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Dollhouse curse: 16 sci-fi TV shows killed in season 2

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Adam-Troy Castro
Apr 29, 2019, 6:25 AM EDT (Updated)
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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.

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The Outer Limits (1963) The classic anthology series managed multiple classic episodes in its...
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The Munsters (1964): The Universal Pictures monsters completed the transformation Abbott and...
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The Addams Family (1964): The “mysterious and ooky” clan from the New Yorker cartoons by...
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The Invaders (1967): They can travel interstellar distances. They can assume human form. They can...
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Land of the Giants (1968): A trans-Atlantic shuttle encounters an odd lightning storm in space and...
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Space: 1999 (1975): A nuclear explosion knocks Earth’s satellite out of its orbit and leaves the...
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979): Props from the original Battlestar Galactica and a mid-...
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Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories (1985): The director’s showcase anthology series featured...
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Max Headroom (1987): An investigative reporter in the near future acquires a stuttering, jerkily-...
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James Cameron’s Dark Angel (2000): An escaped genetically-enhanced superwoman (Jessica Alba)...
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Dead Like Me (2003): Bonked in the head by a toilet seat from the MIR Space Station as it plummets...
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Carnivale (2003): An ancient battle between good and evil rages—all too slowly—in the persons of a...
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Jericho (2006): Prodigal son Jake Green returns to Kansas just in time to be stuck there when a...
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008): An additional bout of time-travel both transported...
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Pushing Daisies (2007): Piemaker Ned can revive dead people, but the gift comes with some serious...
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Eli Stone (2008): The lawyer of the title comes down with a brain aneurysm that causes him to...
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Tag: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Tag: Jericho
Tag: pushing daisies
Tag: Buck Rogers
Tag: Amazing Stories
Tag: Carnivale
Tag: Max Headroom
Tag: Space: 1999
Tag: The Addams Family
Tag: The Munsters
Tag: The Outer Limits