The Great TV Meme Day 1 - OR - I'm back...

This meme has been making the rounds on Lj, and I thought it might be fun.

Day 1 - A show that should never have been cancelled

So many of my favourite shows were cancelled, most of them by CBS (Brooklyn Bridge, Due South, Jericho), but my very favourite was on what used to be American Movie Classics.

Remember when AMC only showed movies made before 1969?

Remember when there were no commercials?

Remember Nick Clooney and Bob Dorian?

Remember WENN?

Remember WENN was a 30 minute period show written by Rupert Holmes (insert obligatory "he's the guy who wrote the Pina Colada song" reference here), which took place in a small Pittsburgh radio station in the early '40s.

It was brilliant. There was the wide eyed, idealistic intern from Elkhart, Indiana (Betty Roberts), the fast talking, faster thinking station manager (Victor Comstock), the "man of a thousand voices" (Mackie Bloom), the on again/off again couple (Jeff Singer and Hilary Booth) Mr. Foley, the sound effects man (who never said a single word in an episode) and more. A strong ensemble cast, great writing, zany antics and one of the most tortuous season finale cliff hangars in the history of TV ("Buy barley futures.")

AMC cancelled the show after the end of Season 4 and they've gone downhill ever since. It was supposed to be on VHS (the series was cancelled in '99), but AMC has yet to release any of it, so I only have a few episodes to watch (the execs at AMC have yet to realize that we would gladly pay money to own the series on DVD). This was a gem of a show and one of my all-time favourites.