GREATEST CANCELLED SITCOM.......Name it/them>>>>

[#1derfulGuy]

I guess it's weird because as I was at today's church services, an episode of "Barney Miller" came to mind. I think that it was something that the minister said that made me think about it. It was the one when it became a requirement for all of the officers to wear a bullet proof vest on the job and Wojo refused. The Inspector tried to ease the burden on Miller by telling Wojo a story of how some crazed killer emptied his gun into a friend of his and his vest saved his life. But then the killer got pissed, threw the emptied gun at him, and his friend was hit in the temple and died instantly. Luckily, I didn't laugh out loud. I realized that like "Cheers" and "Taxi", "Barney Miller" is a well missed sitcom for me. I would have to put those in the Top 3. Because let's face it, the late, great Andy Kaufman was definitely funnier than dull ass Seinfield.

 

[Bobtoad777]

These may not fit but they are missed by me:

M.A.S.H.
A Team
Twilight Zone
Welcome Back cotter {original}
WKRP {original}
Saved byt the bell {original}
The Real McCoys
I Dream of Genie
Bewitched

 

[GuyJD]

MAYBE I CAN HELP BOBTOAD

The A-Team is still coming on the FX channel and I know that Bewitched is on the Nickolodeon channel. I'm not sure but I think that "I Dream Of Jeanie" also come on either Nick or TLC.

 

[Cheyenne]

Sports Night

 

[Bobtoad777]

Re: MAYBE I CAN HELP BOBTOAD

The A-Team is still coming on the FX channel and I know that Bewitched is on the Nickolodeon channel. I'm not sure but I think that "I Dream Of Jeanie" also come on either Nick or TLC.

Dont get FX

Don't get Nickolodion either

Bewitched and I dream of Genie don't come on TLC here in New Brunsiwck Cable although one in a whil they do come on spratically 2 or three times a month on Screen Gems on TBS, but with no regularity to be able to set up a VCr to catch them.

Cheers and Taxi howvwer come on Fox Rochester Monday through Staurday Midnight and 12:30 am

CBC canada has sports night every saturdya and sunday

 

[Sxxyangl]

Newhart....hi im darryl, this is my brother darryl and my other brother darryl. thats all i have to say.

 

[forgetunome]

My Favorites!

M*A*S*H
CHEERS
BARNEY MILLER
KOJAK
COLUMBO
TAXI
THREE'S COMPANY
I LOVE LUCY
MARY TYLER MOORE
DICK VAN DYKE
RHODA
BOB NEWHART
NEWHART

 

[R Nitelight]

Get A Life.


No, that's the name of the sitcom. Really.

 

[Alyrahh]

I can't believe no one's mentioned Gilligans Island. LOL

 

[Mackdaddy_74]

I miss Sienfield.(well actually kramer anyway.)

 

[Svedish_Chef]

Degrassi
Cheers
The muppet show (Well waht would you call it)
The goodies


more...


Da chef

 

[RisiaSkye]

Well, although I might be the only one who was watching, I really liked "Stark Raving Mad" with Tony Shaloub, which NBC killed without any warning in the middle of last season.

Also on the hits list (although mostly from my early childhood or before my time)

I Love Lucy
Taxi
Roseanne (In the unabashedly white trash early days)
Grace Under Fire (ditto)
Charlie's Angels (Perhaps not intentional comedy, but damn funny nonetheless)
The Tracy Ullman Show (variety, I know. Tough.)
MASH (I'm partial to the B.J. episodes rather than Trapper)
Good Times
Sanford & Son
And I know I might take flak for this one, but...Laverne & Shirley.

 

[CreamyLady]

I know it wasn't a sitcom, in either incarnation, but I'd have to say The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour would top the list -- both series. My favorite parts? Share a Little Tea with Goldie, and Yo-yo Man.

Then:

WKRP
Barney Miller
Taxi
A very short-lived series called AES Hudson Street
Cheers (I got awfully sick of Diane, though)
The Muppet Show (Particularly Gilda Radner tap dancing with the floorboards glued to her feet)

Sigh. I miss them.

 

[Jester]

No question No.1 is Night Court! I still love that show!
M.A.S.H. was really good. too.

Anyone remember Herman's Head?

 

[RonG]

My favorite sitcom that got cancelled quickly was Ivan The Terrible, a wicked satire about daily life in Russia that was on CBS around 1976. CBS cancelled it because they were bidding for television rights for the 1980 Moscow Olympics and heard that the Russians weren't pleased.

Another one I never saw enough was Waiting for God on PBS. And the late, lamented Frank's Place. The episodes where they explained the Reverend's past and the one where Frank is harassed by a homeless man and his attorney has to tell him he lacks the resources to defeat a bum in court are classics.

I do remember Herman's Head on Fox. The bits with the four segments of his brain were good and having Lisa Simpson (Yeardley Smith) as his secretary was inspired.

 

[insideShiraz]

Bbbbbbbobby...

All of those shows ARE cancelled shows, even if they're being rerun...

My favorite cancelation is Get Smart. Didn't it run on Saturday night when it was on?...

Does anyone remember Fractured Flickers?

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I'm so glad so many have mentioned "Barney Miller". What a fabulously written and acted show, which just got better and better.

Bobtoad, seriously, WTF is "Saved By the Bell" doing on that otherwise very nice list? I can't think of a more badly written, vapidly conceived and inepted acted television program in history. (Then again, I liked "My Mother the Car", so go figure...)

My list would inlude the usual: "All in The Family", "Mary Tyler Moore", "Taxi", etc.

But also the best sit-som of all time "Fawlty Towers" (more farce than situation-comedy, really).

And "F-Troop". I swear to God people underestimate "F-Troop". It was essentially a vaudeville show set in the wild west with jokes like how the the Hekowie Indians got their name: "Our tribe was looking for a home, and when we got here someone said 'Where the heck are we?'" (Say it out loud). There were the scouts named Lewis and Clark who were always lost. The look-out Vanderbilt -- who was blind. Ken Berry's elegant clumbsiness (very underrated physical comedy). The great, great, great Forrest Tucker as the show's only true soldier Sgt. O'Rourke, who also happened to be a profiteer. Even Larry Storch was funny ("Who says I'm dumb?"), and any show that can do that gets my vote. Plus, they made Don Rickles into an American Indian and Paul Lynde into a ladies man. Tell me that's not funny.

 

[R Nitelight]

DCL

I don't mean to steal a page out of your book, but I've met Ron Carey.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Cool. He's very funny.

 

[Roll-One]

Andy Griffith show, that Barney used to crack me up... must have lived a sheltered life...lol

 

[OUTSIDER]

I so miss these show's.....

Steptoe and son, which was later bought by a US tv station and remade under another name ( Sandford and son ? don't know not sure ).

Men behaving badly, the Brit version is showing on BBC USA and piss's allover the bland corperate US version, watch it you won't regret it.

The fast show, I love Rolly Burk ( "I was very very drunk at the time" )and Jessies diet's.

Open all hour's.
The two Ronnies
Morecamb and Wise (sadly both now gone but both still loved in the UK).

Father Ted, possibly the best comedy of the 90's and worth watching again and again.

The Goon show ( a radio show of old ).

Round the horn ( another radio show of old ).

and last but not least the Carry on film's.

PS, to all my US friend's I really do recomend "Men behaving badly" on BBC USA, it's a cracker.

 

[Myrrdin]

Are You Being Served ?

Dads Army.

I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again ? (radio)

Allo Allo. (The fallen Madonna With the big boobies).

Round The Horne (radio)

 

[GuyJD]

Well, although I might be the only one who was watching, I really liked "Stark Raving Mad" with Tony Shaloub, which NBC killed without any warning in the middle of last season.

Also on the hits list (although mostly from my early childhood or before my time)

I Love Lucy
Taxi
Roseanne (In the unabashedly white trash early days)
Grace Under Fire (ditto)
Charlie's Angels (Perhaps not intentional comedy, but damn funny nonetheless)
The Tracy Ullman Show (variety, I know. Tough.)
MASH (I'm partial to the B.J. episodes rather than Trapper)
Good Times
Sanford & Son
And I know I might take flak for this one, but...Laverne & Shirley.
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Thanks RS, I can't believe I forgot "Sanford & Son". That is the only 70's sitcom that I still laugh at everytime I see it. And I know that I've seen every episode.

 

[*Eve*]

Good Times, The Jeffersons, Dynasty

 

[OUTSIDER]

The young ones
Bottom
Falty Towers
The Dick Emery show
The Muppets
The Pink Medicine show