One Season Wonders

The McCarthys Married to the Kellys Some of My Best Friends

Freaks and Geeks

Grosse Point

Homefront

+1 for [italic]Freaks & Geeks[/italic]

[italic]My So Called Life[/italic]

2000 Malibu Road

Rubicon.

Titans

Quark

Pasadena

Models Inc?

Hot L Baltimore

Dragnet (Ed O'Neill, Ethan Embry). It was excellent!

The Americans - I thought it was pretty compelling.

Lancelot Link Secret Chimp

LOL I loved Titans. It was great trash

Gidget

Square Pegs

So Notorious

Is there another The Americans show, 11? I thought they were going into season 4.

Frank's Cafe

The Associates

r14, they did two partial seasons adding up to 27 episodes total (22-23 episodes is one normal full season, generally). I counted it as one full season, as the story arc seemed like one big season as well.

Canterbury's Law

The White Queen on STARS. I was sorry to see it go.

Rome. However long it was too short.

R16 The Americans is still in production.

Almost Human and Firefly.

The Pruitts of South Hampton

Pink Lady

Cop Rock

Frank's Place. I bought the DVDs on iOffer and the show holds up really well.

In another 20 years it could have been successful on pay cable -- the music, the tone. A single camera comedy with no laugh track was way ahead of its time.

Threshold. I fucking loved it and I'm still bitter about the cancellation.

Now & Again

The Maureen McCormack Show

Debutante Cop

Stuff Your Face with Blair Brown

Hidden Palms was fun.

Actually, I can't even remember the names of all the shows I got interested in that only lasted a season or less.

Time magazine said Pasadena was one of the 10 best shows on TV. Unfortunately 9/11 killed it and only four episodes were shown on Fox.

2000 Malibu Road was a hoot, with some inside winks to Valley if the Dolls.

Models, Inc was pretty well done. I had a crush on Brian Gaskill who hot written out half way through. James Wilder and Johnathon Schaech were hot then, too. Funny, I thought Carrie-Anne Moss was so miscast as a model and was shocked when she became famous through The Matrix.

Titans wasn't great but was funny with John Barrowman camping it up as a pussyhound and Casper Van Dien striking poses.

My So-Called Life goes without saying.

Wonderfalls

So Notorious ( I own it and still love it to this day)

The Duck Factory

The Judy Garland Show

James At 15/16. Another show way ahead of its time.

Crusoe starring pre-Strike Back Philip Winchester in the titular role.

Gidget was only one season!? Good Lord, I thought that shit was on for years.

One more for 2000 Malibu Road. It was fucking bananas and I loved it.

"Kidnapped" starring Jeremy Sisto.

R33 GetTV is showing the entire 26-episode run of Judy Garland's show. Added bonus: Merv Griffin and Dolly Parton show reruns!

r25 One of my faves. Sometimes a bit too SJW, but always with a lot of heart. The episode with Conchata Farrell playing a ball-busting lawyer was most compelling.

The Comeback

Young Americans

Wasteland

Grosse Point

Birds of Prey

Firefly

Almost Human

Constantine

My So-Called Life

Freaks & Geeks

The Lone Gunmen

Enlisted

He and She. Stylistic precursor to the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Paula Prentiss, Richard Benjamin, Jack Cassidy, Kenneth Mars and Hamilton Camp starred. Won the Emmy award for best writing after it was canceled. As much as it was like MTM, it had a certain wackiness that was really charming. May be an episode or two floating around.

The Snoop Sisters

Marblehead Manor

Bare Essence

Enlisted

Relativity

The Inside

I would say 666 Park Avenue, but those fucking BASTARDS didn't even give us a full season!!!

I really enjoyed the U.S. version of "Prime Suspect" with Maria Bello. She was great and so was the supporting male cast.

The Golden Palace

Bare Essence, definitely

Taco Bell Presents The Dana Carvey Show

Muppets Tonight

It's Like, You Know

Worst Week

Several shows I really liked debuted in March or April and had decent enough numbers to be picked up for the next season. However, they were cancelled early the next season. Technically, the had two seasons, but a total of 26 or fewer episodes were produced:

Better Off Ted

Jake in Progress

Don't Trust the B in Apt 23

It's like, you know

R16, FX shows have 12 or 13 episodes per season only.

My Mother the Car

The Americans is still airing on FX. Now entering its 4th season. Each season had 13 episodes.

No love for "Better Off Ted"? c'mon. Two and a Half Men goes on for years and this gem didn't even get to run all its filmed episodes.

"I really enjoyed the U.S. version of "Prime Suspect" with Maria Bello."

Blind items predicted this show's cancellation over production difficulties due to Maria's drug use

Another vote for:

Threshold

Freaks & Geeks

I would also add the short lived Chris Meloni sitcom 'Surviving Jack'

The Black Donnellys

I loved Better Off Ted, and it was canceled too soon, but I thought it got two seasons, so I didn't figure it qualified.

reply 59, looking it up you are correct. It did run two seasons of 13 episodes each. And then not all of season two was actually broadcast. With the small number of shows I was recalling it as one season. My error.

My World and Welcome To It

Another vote for Crusoe-cancelled just when all the schemes and evil plots were going to be explained, curse it!

Thank you R3. I loved HOMEFRONT as well, although it did run for 2 seasons

"It's All Relative," with gay couple Christopher Sieber and John Benjamin Hickey, as well as the divine Harriet Sansom Harris.

The pilot was a bit...loud, but it calmed down and was getting good when it was cancelled

This all happened during the nadir of gay rights in the mid 2000

Wait, is there another show where Soviet spies are now living in America? Wait, I was thinking of "Allegiance"!!

Scratch all that talk about "The Americans"! Sorry about that.

Phenom with Judith Light and William Devane playing a tennis coach to a girl prodigy. The theme song was even sung by Carly Simon! It was quite good and got great ratings (it was on ABC's Tuesday night lineup between Full House and Roseanne). I was surprised when it got cancelled.

And not necessarily a one season show, but I think Angie with Donna Pescow deserved a longer run.

Wasn't Flamingo Road a one season wonder?

It was on for 2 seasons, I believe.

The Lizzy Borden Chronicles. Such a fun campfest. Some people complained how unrealistic is was that she was killing people left and right, an average of two per episode, but always outwitted the law. That's what why it was so funny, fuck realistic, it would be a hilarious if it went on for years, with her slaughtering half of Fall River and always getting away with it.

Another vote for "My World and Welcome To It"

Missing starring Ashley Judd. Great location shooting.

Dead Last, on the WB. Another victim of 9-11.

Now and Again from 99' was canceled after one season I loved it never understood why it was canceled.

EZ Streets. The cast was incredible and the show was well written.

Oh really, I mean really, who gives a shit aobut One Season Wonders. Get a life and stop leaving marks in your shorts.

Anyone remember Gothic from the early 90s? Gary Cole starred and Lucas Black was discovered for the show, who didn't have any previous acting experience. I think it was too far ahead of its time, it'd fit in well today as a sophisticated horror show.

I remember american gothic I loved it.

"Being Bobby Brown"

r77, they ought to reboot/remake it. They could disregard the less successful episodes, and most of them, the better episodes had very strong material. It's ripe for the picking, it'd be hailed as the new great horror series. A handsome demon and his soul-endangered son. It'd be really tough to find as appealing and talented actors as Cole and Black though, a testament to their joint brilliance.

Berrenger's, one of NBC's many attempts to have a prime time soap in the 80s, this one set at a glitzy department store in NYC, and the family infighting for control of the store while various employees slept around and/or used each other.

GetTV is showing the entire 26-episode run of Judy Garland's show.

You should start a thread on that alone. I can guarantee with the current superannuated DL demo, it would be a hit!

Hit the Sky!

Backstrom

Tattinger's, featuring pedophile Stephen Collins and Goopy's mom.

Journeyman. Time-traveling story. Really good. I was sad it was canceled.

New Amsterdam. Story of an immortal. Really well done. Hated when it was canceled.

Life. A 2007 show about a cop who returns to the force after being wrongly imprisoned for years, starring Damian Lewis. LOVED this show. Canceled. Dammit.

IT'S ABOUT TIME. It's about space. About two men in the strangest place.

Detroit 187.

Men in Trees (which went 1 1/2 but deserved longer)

Reunion

Wayward Pines

Tattingers

Beacon Hill

R87 Have you heard for sure that Wayward Pines isn't coming back?

CPW. Love it! And ER, the comedy with Elliot Gould. For a real Ollie, THE GOVERNOR AND J.J.

Six Degrees - Campbell Scott, Hope Davis

Another vote for Detroit 187. I remember the last episode for two things-Did Michael Imperioli kill that guy? And Shaun Majumder shirtless.

Ellery Queen with Jim Hutton, David Wayne and John Hillerman

Gloria. Never understood why it lasted only one season. It was a top 20 show, and its ratings were in line with the CBS Sunday line-up.

Of course, I was only 12 at the time, but I remember liking the fact that it's setting was a vet's office. Just noticed someone loaded episodes to YouTube; I'll have to watch it one of these days.

I had to check to see that "Angie" was two seasons, but it came immediately to mind, still one of the better TV show theme songs.

I'm curious if anyone else remembers "Sara" starring Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Bill Maher and Bronson Pinchot in 1985. I swear my sister and I were the only viewers, but it was funny.

"E/R" - the sitcom from the 80s

"Spencer" starring Chad Lowe, who left after six episodes.

"Joanie Loves Chachi"

Muppets Tonight x1000

DL favorite, Angie.

Equal Justice, which featured a young S.J. Parker.

No more angie

Ever...

R97 I know "people." Be afraid.

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Don't You Forget About Me...

Angie had 2 seasons dear....

R2 Freaks and Geeks owns this thread. The best and most realistic show about teens ever.

Angie was a big hit at first, but became very repetitive and most of the audience lost interest during the 2nd season.

+2 for Relativity.

Brooklyn South, which was just getting really good when they canceled it.

[quote]Have you heard for sure that Wayward Pines isn't coming back?

Wayward Pines is getting a second season with Jason Patric in the lead.

Lush Life with Lori Petty

Party Girl with Christine Taylor (tonally different from the movie it adapted, but a great sitcom nonetheless)

Pearl with Rhea Pearlman and Malcolm McDowell

Temporarily Yours with Debi Mazar

Thanks for the update, r105. I tuned in to the first season mostly for DILF Matt Dillon and I'll probably watch again for DILF Jason Patric.

Shannon's Deal, starring Jamey Sheridan and the late Elizabeth Pena. John Sayles was the show's creator.

Frankie - a UK series starring Eve Myles (Torchwood). Light medical drama, with Eve's character caught in a love triangle with a couple of hot guys.

A Year in the Life with a young SJP and David Oliver. Really wanted that show to make it

The Book of Daniel, starring 2 hot daddies - Aidan Quinn and Garret Dillahunt

" "Sara" starring Geena Davis"

That reminded me of another show with breathtaking young Geena that fits this thread quite nicely. "Buffalo Bill" starring Dabney Coleman playing pretty much the same character as in 9 to 5 but as a Buffalo NY local Talk Show host, and Geena as his associate. Looking it up I see it was two seasons but with only 26 episodes, that's really one season equivalent.

A & E when it was still doing good shows for a while broadcast reruns in the 90s.

Geena not in this clip but god its good.

Buffalo Bill was brilliant, either the first, or one of the first, sitcoms without a laugh track. They added one for the syndication, and then, criminally, that's how they released it on dvd. The fans were furious.

"Action!" starring Jay Mohr at his most winsome fuckability.

In one episode we watched his ecstatic expressions while getting a blow job from a dude.

It was hunky Richard Burgi giving the BJ, r114.

"Profit" (Fox) starring Adrian Pasdar, and not just because his character slept nekkid in a big cardboard box.

We only got one season of "Cuffs" on the BBC last year, and that's that. So sad.

Partners in crime. Lol just kidding.

Ha, r118. My young gayling self loved Partners In Crime.

"Turn-On" OWNS this thread.

Canceled after one season? Hell, it was canceled after one EPISODE.

Bull, a show from 2000 about stockbrokers. I wouldn't say I loved the show but it had a ton of eye candy, including Stanley Tucci, Ian Kahn, George Newbern and cutie Christopher WIehl.

Almost Human

Firefly

Journeyman

The Cape

My So-Called Life

Freaks & Geeks

Moonlight

New Amsterdam

Greg The Bunny

John Doe

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

The Hathaways, Peggy Cass, and Jack Weston with a bunch of chimpanzee children.

Hot L Baltimore. My family watched it every week.

Blansky's Beauties, a Nancy Walker sit com, though I doubt it lasted even one full season.

The Judy Garland Show

Coupling (obviously the US version)

Pacific Palisades

Models Inc.

Torchwood (on Starz)

CPW

The crew

Big shots

Body of proof (I know it lasted two seasons, right? But I wanted it to continue)

I can't remember the name of a show about four women that aired on ABC around 2007-08, similar to Lipstick Jungle (which I also would have wanted to continue). Peter Hermann was part of the cast, he was the husband of one of the main characters. That's where I discovered him and his hotness! I would have loved for that show to continue as well, but I think it didn't even last one season.

Partners

Ned and Stacey

Cashmere Mafia, r124.

Kitchen Confidential

Thanks R125!

A British show, NY-LON, which starred a pre-True Blood Stephen Moyer and Rashida Jones. It was shown here on BBC America. It ended on an unintentional cliffhanger (showmakers didn't know there wouldn't be another season, I guess) and that always drives me crazy.

Invasion - ABC sci-fi series with Eddie Cibrian and William Fichtner that aired after LOST

The New Normal (I still want to make babies with Justin Bartha)

Almost every series of the guy who did Wonderfalls. Even though NBC was charitable and gave Hannabal three (I think) would it have hurt them to have one more? I surprised Netflix and amazon didn't pick it up...

But one them did, r130, NBC cancelled it and it was rescued for a 4th season by some operation.

It Takes Two with Patty Duke and Richard Crenna.

MARY HARTMAN MARY HARTMAN. BUT HEATHERRRRRRRRRRRTTTTT. FAWLTY TOWERS TWELVE EPISODES. AND SUGAR AND SPICE I THINK THAT WAS THE NAME OF IT THEY TRIED TO MAKE THE DUMB BLONDE ON THE SHOW UBER.FAMOUS IT DID NOT HAPPEN.I DONT REMEMBER IF THE SHOW WAS ANY GOOD. OH AND ALSO JENNIFER ONEAL AND THAT YOUNG MAN WHO DIED EARLY PLEASE SOMEONE THE NAME I WOULD APPRECIATE IT THANK YOU. GOODBYE.

Fastlane with Bill Bellamy, Peter Facinelli, and Tiffani Thiessen.

Lipstick Jungle

The Julie Andrews Hour

R124, Torchwood had like 3 or 4 seasons.

Max Headroom.

That show was amazing. Brilliant. Ahead of its time. And cut-down in its prime.

Three Girls Three

Horror series, The River, starring Joe Anderson and Bruce Greenwood.

Hometown

We've Got It Made

[quote][R124], Torchwood had like 3 or 4 seasons.

He probably meant the US season. BTW, Torchwood is still not dead. According to Wikipedia Barrowman said last year that Torchwood will return as several BBC radio plays and might return to tv after that as well.

Isn't Captain Jack supposed to be ageless?

r138, unfortunately, the watered-down American version deserved to flop. If they'd left it the superior British cult show, people would be still watching it and there might be a demand for a revival, like X-Files.

P.S. I Love You with Greg Evigan and Connie Sellecca.

[quote]Isn't Captain Jack supposed to be ageless?

We saw Captain Jack in the very, very far future in a Doctor Who episode.

R145, I wouldn't say the US season was watered down. It was extremely dark. The problems came from the production having too many American actors. Their acting style was way too Hollywood for the Torchwood setting.

Yes, bad recasting made it watered-down. Whatever the case, the UK version had it all over the lame American version.

Trinity [NBC]

Interesting. Someone create a thread on shows, movies canceled/bombed because of 9/11. I refuse to supply my credit info in fear of being tracked who I am.

Anyone remember "Eyes" with Tim Daly and Laura Leighton? It didn't even make a half season but I remember enjoying it.

R148, it wasn't the casting. The first half of the season was great. Then the plot became too convoluted.

If "Transparent" had been cancelled after the first season, it would have been one of the best one season wonders ever.

But they made that bizarre second season with all the German storyline and dominatrix lesbian sex, and it turned into a huge WTF.

R107, unless you know something most of us don't, Matt Dillon is not a D.

Malibu Shores, one of Greg Vaughn's first series.

[quote] We've Got It Made

I actually watched a few episodes of that show on YouTube. It's pretty bad, and not in a so-bad-it's-actually-secretly-brilliant way like [italic]Small Wonder[/italic], but Tom Villard and Matt McCoy were hot; they and Bonnie Urseth, of course, both ended up doing [italic]Golden Girls[/italic] guest shots separately. Tom could have had a great career if he hadn't died of AIDS, and his character is the only one who's actually funny. The opening credits sequence alone is a masterpiece of coke-and-cheese-fueled 1980s excess.

R156, are you the other guy who knew Tom Villard?

R157: Unfortunately, I never had the pleasure of meeting him. I was born the year that show premiered, so I was about 11 when he died. It's an interesting coincidence that he had a small part in [italic]My Girl[/italic] and did his second GG appearance around Matt McCoy was getting to take his shirt off and his pants off in separate scenes in [italic]The Hand That Rocks Cradle[/italic]. That movie and [italic]To Die For[/italic] also make me think the female leads used Tom Cruise as research for their respective roles, but that's for another thread.

WEHT Bonnie Urseth?

How lovely someone your age remembers him, R158. We were roommates when I first moved to NY.

Didn't "We Got It Made" get at least a second season in syndication? Maybe only Teri Copley returned but I swear it was resurrected after its initial network run.

It got brought back for syndication three years after NBC ditched it. The girlfriends were gone—Stepfanie Kramer was already committed to [italic]Hunter[/italic]—but Copley, McCoy and Villard came back. There's practically no evidence of it online. I wonder how many stations actually carried it. So it doesn't technically qualify for this thread.

R159, how long were you guys roommates?

And Mekhi Phifer ruins everything he's in, r152 (IMO).

Significant Others. It an improvised sit-com a few years before all the rest. It ran on Bravo and was released on DVD. Genuinely funny with an amazing cast--who for some reason never went on to anything notable.

It is about a group of couples in couples counseling. Well defined characters who were not TV cliches.

R161, one summer, while his regular roommate housesat on the East Side.

HIGH SOCIETY, with Jean Smart, Mary McDonnel, and DL Broadway thread fave, Faith Prince. It was CBS's attempt at an AB FAB-ish comedy. The cast, primarily Smart, gave it their all and although it did provide a few laughs, the writing just wasn't great.

And don't get me started about the annoying gay Latino personal assistant!

Someone should create a network or a programming service (like MeTV, Antenna, Decades, et. al.) that could show all of the short-lived series and failed pilots from the last 40 years. Lots of what would be essentially "original" programming, and it could be marketed to let people know they can see stars in unfamiliar roles (or today's stars before they became famous.)

I think there was a one-off that Carl Reiner made where he played Rob Petrie in what became the Dick Van Dyke show. I don't recall if MTM was in it.

What was sad was that DVD was Carl's story, but he was all wrong to play himself. We got Alan Brady, though, so that was something.

GCB and Dirty Sexy Money The Neighbors = ABC

R167 That was the pilot for the Dick Van Dyke show--it was never a series.

Dirty Sexy Money ran for 2 seasons.

Supertrain

P.S. I Love You

The old Trio network used to have a campaign called "Brilliant But Cancelled" and showed a lot of these short lived shows.

For some reason, I thought MEN IN TREES ran for more than 1.5 seasons. I miss that show. I think having Anne Heche as the lead kept some people away. I thought she was great, but whenever I tried to tell people they should watch it, the reaction was always, "Ugh, I hate Anne Heche!!"

Over the Top - Tim Curry, Annie Potts, Steve Carell

Cutter to Houston starring Shelley Hack.

R54 Wasn't that considered one of the worst shows ever?

Voyagers!

Moon Over Miami - 1993, starring DL fave Bill Campbell.

Jack & Bobby- 2004 to 2005. Matt Long was gorgeous! If Christine Lahti's character hated W. Bush, I can imagine the fits she would be having over Dump!

Okay Data Lounge Detectives. Find out who the poster is at R176. He's the one who keeps resurrecting the old 2015 threads!

Brickleberry

R166 great idea

I would certainly have watched "The Maureen McCormack Show"--especially if it had been based on her real life!

"On tonight's episode, yet another Gen X Hollywood producer who crushed on Maureen in high school when she was on 'The Brady Bunch' wants to fuck her. Will she be able to land a decent role if she does--or will he just pay her yet again in blow? Guest starring Ann B. Davis as Herself."