Ducky From NCIS and Giles From Buffy Co-Starred in VR.5, a ’90s Virtual Reality Show Fox Cancelled
A phone-line worker, a hidden layer of virtual reality and a shadowy Committee: how a 1995 Fox experiment ran just ten episodes in the US ...
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Seven Days Was Quantum Leap’s Darker Time-Travel Cousin, Backed by Paramount’s TV Chief — Until a Reported Cast Feud Killed It
UPN's 1998 time-travel series had a studio chief behind it, a hero who could only go back exactly seven days, and a cast that reportedly ...
Francis Ford Coppola Produced an X-Files Clone Where Aliens Got Addicted to Salt — and It Still Got 66 Episodes
Nostradamus prophecies, salt-addicted aliens and a 66-episode order weren’t enough to make First Wave the next X-Files.
William Shatner’s Answer to Blade Runner Was TekWar. Critics Called It “Dullbladerunner”
How TekWar went from Shatner’s passion project to a forgotten ’90s flop, what critics said, and where to watch it now.
The Invisible Man Premiered 16 Months Before Smallville — Then Its Own Effects Bill Killed It
Sci Fi’s forgotten superhero show opened with the channel’s biggest series premiere to that point, cost over $1 million an episode, and was gone after ...
Gene Roddenberry’s “Anti-Star Trek” Show Ended With Energy Vampires. Here’s How Earth: Final Conflict Got There
Roddenberry pitched it in the 1970s, V beat it to TV, and by Season 5 the Taelons were gone.
Roddenberry’s Andromeda Fired Its Showrunner for Being Too Smart. Kevin Sorbo’s Dumbed-Down Version Ran 110 Episodes
Robert Hewitt Wolfe’s arc-based plan collided with Tribune, Fireworks and Kevin Sorbo, and the sci-fi series built from Roddenberry’s notes turned into something far simpler.
Roy Scheider Called seaQuest DSV “Childish Trash” After NBC Turned Spielberg’s Underwater Star Trek Into a Monster-of-the-Week Show
How a realistic 1993 ocean-science drama became a monster-of-the-week sci-fi series, lost its star, and sank after three seasons on NBC.
Everyone Remembers Starship Troopers. Almost Nobody Remembers the X-Files Producers’ War Show That Beat It to Screens by Two Years
Space: Above and Beyond premiered in September 1995. A Sunday-night slot, a sky-high budget and weak ratings sank it after one season.
Vince Gilligan’s Forgotten X-Files Spin-Off Aimed a Plane at the World Trade Center Six Months Before 9/11 – Then Fox Cancelled It After 13 Episodes
Vince Gilligan just won his first solo Emmy. Twenty-five years ago, his X-Files spin-off drew 13 million viewers – and vanished after 13 episodes.
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