10 Deleted TV Scenes We Never Got To See

Almost two decades after it first aired, Joss Whedon's Firefly remains a monument to unrealised promise, of a show which Fox never even gave a fighting chance, and which has remained a cult fave ever since its premature cancellation.

A few years ago, the show's star Nathan Fillion detailed an alternate opening scene which Whedon had originally planned to shoot. However, given its sheer scope and ambition, we can safely assume budgetary constraints got in the way.

"Joss once described an opening scene to me where we are looking at a planet with a ring around it and as we come in close, we see the ring is actually rocks and pieces of ships and old derelicts. It's a junk ring. It's the junkyards - we mentioned it in Firefly one time.

We see little bits and we're jumping slowly from bit to bit and as we get closer we see Serenity floating lifeless and these little people getting on and coming through it. And as they get into the airlock and they close it, they come and there's Malcolm Reynolds, bleeding and cut, strapped down with giant guns and not looking great. He's got these two giant guns, and he says, 'Get off my ship.'"

That sounds amazing, obviously, even if it's easy to see why Fox wouldn't stump up the cash for such a technically complex scene in a show they clearly weren't hugely enthused about. Boo.