Ultraviolet - truly classy, intelligent update of the vampire myth. Not so much cancelled as never had another series commissioned but I still deeply regret only 1 season was ever made.

Also absolutely loved Space: Above And Beyond. Vansen... mmmm... how fortunate she seemed to have much lower heat tolerance than anyone else on Saratoga and kept having to strip down to her olive drab underwear mmm....

Absolutely boggles the mind that Farscape has been cancelled. It has been truly magnificent - superb fun. Any series which is so heavily stacked with innuendo and puke and fart jokes deserves a better fate! And as for Aeryn...

On the flipside, one which should have been cancelled years before it ended: The X-Files. I was once a most obsessive, dedicated fan but it just became too painful watching it decline into the utterly incoherent, convoluted mess of its alien conspiracy storyline although Robert Patrick's arrival gave it an unexpected brief new lease on life.

(Edited by Ming 17/01/2003 00:23)

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by Ming
although Robert Patrick's arrival gave it an unexpected brief new lease on life.

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Agreed And I for one got back into it then and really thought it was taking a new pace - it was nice not having to rely on the same 2 characters and the same storylines popping up. Shame that he couldn't be found a nice shiny series of his own

yeah american gothic!!!

i'd also say um more could have been done for
due south
early edition
two
sliders
murder one

I absolutely loved Due South, but I don't know many other people who watched it. The show was sabotaged by bad scheduling and I never forgave CBS (the network that aired it and, I believe, financed a large part of it) for the way they treated it.

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by willow_fantastico
i'd also say um more could have been done for
due south
early edition
two
sliders
murder one

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Well Sliders for one had five seasons and was saved from cancellation more than one (by the end it was dire most of the cast had left).

I'll second (or is it third or fourth?) Dark Skies- it was brave and atmospheric. Given that it was supposed to cover the period up to 2000, what on earth would they have made of the presidential election?

The cool thing about Futurama was that it worked both as a comedy and as a sci-fi series, so I'll put that in my basket as well.

Most of the other shows I can think of either went 3, 4 or 5 seasons and so had a chance to make an impression or died on their feet in their first year. The shows that tend not to last are the bandwagon shows which set out to appeal to an audience who are already following another similar series and don't have anything new to offer, in the way that the Buffy clones are starting to die off now and the X-Files clones did about 6-7 years ago.

I also adored American Gothic - it should never have been cancelled, along with Dark Angel and Futurama. Grrr.