One great thing about YouTube is that it has a lot of full runs of short lived shows and I found that it had Nightmare Cafe which only lasted like 6 episodes and debuted in 92. Kind of an anthology series where two deceased people in a diner helped recently departed souls. Loved it as an 11 year old and added it to my list to rewatch. I also liked the concept of Terra Nova (future humans moving back to the Jurassic Era due to pollution) but I think it could be better told in a book form. No Ordinary Family was another along with M.A.N.T.I.S and The Police Academy tv series (yes I’m an unashamed fan of those movies). I guess I’ll throw in the 02 Twilight Zone. Was better than the garbage that Peele did.
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Of the top of my head, I can remember four British TV shows that were picked up by a US network, only to pull its funding part-way through season two and have it canceled. Max Headroom, Robin of Sherwood, Space Precinct and She-Wolf of London. All fucking cult classics.
Space Precinct was a show l loved as a kid. The cyborg episode was amazing when it just showed up and started wrecking shit. Very cliché in the end, but then that's what most shows do, especially for you episodes where all the plot armour suddenly stops working.
I need to check those out. Was Robin of Sherwood the one with the black Friar Tuck?
No, this one had a dual-scimitar-wielding saracen assassin as one of the diversity hire Merry Men.
Oh. Gotcha. Will have to look it up
Add Life on Mars, started out great but was jumbled together at end of season one which caused a crappy ending. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars_(American_TV_series)