From a distant childhood memory I am fairly certain they mentioned “Project Blue Book” somewhere.
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I have a vague recollection of an early episode involving either zombies or probably vampires. Scully had a ‘corpse’ on the table (maybe having completed an autopsy?) and the corpse came to life. I could easily be wrong after all these years but my memory is after fighting the reanimated corpse she still was rejecting supernatural explanations.
That said it was years ago and if I am generating false memories I’ll bow to your more recent appraisal.
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I think I know the episode you’re thinking of. There’s one where they go to a small town to investigate vampires, and Mulder ends up killing a guy with a wooden stake. They report on what happened to their superior, and there’s a Rashomon-style difference in how they remember events. In Mulder’s version, Scully’s skepticism is cranked to 11, and vice-versa. The episode ends when a character (not Scully) doing the autopsy on the guy Mulder “killed” removes the stake, and the guy gets up and walks out of the morgue.
It’s one of the funnier episodes of the series, but a big part of the joke is the distorted way Mulder and Scully view each other.
The male lead is Amy Poehler’s brother and the show was not enormously funny but interesting in part for the Swedish setting.
Is that the one where Luke Wilson played the sheriff?
That’s the one.
Just popped in to say that I keep reading the thread title as Shows That Need a Robot, which leads to a lot of odd speculation.
Guess what? You got your wish. NBC is reviving Law & Order. (See also this story from Deadline.)
Every show needs a robot. Some could benefit from more than one.
Sometimes a bigger budget and a better cast is absolutely the wrong way to go.
Anyone remember the reboot of Dark Shadows, starring Ben Cross as Barnabas Collins?
It’s probably a little too late for it to be topical, but I’d love to see a Futurama revival where Zapp Brannigan is elected President of Earth as a Trump-esque nincompoop.
That reboot lasted four seasons and wasn’t really that funny.
Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Innovative sketch comedy should never go out of style. The magic, of course, would depend entirely on the writing and chemistry of the new troupe.
Dark Shadows reboot got a big NO from me. Though it did win an Emmy - for best hairstyling! 
I’d love to see a remake of Blake’s 7! It’d be great to see the show with a decent special effects budget. Not a thing needs to be changed about the wardrobe, however.
Damn, now I want to see this!
Hopefully, there’ll be a run of a few episodes where young Isabelle (she did get named in the epilogue) gets trapped/kidnapped. And mom and dad have to go on a globe-trotting kick-ass mission to extract her.
With help from “Crazy Uncle Marshall” Flinkman, of course…
Land of the Lost could use a serious reboot. A sci-fi drama version - I refuse to recognize the Will Ferrell movie as anything but a comedy banking on the name. And a bigger budget, so the Sleestax tech could be more than just moving crystals around in a zen garden to open time portals.
I loved the 1980s version of The Equalizer, it doesn’t quite hold up to the level of 2000s+ era TV, but it was a real diamond in the rough for 1980s dramas, which only had a couple of decent shows in the bunch. The show was popular and well received in its entire four-year run, and was basically canceled because an executive at NBC had been against it since the beginning and wanted the time slot, and finally had the pull to get his way.
What’s weird is I never felt the show was quite mainstream/popular enough to really get much attention after, but shockingly decades later it was revived as a two-title film franchise starring Denzel Washington. Except…the two movies captured almost none of the spirit of the original, they’re fine if you like gory over the top action movies (and hey, on the right night, that’s exactly the type of movie I’ll watch to veg out to), but the original Robert McCall wasn’t some Kung Fu bad ass, he was a grizzled intelligence veteran who knew how to use a firearm, but it was primarily his wits and savvy that won the day for him most of the time. Denzel’s version of him is more like a Jack Reacher or John Wick style borderline superhero…so despite thinking they were okay/serviceable action movies, they never felt like a true reboot or even continuation of the series.
Then they go and create another reboot of it, this time in TV Series form this very year. Starring Queen Latifah, an unexpected casting, it also kind of falls flat and completely misses the charm of the original. Latifah actually is good in the role, but the writing and the narrative arc of the series just isn’t very good and also just has little resonance with the original show. For a four season series I loved 30 years ago but assumed had mostly been forgotten, I was surprised to ever see it revised not once, but in two separate forms, but both times it really missed the mark.
But hey, if we’re making wishes–I’d love to see The Equalizer rebooted by someone who actually understood what made the original appealing, instead of just imposing the name on stories that have almost no functional similarity to the original series.
Star Trek: Discovery and similar. Get better writers.
While not an exact match for that style of humor, there have certainly been a number of really good comedy sketch shows since then. Kids in the Hall, Whitest Kids You Know, Mad TV, SCTV were all very good. I know I watched Viva Variety and The State when they were on, but other than a few random sketches (I’m doug, I’m outta here), I really don’t remember much about either of them. A lot of people really loved I Think You Should Leave but it didn’t really do anything for me (though I loved Detroiters).