# TV shows you'd like to see revived **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 4, 2016, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-revived/765033 "2016-09-04T17:54:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-revived/765033/41 "2016-09-06T08:59:07Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > If done right, I could see a spin-off series of “The Sopranos” where everyone is trying to fill the power vacuum left by Tony’s murder. > > AJ decides that he wants to lead the family. No one thinks he can do it. Pauly Walnuts and Silvio use all of their influence to hold off a takeover to see how AJ does. It becomes obvious that he doesn’t have the talent his father did. > > Meadow steps forward, and shows a knack for the business that no one suspected. However, due to the old stereotypes, Pauly and Silvio realize that no one would ever take her seriously in that role, so AJ stays as a figurehead and Meadow is the power behind the throne. Sounds good, but a rival family had attempted a hit on Silvio and left him in a coma from which he wasn’t likely to recover. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-revived/765033/42 "2016-09-06T11:16:52Z")
The Sarah Connor Chronicles They’d have to recast it. I doubt they could get the original actors. The Fugitive. I’d enjoy seeing an updated version of this classic show. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-revived/765033/43 "2016-09-06T11:21:37Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Sounds good, but a rival family had attempted a hit on Silvio and left him in a coma from which he wasn’t likely to recover. True, though that doesn’t mean anything when it comes to tv fiction. If you prefer, Pauly calls in a favor from a friendly faction. Same results apply. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-revived/765033/44 "2016-09-06T12:49:13Z")
> [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](#): > > I felt pretty gypped (heh ;)) when The Riches didn’t survive the writer’s guild strike. Ditto. One of the few things I’ve liked Minnie Driver in. > [@racer72](#): > > Police Squad. Oh god yes, although they’d almost certainly screw it up. > [@WilyQuixote](#): > > Limitless and Almost Human were fun series that were canned after just one season. Neither would be remembered as a “The Sopranos” or “Breaking Bad” but more enjoyable then many other series. Yes, Limitless was fun in a goofy way. It should have had at least one more season. I’d also like to have Reaper back (which was also fun in a goofy way), if only to find out what the hell the end of the big plot arc was. And while we’re wishing for rainbows and ponies, I’d like Joss Whedon to revive The Prisoner. Not a remake or reboot, mind you - we’ve already had that, and it sucked - but a “all that stuff with Patrick McGoohan happened and now we’re seeing what’s happening with The Village now” show. If anyone can stitch together the weird incoherence of the old show into a bigger, weirder, more coherent yet more sinister narrative, it’s Joss. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-revived/765033/45 "2016-09-06T12:52:25Z")
I vote for _Forever_. Was looking forward to seeing how the cop handled knowing his secret. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-revived/765033/46 "2016-09-06T13:06:01Z")
I really wish someone could make a successful show about someone who is immortal living in present day. It’s been tried twice with [New Amsterdam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam_(TV_series)) and [Forever](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever_(U.S._TV_series)) both of which I thought were really good; but just didn’t grab enough viewers’ attention. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-revived/765033/47 "2016-09-06T13:09:57Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > If done right, I could see a spin-off series of “The Sopranos” where everyone is trying to fill the power vacuum left by Tony’s murder. > > AJ decides that he wants to lead the family. No one thinks he can do it. Pauly Walnuts and Silvio use all of their influence to hold off a takeover to see how AJ does. It becomes obvious that he doesn’t have the talent his father did. > > Meadow steps forward, and shows a knack for the business that no one suspected. However, due to the old stereotypes, Pauly and Silvio realize that no one would ever take her seriously in that role, so AJ stays as a figurehead and Meadow is the power behind the throne. I’d watch that. I see AJ as just a violent idiot with no sense and Meadow’s cunning getting things done behind the scenes. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-revived/765033/48 "2016-09-06T13:54:08Z")
Firefly, and Action! from the late 90s (with Jay Mohr). ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-revived/765033/49 "2016-09-06T14:10:10Z")
Surprised I’m the first to say… **Quantum Leap.** It wouldn’t be that particularly hard to do since you could just use the premise and start from complete scratch. You could even use the War in Iraq to be a substitute for 'Nam. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-revived/765033/50 "2016-09-06T14:40:47Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > Freak and Geeks, hands down. And The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd. Oh, I loved The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd! What an odd little show, not a comedy, not a drama, touches of whimsey, tragedy, mystery. How I wish it was on DVD! I thought an updated Northern Exposure might be interesting, with some new cast members, of course. A little grittier than the original, incorporating examples of climate change and the hopeless fight against it. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-revived/765033/51 "2016-09-06T14:53:26Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > A Star Trek style Love Boat! Funny you should propose that. I created a show I called “Love Boat: TNG” (original, eh? well, we can work on that) It is about a nuclear powered cruise ship that becomes “unstuck” in time. It travels across time, meeting famous and not famous people from the past, and The Future. It’s sort of Time Tunnel crossed with ST and LB. I created about 30 “capsule” summations of episodes. If I were a TV executive, I’d greenlight it. I really liked the potential. At least it exists in my head, and it is a great show.🙂 ---
**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:** [September 6, 2016, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-revived/765033/52 "2016-09-06T15:16:34Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > And while we’re wishing for rainbows and ponies, I’d like Joss Whedon to revive The Prisoner. Not a remake or reboot, mind you - we’ve already had that, and it sucked - but a “all that stuff with Patrick McGoohan happened and now we’re seeing what’s happening with The Village now” show. If anyone can stitch together the weird incoherence of the old show into a bigger, weirder, more coherent yet more sinister narrative, it’s Joss. Nice idea, but my interpretation of The Prisoner is that nothing in the show really happened. The entirety of the show is the guilty conscience of a very violent spy (likely named John Drake) being shown. What we were seeing it his internal conscience battling it out with his sense of duty. Should he be a good man and abstain from killing, or should he do what is necessary for the greater good? And what about the part of him that _likes_ the killing? Which is why ultimately 1 was 6, or 6 was 1. He could leave the Village any time, because he made it. Of course, that’s just one interpretation. A reboot/remake would just as likely do something stupid like involve time travel or aliens, or time traveling aliens, or move the Village inside a star, and call it Wayward Pines, or Persons Unknown, and it would still be incomprehensible, and bad. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-revived/765033/53 "2016-09-06T16:10:25Z")
The Gerry Anderson series, “U.F.O.” There was some movement to reboot it via a movie, but it seems to have evaporated. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-revived/765033/54 "2016-09-06T17:14:05Z")
> [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](#): > > I was probably only one of maybe five or six people who watched and liked the show, _ **Journeyman** _, but I’d have liked to have seen where they could have taken the series. I was liking it, great star, but then The mystical time travel Powers That Be started really fucking with him, endangering his family, ruining his career, fucking up his life. I would have simply refused to play. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-revived/765033/55 "2016-09-06T17:19:14Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > _Wonderfalls_. I’d also like to say _Dead Like Me_ just to complete the trio of Bryan Fuller “failures”, but the TV movie sequel was so unrelentingly awful I just can’t. I liked the TV movie sequel , tied a lot of things up. ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-revived/765033/56 "2016-09-06T18:24:39Z")
The TV show I was stunned that got canceled and so quickly, was “Stalker” with Dylan McDermott. How that got cancel is beyond me, that was a GREAT show! ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-revived/765033/57 "2016-09-06T20:44:04Z")
Gilligan’s Island, with a more diverse group of castaways figuring out how to get along despite their differences and succeeding because of them. “Okay, you can’t vote anyone off the island, so deal with it. It may not take all kinds, but we’ve got all kinds, and we have a lot of work to do, so let’s figure this out.” ---
**Author:** ![Hocus\_Pocus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/41988e/32.png) [@Hocus\_Pocus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hocus_Pocus)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-revived/765033/58 "2016-09-06T21:07:39Z")
_ **The West Wing** _ But only with Aaron Sorkin writing & Tommy Schlamme directing. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-revived/765033/59 "2016-09-06T22:07:09Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I was liking it, great star, but then The mystical time travel Powers That Be started really fucking with him, endangering his family, ruining his career, fucking up his life. I would have simply refused to play. See, that’s what I really liked about the show. It stressed the dangers time travel could have on a persons family and personal life. It made it feel “real” to me. ---
**Author:** ![Vicsage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e68b1a/32.png) [@Vicsage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vicsage)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2016, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-revived/765033/60 "2016-09-06T23:14:27Z")
I loved UFO. I was in my teens when it came on and they had the best looking Moon women on TV. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-revived/765033.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-revived/765033.md?page=4)