One show that I think should have never been canceled was Nero Wolfe. It had great mysteries and an incredible style. There was so much 
attention to detail and the effort was worthwhile. I loved how the show created a world with bold colors and even bolder characters.
I think having a repertory cast (using the same actors every week, but cast in different roles) was its greatest strength and its greatest weakness. The actors were amazing and I was continually impressed at how one actor could become a completely different person week after week. However, a repertory cast is confusing for a TV audience. If I clicked over to see the show and saw the same people from last week, I would think it was a repeat.
These days Nero Wolfe is part of my Christmas tradition. I watch “Christmas Party” when I’m wrapping presents.
Yes, this is why my gifts look like a homicidal maniac wrapped them.
What about you? Name a TV show that should have never been canceled.
Through the years there have a few that I enjoyed and wished were not cancelled… One was Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman… another that did not have much of a chance was Legacy…
Sorry to say that I am not familiar with Nero Wolfe…
“Life” with Damian Lewis should have never been canceled. I also wish Veronica Mars wasn’t canceled so soon.
When the X-Files entered it’s 8th season, and David Duchovny didn’t want to be in the whole season, for the first half we had him flying around after getting abducted by aliens, a bit before his return, we saw the spinoff series with the Lone Gunmen characters, called, well, The Lone Gunmen. Dear lord did I love that show.
I loved the X-files, don’t get me wrong, but it was way more up my alley — it was funnier than the X-Files (they had their episodes, but the LGM were always funny), they didn’t go through the yucky stuck or alien stuff, but your more grounded conspiracies (not that I’m a conspiracy buff, just easier to follow from week to week instead of trying to remember all this stuff related to the alien conspiracy), and vastly more techy, since they were the guys that Mulder and Scully went to when they needed some tech help once in a while. Loved it.
But it only lasted 11 or 12 episodes. . . but we did get a wrap up episode at the end of the 9th season of the X-Files. . . where they freaking killed them off. Still utter p-oed about that.
Not that I’m bitter or anything still.
Lois
Colleen, I haven’t heard of Legacy. I totally missed that series!
Jane, I saw Life only after it was canceled! It had such promise.
Lois, I can’t believe they killed everyone off as the series finale! That would make me sooo mad!