Your Favorite One Season and Done TV Series.

[boomtube-mk2]

Since we have a "What are you reading thread, I thought I'd start one about, well the title says it all.

We all know about "Firefly" and its dismal demise on Fox but it was certainly not the only good show that got axed in its first season.
So what other "One Season Wonders" have you watched and and wished it had gone on for more?

My three would be; "The Adventures of Brisco County Jr"('93) "Wonderfalls"('04) and the very obscure "The Middleman"('08)
If you can find that last one anywhere, give it a try, I think most people on this forum would enjoy it.

 

[neil_w]

The Middleman was great!

 

[CoyoteNumber2]

Earth 2

What about shows intended to only be a one-season mini-series? Then:

Chernobyl
The Night Manager
Pine Gap

 

[samb]

Whiskey Cavalier - lots of cool Euro locations.

 

[KennB]

I really enjoyed Action on Fox in the late 90's. It was originally produced for HBO so was edgier than most sitcoms of the time and included a lot of bleeping for language. I had to buy the DVD set to see all of the episodes as it got axed part way through its one season.

 

[rharshberger]

Space Rangers (from 1993)

 

[russell_t]

"Shane" (1966) starring David Carradine & Jill Ireland.

 

[kuririn]

The Event
Flash Forward
Last Resort

 

[heada]

Not TV but movie.... The Matrix, because there was only 1.

 

[boomtube-mk2]

Earth 2

If you can find it, there is a good article about what the network wanted to do with this show in the second season and it was puke-inducing.
The rumors are that the producers/creators of the show killed it rather than let "Earth 2" go down that road.

Space Rangers (from 1993)

As apposed to "Rocky Jones; Space Ranger" from the mid '50's?

 

[Huxter]

+1 on Earth2

Space Above and Beyond - go Wildcards!

 

[neil_w]

Police Squad

 

[DuctTapeandRocketFuel]

Terra Nova (2011)

 

[Woody's Workshop]

Alpha's, one season run about people with extraordinary abilities. Kind of like X-Men, without the mutations.
At least I have never found a second season on it...

 

[cerving]

My Mother the Car

 

[Bat-mite]

+1 on Earth2

Space Above and Beyond - go Wildcards!

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Those are my two, plus "The Flash" (the one with John Wesley Shipp). But my ultimate best one-and-done show was "Nowhere Man."

I'll add "Planet of the Apes," which only lasted half a season.

 

[jmuck78]

Life on Mars with Jason Omara was great

 

[KennB]

Alpha's, one season run about people with extraordinary abilities. Kind of like X-Men, without the mutations.
At least I have never found a second season on it...

There were two seasons. It's available on various streaming services for a fee.

 

[Fattbank64]

UFO
Profit

 

[user 35280]

Debris

 

[CalebJ]

The Unusuals with Jeremy Renner (and a bunch of other familiar faces) was a great 1 season show.

 

[PhlAsh]

Life on Mars with Jason Omara was great

The real one with John Simm and Phil Glenister was better (and had a sequel series)

 

[PhlAsh]

The Fifth Corner
John Doe
Stingray
Mercy Point
Almost Human
Moonlight
New Amsterdam (the one with the immortal, not the hospital)
Forever
Limitless
Battlestar Galactica (the real one)
Alien Nation
Police Squad

 

[boomtube-mk2]

Police Squad

I've always wondered how long "Police Squad" could have lasted before it simply "Ran out of funny".

UFO

I got to read a synopsis of the 2nd season plans for "UFO".
It was going to go to some dark and interesting places; one such was that S.H.A.D.O. had sent a flight of Thermonuclear armed drones, yes, way ahead of its time on that one, to the Aliens home system with the intent of nuking their space-bourn military bases so as to stop the attacks on Earth.

Only it turns out that the Aliens all lived aboard massive O'Neil colonies from whence they launched their attacks and nuking their "military bases" meant nuking their only population centers.
Now what do you do?

 

[boomtube-mk2]

Anybody ever seen "Death Valley"?

Not "Death Valley Days" or any of the numerus movies with that title, this was a 2011 "Mockumentery" which was Caity Lotz's first recurring role in a series.
only 12 episodes and I have never found it on DVD that it wasn't stupidly expensive.

 

[KennB]

E/R, not ER, although George Clooney was on both.

 

[Fattbank64]

I got to read a synopsis of the 2nd season plans for "UFO".
It was going to go to some dark and interesting places; one such was that S.H.A.D.O. had sent a flight of Thermonuclear armed drones, yes, way ahead of its time on that one, to the Aliens home system with the intent of nuking their space-bourn military bases so as to stop the attacks on Earth.

Only it turns out that the Aliens all lived aboard massive O'Neil colonies from whence they launched their attacks and nuking their "military bases" meant nuking their only population centers.
Now what do you do?

Interesting.

I would have preferred storylines about the Aliens are already on Earth and manipulating society to achieve their objective(s).

 

[hball55]

This show actually lasted two seasons, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

 

[Dane Ronnow]

Last Resort

+1

 

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