The 7 Shortest Running Sitcoms Of All Time (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

ABC announced recently that they've canceled "Hank," Kelsey Grammar's second flop in three years. "Back to You" at least lasted a season, but "Hank" bit the bullet after only five episodes. Here are seven of the shortest running shows in American sitcom history.

The Return of Jezebel James

This Parker Posey/Lauren Ambrose show only aired twice (although three episodes were shown). It followed sisters, one together and infertile, one a transient who can get pregnant. Guess what happened?

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[shel3364]

remember George Clooney in the sitcom ER before the drama ER?

[JScott]

Hey TV execs new show format-all unsold un aired shows to air on one evening, call it something like 'The Shows That Didn't Make It' and another show called 'The End' where all shows that got cancelled without a final episode would have one, tying up all loose plot ends and threads etc.

[crgabe]

Best show EVER to get canceled...POLICE SQUAD.

They made 6, aired 4 when ABC canceled it but it spun off into the Naked Gun movies.

But "Joanie Loves Chachi" lived. sigh

[balancedsolution]

Prime Time Tv is a waste with all the commercials now.

There's almost as many commercials as there is content.

[Loudmxr]

OK maybe not a sit com. I believe it was ABC's answer to Laugh-In. "Turn On". Which I saw. I believe it was canceled mid show. Not mid season. I mean they pulled the plug DURING the show's broadcast. I think it was supposed to be an hour and only half an hour ran. I remember it was really short and I wanted to see more. It wasn't that funny but it was strange and I liked that.

[Cogs]

Maury Povich serves from the bottom of slop bucket 5 days a week.

[pizzmoe]

I can't speak to the quality of these shows, but the networks are digging themselves into a very deep hole. How can any show find an audience after 5 shows? Every great show in the past took 1 mabye two full seasons to catch on.

[Fletch17C]

My friend is a trivia buff. She insists that Arsenio Hall had sit-com that ran for one single episode called "Arsenio!" (Note the exclamation mark.) Anybody?

[solvseus]

He was in a sitcom that lasted several episodes. 6 according to IMDB. Vivica A. Fox was his wife. I actually remember that (sandwiched between 2 other shows I watched), wasn't that bad of a show.

I don't think there was an ! though.

[plzchuteme]

Proud to say that I never watched one moment of any of the shows mentioned in this article. Does that make me an oracle? Nope, just wise enough to know that if fish heads are listed on the ingredients list of some ice cream, it probably won't be to my taste. I applaud releasing Kelsy Grammer so he can reprise his Frasier Crane character at some dinner theater in Peoria. Too bad Patricia Heaton did not receive her release as well.

[The Albany Kid]

I wish that this article had mentioned "The Ugliest Girl in Town" (a 60s sitcom), but it probably ran for just a few too many episodes to qualify.

[The Albany Kid]

If I were a billionaire, I would pay Michelle Pfeiffer to reprise her role as "The Bombshell" in Delta House (the ABC Animal House progeny / Co-ed Fever competitor).

Oh well, at least a fella can dream. :)

[Puzzles]

C'mon! What about "Cop Rock"?!

[whiskeytangofoxtrot451]

Not a sitcom.

[JShankel]

I thought it was pretty funny.

[proggirl]

There was a also a late 60s series called Turn-On, a sort of Laugh-In pastiche, that only ran two episodes.

[Firestarterfive]

I've never seen, or even heard of, any of these shows. Then again, I am in Canada. Now, the Beachcombers, that was a show! Bruno Gerussi and Relic...woohoo! I also was addicted to Parker Lewis Can't Lose.

[PaganCanuck]

Oh, gawd, the beachcombers! lots of memories there.....

[AmazingChicken]

How about a list of shows we WISH would be cancelled?