25 TV Shows That Only Lasted A Few Episodes
Some TV shows can continue on for years while others have an extremely brief run before getting cancelled. Here are 25 of them.
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- CreatorMike MilliganJay MoriartyStarsMarla GibbsLarry LinvilleLiz TorresThe misadventures of Florence Johnson, a hotel maid who was previously seen serving the Jeffersons.
- CreatorGy WaldronStarsSonny ShroyerSamuel E. WrightJohn DehnerThe big-city adventures of Officer Enos Strate of Hazzard County.
- CreatorGeorge BurdittMartin RipsMichael RossStarsJohn RitterMary CadoretteAlan CampbellJack Tripper's co-habitation with Vicky Bradford is complicated by her hostile father's interference as Jack's landlord.
- CreatorSteven E. de SouzaAllan BalterHarve BennettStarsPeter BartonLouis Gossett Jr.Amy SteelThe adventures of high-school student Matthew Star, who is actually a superpowered alien Prince from another world.
- StarsRedd FoxxDennis BurkleyMarguerite RayThe further adventures of Fred Sanford, featuring the old cast, except for Lamont; Fred has a new partner and a new girlfriend.
- CreatorGary JacobsStarsMargaret ChoAmy HillJodi LongFollows the culture clashes that occurred between a traditional Korean mother and her fully-Americanized daughter.
- CreatorNorman LearStarsJohn AmosLynnie GodfreyT.E. RussellA Black family, the Cumberbatches, moves into the former Queens home of Archie Bunker years after Bunker had sold the house located at 704 Hauser Street.
- StarsChevy ChaseRon RussRobert TownsendChevy Chase hosts his own short-lived talk show.
- CreatorSusan HarrisStarsBetty WhiteRue McClanahanEstelle GettyAfter Dorothy remarries and moves away, Blanche, Rose, and Sophia open a hotel called The Golden Palace.
- CreatorBob BrunnerGarry MarshallArthur SilverStarsNancy WalkerCaren KayeEddie MekkaGruff but loving Nancy Blansky is busy housing, mothering, and even choreographing for a hotel's showgirls--while providing a home for her nephews, dancer Joey and 12-year-old junior-womanizer Anthony.
- CreatorMort LachmanSy RosenStarsWhoopi GoldbergJean StapletonJames GammonSitcom based on the 1987 indie hit "Bagdad Café" follows two women, a desert motel/diner owner and her guest whose husbands just left them, as they slowly develop a rocky friendship. Several colorful characters live there as well.
- CreatorSteven BochcoWilliam M. FinkelsteinStarsAnne BobbyBarbara BossonDavid GianopoulosThe musical adventures of a police force.
- CreatorJames KomackStarsSusan BlanchardJune AngelaGene ProfanatoTaro, a single father, relocates because of business from Japan to Chicago. Conservative Taro wants a traditional nanny for his children Aki and Sachi. But he gets Nebraska born Tina, who challenges his orthodox ways.
- CreatorRon LeavittArthur SilverStarsJoseph BolognaMatt LeBlancJoey Lauren AdamsA spin-off with characters from the "Married...with Children" series. Intellectually-challenged Vinnie and his chronically-unemployed father share an apartment. Re-worked the following year as "Vinnie and Bobby."
- CreatorRon LeavittArthur SilverStarsMatt LeBlancRobert TortiJohn PinetteA re-tooled continuation of the "Top of the Heap" TV series, which was also a spinoff of characters from "Married...with Children."
- StarsMichael KeatonDick ShawnSwoosie KurtzAfter Mary Tyler Moore's long-running sitcom ended, she ventured into comedy-variety. This was one of her attempts. It follows the same formula used in such shows as Carol Burnett. There are comedy sketches, musical numbers, and behind-the-scenes sketches; also, Mary performs a comedy routine or a musical number.
- StarsMary Tyler MooreMichael KeatonMichael LombardBeloved sitcom star Mary Tyler Moore hosts an American variety show that aired on CBS during the spring of 1979.
- CreatorDavid IsaacsKen LevineStarsMary Tyler MooreJames FarentinoJohn AstinThis time Moore portrays 40-something divorcee Mary Brenner who, after the fashion magazine she was writing for goes out of business, is reduced to writing a consumer-assistance column called Helpline for The Chicago Eagle, a seedy tabloid.
- CreatorJerry MayerStarsLisa HartmanRobert UrichMel StewartThis spin-off of Bewitched (1964) follows Tabitha Stephens; Samantha and Darrin's daughter as an adult.
- CreatorAlan SpencerMel BrooksStarsCloris LeachmanHarvey KormanBrian McNamaraThis short-lived comedy dealt with the day to day lives of the staff and (rare) guests in a New York hotel that had fallen on hard times.
- CreatorJoe GannonPatt SheaHarriett WeissStarsSally StruthersBurgess MeredithJo de WinterThis spin-off of "All in the Family" features the further adventures of Gloria Stivic and her son Joey. She and Mike are separated and she's gotten a job in a veterinarian's office.
- StarsBilly ConnollyMarie MarshallClara BryantA Scottish teacher named Billy MacGregor moves to the United States to build a new life for himself.
- StarsStockard ChanningRon SilverSydney GoldsmithA slightly kooky divorcée named Susan Goodenow (Stockard Channing), tries to make a life for herself in Los Angeles, California, but she is an assistant to an overbearing television consumer advocate.
- CreatorJames BurrowsGlen CharlesLes CharlesStarsDan HedayaJean KasemTimothy WilliamsNick Tortelli, "Cheers" barmaid Carla Tortelli's loutish husband, moves to Las Vegas to try to reconcile with his bimbo second wife Loretta, who now lives with her more sensible divorced sister Charlotte and nephew Mark.
- CreatorBob Carroll Jr.Madelyn DavisStarsLucille BallGale GordonAnn DusenberryLucy Barker is a grandmother who constantly gets into comedic predicaments while living with her daughter's family.