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“Good news, everyone! Those asinine morons who canceled us were canceled *themselves* for incompetence!” - Professor Farnsworth, Futurama: Benders Big Score

Gilligan's Island SHOULD have been on the list. It was canceled because the TV executive's wife liked Gunsmoke better. That has got to be the number 1 stupidest reason ever!! PS Angel and Veronica Mars being canceled angered me the most, not to mention Chilling Adventures of Sabrina... also a stupid reason

It really sucks because if Batman wasn’t cancelled then we would’ve seen Clint Eastwood play the role of Two-Face

Just to be clear, the young justice toys werent selling badly because girls watched it, its more likely because many stores were afraid to sell dc toys after the bombing of the green lantern movies

I am still hurt about Firefly! It genuinely has so much potential.

Police Squad, Longmire, Angel, Veronica Mars, Deadwood, Firefly,Batman and Robin all have episodes that have classic examples of great tv. Just a shame that tv is often run by people who simply don't know about television.

Don't forget Doctor Who, it was originally cancelled in 1989 because the BBC higher-ups at the time thought it was growing stale. The fans were outraged, and after 17 years of several attempts for the series to be revived (like the scrapped 30th anniversary special & the 1996 TV movie), Doctor Who finally made its return in 2005.

You missed one of the biggest events of mass cancellation-the so-called "Rural Purge" at CBS in the early 1970's. Shows like Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and Hee Haw got the ax due to Fred Silverman's belief that these shows attracted older viewers, not more desirable younger ones that advertisers wanted.

In the mid-70s, there was a Robin Hood parody series on ABC, "When Things Were Rotten", which was co-created by Mel Brooks. After only thirteen episodes had been produced, the network wanted to slash the budget and make it into a multi-camera setup like other sitcoms at the time. Brooks didn't want to do that, so the show got canceled. Thankfully, Brooks got another chance at a parody of it in the early 90s, when he released the film "Robin Hood: Men in Tights".

There is one show whose omission from this list is a crime: Gilligan's Island. Despite being a relative ratings hit, it was only cancelled because the wife of the CEO of CBS wanted to see Gunsmoke continue, a show already 14 seasons deep. That was beyond stupid.

No Child Left Behind was such a failure. I’m so sad Reading Rainbow was one of its casualties.

Reading Rainbow not being educational!!!??? You’ve GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!😡

Moral of the story: If you want your show to succeed, DON'T partner with FOX

I was furious when reading rainbow got canceled that show was so important i loved watching the show when I was a child

Reading Rainbow was a huge part of my youth.

One notable omission is "Bridget Loves Bernie," a highly-rated 1972 sitcom that was cancelled after one season because the cast and crew received threats over its controversial subject matter: interfaith marriage.

Trying to watch Firefly when it aired was a special kind of hell. I was already a fan of Buffy and Angel, and was excited when it was announced. However, not only were episodes aired out of order, but the schedule was also in constant flux with different days and time as well as pre-emption for sports. I gave up because there was no way to watch it consistently. When the dvds came out, it was a revelation. Suddenly it made sense, and I got to see all 14 episodes (3 more than aired by the network.)

Seems like the reasons for some of the TV Shows cancellation. Was because the STUDIO hated it! They can tell the fans whatever the "real" reasons for the shows removal was. But it's clear the studio said " I hate that show get rid of it now!"

Cave Girl got cancelled because the main character was thought to have too much sex appeal for its young audience. Also, the original Thunderbirds got cancelled because the higher ups wanted something new, despite the shows rating success Gerry Anderson's desire to continue the show. They also cancelled the new Captain Scarlett series for being too dark.

You forgot The Owl House! It had two full seasons but season three was three 40 minute episodes. Apparently it was cancelled because it “didn’t fit the Disney brand” a lot of fans thinks that means some people didn’t like that there was so much representation of the LGBTQ+ community.

King of the Hill was cancelled to make room for…. The Cleveland Show. That should have made the list

‘The Spectacular Spider-Man’ is also one of my top 5 favorite Spider-Man animated shows of all time. Spoiler alert: Josh Keaton’s Spider-Man version made a surprise cameo in ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.’

Reading Rainbow was a National Treasure. I hope that Levar Burton's internet rebirth will be successful

I loved "Police Squad". I watched it when it first aired, many years ago. I eventually bought the DVDs and have watched those few episodes several times. There are so many gags in each episode, that you can see different ones each time you watch it.

Aww poor Batman… that show always make me laugh and of course RIP Adam west

Networks are so stupid. I was pissed about Police Squad. Excuse me, Reading Rainbow wasn’t educational??????

Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and other popular shows were canceled because advertisers wanted more "urban" shows.

Firefly was a great show and should not have been cancelled!

Gilligan's Island should have been on the list because it got cancelled because CBS chief executive William S. Paley did not want Gunsmoke to go off the air.

Teen titans and terminator the Sarah Connor Chronicles were shows that hurt me when they got cancelled

I didn’t realize Batman was canceled because of the sets- I always thought it was because William Dozier turning the entire third season into the Batgirl spinoff he didn’t get to do was a classic last-season shark-jump. (And no Bat-Shark-Repellant.)

Ripped all of the good shows that were canceled just because a toy deal couldn’t be made or toys could not be sold (Static Shock, Thundercats 2011, Transformers Prime, Green Lantern: TAS, Young Justice’s first run.) Also to ones that kept getting shuffled around such as Godzilla the animated series.

A notable cancelation from the early 2000s was Hot Wheels Acceleracers for the 5th one, it was canceled due to being too popular. You'd think Mattel would capitalize on popularity

Sym Bionic Titan being canceled on Cartoon Network was the most upsetting for me. 😭

In regards to Police Squad, one of the writers talked about that they canceled themselves too. Because they realized that they had TOO many jokes. That while you're laughing at one, you're missing one right behind it. They seemed to have learned their lesson with the movie, Airplane. I didn't know that's why Firefly was out of order! WOW!!!

Fox sucks when it comes to scheduling.

If we are all really honest, the day “Survivor” and “Big Brother” became hits…is the day most quality series on the major broadcast networks were cancelled.

Disney buy Marvel was both a good decision for the fans and a bad idea to cancel the show

Love your video and keep up the great work

Fox made a mistake putting futurama at 7 on sundays where it would often get pre empted by the NFL

Glad Longmire got its due in the end that show was awesome. I find it funny they originally cancelled it because of an older audience which is real odd, regardless I watched it as a teen lol.

Honorable Mentions: *The Owl House -Of all the cancellations, this one hits me the most personally mainly because I backed the petition to save the show myself. I don't think I'm being controversial when I say that The Owl House is a fantastic show, and a much needed hit for Disney, AND YET, SOMEONE at the higher ups just refuses to he happy about it (I bet it's South Park's Mickey Mouse). Because ever since Season 2 started airing, the news going around about how Disney was treating the series was downright shameful. Not only would the series end with it's 3rd season, but ALSO the 3rd season would only consist of 3 44 min specials (against the creator's wishes mind you). There was also word going around that the show "Didn't fit the Disney brand." Oh sure, because stuff like The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Gravity Falls and Amphibia were fine but THIS is pushing it. The fan backlash was massive, even spawning the aforementioned petition to save the show, but Disney remained resolute in their decision. Now thankfully, The Owl House still ended fantastically in the end (thank goodness), but again, this only makes the company look really suspicious. And in a DELICIOUS twist of irony, Disney actually DID admit that they were wrong to cancel the show and that it was in fact sucessful. But given that Dana Terrace left Disney after the show was complete, it looks like any chance for a sequel series, spin-off, or a Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood-esque extended story are unlikely. Despite the sucess of the show, it still really hurts when you think about what could've been. Mistreating your employees is bad enough, but when you mistreat your employees, your fans, your consumers, your properties, AND your legacy in such a short span on time, it takes a lot to regain the trust of the public after all that. Let's just hope their recent shows don't go to their heads, or we could end up with something like this again.

On firefly you forgot to mention how FOXalso preempted the show multiple times for baseball, changed the time slot and day and would skip weeks between episodes

Fox was terrible for moving shows with no warning. I remember there was a show called Drive that was cancelled for low viewing, but it was on a different night each time. I think it was something like the first two episodes aired together on a tuesday, and then the next episode was the week after on a sunday, and then on a thursday, and then it was just gone. I never understood why Fox did that with so many of its shows.

Part of Firefly's cancellation had to do with piss-poor advertising as well. The ads focussed so much on Inarra that my friends & I referred to it as "the space hooker show" until I happened to stumble on it while channel surfing one night.

I wish Firefly had 11 seasons instead of 11 episodes.

I thnk the most ridiculous ever has got to be Deal or No Deal- a game show where you can win anything from 1p to £250,000. It was cancelled because "people randomly winning £250,000 made it hard to calculate the budget". They realised this after 11 years...

I'm still angry that the cw canceled veronica Mars I love that show😡

One of my favorite cop comedies from the 80's got canceled for bad time slots it won best new TV comedy show it's first season Sledge Hammer!

Thank you for including Police Squad!!

Another show canceled for ridiculous reasons was Just The Ten Of Us which was canceled because the "wrong" producers created it. It was a spinoff of Growing Pains and did well in the ratings, usually winning its time slot. However, ABC was trying to go with strictly Miller-Boyett productions (the company produced hits like Family Matters and Full House). Even though the show was a hit they canceled it. Executives years later stated it was a bad mistake.

Owl House AND Steven Universe. Both enjoyed strong ratings and a rabid fan following. BUT both were getting "too gay" for Disney and Cartoon Network, respectively and were shown the door. This is why we can't have nice things. 🔥👿🔥

I remember seeing it on some television show years ago that Gilligan's Island was initially picked up for another season while Paley and his wife were on vacation. When they came home, the order to make room for Gunsmoke came down. Supposedly the cast and crew of Gilligan's Island learned about the cancellation in the middle of a party celebrating the show's renewal for a fourth season.

The Owl House: cancelled because “it doesn’t fit the Disney brand” (Aka because it had LGBT representation)

Wolverine and the X-Men, and Green Lantern: The Animated Series were both cancelled for the same reasons as Young Justice. Not enough toy sell, which is ridiculous imo, even if you've got a deal with the company. Those only had 1 season each, they could've had more sales if they've continued. There r other show that I personally liked from CW that were cancelled after 1 season. Star-Crossed for starters. They say is was because of bad rating, low viewership and stuff. Personally I've always thought that (SC) and others got axed just to make room for new shows, and all the reasons told were just cover stories.

At least futuramas back now plus the family guy scene from season 4 about the cancellation was genius

Why did they cancelled Teen Titans again? Or DC Super Hero Girls 2019?

Funny how most of the fox shows were cancelled because of poor scheduling.

At least Angel had a good finale, but it could have hung on with a few more seasons at Wolfram and Hart

before young justice, Teen titans... When I saw "teen titans go" ad for the first time, my hopes went up in smoke.

This audience guy GOT the humor of Police Squad!

Another one is Infinity Train, it got cancelled due to a lack of "child entry point" due to the proposed fifth season focusing on a college-aged adult protagonist.

I'm baffled as to why Gilligan's Island isn't on here. It was canceled because of random chance. During the 1966-1967 season, when CBS was preparing the schedules, they canceled Gunsmoke, which was the network president's favorite show. When he found out, he was furious and demanded it be brought back. But they had to get rid of one show, so Gilligan got the boot.

Legit thought that was Only Fools and Horses in the thumbnail lol.

Honorable Mentions "Final Space" (2018-21) Cancelled Because of Tax Write-Off

0:44 Futurama has been revived yet again, by Hulu. Complete with the original voice actors.

Thank For the Top 20 Video 🙊🤯🥰😍😁💗💐🌟🥇🏆

There ought to be a rule that one person can't decide to cancel a show (i.e Gilligan's Island.) there should be a series of rules and clear reasons to cancel a show (and no, "girls are watching" or "we aren't seeling enough toys" arent 'good' reasons.) and if a studio buys another studio that has a popular show already in production, they should HAVE to keep it going.

*sighs* ‘The Spectacular Spider-Man’ is one of the best superhero animated shows in 2000s. 😔

Firefly's cancellation was the biggest crime in television history.

Firefly had another thing going against it. It should also be noted that the show was preempted 3 times for sports games. In a sense, it was basically an extensioin of jocks bullying nerds.

Longmire was excellent and glad Netflix picked it up. The Clone Wars finally got its final season too was great.

Sonic SatAM is another series cancelled for a new reason, as it was axed because the new president of ABC at the time was not fond of the show, not even bothering to move it to a time slot where it was competing against Power Rangers. Thankfully, while Sega wants nothing to do with SatAm and the likes of Sally Acorn, fans are doing their part to make a third season fan project. Also, as others have pointed out, a lot of classic cartoons made for Disney Channel were cancelled because at the time they aired, Disney had a stupid rule only allowing 65 episodes for a series (with only Kim Possible being able to go beyond that limit), and there are also cartoons that, like Young Justie, were also cancelled for not selling enough toys (or in some cases, not even selling toys).

I'm Dickens, He's Fenster was up against Route 66 and Sing Along with Mitch. It was cancelled after one season, and by that time it was beating its competition.

That is so dumb about Reading Rainbow…such a great show and so many books highlighted during the run

Happy Endings was hilarious! I loved that show and was so upset that it got cancelled. That was such a stupid decision.

The Aquabats! Super Show! - Cancelled because of the change of power with the end of The Hub even though it got ratings that were about as good as MLP:FiM, which survived. Also something about being unable to make toys/merch for the show. Invader Zim - The audience that was watching it was teens and young adults instead of kids

They left out that Firefly was offered another season but Whedon was done with the bullshit and decided to do his five years earlier. The movie was supposed to take place in the fifth season. They already had the season written that told the story of "Shepherd Book". It's why you have to read the books and graphic novels to get the whole story.

Who saids girls don’t buy toys? also some would complain that Owl house had it final season shortened because Disney thought it didn’t fit there brand

Reading Rainbow was an amazing show and it's cancellation was short sited

I’m ngl Reading Rainbow was my shit as a kid.

I was upset when Longmire got canceled. And Veronica Mars! And Angel. And Firefly! And Deadwood!!

Dallas in 2012 also got shafted due to poor ratings, but similar to Family Guy, it got moved around to different nights and aird at various times throughout the year. It should have stayed on Wednesday Nights.

"The love of money is the root of all evil" is the correct quote.

All the stupid scheduling and move arounds on shows always pisses me off

4:28 WOLVERINE and the X-men was also canceled because of Disney's Purchase of Marvel.

I haven't heard shows being made to sell toys since the 80s

It still hurts that Freaks and Geeks only got one season.

Amusing that not selling toys is a reason for cancellation. The Hot Wheels Cartoon (1969) was forced off the air by Congress (U.S) because it was deemed to air for the sole purpose of selling toys.

No#15 I had no idea those movies were based on this show. I don’t remember ever seeing this show and those movies where really popular in the 90’s. Wow Watchmojo thanks for the clarity!

I hate that they cancelled “ Reading Rainbow” cause it got us hooked on reading at a young age Even if they already knew how to read there is nothing wrong with it they just wanted to share the joys of it among others too cause they know how fun and exciting it can be So that makes me mad My niece would look through my books to find sight words and would tell her how fun and exciting it can be to read too that you can turn those sight words into other words and kept encouraging her Now she is just as excited about reading as well and it was this show that hot me started We need it back

What about "The Oblongs". Cancelled because it upset too many people 😂

What about Green Lantern on Cartoon Network. It’s rumoured cancellation was because of the no toys selling. But then what toys?

Moral Orel is also a good show that got cancelled over something stupid.

Should've added the Pirates of Dark Water to this list.

They did the same thing to the 80s Robin Hood series; Robin of Sherwood. After two seasons, the actor who played Robin moved on and the character was killed off. So when they made the third season, Robin was recast with a new character who takes on Robin's name to lead the Merry Men.

DISNEY acquiring MARVEL was ***THE*** WORST thing to happen to MARVEL ! Canceling "The Spectacular SPIDER-MAN" for that reason was BEYOND STUPID & INCREDIBLY IDIOTIC as well as INFURIATING among other things like that !

Firefly cancellation still hurts to this day.

Teen Titans According to Wikipedia: "The show's producer David Slack indicated that he was given different reasons for the show's cancellation; either the ratings dropped after the "scary" season 4, or Mattel wanted the show dead because Bandai had the show's toy deal." I really enjoyed that show.