If you've noticed during it's entire existence, FOX has had more failures than successes (ex. comedies,drama, reality). Well here's a list of short lived FOX shows,some you may remember, that have come and gone since the late 80's. Granted some of these shows were good and innovative but the majority sucked or looked liked bad ideas.


Credit: TV Tome,Futon Critic, 80's Primetime

FOX TV GRAVEYARD

1. Dark Angel (2000-2002)
2. Ned and Stacey (1995-1997)
3. Alien Nation (1989-1990)
4. True Colors (1990-1992)
5. Keen Eddie (2003-2004)
6. Harsh Realm (1999-2000)
7. Beyond Tomorrow (1988-1989)
8. Model's Inc. (1994-1995)
9. Get Real (1999-2000)
10. Ally (1999)
11. Werewolf (1987-1988)
12. Duet (1987-1989)
13. American High (2000)
14. The New Adventures of Beans Baxter (1987-1988)
15. John Doe (2002-2003)
16. Getting Personal (1998)
17. Opposite Sex (2000)
18. Second Chance (1987-1988)
19. The Rebel Billionaire:Branson's Quest for the Best (2004)
20. Mr. President (1987-1988)
21. The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (1993-1994)
22. M.A.N.T.I.S. (1994)
23. The Reporters (1988-1990)
24. Wonderfalls (2004)
25. Open House (1989-1990)
26. Greed (1999)
27. Wanda at Large (2003)
28. Meet the Marks (2002)
29. Too Something (1995-1996)
30. Greg the Bunny (2002)
31. Millennium (1996-1999)
32. Time Of Your Life (1999-2000)
33. The Chamber (2002)
34. Good Grief (1990-1991)
35. Manchester Prep (cancelled before even airing) (1999)
36. Temptation Island (2001-2003)
37. Women in Prison (1987-1988)
38. Get a Life (1990-1992)
39. DEA (1990-1991)
40. Between Brothers (1997-1998)
41. The American Embassy (2002)
42. Invasion of the Hidden Cameras (2002)
43. Code 3 (1992)
44. Pasadena (2001)
45. Haywire (1990-1991)
46. Against the Law (1990-1991)
47. Titus (2000-2002)
48. Jonny Zero (2005)
49. Million Dollar Mysteries (2001)
50. Undeclared (2001-2002)
51. 30 Seconds To Fame (2002-2003)
52. Cedric the Entertainer Presents (2002-2003)
53. Woops! (1992-1993)
54. Best of the Worst (1991)
55. The Pitts (2003)
56. The Jury (2004)
57. Damon (1998)
58. Skin (2003)
59. Paradise Hotel (2003)
60. Herman's Head (1991-1994)
61. Luis (2003)
62. Flying Blind (1992-1993)
63. The Complex: Malibu (2004)
64. Parker Lewis Can't Lose (1990-1993)
65. Anything For Love (2003)
66. The Casino (2004)
67. Point Pleasant (2005)
68. American Juniors (2003)
69. The Critic (1995)
70. Firefly (2002-2003)
71. Babes (1990-1991)
72. Married by America (yuck!) (2003)
73. Cracking Up (2004)
74. Likely Suspects (1992)
75. The Visitor (1997-1998)
76. Fastlane (2002-2003)
77. The Littlest Groom (Ugh) (2004)
78. My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance (2004)
79. The Heights (1992)
80. Bakersfield P.D. (1993)
81. Vinnie & Bobby (1992)
82. Performing As (2003)
83. The Edge (1992-1993)
84. Girls Club (2002)
85. The Tick (2001-2002)
86. 413 Hope St. (1997-1998)
87. Forever Eden (2004)
88. Joe Millionaire (2003)
89. Daddy Dearest (1993)
90. Top of the Heap (1991)
91. Oliver Beene (2003-2004)
92. Method & Red (2004)
93. Costello (1998)
94. The Swan (2004)
95. Still Life (cancelled before even airing) (2004)
96. Playing it Straight (2004)
97. Wild Oats (1994)
98. The Crew (1995-1996)
99. Lush Life (1996)
100. Hardball (1994)
101. Misery Loves Company (1995)
102. The Ortegas (cancelled before even airing) (2003)
103. A Minute With Stan Hooper (2003)
104. The Sinbad Show (1993-1994)
105. Partners (1995-1996)
106. My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss (2004)
107. Strange Luck (1995-1996)
108. Love and Marriage (1996)
109. The PJs (1999-2000)
110. The Next Great Champ (2004)
111. Boot Camp (2001)
112. Who's Your Daddy? :mad: disgusting (2005)
113. Fling (cancelled before even airing) (2001)
114. Normal,Ohio (2000-2001)
115. The Street (2000-2001)
116. Party Girl (1996)
117. The Grubbs (cancelled before even airing) (2002)
118. Freakylinks (2000-2001)
119. The Show (1996)
120. Mr. Personality (2003)
121. The Lone Gunmen (2001)
122. Night Visions (2001)
123. Living in Captivity (1998)
124. Septuplets (cancelled before even airing) (2002)
125. Action (1999-2000)
126. Banzai (2003)
127. It's Your Chance of a Lifetime (2000)
128. Ryan Caulfield:Year One (1999)
129. The Ben Stiller Show (1992-1993)
130. Looking For Love:Bachelorettes in Alaska (2002)
131. Murder in Small Town X (2001)
132. Brimstone (1998-1999)
133. The Pulse (2002-2003)
134. Andy Richter Controls the Universe (2002-2003)
135. Roc (1991-1994)
136. Kelsey Grammer Presents: The Sketch Show (2005)
137. South Central (1994)
138. Drexell's Class (1991-1992)
139. The Ulitimate Challenge (1991)
140. Booker (1989-1990)
141. L.A. Firefighters (1996)
142. The Outsiders (1990)
143. Stupid Behavior Caught On Tape (2002-2003)
144. The George Carlin Show (1994-1995)
145. American Chronicles (1990)
146. Rewind (cancelled before even airing) (1999)
147. Key West (1993)
148. Quintuplets (2004-2005)
149. That 80's Show (2002)
150. VR.5 (1995)
151. Significant Others (1998)
152. Kindred:The Embraced (1996)
153. Hollyweird (cancelled before even airing) (1998)
154. Tru Calling (2003-2005)
155. Charlie Hoover (1991)
156. Secret Service Guy (cancelled before even airing) (1999)
157. Ask Harriet (1998)
158. Pauly (1997)
159. Medicine Ball (1995)
160. The Ruby Wax Show (1997)
161. Class of 96 (1993)
162. Love Cruise (2001)
163. Pacific Palisades (1997)
164. The Great Defender (1995)
165. Danger Theatre (1993)
166. Molloy (1990)
167. Townsend Television (1993)
168. Great Scott! (1992)
169. Fox Files (1998)
170. Space:Above and Beyond (1995-1996)
171. North Shore (2004-2005)
172. Life on a Stick (2005)
173. Get Smart (1995)
174. House of Buggin' (1995)
175. Profit (1996)
176. Fox After Breakfast (1996)
177. The Sunday Comics (1991-1992)
178. Glory Days (1990)
179. Roar (1997)
180. The Chevy Chase Show (1993)
181. Fortune Hunter (1994)
182. Lawless (1997)
183. Monty (1994)
184. Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1987)
185. Stand by Your Man (1992)
186. Yearbook (1991)
187. Karen's Song (1987)
188. Shaky Ground (1992)
189. Rachel Gunn, R.N. (1992)
190. Down the Shore (1992-1993)
191. The Preston Episodes (1995)
192. Local Heroes (1996)
193. Dirty Dozen:The Series (1988)
194. Big Deal (1996)
195. The Princes of Malibu (2005)
196. Saturday Night Special (1996)
197. The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers (1986)
198. The Inside (2005)
199. My Wildest Dreams (1995)
200. The Wilton-North Report (1987-1988)
201. Tribeca (1993)
202. The Last Frontier (1996)
203. Head Cases (2005)
204. Kitchen Confidential (2005)
205. Reunion (2005)
206. Killer Instinct (2005)
207. Stacked (2005-2006)
208. Arrested Development (2003-2006)
209. Free Ride (2006)
210. Skating With Celebrities (2006)
211. Unan1mous (2006)
212. Happy Hour (2006)
213. The Rich List (2006)
214. Vanished (2006)
215. Justice (2006)
216. Celebrity Duets (2006)
217. The Wedding Bells (2007)



I'm sure they'll be more in the future LOL.

Really cool list. There were a lot of good shows there, I just hope that ones that are currently not on DVD get a release.

I'd love to have Brimstone on DVD as it is my favourite show ever and sorely missed. But I'd love to have The Street, Werewolf, Opposite Sex, Ned & Stacey, Get Real, Woops! on DVD as well.

134. Andy Richter Controls the Universe
114. Normal,Ohio
106. My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss
69. The Critic
47. Titus

These are some of my all time favs at fox

Werewolf, Brisco County, and Titus all should have lasted longer.

Parker Lewis Can't Lose

Werewolf

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

The Ben Stiller Show

Duet

Ack, I forgot to add Titus! :faint:

21. The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
38. Get a Life
47. Titus
60. Herman's Head
64. Parker Lewis Can't Lose
135. Roc

Herman's Head and Parker Lewis Can't Lose were my shows back then! They should be on cable! And I loved Firefly too.

Call me crazy, but I like Life on a Stick... It was wicked funny and it sucks thats its not going to be renewed. Also.. I enjoyed Ned and stacey

wow, alot of cool shows. some were crap but alot of them were very interesting, and offered something alternative to what the big three were showing at the time.
i loved so many of those shows listed, even though they weren't all "great" they were just different.
I wish they made more, Keen Eddie, Get a Life, Pasedena. Just to name a few.

I noticed my fave short-lived Fox show is missing.

VR.5, which aired in the spring of 1995 and starred Lori Singer.

I just added it BuffySlayer. I gotcha back!!! :lol:

But I've never heard of VR.5. What was it about?

I found some more "Lost FOX Gems" on my little scavenger hunt.

there's some great shows om that list :)

does anyone else remember "Women in Prison" - I think it was Fox's second comedy, it was very goofy :lol:

Got a few more recent FOX casualties.

Whoa, that's some list! Major props for taking the time and effort to put it together. :thumbsup:

The scary part is that while I've never heard of some of those shows, I actually do remember a good number of them. Perhaps this is a sign that I've clocked in way too many hours of tv viewing! :lol:

Dads (2013-2014)

Surviving Jack (2014)

Gang Related (2014)

Utopia (2014)

Enlisted (2014)

Rake (2014)

I have the TV Guide Fall preview issues from 1992-2005 so I remember many from these years.

I read somewhere that their new GET SMART series was so bad that Andy Dick-who was one of the stars-knew how bad it was after doing just a couple episodes, so he signed on to do NEWSRADIO on NBC.

Parker Lewis Can't Lose

Werewolf

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

The Ben Stiller Show

Duet

Ack, I forgot to add Titus! :faint:
These were good shows too bad they didn't last. I liked The Outsiders and was disappointed it didn't last.

I read somewhere that their new GET SMART series was so bad that Andy Dick-who was one of the stars-knew how bad it was after doing just a couple episodes, so he signed on to do NEWSRADIO on NBC.
he should have been able to tell how bad it was after shooting the first couple of episodes.

- for that matter he should have been able to tell how bad it was going to be just going off the knowledge that he was starring in it.

- for that matter he should have been able to tell how bad it was going to be just going off the knowledge that he was starring in it.:D I liked Less than Perfect despite him being in the cast. But yes, he is one of TV's worst actors.

I really got into Proffit. It starred Adrian Pasdar and the main character was just weird. Seemed to be a psychopath...and at the end of every episode, he crawled into a cardboard box and curled up in a fetal position. Only 6 or 7 episodes were aired before being cancelled...but I thought it was a very good show and was disappointed when it was taken off the air.

Parker Lewis Can't Lose

Werewolf

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

The Ben Stiller Show

Duet

Ack, I forgot to add Titus! :faint:

The Ben Stiller Show was one of the few sketch comedies (along with Mr. Show, The State, and to a certain extent, Kids in the Hall) to effectively capture that Gen X "vibe." Unfortunately, Gen Xers weren't a large enough demographic to be of much interest to advertisers and TV programmers. I think that's part of the reason the show didn't survive or get the attention it deserved until years later.

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I remember the show WOOPS!, the premise was a small group of people who survived a nuclear explosition and now had to live together, critics immediately made comparisons to Gilligan's Island for it's stupid idea.

I LOVED Herman's Head, it was a very underrated show from the minds of Paul Junget Witt and Tony Thomas the men behind SOAP, Benson, The Golden Girls, Empty Nest, Nurses, It's a Living, One Big Family, Blossom, The John Larroquette Show and Beauty and the Beast Starring Linda Hamilton of The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day

It had William Ragsdale another underrated actor, Hank Azaria and Yerdeley Smith both from The Simpsons and Jane Sibbett from Friends and the short-lived CBS Comedy The Famous Teddy Z w/Jon Cryer (in his 1st starring role in a TV Series) and the late Alex Rocco of The Facts of Life

I also like GREED, the show was great and it had SOLID Ratings, the only problem was that FOX was DUMB enough to pull the show off the air b/c it had Higher Ratings than their signature show The Simpsons

GREED was FOX's answer to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and I like it WAY better than Millionaire

The show was hosted by Chuck Woolery the former host of Wheel of Fortune, SCRABBLE, Love Connection, the 5th host of The Dating Game and host of GSN's LINGO and the show was Produced by Bob Boben (Former Senior Vice President for Game Show Network) and the late TV Icon Dick Clark of Pyramid, Bloopers and of course, his signature show American Bandstand

What about The Heights? That show only lasted a few episodes in 1992. Not sure if it's a sitcom though.

What about The Heights? That show only lasted a few episodes in 1992. Not sure if it's a sitcom though.
It's number 79 in the list.

It's number 79 in the list.

Oops. I didn't look.