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re: Most popular or impactful/influential shows that had surprisingly few seasons?
Posted on 10/22/20 at 5:23 pm to ProjectP2294
Posted on 10/22/20 at 5:23 pm to ProjectP2294
quote:The documentary on this show is interesting. I had no idea that Carell and Colbert were the voices of Ace and Gary.
The Dana Carvey Show.
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Posted on 10/22/20 at 7:26 pm to saintsfan22
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Tracey Ullman Show
This is a good answer because it changed the way we view comedy/skit shows as at the time it was just basically SNL.
I think In Living Color copied it after Ullman went off the air.
I think it was a show ahead of its time and while I'm not a huge modern female comedian fan who just talk about their sex life on stage...Ullman I definitely was a big fan, she was a genius comedian.
Posted on 10/22/20 at 8:03 pm to Kafka
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Honeymooners - 1 season* (Of course it ran for many years as part of Gleason's variety show, but for thirty years "The Classic 39" were the only episodes shown in reruns).
I didn’t know that. Interesting.
Posted on 10/22/20 at 8:06 pm to TheRock
Twin peaks and Lost both popularized the "serialization" format
Posted on 10/22/20 at 8:30 pm to MF Doom
quote:Continuing story arcs go back to soaps like Peyton Place and Dallas, but it was Hill Street Blues that really popularized it for non-soaps
Twin peaks and Lost both popularized the "serialization" format
Posted on 10/22/20 at 9:05 pm to drizztiger
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Firefly
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Posted on 10/22/20 at 9:25 pm to PsychTiger
Smothers Brothers
Posted on 10/22/20 at 9:43 pm to SoFla Tideroller
Playmakers
Posted on 10/22/20 at 11:07 pm to TheRock
If you want influential for length then I offer
Monty Python's Flying Circus: 4 seasons 45 episodes. Nothing can compare to the impact this group had on comedy.
Honorable mention: Fawlty Towers
Monty Python's Flying Circus: 4 seasons 45 episodes. Nothing can compare to the impact this group had on comedy.
Honorable mention: Fawlty Towers
Posted on 10/23/20 at 5:48 am to Kafka
I was going to say Twin Peaks, but thinking back, the writers just seemed to be winging it on season 2. I think they should have wrapped it up in one season and moved on to a new project.
I hated to see In Living Color end. I think it was only a couple of years
I hated to see In Living Color end. I think it was only a couple of years
Posted on 10/23/20 at 8:54 am to TheRock
Jericho
Probably the original show that popularized the post-apocalyptic drama.
Probably the original show that popularized the post-apocalyptic drama.
Posted on 10/23/20 at 9:00 am to MF Doom
quote:
Twin peaks and Lost both popularized the "serialization" format
Twin Peaks did more than that. They launched the dark, quirky drama genre. X-Files, Norther Exposure, Picket Fences, Carnivale, Legion, True Detective... all of those WB and CW series that touched on the supernatural...
Silence of the Lambs and Twin Peaks set all of that in motion.
Posted on 10/23/20 at 10:07 am to TheRock
Police squad!
Sledgehammer!
Firefly
Sledgehammer!
Firefly
Posted on 10/23/20 at 10:21 am to Fewer Kilometers
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Silence of the Lambs and Twin Peaks set all of that in motion.
I'd say they picked up the baton The Twilight Zone dropped when it went off the air.
Posted on 10/23/20 at 10:38 am to tigervet4
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Nothing can compare to the impact this group had on comedy.
I think this is true for the States, but England had the Goon Show before Python and it heavily influenced them. Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Marty Feldman, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, and David Frost were all doing similar humor before Monty Python came onto the scene. Probably two reasons why this type of humor came out of England instead of the States - the class system, and the very difficult times that England experienced in WWI and WWII.
Posted on 10/23/20 at 11:30 am to LittleJerrySeinfield
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I'd say they picked up the baton The Twilight Zone dropped when it went off the air.
With Kolchak as the link between them.
Chris Carter kept trying to get Darren McGavin to appear on X-Files, as Mulder's father and other assorted roles. McGavin finally agreed to do a role in the middle of the series run. The casting director said that Carter kept bugging him to get McGavin cast, but McGavin was never available until mid-series.
Posted on 10/23/20 at 2:39 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
quote:
This is a good answer because it changed the way we view comedy/skit shows as at the time it was just basically SNL.
Most importantly, the Tracy Ullman Show gave us this lovable yellow genius and crew..
This post was edited on 10/23/20 at 2:41 pm
Posted on 10/23/20 at 10:03 pm to TheRock
Firefly. Damn you, Fox.
Posted on 10/24/20 at 12:50 am to Kafka
quote:
Wiki's article on "The Great Rural Purge",
Interesting read.
Posted on 10/24/20 at 9:07 am to RollTide1987
quote:
Star Trek (1966-69).
First thing I thought of
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