Leave it to Beaver
Knight Rider
What’s Happening
Bionic Woman
Hawaii 5-O
These are all television shows that for various reasons(drugs, sex, blackmail, brain damage) someone went through the trouble to remake for our viewing pleasure. Outside of Battlestar Galactica, can you think of any remakes that turned out to be better than the original?
Star Trek.
Not a remake, but a continuation. Come to think of it, the new Leave It To Beaver was also a continuation.
Does the latest Star Trdk movie count as a remake or a continuation? Technically, it is an alternate timeline of TOS.
Technically, we’re talking about television shows.
I was going to say that What’s Happening Now? was a continuation of What’s Happening?, but by the end of the third season so many of the original cast members had left that I can grant you that it was basically a remake by that point.
I haven’t seen it, but everything I’ve read about Hawaii 5-0 will take pains to point out it’s better than the original.
The recent CG Captain Scarlet was much better than the original, though opinion is divided.
Wait, are they remaking Leave it to Beaver?
It’s got my vote.
They did. In 1984. The New Leave It To Beaver ran on the Disney Channel, then on TBS for five years and had almost all of the original cast, save for Hugh Beaumont, who had passed away in 1982.
Although, as Czarcasm pointed out, it was more of a continuation than a remake.
Is the new V better than the old V?
I think it’s a trivial distinction. Most of these shows have as much in common with the original version as me and Cleopatra. Aside from a titles and maybe a handful of character names they aren’t any more of a “remake” than Star Trek TNG is. With sit-coms and cop dramas there’s not really any larger storyline to “remake”.
Yes. The Old V was made in the 1980’s. It suffered from cheesiness and '80’s hair. The hair alone was bad enough.
the old V had them eating mice though, that was worth all the cheese.
The new series is better than the old series (for the most part). The old miniseries is moderately better (storywise) than the current series. The new series has better effects. They have comparably good casting. The old one had less fridge moments.
I’ve found two different remakes of Dragnet, two of Tarzan, one of ADAM-12-and all are poorly written and executed. Surely there must be a reason they keep trying this tactic, right?
Are you differentiating Next Generation and its two spin-offs from TOS, which is arguable? Or do you mean the 2009 movie (which I found quite dreadful) from any/some/all of its predecessors?
Remade shows I agree with the OP on:
The New Addams Family
The New Munsters
None of the spin-offs are actually remakes of the original, and the new movie(besides not being television) takes place in an alternate universe and acknowledges the original.