The television industry is a vibrant hub of creativity, yet with hundreds of programs on air it can be easy to forget about the ghosts of one-season-wonders past. These days, we have access to thousands of shows at the click of a button, but even back in the good ole days there was too much content to watch it all.
Back in the day NBC, ABC, and CBS were some of the biggest networks of the medium. Though humor and values may have changed, networks have kept pace as the years go on. The same few genres dominated the airwaves back then as they do now; police procedurals, sitcoms, and medical dramas.
Networks competed ruthlessly against each other to try and come up with the next hit program, but it often lead to big misses. This created a stream of short-lived series that didn’t last long, even if they had big names at the helm. Let’s take a look through the archives to see some titles we haven’t thought about for decades.