While Police Squad! might have only lasted six episodes on ABC back in 1982, the sitcom’s acclaim led to one of the biggest comedy franchises of all time, The Naked Gun , in the years that followed. Not every TV show is appreciated in its time. Sometimes, it takes years for an audience to find a series, and some shows are canceled long before that.

Judd Apatow was a powerhouse producer of Hollywood comedy throughout the late ‘00s and early 2010s, but his coming-of-age dramedy Freaks and Geeks went unnoticed by most viewers when the show debuted in 1999. Similarly, although Happy Endings launched many of its stars to bigger hits, the hangout sitcom was barely noticed upon its original release.

One of the most notable cases of this came when ABC canceled one of the greatest

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