# TV Binge Watch (Part 2)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [October 4, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711 "2022-10-04T16:51:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7081 "2025-01-03T15:16:48Z")

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**Rebooted**

1. Hawaii Five-O (1968) (2010)
2. Adam 12 (1968) (1990)
3. Quantum Leap (1989) (2022)
4. Doctor Who (1963) (2005)
5. Lost in Space (1965) (2018)

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7082 "2025-01-03T15:28:04Z")

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**Rebooted**

1. Hawaii Five-O (1968) (2010)
2. Adam 12 (1968) (1990)
3. Quantum Leap (1989) (2022)
4. Doctor Who (1963) (2005)
5. Lost in Space (1965) (2018)
6. Magnum, P. I. (1980) (2018)

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7083 "2025-01-03T16:10:22Z")

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**Rebooted**

1. Hawaii Five-O (1968) (2010)
2. Adam 12 (1968) (1990)
3. Quantum Leap (1989) (2022)
4. Doctor Who (1963) (2005)
5. Lost in Space (1965) (2018)
6. Magnum, P. I. (1980) (2018)
7. The Odd Couple (1970) (2015)

Not included: _The New Odd Couple_ (1982)

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**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7084 "2025-01-03T17:52:38Z")

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**Rebooted**

1. Hawaii Five-O (1968) (2010)
2. Adam 12 (1968) (1990)
3. Quantum Leap (1989) (2022)
4. Doctor Who (1963) (2005)
5. Lost in Space (1965) (2018)
6. Magnum, P. I. (1980) (2018)
7. The Odd Couple (1970) (2015)
8. The Rookie (1972 / 2018)

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7085 "2025-01-03T18:00:10Z")

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**Rebooted**

1. Hawaii Five-O (1968) (2010)
2. Adam 12 (1968) (1990)
3. Quantum Leap (1989) (2022)
4. Doctor Who (1963) (2005)
5. Lost in Space (1965) (2018)
6. Magnum, P. I. (1980) (2018)
7. The Odd Couple (1970) (2015)
8. The Rookie (1972 / 2018)
9. Night Court (1984) (2023)

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7086 "2025-01-03T18:11:58Z")

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**Rebooted**

1. Hawaii Five-O (1968) (2010)
2. Adam 12 (1968) (1990)
3. Quantum Leap (1989) (2022)
4. Doctor Who (1963) (2005)
5. Lost in Space (1965) (2018)
6. Magnum, P. I. (1980) (2018)
7. The Odd Couple (1970) (2015)
8. The Rookie (1972 / 2018)
9. Night Court (1984) (2023)
10. MacGyver (1985) (2016)

New category:

**Animated series of a live-action television or film franchise**

1. Star Trek: The Animated Series

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7087 "2025-01-03T18:13:03Z")

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**Animated series of a live-action television or film franchise**

1. Star Trek: The Animated Series
2. Star Wars Rebels

And, then, to square the circle, live-action versions of most of the main characters from Rebels appeared in the series _Ahsoka_.

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7088 "2025-01-03T18:13:38Z")

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**Animated series of a live-action television or film franchise**

1. Star Trek: The Animated Series
2. Star Wars Rebels
3. James Bond, Junior

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**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7089 "2025-01-03T18:32:40Z")

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**Animated series of a live-action television or film franchise**

1. Star Trek: The Animated Series
2. Star Wars Rebels
3. James Bond, Junior
4. Corner Gas Animated

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**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7090 "2025-01-03T18:39:03Z")

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**Animated series of a live-action television or film franchise**

1. Star Trek: The Animated Series
2. Star Wars Rebels
3. James Bond, Junior
4. Corner Gas Animated
5. Clerks: The Animated Series

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**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7091 "2025-01-03T18:46:42Z")

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**Animated series of a live-action television or film franchise**

1. Star Trek: The Animated Series
2. Star Wars Rebels
3. James Bond, Junior
4. Corner Gas Animated
5. Clerks: The Animated Series
6. Batman: The Animated Series

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**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7092 "2025-01-03T18:56:12Z")

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**Animated series of a live-action television or film franchise**

1. Star Trek: The Animated Series
2. Star Wars Rebels
3. James Bond, Junior
4. Corner Gas Animated
5. Clerks: The Animated Series
6. Batman: The Animated Series
7. Gilligan’s Planet

_actually the **second** animated version of “Gilligan’s Island”, but this one – based on the premise that instead of fixing the boat the Professor was somehow able to create a functional interplanetary spaceship to get the castaways off the island – was just a bridge too far for me._

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7093 "2025-01-03T19:22:18Z")

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**Animated series of a live-action television or film franchise**

1. Star Trek: The Animated Series
2. Star Wars Rebels
3. James Bond, Junior
4. Corner Gas Animated
5. Clerks: The Animated Series
6. Batman: The Animated Series
7. Gilligan’s Planet
8. The Godzilla Power Hour

with Godzookie ::barf::

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7094 "2025-01-03T19:42:08Z")

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**Animated series of a live-action television or film franchise**

1. Star Trek: The Animated Series
2. Star Wars Rebels
3. James Bond, Junior
4. Corner Gas Animated
5. Clerks: The Animated Series
6. Batman: The Animated Series
7. Gilligan’s Planet
8. The Godzilla Power Hour
9. The Three Stooges

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**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7095 "2025-01-04T00:00:45Z")

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Nitpick: the animated version was titled “The New 3 Stooges.”

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7096 "2025-01-04T05:03:45Z")

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**Animated series of a live-action television or film franchise**

1. Star Trek: The Animated Series
2. Star Wars Rebels
3. James Bond, Junior
4. Corner Gas Animated
5. Clerks: The Animated Series
6. Batman: The Animated Series
7. Gilligan’s Planet
8. The Godzilla Power Hour
9. The Three Stooges
10. The Addams Family (1973)

pass

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7097 "2025-01-04T17:27:32Z")

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**Shows where some non-Christian holiday or life-event is celebrated, and it can’t be Chanukah on dual Chanukah/Christmas show; it also can’t just be mentioned in passing**

1. _The Partridge Family_: “Danny Converts” – Shabbat dinner

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7098 "2025-01-04T17:32:43Z")

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**Shows where some non-Christian holiday or life-event is celebrated, and it can’t be Chanukah on dual Chanukah/Christmas show; it also can’t just be mentioned in passing**

1. _The Partridge Family_: “Danny Converts” – Shabbat dinner
2. _Star Wars Holiday Special_ - Life Day

“Life Day” was a Wookiee holiday, celebrating family, joy, and harmony. In the TV special, Chewbacca was trying to get back to his home planet of Kashyyyk, to celebrate Life Day with his family.

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**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7099 "2025-01-04T17:41:38Z")

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**Shows where some non-Christian holiday or life-event is celebrated, and it can’t be Chanukah on dual Chanukah/Christmas show; it also can’t just be mentioned in passing**

1. _The Partridge Family_: “Danny Converts” – Shabbat dinner
2. _Star Wars Holiday Special_ - Life Day
3. _Seinfeld_: “The Strike” - A Festivus for the rest of us!

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**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/7100 "2025-01-04T17:45:24Z")

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**Shows where some non-Christian holiday or life-event is celebrated, and it can’t be Chanukah on dual Chanukah/Christmas show; it also can’t just be mentioned in passing**

1. _The Partridge Family_: “Danny Converts” – Shabbat dinner
2. _Star Wars Holiday Special_ - Life Day
3. _Seinfeld_: “The Strike” - A Festivus for the rest of us!
4. _The Simpsons_ “Whacking Day” - Whacking Day

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