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Canceled Too Soon #61 - Pitch (2016) Aug 31, 2017

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One of the most acclaimed new shows of the 2016/2017 television season didn't make it past ten episodes. The show was PITCH, it starred Kylie Bunbury (UNDER THE DOME) as the first female player in Major League Baseball, and Mark-Paul Gosselaar (SAVED BY THE BELL) as the baseball veteran who becomes her mentor... and possibly something more.

PITCH was one of the most talked about television series of the last year, but was it really... CANCELED TOO SOON? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold walk you through the whole series to figure out what hit a homer, what struck out, and how the heck you can make a pilot episode about a ghost dad and never, ever mention it again.

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Canceled Too Soon #60 - Danger Theatre (1993) Aug 24, 2017

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Why make just one parody of a crime show when you can make THREE of them? That's the premise of DANGER THEATRE, a comedic anthology series from the director of WAYNE'S WORLD that ran on the Fox network for only seven episodes, and starred Diedrich Bader as the motorcycle-riding do-gooder THE SEARCHER, Adam West as the leader of Hawaii's TROPICAL PUNCH division, and Todd Field and Ricky Harris as hip tinseltown detectives in 357 MARINA DEL REY.

Three comedy crime shows, narrated by Robert Vaughn, that tried to take a bite out of the butt of crime. But was DANGER THEATRE... canceled too soon? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold examine all three of these fake shows to determine which were hits, which were duds, and why Diedrich Bader is just so darned wonderful.

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Canceled Too Soon #59 - Game Over (2004) Aug 17, 2017

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"Did you ever wonder what happens AFTER the game ends?" Welcome to GAME OVER, an animated series from the ill-fated UPN network about what video game characters do when they're not raiding tombs or racing cars. It starred Patrick Warburton (THE VENTURE BROTHERS), Lucy Liu (ELEMENTARY) and Artie Lang (MADTV) and it was the lowest rated television series of the 2003-2004 season.

Nobody saw GAME OVER, which means nobody knows if it was... CANCELED TOO SOON! Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold unearth this forgotten animated series and figure out why nobody watched GAME OVER, and whether the show's mixture of ancient sitcom clichés and brand new video game clichés works, or fails miserably.

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Canceled Too Soon #58 - You Don't Know Jack (2001) Aug 09, 2017

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YOU DON'T KNOW JACK was one of the most popular computer games of the 1990s, mixing subversive humor, highbrow trivia questions and fast-paced gameplay to produce a one-of-a-kind video game experience. It was only a matter of time before YOU DON'T KNOW JACK would be turned into a live-action game show hosted by Paul Reubens (PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE). And it was only a matter of six episodes before the ABC network realized this series just wasn't working.

YOU DON'T KNOW JACK was full of bad jokes, mariachi bands and deadly ninjas... but as it CANCELED TOO SOON? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are here to review this bizarre television misfire in all of its ill-conceived, occasionally hilarious glory. It's the first game show we've ever reviewed on CANCELED TOO SOON. Hopefully, it won't be the last!

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Canceled Too Soon #57 - The Defenders of Dynatron City (1992) Aug 02, 2017

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Superhero shows about defenders are nothing new. In fact, 25 years before MARVEL'S THE DEFENDERS debuted on Netflix we already had THE DEFENDERS OF DYNATRON CITY, an animated superhero pilot from the creators of MANIAC MANSION, THE SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND and SAM & MAX: FREELANCE POLICE!!!, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Tim Curry and Christopher Walken... before Christopher Walken was recast for some reason.

But was the only animated superhero pilot with an oversexed girl with a buzz saw for legs... CANCELED TOO SOON? Find out when film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review THE DEFENDERS OF DYNATRON CITY in all of its mutagen slurping, rocket head decapitating, robot dancing glory. It's one of the weirdest superhero shows in history. Now let's find out if it was one of the best.

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Canceled Too Soon #56 - Whiz Kids (1983-1984) Jul 27, 2017

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Hot on the heels of WARGAMES came WHIZ KIDS, a primetime television series about teenaged computer experts who hack the NSA, rob graves, find Elvis Presley alive and well (sorta) and even talk to dolphins. It's a tv series that gave kids so much unethical power that critics declared it morally irresponsible, and it only lasted one season as a result.

WHIZ KIDS was ahead of its time, but that doesn't necessarily mean it was... CANCELED TOO SOON. Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are here to hack into this cult classic series, dissect every absurd storyline and explain what the hell "The Jeremy Connection" is. You won't want to miss this episode!

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Canceled Too Soon #55 - Cliffhangers! (1979) Jul 20, 2017

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Why make three televisions shows when you could make one for three times the price? From the developer of THE INCREDIBLE HULK, THE BIONIC WOMAN and V comes the incredibly ambitious CLIFFHANGERS!, a television series consisting of three wildly different, serialized stories called STOP SUSAN WILLIAMS (about a plucky reporter investigating a deadly conspiracy), THE SECRET EMPIRE (about a cowboy who discovers a secret society of aliens living underneath Wyoming) and THE CURSE OF DRACULA (about the curse of Dracula).

It's a really cool idea, but the question remains: was CLIFFHANGERS! canceled too soon? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold dive into each of the three crazy, action-packed, unexpectedly romantic mini-shows packed inside of CLIFFHANGERS! and figure out what works, what doesn't, and why such a cool-sounding tv series failed to find an audience in 1979. (Hint: It aired opposite HAPPY DAYS.)

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Canceled Too Soon #54 - Tequila and Bonetti (1992) Jul 15, 2017

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He's a cop with a past. His partner is a talking dog with a flatulence problem. Together they solve murders and sex crimes in TEQUILA AND BONETTI, one of the weirdest television shows we've ever reviewed on CANCELED TOO SOON, which can't tell if it's a family-friendly comedy or a horrifying crime saga.

You won't believe this series exists, folks, but exist it does. The only question now is, was TEQUILA AND BONETTI... canceled too soon? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold talk you through every surreal episode of this absurd television series, try to figure out how talking dogs work, and take you back in time to the disturbing real life events that made TEQUILA AND BONETTI one of the most poorly-timed tv shows in history.

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Canceled Too Soon #53 - The Last Precinct (1986) Jul 05, 2017

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Take every wacky comic relief stereotype, give them each a badge and a gun, and put them to work at the some police station and you get THE LAST PRECINCT, a quirky POLICE ACADEMY knockoff starring Adam West (BATMAN), Ernie Hudson (GHOSTBUSTERS) and James Cromwell (L.A. CONFIDENTIAL), as well as Randi Brooks as Mel, who - as near as we can tell - might potentially have been the first transgender character with a leading role on a network television series.

THE LAST PRECINCT was simultaneously of its time, ahead of its time and behind the times... but was it CANCELED TOO SOON? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold walk you through every wacky episode, every dumb joke, and everything about THE LAST PRECINCT that kind of works if you look at it the right way. There's a lot to love and a lot to hate about this short-lived tv misfire from the creators of THE A-TEAM, HUNTER and WISEGUY!

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Canceled Too Soon #52 - Charlie Jade (2005) Jun 28, 2017

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What would you do if you could travel between three alternate realities, and all of them were kind of hard to look at? You'll find out in CHARLIE JADE, an ambitious Canadian/South African co-production about a private detective solving mysteries in parallel dimensions, and running afoul of the truly bizarre supervillain 01 Boxer, who is either the greatest bad guy we've ever come across... or the absolute worst.

With 20 episodes to its credit (not counting a recap episode), CHARLIE JADE is one of the longest shows we've ever reviewed. But was it CANCELED TOO SOON? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are here to figure out what the heck is really going on in this very unusual sci-fi series.

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