How about Superman: The Animated Series? It's not as short-lived as anything mentioned before in this thread, but the fact that it doesn't seem to get as much recognition or praise as Batman: The Animated Series makes it a bit underrated if you ask me. -end quote
Yep, I'm guilty as charged.
What a fascinating question. The only answer I can come up with is "Batman" was so good it rewrote the book on animated action series. Plus the TV landscape shifted when you account for the difference in release dates.
Think about 1992 versus 1996.
"Batman" cleared the decks in 1992 with wild acclaim from kids and adults alike. "Superman" arrived in 1996 after the animation tsunami was at its deepest and the audience had already "matured". Batman had already set the bar high and Superman didn't leap tall enough.
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That makes sense. While I'd say that both series were about equal in quality, Batman: The Animated Series was more groundbreaking.
echidna64 wrote :
I wish that they would do a period piece 1940's live action Superman movie
One of the first TV shows I posted about after joining RetroJunk back in 2008 was, "Total Recall 2070" - the 1999 Canadian/German television series based on the popular 1990 movie.
With only 22 episodes produced before cancellation, the series quickly left Showtime and went into syndication to be picked up by NBC/Universal, among others.
Fans of "Total Recall" the movie quickly discovered that the TV series shared nothing with the movie except the words, "Total Recall". That's a pretty big reason this show remains underrated. Surprisingly, that's the reason I love this show, no connection to the movie.
Here's the lowdown:
In the year 2070 androids of many varieties have been integrated into human society, the vast majority as service-droids. However, there are higher-order sentient androids capable of complete executive interactions with humans.
A beautiful arrangement . . . until the smart-droids begin murdering people at random on Earth, and Mars.
Mr Magic wrote :
The "You Don't Know Jack" TV game show.
Loved the computer game and this show. I'm just very sorry it didn't make it.
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MM, you sure know what made television memorable.
As the century flipped there were a series of TV shows that were a little head of their time. In some cases the audience wasn't ready, or showed up too late to save the show.
The split in the audience profile was already trending towards the "bad-boy" host/presenter, And the "Pee Wee's Playhouse" crowd was light-year's ahead of the general audience.
If ya don't "get" Paul Reubens then, "You Don't Know Jack" is a turn off show. It wasn't fair to Paul to kill the show so soon.
