What show ended that you were really into and would have liked to have seen more? For me, it was the

[debm55]

Big Bang Theory. I was wishing for a Christmas reunion show with the gang.

[The Blue Flower]

1. The Orville

The stories were interesting.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

2. Three Pines.

[Ocelot II]

4. Yes, I loved that! I hope there are more seasons.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

13. Powerful storyline...

Great actors/characters…
Gripping cliffhanger season-ender…

Then, *poof*

Very frustrating.

[GreenWave]

3. Star Trek Next Generation: Its CONTINUING mission

Did they forget that word?

[ProfessorGAC]

79. Beat Me To It

I have 18 of the episodes on my DVR.
And, BBC America shows episodes 4 days per week.
But, if there were new episodes, I'd watch them.

[Lunabell]

5. Dead Like Me.

From a long time ago. I loved that show.

[Codifer]

34. Me too.

[herding cats]

47. Same.

That and Carnivale (HBO) left me wanting closure.

I'm glad they're willing to go 'in for a penny in for a pound' now with the series's and end them so abruptly.

[Ocelot II]

6. I thought the Big Bang Theory got a little stale once Leonard and Sheldon

actually got girlfriends; the original basic premise of the show was that they were too nerdy to get girlfriends. The first few seasons were really funny, though.

[Elessar Zappa]

17. Yeah,

once they became “normal” it wasn’t as interesting.

[thucythucy]

7. "Sherlock" on the BBC.

The updates of the original stories were brilliant, as was the acting.

[cloudbase]

8. Barney Miller

Funny, and great production values.
I suppose they figured it had run its course. It's certainly possible to overdo things.

[ailsagirl]

37. One of my very favorite series!!

😎😎😎

[judesedit]

9. Six Feet Under

[Mr.Bill]

16. Great show, best final episode ever. n/t

[judesedit]

19. I didn't want it to end that way, though lol. Ozark was good, too

[Doc_Technical]

10. Coronet Blue

[debm55]

54. I remember that

[Ohio Joe]

11. Terriers

Also Firefly.

[Codifer]

35. Definately

and absolutely, Firefly.

Great ensemble cast and wonderful writing and direction.

Never did I understand the cancellation.

[Paladin]

12. West Wing

[debm55]

53. Thank you

[First Speaker]

14. Nowhere Man...

...it had a fascinating premise and complex, ongoing mysteries...and it just left us hanging...

[debm55]

55. Thank you

[Mr.Bill]

15. I could have watched the Sopranos for the rest of my life. n/t

[debm55]

18. I really didn't like how it ended.

[Mr.Bill]

20. Same here. But being an Atheist I rationalized it

by thinking of it as the Atheist ending. That is somebody shot Tony right in the head, and that is what death is like. Just a blank screen.

[tanyev]

21. Firefly!

[Lars39]

24. Yes! Firefly

[WestMichRad]

41. Agreed- Firefly

[Wolf Frankula]

64. Absolutely!

Firefly.

Wolf

[Emile]

22. Breaking Bad

[debm55]

52. Thank you

[Tikki]

23. The Expanse...

Could have gone on forever.


Tikki

[Auggie]

25. Lou Grant

Cancelled after five seasons. CBS blamed low ratings, but Ed Asner said it was over his political views. The show could have/should have gone for seven to eight years. Reaganism would have been ripe fodder for producers.

[debm55]

51. Agree with you

[electric_blue68]

72. I loved that show! And from a particular experience one of my favorite episodes was...

when the old fashioned non-computer graphics (Hmmm, maaaybe called production people) - old fashioned paste ups and mechanicals persons (one of my major commercial art jobs) went on atrike, and the newsroom had to do it! 😄
.

So there's a shot of several of them from the he back sitting on these ?high stools with these angled flat tables
in front of them. On top were thinnish slick ?paper "paste up" board that have prescribed blue guide lines as to where headlines, sub heads, columns of type would go: usually run through a waxing machine - wax added to the back (to be pasted down), plus copies of photos, ads etc that were in position where in the real half tones would be dropped in at the printers.

Often while a story has been written bc if the other items it has to be cut a bit, some etc. This means with an Editor
next to a pu & m person using a fine exacto knife cutting up batches of paragraphs, sentences, single words, even punctuation marks - rearranging, and placing them back down.

At one point Mason Adams' character Charlie Hume looks over to the side and downward and says "does anyone see an "e"?" 😄

The poor man had probably dropped a single "e" he cut out to be moved on to the floor. Which can be the stuff of seni nightmares when you're on deadline!

Now imagine a "!" "?" or THE worse a "." 😩 !

I don't think I ever dropped anything on the floor, or So Rare as to have forgotten. But perhaps something got stuck on my hand or forearm!

[Auggie]

73. Do you remember what season that episode was from?

I don't recall it from Seasons 1, 2 or 3 (Lou Grant used to available to watch via Hulu but without Seasons 4 and 5 -- I need to see those again).

I started out in the advertising business doing paste-up mechanicals. We weren't as deadline oriented as newsprint though we sweated the copy and typography just as much, if not more so. Sometimes the type galleys would become so mutilated with X-acto cuts I'd send the entire mechanical (or a copy) back to the typographer and have them re-set the copy to match our changes. I was afraid of the dropped "e" as well, especially after the final mechanical was sent to the engraver. Advertising had the time and money. Publishing was different.

Such memories. Thanks for sharing

[electric_blue68]

80. Baaahahahaaaaa... I found it. 😄 S4 E13 "Strike" ...

Just put the S & E in on Google it'll give the episode on YouTube. I just set it up to watch that section for now



I did mostly magazine publishing vs advertising. I preferred publishing even from work conditions bc with advertising you used alot more rubber cement (eh) vs the wax machine. At least in my experience.
Was at a local neighborhood newspaper one of more early jobs where I did advertising as well as the news.

Oh, boy we never sent anything back. We'd have luckily not too many really cut up parts. It just occurred to me 40+ years too late 😄 that maybe laying a thicker but still bendable piece of acetate over a section like that and using something smooth (a small roller) might have helped smooth that kind of thing out.

I did have one 6+ month advert agency. Small but on Madison Ave. 😄
Using letraset for headlines, and subs instead of ? phototype. Sooo careful to make it as good as phototype!

I also worked in the kids, and HS magazines at Schoolastic.

Watched it no "e". Wonder if I remembered wrong or edited but instead "Charlie Hume" (Adam Mason) dropped the President of France.



😄😄😄

[area51]

26. My two are

original Dark Shadows and as someone upthread mentioned, Firefly.

[debm55]

49. Thank you

[Laffy Kat]

27. Way back when....

Saint Elsewhere. I still miss that series.

[debm55]

31. They had a surprise ending. It might be on Youtube in case you missed it. I always watched every

week and was pissed on how it ended.

[Laffy Kat]

36. I remember the ending but I want to watch it again.

Very controversial at the time.

[Auggie]

74. Another oldie: The Paper Chase

Based on the film ... a wonderful, cerebral show that CBS killed after the inaugural 1978-1979 season.

Showtime revived the series in 1983 where it ran for three years. Never got to see those shows.

[Emile]

28. Game of Thrones

[debm55]

50. Yes

[hunter]

29. So many shows that ended on cliff-hangers and were not renewed.

I hate it so much I won't even start a series that ends on a cliff hanger, whether I know it's to be continued next season or not.

Cliff hangers are a cheap trick and lazy writing. If you can't complete a story line in one season with most of the loose ends tied up I'm not interested.

I'm okay with ambiguous endings. A lot of ambiguous endings are brilliant.

So are surprise endings, my all time favorite being Newhart.

[debm55]

32. I didn't like the surprise ending to St. Elsewhere. I watched it every week for the entire time it

was on. I was pissed.

[hunter]

33. I wasn't pissed, I just thought it was weird.

I was pissed about the last episode of Star Trek Enterprise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Enterprise

[madamesilverspurs]

30. Brooklyn Bridge

The cast was delightful (especially Marion Ross). And the episode where the families of the teenage Jewish boy and Catholic girl decide to meet -- that was just plain brilliant.


.

[intrepidity]

38. Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, so so many more nt

[Emile]

39. Deadwood

[LudwigPastorius]

60. +1

[LudwigPastorius]

61. +1

[Hotler]

42. TV series The Bridge (2013-2014) The nevr finished it

left us hanging.
Two detectives work together to take down a serial killer operating on both sides of the Texas-Chihuahua border. It was kind of creepy but, I couldn't stop watching.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2406376/

[EleanorR]

59. Did you watch the original Swedish / Danish show?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1733785/

[DFW]

66. That's the only one I had ever heard of.

It was shown on Sunday nights here in Germany.

[Hotler]

68. Thank s for sharing. Is it just as creepy as the American version? nt

[EleanorR]

69. I've not seen the American version

But I did enjoy the Swedish. It is quite intense.

[Mad_Dem_X]

43. Queer As Folk (US)

I would have liked to have seen Brian and Justin reunite.

[Upthevibe]

44. The OA...

Netflix canceled it after two seasons. They weren't even able to have a series finale.

[LudwigPastorius]

62. +1

[skypilot]

45. Friday Night Lights and...

...Freaks and Geeks.

[debm55]

57. Thank you

[a kennedy]

46. Yikes, am I the only that hated Seinfeld to go??? I absolutely loved Seinfeld.

[debm55]

58. Agree I started binge watching today. They should have had a reunion show.

[Auggie]

67. Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 7 ...

it's the closest we'll ever get to Seinfeld reunion. Not all 10 shows in the season feature the reunion nor original cast, but they're important in terms of story line. Well done, funny, and satisfying.

[Aristus]

48. I wish Aaron Sorkin had been able to write all seven seasons of The West Wing.

Instead of leaving after the end of Season Four.

It just wasn’t the same show after that.

[debm55]

56. Agree

[Tikki]

63. Glitch...

Even though it ended exactly how it had to..it would have been awesome learning more about the fictional town of Yoorana, which the Mr. and I affectionately call
Yooranaroo.

The Tikkis

[DFW]

65. The Newsroom

The U.S. version with Jeff Daniels.

[rurallib]

70. couple of old shows that only lasted a year

Eerie, Indiana and
Ellery Queen with Jim Hutton (I know that morphed into Murder, She Wrote)

[mahatmakanejeeves]

75. I was going to name Eerie, Indiana.

You can stream all the episodes. I've been slowly doing that.

Great show.

[ironflange]

71. Twin Peaks

Yes, I know they finally resolved it, but it sure seemed like forever.

[Chakaconcarne]

76. Schitts Creek

[debm55]

77. I thought it was still on?

[we can do it]

78. Mind Hunters

[yellowdogintexas]

81. The Glades...horrid cliffhanger at the end of the season

then after that ......nothing.

[hlthe2b]

84. Yeah. That irked me too. Ever since, I am hesitant to start watching a new series.

I'm sure I'm not alone in this--which can't be good for scripted tv on the networks.

[qwlauren35]

82. BRIDGERTON! and Reacher.

I really hope they do more.

I also liked the man they picked for the TV show Reacher. He was true to character. Not like Tom Cruise who was way too short, and unbelievable as written in the book.

[hlthe2b]

83. When Golden Girls ended, there was Golden Palace sequel with all but Dorothy. I just now discovered

it on Hulu. Only ran one season but included Don Cheatle and Cheech (Cheech & Chong fame). Several of those episodes were LOL hilarious and Bea Arthur does appear in 2 or 3 episodes. It deserved better than to be canceled after only one season.

Beyond that, so many series that ended on Cliff Hangers (it really pisses me off for them to do that). Deadwood is one, though they FINALLY came back years later with a movie, but by then at least one central character had died. Game of Thrones should not have ended when it did because the wrap-up was rushed and resulted in a very unsatisfactory ending. Recently, Apple + had Charlie Hunnam in an adaptation of the novel, Shantaram. While I can't say it was the best show I'd seen recently, it still deserved a second season and ended as though it would. sigh...

Then, of course, there is the Yellowstone saga. After 18 months of wrangling and leaving season five only halfway completed, they are apparently going to end the series with only a handful of additional episodes, instead focusing on the prequels and I guess a sequel. I really don't care whether it is the fault of Sheridan Taylor and his ego, or Kevin Costner and his ego/aspirations. The audience is the loser.