It feels like an end-of-season episode rather than an end-of-series episode, sort of like the final episode of The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, where they had originally intended another season but then canceled it.
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Reply by bratface
on December 22, 2020 at 7:11 PM
From the little bit, I have read it was a 'political' decision? Here is an article in the L. A. Times about it, I can't access it because of a paywall.
Here is an excerpt from the article:
“We were prepared to go on for a third season and, during a hiatus, suddenly everything was canceled. The ratings were fairly respectable at that time.” Thinnes suggests that it was a “political decision” to cancel it. “Just about everything [executive producer] Quinn Martin had on at that time was canceled.”
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-11-12-tv-2050-story.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe%20were%20prepared%20to%20go,at%20that%20time%20was%20canceled.%E2%80%9D
Reply by PT 100
on December 22, 2020 at 11:47 PM
Thanks for the link. (I got there by using a proxy server, so I could read the whole article.) According to the article, there was a sort of reboot/miniseries in 1995, but it was a flop, I guess, based on the low IMDb rating (5.3 as of this writing). It sounds like it was really over the top, w/Scott Bakula as an autistic guy whose alien brain-implant device malfunctioned because of his autism.
Reply by bratface
on December 23, 2020 at 12:10 AM
You are welcome.