TV series that you hated to see end

[Va Lefty]

For what ever reason, either you became so emotional involved with the characters, you loved the story line or you simply loved and looked forward to the next show. What are the TV series you hated to see end. Mine, in no order:

NYPD Blue
Sons of Anarchy
MASH
The Sopranos
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
Rome
The Wire

What are some of yours?

[htuttle]

1. Firefly

None more than that one.

[ProudLib72]

10. Oh, I have the box set. That was quite possibly the best sci fi series ever made

And here I was going to say Stargate Universe.

[htuttle]

19. The whole Stargate genre is really good, but they had a chance to tell a lot of good stories

Firefly had years left in it. There were a lot of really interesting threads to be followed.

Star Trek came back after 18 years. So who knows.

[ProudLib72]

70. I kind of think that they made Serenity to effectively kill off the series

We finally found out where the reevers came from. Wash and Shepherd died. I forget what happened to the whole Mal and Inara thing.

[Downtown Hound]

276. They made Serenity to either finish off the series or keep it going

depending on how much money it made. They wrapped up all the threads relatively nicely but also left room for more if the movie did really well. Unfortunately, it didn't. It just about broke even, which wasn't enough for the studio to justify making any more of them.

[ProudLib72]

278. Honestly, it may have been for the best

That's how I'm going to look at it anyway. You think about Buffy in the later years. That series went through some very slow times, and some of the things they did to keep it alive were questionable. No offense to Joss Whedon. I still enjoyed every minute of it. I blame the executives who were trying not to lose their money maker.

[exboyfil]

21. Same for me on Firefly

Star Trek: TOS (only if the production value went up - the third season had issues)
Torchwood
Hannibal
Penny Dreadful
Fringe

[MuseRider]

117. With a lot of you

Firefly, I did not see it when it was originally run but love it later and wish there was more. The movie was good but......

Torchwood I could not believe that was taken down so quickly here. I need to watch the British version.

There are lots for me but most recently these were 2 I really loved.

[earthshine]

52. +1

First TV show I thought of when I saw the OP.

[Gothmog]

190. I agree that Firefly should still be on the air

[Owl]

243. Absolutely!

[thesquanderer]

291. also from Whedon... Dollhouse (n/t)

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Six Feet Under. Sopranos. Breaking Bad. The Leftovers. just added two more...and Twin Peaks!

Thanks to jogging my memory below

add Mad Men and Boardwalk Empire

[Funtatlaguy]

8. Big Love, The Americans.

[dewsgirl]

123. Ooh, I forgot Big Love.

The Americans, the most underated show ever. To me the best series I have ever seen. And I have seen many on this thread.

[Funtatlaguy]

126. You and I have great taste.

[dewsgirl]

148. Funny, I was going to compliment you on your taste in my reply. We certainty do,

[Funtatlaguy]

151. If we lived in the same place, I'd bring over the

Popcorn and we could binge watch. lol.

[dewsgirl]

159. Sounds great!

[red dog 1]

202. Breaking Bad, definitely.....Sopranos too.

But Six Feet Under was getting weird after "Stretch Cunningham" became the old lady's live-in boyfriend.
[remember him "trimming" her prized pear tree?"]

[madaboutharry]

3. Mad Men

Treme
iZombi (this is the last season)

[Corgigal]

4. A few

The Americans
The Sopranos
Homicide
Dexter

[radical noodle]

5. All in the Family

I still miss it.

Also MASH

and <blush> Captain Kangaroo

[Scarsdale]

270. Add to the list

"Hill Street Blues". Great show.

[Wolf Frankula]

6. The Muppets

the original, I loved that show.

Wolf

[jberryhill]

7. Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood

[justgamma]

79. I watched his show once.

He just seemed really creepy to me, but I guess the kids liked it.

[leftieNanner]

205. Fred Rodgers was a treasure

And the "creepy" thing was just him being genuine, thoughtful, and kind. My children loved him, and when I watched his show through their eyes, I finally understood.

The new movie "Won't you be my Neighbor?" is wonderful. If you get a chance to see it, you will understand. He really was that guy.

[RobinA]

262. I Never

took to that show either and I was a kid at the time. I was born being skeeved by anything but very small doses of the warm and fuzzies.

[aeromanKC]

9. West Wing

Breaking Bad

[oswaldactedalone]

11. I was in fifth grade

when I learned that Barney Fife was no longer going to be a character on the Andy Griffith Show. My mom and I would watch the episodes after that and lament the fact that Barney was no longer on the show. Goes without saying that even though the last three years of the show were not that good, I still hated to hear that the Andy Griffith Show was ending.

[pressbox69]

96. You just reminded me

Don Knotts played the mysterious TV repairman in the movie Pleasantville. He magically adjusts the TV set so that it sucks the two teenagers into a Leave it To Beaver like 50s TV series. I always thought Knotts was an odd choice for that role but now that I think of it, after he left the Andy Griffith Show, the series turned from B/W into color the next year. The same way the series in the movie changed from B/W into color, or at least the more enlightened characters did. Do you think it was just a coincidence or did they hire Knotts for that reason?

[rurallib]

12. Eerie, Indiana and Ellery Queen

although Ellery Queen kind of reincarnated as Murder, She Wrote.

[PennyK]

85. BIG Ellery Queen fan here!

I've actually read all the books and loved them.
And I sometimes play the theme song from the show lol.

[leftieNanner]

208. Oh, I had the biggest crush on Jim Hutton!

It was so sad that he died so young.

[blur256]

155. Loved Eerie, Indiana!

Glad someone else remembers it!

[onecaliberal]

13. Newsroom, West Wing, NYPD Blue

[Va Lefty]

15. Damn, can't believe I forgot The Newsroom

Great show

[onecaliberal]

18. I was so bummed when it was cancelled.

[Tech]

14. Northern Exposure

[royable]

25. Yes, yes, yes!

I hated to see it decline, but I hated even more to see it end.

[IADEMO2004]

37. 2nd that

[TexasBushwhacker]

76. It was the first one I thought of n/t

[flying rabbit]

81. Yep. nt

[Laffy Kat]

176. It's making a comeback.

And I think I read they're using many of the original cast.

[Honeycombe8]

198. I'm glad to hear this!

But I don't think Janine Taylor (or whatever her name is) does acting, any more. And the cute radio guy is too famous now and is bf to Bo Derek, so I wouldn't think he'd do it. I can believe the original lead dr. does it because his career didn't go places after he left this show.

I'd love to see a reboot, though. Such a different way of life up there.

[Laffy Kat]

218. I think a couple of cast members must be dead by now, too.

I'll try to find the piece I read about it and post it.

[Honeycombe8]

228. Thanks. I hate to hear that some of them died. nt

[Laffy Kat]

219. Here it is: CBS is working on it.

It would better on cable or Netflix, IMO.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/northern-exposure-revival-rob-morrow-works-at-cbs-1163110

[Honeycombe8]

234. Thanks.

It looks like the only actor who played a key character returning is Rob Morrow. John Corbett, the cute guy, is producing.

Hmmm. I'm doubtful about this. It's sort of like Will & Grace returning with only Will and none of the other characters.

If they make it, I'll watch it and see. Thanks.

[shanny]

16. Sherlock

[Blue_playwright]

224. Yup. Their own popularity and fame ended it. :(

[hlthe2b]

17. M*A*S*H, Breaking Bad, Deadwood, Game of Thones (soon), Newsroom, Cheers

[AllaN01Bear]

20. all the star trek. mash.1965 batman. thunderbirds . fireball xl5 supercar. voyage to the bottom of

the sea. time tunnel. battlestar galactica legacy (loren green etc.).

[dewsgirl]

22. The Americans, the Sopranos, Breaking Bad

[exboyfil]

120. Funny about Breaking Bad

I was very happy with when it ended. It was Walter White's story, and it completed his character arc. It follows my five season rule for series.

[dewsgirl]

122. It wrapped up nicely. Better than almost any other

show, I miss it though.

[red dog 1]

203. I miss it too!

It might be the greatest TV drama series ever.

[muntrv]

23. Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones (later this year).

[KT2000]

24. NYPD Blue and Letterman

both have changed my life. I catch reruns of NYPD Blue at 1 in the morning and I have given up on late night talk shows.

[Dem2theMax]

26. Homicide: Life On The Street

The Sopranos
Mad Men
Downton Abbey
Versailles
Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report.

But the top one was definitely Homicide: Life On The Street. I will forever miss that show and all of the wonderful characters. They auctioned off practically everything from the set, and I actually bought a few things on eBay. I really wanted the board. Anyone who watched Homicide will know what I mean by that.

[hotrod0808]

147. I'm with you on Homicide

The network really screwed that series the entire time it was on.

[Dem2theMax]

149. They sure did.

But I still have incredible memories from that show. I wish I could forget all of the episodes, so I could go back and watch them again, 'for the first time.'

[Chipper Chat]

27. The Johnny Carson show 1992

End of an era. Last big band on TV (Doc Severinson-Tommy Newsome). I still remember the last show with better midler.

[Va Lefty]

28. Yes, end of an era. He went out on top.

[Chipper Chat]

32. I cried when the band played the final two chords

Dominant to tonic. [The end]

[Duppers]

100. Same here.

And Bet had me crying. I adored Carson.

[global1]

29. Here Are Some Of The Ones I Miss.....

The Middle
Scorpion
Timeless
Episodes
West End Salvage
Californication

[Cartoonist]

30. The Smothers Brothers

And
Where the Action Is

[skylucy]

42. +100 on both of those for me too!

[rampartc]

53. +1

glad i scanned down before posting the smothers bros.

[Croney]

31. Seinfeld. The Office.

[House of Roberts]

33. WKRP in Cincinnati.

[red dog 1]

204. + 1

Heck no, we won't go!

[elleng]

34. The West Wing

[Brother Buzz]

35. Maverick, Have Gun Will Travel, and Rawhide

Lot of other ones, but those were the big ones in my mind. It's like television died in the early sixties.

[IADEMO2004]

36. Deadwood

[flying rabbit]

80. +1 NT

[Haggis for Breakfast]

38. For me, it was

"Lie to Me" with Tim Roth

"The Locator" with Geoff Stults

"Firefly"

And my biggest disappointment is what they did to "Criminal Minds." Thomas Gibson ("Hotch&quot was the glue in that show. Kicking him to the curb over a disagreement with a wise-ass, problematic producer was S T U P I D. The show went straight into the latrine after that.

[littlemissmartypants]

114. I liked "Lie to Me" with Tim Roth too. nt

[Beringia]

39. Seinfeld, Newsroom

ER, well the beginning and middle ERs, at the end they got bad I think.

[MyOwnPeace]

40. Some good ones there!

Only got into some of them later thanks to Amazon, but:

Deadwood (can't WAIT for the movie to tell more of the story!)
Justified
The Wire
Jon Stewart (my GAWD, what fun/frustration he'd be having with IQ45)
Johnny Carson (but got tired of him being a parody of himself towards the end of his run)
MASH
Cheers
St. Elsewhere (loved the "snow globe" ending!)
Hill Street Blues ("hey, be careful out there!&quot

It's funny, but I will admit that I did grow tired of some of them - the "jump the shark" thing

[happybird]

46. Holy crap! A Deadwood movie??

With the same actors? That would be AWESOME!

Off to google ...

[MyOwnPeace]

50. Oh, hell yeah!

You'll find lots about it - the only 2 "main" characters not returning are Cy (Powers Boothe - RIP) and Richardson (Ralph Richeson - RIP).
It supposedly takes place 8-10 years later and brings everything up-to-date.

Can't wait!

[happybird]

58. Thank you so much!

Just watched the 3 second clip in the "What's coming in 2019" trailer and freaked out with the hubby. We are SO stoked!!

[Dave in VA]

41. Howdy Doody Show

Shed a tear when the last show ended. I was only 8 years old then, tho...

[pressbox69]

98. I was 5.

It was replaced by the Shari Lewis show and I held a long time grudge against her and her puppets.

[Chemisse]

229. I am laughing thinking about how cute that is.

[GeoWilliam750]

43. Carole Burnett Show

Meanwhile, over in the UK...

Foyle's War
Inspector George Gently

[DasMadchen]

44. Peaky Fookin Blinders

N/t

[geardaddy]

124. +1

That should have gone on longer.

[Kaleva]

137. +2

Loved that series!

[chowder66]

195. It's not done. Season 5 releases this year and there may be a 6 and 7.

7 is to be the last.

https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a847166/peaky-blinders-season-5-release-date-trailer-plot-cast/

[happybird]

45. The Boondocks, Treme, Deadwood

and I am dreading the eventual end of Supernatural. It will end bloody or sad, probably both.

[RGinNJ]

47. Night Court

[Ferrets are Cool]

48. One word: Firefly

[IrishEyes]

60. I was just about to say that.

I'm still a pissed about that.

[Ferrets are Cool]

116. No kidding...

Deadwood is a close second.

I am an anime addict, so not getting finished series' is a commonplace happening for me.

[Stargleamer]

49. Gilmore Girls

and Kung Fu and Buffy

[rusty quoin]

180. I liked Gilmore, and i'm a guy

[Dawson Leery]

51. Mad Men, The TNBC series from the 90's.

[Phoenix61]

54. Bewitched, Designing Women nt

[applegrove]

55. Days and Nights of Molly Dodd. MASH.

[madamesilverspurs]

56. The Librarians

Also, Brooklyn Bridge and the old Mission Impossible.

.

[gratuitous]

57. NewsRadio

Though it had to end after Phil Hartman's murder. They limped along for one more season with Jon Lovitz. He was all right, but not as good as Hartman. I have the two seasons with him on DVD.

I also miss Joan of Arcadia. It ran for two seasons, and had a third season set-up for some kind of confrontation between Joan and the devil incarnate, but the show was canceled. I thought the premise was very intriguing, with Joan talking to "God" in several different forms and several different venues. But the secondary story threads were also pretty good.

[NanceGreggs]

59. American Gothic!

Also NYPD Blue, The West Wing, and Grounded for Life.

[dem4decades]

61. My first real life lesson. The Mickey Mouse Club. Turned on the TV,

No show. A five year old can't understand a cancelled show, especially one with Annette and Cubby.

[Chipper Chat]

101. I had basketball practice after school but rushed home

To watch Spin and Marty. I think that was always the third segment. Around 5:45.

[dem4decades]

104. LOL. I remember Spin and Marty but not the details.

[Chipper Chat]

131. Boys summer camp on a ranch.

Spin was a good ol boy. Marty was a rich goody 2shoes. Spin took him under his wing and made a cowboy out of him.

[OhZone]

62. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency nt

[Tikki]

63. GRIMM and Travelers....

I could almost see GRIMM coming to an end, but I will miss Travelers and Dirk Gently's
Holistic Detective Agency...I think they both had some push left in them.

Glad that The Expanse is coming back and, also, Search Party.

Tikki

[RockRaven]

64. NYPD Blue, Homicide, The West Wing

Those shows had very well developed characters with real humanity, warts and all.

[steventh]

65. West Wing, Charmings, Dinosauers, All My Children

Gone but not forgotten

[El Supremo]

66. Hill Street Blues, Barney Miller

The original Hawaii 5-0

The original Star Trek

GE College Bowl

Rowan and Martin's Laugh In

Hee Haw

The Beverly Hillbillies

My World and Welcome To It

The Mandrel Sisters

Twilight Zone

This Is Your Life

Your Show of Shows

The Jack Benny Program

And so many more...

[Chemisse]

232. The hubs and I waited all week long for Barney Miller night.

Such an excellent and funny show.

[Snackshack]

67. The winners are...

West Wing.
Rome.
Deadwood.
The Sopranos.
Wiseguy.
Band of Brothers.
John Adams.

[Me.]

68. The Closer

[AncientGeezer]

74. Great show

[3catwoman3]

69. Hill Street Blues.

St. Elsewhere

Downton Abbey - there's going to be a movie!

L.A. Law

Going waaaay back - Medical Center/ The Bold Ones/ Ben Casey

[CurtEastPoint]

71. Six Feet Under, Nurse Jackie, Downton Abbey

[Mme. Defarge]

72. Law and Order original series

[Hoyt]

73. Not sure it was great series, but I liked Rainn Wilson in Backstrom. Only one season.

[catrose]

75. F Troop, Star Trek, Elementary (soon)

[George II]

77. WKRP, Cheers, Seinfeld, and in a few months Big Bang Theory.

[Heartstrings]

78. Six Feet Under (best show finale ever)

Sopranos (worst show finale ever)
American Gothic
Big Love

[yellowdogintexas]

94. Yes Six Feet Under had an amazing show finale but the best one ever

was the last episode of the second Bob Newhart series. Nothing will ever top that one.

[red dog 1]

210. You're right about the Sopranos finale...Worst ever!

[CatMor]

82. Psych, Monk, The Closer and Bones

[YOHABLO]

83. Brit shows like "Rumpole'' and ''Prime Suspect'' (with Helen Mirren).

[First Speaker]

84. Sherlock

[Capt. America]

261. Agree 100%

[volstork]

86. Mad Men

West Wing
Thirtysomething

[Rhiannon12866]

87. Crazy Like a Fox, WIOU, The Newsroom

[Texasgal]

88. Seinfeld

and Cagney and Lacey.

[BlueTsunami2018]

89. Deadwood.

Best show ever.

Rome and Carnivale were two other great HBO shows cut too soon.

[pecosbob]

108. One of my favorites as well

[Historic NY]

90. Quite a few but in recent times Downton Abbey..

looking forward to the movie coming this fall. It was a masterpiece of having so many people interacting on the set.

[Chemisse]

231. I am just now watching this - and loving it.

[smirkymonkey]

266. I miss Downton as well.

I just totally lost myself in that world.

[True Blue American]

298. As I lose myself in the books

Of British History and novels based on earlier times.

[True Blue American]

294. Doc Martin

We finally were able to see the last series,but ACORN has a strangle hold on it.

I have heard there may be an American version. It is a dumb little show but addicting. I love British shows and British books.

[Historic NY]

296. +1

[Doreen]

91. Haven

Highlander
Kung Fu
Forever knight
Under the Dome
Drop Dead Diva
Golden Girls

Those are the ones I remember.

Oh yeah, Eureka.

[red dog 1]

212. Kung Fu was underrated, and not given enough respect by the critics.

I loved that show!

[Doreen]

268. I do not think the general public at the time could

accept something from a religion other than Christianity.

[red dog 1]

288. The acting & the scripts were very good, imo

I thought David Carradine did a very good job as Kwai Chang Caine.[despite all his "squinting"]
Philip Ahn and Keye Luke were also very good in their respective roles.

[area51]

92. The original

Dark Shadows, they had so many varied storylines and interesting characters, time travelled to the past and even into the future; and, as several people mentioned, Firefly

[nevergiveup]

93. Gunsmoke

[rusty quoin]

183. Gunsmoke I loved but it was spent.

[red dog 1]

286. Great show!

I got to listen to a few of the old Gunsmoke radio shows a while back on a local public radio station, and they were great too.

[LibinMo]

95. My Sci Fi List

Battlestar Galactica (2005)
Space: Above and Beyond
Deep Space Nine
Caprica
Firefly
Eureka

[nmgaucho]

97. Six Feet Under

[pressbox69]

99. Howdy Doody

The Wild Wild West, The Fugitive, The Man From UNCLE, I Claudius, Hill St Blues, Frazier, House and Sherlock.

[Mike Nelson]

102. Mine...

Dark Shadows
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Twin Peaks

[Cousin Dupree]

103. Deadwood.

The best series ever.

[rusty quoin]

181. Oh for sure. It was so good and ended abruptly. I loved the bad language.

[bluescribbler]

222. The language was the best.

It was Shakespearean.

[littlemissmartypants]

105. The Closer. nt

[Duppers]

106. Hill Street Blues

M*A*S*H
Carson
Jon Stewart
The Colbert Report
WKRP in Cincinnati
The West Wing
St. Elsewhere
Frazier
The Newsroom (son's friends with Kelen Coleman)
The Dean Martin Show (going way back)
Dinosaurs sitcom - "Not the mama!"
The Carol Burnett Show

These are decades old tv shows. My tv viewing for the two decades has been news programming. You can discern the slants and weed out the liars.

[Demovictory9]

107. Star trek..next gen

But they had run out of story ideas

[exboyfil]

119. No growth in the characters

They should have considered fracturing the crew (which is what really does happen in actual organizations) and gone with a more anthology construct while occasionally bringing the characters back together for an epic event.

[Demovictory9]

186. a tiny bit of that happened with putting Obrien on DS9. yeah, there was no growth

No relationship could stick - Picard and a woman, Number one and the empath, everyone stuck in one spot. Number one never moved to his own ship. Only real change was Worf having a kid.

[Siwsan]

109. No question about it, a show on the CBC. 'North of 60',

Hands down the best television show I've ever seen. The name came from the fictional settlement where the stories took place, Lynx River, which was located in the sub-Arctic northern boreal forest (north of 60° north latitude). The show was a great showcase for some amazing Native talent. Tom Jackson, Tina Keeper, Gordon Tootoosis, Jimmy Herman, Willene Tootoosis, Adam Beach, Michael Horse, Dakota House. And the list goes on and on.

The storylines were gripping, the acting was so believable. The plots wove around the interactions between the native and white population of Lynx River - their friendships, conflicts and cooperation.

[mrs_p]

110. Freaks and geeks

[rusty quoin]

182. I know. It just stopped. There was so much more to be told.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

191. OH, I disagree - I thought that last scene said it all - beautifully. Not sure I can say

much more about it without posting major spoilers!

[roscoeroscoe]

111. Star Trek

Original gangster please

[Butterflylady]

112. Scandal

Just think what they could do with it now.

[billcantdeal]

113. Babylon 5

Loved it!

[exboyfil]

118. Mixed feelings about that

The hurry up on Season 4 before the renewal kind of harmed the arc. I thought the time jump final episode was very powerful, and the death of Sheridan was handled very well (note the episode was mostly filmed in Season 4 production). The follow on series Crusader wasn't very good.

Babylon 5 has some classic moments. Sheridan's demon wife (being the actor's actual wife) was a great arc.

I think five seasons is about right for a series to tell a complete arc. Breaking Bad is the classic example. Battlestar Galactica was kind of petering out towards the end.

The X-Files went on too long. Star Trek: TNG probably went on to long.

I notice folks listed Sons of Anarchy. I thought it might have gone on slightly longer that it should, and the emotional deaths at the end should have been spaced better. I guess it did play out like what it was - Hamlet on Harleys. Shakespeare was one for the bloody final.

Too often series try to keep their characters stunted in known roles. TNG was a classic example of that.

[bif]

115. "Darling Buds of May" & "Jeeves & Wooster"

[ailsagirl]

121. Off the top of my head...

Barney Miller
Crazy Like a Fox
Frasier

[enid602]

125. 3rrd Rock

3rd Rock. Saw one last night where Dick goes to a costume party dressed as a pirate. Someone asked him ‘where are your Buccaneers?’ He replied ‘under my buccan hat.’

[red dog 1]

215. Do you remember the time Nina went up to him at a party & said:

"Dr Solomon, I've never seen you with a turtleneck before!"

And Dick replied: "Oh, That's Harry!"

[Afromania]

127. Dark Matter, Agent Carter, Warehouse13 The Newsroom, The Pretender, Dark Skies, Profit, Quantum Leap

[lark]

128. Game of Thrones

Oh no, its ending this year

[yesphan]

129. Deadwood nt

[50 Shades Of Blue]

130. All My Children, One Life to Live, Port Charles, Loving, Ryan's Hope...

[Chemisse]

233. I loved OLTL but had stopped watching, but was so sad to know it was no longer there.

[True Blue American]

299. Search For Tomorrow

[JuJuYoshida]

132. Breaking Bad

[akraven]

133. It will always be M.A.S.H.

Always!

[tymorial]

134. Mine are probably less known

I am a big scifi/fantasy fan and those shows tend to not bring in a large audience unfortunately. I definitely agree with the Sopranos though.

Stargate Atlantis
Grimm
Sanctuary
Angel
Star Trek Enterprise (the last season had some solid material and Manny Coto is awesome. Also Jeffrey Combs was going to be a regular)
Babylon 5
Luke Cage (I'm pissed)
Bones
House
Doctor Who (when it ended in 1989)


Shows that are ending that I'm disappointed about
Elementary
Criminal Minds

[Golden Raisin]

135. I Claudius.

[El Supremo]

250. Everybody died.

That was it the end of the Julian-Claudian Dynasty.

[Bantamfancier]

136. Fawlty Towers

12 was not near enough.

[Kaleva]

138. Peaky Blinders, Downton Abbey, Breaking Bad, Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell, Archer

[world wide wally]

139. The news

[IcyPeas]

140. Ballykissangel

and a lot of shows previously mentioned:
Sopranos
The Wire

[Dem2theMax]

150. You just made me smile.

Ballykissangel.

[IcyPeas]

199. good, I'm glad

it was not my usual genre to watch but I really enjoyed it. usually more into gritty crime dramas.

[Dem2theMax]

238. I love gritty crime dramas!

But Ballykissangel was such a wonderful find.

I have really fond memories of that show. My mom had passed away, and I was staying with my dad because he could not have been by himself after almost 66 years of marriage.

He and my mom used to watch evening shows together, so I found Ballykissangel, and my dad and I started to watch it together, and he loved it too.

Sadly, dad passed away five months after my mom, and I had to finish watching the show by myself. Every time I watched a new episode I thought about how much my dad would have enjoyed seeing it.

[IcyPeas]

249. that is a sweet memory

66 years

oh yes, I know this feeling: "Every time I watched a new episode I thought about how much my dad would have enjoyed seeing it. "

[Dem2theMax]

255. A hug right back to you!

[3Hotdogs]

141. The Shield, Person of Interest, Stranger Things

[FiveGoodMen]

142. I think the thread calls for this...

[appalachiablue]

143. Miami Vice

[BHDem53]

144. WKRP

MTM
Newhart
Barney Miller
The Outer Limits
Northern Exposure
Police Squad
The Real McCoys
Sky King
Highway Patrol
State Trooper

[Liberty Belle]

145. Carol Burnett Show,Phil Donahue Show, MASH, Lou Grant,

Mary Tyler Moore Show, Time Tunnel, and Tonight Show with Johnny Carson come to mind.

[llmart]

146. The Love Boat and Lawrence Welk.

Just kidding.

Seriously though, MASH, All in the Family (Archie Bunker's Place just didn't do it for me), and Phil Donahue.

[shenmue]

152. Moonlighting

[mainstreetonce]

153. MASH, Cheers,Friends

LOST

West Wing
Mad Men
The Middle

Downtown Abbey

[Beakybird]

154. I was sad when Pee Wee got busted.

[red dog 1]

209. That was so lame on the part of those Florida cops.

They had no violent crimes to solve?

Or to investigate crimes that had actual victims?

It was great seeing Pee Wee in "Cheech & Chong's Next Movie"

[blur256]

156. Carnivale

I was so pissed when HBO didn't renew this show. It was supposed to be 6 seasons long and made it 2 because it was expensive to make apparently. Ugh. I'm not sure I will ever get over this one. Brilliant show and it leaves you on a cliffhanger season 2. But that being said, even though it is infuriating, it was a fantastic show and I recommend watching it.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

192. I loved season one, but then season 2 seemed to go all 90s slasher - not my fav genre nt

[IcyPeas]

201. Yes! Carnivale was great

I forgot about this one. I also loved the opening sequence. the 3D effect was beautiful. memories:

[AJT]

157. Better Off Ted and Playing House

Two most people have not heard of.

[LyndaG]

158. Fun thread !

The Soup
Girls
Sex and the City

[beveeheart]

170. Loved The Soup.

Also The Ed Sullivan Show
Justified
Maverick
Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (OK I admit I had a crush on Ricky)
The Twilight Zone
The Rockford Files (another crush on James Garner)
Welcome Back, Kotter

[Lunabell]

160. Dead Like Me.

[Va Lefty]

163. Yes, loved that series

[nocoincidences]

161. Broadchurch

Fascinating Brit series, 3 seasons, that was so smart and engrossing I kept wanting more and more!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

162. Hannibal

[Rebl2]

164. MASH

Mary Tyler Moore, The Chew, original Will & Grace, Frasier,

[Ohiya]

165. Frank's Place

Tim Reid, (Venus Flytrap from WKRP) stars, some of the best TV I"ve seen! Only one season!

[FreeWheatForever]

166. Wonder Years...

Friday Night Lights

Sports Night

[Gymbo]

167. There are a lot of old memories wrapped up here

My favorites,
The Avengers
Naked City
Carol Burnett
Twilight Zone
L.A. Law
Thirty Something
Laverne and Shirley.
So many more....

[LAS14]

168. My So Called Life.

I really liked a lot of the shows mentioned here, but I was really sad to see this one go because it had such a short run.

[BigmanPigman]

169. Taxi, Scrubs, Barney Miller, Jon Stewart, Murphy Brown

[pazzyanne]

171. I'm kinda an eclectic viewer, but here goes:

Golden Girls
Criminal Minds
House
Monk
All of Star Trek
Flashpoint
Mash
Murder She Wrote - love Angela Lansbury
SNL
In Plain Sight
Gunsmoke
Rosemary and Thyme
Heartland
Almost forgot - MacGyver

[rickyhall]

172. Star Trek

Rowan&Martins LaughIn
Wild Wild West
Soap
XFiles
Deep Space 9
Babylon 5
Moonlight (2007)
Kindred: The Embraced
Forever Knight

[red dog 1]

216. I think you're the first to mention "Soap"

That hilarious sit-com was ahead of it's time, imo.

[Going to Jackson]

173. Seinfeld and Sopranos.

I hated to see them end, but it was time. I watched Seinfeld in reruns, and did not like the last two years. They'd run out of scripts. They also took the Sopranos as far as it could go.

I think most shows are good for 3 years, and these two shows far exceeded that.

[red dog 1]

285. Welcome to DU!

They could have had a better finale for The Sopranos.

[Xolodno]

174. Giligans Island

The Colbert Show
Bugs Bunny and Road Runner Show
The various Disney movies on Sunday night.
Benny Hill Show
Robotech
Star Blazers
The Elvira Show

[rusty quoin]

184. You must be joking about Gilligan's Island.

There’s only so much there but Tina Louise was something.

[Laffy Kat]

175. St. Elsewhere.

It was brilliant.

[petronius]

177. I would have liked more Farscape. Also Firefly... (nt)

[Kablooie]

178. Howdy Doody.

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I cried when Clarabelle whispered “Goodbye kids.”

[murielm99]

187. That was the day I truly understood the meaning

of the word "poignant."

[Kablooie]

194. I knew Mel Shaw who designed the Howdy Doody puppet.

He was a Disney artist.

[Olafjoy]

179. Gilmore Girls

Downton Abbey
Breaking Bad
Band of Brothers

[Doodley]

185. Countdown with Keith Olbermann

[Haggis for Breakfast]

242. YES !!!!!!!

Wow, do I miss Keith Olbermann.

I STILL don't buy the reason they gave for taking him off the air - he contributed $$$ to a political campaign - what BS.

We NEED him back on the air. NOW !!

[murielm99]

188. A lot of my favorites have been mentioned,

but I would like to add Da Vinci's Inquest.

[gopiscrap]

189. MASH

Bob Newhart Show
Seinfeld

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

193. Another way to look at this - a lot of shows mentioned I totally loved but would have to put on

a list of ones I was GLAD to see end.

Reason being, that so often the producers just keep milking the cash cow and eventually storyline and quality goes off the rails.

IMHO, theres a precious few that ended exactly at the right time:
Breaking Bad, Treme, The Wire
Freaks & Geeks, My So Called Life (even though short lived the season finales were well done &satisfying)

So many were brilliant the first year or 2, and then storyline just falls apart and by the time it ends you think "finally."

In this digital age of watching series in its entirety in short period of time, I think its fair to start judging them in their entirety, as a whole.

David Simon has said that he approaches his series as a visual novel, with a beginning, middle, and conclusion solidly based on what came before it. I think this approach keeps it on track, writiers know what they have to say and don't have to pad it with a lot of meandering pointless plot twists. Although some padding may still occur. None of this business of they don't know what theyre going to do to the characters from one season to the next.

Hope by posting this Im not a thread killer - feel free to carry on! Just thought it had to be said!

[Piratedog]

196. The West Wing

I’ve probably watched it from beginning To end 10 times on netflix

[Honeycombe8]

197. There were a few.

Arrested Development
Murder She Wrote
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Carol Burnett Show
House of Cards (Netflix)
The Duchess of Duke Street (PBS/BBC)
Downton Abbey (BBC/PBS)
Upstairs, Downstairs (BBC/PBS)
Agatha Christie's Poirot (BBC/PBS)
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (BBC/PBS)

[redstatebluegirl]

200. Hands down The West Wing!

I loved the original Murphy Brown, MASH, Carol Burnett and Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show.

[malchickiwick]

206. Am I really the first to mention Mr. Bean? Howze about Fawlty Towers?

In the alternative, I'd take another season of Black Adder, maybe set in the 1960s, or the Thatcher years?

[Runningdawg]

207. Dark Shadows, I was 12, I was crushed.

[Anon-C]

211. Star Trek : The Next Generation

[ms liberty]

213. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

There are several good shows named in this thread.

[lapfog_1]

214. Action, The West Wing, WKRP, Parks and Recreation

Game of Thrones
tonight show with carson
Letterman
Futurama
House M.D.

[red dog 1]

217. My Name Is Earl, Wiseguy, Breaking Bad, Fawlty Towers, Soap, 3rd Rock. & The Honeymooners

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[House of Roberts]

220. I thought of one more.

It was called The Two Of Us.
Starred Mimi Kennedy and Peter Cook. Twenty episodes only because that's all they could get Peter Cook to sign a contract to do.

[bluescribbler]

221. Deadwood

They never wrapped up the story. The street fight scene was the most brutal thing I'd seen on TV, at least unyil the Battle of the Bastards.

[Zoonart]

254. OMG...LOVED THAT SHOW.

My friends and I called it Fuckwood. It was like Shakespeare with cursing. The dialogue was brilliant and the acting superb.

[Blue_playwright]

223. Star Trek TNG, DS9 and Voyager. Nt

[Native]

225. Downton Abbey

[no_hypocrisy]

226. St. Elsewhere. One of the most clever ending credits.

Wait til the very end . . . . . .

[LAS14]

245. Sorry, I didn't get it. Can you explain? nt

[no_hypocrisy]

247. Ending credits:

1. The theme for St. Elsewhere
2. The kitten is lying moribund on the floor as opposed to the usual kitten mewing, wearing a surgical mask. (Variation of the end of the Mary Tyler Moore show) Here it is:

3. Listen carefully to the youtube I posted: over the music, you hear the beep-beep-beep of the heart monitor -- until the music ends and holds the last note. The beeping stops; there is a long sustained pitch, indicating a flat-line and the heart stopping. Thereby indicating that the series was officially over. As a viewer, you were surprised but got the medical reference.

[LAS14]

251. Aha! Thanks. nt

[Phentex]

227. Knot's Landing. I have the finale on VHS if anyone is interested...

the humor in that show was underrated in my opinion. A classy soap, if you will.

[GP6971]

230. The Equalizer. n/t

[vsrazdem]

235. The Good Wife and West Wing.

[DFW]

236. Liebling Kreuzberg

Other than that: The News Room, West Wing, The Avengers (with Diana Rigg), St. Elsewhere (pre-Ronny Cox), NYPD Blue.

[Moral Compass]

237. A lot of mine are comedies

WKRP
Cheers
Friends
Seinfeld
Bob Newhart
Mary Tyler Moore
Bewitched
The Daily Show w Jon Steward

[ebbie15644]

239. Timeless, downton abbey, sports night, continuum

[randr]

240. Deadwood, Fernwood Tonight

[red dog 1]

284. I loved Fernwood Tonight!

God, that show was funny!

[El Supremo]

241. I forgot 'One Step Beyond'

Yeah I'm old.

[Owl]

244. Invasion. Nowhere Man.

[Owl]

246. Star Trek: Enterprise. It was finally getting good.

[Capt. America]

260. Agreed 100%. The fourth season was AMAZING.

[Downtown Hound]

277. Tyrant, Firefly, 666 Park Avenue, Surface,

The River, Lights Out, Revolution, and Angel.

Also, Under the Dome left a lot of unanswered questions, but it had started to get stale so I wasn't too upset about that one. But it started off so good that I would have like to seen it wrap up in a more satisfying way.

[Downtown Hound]

281. Sorry, meant to post my response at the bottom of the thread.

[love_katz]

248. Most of my favorites have already been mentioned.

I can add a couple: The Adams Family, and Get Smart! Around our house, we often used the phrase, "Sorry about that, Chief."

[EveHammond13]

252. Defiance

[El Supremo]

253. I already mentioned: My World and Welcome To It

By James Thurber

[GWC58]

256. A tv series I thought never got the credit it deserved was

“Homicide: Life on the streets. It was a well acted series you never hear about. No Netflix & no Hulu. I don’t understand why. 🤔

[The Wizard]

257. The Honeymooners

[red dog 1]

283. + 1

"I'm the chef of the future!"

[mainstreetonce]

258. Friday Night Lights

The Good Wife

[Capt. America]

259. Firefly (for the record, I was one of the 10 people who watched it in the first run).

Honorable Mention:

Enterprise. The fourth season was sooooooo good. It was definitely trending upward.
Penny Dreadful.

[hibbing]

263. Enlightened - HBO Laura Dern

So different, only two short seasons. I wanted to learn so much more about her character and the others.

Peace

[OxQQme]

264. Soupy Sales

Laugh In
Cheers
Mash
Smothers Brothers
Get Smart
I Dream of Genie
I Love Lucy

[DoctorJoJo]

265. Great Walk Down Memory Lane Just Seeing All My Favs Listed!

[smirkymonkey]

267. 666 Park Avenue

It wasn't on the air for very long, but it was so unusual. I really liked it and it just abruptly ended.

[Doodley]

269. The Wonder Years

[maddiemom]

271. In recent years, there's been a trend to voluntarily end a successful series after about six seasons

For every show that I've, personally, hated to see end, there were at least two that dragged on for many more seasons that became increasingly bad and embarrassing. Better to end a series that is badly missed, than to remember a series for dragging on long after it stopped being funny/dramatic./original. With the former, there is always the possibility of a successful movie, reboot with a secondary character as the focus, or with a different twist.

[catbyte]

272. These,mainly because I hated to be left hanging, not that I loved them:

The remake of "V"
The 4400
Invasion
The Arrangement
The Event

[catbyte]

273. Detrioters

I guess you have to be from Michigan...

[Totally Tunsie]

274. Frasier

Without a doubt, some of the best writing on TV.

I'll also throw in a vote for Mad Men.

Have to wonder, though, how All in the Family would be treated/received during these politically and social correct days. Think it would survive?

[ashling]

275. MASH

Westwing
Newsroom

[LisaM]

279. Square Pegs.

They never really gave it a chance, but I loved it.

There was also an Al Franken takeoff of "Nightline" called "Lateline" that I found excruciatingly funny, but it vanished quickly, too.

[jg10003]

280. Last Man On Earth. Timeless. Alf.

[NCjack]

282. Father Ted. nt

[Grasswire2]

287. TURN The story of Washington's spies.

Loved it. It ended after Benedict Arnold was adjudicated.

[Shoonra]

292. The Borgias

The Borgias .... it quit just as history was getting really interesting (Countess of Forli was taken captive).

[MandelaObama]

293. A few

Hogan's Heroes (NB, this was from watching the series in reruns, I wasn't alive when it originally aired)

The Cosby Show (yes, I know, and I'm not defending the creep nor his vile, perverted behaviour. I'm talking about my feelings before I knew all we do now)

The Golden Girls
Unsolved Mysteries
The Charmings
Family Ties

[Nay]

295. X-Files, Sopranos, and Breaking Bad. nt

[lastlib]

297. Star Trek (TOS)!

MASH
The Time Tunnel
The Twilight Zone