# Has a show/movie ever been revisited? (further explanation inside) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 25, 2006, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-show-movie-ever-been-revisited-further-explanation-inside/377841 "2006-10-25T14:43:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-show-movie-ever-been-revisited-further-explanation-inside/377841/21 "2006-10-25T18:58:29Z")
A lot of TV shows have had reunion-type made-for-TV movies: Gilligan’s Island The Dukes of Hazzard The Andy Griffith Show Dallas (?) Happy Days (?) Knight Rider (?) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-show-movie-ever-been-revisited-further-explanation-inside/377841/22 "2006-10-25T19:00:05Z")
**The Sin of Harold Diddlebock** (aka **Mad Wednesday** ) shows the life of the hero of **The Freshman** 20 years later. The last name was changed, but scenes from **The Freshman** were used, and Harold Lloyd played both roles. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-show-movie-ever-been-revisited-further-explanation-inside/377841/23 "2006-10-25T19:32:23Z")
_Before Sunset_ takes place about a decade after _Before Sunrise_, with the characters catching up on all that’s happened in their lives since they parted. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Dumbest\_Guy\_in\_the\_Room](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@The\_Dumbest\_Guy\_in\_the\_Room](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Dumbest_Guy_in_the_Room)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-show-movie-ever-been-revisited-further-explanation-inside/377841/24 "2006-10-25T19:57:56Z")
The first episode of **Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?** took place 5 years after the end of **The Likely Lads** with the same cast. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-show-movie-ever-been-revisited-further-explanation-inside/377841/25 "2006-10-25T20:26:49Z")
**Absolutely Fabulous** took a near-decade long hiatus before coming back for a fourth season. The series pretty much picked up where it left off though - Saffy was still living at home, Patsy still mooching off of Eddie, etc. However the main kitchen set was significantly changed, and there was a running gag about how Eddie had gotten into the habit of obsessively redecorating the kitchen over and over again. ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-show-movie-ever-been-revisited-further-explanation-inside/377841/26 "2006-10-25T21:06:35Z")
The Britcom _ **Are You Being Served?** _, set in the Grace Bros. Department Store, was followed years later by _ **Grace & Favour** _ (AKA _ **Are You Being Served? Again!** _, in which the majority of the cast had retired together to run a hotel in the English countryside. It was but a shadow of its former self. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-show-movie-ever-been-revisited-further-explanation-inside/377841/27 "2006-10-25T23:00:51Z")
There was also Michael Apted’s series of documentaries: **Seven Up, Seven plus Seven, 21, 28 Up, 35 Up, 42 Up.** and **49 Up** , which follow the same group of children from age 7 to age 49 to see their lives unfold. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-show-movie-ever-been-revisited-further-explanation-inside/377841/28 "2006-10-25T23:56:28Z")
Some of the movies, such as the Star Trek movies and Gilligan’s Island made-for-TV movies, that I thought of have been mentioned. I seem to remember a _Flintstones_ sequel with a teenage Pebbles and Bam-Bam. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-show-movie-ever-been-revisited-further-explanation-inside/377841/29 "2006-10-26T02:37:08Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool] Futurama will have about a 3 year gap when new eps come out next year… [/QUOTE] No new episodes have been greenlit. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-show-movie-ever-been-revisited-further-explanation-inside/377841/30 "2006-10-26T02:42:43Z")
[QUOTE=Smitty] There was going to be a Star Trek: Phase II series with the original cast, but it turned into Star Trek: The Motion Picture. [/QUOTE] In any case, ST:TMP does fit the criteria of the OP (original cast several years later: Kirk is an admiral, Spock and McCoy are out of the service, etc as the stage is set). ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-show-movie-ever-been-revisited-further-explanation-inside/377841/31 "2006-10-26T03:53:00Z")
There was a one-shot special in 1997: > **[Hey, Hey, It's the Monkees (TV Movie 1997) ⭐ 7.1 | Comedy, Music](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218329/)** > > 1h in which the pretense was that the series _The Monkees_ had been running for thirty years. The characters were all back. They were supposed to be living in the same house as in the series. The characters talked as if the series had kept running for those thirty years and would make mention of episodes from those imaginary years as if they really existed. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-show-movie-ever-been-revisited-further-explanation-inside/377841/32 "2006-10-26T04:52:19Z")
**Rugrats** had a follow-up series, **All Grown Up** , in which all the characters were 10 years older, and it included characters introduced in the movie **Rugrats in Paris**. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-show-movie-ever-been-revisited-further-explanation-inside/377841/33 "2006-10-26T06:01:38Z")
[QUOTE=control-z] A lot of TV shows have had reunion-type made-for-TV movies: Gilligan’s Island The Dukes of Hazzard The Andy Griffith Show Dallas (?) Happy Days (?) Knight Rider (?) [/QUOTE] CHiPs '99 ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-show-movie-ever-been-revisited-further-explanation-inside/377841/34 "2006-10-26T07:53:43Z")
_Perry Mason_ was revived with the (surviving) original cast in the 80s for a series of TV movies. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-show-movie-ever-been-revisited-further-explanation-inside/377841/35 "2006-10-26T13:54:22Z")
Also The New Leave it to Beaver. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-show-movie-ever-been-revisited-further-explanation-inside/377841/36 "2006-10-26T14:44:47Z")
“Eight is Enough” had some TV movies with the children having families of their own. ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-show-movie-ever-been-revisited-further-explanation-inside/377841/37 "2006-10-26T16:30:25Z")
There was a short-lived new series of _Mission Impossible_ with Peter Graves as an older Phelps leading a new team of agents (including one who was supposed to be the son of a character from the original series). We’ll pretend the movies don’t exist though. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-show-movie-ever-been-revisited-further-explanation-inside/377841/38 "2006-10-26T16:56:11Z")
There was the Facts of Life Reunion movie with Lisa Welchel, Mindy Cohn and Kim Fields, but no Nancy McKeon. Natalie is fending off marriage proposals, Blaire runs a hotel empire and Tootie is trying for a talk show. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-show-movie-ever-been-revisited-further-explanation-inside/377841/39 "2006-10-26T17:15:00Z")
Patrick MacNee returned as John Steed in **The New Avengers**. Nobody else came back, though. I understand Diana Rigg made a guest appearance in one episode, but I must have blinked – I missed her. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-show-movie-ever-been-revisited-further-explanation-inside/377841/40 "2006-10-26T17:26:07Z")
**National Velvet** 1944 Elizabeth Taylor as the 12-yr-old Velvet Brown. **International Velvet** 1978 Nanette Newman as the 46-yr-old Velvet Brown. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-show-movie-ever-been-revisited-further-explanation-inside/377841.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-show-movie-ever-been-revisited-further-explanation-inside/377841.md?page=3)