Drama - Castle

Sit-Com - Mash (producer admits that)
According to Jim - it got grim the last 2 years,

MASH is the classic example, great series one of the best shows of all time, but after season 5, maybe 6 it became more and more bizarre with each passing season. The cast was aging, the circumstances were aging as well.


Laverne and Shirley, the California move was ridiculous.


The Real McCoys, the final season with half the cast eliminated.


Andy Griffith Show the final three seasons.

Murder She Wrote

Cheers

Night Court

Frasier

Gunsmoke: It should've ended after Amanda Blake left

Family Matters: It would've gone off the air after Season 8

A Different World: Season 6 was a big downgrade from seasons 1-5

Dallas: the show was not the same without Victoria Principal during the later years.

I wonder why Amanda left Gunsmoke. Looking back the show was in its 19th season and strange to think only one more season although unknown to her was in the works.

Murder She Wrote
Sad but true.

Cheers

Night Court

Frasier
Cheers was the #8 rated show overall in it's last season (1992-93) and was still good in my opinion. I agree with you on Night Court and Frasier though. I'd ad MASH, The Cosby Show, and Roseanne.

Cheers was the #8 rated show overall in it's last season (1992-93) and was still good in my opinion. I agree with you on Night Court and Frasier though. I'd ad MASH, The Cosby Show, and Roseanne.

I can add those to my list, and I'm glad that you agree with me on Night Court and Frasier.

Don't forget Happy Days. It should have ended after Ron Howard left.

Charlie’s Angels: Too Bad both Tanya Roberts & Shelley Hack never followed the footsteps of Kate Jackson though.

Designing Women: really should have ended when Delta Burke left the show. The Julia Duffy season was horrible and it really went to hell when Jean Smart left shortly afterwards.

Kids Incorporated - should have ended with Fergie's departure
Homicide: Life on the Street - likewise with Andre Braugher
Law & Order - likewise with Jerry Orbach
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - likewise with Christopher Meloni

NCIS should have ended a long time ago.

Happy Days dragged on way too long.

Smallville should have ended with 7 or 8 seasons.

Cheers was the #8 rated show overall in it's last season (1992-93) and was still good in my opinion. I agree with you on Night Court and Frasier though. I'd ad MASH, The Cosby Show, and Roseanne.

While Cheers could still be funny at times I think it probably should've ended after 7 or 8 seasons. I feel like the last couple of seasons they were running out of ideas.

Ed.

im stil waiting for Simpsons and Ncis to end

While Cheers could still be funny at times I think it probably should've ended after 7 or 8 seasons. I feel like the last couple of seasons they were running out of ideas.

Ed.

7 or 8 seasons? Really? That's ridiculous. They were #4 overall in season 7, #2 overall in season 8 (Cosby and Roseanne tied for #1 that year), and #1 overall in season 9! Like a fine wine, Cheers got better with age.

definitely MASH-it should have ended after season 7 when Radar left.

night court schould of ended before that phil foundation crap began then it got boring ya know

I Love Lucy
Dennis the Menace
The Donna Reed Show
Three’s Company
227
Home Improvement
Roseanne
Two And A Half Men
Modern Family

After reading this post, I wonder what shows do you think went the right amount of time? Some shows mentioned I liked the entire time.

The Big Bang Theory

The Beverly Hillbillies

The out of their element joke really was only good for the first few seasons.

im stil waiting for Simpsons and Ncis to end

OMG, yes. I just started high school when The Simpsons shorts first started airing on the Tracey Ullman Show. Now I'm 30% gray and almost 50. How is this show still on the air? How many fresh ideas could they have at this point to keep going?

Sitcoms:
That ‘70s Show
The Office
How I Met Your Mother

Dramas:
Grey’s Anatomy
Heroes
90210 (2008)

dee2364 i got no idea im so sick of them it was fun when it started but enough is enough wish beavis n butthead could of ran longer. but not as long as simpsons

For Gods' sake please let The Simpsons go after season 32. That's right. They have 2 more seasons but they should go after season 32. Nobody can keep doing the same thing for so long without adding anything new or fresh to it. Criminal Minds is going off and I'm glad but Hawaii 5 O and Blue Bloods should pack it in.

MASH went on longer than the Korean war itself
Happy Days should've ended when they boys finished high school
The Cosby Show
Married With Children
The Big Bang Theory

7 or 8 seasons? Really? That's ridiculous. They were #4 overall in season 7, #2 overall in season 8 (Cosby and Roseanne tied for #1 that year), and #1 overall in season 9! Like a fine wine, Cheers got better with age.

Good grief don't get so bent out of shape about it, it's just my opinion after all. But there was some stuff that just got old.

Ed.

I have not watched The Simpsons since probably the 1990’s· I used to be a fan of the series when it first came out for about eight seasons then I lost interest and the show became repetitive.

I wish they would have let the characters age, maybe one year every two seasons. Would be fun seeing the kids in their 30’s and even close to 40 and the parents older. The other characters could have gone on to other things. But keeping the kids, kids for thirty years, how many times can one say Kowabunga or whatever it is.

I guess for its time slot, early Sunday evenings, it does well enough. Probably FOX doesn’t want to lose theirs link to their beginnings. Odd this from the FOX network which cancels shows almost immediately. Fox doesn’t play, if the show doesn’t have ratings in a month, it’s killed. It’s like Tony Soprano is their programming director.

The classic examples of this are The Andy Griffith Show and Bewitched. Both shows were wonderful their first five years, but the cast changes that happened in season 6 just made the shows mediocre.

Bonanza definitely should have ended with the death of Hoss, as should Gunsmoke with the loss of Miss Kitty.

I disagree about Frasier, though. I enjoyed all (or most ) of the 11 seasons. Very smartly written show.

I Love Lucy - By the later run , you could tell Desi was becoming less and less interested.

All In the Family- Another iconic show that overstayed its welcome. It was hit in 1970 , but by 1976 , it had worn thin. What was once groundbreaking comedy was now a shell of its former self.

- Married with Children. A very crass show that overstayed its welcome by a longshot. Show relied on juvenile humor to get its laughs. Granted , it was funny , but it went on for 11 years. Way too long

law and ordor stil wont end

All in the family schould of ended when Mike gloria n joey moved to california

law and ordor stil wont end

Law and Order ended in 2010. Law and Order SVU is the one that should end now.

it just keeps going n going like its a new trend shows that wil never end

Little House on the Prairie
The Waltons

canncled shows that should of ended sooner
7th heaven should ended once the kids started growing up
touch by an angle
gilmore girls

classic comedies
home improvement didn't care for older episodes!! i did liked some but now all of them!!
sanford & son once they had the grady episodes, i couldn't watch it ,i was just glade red foxx came back!!
full house didn't liked the older epsidoes!!
fresh prince of bel air didn't liked it when they had nicky on there!
family matters really didn't liked the older epsidoes
step by step didn't care for older episodes!! only watch it for bronson pinchot balki bartokomous on perfect strangers was in the older epsidoes of step by step!!
the golden girls


cartoons
doug once they moved it to disney, then they ended it!!
rugrats once dale was born s
hould ended it
the simpsons
family guy stills comes on!