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So Joss Whedon's low-rated Dollhouse bites the dust, after clinging to life for a second season. Its partisans will mourn. But the series didn't die alone. The history of sci-fi TV is littered with season-two casualties, many of which are now considered classics.
Check out which other series escaped cancellation in their first seasons only to fall to the Nielsen gods in their second.

The Outer Limits (1963)
The classic anthology series managed multiple classic episodes in its...

The Munsters (1964): The Universal Pictures monsters completed the transformation Abbott and...

The Addams Family (1964): The âmysterious and ookyâ clan from the New Yorker cartoons by...

The Invaders (1967): They can travel interstellar distances. They can assume human form. They can...

Land of the Giants (1968): A trans-Atlantic shuttle encounters an odd lightning storm in space and...

Space: 1999 (1975): A nuclear explosion knocks Earthâs satellite out of its orbit and leaves the...

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979): Props from the original Battlestar Galactica and a mid-...

Steven Spielbergâs Amazing Stories (1985): The directorâs showcase anthology series featured...

Max Headroom (1987): An investigative reporter in the near future acquires a stuttering, jerkily-...

James Cameronâs Dark Angel (2000): An escaped genetically-enhanced superwoman (Jessica Alba)...

Dead Like Me (2003): Bonked in the head by a toilet seat from the MIR Space Station as it plummets...

Carnivale (2003): An ancient battle between good and evil rages—all too slowly—in the persons of a...

Jericho (2006): Prodigal son Jake Green returns to Kansas just in time to be stuck there when a...

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008): An additional bout of time-travel both transported...

Pushing Daisies (2007): Piemaker Ned can revive dead people, but the gift comes with some serious...

Eli Stone (2008): The lawyer of the title comes down with a brain aneurysm that causes him to...
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