That happened with "Dungeons and Dragons". The TV animated series was about a group of all-American kids who were kidnapped into a fantasy role-playing world, turned into a stereotypical barbarian, knight, wizard, and the other traditional questers (with Uni, a pet baby unicorn), and every week they would have an adventure (usually fighting the villainous Venger) while trying to get home. The final episode of the final season was preempted by a sports game, leading to an urban legend that it was really the final episode to the series, in which the kids defeat the villain once and for all and get home; but nobody saw it because it was preempted. The head writer of "Dungeons and Dragons" has said that was just wishful guessing; it was really just another cliffhanger episode like any other.
That happened with "Dungeons and Dragons". The TV animated series was about a group of all-American kids who were kidnapped into a fantasy role-playing world, turned into a stereotypical barbarian, knight, wizard, and the other traditional questers (with Uni, a pet baby unicorn), and every week they would have an adventure (usually fighting the villainous Venger) while trying to get home. The final episode of the final season was preempted by a sports game, leading to an urban legend that it was really the final episode to the series, in which the kids defeat the villain once and for all and get home; but nobody saw it because it was preempted. The head writer of "Dungeons and Dragons" has said that was just wishful guessing; it was really just another cliffhanger episode like any other.
Fred Patten