Has there been a tee vee show you really loved [View all]

that was cancelled after one season, or even just a few episodes?

I was completely taken by Then Came Bronson (1969), with Michael Parks as Jim Bronson, a San Francisco newspaper reporter who got sick of the rat race and rode his Harley-Davidson Sportster XLCH all over the western U.S. it was Route 66 with one guy on a bike instead of two in a Corvette, and I truly loved it. It lasted one season, and I cried at the end of the final episode.

Then there was Bay City Blues (1983), done by Steven Bochco and his Hill Street Blues crew. The Bay City Blues were a minor-league (Double-A, I think) ball club. It had a very good cast of unknowns and virtual unknowns, except for Dennis Franz (Norman Buntz on Hill Street Blues and Andy Sipowicz on N.Y.P.D. Blue) as pitching coach Angelo Carbone (telling a young pitcher how to "load up" a pitch: "You got your spit, you got your snot, you got your hair oil..." ).

Four episodes (of eight filmed) were aired, all at 12:30 a.m. or thereabouts. It had a limited audience from the get-go, and NBC made it worse by not giving it a decent time slot. Pity; it was a good show.