# If you could bring back one show **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 22, 2017, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-bring-back-one-show/777871 "2017-01-22T20:56:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-bring-back-one-show/777871/101 "2017-01-25T17:46:53Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > A&E’s _Nero Wolfe_ series starring Maury Chaykin as Wolfe and Timothy Hutton as Archie Goodwin. With the possible exception of _The Sopranos_, I think it’s the best television series ever produced. > > And oh, happy day! I just discovered that many of the episodes are currently available for viewing on [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Nero+wolfe). It was excellent, best TV adaptation of Nero Wolfe by far. Also the Hornblower Series ended too soon. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-bring-back-one-show/777871/102 "2017-01-25T18:35:55Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#): > > _scrolling through the responses, thinking ‘please no one say it yet, please no one say it yet…YES!! No one mentioned it yet!!’_ > Hands down winner : > > **Freaks & Geeks** :smack: Nobody watched it when it was on, besides a few critics, so why would another season be different? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![flaming\_yawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cab0a1/32.png) [@flaming\_yawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flaming_yawn)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-bring-back-one-show/777871/103 "2017-01-25T20:12:00Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Nobody watched it when it was on, besides a few critics, so why would another season be different? 😛 i never knew about this show until netflix… I swear I can relate to every character as a child growing up in the 80’s. Then again I loved the show “Square Pegs” ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-bring-back-one-show/777871/104 "2017-01-25T20:32:42Z")
I’d like Star Trek: Enterprise to get its final three seasons. It was canceled just when it was finally getting good. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-bring-back-one-show/777871/105 "2017-01-25T20:36:16Z")
[Ms. Rigg](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001671/) has her hands a bit full right now. She has some serious “avenging” to do. 😉 **Joan of Arcadia** would be my second choice, but I want pie and Digby and a way for Ned and Chuck to kiss without a piece of Saran wrap between them. Not to mention the aunties and Emerson Cod. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-bring-back-one-show/777871/106 "2017-01-29T03:53:16Z")
man I could use some _Mew-wy Hawt-mun, MEW-WY HAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWT-MUUUUUNNNNN!!!_ right now. Ah, fond memories of that old geezer falling asleep in his bowl of soup and drowning.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-bring-back-one-show/777871/107 "2017-01-29T09:56:04Z")
Pushing Daisies ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-bring-back-one-show/777871/108 "2017-01-29T11:01:27Z")
_Gilligan’s Island_ But like what was planned where the Castaways get rescued. _The Honeymooners_ But this time allow them to have children and move up to a bigger apartment or even a home. Imagine Ralph Cramden as a Dad in the suburbs? ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-bring-back-one-show/777871/109 "2017-01-29T11:05:25Z")
Another is just a final year of \*Hogan’s Heroes \*but this time the allies come in and liberate the camp. Hogan then reveals everything and the German government tries to blame Klink for working with the enemy but Hogan has to come to his defense. Another would be to have the Russians liberate Stalag 13 and Hogan now has to work with the Germans. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-bring-back-one-show/777871/110 "2017-01-29T18:46:24Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > Another is just a final year of \*Hogan’s Heroes \*but this time the allies come in and liberate the camp. Hogan then reveals everything and the German government tries to blame Klink for working with the enemy but Hogan has to come to his defense. > > Another would be to have the Russians liberate Stalag 13 and Hogan now has to work with the Germans. > [@Urbanredneck](#): > > _Gilligan’s Island_ > > But like what was planned where the Castaways get rescued. > > _The Honeymooners_ > > But this time allow them to have children and move up to a bigger apartment or even a home. Imagine Ralph Cramden as a Dad in the suburbs? Yeah, it required some de-zombie-fying, but I’m pretty sure those posts’d fit better here: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=815451](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=815451) Already missing ATHF, and the Bob Newhart Show (Chicago, not Colorado) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-bring-back-one-show/777871/111 "2017-01-29T19:29:54Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > _The Honeymooners_ > > But this time allow them to have children and move up to a bigger apartment or even a home. Imagine Ralph Cramden as a Dad in the suburbs? Didn’t Hanna-Barbera do that? 😃 Gabe Kaplan wanted to do a final season of _Welcome Back, Kotter_ in which the Sweathogs graduated from Buchanan H.S. and attended community college and Kotter was their instructor there. I would have liked to have seen that. ---
**Author:** ![CatandMouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@CatandMouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatandMouse)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-bring-back-one-show/777871/112 "2017-01-29T19:53:24Z")
Harry’s Law - Kathy Bates Kathy Bates said NBC treated her & her show like shit. It was aired for only 2 seasons. Harry’s Law revolves around Harriet Korn, a recently fired patent lawyer, and her group of associates as they come together to form a unique law firm in a rundown shoe store in Cincinnati. In the second season the practice is moved upstairs to a larger office with the help of prestigious lawyer and friend Thomas “Tommy” Jefferson. - Wikipedia Trailer @ [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mHsBXkdK4jU/hqdefault.jpg "YouTube- NBC's Harry's Law - Trailer.mp4") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHsBXkdK4jU) ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-bring-back-one-show/777871/113 "2017-01-29T23:29:05Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Didn’t Hanna-Barbera do that? 😃 > . Your talking “The Flintstones”? Yeah basically. ---
**Author:** ![diggerwam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@diggerwam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggerwam)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-bring-back-one-show/777871/114 "2017-01-30T00:06:52Z")
Pushing Daisies (another vote) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-bring-back-one-show/777871/115 "2017-01-30T00:22:18Z")
Star Trek:TOS–it was supposed to be a **five year** mission. The Dick Van Dyke Show–one one season of Mary as Laura… ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-bring-back-one-show/777871/116 "2017-01-30T00:41:03Z")
I second your Deadwood nomination, **drad dog**. 5 more seasons would have done it I reckon. Auto correct just tried to make you ‘dead dog’ and I wood never second that. ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-bring-back-one-show/777871/117 "2017-01-30T21:58:32Z")
**Babylon 5 Veronica Mars** ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-bring-back-one-show/777871/118 "2017-01-30T22:05:54Z")
First choice: _Constantine_. Alternate choice: _Nowhere Man_. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-bring-back-one-show/777871/119 "2017-01-30T22:06:23Z")
We have already had votes for “My Name Is Earl”, “Get A Life”, and “Better Off Ted”. So, I would like to see another season of “Wonder Woman” with a newly-young Lynda Carter. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-bring-back-one-show/777871/120 "2017-01-30T22:07:20Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > Your talking “The Flintstones”? Yeah basically. Jackie Gleason wanted to sue _The Flintstones_ out of existence. However, his manager told him, “Yeah, you could win your case, but do you want to be hated by millions of kids as the man who took _The Flintstones_ off the air?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-bring-back-one-show/777871.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-bring-back-one-show/777871.md?page=7)