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Offline thundley4

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Re: Television's 10 Worst Series Finales of All-Time
« Reply #25 on: April 05, 2009, 04:55:52 PM »
Quote from: bijou on April 05, 2009, 04:29:26 PM
That's the one.  If you haven't seen it, give it a go I remember it as being  good.

I'll have to download the pilot and check it out.
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Re: Television's 10 Worst Series Finales of All-Time
« Reply #26 on: April 05, 2009, 05:06:14 PM »
MASH was mentioned, but as a good or bad series. Seems to me, statrted out "good" wuitth the movie boost in everyone's mind, ended up awful, with the smugness of certain characters.....

Babylon 5 was, I thought, exceptionally well done for a TV series, including the writing. As was FARSCAPE , WITH A FEW crappy shows, but, hell, who's perfect?

X-Filse, ran hot and cold, but I laughed a lot with the Charles Nelson Reilly show....they knew not to take themselves too sereously.

And then there's Quantum Leap, one of the better shows, and I enjoyed the waythey poked fun at themselves too.

As for the Olden Days, Mary Tyler Moore, awful, Gilligan's Island, crap, but nice chick, that Dawn, wasn't she? Eight is Enough, "hated it!", Same My Three Sons, The Brady Bunch, would send me screaming from the room. 

Seinfeld bored me, so I don't think I ever sat thru a complete "episode". And there were plenty WORSE that I've blocked from my memory almost completely, a couple with Pam Anderson, I think, and many many more thtat figure in trivia games.]
The good thing about horrid TV is that I read a WHOLE lot of books over the years....
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Re: Television's 10 Worst Series Finales of All-Time
« Reply #27 on: April 05, 2009, 05:22:38 PM »
Does anybody remember "My Living Doll" starring Julie Newmar as Rhoda the Robot and Bob Cummings as her unwitting "owner"?  It predated "Batman" and her Catwoman role.  Julie was always in a towel.  It was largely responsible for my heterosexuality (I was an impressionable boy at 8).
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Re: Television's 10 Worst Series Finales of All-Time
« Reply #28 on: April 05, 2009, 05:32:56 PM »
There's something there among my few flickering nurons.....didn't Cummings have one of those very early airplane-car things with detachable wings?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2550902895914120566

I believe 4 of 5 untimately crashed, with fatal results in at leaast one case.
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Re: Television's 10 Worst Series Finales of All-Time
« Reply #29 on: April 05, 2009, 05:42:23 PM »
Quote from: Peter3_1 on April 05, 2009, 05:32:56 PM
There's something there among my few flickering nurons.....didn't Cummings have one of those very early airplane-car things with detachable wings?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2550902895914120566

I believe 4 of 5 untimately crashed, with fatal results in at leaast one case.

The aerocar/Cummings connection doesn't ring a bell with me.  It sounds plausible.  He was a wild and crazy uptight conservative guy.  He couldn't even get along with Newmar and quit the show after the first of it's two seasons.  I don't remember who replaced him.  Maybe Jerry Van Dyke.  Jerry was the default TV actor of the day.

Jerry Van Dyke, until "Coach", was one of those actors repeatedly forced down our throats (like McLean Stephenson).  We were suppose to like him because he was Dick's brother.  And he was likable, just not particularly endearing.   
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Re: Television's 10 Worst Series Finales of All-Time
« Reply #30 on: April 05, 2009, 05:59:40 PM »
MacGyver

Friends

Quantum Leap

Star Trek: Deep Space 9

Star Trek: Voyager

(I'm betting the Enterprise ending sucked, too, but I never saw it, so I don't know for sure.)

Xena: Warrior Princess
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Re: Television's 10 Worst Series Finales of All-Time
« Reply #31 on: April 05, 2009, 06:09:05 PM »
I never liked Dyke van Dick in any roll much less Jerry. The least offensive roll Dick was/is in ; "Diagnosis, Murder" , possibly it was by comparison to the other supposed "offerings" on in the same time slot.

Oh, the worse ever program that was ever produced, or will be, is "The View" which I am forced to watch/listen thu during physical therapy. The lady therapist insists on having it on, but the sheer idiocy has an adverse effect on my Blood pressure.
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Re: Television's 10 Worst Series Finales of All-Time
« Reply #32 on: April 05, 2009, 11:58:10 PM »
HBO's Deadwood. I mean, like, WTF was that?

Quote from: Toastedturningtidelegs on April 03, 2009, 08:38:30 AM
The Sopranos series finale really pissed me off!

I actually could kinda appreciate the Sopranos' ending.

I guessed the writers felt that us viewers were invited in each week to witness, somewhat voyueristicly and up close, the various goings on of a mob family and others connected with it. We watched each week as all kinds of sh%& went down that we would never normally get to see in real life. Heck, I couldn't wait till next week's episode to find out who was gonna get whacked next.

Well we were at the final episode, we knew it was the end, but didn't know how was it gonna go down. We sat on the edge of the seat, hell, we may as well been sitting in the same booth with Tony, Carmela, and the kids. Would Tony get whacked, not get whacked, is it gonna be the guy sitting in the other booth, the truck driver sitting at the counter? Guy goes into the Men's room...comes out...and bang!

You, the viewer, just got smoked. 

Just like a lot of the others who got bumped throughout the series, you didn't see it coming.
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Re: Television's 10 Worst Series Finales of All-Time
« Reply #33 on: April 06, 2009, 10:21:29 AM »
Quote from: Lord Undies on April 05, 2009, 05:42:23 PM
The aerocar/Cummings connection doesn't ring a bell with me.  It sounds plausible.  He was a wild and crazy uptight conservative guy.  He couldn't even get along with Newmar and quit the show after the first of it's two seasons.  I don't remember who replaced him.  Maybe Jerry Van Dyke.  Jerry was the default TV actor of the day.

Jerry Van Dyke, until "Coach", was one of those actors repeatedly forced down our throats (like McLean Stephenson).  We were suppose to like him because he was Dick's brother.  And he was likable, just not particularly endearing.   

His brother Barry is the reson that no one likes the 4th and final season of "Airwolf" among other things too.
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Re: Television's 10 Worst Series Finales of All-Time
« Reply #34 on: April 07, 2009, 10:45:30 PM »
another super sucky ending would have to be the ending of Jericho. 
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Re: Television's 10 Worst Series Finales of All-Time
« Reply #35 on: April 10, 2009, 10:03:38 AM »
Six Feet Under.  That final montage, when Claire puts in the CD, and the entire lives of all the cast rolls by was one of the greatest moments in television history.   :cheersmate:
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