This one happened to me: I went a quarter into the ''Doctor Who'' episode "
Human Nature". Now although I saw it until the end (and the fact that it was a two-parter and shown only on weekends with no advertising in the middle of the continuity
didn't help), the idea of a historical flick with living scarecrows where a spaceship landed was intriguing, but nothing to really hunt down. I ''did'' stumble in the three-quarter of other episodes from the same series, but without continuity... it took regular scheduling on
Animax {{Romania}} to give me the incentive to start the series from 0.