List of television series cancelled after one episode

Some television series are canceled after one episode, quickly removed from a broadcast schedule and/or had production halted after their premieres. Such immediate cancellations are extremely rare cases and are usually attributed to a combination of extremely negative reviews, very poor ratings, radical or controversial content, or circumstances beyond the network's control.

Purposely excluded from this list are pilots, premiere episodes produced primarily to be reviewed by network executives as a proposed series, "backdoor pilots", pilot episodes shot in such a way that they can be aired as a regular episode of another series, and feature-length television movies produced to be broadcast as either an extended premiere episode, if picked up as a series, or as a distinct television movie. In either case, the pilot was never added to the programming or was aired as a television movie (for example, Virtuality) with no intent of producing a series.

Shows are listed in chronological order with the date the episode aired, any backlash from it, and what happened to the series after cancellation.

The following series were canceled after their first two episodes had aired back-to-back on one evening:

Because of more complex situations, such as shows canceled independently in separate countries, the following programs can be said to have been canceled after one episode under a special set of circumstances only.

The following series are sometimes included on lists of shows canceled after one episode, but strictly speaking do not belong there. The following series were placed on hiatus after a single episode aired, but were later brought back by the originating networks, and aired their remaining episodes on the originating networks some months later (usually during a non-ratings period).

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