TEN TV SHOWSTHAT LEFT TOO SOON-A STRANGE AND RANDOM SAMPLE

 We picked ten TV shows that we truly believe should have been kept around for a few more seasons-it's a cruel reality in TV life that clunkers can hang around for a decade and shows like this become extinct overnight.  

 

Check these classics out...

TOP CAT-Cartoon cat and his buddies ran con games out of a back alley under the watchful eye of a dim guy named Officer Dibble. Great show, but they choked all 9 lives out of Top Cat and his buddies in one season.

THE JOB-Dennis Leary was a burned out NYPD detective with clear substance abuse problems-Dennis was born for this role. TV execs didn’t think so. Leary turned in his badge in a matter of weeks.

CAR 54 WHERE ARE YOU?-More NYPD. A New York cop show from the early 60s. This was a sitcom that should have lived a long, happy life-how could you possibly miss with Herman and Grandpa Munster playing cops with room temperature IQs? 

Goodbye Herman, goodbye Grandpa-see you a few years later in The Munsters.

BUFFALO BOB-Dabney Coleman played the world’s most obnoxious TV personality in this show-smart TV viewers understood that Bob wasn’t a real character. As for the average TV viewer?  They didn’t get it and wrote angry letters-Bob was unemployed before his morning coffee break.

ACTION-Hollywood producer who acts like a Hollywood producer-loud, obnoxious and egocentric while trying to survive in a bloody game. It didn’t work, but a few years later Entourage did. Go figure.

GREG THE BUNNY- They cancelled this show and yet they allowed evil crap like Gilmore Girls to choke off intelligent thought in TV-land. This proves one thing- there is no God. This “Muppets in the dirty world of show biz” was just not PC enough or maybe the TV guys cater to the lowest form of life-whatever the reason, we lost the funniest puppets since Kermit the Frog got drunk at the Emmys.

 NIGHT GALLERY- Rod Serling said goodbye to television in the early 70s with this horror anthology-they treated Rod like crap but he still brought his A-game. Didn’t matter. Rod Serling could read a grocery list and scare the liver out of you but, as usual…the chuckleheads that run TV knew better. They sent him to the real Twilight Zone after only a few seasons.

F TROOP- This 60s Western comedy took an arrow in the throat far too early.Too bad-it was a great show but the geniuses in charge refused to circle the wagons for Corporal Agarn, Sgt. O’Rourke and Roaring Chicken.

KOLCHAK THE NIGHT STALKER: The 70s Kolchak, not the 2005 Kolchak. Darren McGavin as a chicken-hearted reporter with an unlikely beat-chasing Dracula and zombies. McGavin made the show work-the 21^st Century version didn’t. Sometimes you shouldn’t raise the dead.

ANDY RICHTER CONTROLS THE UNIVERSE-This show shouldn’t have been as funny as it was for one reason- Andy Richter. But it was, and unfortunately Mr. Richter didn’t control the universe-unfunny TV execs did.

COMMENTS

DAVE:"F-Troop should have never been cancelled."

ADRIANA:""car 54 where are you? love love love it! great taste in cars if i do say so myself... theres a guy that comes into my work that looks just like fred gwynne...you think i wouldn't know about, car 54 where are you? i bought all the episodes on DVD from england for me and also my friend that has a '61, they were a bit grainy but its a great show... i used to watch the munsters when i was little... ive never told the person who he looks like, he probably would have no idea what im talking about... but we also have a dead ringer for richard gere that comes into work..."

BILLI:""OH MAN, how old are you, I dont remember any of those! Mind you we lived in the sticks, one channel.......Hockey night in Canada, CBC News and on Sunday, Beach combers, Walt Disney, The Waltons and the Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour!..............then there was M*A*S*H, my FAVE!!!!!"