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batmagadanleadoff Jan 11 2013 09:42 AM

What's the highest Nielsen rated TV show to be canceled after just one season?

Edgy MD Jan 11 2013 09:45 AM Re: TV Trivia

Battlestar Gallactica.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 11 2013 09:48 AM Re: TV Trivia

Did you say "Battlestar Galactica"?

Edgy MD Jan 11 2013 09:52 AM Re: TV Trivia

That I did.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 11 2013 10:04 AM Re: TV Trivia

I'm sorry. And we have no consolation prizes either.

Vic Sage Jan 11 2013 10:09 AM Re: TV Trivia

green hornet?

Ceetar Jan 11 2013 10:13 AM Re: TV Trivia

Franchise. could be anything really.

Mets – Willets Point Jan 11 2013 10:24 AM Re: TV Trivia

I don't know the answer but I'm going to wager it was a network show in the 60's or 70's before cable tv scattered audiences.

Benjamin Grimm Jan 11 2013 10:28 AM Re: TV Trivia

My So-Called Life?

batmagadanleadoff Jan 11 2013 10:36 AM Re: TV Trivia

Benjamin Grimm wrote: My So-Called Life? Nobody nailed it yet, but I figured (and I'll explain why later) that you'd be the likeliest to know this answer.

Swan Swan H Jan 11 2013 10:40 AM Re: TV Trivia

The Green Hornet (going off of your clue to Ben, sort of)?

batmagadanleadoff Jan 11 2013 10:40 AM Re: TV Trivia

I'll be gone for a few hours. I'll post the answer when I return.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 11 2013 10:41 AM Re: TV Trivia

Swan Swan H wrote: The Green Hornet (going off of your clue to Ben, sort of)? No. That was Vic's guess, too.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 11 2013 10:42 AM Re: TV Trivia

Here's a hint before I go: Read Willets' post. He nailed the time frame.

Swan Swan H Jan 11 2013 10:44 AM Re: TV Trivia

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Swan Swan H wrote: The Green Hornet (going off of your clue to Ben, sort of)? No. That was Vic's guess, too. Oops. Sorry....

Edgy MD Jan 11 2013 11:07 AM Re: TV Trivia

Probably one of the shows CBS tossed over the Rural Purge.

cooby Jan 11 2013 11:28 AM Re: TV Trivia

I'll guess Mary Hartman

Benjamin Grimm Jan 11 2013 11:33 AM Re: TV Trivia

Fred and Barney Meet the Thing?

SteveJRogers Jan 11 2013 11:55 AM Re: TV Trivia

Smothers Brothers' variety show?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 11 2013 12:03 PM Re: TV Trivia

My So-Called Amazing Show With Claire Danes and Her Gay Friend?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 11 2013 12:03 PM Re: TV Trivia

YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH ABOUT JORDAN CATALANO, SMART GUY. Was going to guess The Event or Studio 60. But with that clue above... Kolchak?

Ceetar Jan 11 2013 12:15 PM Re: TV Trivia

Gilligan's Planet?

Vic Sage Jan 11 2013 12:53 PM Re: TV Trivia

my world and welcome to it

Vic Sage Jan 11 2013 12:53 PM Re: TV Trivia

when things were rotten

Vic Sage Jan 11 2013 01:12 PM Re: TV Trivia

wait, i think i have it... TIME TUNNEL?

G-Fafif Jan 11 2013 01:21 PM Re: TV Trivia

The laughably "controversial" Bridget Loves Bernie?

Vic Sage Jan 11 2013 02:07 PM Re: TV Trivia Edited 3 time(s), most recently on Jan 11 2013 03:36 PM

my personal faves among 1-season wonders: FIREFLY THE TICK THE FLASH SPACE: ABOVE & BEYOND FREAKS & GEEKS MY SO-CALLED LIFE MY WORLD AND WELCOME TO IT KOLCHAK MAX HEADROOM WONDERFALLS TOP CAT THE PRISONER PLANET OF THE APES [crossout:1y4nqtbq]SPORTS NIGHT[/crossout:1y4nqtbq] STUDIO 60 POLICE SQUAD UNDECLARED THE HONEYMOONERS AMERICAN GOTHIC also: THE CAPE NO ORDINARY FAMILY GREG THE BUNNY ACTION FATHER OF THE PRIDE THE MIDDLEMAN

Ceetar Jan 11 2013 02:08 PM Re: TV Trivia

no Committed?

Swan Swan H Jan 11 2013 02:12 PM Re: TV Trivia

Sports Night had two full seasons, but I agree with a lot of Vic's list, Wonderfalls in particular.

TheOldMole Jan 11 2013 03:15 PM Re: TV Trivia

Crime Story. That had two seasons too, but was cut short. Rome on HBO inexpicably didn't return for a third season. if you ask my grandson, the unforgivable cancellations were Alcatraz and Terra Nova.

Vic Sage Jan 11 2013 03:19 PM Re: TV Trivia

i''ll delete SPORTS NIGHT. I didn't want to get into 2+ season shows, cuz that opens up a pandora's box, including CRIME STORY, DEAD LIKE ME, PUSHING UP DAISIES, ROME, DEADWOOD and too many others to mention.

G-Fafif Jan 11 2013 03:24 PM Re: TV Trivia

Grosse Point, Action and Aliens In America also spring to mind as shows from the 2000s that deserved second seasons but didn't get them.

Mets – Willets Point Jan 11 2013 03:26 PM Re: TV Trivia

Manimal is a lost classic, but I still await a gritty reboot.

Vic Sage Jan 11 2013 03:37 PM Re: TV Trivia

COP ROCK!

batmagadanleadoff Jan 11 2013 04:09 PM Re: TV Trivia

The laughably "controversial" Bridget Loves Bernie? How the hell did you know that? It's not as if Bill Sudakis ever made a cameo on the show. I thought Grimm stood a decent chance of getting this question because I glommed this trivia from Hail, Hail, Euphoria!: Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made, the book I'm presently reading, which I glommed from Grimm's CPF list of books he read in 2011. Maybe Prince read the book, too.

HahnSolo Jan 11 2013 04:19 PM Re: TV Trivia

So the pressing issue now is: how did Bridget Loves Bernie trivia show up in a book about Duck Soup?

batmagadanleadoff Jan 11 2013 04:29 PM Re: TV Trivia

So the pressing issue now is: how did Bridget Loves Bernie trivia show up in a book about Duck Soup? Because, noting that the Jewish Marx Bros. were being directed by the Irish Leo McCarey, the author then began a riff on Irish-Jewish relationships in the arts, beginning with the 1920's Broadway comedy, Abie's Irish Rose, and stream of consciousning all the way to Bridget.... What wasn't mentioned in the book, and no doubt responsible for BLB's high rating, was the fact that the TV show was slottted in between CBS powerhouses All in the Family and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

G-Fafif Jan 11 2013 04:42 PM Re: TV Trivia

Never read the book. I just remember BLB was a big deal at the time. Didn't know if it's high rating had been surpassed for a show in that situation. I guess not, since a) ratings keep going down in proportion to the television universe (more competition, et al) and b) who cancels a highly rated show? But there is something to be said for the rocking chair effect of its time slot. NBC was forever drawing great ratings between Friends and Seinfeld, yet none of those Thursday 8:30 "hits" had any legs otherwise. The cancellation of BLB, incidentally, paved the way for the still-legendary Saturday night lineup of a season later: All In The Familiy, M*A*S*H, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart and Carol Burnett. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go be old.

Edgy MD Jan 11 2013 10:17 PM Re: TV Trivia

I was ready to go for Voyagers. Other great and not-so-great Jewish-Irish romantic couplings on TV: [list]Chicken Soup: Jackie Fisher (Jackie Mason) and Maddie Peerce (Lynn Redgrave). Brooklyn Bridge: Allan Silver (Danny Gerard) and Katie Monahan (Jennie Lewis). Northern Exposure: Joel Fleishman (Rob Morrow) and (Maggie O'Connell (Janine Turner).[/list:u] I had a professor who studied this sort of thing and found that such couplings were relatively rare compared to the number of times dramatic hay was made of them. But of course, Bridget Loves Bernie was the real deal.

Mets – Willets Point Jan 12 2013 07:29 AM Re: TV Trivia

It would have been more scandalous is they divorced and then Bridget came out as a lesbian.

Vic Sage Jan 12 2013 09:10 AM Re: TV Trivia

damn, i was sure i had it with TIME TUNNEL. I didn't even know BLB was a 1-season wonder.

TheOldMole Jan 12 2013 10:52 AM Re: TV Trivia

And, of course, on stage, screen and radio, but never TV as far as I know, Abie's Irish Rose. Another coupling of indeterminate WASPy guy and Jewish girl on TV would be Spenser and Susan Silverman. On edit. Sorry, missed that AIR had already been mentioned. Still, I get points for Spenser.

TheOldMole Jan 12 2013 10:57 AM Re: TV Trivia

(editing out this post because all my information was wrong)

MFS62 Jan 12 2013 04:13 PM Re: TV Trivia

Edgy MD wrote: I had a professor who studied this sort of thing and found that such couplings were relatively rare compared to the number of times dramatic hay was made of them. But of course, Bridget Loves Bernie was the real deal. Let's not forget a staple of early tv variety shows, the comedy duo of Gerry Stiller and Anne Meara. Later

Zvon Jan 12 2013 04:49 PM Re: TV Trivia

I was gonna say Captain Nice, but truth is I'm probably the only person who ever watched and/or enjoyed that. That and Mister Terrific. Vic Sage wrote: my world and welcome to it Was a big fan of this show cuz Windom played a cartoonist. I like how, if I remember right, there were lil animated bits in it. Vic Sage wrote: wait, i think i have it... TIME TUNNEL? Huge fan of this. Still am. Just got the pilot ep a few years ago and re-watched it. batmagadanleadoff wrote: What wasn't mentioned in the book, and no doubt responsible for BLB's high rating, was the fact that the TV show was slottted in between CBS powerhouses All in the Family and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. This is probably why I'm familair with Bridget Loves Bernie. And Meredith was easy on the eyes. Basically, the show was cancelled due to outrage from viewers who objected to the relationship from a religous point of view. Oy vey. G-Fafif wrote: Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go be old. Ha! Theres my new sig.

TheOldMole Jan 12 2013 05:47 PM Re: TV Trivia

My World And Welcome To It was roughly based on James Thurber.

Ashie62 Jan 12 2013 08:55 PM Re: TV Trivia

Family.. 1976 with Glynis O'Connor & Gary Frank.

metsguyinmichigan Jan 12 2013 09:32 PM Re: TV Trivia

I have the Planet of the apes show on DVD. I loved that show as a kid, except I had to miss every fourth episode because it was on the same night as Cub scouts pack meetings!!