When watching a show a while after it's released you can sometimes tell when a show was canceled because a season will end on a big (occasionally spiteful) event.
The following season after it's picked back up occasionally stumbles a bit but I'm wondering what examples can you think of that were especially bad?
Galactica 1980 (shudder)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactica_1980