35 TV Shows With Remarkably Divergent Pilots and Finales

Is ‘House of the Dragon’ already pulling a ‘Game of Thrones’?
35 TV Shows With Remarkably Divergent Pilots and Finales

It’s hard to imagine a more disappointing series finale than Charlie’s Angels. But these franchises deserve credit for trying!

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The New Adventures of Superman

CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. The show ended with the Kents giving Lois and Clark a baby crib, like total douches, and the crib filling itself overnight with a random baby. Apparently the baby was supposed to be from Krypton, but we never had confirmation, as the show was hastily canceled.

Third Rock from the Sun

CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales Third Rock from the Sun Dick tells Sally he's an alien, she accepts it (that sweet woman), and wants to still be with him now that the gang returns to their home planet. So Dick knocks her unconscious to make her forget about him, and leaves her alone on the ground. You know, for her safety.

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Battlestar Galactica

CRACKED.COM Worst TV Finales Battlestar Galactica (reboot) In a purely expository finale, the shows tries to pull an all-too-religious plot twist that clashes with its more philosophical, idea-driven sensibility. In short, the Galactica landed on Earth 150,000 years ago, and so the Cylon-Human hybrid Hera Agathon becomes modern humanity's Eve. Because God.

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Battlestar Galactica

Worst TV Finales Battlestar Galactica (original) The gang has just defeated the Cylons in battle, and just before leaving to celebrate, a random butt bump actually catches the Earth signals they've been looking for all this time, but there's no one there to see them. It's not irony, it's space irony. CRACKED.COM

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Gilligan’s Island

Gilligan's Island STARRING BOB DeNVER STARRING BOB DENVER as GILLIGAN CRACKED.COM THE PILOT THE SHOW Lost for over thirty years, the original pilot featured different actors playing The Professor, Ginger, and Mary Ann (known as Bunny) - as well as a truly jarring calypso theme song.

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Derek Smalls Would Have Brought A Whole Different Dimension to ‘Beaver’

Leave It To Beaver CRACKED COM THE PILOT THE SHOW Wally and Ward were played by different actors, and while there was no Eddie Haskell, Harry Shearer played the Haskell-esque Frankie. Shearer very nearly played Beaver himself.

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