bernie
WKRP in Cincinnati
Brooklyn Bridge

[James28]

I know a sitcom that got cancelled too soon: House Calls. It ran for 3 seasons in the early 1980s. It was in the top 10 highest rated shows in the 2nd season. Lynn Redgrave was fired from the series following the birth of her new child. Universal replaced her with sharon Gless and the show was cancelled by May 1982. Syndication reruns were scarce in the 1980s.

[megamanj2004]

Sledge Hammer - ABC placed it up against two of the most top-notch shows of the decade. In S1, it was up against NBC's powerhouse in "The Cosby Show" and in S2, it ran against CBS and "Dallas."

All-American Girl - whoever said that show, gets kudos from me, b/c I was thinking for the longest time what was that show that starred Margaret Cho and this was the show, b/c I remembered watching it as a little kid.

Just the Ten of Us - ABC prematurely cancelled it and their b-s politics lingering from the mid-'80s into the early '90s also hurt its staying power.

My Sister Sam - Even though this show used to scare me as a little kid due to how Rebecca Shafer died, this show was cancelled after 2 seasons b/c of low ratings in S2, I think?

That's My Mama! - Never was a Top 25 ratings hit from the start, b/c of how people hated this show and yet critics like it.

[Scoobiedoo30]

How long was WKRP on the air befor CBS Cancelled The Series

[James]

How long was WKRP on the air befor CBS Cancelled The Series
Aaron, WKRP in Cincinnati was on for four years, from 1978 to 1982.

[snl 70s show fan]

I know a sitcom that got cancelled too soon: House Calls. It ran for 3 seasons in the early 1980s. It was in the top 10 highest rated shows in the 2nd season. Lynn Redgrave was fired from the series following the birth of her new child. Universal replaced her with sharon Gless and the show was cancelled by May 1982. Syndication reruns were scarce in the 1980s.i agree house calls was a very funny show

[Dr. Thong]

i agree house calls was a very funny show

What's interesting is that once again, Wayne Rogers was playing a doctor on TV, while on the same network, at the same time, another new show premiered...Trapper John, MD.:confused: :confused:

[megamanj2004]

Love, Sidney - I wonder why this show was cancelled by 1983, b/c although I didn't like the theme songs too much, I did enjoy Tony Randall and cast's performance on this show.

The Associates - It started off as one of the best reviewed shows of the 1979-80 TV season. But part of this show died when Fred Silverman was being drafted by NBC midway through the 1979-80 TV season and a new dingbat president took over ABC. This show also died after one season when that same president slotted this show following after the (horribly) retooled 2nd season of "Mork and Mindy," and he also overhauled many ABC Sitcoms' timeslots everywhere by 1980, which caused many ABC Sitcoms to Jump big time and also caused ABC to go from #1 TV Network for three seasons prior to 1980 back to the #2 TV Network.

BTW, The Associates also featured a pre-GS celeb Shelley Smith, who I thought was really sexy, b/c I do also have a thing for tall women, too! :biglove:

[howierules86]

Hope & Faith
Payne
Maybe It's Me
Raising Dad
Greetings From Tucson
What I Like About You
Bernie Mac (R.I.P.) Show
Greg The Bunny

[ryan423]

8 Simple Rules
Back to You
Joey
Reba
George Lopez

[Dusty's Fan]

Bridget Loves Bernie -- just 1 season

The Courtship of Eddie's Father -- 3 seasons

[Skywalker]

Working Stiffs
Bosom Buddies
Arrested Development
Norm
Back to You
Newsradio
Taxi
WKRP

[the legend]

Caroline in the City!

The cliffhanger at the end of the show was "ok" but this sitcom had so many strong defined characters (Richard, Annie ,Caroline,Del, Remo etc..) so there was potential for 1 more season! :notworthy

[masterdkd]

Newsradio-deserves at least one more season to fix the horrible 5th season or have a closure episode(s)
Married with children-deserves closure episode(s)
Adventures of Brisco County Jr.-deserves a season or two

[browneyes106]

Miss Guided
Thunder Alley
Arrested Development
Jesse
8 Simple Rules
Hope&Faith
What I Like About You

[catlover79]

^ I liked Thunder Alley, too. That was a fun show. :D

[browneyes106]

I wish Thunder Alley wouldn't have lasted longer. Ed Asner was hilarious on the show.

[browneyes106]

Another show I wish would have lasted longer was Titus.