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The Tripods. Once upon a time the BBC in the good ol' UK wanting a replacement for Doctor Who in the mid 1980s, decided on a teen sf on Saturday early evenings based on a TRILOGY of books. They got as far as two seasons and cancelled it. Result? No third leg! Ended on cliffhanger that would never be resolved...
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As solium pointed out, most series do not have one. However, I'd like to point out ones that had over-arching plots that never resolved and even ended on cliffhangers: "Nowhere Man": Ended with not only some answers, but a huge cover-up with national, if not world-wide implications. there was even a throw-away line ( missed on the first few viewings, in a prior episode, indicating more as well. "The Others" (2000): Even though the series finale aired out-of-order as the second-to-last episode, it left us with a major cliffhanger. I know I'm missing one or two, so I leave these blank until I think of them. "": "": Then there's also a separate list, which I won't make (at least at this time) of series that didn't just end on a generic regular episode, but ended on a horrible final episode, which is unforgivable.
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" The pretender " , a show I did like very much, too , has an open end after four seasons. I never watched the following film in 2001. greetings Wolfssohn The TV movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaQGDJ2Ptq0 As I recall, some answers, but more questions and a "did ____ die" that is never resolved. I'm guessing they thought another TV movie would happen, a revival of the series.
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Remember, for the most part, before the current era of serialized TV, the great majority of shows were episodic. The Fugitive was one of the very, very few that had a definitive conclusion - and that actually was believed to have hurt the syndication runs ("everyone knows how it ended"). So if a series didn't have an open ended premise (trying to get somewhere, stuck in time, or any other quest type series), shows just ended. Whether or not you liked a final episode isn't the same as having a proper finale. And most shows didn't need them. For example, classic Star Trek didn't need one. We met the crew after their mission started and left them before it ended. It was not a situation needing to be tied up. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Batman, Green Hornet, I Dream of Jeannie (which did have one but they made it a dream and aired it earlier), SeaQuest, Kolchak, The Wild Wild West, T.J. Hooker, The Six Million Dollar Man...none of these premises demanded a specific final story. Shows like Bonanza, Gunsmoke or any non-quest related situation comedy like Green Acres or The Brady Bunch didn't need tying up. I would reather some shows just end without a finale rather than risk a half-assed episode like Hawaii Five-O. Or shows that had final episodes, but the networks placed them out of order to take advantage of sweeps periods, like Knight Rider or The A-Team.
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Remember, for the most part, before the current era of serialized TV, the great majority of shows were episodic. The Fugitive was one of the very, very few that had a definitive conclusion - and that actually was believed to have hurt the syndication runs ("everyone knows how it ended"). So if a series didn't have an open ended premise (trying to get somewhere, stuck in time, or any other quest type series), shows just ended. Whether or not you liked a final episode isn't the same as having a proper finale. And most shows didn't need them. For example, classic Star Trek didn't need one. We met the crew after their mission started and left them before it ended. It was not a situation needing to be tied up. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Batman, Green Hornet, I Dream of Jeannie (which did have one but they made it a dream and aired it earlier), SeaQuest, Kolchak, The Wild Wild West, T.J. Hooker, The Six Million Dollar Man...none of these premises demanded a specific final story. Shows like Bonanza, Gunsmoke or any non-quest related situation comedy like Green Acres or The Brady Bunch didn't need tying up. I would reather some shows just end without a finale rather than risk a half-assed episode like Hawaii Five-O. Or shows that had final episodes, but the networks placed them out of order to take advantage of sweeps periods, like Knight Rider or The A-Team. You know I'm actually very surprised that so no one else so far has said exactly this. Until relatively recently this was indeed the case. Especially the American tv series, and those designed in the UK to be sold to the US like the many ITC series. Up to and including the 1980s it never occured to me that any episodic show would get an ending as such. Which is why amazes me when folks talk about The Prisoner, and because of the bizarre nature of it people at the time were talking about how it was going to end. This too is one of the few series at that time to get an ending of sorts, and let's face it Patrick McGoohan uses it almost as a joke. Any other time, however well or poorly the show was received it would have been cancelled, and simply ended with Number Six eternally trying to escape The Village.
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