And the loser is . . . "Angel Street" on CBS.
That's right, the Robin Givens/Pamela Gidley crime drama has claimed a spot in TV trivia. It's the first show of the 1992-93 season to be canceled.(But it won't be the last.)
"Angel Street" was by no means the worst new show to take to the air this season, but it wasn't very good. It was dark, muddled and filled with unpleasant characters. The only surprise about the show was that CBS put it on the air in the first place.
And viewers stayed away in droves. "Angel Street" ranks a miserable 89th out of 98 series on the air - CBS' lowest-rated series.
It won't be seen on Saturdays at 10 p.m. again, but the two remaining episodes of a six-episode order may show up on Thursdays at 9 p.m. in the next couple of weeks if there are no baseball games.
Now we'll just have to sit back and watch a dozen or more other series fall in the next few weeks.
REPRIEVE: Another series seemingly headed for cancellation - "Frannie's Turn" - has been spared at least for the moment.
Not that CBS has expressed overwhelming confidence in the sitcom. It hasn't added to its original six-episode order. But it least it hasn't been axed.
And on Oct. 24 and 31, "Frannie" will swap Saturday night time slots with "Brooklyn Bridge" - the former moving to 7:30 p.m., the latter to 7 p.m.
MORE EPISODES: While a pretty good show like "Frannie's Turn" is still in limbo, CBS did extend a vote of confidence to a crummy show like "The Hat Squad."
The Big Eye ordered an additional five episodes of this cartoonish action show, bringing to the total to 13.
And speaking of crummy shows that will be around for a while, NBC has ordered nine additional episodes of both "I Witness Video" - the worst new show of the new season - and "Secret Service," meaning they'll both be around for 22 episodes.
Neither NBC reality series is doing very well in the ratings, but they're cheap to produce. And they look cheaply produced.
`SEA QUEST': Science fiction will return to network television next fall, as NBC has committed to a full season's worth of a futuristic undersea series created by Steven Spielberg.
Titled "Sea Quest," the hourlong series is set in the year 2018 and "follows the adventures of the massive Sea Quest submarine as its multinational crew, headed by Captain Nathan Bridger (Roy Scheider), explores new worlds beneath the sea.
(Scheider, of course, starred in Speilberg's 1975 film "Jaws.")
Hmmm. "Sea Quest" sort of sounds like a cross between the '60s series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and "Star Trek."
CROSSOVERS: ABC and CBS are both trying a bit of crossover between soap operas these days.
On ABC, characters have been traveling between "All My Children" and "Loving." And on CBS, there's cross-pollination between "The Young and the Restless" and "The Bold and the Beautiful."
Such inter-soap travel tends to liven things up and attract viewers from one soap to the other.
Except, of course, here in Utah. ABC affiliate KTVX-Ch. 4 carries "Children" but not "Loving," and CBS affiliate KSL-Ch. 5 carries "Young and the Restless" but not "Bold and the Beautiful."