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Canceled Too Soon #90 - Condor (1986) Mar 15, 2018

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If you love Ray Wise on TWIN PEAKS, if you love cop shows, and if you love robots, then this is the series for you! It's COPS WITH ROBOT PARTNERS MONTH on CANCELED TOO SOON, and this week we're reviewing CONDOR, a failed pilot for a futuristic series about a sexist jerk and the female robot partner who's obviously too good for him.

CONDOR predicted online credit card transactions, but it couldn't predict its own, almost immediate cancelation. But was it... CANCELED TOO SOON? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are here to find out, by analyzing every futuristic prognostication, every unenlightened line of dialogue, and every dune buggy chase through the Los Angeles River!

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Canceled Too Soon #89 - Future Cop (1976-1978) Mar 08, 2018

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It's COPS WITH ROBOT PARTNERS month on CANCELED TOO SOON, and we're starting with a doozy. Oscar-winner Ernest Borgnine stars in FUTURE COP as a shabby beat cop whose new partner is a powerful android who can solve any crime, but doesn't understand the inner workings of the human soul.

In FUTURE COP, Ernest Borgnine and a robot cancel criminals' plans to commit murder, steal cars and rig boxing matches. But was this show... CANCELED TOO SOON? Film critics William Bibbiani delve into every episode of FUTURE COP to find out what works, what's broken, and why the show was successfully sued by sci-fi legends Harlan Ellison and Ben Bova for plagiarism.

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Canceled Too Soon #88 - Herbie, The Love Bug (1982) Feb 28, 2018

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In 1968, Disney introduced the world to HERBIE THE LOVE BUG, an anthropomorphic Volkswagen Beetle who won races, warmed hearts, and starred in six feature-length, live-action motion pictures over the course of nearly 50 years. But most people forget that Herbie also starred in a Disney Channel television series in 1982... possibly because it's one of the most milquetoast television series ever made.

In HERBIE, THE LOVE BUG, the little car cancels his racing career to settle down with a family in the suburbs. But was he... CANCELED TOO SOON? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold take this long-forgotten TV show for a spin to find out whether it still runs, or whether it needs to be taken back to the junk heap.

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Canceled Too Soon #87 - The Persuaders! (1971-1972) Feb 23, 2018

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The 1970s didn't get much funkier than THE PERSUADERS! This short-lived action/adventure series starred Roger Moore (just before he became James Bond) and Tony Curtis (just before his career hit the skids) as two dapper, selfish millionaires who solve murders, stop conspiracies and seduce every human being in Europe.

It was a huge globetrotting adventure starring two of the sexiest stars in movie and television history, but was THE PERSUADERS! really... CANCELED TOO SOON? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold take you back to the Swingin' Seventies and try to figure out why THE PERSUADERS! still has a cult following, what the show did wrong, and how mad times Roger Moore and Tony Curtis could possibly stumble across dead bodies in the woods (hint: it's a LOT).

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Canceled Too Soon #86 - Poor Devil (1973) Feb 16, 2018

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Sammy Davis Jr. plays a demon trying to buy Jack Klugman's soul in POOR DEVIL, a TV comedy in the tradition of BEWITCHED and I DREAM OF JEANNIE with a hellish little twist. Christopher Lee plays Lucifer and Adam West plays Klugman's despicable boss, but despite that phenomenal cast the pilot for POOR DEVIL wasn't picked up for series.

It's a devilishly fun idea, but was POOR DEVIL really... CANCELED TOO SOON? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold take a deep dive into hell itself to figure out how this TV curio came about, what makes it work, what made it fail, and why it's got one of the funkiest theme songs we've ever reviewed!

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Canceled Too Soon #85 - Steel Justice (1992) Feb 08, 2018

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You've never seen a show like STEEL JUSTICE. It's a live-action prime time TV pilot about an ancient immortal who searches for people who can transform stuff into bigger stuff, and who tracks down a cop whose dead son has possessed a robot dinosaur. Now, that cop needs to transform his dead robot dinosaur son into a giant robot dinosaur who breathes fire and kills bad guys.

STEEL JUSTICE might very well be the weirdest, dumbest television series we have ever reviewed. But was it... CANCELED TOO SOON? William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are on the case, outlining every single baffling element of this failed television pilot, and trying to figure out how the hell anyone thought it could ever work as a television series.

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Canceled Too Soon #84 - FreakyLinks (2000-2001) Jan 31, 2018

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Links don't get much freakier than they do in FREAKYLINKS, a short-lived horror series about Gen X journalists who investigate ghosts, monsters and dinosaurs for their super-cool, super-edgy website, starring Ethan Embry (CAN'T HARDLY WAIT) and from the creators of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, DARK CITY and BATMAN BEGINS.

It was a concept that was practically designed to only last for one season at the turn of the century, but is it possible that FREAKYLINKS was... CANCELED TOO SOON? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are on the case, walking you through every episode of the cult favorite show and fantasizing about a world in which internet writers actually make money.

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Canceled Too Soon #83 - The Dresden Files (2007) Jan 25, 2018

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He's a wizard. He's a private detective. He's kind of a schmoe. He's Harry Dresden, and he's the protagonist of THE DRESDEN FILES, a popular series of novels by Jim Butcher and a short-lived television series on The Sci-Fi Channel starring Paul Blackthorne (an actor whose real name is arguably even cooler than "Harry Dresden").

THE DRESDEN FILES has werewolves, vampires, ghosts, dragons, bird people, and just about everything else you can think of, except actual files. But was it... CANCELED TOO SOON? Join film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold as they take a look at the cult favorite TV series, from the perspective of people who haven't read the books. (And yes, they accidentally got the year the show came out wrong on the podcast. They're sorry.)

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Canceled Too Soon #82 - Law & Order: Los Angeles (2010-2011) Jan 21, 2018

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In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: The police, who investigate crime, and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. It's a system that works great in New York City, where every other American LAW & ORDER series takes place, but in LAW & ORDER: LOS ANGELES it fell apart after just one season.

It's one of the biggest failures in a long-running, super popular television franchise, but was LAW & ORDER: LOS ANGELES... CANCELED TOO SOON? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are on the case, running down leads on why the LAW & ORDER formula works, why it's unintentionally hilarious, and every detail about Los Angeles that the showrunners got catastrophically wrong.

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Canceled Too Soon #81 - Brimstone (1998-1999) Jan 13, 2018

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From the creators of TALES FROM THE CRYPT: DEMON KNIGHT comes a supernatural action/adventure TV series about a dead cop who teams up with the Devil to catch escapees from Hell. Peter Horton (THIRTYSOMETHING) and John Glover (SMALLVILLE) star in the BRIMSTONE, a series with a pretty big cult following considering it only lasted for half a season in the late 1990s.

But was BRIMSTONE really... CANCELED TOO SOON? Critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review the hell out of this hellish TV series to find out what went right, what went wrong, and what might have happened if the series had continued.

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