Did you favorite TV show recently get cancelled? Hopefully none of them ended up on a list like this.

Melba

R&B singer Melba Moore got her own show on CBS, a sitcom about a single mother who works as a researcher. Unfortunately, the series debuted on January 28, 1986, the same day as the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy. CBS was the only network not airing news footage, and few tuned in to Melba. The show was cancelled, and the five other episodes produced aired in the summer of 1986.

Proving Ground

G4 was a cable network that aired shows focused on video games and pop science. This show tested famous stunts and action sequences from movies, video games, and comic books to see how and if they would work in reality. It was co-hosted by Ryan Dunn, best known for attempting stunts on MTV’s Jackass. A week after the first episode aired in June 2011, Dunn died in a car accident.

Osbournes Reloaded

In 2009, Fox produced a variety show hosted by heavy metal star Ozzy Osbourne and his family, best known for their MTV reality show/sitcom hybrid The Osbournes. That show was famous for its high volume of bleeped profanity…and a fear of more profanity is why 20 Fox affiliates refused to air the show. Fox cut its losses and axed the show after one airing.

Emily’s Reasons Why Not

ABC aggressively advertised this midseason replacement show in 2006, starring movie actress Heather Graham as a single woman struggling to commit to a relationship. The first episode pulled in a respectable six million viewers, but ABC received many letters of complaint from viewers who said the show portrayed both homosexuals and Mormons in a bad light. The show was cancelled after that one episode (and almost universally bad reviews). A network executive later admitted that ABC had picked up the show and scheduled it before anyone ever saw a script.