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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
"The Prisoner" with Patrick McGoohan
I'm not sure if The Prisoner was actually canceled, but I still have no idea what happened and I saw all the episodes.... 
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
The Prisoner wasn't canceled... but they had intended to do more episodes, and were told by the studio that they'd have to end it earlier than planned. I understand the "essential" episodes, those that were needed to explain the show, were all aired.
For my list: Firefly, The 4400, Defying Gravity.
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There seems to be some debate if The Prisoner (1967 series) was cancelled or not. Quoted information below is from Wikipedia.
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There is debate as to whether the series ended by mutual agreement or cancellation. In a 1977 interview McGoohan said: "I thought the concept of the thing would sustain for only seven, but then Lew Grade wanted to make his sale to CBS, I believe, and he said he couldn't make a deal unless he had more, and he wanted 26, and I couldn't conceive of 26 stories, because it would be spreading it very thin, but we did manage, over a weekend, with my writers, to cook up ten more outlines, and eventually we did 17, but it should be seven…" According to The Prisoner: The Official Companion to the Classic TV Series by Robert Fairclough, the series was indeed cancelled, forcing McGoohan to write the concluding episode, "Fall Out", in only a few days. In the 1977 interview McGoohan contradicts this: "…it got very close to the last episode and I hadn't written it yet. And I had to sit down this terrible day and write the last episode…"
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Either way, I'm glad
Stitchawl mentioned this one. I hadn't heard of it before and looked up more about it. It seems like it will be the type of show that I would like to watch.
Steve, great list there you have. The only one I haven't seen is Defying Gravity. After looking this one up, this is definitely another one I want to watch. Thanks for mentioning this one.