My husband and I actually talk about that once in a while, when plowing through cable programs that last too long.

ALSO… The Booth at the End.
Mysterious man ( the devil) makes deals for souls out of a booth in a local diner.

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And special mention to Quark (wasn't a Star Trek show):

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If we can include foreign series then Star Cops:

Starred Mimi Kennedy and the great British comedian Peter Cook.

Both of those shows should have run for several years at least.

....so appropriate for today, unfortunately, and way ahead of its time (ethical military disobeying corrupt & evil orders).

And also Battlestar Galactica (1978)---not the reboot. This one should have kept going.

Thank you, I'm going to look for it streaming.

And apparently promised a third season before ending it after two.

Surprised to see the whole series on YouTube. Good watch for someone who wants some nice mindless entertainment.

...I have to say that I truly miss Friday Night Lights. It lasted 5 seasons, which was probably enough time to tell the story it had to tell. It was a beautifully written and cated show.

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With Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver, it ran 2007-2008 and ended in a cliffhanger. They were a con family who’d assumed the identities of another family. I still can’t believe they just dropped it right when so many lies were all tangled up leaving viewers wondering how in the hell they could ever get through it without getting caught. Excellent acting and funny as hell. It’s available to stream on Hulu but you’ll be dissatisfied by the unresolved ending.

It was great except the end (as you stated).

Not popular, but funny.

The Invaders


& Max Headroom

It comes on in the eastern time zone at 5:00 a.m. on Sunday mornings.

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Norman Lear comedy from 1976 - 1977.

Many of the topics are so relevant today - the fake Christians, employment instability, domestic violence, changing women's roles. What a walk through our cultural past.

"Everything old is new again".........."What goes around comes around." Each generation proudly heralds what is brand new, but honestly, it's repetition that cycles just long enough to seem revolutionary.

I loved Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman! That was groundbreaking...

Someone's at the door has haunted me for a long time. I loved the cast and Gary Cole was super in that character.

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On ABC from fall 1991-spring 1993. Set in an Ohio town in the immediate post-World War II era, with a fantastic cast--Kyle Chandler, John Slattery, Ken Jenkins, Mimi Kennedy...

Tour de force!

2 seasons.

On prime and apple and probably other places as well.

The funniest damn show that was actively hated by a large number of people.

Inside the movie making business...

Jay Mohr - "If I were you I would pee the cobb salad every day!"
Buddy Hackett! "Peter has to think you are dead... so what you do is go down to Beverly Hills and sign up with the William Morris agency!"
Illeana Douglas "Peter... I'm a whore" Peter Dragon "so you will stay the night"

only 13 episodes... but written by people that actually lived many of the jokes they included in the show.

That's the one I always say..........The OA.........It's such a bummer that it was cancelled...

but I still miss it. The gimmick was that Ringo used a LeMat.

Written by and starring UK comedian Ricky Gervais.

Gervais is a recent widow who, to put it mildly, is not coping well.

I only saw it in reruns.

I know...it's kind of silly, but the team of Hanks and Scolari were great together.

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Was an interesting show. The line, "Do you want to know how I made it through 12 years of prison? " in the last scenes of the last episode was memorable.

If I can have two, the show Brimstone was fun, in a catching demons from hell kind of way.

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1993-94.

Which I think lasted three seasons? My husband bought me the complete series on DVD, and I still can't watch it all. I cry too much.

Also FIREFLY! Has nobody mentioned that yet?

There are rumors Bryan Fuller wants to start a new Hannibal miniseries with Zendaya playing Clarice Starling. (Yes please!!!!)

Kaos played only 1 season and Netflix freaking canceled it. It was a modern day telling of the Greek gods, with Jeff Goldblum playing Zeus. It roughly told the story of Orpheus and Euridice.

When Things Were Rotten, a Mel Brooks take on Robin Hood. Which could never be made today. PC and all it entails.

And, QUARK, a Richard Benjamin show about sanitation engineers in space. It probably couldn't be made today for the same reason.

And:

Big Little Lies

Little Fires Everywhere

I was stunned when it was over and I read a little about it online, to find out that the creepy mother-in-law was played by Meryl Streep! Her performance was so rivetingly disturbing that I did not even recognize the actor. Amazing!

If there is a season 3 I hope she is part of it. I love to hate her!

1999-2001. A different time. Pretty much a different world. When it seemed we were on the cusp of a permanent progressive era. Before the dark times. Before the empire.

I still watch it occasionally, hoping to grasp on to that long-gone era for just a half hour or so, desperately trying to escape the hell of our present day.

Starring Jack Warden as a private detective and John Rubinstein as his attorney son who was frequently dragged into his father's cases.

It was a summer replacement series, but was supposed to continue.
But, before all the deals were struck, Frank Converse took a role in a cop show.
So, the series ended before we found out what was really going on.
The writers & producers, much later, described what the whole story was and how it was supposed to end.
Would have been awesome to see the episodes that explained everything.
My dad and I both loved that show for the 10 or 12 weeks it was on.

The OA.......

Also, Forever. I loved that show and it was only on for one season.

Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen were excellent.