15 Unforgettable Sci-Fi TV Gems That Were Canceled After One Season And Fans Still Crave For More
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- Love sci-fi but hate cliffhangers? This video dives into 15 incredible sci-fi shows that were tragically cancelled after just one season. From mind-bending alternate realities to thrilling space adventures, discover hidden gems you might have missed. Even though they didn't last, these shows offer complete stories with captivating concepts and exceptional performances. So buckle up and prepare to explore the vast universe of one-and-done sci-fi!
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I was expecting Space: Above and Beyond, UFO and maybe even Star Cops to be mentioned.
Space: Above & Beyond was awesome. It was a damn shame they cancelled it.
Damn right! Space: Above and Beyond was so freaking good! 😎
Throw in Max Headroom as well
Space: Above and Beyond was good(at times great) but i think the studio suits ruined it by not having any logic to the action and injecting trope(US TV) personal issues into what should have been a war story...also there was no logic to how they were set up as a military unit having highly trained ship pilots also being used as ground infantry a better idea would be two casts of pilots and infantry with maybe rivalry between them...
I would love a second season though but only if the writing improved
@wildfire160
Had huge potential, but ended up falling way short.
Missing Odyssey 5. Great scifi series starring Peter Weller.
Lexx was a weird but good show.
Lexx went for 4 seasons though
I would add Automan, Misfits of Science, and Forever. My family had just bought a Commodore 64 when Automan came out and my imagination was working overtime.
Yes indeed. Just imagine the effects could be done with automan.
I always felt that there should've been a moment where Mulder shows Scully X-File #1 and to have that be the events of an actual _'The Night Stalker'_ episode, complete with attribution to Kolchak
I'll throw The Man from Atlanis on the list. I only really remember the episode with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as a giant gold miner in a place where water was invisible.
The video described the Watchmen movie, not the TV series. The TV series was a sequel, set 34 years after the original story. The series also used the comic plot, not the movie plot, with the alien squid instead of Dr. Manhattan as the center of Adrian's plan.
The Phoenix also an excellent short lived series. A few months ago, I watched the complete episodes thanks to folks efforts to preserve and share here on TH-cam. :)
I loved it, and it didn't even make it a full season.
What about V 80's & 200's? Alien Nation? BSG 1978/9? Logan's Run?
Does anyone remember FRINGE ? more than one season , bu yit still disappeared off the face of the earth.
I enjoyed The Night Stalker
The only episode I really remember is the headless horseman one. I liked how he changed with the times and became a biker.
Almost Human was cancelled for THREE reasons. 1. Low ratings. 2. Expensive to make. 3. Bad Robot was settling with The Asimov's Estate, who claimed Almost Human happened to come out shortly after BR had abandoned plans to adapt Asimov's Caves of Steel.
I would have liked to see VR-5 on this list. Lori Singer was super hot, and the concept of using VR to enter another person's mind was interesting.
Greetings from Brazil! Excelent video! I loved!
" has become a popular genre" you silly.
I loved the show Terra Nova and in 2011 after 1 season it was canned I was really disappointed and sad cause I thought it was a amazing tv show with dinosaurs.
Almost human always reminded me of another amazing single season show, called Total Recall 2070. I was heartbroken that the ending cliffhanger was never resolved and where would the show go after the revelations of the last episode
It made me think of Mann and Machine, another cop partnered up with a robot show that only lasted one season
Damn syndication ruined it. Out of order episode presentation and repeated two eps twice.
Crazy coincidence with "The Night Stalker". In the second "movie" "The Night Strangler", Richard Anderson plays the "strangler" who is essentially an alchemist who has discover the secret of immortality. Now, in the pilot movie for "The Six Million Dollar Man" , Darren McGavin plays Oliver Spencer who's responsible for creating the bionics program. In the TV show, the character is renamed Oscar Goldman and played by Richard Anderson.
Both version of Kolchak: The Nightstalker deserved mote. Granted the reboot version deserved to have its full season air on non-cable.
A great collection of shows that never got a chance. I enjoyed Night Gallery, Firefly, Flash Forward, and Terra Nova. For Voyagers! - The name was Phineas Bogg, and there is no 's' at the end. His name was a play on "Phileas Fogg," the hero in "Around the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne.
You forgot the Fantastic Journey (1977). That series was a late 1970s live action science-fiction series that was a prototype version of Sliders (1995) with dimension travel and Stargate (1994) with space travel and a way better version of the Time Tunnel (1966) with time travel. It was the inspiration for all of the dimension machine, space machine, and time machine sci-fi television shows that came later that showed stories about dimensional, spatial and temporal apertures to other dimensions, spaces, and times.
It even had good writing that talked about advanced chemical engineering and advanced genetic engineering five years before Blade Runner (1982) with the main character who was the hero protagonist of the story being an artificially created, genetically engineered, synthetic, human-like humanoid from the far, far distant future of the human race on the Planet Earth whose genetic structure was artificially altered in order to transform him into a super-human being who possesses various super-human powers. The Fantastic Journey was way ahead of its time. Unfortunately, it was a great concept that was horribly executed because of a lack of budget.
Must have watched a heck of a lot of re-runs since I remember watching the Night Stalker for many years. :)
Missing “Threshold (2005)” in the list…
I’m one of those who is still upset about Firefly.
I remember watching The Phoenix with my parents when I was little. We enjoyed it, & its star played a supporting character in Star Trek II.
Avenue 5 was canceled too early. That was a masterpiece.
I agree about Now and Again as well; excellent series and sad it didn't last. Another one was The Cape. :)
1:38. Working on a fan fic where Kolchack visits his family in Sunnydale, CA. Meets a "co-worker" friend of his neice, a guy name of William "Spike" Pratt. Has a conversation with Joyce and Buffy where Carl says, regarding Spike "H, he's a, a vampire!"
Was that Kolchack from 2010 or so, a reboot, remake, or continuation,this Kolchack the namesake of father or uncle?
Invasion - great Sunday evening telly with a glass of wine - before Monday !!
Harsh Realm aired 9 episodes between October 1999 to May 2000
You messed up the description of the watchmen TV series. You described the watchmen the movie not the series!
Firefly's Alliance was a merged from The U.S. and China (not U.S. and Canada as the narrator said). The summary of the Watchmen series was also wrong. They described the plot of the movie/graphic novel, NOT the plot of the series that was basically a sequel set decades later. Rorschach is not in the HBO series.
I loved DEBRIS! And I understood the premise/storyline, it wasn't hard to follow. I loved it, and I was pissed when they cancelled it.
You left out Manimal from the 70s.
80s time travel was well represented pn television by Doctor Who with Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy all starring as the character
ODYSSEY 5 is #2 on my fav list after Firefly. It should have had a mention here.
14:35 That Phoenix arose again, for a short time on Star Trek IV:TWOK.
The Phoenix had Kung-Fu/Incredible Hulk Vibes
Rorschach wasn't on the Watchmen series.
Where is the original V?
2:05: Rip in the ass of his pants 😅😅😅
Firefly was awesome, truly sad it didnt have two more seasons
Cult classic for sure …
Serenity tied up the ends nicely though. One of my all time favorite movies. Firefly was hard to follow (frustrating) b/c they played it out of sequence on purpose. I hate when a station buys a show with no intention of giving it a fair shot. They did the same with American Gothic.
eh. Farscape was way better.
@@pfblack I loved the Friday lineup on the Sci-Fi channel back then! Eureka and Warehouse 13 were the last shows I liked on cable tv. Oh - and Leverage. After that I was out - cable cut!
Seasons 2 through 5 were forgettable. It's like they don't exist
Terra Nova turned into a "kids getting into trouble" show, which didn't help.
You missed "The Event"
How about ' Defying Gravity '. ?
15:06 - Debris isn't a 2011 show, it's a 2021 show ...
3:06 another Robocop,Mann and Machine, Holmes and Yoyo.
Watchman was MEANT to be a miniseries with the possibility of doing spin-offs, like a Looking Glass TV movie, etc.
Dresden files
Ohhh, I loved the Middle Man. Gone too soon.
I was hoping to see Dark Skies and VR.5 on the list.
I would have added the Alien Nation TV series.
Yes to Night Stalker, Almost Human, Firefly, Flash Forward, Voyagers, The Phoenix, Tera Nova, and Debris (maybe Out of this World, never saw it) and No to the rest
2 other ones i loved to see a continuation, second chance and forever
Cant stop thinking that Almost Human verry much inspired or at least influenced Detroit: Become Human. Beside the title there's so many similarities.... Even Minka Kelly plays in both Tv Series and the game...
Colony, highly recommended.
How about Mann & Machine ? or Quark
What about tomorrow's news edition about guy saving people by using.a newspaper he gets from the future.
You're thinking of Early Edition, where the protagonist gets a really early edition of the next day's newspaper and acts to save people based on what the paper says will happen.
Cap-Ra-Ka long vowel sounds bro.
I loved Terra Nova
Too expensive to produce for TV. A common lament for sci-fi shows.
The Original Battlestar Galactica?? Space Above and Beyond?? And Class? That spinoff certainly had far more potential than Doctor Who under Chris Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker at the time! 🤨🙄☹️
What about quark!
4:58 it wasn't a combination of the u.s and canada, it was the u.s. and CHINA
13:12 middle man- loved this show, ...grrrrr trout....🤪🤪🤣🤣🤣
15:00 tera nova-eh, it wasn't bad, it wasn't great, but it wasn't bad.
16:00 debris-again' it wasn't bad, it was a little more interesting than tera nova though
A slight detour from the actual topic, but I actually think The X-Files would have worked better as a single season show with it's ending than the confusion it became.
Earth 2 + Jericho
no love for Dark Skies?
Hated Kolchak.
Loved Almost Human.
Loved Firefly.
Didn't care about Flash Forward.
Loved The Voyagers.
Never saw The Watchmen.
Caprica was Junk.
Never saw Now and Again.
Never ever heard of Harsh.
John Doe was excellent.
Never heard of Middle Man.
The Phoenix was AWESOME.
TerraNova was a waste of time.
Never heard of Debris.
Never heard of Out of This World.
Almost Human brilliant
9:30 Good lord it's pronounced KA pre ka
Nowhere Man starring Bruce Greenwood
🤬 Firefly premiered in 2002 not 2022 !! But hey, 'almost' there right? 🙄 And they were the crew of the 'Serenity' not the 'Firefly', it was a Firefly class ship.
Well, at least he could pronounce 'Now And Again' properly ... unlike 'Capreeka'
As a teenager from the "b" movie midnight sci-fi generation of the 60's and 70's, Kolchek was a great show. Watching an episode recently though informs me why it only lasted 1 season.
Firefly should have been continued. The movie was appreciated but the it got caught in the turmoil of the rise of the internet and there was just too much competition.
Flash Forward was interesting up until the protagonist had his hand crushed. That wasn't why I stopped watching it but it was part of the downward spiral into overly convoluted plot lines that were just too much effort to follow with too little reward.
Voyagers! used very formulaic storylines that could have been pulled from any number of other series'. It could have done ok but the directing was on paar with a Saturday morning kid's show.
Terra Nova had incredibly boring, tedious plotlines...Oh...and there were dinosaurs. Didn't really bring anything to the story. They just were a thing to deal with.
Ca-prick-a
They did a "reboot" for the Night Stalker, and was bad
Everyone commenting here does indeed understand these videos are all artificial intelligence narrations and not actual humans? So the machine will not quite get all the subtle nuances of our language.
Surface. Seven Days.
Despite your implication at the beginning, this video is not narrated by a person, it's an artificially created voice, probably "Genny." I don't like to be lied to, so you get a 👎
CRAP! What about "Special Unit 2"(2001)? What about "Limitless"(2015)? What about "Alphas" (2011)? "The Night Stalker" was also the inspiration for "The X Files". chicken shiite list.
Did you use AI narration? Because "Caprica" is pronounced "CA-prik-ah" not "ca-PREEK-ah". 🙄
11:01 the stupid Eggman show.
Flashforward failed because like a LOT of other US TV it tried to put to much into a mystery to be solved next season instead of a coherent story in the first season...it had all the elements to make it good but all focused on explaining them next season...
Watchmen failed and i say failed because it was mostly bad because it tried to inject modern social and political themes into The Watchmen story in a serious way unlike the parody of the original...flawed though it was the film was way better and the series just disappointing
Ultimately most(but not all) of these failed because of the system that US TV uses to write drama where there`s an insistence on mystery box storytelling to entice the viewer to watch a second season instead of telling a complete story then expanding it for another series
Dr. Who went Woke.
Putting the watchmen series on list invalidates your entire list. Nobody liked Watchmen the series, it was canceled long before the first season was done being aired.
The issue I had with the Watchmen series entry is that is basicly describes the plot of the Watchmen movie and not the series.
I lost any respect for this list when the title of Caprica was completely mispronounced. It not only proved that whomever produced this hadn't watched Caprica, they hadn't watched ANY Battlestar Galactica.
Of course, they did mention The Middleman which I truly miss...
get rid of the barking dog bro
Actually we got second season of Almost Human. It is called The Boys.
Voyagers wouldn’t have lasted anyway because of John Eric Hexums death, he was killed by a prop gun on set by his own hand fooling around with it between shots. I remember Nightstalker and the reboot that was on ABC starring Stewart Townsend (Lestat in Queen of the Damned), I liked both shows but they didn’t catch on. I remember The Phoenix, from the original run, I’m that old. I had so much hope for Debris but the writing was just awful, it was concluded and a waste of the actors talents. They were moving way too slow to get to the point and modern audiences have zero patience for plot lines to pan out. It was a good show, just poorly written.
Firefly was awful.
Modern Doctor Who is total garbage. If I wanna watch Doctor Who I’ll watch the classic shows .
Debris sucked...