Four Television Series That Deserved a Second Season
Even though I like watching television, I rarely watch a show when it first airs. This is because networks have very short leashes and I have no interest in getting invested in a series only to see a cancellation after only a few episodes.
To be fair, there are plenty of series out there that probably shouldn't have even gotten to a first season but there are also just as many that were cancelled out of impatience despite plenty of shows taking more than one season to find their audience (M*A*S*H comes to mind).
Here are four I personally think should have been given more than one season.
Forever (2014)
I love a good mystery and this Ioan Gruffudd-led series about a doctor who, much like a video game character, respawns whenever he is killed, had plenty of them. Why couldn't he die? How old was he? Why did he always respawn near water? Throw in the fact it was also a crime drama, and you have a series that, if given more time, could have gone down a number of different roads, even if the season 1 finale (which also proved to be the series finale) answered some of the burning questions.
TailSpin (1990)
I only very recently learned this animated show only had one season because, there were 65 half-hour episodes produced over the course of that season, and it felt like it lasted longer as a result.
What can I say, this show had everything - familiar Disney characters in a new setting, airplanes, pirates and even a will-they-or-won't-they relationship between Baloo (Ed Gilbert) and his boss, Becky (Sally Struthers).
Battlestar Galactica (1978)
I can understand why production costs would cause ABC to get nervous and pull the plug on this science fiction show after just 24 episodes (and after only 10 during the first attempted reboot in 1980). However, I've never been convinced this series about a group of humans trying to escape a cybernetic race wouldn't have repaid their patience had they shown it.
Just the cast alone, with veterans like Lorne Greene and Dirk Benedict should have given this show at least one more season to right the ship (pun sort of intended). After all, the second reboot of the series lasted four seasons and resulted in a short-lived spin-off.
The Voyagers (1982)
I haven't seen this series since I was seven, but it made such an impression on me, I can still recite some scenes from it.
The NBC show, about a time traveler (Jon-Erik Hexum) who is tasked with keeping the history timeline running correctly and the 12-year-old boy (Meeno Peluce) he accidentally kidnaps was a victim of circumstance, having its much-hyped debut episode delayed because of the World Series and going head-to-head with CBS juggernaut 60 Minutes, which in turn led to it being a ratings flop. Had the show been given a better timeslot and a re-do on its marketing budget, I think it could have easily turned things around.
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