How did the series end?

Deliverance

Ok, reading over some of the threads in this forum has made me nostalgic for old shows which we watched as kids with the family on the weekends but for one reason or another never saw the final outcome of the series.

Example 1: Did Mr Magee ever catch David Banner, or did Banner find a cure, how did the incredible hulk end?

2: Were the A-Team ever proven innocent of robbing that bank in Hanoi? Or were they gunned down in a shoot out with the Major?

3: Did the fugitive ever track down the one armed man and prove his innocence. Or did the one armed man beat him to death with his prosthetic.

4: And here is a really old one, did 'the prisoner' (Patrick McGoohan) ever escape from the island?

Would love to hear conclusions from those in the know about the above and invite further queries to other series and their endings.
Cheers.

jhegarty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_A-Team

Marty DiBergi

All I know is that the dummy arm turned up in Borat.

mike65

The Prisoner

No 6 turned out to be No 1 and blasted off from the Island in a rocket[/spolier] plus lots of other stuff, the ending was...appropriate

You could'nt make it up!

Mike.

aidan_walsh

Did Mr Magee ever catch David Banner, or did Banner find a cure, how did the incredible hulk end?

The clue lies in the TV movie title The Death of the Incredible Hulk.

Deliverance

So all endings were really bad? Big dissapointment. Especially number 6 being number 1?!! Although Banner facing himself sounds like a good one but with really dumb spin offs. Oh well I did ask.

humanji

It's odd how a lot of series don't end well. I'm still upset that Sam in Quantum Leap never made it home

Deliverance

Sam never made it home? So where did he end up?

monkeyfudge

Deliverance wrote:

So all endings were really bad? Big dissapointment. Especially number 6 being number 1?!! Although Banner facing himself sounds like a good one but with really dumb spin offs. Oh well I did ask.

But the most important bit was that he was number 1 dressed as a monkey!

It's a commentary on how we're all really just prisoners of ourselves.... but eh... dressed as monkeys.

flogen

Deliverance wrote:

Sam never made it home? So where did he end up?

basically

he learned from a barman named Al (who seemed to know a lot about the leaping programme) that he was in fact in control of where he leaps to - it wasn't just random. Sam started crying and said "I want to go home, I want to help Al", and leaped.
He ended up leaping into thin air in Al's house (while he was still MIA in Vietnam) and told his wife to wait for him (Al). You then saw a picture of Al on the mantle piece go blue as if he was leaping into it.
Then it came up that Al came back from Vietnam and had loads of kids with his wife and Dr. Sam Beckett never returned home.

I remember it pretty well because I thought at the time, and still think, it was one of the greatest series finales of all time - just superb (and I think it was unintentional, the writers had hoped and planned for another series or two but got the chop at the last minute).

There was talk of a modern version of the show where Beckett's daughter becomes a leaper in an attempt to find her father, but that sounds like a piece of poo to me.

humanji

flogen wrote:

There was talk of a modern version of the show where Beckett's daughter becomes a leaper in an attempt to find her father, but that sounds like a piece of poo to me.

You'd still watch it though!

Seriously, Deliverance, I bet you regret starting this thread now!

AnonoBoy

mike65 wrote:

The Prisoner

No 6 turned out to be No 1 and blasted off from the Island in a rocket[/spolier] plus lots of other stuff, the ending was...appropriate

You could'nt make it up!

Mike.

Wait Wait Wait.
Didn't he

drive off the island in a big truck with Rumpole of the Bailey after shooting his way out with machine guns?

AnonoBoy

Deliverance wrote:

2: Were the A-Team ever proven innocent of robbing that bank in Hanoi? Or were they gunned down in a shoot out with the Major?

3: Did the fugitive ever track down the one armed man and prove his innocence. Or did the one armed man beat him to death with his prosthetic.

A-Team: It turned out that

the A-Team did actually rob the bank in Hanoi but were doing it under orders

Fugitive:

He never caught the one armed man but he was acquitted of the crime

My memory is sometimes dodgey so these could be wrong.

humanji

AnonoBoy wrote:

A-Team: It turned out that

the A-Team did actually rob the bank in Hanoi but were doing it under orders

Well, in fairness, they tell you that in the very first episode.


Actually, I just read that sky are planning on remaking the Prisoner

mike65

Thats been mooted for a year at least. Shudders.

Mike.

Deliverance

The prisoner remade, I don't think so. The drugs are to strong these days the writers would burn out to quick.

Deliverance

flogen wrote:

basically

he learned from a barman named Al (who seemed to know a lot about the leaping programme) that he was in fact in control of where he leaps to - it wasn't just random. Sam started crying and said "I want to go home, I want to help Al", and leaped.
He ended up leaping into thin air in Al's house (while he was still MIA in Vietnam) and told his wife to wait for him (Al). You then saw a picture of Al on the mantle piece go blue as if he was leaping into it.
Then it came up that Al came back from Vietnam and had loads of kids with his wife and Dr. Sam Beckett never returned home.

I remember it pretty well because I thought at the time, and still think, it was one of the greatest series finales of all time - just superb (and I think it was unintentional, the writers had hoped and planned for another series or two but got the chop at the last minute).

There was talk of a modern version of the show where Beckett's daughter becomes a leaper in an attempt to find her father, but that sounds like a piece of poo to me.

Not a bad ending, kind of sad but

Sam was always going to sacrifice himself which makes sense for the character. So I presume 'Al' the barman was our 'Al' with Ziggy so if his past changed it meant that the future was changed and the changes probably meant that Sam probably didn't leap in the first place?

Or am I grasping at straws?

Deliverance

humanji wrote:

You'd still watch it though!

Seriously, Deliverance, I bet you regret starting this thread now!

No I don't regret it at all, I want answers! And I can handle the truth!

flogen

flogen wrote:

I remember it pretty well because I thought at the time, and still think, it was one of the greatest series finales of all time - just superb.

Definitely.

J.R.HARTLEY

Deliverance wrote:

Not a bad ending, kind of sad but

Sam was always going to sacrifice himself which makes sense for the character. So I presume 'Al' the barman was our 'Al' with Ziggy so if his past changed it meant that the future was changed and the changes probably meant that Sam probably didn't leap in the first place?

Or am I grasping at straws?

i think they were insinuating that al the barman was god or some kind of god, and he helped sam leap to places he could help.

i thought the crime they were convivted of in the ATEAM was robbing the bank of hanoi, but in the 5h series they were on court martial for murdering their C.O. Colonel Morrison

slipss

Good thread deliverance, I've been wondering that for years too. I have a slightly more abstract one, maybe some one might know. There was this cartoon called Noahs Island (i think) about a bunch of talking animals (noah was a polar bear) that lived on an island that they propelled around the oceans powered by a volcano looking for a new home. I don't supose anyone knows how it ended?

Oh, here's another one. Anyone remember the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon? Not the really cartoony one (though it was a cartoon) but it was the much darker one. The ending contained something about magic stones, and Sonic combined them together the wrong way around and destroyed Dr. Robotniks lab/fortress...

Was always surprised at how dark that show was.

Deliverance

slipss wrote:

Good thread deliverance, I've been wondering that for years too. I have a slightly more abstract one, maybe some one might know. There was this cartoon called Noahs Island (i think) about a bunch of talking animals (noah was a polar bear) that lived on an island that they propelled around the oceans powered by a volcano looking for a new home. I don't supose anyone knows how it ended?

Yep they ended up on 'lost'. (kidding). I remember that cartoon it was really good as cartoons go, where did they end up?

Deliverance

And to add to that what was the ending to the animals of Farthing wood? Another great cartoon, the work that went into that animation was amazing.