Awkward Acquaintances prequel to Friends
Diane Annoys Her Poetry Class prequel to Cheers
The Early Evening Show prequel to The Tonight Show
June: “Ward, don’t you think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night?”
You, sir or madame, deservedly earned Lib’s famed (and oh so very rare) 5-Laughie Award. What a fantastic line!
Prince of the Hill: Cotton Hill tries to raise his son Hank right in Cold War-era Texas.
Barney and Scientists: A group of scientists brings a stuffed dinosaur to life. Instead of acting like a real dinosaur, it sings and dances. The scientists attempt to find various places to hide their failed experiment each week. In the last episode, the scientists bury what they call “Barney” underneath a school being constructed. Tagline: “And you just thought it was in your imagination.”
Utonium: A show about a younger Professor Utonium as he first sets up shop in the city of Townsville, hoping not only to create something that will make him famous, but to have children as well.
Kinky Dope - Follow the adventures of a free lovin’ pot smokin’ Cecil Adams in 1969 Chicago. Watch as his stoned groupies ask him question like “Why is the sky blue?” And then later that afternoon “Why is the sky blue?” Watch as for 4 years he fights his call to duty to fight ignorance, yet eventually comes to realize he has no choice. Watch as he casts aside pot and goes straight. Watch as he marches into the Chicago Reader and demands their assistance in this fight against ignorance. Watch as they throw his butt out. Watch as he and his teeming dozens storm the reader and demand he be installed as commander of cue impressive music The Straight Dope.
And the irony is that The Straight Dope, not to mention these message boards, are quite addictive.
Really, I can stop anytime I want to… but just one more post!
Rugrats: Conception and Before!- The lives of Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, and Lil- In utero! Show not aired because of a lawsuit brought up by the makers of “Look Who’s Talking.”
Me and My Monkey- Before creating the Powerpuff Girls, watch as Professor Utonium tries to get the Mayor to loan him money for a grant, get Miss Bellum to go out with him, and is all tangled up with his simian lab assistant, Mojo.
Outside the Actor’s Studio- In his teen years, film connoisseur and all around freak James Lipton hires starving actors and derelicts to stand around outside a TV studio, filming on his home studios- before they let him go inside. Some say this show is responsible for the favirote curse portion of the show. 
The Land Before The Land Before Time
The Story (Prequel to the Never Ending Story…which oddly had a sequel… set BEFORE they realized this thing was going to last a while)
The Fifth Sense- A thrilling drama about a boy who can taste sour milk.
How the Grinch Borrowed Arbor Day
Pretty Teenager- Before she was rescued by Edward Morris, Julia Roberts gives handjobs to creepy middle aged fat men with hairy shoulders in the backseat of their 1978 Ford Pintos.
The Adventures of an American Queer (or maybe instead Young and Gay in New York): The story of Jack McFarland’s (from Will and Grace) teenage years.
The Clampetts
Richard Kimble, M.D.
Charlie, P.I.
My So-Called Birth
Twenty-Something (Oh, wait, they did that, it’s called “Friends”)
Everybody Loves Mindy
The Smothers Mother’s Comedy Hour
John Arbuckle - A clutzy and unlucky farmboy moves to the suburbs. Not much happens. Perhaps his life is missing something.
and now one that could probably win emmys or oscars if done right, even though I think its main demographic would be women.
Cyrano - A drama about the young boy with a long nose and his best friend and cousin Roxane, who he’s hopelessly in love with. But can never tell her.
How about:
Three Men:Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, and Ted Danson stand around an apartment with not much to do.
Mystery Science Theater 1000:Joel, Tom Servo, and Crow crack wise as Dr. Forrester and TV’s Frank force them to watch a zoetrope.
or how 'bout:
Mystery Science Janitor 3000: The wacky misadventures of janitor Joel as he does a good job cleaning up Gizmonics Institute. Watch as he irritates Dr. Forrester and Dr. Erherdt(sp) while he studies robotics in his spare time!
Fenris
The Good-Looking Girl and the Cub
High Schooler Catherine goes through her life, unaware of the trials in store for her, while Vincent the Dog-Faced Boy grows up in the sewers.
My So-Called Ally: 250-pound teenager Ally McBeal is the most unpopular and miserable girl in school, but she dreams of being a lawyer one day. And to try to fit in, she laughs along with the others when the bullies pick on nerdy stutterer John Cage.
Space: 1988: For John Koenig, getting Moonbase Alpha built on time and under budget is a never-ending battle – with Teamsters.
Who Wants to Make Twenty Bucks?. Twenty-something Regis Philbin tries to score with the ladies. (Comedy)
Humping and the Suburb: 4 parallel stories of teenage girls and their budding sexuality:
We meet Sam, the boy-chasing cheerleader who refuses to go to third base with any boy because of stories her catholic parents told her regarding sex.
We meet a young bookworm in Miranda, who’s idea of pubescent boys is that they exist only for amusement (from afar).
We meet Charlotte, the young romantic who’s overly-protected chilhood has led her to believe that a “hot date” at 16 years old consists of a Disney flick followed by pizza by candlelight, and who’s sex education consisted of her parents planting her in front of the TV while “Cinderella” plays in the top-loading VHS.
We meet Carrie, the school paper editor who’s insightful columns cover the gossip of who’s seeing who and what’s really in Thursday’s beef stew… until a young student teacher named Big arrives to stir something within her that feels kinda good, actually.
Jock or Houston: Young banker John Ross ‘Jock’ Ewing and his wife Eleanor try to make ends meet while they try and save money to buy a plot of land outside of Dallas which John is SURE to have oil. Meanwhile, young John Ross Jr. (who they affectionately call J.R.) is developing signs of cunning resourcefulness and selfishness…
Freak: Gomez Addams, trying to make it through high school as best he can with his brother looks like a bald monk. What’s a kid to do? Dress impeccably and light another cigar.
I’ve Got It Beat: Detective Barney Miller just trying to make it day-to-day despite the idiot crooks he has to pull in time and time again.
The Chimps: A record producer comes up with an idea, “Let’s CREATE a band!” And thus history begins as they find four young boys who have no idea how to spell ‘music’ much less play it are trained to become the predecesors to such names as New Kids On The Block and N*SYN-- no, wait, that’s too easy.
Sonny Days: Before deciding to change his career forever and become a cop, Sonny Crockett was a promising Florida College football star. He had it all, cars, chicks, clothes… but wherever he went, a mystery always seemed to pop up.
…no, wait, I think I just described “Nash Bridges”… or was it “The Hardy Boys”-
The Last Days of Krypton: About why Jor-El wasn’t believed, featuring the most famous orgy in the history of the universe.
The Farmer Girl: about Gabrielle’s long, boring days before Xena comes into her life.
The Poor Fat Rich Boy: The ruthless secrets of Richard Rich, Sr’s rise to immense wealth revealed at last!!!
Tanto the Eagle: Tanto’s adventures with his tribe, before he met his kemosabe.
I want to see the “prequel” if you will, of “Survivor”.
You know…The part where these blood drinking, larvae eating, stab-each-other-in-the-back fools come home and tell the husbands, wives, and children!
That weird guy who hosts, could hang around their living rooms like that commercial he does for the hotel.
~Could it be that hard? Never mind the rent and you quit your job… -Better Than Ezra
A Batman prequel series has actually been in the works for a while now according to www.cinescape.com. It was going to be called Bruce Wayne and would have been about Bruce after his parents died, but before he became Batman. I wonder if they’ll still do it now that Smallville is out? (Imagine the cross-over potential!!)