10 More Great TV Shows Cancelled After Just One Season
9. My So Called Life (1994)
Starring a teenie Clare Danes, My So Called Life was a highschool drama focussed around the lives of Angela Chase (Danes) and her group of friends. The show was critically acclaimed for picking up and featuring pressing issues in the lives of teenagers such as homophobia, child abuse, homelessness and drug use. The show gave teenagers a genuine voice, went where others wouldn’t dare, showcased a young girl front and centre and rewrote the rule book for TV.
Although fans adored MSCL and even started up a campaign to save it, the reviews weren’t great and once Clare Danes said she was reluctant about returning for another season, writer Winnie Holzman and ABC didn’t want to force it through.
Regardless, it’s impact will always be large, since it ran in 1994, honest coming of age stories are everywhere. Whether it’s One Tree Hill, Skins, Gossip Girl or even Buffy, there’s a little bit of MSCL in each of them - and it’s exactly what young people needed.