Single Season Classics

[Megotastrophe]

What television shows do we consider classics even though they only lasted one seson or less? And not counting miniseries. Here is where we put Serenity, POTA, and Logan's Run. Let's hear your top three.

[PNGwynne]

Green Hornet

[J.B.]

Just got 2: Battlestar Galactica '78 and Freaks and Geeks

[Bruce Banner]

Battlestar Galactica (I don't count Galactica 1980 as a second season)
Planet of the Apes
Logan's Run

Honourable mentions:

V (the ongoing series which followed the two mini-series only lasted one season)
Street Hawk
Wizards and Warriors
The Man From Atlantis (the series which followed the four TV movies only lasted one season)
The Prisoner
Quark

[PNGwynne]

Action (1999)

[Earth 2 Chris]

The Flash (1990-91)
Kolchak: The Night Stalker

[Confessional]

Apes (of course!) and two shows cancelled by corporate idiocy, Chris Carter's The Lone Gunmen and Harsh Realm. Dig 'em!

[sprytel]

Rather than repeat ones that have already been said, these are ones I really loved as a kid. I have never revisited them to see if they hold up.

Tales of the Golden Monkey
Max Headroom (the ABC series)
American Gothic

[sprytel]

Action (1999)

I forgot about that show! Good call.

[RonnyG]

Some of these classic Sid & Marty Krofft series only lasted a season:
HR Pufnstuf
Lidsville
The Bugaloos
Electra Woman and Dyna Girl

[PNGwynne]

HRP, Hoodoo, Witchipoo, EW & DG would be great Megos beside Land of the Lost!!

[PNGwynne]

... I have never revisited them to see if they hold up.

Tales of the Golden Monkey

I still enjoy it.

[YoungOnce]

As others have mentioned, I would have loved to have seen more seasons of:
Firefly (just an amazing show)
Kolchak the Night Stalker

I don’t know if it qualifies because it was just a segment in a show, but Electra Woman and Dyna Girl was fun Saturday morning fare that came and went too quickly. Also, The Herculoids… that show hit my sweet spot back in the day. It had a second season but those were just reruns of the first season. It would have been an amazing toy line.

[Megotastrophe]

I hadnt thought about Saturday morning shows. It's kind of scary how often a show with 10 to 15 episodes would play continuously for for 2 to 3 years.

[RonnyG]

I hadnt thought about Saturday morning shows. It's kind of scary how often a show with 10 to 15 episodes would play continuously for for 2 to 3 years.

I know, right? I guess back then, they could get away with it because most families didn't own VCRs, so we had to watch it when the network aired it, and if you missed it, you would have to wait about 3-4 months to catch a rerun. Or maybe the episode was really good, and you wanted to watch it again. I remember throwing temper tantrums because my mom would drag me to see my grandpa once a month on a Saturday, making me miss all my Saturday morning cartoons--particularly Josie and the Pussycats! Nowadays we're spoiled with DVDs, youtube and other on-demand services. We can watch them over and over whenever we want.