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The Something Awful Forums > Main > Post Your Favorite: Carefully Curated > PYF Failed or Forgotten TV Series: Damn it why does everything cool go away
 
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His Divine Shadow
Aug 7, 2000

I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

Goblin Craft posted:

Back to the mid '90s again I remember really being invested in another canceled-after-one-season show, Earth 2, which had a colony ship that escaped a polluted Earth but crash lands on the wrong hemisphere of their barely-settled destination planet, and IMDB tells me a few things I didn't remember like Clancy Brown and Tim Curry having roles. I remember some weird aliens that they either couldn't communicate with or maybe they weren't even sure they were fully sapient.

I really liked this show, bummed it ended.

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His Divine Shadow
Aug 7, 2000

I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.
To add something, in the late 90s there was a show called Prey, only got one season but I thought it was really interesting. Basically a new species of hominid had evolved from humans and where gonna take over or something, they all had extremely republican traits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey_(American_TV_series)

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His Divine Shadow
Aug 7, 2000

I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

Convex posted:

:stare:

It's a real life thing actually now

https://bsj.berkeley.edu/born-to-kill-the-story-of-serial-killer-genes/

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His Divine Shadow
Aug 7, 2000

I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

Rocket Baby Dolls posted:

I fondly remember Earth 2 and Space Precinct. Before I go on, I'm basing this on my experience from a UK/Europe perspective, but I still had access to satellite TV.

I also fondly remember watching Eerie, Indiana in my youth and enjoying it. It was a family-friendly horror\sci-fi series set in a small town where these kinds of things were the norm. This was a pretty standard early 90's show with some weirdness mixed in and I still have no idea why it was never picked up for a second series.

Weird Science the TV series I wouldn't classify as failed as there were five series of it, but in this day it does seem to be forgotten. I remember this show being having prominent time slots amongst some heavy hitters at the time but these days it's been completely buried. If you ever want to see an over the top reaction to a cancellation then check out the finale to the series, when the people behind the show found out the show was ending they just threw everything out the window and just went wild with the final episode.

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. Another early 90's casualty. Bruce Campbell in a steampunk wild-western was well received and highly praised but didn't achieve desirable viewing numbers. This series was developed because Fox wanted a show that was in a similar style to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and was one of the last television shows to be filmed on Warner Bros. Western backlot.

The sci fi channel in the 90s was really good. I used to have these fake cards to decode it and we'd have to put in new pins quite often as they changed. I used to get the new codes online and distribute them and also fix my grandmas TV so she could watch swedish channels from sweden. I wondered if anyone ever bought the real deal.

Brisco County Jr. rocked too.

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His Divine Shadow
Aug 7, 2000

I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

Erghh posted:

Sci-fi chat caused a memory of Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. 80s mostly Canadian Sci-fi kids show that was supposed to work with an "interactive" toy line. Canned for ultimately being too violent and heavy for saturday mornings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Power_and_the_Soldiers_of_the_Future

I loved Soaron, my favorite character. I always seem to cheer for the robots in a man vs machine situation... even as a kid.

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