Favorite quickly cancelled television series

That reminds me: You can tell which episode in sequence of Police Squad! you're watching by the number of trash cans Drebin's car hits when he arrives at a crime scene. (Ep. 1 = 1 can, etc.)

 

October Road

The Nine

Rubicon

Roswell

Jericho

 

--New Amsterdam. Sure it was quirky, but it did a pretty good job of conveying the bittersweetness of life unending. I guess it got an early warning that it was getting the hook because its final ep, its sixth or seventh, wrapped things in a bow.
--Standoff. Another Fox show. Plots were kinda repetitive and the guy with the big gun never got a chance to fire. But Ron Livingston (how's he not a star?) and Rosemary Dewitt had great chemistry (they're married now).

 

The writers' strike effectively did in both shows.

 

Forgot about October Road. Great show. I want to read "Turtle on a Snare Drum."

 

Okay - not saying this was a great show, but Hyperion Bay might have been the only show I've ever watched on the WB.
I liked the initial premise of the show, kinda like October Road, no matter who you are or become once you've left home and finished college and started a career, when you go home you are still the "the kid" and everyone kind of deals with you the same way.
And then they screwed it up and tried to make it Melrose Place lite.

I understood October Road's main guy's best friend was the father of the kid - but I never understood why everyone was so hacked off about the book.
Funny to realize the show was kind of a spin-off of the crap the writer of "Beautiful Girls" got from his friends after that movie came out.

 

Ed

 

I was kinda getting into a show called "What About Brian" and it just suddenly stopped. No plot resolutions, no explanation for its departure ... beyond the obvious.
Krista Allen piqued my interest, then Stacey Kuebler turned up in a regular role.

 

During the most recent writer's strike most networks didn't cancel anything. Everything got at least its initial order of 15 eps. Watching some of them, like the Jimmy Smits show Cane, I tried to tell if the actors knew the show was a goner and they were just playing out the string.
Vanished was the same way - they killed off the male lead and brought in the male version of Paula Marshall aka. Eddie Cibrian. Honestly, you see these people show up on your TV it is like Slim Pickens saddling up on a nuke.

 

"3lbs.," a clone of "House" with Stanley Tucci and the guy (Mark something) who's now on "Royal Pains."

I liked all 3 episodes they showed, then it got canceled.

 

Make that the other 44

 

3 South was a cartoon shown on MTV for a total of, maybe 12 episodes. A total of 15 were made, and I bought the three unaired episodes from some guy off ebay.

The Good Life was Drew Carey's first TV series. It was on NBC, and lasted, maybe, 13 weeks.

Get a Life? Make it 43. Two of my friends liked it as well. They aren't sports journalists, so I'm confident that it takes us down to 41.