What old TV Shows would you like to see rebooted instead of Roseanne?

[maxrandb]

I've got a couple. Mine are:

The Night Stalker with Darren McGavin - Loved this campy, scary show

Scrubbs

Knotts Landing

Barney Miller

Night Court

[saidsimplesimon]

1. "Third Rock From the Sun"

[maxrandb]

2. John Lithgow was great in that

[red dog 1]

59. + 1

It ran for 6 seasons (1996-2001)

I have the first 4 seasons on DVD & hope to be able to get the last 2 seasons some day.

During the show's 6th & final season, John Lithgow commented to several media outlets that Third Rock had been moved to "more than fifteen different time slots in six years, causing it's ratings to decrease substantially."

[Glorfindel]

3. Route 66. Dynasty.

And I agree about Knotts Landing.

[mucifer]

89. I'm pretty sure Dynasty was rebooted and is now on the air

[Glorfindel]

95. Really? I had no idea! Thanks...I'm off to see if I can find it.

n/t

[muntrv]

99. On CW network.

[Ron Obvious]

4. Any of them.

To be fair, I never watch reboots anyway.

[Ohiogal]

5. I agree with Barney Miller!

[dameatball]

130. Same here!!! It has also aged pretty well.

[dameatball]

131. Green Acres

[taterguy]

6. Baa Baa Black Sheep a/k/a Black Sheep Squadron

Not sure how many flyable Corsairs are still around though.

[TomSlick]

96. Great show.

[A HERETIC I AM]

147. At least 25 in the US

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_Vought_F4U_Corsairs

[SoCalMusicLover]

7. Quantum Leap

[ms liberty]

94. This. I have thought this every time a new reboot hits the teevee.

But I worry that they'd screw it up.

[nightwing1240]

134. A favorite of mine too

Loved Quantum Leap and agree that I've been hoping for a reboot as well

[snowybirdie]

8. WEST WING

Need some presidential normalcy

[onecaliberal]

23. That.

[Delmette2.0]

44. Yep, The West Wing!

[badhair77]

88. Those early seasons never get old. Love that show.

[SeattleVet]

9. Our World

The original was in the 80's and hosted by Linda Ellerbee.

Each week picked a date from the past and used archival footage to show what was going on around the world on that date (or week).

[DBoon]

10. Mr Ed

Better hear from the horse's mouth than the other end

[lapfog_1]

11. West Wing - to remind us of what a real Presidency should look like.

Almost any sitcom from the last 50 years - at this point I would take Green Acres or Gilligan's Island or Beverly Hillbillies.

WKRP in Cincinnati
Action

[shraby]

12. I enjoyed Laugh-in

Hill Street Blues was good until they turned it into a night-time soap.

[Frustratedlady]

13. Carol Burnett and friends.

Replay the Johnny Carson shows.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

50. Johnny Carson is on Antenna TV.

Antenna TV

List of programs broadcast by Antenna TV

Current programming
....

Talk show

Johnny Carson (classic Tonight Show episodes from the Carson era)

[Frustratedlady]

64. I'm not familiar with Antenna TV.

Thanks for the info.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

123. Where do you live? (I mean, not in the stalking sense.)

You/we can look up your local over-the-air broadcast TV stations to see if any of them carries Antenna TV.

[Frustratedlady]

138. Iowa. I have MediaCom.

Just had laser surgery on my eyes, so I can't see very well. Should be OK tomorrow. Forgive any typos

[fmdaddio]

14. Saint Elsewhere

Never cared for hospital shows except S.E. and House.
So many actors came out of S.E.

[Ohiogal]

18. Yep - Denzel Washington and Mark Harmon, to name a couple

[MicaelS]

45. I'd still like to choke someone for the ending.

Very disrespectful to the fans.

[Freddie]

47. Yes

Loved the show, HATED the ending!

[NRaleighLiberal]

15. Gilligan's Island!

[Ohiogal]

16. Northern Exposure

[maxrandb]

19. I loved Northern Exposure

what a great cast and tremendous writing.

[Ohiogal]

24. Rob Morrow isn't doing anything, is he? They should bring it back!

[dhol82]

76. He is doing Designated Survivor

[nolabear]

139. I was an extra on Northern Exposure. Ask me anything. :)

Only for, I think, three episodes. I knew one of the Assistant Directors and they were very good about letting people visit the sets and being background. Interiors were in Redmond WA (where I lived) and exteriors in Roslyn, WA.

Yes, it was lots of fun.

[raven mad]

155. LOL!!

I live it daily....

[tazkcmo]

17. Great list except Snots Landing! lol

But I prefer fresh ideas and content (Scrubbs is pretty recent so I wouldn't mind that reboot) rather than rebooting or remaking even the best of old shows. I'm the same way with movies unless it's an updated version of one due to advances in tech and therefore special effects. King Kong is a good example of a movie that deserves an update so Kong looks even better and realistic.

Rarely is the magic recaptured.

[pangaia]

20. WEST WING

NYPD BLUE

The Lone Ranger

Lash LaRue

Ernie Kovacs

[red dog 1]

60. Whenever I see the Ernie Kovacs Show mentioned, I can't help thinking about "The Nairobi Trio"

Remember that one?

Jack Lemon played the one with the "drumsticks"

[pangaia]

67. And I think I read his wife Edie Adams sometimes was one of them as well.

Percy Dovetonsils--
Remember the slanted set where he had to do the whole routine walking and sitting at an angle just so when he pouted the milk or whatever it was it would miss the cup, and the apple would roll off the table.?


Guy was a genius...

[red dog 1]

78. I heard about his wife Edie Adams being part of the trio sometimes

You're right!
Ernie Kovacs was a genius... and he died way too young.

He was killed in an auto accident on January 13, 1962...he was 42.

Jack Lemon, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Billy Wilder and Mervyn LeRoy were pallbearers at his church funeral.

Attendees at his funeral included:
- Groucho Marx
- George Burns
- Edward G. Robinson
- Kirk Douglas
- Jack Benny
- James Stewart
- Charlton Heston
- Buster Keaton
- Milton Berle

There was no typical Hollywood-eulogy.
The church's pastor paid tribute to Kovacs, adding that he once summed up his life in two sentences:
"I was born in Trenton, New Jersey in 1919 to a Hungarian couple.
I've been smoking cigars ever since."

[pangaia]

119. I didn't know any of that except the car wreck..

Then there was Steve Allen...😊

[red dog 1]

140. Steve Allen is one of my television heroes

"The Steve Allen Show" was originally on CBS and ran from 1950 to 1952.
After it's cancellation, in June 1953, he created a late night show on the New York station,
WNBT-TV (now WNBC).

The following year, the show went on the full NBC network as "The Tonight Show"
In June, 1956, NBC offered Allen a new, prime-time Sunday Night variety hour,
"The Steve Allen Show," in an attempt to dethrone CBS's "The Ed Sullivan Show"
Besides doing the Sunday Night variety show, Allen remained the host of "The Tonight Show" for 3 nights a week.

From 1962 to 1964, he started a new late-night show, "The Steve Allen Show" which was a
5-nights-a-week taped show that was syndicated by Westinghouse TV and was broadcast from an old Vaudeville theater on Vine St. in Hollywood.

This show was my personal favorite Steve Allen show, featuring such odd-ball guests as health-food "nut" Gypsy Boots and comic Professor Irwin Corey.
Frank Zappa appeared on the show one time.

Sorry to ramble on, but since you mentioned Steve Allen.....

[pangaia]

157. Oh don't apologize. Great to be reminded of all the varients of

His shows. That last was my fav also. Brilliant man.

[underpants]

21. Grey's Anatomy

Hold it! It's still on the air?? Why God WHY?!?

[maxrandb]

22. LOL

I wouldn't mind Chicago Hope coming back

[Floyd R. Turbo]

25. Picket Fences, Eerie Indiana, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Terriers

[blur256]

30. Two shows I immediately thought of!

Picket fences and eerie Indiana. Loved both growing up!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

33. Eerie is available on Prime but the quality sucks!

[rurallib]

102. loved Eerie, Indiana

read somewhere that they tried to revive it a couple years after it first ran, but it just didn't have the same feeling (or cast)

[jes06c]

26. Freakazoid

Sadly we've lost Ricardo Montalban, but we still have Ed Asner with us

[Louis1895]

27. Bosom Buddies

Just kidding.

Maybe the guys in drag could encounter a pussy-grabbing Donald Trump...

[red dog 1]

63. I loved Bosom Buddies

I think I saw every episode

[mucifer]

90. Me too. Loved it back then. I saw it recently. Had to turn it off it was terrible.

[unblock]

127. to think someone went up to peter scolari and said,

"nnnnnnnnnah, let's make the other guy a mega super star."


i wonder if peter scolari ever hangs out with pete best.

[madamesilverspurs]

28. Brooklyn Bridge

[kedrys]

29. I have a couple...

I’d really like to know how Defying Gravity, John Doe, and Star Trek: Enterprise were supposed to end.

[sarge43]

31. With a helping of British

Fawlty Towers

Upstairs, Downstairs

I, Claudius (uncut)

Poldark (the original)

[red dog 1]

65. I'd love to see Fawlty Towers come back

I have all 12 episodes on DVD, and have watched them many, many times.

I wonder if John Cleese would be willing to start it up again?

[3catwoman3]

32. The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

I had a serious 14 yr old crush on David McCallum.

[Ohiogal]

37. So did I, although I was a bit younger

[maxrandb]

70. Were there ever any character names better than

Napoleon Solo and Elio Kiriachen?

[3catwoman3]

81. Illya Kuryakin.

And I agree - the names were perfect.

He's still very appealing.

[malthaussen]

124. Funny scene in NCIS:

Kate asks Gibbs what Ducky looked like when he was young, and Gibbs replies "Illya Kuryakin."

In the set for Ducky's house, an old b/w photo of him and Leo G. Carroll is on the wall in his mother's room.

-- Mal

[bigbrother05]

34. SCTV - John Candy, Harold Ramis, Eugene Levy, Katherine O'Hara

Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis, Joe Flaherty, and Martin Short

Some of the funniest, milk-out-your-nose humor ever on broadcast tv

[mahatmakanejeeves]

40. Two thumbs up, way up, for that.

I used to watch that over thirty years ago on late Friday nights, IIRC. What a great, great show that was.

[bigbrother05]

42. Exactly, mid '70s. NBC tried to reboot but mostly repackaged material

The small tv station premise worked great.

When Canada made them add "local" content, The Great White North was born with the McKinsey Bros.

[red dog 1]

66. + 1

Both John Candy and Harold Ramis are dead, but I think all the others are still alive.

I truly loved that show & would love to see it come back.

[rurallib]

103. yes, yes, yes - could have a new cast of young 'uns.

[sdfernando]

35. Mission Impossible /nt

[Arkansas Granny]

36. Soap. That was one of the funniest shows I've ever seen.

[red dog 1]

68. + 1

That show was ahead of it's time.

I can't choose a "favorite character" because I loved them all.

Mary Campbell's step-son, Chuck, the ventriloquist, with his dummy, Bob, was hilarious, imo.

The Tate butler, Benson, had his own spin-off series called "Benson"

[TlalocW]

38. MST3K - Oh, wait... I got that

TlalocW

[flibbitygiblets]

107. That's what I was going to say. WDYM I got that?

Are you referring to RiffTrax?

[TlalocW]

114. Nope

MST3K. Joel did a GoFundMe or Crowdfund, and they did a season on NetFlix, and it's been renewed for a second season.

TlalocW

[mahatmakanejeeves]

39. The Night Stalker is still on, if you're one of those OTA TV cheapskates.

Is it on Decades, maybe? Let me see.

No. It's on MeTV:

11 reasons 'Kolchak: The Night Stalker' is the coolest, creepiest show on 1970s television

I know I caught an episode a week or so ago in the wee hours.

KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER
SATURDAYS AT 1 AM
EASTERN (ON MOST MeTV STATIONS)

Oh, did you mean a 2018 version? Okay, that's different.

[exboyfil]

54. The funny thing is that The X-Files

really is a reboot of The Night Stalker. Chris Carter gives full recognition to it.

One of my favorite memories of my childhood was watching The Night Stalker with my dad. I could never get into the reboot. Maybe if it shows up on a streaming service.

A number of shows have since adopted the monster of the week approach. Supernatural is another good example. Grimm as well. Warehouse 13. Fringe.

[maxrandb]

69. I used to watch Night Stalker with my dad

Of course the old one with Darren McGavin.

It was such a good premise for a show.

It made me want to be a journalist

[Sherman A1]

41. Sky King

Have Gun Will Travel come to mind.

[SouthernIrish]

43. Murphy Brown is coming back.

This fall it will be rebooted. Such a great show.
I would like to see Designing Women come back too. Allison Janney would be great as Julia Sugarbaker (originally played by Dixie Carter).

[MissMillie]

135. Glad to hear this, but...

Allison Janney is GREAT on "Mom"

Not sure I want to see her relocated to a DW reboot.

[dflprincess]

152. I can't wait for Murphy Brown and her take on Fox News

I'm hoping she'll still be the Murphy I remember so fondly.

[rzemanfl]

46. Obama's first State of the Union, a sequel the following year, etc. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

48. Twin Peaks

[Chiyo-chichi]

52. That happened, too, and it was flat out awesome.

[Freddie]

49. All In The Family

Archie and Edith have died. Mike and Gloria, long divorced, have each remarried and deal with Joey's teenage kids.

[TheDebbieDee]

53. I watched this show when I was a kid in the 70s...

I was exposed to many social issues for the first time by listening to Mike & Archie go back and forth.

I found out about the Ozone layer while watching AITF!

[llmart]

144. My all time favorite show!

I still watch it occasionally in reruns.

[Sneederbunk]

51. King Leonardo

[byronius]

55. Time Tunnel!

Plus, thirty more Star Trek spinoffs.

[Paladin]

56. Name it. I'll watch virtually anything besides the new Roseanne shit.

How about a dozen "West Wing" reruns for every one of her execrable, trump ass-kissing shows?

[Phentex]

57. Huge Knot's Landing fan but

could it ever be as good as the original?

(I think I have final show on VHS. Look it up, kids.)

[Sedona]

58. Firefly !!!!

If all the fans who have seen it now would’ve seen it then, Firefly would’ve broken ratings records. Joss Whedon’s short-lived space cowboy series has become the de facto one-season wonder, and has found a legion of fans in the years since Fox pulled the plug. Thankfully, all the love is well deserved. Firefly put together a motley crew of future stars and set them off on the wild west of space, with a clunky space ship, a whole lot of Whedon-esque humor, and a deep sense of family to tie them all together. It was pure magic, and we’ll always have “The Train Job.”

[area51]

101. Yes!

I love Firefly.

[RainCaster]

61. Boston Legal- Shatner had the best lines every week

[Mike Nelson]

62. Twilight Zone...

...Dark Shadows

[JI7]

120. Yes, twilight zone but only if it can be as good

As the original.

[red dog 1]

71. My Name Is Earl

NBC "pulled the plug" on the series after Season 4.

The series producer, 20th Century Fox Television, approached the Fox, TNT, and TBS networks to continue the series, but it never got picked up by any of them.

[randr]

72. Mary Hartman Mary Hartman

[Heartstrings]

105. Yes!

Have never even seen reruns of it!

[Ferrets are Cool]

108. With the "second" saddest moment in television history

changed to something LESS sad.

[beveeheart]

116. Loved that show, campy as it was.

[maxrandb]

73. I was a big fan of Ironside

Alas, Aaron Burr has left us.

[longship]

86. Raymond Burr.

Perry Mason is on METV twice each weekday.

I love Perry Mason.

[maxrandb]

91. Yes

I guess I've got too much politics on the brain

[sinkingfeeling]

74. Mash, but a lot of the cast are gone.

[Runningdawg]

137. MASH units are still around

although now they call them Combat Support Hospitals. New cast, different war - same story line.

[First Speaker]

75. The Name of the Game...

...rotating stars, with Gene Barry as a publisher and Anthony Franciosa and Robert Stack as reporters. The shows were really good and probing, dealt with issues in a remarkably grown-up manner. Came right at the height of the Sixties, and was very emblematic of those times...

[PatrickforO]

77. No brainer for me...Perry Mason!

[PJMcK]

79. "My Mother, The Car"

Stupidest sit-com of all time.

[NanceGreggs]

80. "American Gothic"

And even after all these years, Gary Cole is still sexy enough to reprise his role as the hot-but-totally-evil Lucas Buck.

[Wolf Frankula]

82. Barney Miller

the most realistic cop show ever.

West Wing.

Firefly

Wolf (not a TV show)

[Sedona]

83. Deadwood!!!

Welcome to fuckin' Deadwood

[Xipe Totec]

84. Dinosaurs nt

[TomSlick]

98. We still reference that show in my house.

Herself is "The Mama." I am "Not the Mama."

[link:|

[Xipe Totec]

110. I just watched "When Food Goes Bad" last night

I'm still chuckling.

[Sedona]

85. The Knick!!!

[longship]

87. The Defenders!!

E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed.

I never missed that program. 1961-1965.

[woodsprite]

92. Petticoat Junction and The Ghost and Mrs Muir n/t

[maxrandb]

93. Green acres

[LeftInTX]

136. OMG - I loved Eva Gabor, but her character reminds me of Melania

Melania could be Lisa Douglas and we could watch her burn toast and iron waffles.

[muntrv]

97. Monty Python.

On edit:. Cheers.

[tinymontgomery]

100. Get Smart

Get Smart and also the Avengers

[GP6971]

104. My son always enjoyed ALF. n/t

[rurallib]

106. Ellery Queen

only lasted a year, but I loved the 40s NYC setting and the absent-minded sleuth.

[Ferrets are Cool]

109. Firefly....ignoring the movie.

[rwheeler31]

111. West Wing, ER, Boston Legal, QuantumLeapl

[dawg day]

112. Rockford Files

[malthaussen]

125. And who will play Rockford?

That's my problem with the "reboot" idea, a show where the title character was owned by the actor can never be the same.

-- Mal

[Cartoonist]

129. Max Baer

At one point, he was considered, but sadly, they felt he was too typecast.

[DonCoquixote]

113. FIREFLY

and those who watched the show know why

[NightWatcher]

115. The A Team, Magnum PI, The Equalizer, CHiPs

[shenmue]

117. Moonlighting

[Generic Brad]

118. Stargate Atlantis

The show got cancelled before they wrapped up all their story lines. I want to know that it all came out OK in the end!

[yortsed snacilbuper]

121. howdy doody show

[Steerpike]

122. Mr. Terrific

[happynewyear]

126. The Twilight Zone

That is where we are at the moment anyway!

[malthaussen]

128. That's a toughie...

... well, the "rebooted" part is, the "instead of Rosanne" is a no-brainer.

But rebooting a show is problematic, whether it has new actors or the same old folks recycled. The show is usually a relict of its times, to begin with, and we are not the same viewer we were then. Mind you, I am opposed to "remakes" on principle, since it seems lazy to me to re-tell the same stories over and over and over... although it sometimes works, as in the first remake of "The Front Page."

-- Mal

[Va Lefty]

132. Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Only if they get get SMG to agree to reprise the roll of Buffy.

[vercetti2021]

133. I got quite a few

Married With Children
Cheers
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Family Matters
Gilligan's Island
Seinfeld
Friends
Mad about you

[red dog 1]

141. Married With Children ran for 11 seasons...I'd love to see it "come back"

Seinfeld ran for 9 seasons, and I think it could have gone on longer, since it was so popular.
(I loved it)

I never cared for Cheers, Fresh Prince, Family Matters or Friends; but I liked Gilligan's Island and Mad About You.

[red dog 1]

142. Wiseguy

Starring Ken Wahl and Jonathan Banks, Wiseguy was a great show, imo, with many famous actors and non-actors alike appearing in the first three seasons.
(Ken Wahl left the series after the 3rd season)

Some of my favorite actors who were on the show at various times include:
- William Russ
- Chazz Palminteri
- Tim Curry
- Kevin Spacey (turned out to be a "perv" but he was very good playing Mel Profitt)
- Jerry Lewis
- Melanie Chartoff
- Fred Dalton Thompson
- Paul Guilgoyle
- Ray Sharkey

Also appearing in recurring roles were musicians Glenn Grey and Deborah Harry (Blondie)

[LeftInTX]

143. LaVerne and Shirley

[jmowreader]

145. Put me down for "don't reboot any more TV shows!"

Ninety percent of the shows made in the 1970s and 1980s couldn't be made today. People would not accept the sexual politics on those shows.

An anthology show would be fun.

[Stargleamer]

146. My So-Called Life, The Addams Family

The Prisoner too

[mythology]

148. I can't think of any shows that I've enjoyed that I enjoyed a reboot of

I loved Gilmore Girls, but hated the Netflix episodes. I loved Veronica Mars, but the movie was a disappointment.

I think it's really hard to go back to something and recapture that magic.

[BootinUp]

149. Ive always loved Sliders and thought it ended badly.

[ornotna]

150. Car 54 Where Are You?

My Mother The Car.

Green Acres

Flying Nun

Smilin’ Ed McConnell and his Buster Brown Gang

The Goldbergs (the old one)

All far more worthy of reincarnation than Roseanne.

[meadowlark5]

151. I just read Murphy Brown is coming back next year

[TygrBright]

153. Another vote for Night Stalker (we have the DVD set). Also...

Avengers
Gunsmoke
Sea Hunt
77 Sunset Strip
My Three Sons
The Honeymooners
All in the Family
Hill Street Blues
Bonanza
Rockford Files
Columbo
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Taxi
Perry Mason
St. Elsewhere
Wild Wild West

helpfully,
Bright

[Thx]

154. Alias Smith and Jones

Hawaiian Eye

Lost in Space

The 21st Century

The Rat Patrol

Room 222

The Green Hornet

Rawhide

The Fugitive

Thx

[jalan48]

156. The Prisoner

[Atticus]

158. The Senate impeachment hearings, "The Sequel". nt

[radical noodle]

159. All in the Family

[pstokely]

160. Beavis & Butt-head if they don't have original ideas anymore

huh huh heh heh

Cornholio got deported

[quickesst]

161. All of them

[dwilso40641]

162. Smothers Brothers

[Tikki]

163. I totally miss GRIMM.

Tikki

[Homer Wells]

164. WKRP