ENTER: One Hit Wonders Avatar Contest

[Carpe Occasio]

I'm either going with

or

Remo, definitely.

Can I be of assistance?

The giant Earthship Ark, drifting through deep space over 800 years into the far future.

Its passengers, the descendants of the last survivors of the dead planet Earth, locked in separate worlds, heading for destruction.

Unless three young people can save...

Excellent!

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

i'll go with Remo.

Thanks, all

 

[Showdown]

 

[od0_ital]

Alright, I'm goin' with Bionic Woman (2007) -

 

[Kirkman1987]

So deserving of a proper franchise.

 

[Carpe Occasio]

So deserving of a proper franchise.

I loved that movie!

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

! Beat me to it!

Manimal -- Sept. 30-Dec. 17, 1983

OMG, what a blast from the past!

The mother of all "cancelled after one season"-scifi shows:

And no, "Galactica 1980" does not count!

Also, though I realize it technically had two seasons, some Twin Peaks:

If it's okay to forget 2nd seasons, I'm going with Alien Nation.

There were subsequent TV-movies, but they kept me hanging on that show-ending cliffhanger for five long years until I finally got them.

A lot of great (and awful ) memories here, cool.

 

[Ethros]

Probably won't get a tonne of votes, but I loved this show

Now & Again, 1999-2000

 

[Admiral Shran]

I think my avatar will work pretty good for this contest. So deserving of a sequel....

 

[auntiehill]

Probably won't get a tonne of votes, but I loved this show

Now & Again, 1999-2000

That WAS an awesome show. *sigh*

 

[LitmusDragon]

Invasion from 2005

Here's William Fichtner as Tom Underlay, looking suitably creepy.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Invasion from 2005

Here's William Fichtner as Tom Underlay, looking suitably creepy.

Vote!

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Also, though I realize it technically had two seasons, some Twin Peaks:

If it's okay to forget 2nd seasons, I'm going with Alien Nation.

There were subsequent TV-movies, but they kept me hanging on that show-ending cliffhanger for five long years until I finally got them.

A lot of great (and awful ) memories here, cool.

On that note, a variant of my Twin Peaks avatar*:

*since I found out the facebook-group damn good coffee basically uses the same picture and words.

 

[Andrew_Kearley]

 

[Worf2DS9]

So deserving of a proper franchise.

I loved that movie!

I just watched that this weekend! Definitely wished there'd been a sequel.

 

[Klaus]

Well the winners are already posted, but here's one that might get a couple:

 

[Carpe Occasio]

If it's okay to forget 2nd seasons, I'm going with Alien Nation.

The Alien Nation TV series only lasted one season. The movies were just that, movies. I think you're good.

Did you know that there was supposed to be a second season of UFO, dealing exclusively with the moonbase operations, but it got pulled at the last minute and morphed into Space: 1999?!

 

[Klaus]

Did you know that there was supposed to be a second season of UFO, dealing exclusively with the moonbase operations, but it got pulled at the last minute and morphed into Space: 1999?!

As a longtime UFO fan, I believe that's actually a myth, though the sets were recycled in several cases. You'll also hear that S:1999 was a sequel set in the same universe, which is also not true.

 

[Carpe Occasio]

Did you know that there was supposed to be a second season of UFO, dealing exclusively with the moonbase operations, but it got pulled at the last minute and morphed into Space: 1999?!

As a longtime UFO fan, I believe that's actually a myth, though the sets were recycled in several cases. You'll also hear that S:1999 was a sequel set in the same universe, which is also not true.

Interesting. Here's the full quote from Wikipedia (yes, I know) that I paraphrased from -

"Two years after the 26 episodes were completed, the series was syndicated on American television and the ratings were initially promising enough to prompt ITC to commission a second season of UFO. As the Moon-based episodes appeared to have proven more popular than the Earth-based stories, ITC insisted that in the new season, the action would take place entirely on the Moon. Gerry Anderson proposed a format in which SHADO Moonbase had been greatly enlarged to become the organisation's main headquarters, and pre-production on UFO 2 began with extensive research and design for the new Moonbase. These developments were not without precedent in the earlier episodes: a subplot of "Kill Straker!" sees Straker negotiating with SHADO's financial supporters for funding to build more moonbases within 10 years. However, when ratings for the syndicated broadcasts in America dropped towards the end of the run, ITC got cold feet and cancelled the second season plans. Unwilling to let the UFO 2 pre-production work go to waste, Anderson instead offered ITC a new series idea, unrelated to UFO, in which the Moon would be blown out of Earth orbit taking the Moonbase survivors with it. This proposal developed into Space: 1999."

I guess it didn't really morph into Space: 1999 as much as the sets, as you said, were recycled.

 

[od0_ital]

No Birds of Prey or Blade: The Series yet? What's up with that?