I would definitely watch this.
Second Heaven – A young minister and his wife struggle to raise their two children…with more on the way.
C.S. High – The gang at a Las Vegas High School put their Junior Crimefighter skills to work investigating senior pranks and cafeteria mishaps.
The Governor’s Mansion – Idealistic Governor Josiah Bartlett tries to handle daily crises in the state of New Hampshire.
Libertarian: lmao
Absolutely Mediocre: Edina in the days when she was forced to eat home-cooked meals, wear clothing from Debenham’s and earn a living wage. Patsy has a drug-and-alcohol habit she can’t afford, Marshall hasn’t yet written the script and Bubble struggles to learn English as a Second Language. A tragi-comedy in sensible shoes.
Dharma the Teen-aged hippie: Home schooling, free drugs, free sex in her parent’s van. See how Dharma copes with being a love child of 60’s hippies in the me-decades of the 1970’s and 1980’s.
Didn’t Sherwood Schwartz originally conceive of “Gilligan” as a cruise-a-week show?
Intern Who - the adventures of a young Gallifreyan Academy student
Babylon 1 - 4
Jesus Christ, Up-and-coming Star
Birthing Pains
I read that the premise of Gilligan was to put a bunch of different people on an island watch how they interacted.
Okay, how about:
Med School-follow the exploits of medical student Doug Ross as he tries to talk one sorority girl after another into accepting a “free exam.”
The Wander Years - Young Kevin Arnold learns to walk and then deal with the troubles of being the last kid to learn the alphabet.
Xena, Killer of the Innocent - Xena seeks to destroy as many innocent people as possible and strike terror in small villages.
Prince of Queens - Awkward chubby teenager, Doug Heffernan courts a young lady despite her quirky father.
Sesame Road - The expanding city is overwhelming country wildlife and overtaking a giant bird sanctuary and local frog pond.
7 - Before earning those 00s young James, working as a Patrol Leader for the Boy Scouts fights the evil machinations of SPOOK bent on neighborhood domination. A young Jaws finds himself unable to cope with his braces.
Norman - A domineering mother and her young son Norman inherit a motel.
My Mother, the Mom: Follow the wacky Oedipal adventures of Jerry Van Dyke (1/195[sup]th[/sup] the talent of his brother, but he plays the banjo) and his living, breathing mom (played by Ann Southern). When the series eventually ends, the last episode will feature long-suffering wife (Maggie Pierce) finally hacking loud-mouthed Ann into little pieces in the junkyard outside of town. Of course she stuffs the body into the trunk of a decrepit 1928 Porter…
(I’m goin’ to HELL for this one, because you know some network type’ll see it and it’s become real)
Yogi Baby: See the animated hijinks of Yogi Cub, sans Boo-Boo of course, but with an invisible magic angel that only Yogi Cub and friend Cindy can see. Watch as the angel tries to teach life-lessons to Yogi Cub…but Yogi Cub only wants to steal Baby Smith’s bottle. Big Laffs ensue!
a prequel Mini-series
Pufnstuf: The Fellowship of the Flute!
Years before Jimmy unearthed the ONE FLUTE and returned it to Living Island, this show is a dark drama. Watch Witchipoo as she consoldates her power using the ONE FLUTE and attempts to take over Living Island.
Only Pufnstuf, last of the good dragons along with sullen nephew Smauginstuf, and a band of warriors must resist Witchipoo’s evil forces.
In one notable episode Witchipoo tricks other characters into creating lesser FLUTES, in an attempt to turn them into Flutewraiths.
Finally a full-fledged war erupts and in the final episode will end with new character Isil-Door stealing the ONE FLUTE from Witchipoo and flinging it into the ocean, where it will lie forever. Until it washes up on a beach…
and not really a prequel as much as a “…the REAL Story” type thing:
Patty Duke Show: the REAL Story
Follow the wacky adventures of Patty Duke, “identical cousin” Kathy and other identical cousin Betty as father William Schallert as Martin Lane struggles desperately to enable Patty’s sick delusion that she has two “identical cousins”, knowing that Patty isn’t strong enough to handle the truth. The perky theme song sells this show:
Meet Patty, who’s never been anywhere
Not Zanzibar or Berkley Square
With Multi-personalities,
She oft’ invites herself to tea
What a crazy “pair”!
But she’s looney
She’s utterly looney night and day
One single persn’s psyche
Fractured in every way.
Where “Cathy” adores a minuet,
The Ballets Russes and crepe suzette,
Our “Patty” loves her rock ‘n’ roll,
A hot dog makes her lose control,
What a wild duet!
They’re one person
Just one person all the time
They laugh alike, they walk alike,
At times they even talk alike,
You know she’s lost her mind,
When “cousins” are one of a kind.
No, Henry Jr is a few years down the road…and as Sean Connery declared, they “named the DOG Indiana!”
Get Somewhere: Follow the misadventures of bumbling Max as he tries to keep job after job. Will wacky hijinks ensue when he tries his luck with supersecret government agency CONTROL?
Moderate Squad: A trio of nice, neat, middle class teenagers who have never been in trouble with the law are recruited by the police department to keep watch on church youth groups and burger joints. Solid!
Head of the Kindergarten: Howard Hesseman plays a kindergarten teacher whose class is decidedly different. The only kind of play these kids want to do is Shakespeare.
Married Without Children: Newlyweds Al and Peg Bundy try to set up a nice home in anticipation of the children that they know will make their life happy and complete.
Fourth Rock from the Sun: Join Tommy, Dick, Harry, and Sally on Mars as they discuss why they should stay with their original assignment when that blue planet that is third from the sun looks so much more interesting.
Bar Fightin’: This prequel to the WWF centers around a bunch of drunk rednecks fighting. Not much different from now, just not quite so fake and no spandex.
Who the hell is Raymond?: Follow an unknown Raymond around until everybody falls in love with him.
Rock’em Sock’em Robots: The earliest version of those crazy Battlebots.
Poolwatch: Watch even younger breasts… I mean girls save lives at the pool during summer vacation.
Spooky: Follow melancholy wunderkind Fox Mulder through college and watch as his unfettered fondness for things unexplainable leads him into trouble time and time again. If only he had a level-headed partner to keep him on track!
Win Ben Stein’s Lunch Money: A grade-school aged Benjamin challenges louts to a “best of ten, test of knowledge” for his lunch money. When the other kids are thoroughly shamed by Benjamin’s vast knowledge, they stomp him and take his lunch money anyway.
The Boy Show: See Jimmy and Adam as fifth graders snapping training bras, telling fart jokes, and sneaking off with their Dad’s Playboy magazines. Then watch as they revive the same idea 25 years later. Same jokes, only this time, with beer.
Bailiff Judy: A smart-mouth bailiff continually pimp-slaps confessions from loud-mouth, obnoxious, smelly, overbearing, rude, tasteless, unworthy MEN!
Robin Leach - travel agent: Living on ginger ale dreams and Ritz cracker wishes.
Leave it to Wally
Things really start getting interesting when June brings Ward his slippers and suddenly drops the bomb. Wally looks puzzled and says, “Gee, mom. How did that happen?” Eddie Haskell pipes in helpfully, “You look really pretty considering you’re pregnant, Mrs. Cleaver.” Tune in and join the clan as they make everything ready for the arrival of the little Beaver. Don’t miss tonight’s episode when Miss Landers faints during Wally’s show and tell!
Casper, the Happy Kid
See Casper, a happy 5 year old kid playing on a freeway
Fenris
a.k.a I’m Robin Leach and I Don’t Know Why!
Other ideas:
Prewitched
Pebbley (a.k.a. Rocky Naught, lest it be confused with a Flintstones spin-off)
Bonzo Goes to Falcon Crest: learn why Jane Wyman ended up with a winery instead of the White House
**Murder, She Finger-painted[/b}: everyone who 5-year old Jessica befriends either dies mysteriously or is accused of taking all the red crayons.
Spectacle: Jodi Foster stars as an astronomy graduate student who aims to join the SETI team, and falls prey to a frat-house prank involving a satellite dish and WWII re-runs from the History Channel.
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The Courtship of No One’s Father: Bill Bixby woos Eddie’s mother.
The Bobby Newhart Show: Young Bobby is the loudest, most boorish, least sensitive grad student in the whole psychology department…until he meets Emily, the beauty who tamed his beast.
STASH: About a Stationary Army Surgical Hospital, before the DOD tripped onto the “mobile” concept.
I Dream of MelissaUSAF captain and astronaut-to-be Anthony Nelson tries to win the heart of Melissa Stone, daughter of General Wingard Stone.
Mork and Orson: A young Mork (played by Wilford Brimley** plays Bart Simpson-esque pranks on the stolid Orson (played by Haley Ormont)
Mrs Peel and Me: Ace pilot Peter Peel and his hyper-competent (and SEXY!) wife Emma have many wacky adventures in suburban London.
Cadet McHale Young Cadet Quinten McHale and his boyish pranks at Annapolis
Fenris
In a few years, VH1 will able to do:
Behind Behind The Music
(not to be confused with a J.Lo TV special)