# Stuff that should be rebooted **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 27, 2018, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-should-be-rebooted/820373 "2018-08-27T19:31:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-should-be-rebooted/820373/21 "2018-08-28T02:28:32Z")
“The Immortal”-Man with rare blood that rejuvenates transfusion recipients. Rich ones hunt him for it. > **[The Immortal (TV Series 1969–1971) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065303/?ref_=nv_sr_5)** > > The Immortal: Created by Robert Specht. With Christopher George, Don Knight, Barry Sullivan, Carol Lynley. An immortal man whose blood can have miraculous health benefits is a fugitive from those who would exploit both him and his brother he seeks. “Coronet Blue”-Amnesia victim searching for his identity. > **[Coronet Blue (TV Series 1967) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061242/?ref_=nv_sr_2)** > > Coronet Blue: Created by Larry Cohen. With Frank Converse, Joe Silver, Brian Bedford, Robert Burr. Michael Alden is an amnesiac, who must discover his real identity before the operatives of a mysterious group locate him and kill him. The key to his... ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-should-be-rebooted/820373/22 "2018-08-28T03:43:41Z")
Lucky Louie on HBO. After rising to the top of the comedy world, Louie finds himself back in the same shitty apartment after losing everything in lawsuits following multiple sex scandals. Pamela Adlon co-stars as the ex-wife who drops by every now and then just to laugh at him. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-should-be-rebooted/820373/23 "2018-08-28T04:00:36Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I can’t get behind any rebooting. They always make it worse, with CGI, (bad) recasting and all sizzle and no steak. Battlestar Galactica’s reboot was not just better than the original, it is in my opinion one of the best shows of all time. I heard Hawai 5-0 is better than the original, but I’ve never seen either. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-should-be-rebooted/820373/24 "2018-08-28T06:50:46Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > E L Doctorow felt that his novel “Ragtime” should have been a 10 part miniseries instead of a theatrical film. The film had interesting casting but was a wet firecracker Interesting casting is right. How many films feature James Cagney, Donald O’Connor, Jeff Daniels, Fran Drescher, Mandy Patinkin, Norman Mailer and Samuel L. Jackson? ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-should-be-rebooted/820373/25 "2018-08-28T10:40:15Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Wouldn’t you have to change the characters quite a bit? Fu Manchu was a criminal mastermind and multiple murderer by proxy. Is he now to become something else, like a Chinese patriot? It sounds like it would be completely different characters with the same names. Nayland Smith was promoting the interests of the British Empire. From the Chinese point of view, that could easily look like a diabolical criminal mastermind bent on world domination. Set the story in a neutral country, and you could portray both of them as villains, or both of them as sympathetic. ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-should-be-rebooted/820373/26 "2018-08-28T14:27:02Z")
I would love to see some of the great detective movies from the 30s, 40s & 50s to be redone with modern production values but set in the same time period. Probably as TV series and not as movies. Examples: [ul] [li]Bulldog Drummond[/li][li]Boston Blackie[/li][li]The Shadow[/li][li]The Falcon[/li][li]Philo Vance[/li][li]Ellery Queen[/li][/ul] ---
**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:** [August 28, 2018, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-should-be-rebooted/820373/27 "2018-08-28T14:35:15Z")
A proper reboot of _The Saint_ would be nice if done [as author Leslie Charteris originally wrote him](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saint_(Simon_Templar)), instead of the whitebread good guy he is usually portrayed as. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-should-be-rebooted/820373/28 "2018-08-28T14:47:07Z")
A gritty reboot of _Small Wonder_ which will invariably end in the philosophical quandary of whether it’s acceptable to sleep with your android pseudo-daughter that, for some reason, you put in a nubile teen body. Also, you’ll have nosy neighbors. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-should-be-rebooted/820373/29 "2018-08-28T14:52:19Z")
It wouldn’t be a remake so much as a first time, but I’d like to see a well done [Genesis II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_II_(film)) ([Planet Earth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Earth_(film)), [Strange New World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_New_World_(film)), whatever). The concept was good, the movies are still OK, allowing for the 70s cheese factor. And I’d love to see the series based on [The Questor Tapes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Questor_Tapes). I think it would still work. These are all failed pilots, but I think the concepts were sound and would still work in the modern era. > [@Mahaloth](#): > > I heard Hawai 5-0 is better than the original, but I’ve never seen either. You didn’t hear it from me, that’s for sure. The new one is horrible, IMO. YMMV. Same goes for the look of the New Magnum. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-should-be-rebooted/820373/30 "2018-08-28T15:13:54Z")
And the new MacGyver series is also horrible. What I’d like to see rebooted or revived is Law & Order. The original series, particularly in its episodic format. No season-long arcs, no arch villains. Just stories that resolve over the course of an hour. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-should-be-rebooted/820373/31 "2018-08-28T15:29:52Z")
Before Denzel ruined any chance of it, I would have loved an _Equalizer_ reboot. Not hating the movies, but I think they muddy the water too much. Would also love to see _Wiseguy_ redone. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-should-be-rebooted/820373/32 "2018-08-28T15:38:01Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Or keep it present-day but move the action to a smaller metro area which still has a daily print edition. But nowadays the guy would cover his door with cameras to see who’s leaving the papers. Or did he ever do that in the original? I never watched it- couldn’t stand the star. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-should-be-rebooted/820373/33 "2018-08-28T16:07:21Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > Before Denzel ruined any chance of it, I would have loved an _Equalizer_ reboot. Not hating the movies, but I think they muddy the water too much. Similarly, I’d like to see Mission Impossible rebooted but the Tom Cruise movie series probably makes that impossible. The movies make it seem as if his character is a one-man show but the series was all about a team working together. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-should-be-rebooted/820373/34 "2018-08-28T16:35:42Z")
My prediction for the next phase of golden age TV: well written stories with complex characters about people trying to be decent. Rather than shows about horrible people like Tony Soprano, Don Draper, or Walter White, a remake of the Waltons about an Appalachian family during the Great Depression, trying hard to be good people under extraordinarily difficult and stressful conditions. ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-should-be-rebooted/820373/35 "2018-08-28T16:43:13Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I’ve occasionally wondered if any of those high-concept sitcoms of the '60s could be redone (either as comedies or dramas) by taking the concept seriously. What are the modern, television possibilities of seven people marooned on an island, a back-woods family that found oil on their land, or an advertising executive whose wife was a witch? Not an actual adaptation, but Last Man on Earth was basically what a modern-day Gilligan’s Island might look like. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-should-be-rebooted/820373/36 "2018-08-28T16:45:41Z")
I really enjoyed [Momentum](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3181776/) with Olga Kurylenko and Morgan Freeman. It ended with a whole lot more needing to be played out. I would definitely like to see a sequel. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-should-be-rebooted/820373/37 "2018-08-28T17:15:40Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > A proper reboot of _The Saint_ would be nice if done [as author Leslie Charteris originally wrote him](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saint_(Simon_Templar)), instead of the whitebread good guy he is usually portrayed as. After reading [the wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Charteris) for the author, Leslie Charteris, I’d be equally interested in seeing a film made from his life story. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-should-be-rebooted/820373/38 "2018-08-28T17:55:20Z")
I quite liked the “master and commander” film but I reckon a full, big budget TV series of O’Brian’s novels would be great fun. Do it as a a proper adult presentation and we can have the full quota of blood, sex, pirates and hot shanty action. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-should-be-rebooted/820373/39 "2018-08-28T18:01:32Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I’ve occasionally wondered if any of those high-concept sitcoms of the '60s could be redone (either as comedies or dramas) by taking the concept seriously. What are the modern, television possibilities of seven people marooned on an island, a back-woods family that found oil on their land, or an advertising executive whose wife was a witch? They already did Bewitched. Even Nicole Kidman couldn’t save it. > **[Bewitched (2005 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bewitched_(2005_film))** > > Bewitched is a 2005 American fantasy romantic comedy film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Nora Ephron, and starring Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell alongside an ensemble cast featuring Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Jason Schwartzman, Kristin Chenoweth (in her film debut), Heather Burns, Jim Turner, Stephen Colbert, David Alan Grier, Michael Badalucco, Carole Shelley, and Steve Carell. The film follows an actor (Ferrell) who discovers, while filming the remake of Bewitched, that his c... ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-should-be-rebooted/820373/40 "2018-08-28T18:07:19Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Battlestar Galactica’s reboot was not just better than the original, it is in my opinion one of the best shows of all time. And I disagree. yes the original was camp, but it was fun, enjoyable camp. The second version had a THEME and a MORAL and they would beat you about the head with it constantly. Sure, it had better effects and was far more serious, and of course- _dark and gritty._ I _hate_ dark and gritty. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-should-be-rebooted/820373.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-should-be-rebooted/820373.md?page=3)