# What old TV shows DON'T need to have a reunion show? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 26, 2010, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-dont-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526482 "2010-01-26T05:32:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-dont-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526482/21 "2010-01-28T12:11:12Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Charles in Charge. The kids would be all grown up now, who’s there left for Charles to be in charge of? The kids’ kids? Yeah…and they could all use the money! ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-dont-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526482/22 "2010-01-28T15:49:35Z")
_Married With Children_ doesn’t need a reunion. It would ruin the illusion that the new show _Modern Family_ is just a thinly disguised sequel, showing how successful the Bundys would be if/when Peggy left Al. And that Bud is gay. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-dont-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526482/23 "2010-01-28T16:31:19Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Charles in Charge. The kids would be all grown up now, who’s there left for Charles to be in charge of? The kids’ kids? Didn’t one of the kids wind up as a Baywatch babe? That deserves some followup. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-dont-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526482/24 "2010-01-28T17:59:40Z")
> [@Mudshark](#): > > A _Roseanne_ reunion would be pretty stupid, considering what happened in the last episode. I have actually thought that I would love to see what the kids from Roseanne are up to now (as in, what the characters in the show ended up doing, not the actors who played them) and that if there was a really good writer up to the task that a reunion could really work. Unfortunately with the show killing off Dan and Glenn Quinn (Mark) dying of a drug overdose several years ago that would change the dynamics of the show quite a bit but I still think it could be done. ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-dont-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526482/25 "2010-01-28T20:59:15Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Charles in Charge. The kids would be all grown up now, who’s there left for Charles to be in charge of? The kids’ kids? **Don’t** give them ideas. Please, just don’t. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-dont-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526482/26 "2010-01-29T00:02:14Z")
_Three’s Company_ didn’t need to be there in the first place, let alone have a reunion show. . . Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-dont-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526482/27 "2010-01-29T00:09:37Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > What old (as in no longer airing) TV shows don’t need anykind of reunion show? This could be because of the way the show ended (ie the finale wrapped everything up so well that we don’t need to ever revisit the characters or because the finale made it impossible to film anything worth watching) or simply because the show itself was so bad no TV special could redeem it. I can think of two shows offhand. > > The other is **Battlestar Galactica**. While the finale was hardly satisfying it left nothing to build on. Who want’s to watch the remaining characters try to adapt to being stonge-age hunter-gatherers and die off one by one? Or a teenaged Hera die in childbirth? Maybe a sequel following their descendants trekking out of Africa and slaughtering Neanderthals. Nope, that would still be crap. Any TV-movie would be **The Plan** (“meanwhile bellow decks”) or a prequel (which is what **Caprica** is). I actually would like to see something like that. I would especially like a scene where they are desperate and somebody finally screams, “How could we have been so stupid as to sail those ships into the sun? We could have used all that technology?” ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-dont-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526482/28 "2010-01-29T03:27:31Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > **M_A_S\*H.** Loved the show but the ending was appropriate and no reunion is warranted. That show was so popular during it’s run, I’m really surprised they haven’t raped its corpse with a reboot movie by now. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-dont-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526482/29 "2010-01-29T03:55:44Z")
A one off movie (comedy) with all of the Newhart (Bob) cast as actors…written and directed by the Coen brothers with Bob as co-writer director. (Frankly, I think it would be freakin’ awesome.) ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-dont-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526482/30 "2010-01-29T07:03:05Z")
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**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-dont-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526482/31 "2010-01-29T07:40:31Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > A one off movie (comedy) with all of the Newhart (Bob) cast as actors…written and directed by the Coen brothers with Bob as co-writer director. > > (Frankly, I think it would be freakin’ awesome.) By, “one off”- I mean it shouldn’t have anything to do with Newhart. A seprate and new concoct of that ensemble. Lots of ripe talent there… I think the Coens write best to characters realized. I think their movies are written specific to, and for character/actors… they are driven by this kind of cameo and dissonance. Be agreat tribute… seems like bread and butter. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-dont-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526482/32 "2010-01-29T11:36:25Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Charles in Charge. The kids would be all grown up now, who’s there left for Charles to be in charge of? The kids’ kids? How 'bout the old guy who was living with him. Who was he the grandpa or something? I mean what kind of awful man is he that his daughter would rather hire a total stranger to watch over her kids rather than rely on the grandpa, who for some reason was always around the house anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-dont-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526482/33 "2010-01-29T11:38:36Z")
_All In The Family_, does need a reunion show. Archie would be dead, Mike is divorce from Gloria, although Danielle Brisebois turned out to be an extremely talented and impressive singer. It’d be fun to watch her sing for an hour. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2010, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-dont-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526482/34 "2010-01-29T12:11:42Z")
I thought the Cosby show ended well. The children from the early seasons were grown. Had the show continued, they would have gotten into grandchildren and retirement for Cliff Cosby. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2010, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-dont-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526482/35 "2010-01-29T12:40:18Z")
I know the last St Elsewhere ended as a dream. Before that, didn’t the hospital close? It’s been a long time ago. I vaguely recall a storyline about it closing. > [@Sparky812](#): > > Neither does St. Elsewhere, for the same reason. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-dont-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526482.md?page=1)