18. Breaking Away
The television series was a prologue to the coming-of-age film Breaking Away, which was directed by Peter Yates and released in 1979. It featured younger Shaun Cassidy playing a character having an interest in bicycle racing. After seven episodes had been shown, the television show was canceled due to poor ratings despite extensive promotion by ABC.
18 Breaking Away
Breaking Away, in contrast to this list’s other shows, was granted the opportunity to participate in a portion of a second life. Following the show’s premiere in 1980, ABC made the decision to begin broadcasting the program in repeats beginning in the summer of 1981. In addition, its rerun was broadcasted on A&E during the years 1984 and 1985. On the other hand, it did not do much better when it was attempted a second time.
17. Concrete Cowboys
CBS purchased the rights to adapt the novel into a television series in 1981, with Geoffrey Scott and Jerry Reed acting as the leads. The film version from 1979 had Tom Selleck. The television network decided to pull the plug on the show after only seven episodes and in less than two months as a result of the show’s dismal performance in the ratings and with critics.
Concrete Cowboys
Geoffrey Scott took over for Tom Selleck as Will Eubanks in the 1981 television series. Selleck had previously played the part. Although the absence of the film’s leading actor, Tom Selleck, is likely to have been detrimental to the successful airing of the program, it was plagued by a far wider range of issues than just that. It would appear that hardly a single thing went great with this long-lost treasure.
