TV Series with short lives
Cancelled too soon , many never "caught on" but were good while they lasted. Many had big stars in them. These are shows with not that many episodes.
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- CreatorJim AbrahamsDavid ZuckerJerry ZuckerStarsLeslie NielsenAlan NorthEd WilliamsSight gags, puns and non-sequiturs ensue as bumbling Sgt. Det. Lt. Frank Drebin and his colleagues at Police Squad solve various puzzling cases.
- CreatorJeffrey Grant RiceStarsDarren McGavinSimon OaklandJack GrinnageCarl Kolchak is a reporter for a Chicago newspaper. Through more accident than design he ends up investigating homicides, many of which involve supernatural forces. Ultimately, rather than reporting on the crimes, he solves them.
- CreatorJackie GleasonStarsJackie GleasonArt CarneyAudrey MeadowsA bus driver and his sewer worker friend struggle to strike it rich while their wives look on with weary patience.
- CreatorSteven LilienElizabeth SarnoffBryan WynbrandtStarsSarah JonesJorge GarciaJonny CoyneIn 1963, all the prisoners and guards mysteriously disappear from Alcatraz. In the present day, they resurface and a secret agency are tasked with re-capturing them.
- CreatorGwen BagniPaul DubovStarsAnne FrancisJohn EricsonBruceAfter her father's death, Honey West takes over his high-tech private-detective firm, assisted by rugged Sam Bolt--and her pet ocelot Bruce.
- CreatorAlan SpencerStarsDavid RascheAnne-Marie MartinHarrison PageThe adventures of a deranged and dumb police detective who always looks for the most violent solution to any problem.
- CreatorBruno HellerWilliam J. MacDonaldJohn MiliusStarsKevin McKiddRay StevensonPolly WalkerA down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.
- CreatorJoe LawsonJosh GordonWill SpeckStarsBill EnglishNick KrollKaitlin DoubledayA trio of Neanderthals struggles to live in modern-day America.
- CreatorJosh FriedmanStarsLena HeadeyThomas DekkerSummer GlauSet after the events in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Sarah Connor and her son, John, try to stay under-the-radar from the government, as they plot to destroy the computer network, Skynet, in hopes of preventing Armageddon.
- StarsRichard PryorRobin WilliamsEdie McClurgAn American comedy series hosted by comedian Richard Pryor
- CreatorKevin WilliamsonStarsFreddie StromaJosh BowmanWill ChaseThe adventures of young H.G. Wells and his time machine.
- CreatorRichard LevinsonWilliam LinkStarsJim HuttonDavid WayneTom ReeseThe son of a police detective solves baffling crimes.
- CreatorAnthony WilsonStarsGeorge PeppardRalph ManzaMurray MathesonThe adventures of proud Polish-American freelance insurance investigator Thomas Banacek.
- CreatorJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsGeorge O'HanlonJanet WaldoMel BlancThe misadventures of a futuristic family.
- CreatorMatt WilliamsCarmen FinestraDavid McFadzeanStarsDan AykroydAnthony ClarkKevin SheridanAn widowed Episcopal priest struggles with being a single father at home, while dealing with the situations at his Church.
- CreatorSam SimonStarsGeorge CarlinAlex RoccoPaige FrenchFollows New York cabdriver George O'Grady. He adds his theories on government conspiracies and alien visitations to his trips.
- CreatorDouglas KenneyChris MillerHarold RamisStarsJohn VernonStephen FurstBruce McGillThe raucous exploits of Faber College's Delta House Fraternity in 1962.
- CreatorMichael SchurStarsKristen BellWilliam Jackson HarperJameela JamilFour people and their otherworldly frienemy struggle in the afterlife to define what it means to be good.not that many episodes
- CreatorJohn BoniMel BrooksNorman StilesStarsDick GautierDick Van PattenBernie KopellSet in Sherwood Forest, in which Robin Hood, Maid Marian and Robin's band of merry men fight heroically against their enemies, the nasty Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham.
- StarsRonald HowardHoward Marion-CrawfordArchie DuncanThe adventures of master detective Sherlock Holmes as he and his assistant, Dr. Watson--and, somewhat reluctantly, the bumbling Inspector Lestrade--battle criminals in London.
- CreatorGeorge LucasStarsSean Patrick FlaneryGeorge HallCorey CarrierThe adventures of the archaeological treasure hunter in his youth as related by an elderly Indiana Jones.
- StarsRichard RoundtreeEddie BarthJudie SteinBased on the films of the same name, John Shaft is a two-fisted black private eye modeled on Mike Hammer and Phillip Marlowe.
- CreatorAllan BurnsChris HaywardStarsJerry Van DykeMaggie PierceAnn SothernThe story of the relationship between a man and his mother, the latter having been reincarnated as a 1928 Porter automobile.
- CreatorGlenn Gordon CaronStarsCybill ShepherdBruce WillisAllyce BeasleyAn ex-model and a smart-aleck detective manage a private detective agency.not a great number of episodes
- CreatorRichard WarlowStarsMatthew MacfadyenAdam RothenbergMyAnna BuringThe streets of Whitechapel are the haunt of Detective Inspector Edmund Reid and his team of officers, who aim to maintain law and order in a place once terrorized by Jack the Ripper.