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Best One Season TV shows

Posted on 12/19/25 at 1:32 pm
Posted by EPORE
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Posted on 12/19/25 at 1:32 pm
I know there are many One season planned limited series, but I am speaking of One Season shows that got cancelled after only one season.
Here are three that I really liked:
1. Firefly - I have literally watched this series five times through and cant believe it got cancelled. The movie Serenity was a nice concession, but would have loved to have seen these characters developed over several seasons.
2. Awake - this was a really cool show about a detective that would switch between two alternate realities every time he went to sleep. In one reality his wife was alive, but son died in a car accident. In the other the son was alive, and the wife died in the accident. You never really knew which reality was "real" and he would use clues from one reality to solve cases in the other.
3. Alcatraz - this was a show about how all the inmates and guards from Alcatraz vanished in 1963, but then began re-appearing in current day San Fran, having never aged. The show was investigating what happened and kind of focused on one case per week, it was actually really cool.
This post was edited on 12/19/25 at 1:36 pm
Posted by SUB
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Posted on 12/19/25 at 1:35 pm to
Freaks and Geeks

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Posted on 12/19/25 at 1:38 pm to
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Freaks and Geeks

Linda Cardellini, hello...
Posted by PillageUrVillage
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Posted on 12/19/25 at 1:39 pm to
Wish we could have gotten another season of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.
Posted by SlowFlowPro
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Posted on 12/19/25 at 1:41 pm to
Rubicon
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Posted by EPORE
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Posted on 12/19/25 at 1:46 pm to
Treadstone - the spin-off from the Bourne films about sleeper agents waking up-- that was a great show
Posted by TigerFanatic99
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Posted on 12/19/25 at 2:06 pm to
Crisis
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Posted on 12/19/25 at 2:07 pm to
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Posted by sqerty
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Posted on 12/19/25 at 2:30 pm to
Terriers

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Taboo - one of my all-time favorite shows. They still claim to be making another season. Ha, yeah right.
This post was edited on 12/19/25 at 2:33 pm
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Posted on 12/19/25 at 2:35 pm to
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Posted by VinegarStrokes
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Posted on 12/19/25 at 2:35 pm to
I don't know if it was intended to be one season or if it was intended to be a limited series, but the HBO series The Night Of was really good. It came out in that Serial/Making a Murderer hay day but I enjoyed it.
Posted by stout
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Posted on 12/19/25 at 2:57 pm to
The Black Donnellys
Posted by ISEN_AG
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Posted on 12/19/25 at 4:33 pm to
Obligatory: Firefly
I also really liked Caprica, the prequel show to BSG, and wished it lasted longer.
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
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Posted on 12/19/25 at 4:39 pm to
I liked The Riches with Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver.
Posted by blueboy
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Posted on 12/19/25 at 5:01 pm to
It's Firefly, and only because of a perfect storm of bad marketing and cable TV fragmenting audiences. Otherwise, if the show was good, it would have lasted longer.
Posted by HueyLongJr
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Posted on 12/19/25 at 5:06 pm to
The Job with Denis Leary. Tighter, lighter version of Rescue Me.
Posted by Madking
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Posted on 12/19/25 at 5:37 pm to
Quarry
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Posted by tirebiter
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Posted on 12/19/25 at 5:43 pm to
quote:

Terriers

(Wikipedia link)

Taboo - one of my all-time favorite shows. They still claim to be making another season. Ha, yeah right.


I bestow double 5* on both of these shows, fn sucks they were never renewed or brought back later.
Posted by Hetfield
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Posted on 12/19/25 at 5:49 pm to
Hello Ladies-HBO. Hilarious
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