No, not the actors getting together and reminiscing about the good old days, but an updated “episode” picking up years after the original storyline left off.
The Star Trek movies are a perfect example.
The handful of 6M$man/bionic woman tv movies…well, y’know.
What other series would you like to see continued?
Lost in Space?
Space 1999?
I think The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is worth updating. Leo G. Carroll would be sorely missed, but Robert Vaughn and David McCallum are still around. Today’s high-tech goodies would fit right in.
Dr. Who?
oh, never mind
Northern Exposure (Joel returns due to some sort of red-tape issue- he’s not able to get his dream job because he didn’t complete his time in Cicely- and while he’s there we catch up with the regulars- there’s a new generation now as Shelley/Holling, Maurice/Barbara and Adam/Eve have all spawned)
MAS*H (I’d set it at a Reunion on the 25th Anniversary of the end of the war; Winchester coughs up enough to fly in everybody so that nobody has an excuse not to go. This needs to be done quickly while Col. Potter is still alive (even if he’s just wheeled on for a cameo)
One Day at a Time- all the cast members are still alive, but sometimes I think I’m the only person who remembers this show (even though it ran for 10 years)
Mary Tyler Moore- They did a “meh” Mary & Rhoda movie, but Rho was always the least entertaining member of the cast to me. If something could bring Lou Grant, Murray, Georgette, SueAnn and Phyllis back it would work better.
The Carol Burnett Show- I would love to see them actually do one more original Mrs. Wiggins/Mr. Tudball or Eunice/Mama sketch while they’re all still able to get around.
Married With Children The Bundys go on a reality show.
Three’s Company- this could be the shortest reunion in history- Janet & Chrissy run into each other at Jack’s funeral but don’t speak.
Murphy Brown- Eldin is dead now, but he was off the series by then anyway. The plot could be focused around Rather-gate.
Who’s the Boss?- On the tenth anniversary of Tony & Angela’s divorce (which occurred due to Tony’s comments upon learning Jonathan was gay) Samantha celebrates her 150th adult film and Mona reveals she killed JFK. (Hey, it couldn’t be any worse than the The Patty Duke Show reunion.
Frasier helped us keep tabs on the CHEERS gang, but I think they may have on last gusp of breath in them as an ensemble.
I wonder if Michael J. Fox is physically up for a Family Ties reunion; the last time I saw him he seemed to be doing better. LEAVE SKIPPY OUT.
Now the trend seems to have moved away from doing reunion shows and instead doing TV movies about the original shows (
Surviving Gilligan’s Island [which was actually really good], Growing Up Brady, The Three’s Company Movie, The Partridge Family Story, The Monkees Story , etc etc… there are currently movies in the works about Diff’rent Strokes, Charlie’s Angels and Bewitched in addition to whatever others are going around.)
Put me down as someone who would prefer that the old actors just sit around and watch clips. Thee’s nothing sadder than trying to update characters who are 10 or 20 years past their most interesting point.
Does anyone want to see a Bob Newhart reunion without the inexplicable sexual interplay between Bob and Emily?
Does anyone want to see a St. Elsewhere reunion with a bunch of doctors who’ve been in private practice for 20 years?
And could anyone watch a Diff’rent Strokes reunion without becoming incredibly depressed?
Firefly.
Automan. I’m serious. Could do him all out of date, or all upgraded, either way, it’d be a hoot.
A-Team, Dukes of Hazard. A-Team in Iraq, maybe, as civilian contractors? Dukes as owners of a NASCAR team.
–Cliffy
Or never even actually existed in the first place, as I recall from the final episode.
I don’t care for reunion shows in general. The Dick Van Dyke reunion last year in particular was a complete trainwreck.
The original Wild, Wild, West (not that Will Smith abortion), had not one but two TV reunion movies.
Sadly, they both sucked ass because they were written and played for laughs unlike the shows normal “James Bond in the West” tone (which had only occasional humor).
I was never so disappointed.
Nice try, but no cigar. I said Firefly, not Serenity.
I want the TV series back.
Dukes of Hazzard had two reunion movies. They were silly but fun (the first was better than the second which had the Duke boys in Hollywood and Daisy as a stuntwoman).
I’d like to see a Satrsky & Hutch reunion show with the original actors (I couldn’t stand the movie) done seriously.
Oh, and SportsNight. That would totally rock.
Is it too early to say Enterprise? 
A Quantum Leap reunion would be swell. (After all, Bakula’s not doing anything else now.)
I thought the Alien Nation TV movies were as good or better than the series. I could go for serveral more.
GonzoGal would explode with joy if a MacGyver reunion happened.
Twin Peaks would also be swell…
Plus, Bo Duke’s got a new series where he moved to Kansas and married a big city girl. Started up an organic ranch and adopted this kid named Clark.
I always thought it’d be great to do a one-off Doctor Who spinoff in which the Doctor’s former companions form a loose-knit support group to share stories and kvetch about life with the Doctor.
“I felt like I was getting tied up every flipping week!” Sarah Jane would say.
“And hypnotized!” Jo Grant would say. “I can’t count how many times I was hypnotized!”
“I just know I got tired of watching people get killed,” Tegan would respond.
And Ace would say, “Can we order another round, or have you all not finished whingeing yet?”
Reminds me of when a bunch of Murphy Brown’s secretaries got together to kvetch at her.
When the Olympics were in Korea in 1988, they were broadcast by CBS, and I thought the network would take the opportunity to make the connection between that and MASH (perhaps send one of the actors on a tour of the country), but they didn’t seem to.