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Only one that really has stuck with me - Do Over.

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boy meets world was an incredible show. I get my nickname from that, Feeney, well because of that show and my last name, I dont respond to my first name anymore....

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1. Sports Night
2. Clone High
3. Undeclared
4. Andy Richter Controls the Universe

And way back to a waay short-lived show that came on ABC Saturday Morning:
5. CITYKIDS

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1. Wonderfalls- 13 episodes of greatness
2. Newsradio
3. The Wire
4. Sportsnight
5. Gilmore Girls

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1. Sports Night
Just so ahead of it's time, it would (should) be huge today. Perfect cast, perfect unity of heartbreak and triumph, perfect show. Peter Krause and Josh Charles had the best chemistry between a duo on television since Batman & Robin.

2. Eyes
I can't believe this was never given a chance. And no, 5 episodes is not a chance. Unique backdrop and full of intrigue, yet some of the fastest most sarcastic humour since Seinfeld. Tim Daly should win an Emmy

3. Wonderfalls
Like Joan of Arcadia on acid

4. Angel
I know it is always praised and had a couple year run, but just as the show was hitting it's stride, they get the rug pulled out from underneath them. At least they got the kickass Butch & Sundance finale.

5. Fastlane
This was never going to win any kind of award, but it was never meant to. It was the equivalent of a great popcorn action summer blockbuster. And Kelly Kapowski was on it!

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One show that I oddly always find underrated is the OC. Being a guy, I have several friends who simply refuse to watch the show even though I insist that it's one of the wittiest shows currently on the tube. I mean, sure it has the soap opera schmaltz tossed in there, but there are some truly funny scenes (especially in the first season) where zingers are chucked around at a rapid rate.
Also, I don't really think that The Wire is underrated, I'd say that it's more underappreciated.

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My picks:

1. Keen Eddie -- Someone should be shot for letting this tank.
2. Battlestar Galactica -- Friends of mine still don't watch it. what gives?!
3. Firefly -- Oh, it will be back after the movie kicks some ass in the theater later this month.
4. The Job -- Many of the actors from this show are now on Rescue Me.
5. The Lone Gunmen -- Could have been great.

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#1 has to be Sports Night. Absolutely. Best show to ever get the boot after just two seasons. My wife and I still watch the series on DVD over and over. Just finished the last episode again last night as a matter of fact. I'm sure we'll wait a week or two and then start it over. There's so much about that show that I wish they'd had time to develop.

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To all the Sports Night fans - please look up the term "underrated." It means that a show was not given its due and was much better than anyone said it was. Sports Night was universally praised by everyone who watched (although that wasn't many). Awesome show, sure, ahead of its time, sure, but underrated? No way. If anything, the amount of praise heaped on that show may make it overrated.

Bakersfield, P.D. is another story. No onw knew what to make of it, they all thought it was weird and/or bad. It was genius. Ron Eldard and Giancarlo Esposito were a buddy team for the ages. Died way before it's time. That was underrated.

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Most of these have been hit on already:

The Wire
Wonderfalls
Lucky
Greg the Bunny
The Job

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1. Roswell
2. Dark Angel

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Cupid w/ Jeremy Piven
Action w/ Jay Mohr and Ileana Douglass

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Action.
The show was hilarious in a very nasty sort of way and really hit home if you worked anywhere near the ent. industry. Too damn funny. Damn you Fox. It belonged on HBO and I still hope for dvd's.

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What no Sledge Hammer?

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#1 has to be Sports Night. Absolutely. Best show to ever get the boot after just two seasons. My wife and I still watch the series on DVD over and over. Just finished the last episode again last night as a matter of fact. I'm sure we'll wait a week or two and then start it over. There's so much about that show that I wish they'd had time to develop.

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Allen Mendelsohn (and his dictionary) - I don't believe we're talking about the fact that Sports Night received outstanding critical acclaim. We're talking about the fact that Sports Night didn't fare well in the *ratings* (hence the word "underRATED" that seems to bother you so much). It was a show that not enough people watched. It got moved all over the place on the network's schedule before getting the boot. It got several mentions as TV Guide's "The Best Show You're Not Watching".

For the previous poll question about overrated shows the article said, "Here's an argument starter: what five shows in the history of television do you think are just overrated? The ones that everyone goes ga-ga over but just leave you cold?" I would presume then that this poll question about underrated shows would be the opposite -- "what shows are you ga-ga about that nobody else seems to care about?" And that was Sports Night for me.

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How can you forget POWER- The crazy wall street man sleeping in a cardboard box at the end of each show. But God help you if you messed with him. I loved that show.

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"My Life and Times"

Six episodes, half-hour thoughtful science-fiction-themed emotional drama. Doomed from the start, I guess.

From IMDb:

"Ben Miller was an elderly man living in a nursing home in the year 2035, who frequently reminisced about his past life in this critically acclaimed series. Each episode was set in a different year, and detailed Ben's days as a college student, his courtship with wife Rebecca, and other important moments in his life."

Opening narration: "I can't say that I've seen everything but I've seen a lot. I've seen footsteps on the moon and seen myself stumble. I've seen fear and did my darndest not to be afraid. I've survived the nineties and braved the millennium. I've loved and lost and learned to love again. And I've learned that life is an adventure. You have to hold on and let it carry you away. I've let it carry me to me to the year 2035 and I'm here to tell the tale. I'm Ben Miller and this is my life and times."

Anyone else remember this classic?

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Shows that never got as high in the Neilsen Ratings as they should have: Scrubs, St. Elsewhere, Once and Again, Freaks and Geeks, NewsRadio, Everything's Relative (ran for 4 weeks on ABC in 1999), Get a Life (w/ Chris Elliot), Austin Stories (MTV), and The It Factor (Bravo).

Show that gets a bad rap even though it was actually very funny (most of the time): Brady Bunch

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