20 Wild TV Shows Never Seen (Because They Never Aired)
Sometimes, it’s best to scrap the whole thing and move on.
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We take our favorite shows for granted, but the life cycle of a television show is a delicate thing. All kinds of crazy things can cause a show to be scrapped: arguments with the suits at the network, the universe has it out for John Cho and refuses to let him star in a sitcom, sudden-onset polio. Here are a few star-crossed TV shows we never got to see:
![Garbage Pail Kids A 1987 animated series based on the raunchy trading cards. CBS caved to pressure from parental groups and just threw an extra half-h](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/3/8/745438.jpg?v=1)
![Members Only MEMBERS ONLY Think Downton Abbey in Connecticut, starring John Stamos. 13 episodes were ordered, but one of the developers lost interest](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/4/4/745444.jpg?v=1)
![Hieroglyph An ancient Egyptian Game of Thrones that was ultimately scrapped by FOx... for being too similar to Game of Thrones.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/3/0/745430.jpg?v=1)
![Angels '88 CHARLIE'S ANGELS A revival of Charlie's Angels that, due to a Writers Guild strike, would have just reused old scripts. It was postponed, r](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/3/4/745434.jpg?v=1)
![Commando Nanny A Survivor producer tried to make a sitcom, and it was doomed from the start. An actor broke his foot, another needed lung surgery. Aft](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/4/6/745446.jpg?v=1)
![The Grubbs An unauthorized knock-off of a popular British show, starring Randy Quaid, Carol Kane, and Michael Cera. It was canned just 2 days before a](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/4/7/745447.jpg?v=1)
![Flip It Forward A 2014 HGTV house-flipping series that was cancelled when HGTV found out their handsome muscle brothers were bigots, describing homose](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/3/2/745432.jpg?v=1)
![The Singles Table 18 A 2007 attempt to fill the hole that Friends left behind, about a crew of singles who meet at a wedding. This was at least the se](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/4/0/745440.jpg?v=1)
![Next Caller 300 While a Dane Cook and Jeffrey Tambor teamup sounds like a nightmare in 2020, it was comedy gold in 2013. It was sadly shelved after 4](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/3/9/745439.jpg?v=1)
![Do You Trust Me? DO YOU TRUST MELE A 2007 CBS game show about two contestants building up trust as host Tucker Carlson continually narcs on them.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/3/5/745435.jpg?v=1)
![Captain America SMASHA yo CAPTIN AMERICA FN t fa Wtut HIYECR 300 This 1998 animated series was cancelled because, being based on the comic books, the](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/4/5/745445.jpg?v=1)
![The Cops MEMEREHRS RU END 5AVE THE DAT DOHESTT COMPANY VOLE PICA A 2017 animated cop show that was cancelled as soon as its creator Louis C.K. was.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/2/9/745429.jpg?v=1)
![Heathers A 2018 violent teen comedy, it was postponed because of the Stoneman Douglas High shooting, then paused and heavily edited due to the Tree of](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/3/7/745437.jpg?v=1)
![Snip A highly-hyped 1976 sitcom from the creator of Welcome Back Kotter, apparently cancelled because one of the actors was openly gay.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/3/1/745431.jpg?v=1)
![The Don Hornsby Show Polio Downs Bri Hornsby on Last-m Eve of Debut Monroe, Leftwi Two CBS-TV NEW YORK. May 20. Tragedy week resigned fro struck Crees](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/4/3/745443.jpg?v=1)
![The Jake Effect This was a 2008 sitcom starring Jason Bateman and Tenacious D's Kyle Gass.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/2/8/745428.jpg?v=1)
![Manchester Prep 300 Written as a prequel series to Cruel Intentions, it was later turned into the feature-length Cruel Intentions 2.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/3/3/745433.jpg?v=1)
![Jingles 300 Like The Voice, but for commercial jingles, and starring Gene Simmons.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/3/6/745436.jpg?v=1)
![Immigrants A 2004 adult animation from Klasky Csupo that looks like Rocket Power all grown up. Spike TV never aired it, but a recut feature-length ver](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/4/1/745441.jpg?v=1)
![Star Trek: Phase II A This was the flagship show for Paramount's brand new TV network in 1978, before they changed their mind and scrapped it.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/4/2/745442.jpg?v=1)
![How about some completely bonkers shows that DID make it to air? O.J. Simpson A Teen Musical Made A Fucking Show ... Starring Prank Show! Nicolas Cage](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/4/9/745449.jpg?v=1)