All posts tagged "canceled TV shows"

“Captain Power & the Soldiers of the Future”: Don’t just stand there, children, fire back!
“Captain Power & the Soldiers of the Future“ was a short-lived syndicated sci-fi fantasy series, set in the far-flung future, airing from September 1987 to March 1988. Watch all twenty-two episodes of its first and only season,...
- Posted July 11, 2018
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“What are we going to do now?”: Notes on Spike Milligan’s “Q” series
WHO?!? No, not Spike Jones. That was the bandleader who did a peppy version of “Der Fuehrer’s Face.” Aside from possibly brief appearances arguing over parking with Peter Sellers in Terry Southern’s gloriously mad The Magic Christian,...
- Posted April 28, 2017
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“Bizarre”: Showtime’s 1980s variety show featured Super Dave stunts & bare-breasted babes
In 1980, the Showtime cable network began airing a groundbreaking off-center comedy variety show called “Bizarre,” which featured lots of unpardonable puns in comedic vignettes and blackout sketches lampooning various aspects of every day life. The “uncensored”...
- Posted April 12, 2017
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Too Much Monkey Business: “Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp” & the Evolution Revolution
“Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp,” the short-lived early ’70s live-action Saturday morning comedy series, was, as far as we know, the only TV show with a cast of chimpanzees (and one orangutan named Henry) with “dialogue” overdubbed by...
- Posted March 22, 2017
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“Beyond Westworld”: This 1980 CBS series was a failed first attempt at bringing “Westworld” to TV
HBO’s mega-popular “Westworld“ series climaxed its first season with a mind-numbing 90-minute finale (“The Bicameral Mind”) a few weeks back, but the first time there was a TV show based on the 1973 Michael Crichton-penned movie —...
- Posted January 6, 2017
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“Hail to the Chief”: In 1985, TV’s first female President of the United States was a short-lived sitcom flop
As surely everyone knows by now, American voters have yet to elect a woman President of the United States, but there have been a handful of them in the movies and on TV, including a short-lived 1985...
- Posted November 16, 2016
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“Exo-Man”: This failed 1977 TV pilot featured a wobbly superhero who only used “psychological terror”
On June 18, 1977, the NBC network aired a two-hour TV pilot called Exo-Man which its creators had hoped would be picked up for a weekly series for the 1977-’78 fall season. Alas, audiences weren’t keen on...
- Posted August 25, 2016
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“Really Weird Tales”: SCTV alumni were the best thing about HBO’s short-lived 1986 anthology sketch series
Thirty years ago, in the fall of 1986, the HBO network aired three 30-minute episodes of a brand new anthology sketch comedy series, called “Really Weird Tales,” which featured Second City TV alumnus among the show’s cast,...
- Posted August 10, 2016
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