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* ''[[Miami Medical]]'', a realistic, medically accurate drama with good characters played by good actors. It managed to avoid most inter-doctor romances, the need for happy endings and only left the hospital setting for brief hops, yet still developed the characters without hitting you in the face with tragic backstory. Yet it got crammed into a crappy timeslot, had little to no advertising and was cancelled before its original 13 episodes had finished airing. And no one watched it.
* ''[[Blake's 7]]''. Honestly, even people old enough to have seen it the first time around have never heard of it.
** Let's elaborate a bit. It's a complex and detailed crapsack world with a realistic plot, where the good guys aren't nice and the nice guys often aren't good, and it's frequently hard to tell what's good anyway. Character interaction is everything, and the dialogue is a joy. It's dark and depressing and cynical, but its characters often come across as more sincere than the protagonists of the many "perfect future" shows around at the time. Despite a budget that would shame a student film, with poor SFX and lots of [[BBC Quarry|quarries]], it earned itself a small, solid fanbase which is still going today, thirty years after it ended. At the time it was innovative, but while many people have heard of the shows it influenced—like ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'', ''[[Farscape]]'' and ''[[Babylon 5]]'' -- ''Blake's 7'' remains obscure.
* To see it discussed by fans of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]], [[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' redefines [[So Bad It's Horrible]] and did nothing right, ever. But actually, it had a lot of interesting stories, inventive solutions to the problem of the week, and later on, hard, decisions having to be made in the moment. And the ratings were quite high ''throughout'' the first season, not just when it was shiny and new—it didn't fall off until it ''started'' having TNG-like stories in the early second season. (If you watched it in the first season and jumped ship around "A Night In Sickbay," skip to "Canamar" or thereabouts. It gets back on track.) It's a good show, just... not for the people whose idea of adventure is Picard discussing Shakespeare or the intricacies of Klingon politics.
* ''[[Space Precinct]]'' was a cop show IN SPACE, you can tell from the name. You probably know no more about it than that. It was [[Screwed by the Network]] because it had the kind of alien makeup one expects of a kids' show but the material of a serious effort. Not knowing what to do with it, networks buried it. But if you can find it, and can handle a few [[People in Rubber Suits]], give it a try.
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