# What old TV Shows need to have a "Reunion" Show? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 22, 2010, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526051 "2010-01-22T23:01:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526051/1 "2010-01-22T23:01:38Z")
Sometimes the series finale wraps the show up into a nice little package, like _Newhart_ did. It was all Dr. Bob Hartley’s dream. And then other series finales don’t do the series justice. Few people like the _Seinfeld_ finale and some never got an official series finale like _Married with Children_. Besides _Seinfeld_ and _Married with Children_, I would like to see a reunion of _Cheers_, and _Roseanne_. ---
**Author:** ![BMada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@BMada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMada)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526051/2 "2010-01-22T23:04:44Z")
I would like to see Drew Carey Show reunion. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526051/3 "2010-01-23T07:44:33Z")
For Seinfeld, the entire last season of Curb Your Enthusiasm might be what you’re looking for. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526051/4 "2010-01-23T07:58:42Z")
I always though _Yes, Minister_ would have been a good candidate for a reunion show, if the writers could have come up with a worthy script. I picture the Prime Minister taking a stand on some issue, with every bit of scientific fact, moral imperitive, and public opinion behind him, and being forced out of office because of it. Too late now, for multiple reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526051/5 "2010-01-23T09:29:57Z")
I think Gilligans Island except only three are left alive- The Professor, Ginger and Mary- Anne. ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526051/6 "2010-01-23T11:10:42Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > I think Gilligans Island except only three are left alive- The Professor, Ginger and Mary- Anne. I wonder if the Professor is still as sexy as he was then. For me it’s two TV shows: LA Law- The cast is mostly intact and I loved the show back when. China Beach- Most of the cast have regular gigs on TV and this was another “can’t miss” show that I loved. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526051/7 "2010-01-23T11:27:06Z")
> [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](#): > > I wonder if the Professor is still as sexy as he was then. > > . He’s 85 so probably not. ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526051/8 "2010-01-23T14:03:00Z")
\*Married With Grandchildren \*would make a great show. Or movie. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526051/9 "2010-01-23T15:50:14Z")
> [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](#): > > For me it’s two TV shows: > > LA Law- The cast is mostly intact and I loved the show back when. LA Law did have a made for TV movie several years after the show ended. [LA Law the movie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307078/) ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526051/10 "2010-01-23T15:54:23Z")
I’d love to see a Cheers reunion. I think all the major cast members are still alive, and dammit, the characters were all so warmly written and engaging that I’d like to find out how they are all getting on. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526051/11 "2010-01-23T16:06:51Z")
_That 70s Show_. It would be good to see both Danny Masterson and Laura Prepon again. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526051/12 "2010-01-23T16:10:34Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > I think Gilligans Island except only three are left alive- The Professor, Ginger and Mary- Anne. Plus Ginger hates the Island. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526051/13 "2010-01-23T16:23:30Z")
As I have indicated on this board before, I didn’t like the _M_A_S_H\* finale. I would have like to see the problems that the 4077 staff had re-integrating into civilian life. Yes, I know there was plans for _After M_A_S_H\* but IIRC that show was pretty “safe and vanilla” to cash in on the success of _M_A_S_H\*. I really wanted to meet Hawkeyes father and Charles’ sister. Was Peg Hunnicutt really the hot babe that we saw in BJ’s Anniversary episode? Whatever happened to Frank Burns? And how did Henry’s wife get along with the rest of her life. Did she an affair with the homely OB-GYN that lived next door. Damn it those are questions I wanted to see answered. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526051/14 "2010-01-23T16:37:26Z")
I think the less seriously a show takes itself, the more workable a reunion. So scripting a satisyfing Married with Children or Seinfeld reunion might not be that hard…M_A_S\*H or China Beach would be tougher to write. I love the notion of a Newhart reunion, but alas, it’s no longer possible. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526051/15 "2010-01-23T17:16:16Z")
The other day I was thinking (while watching the Simpson’s) how cool it might be to have the creators of the Simpson’s make an animated series where in each week they do a whole episode of different sitcoms form the past. Cheers, Bewitched, Married with children etc… It sounds cool to me anyway. However with out recurring characters that the general viewers could grow attached to, I doubt it would be much of a success. Anyway, I’m gonna go with Star Trek’s DS9. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526051/16 "2010-01-23T18:13:45Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > _That 70s Show_. It would be good to see both Danny Masterson and Laura Prepon again. Yeah, but as long it’s set in “modern times”. I was disappointed that we never got to see a real flash forward to the present. Eric & Donna as a middlge aged couple with teens of their own, Red & Kitty as elderly grandparents, Jackie living in a trailer park, etc. Hyde would either be dead, in jail, or a far right born-again uber-patriotic Conservative Christian. Not sure what would happen to Kelso, but Fez and Laurie actually having a child together (linking Fez to the Forman family forever) would be interesting. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526051/17 "2010-01-23T18:56:17Z")
Kelso would be a rich business tycoon, having “accidentally” invested in a company that made it big, a’la Forrest Gump. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526051/18 "2010-01-23T19:21:46Z")
I’m surprised there hasn’t been a “Magnum P.I.” reunion show by now, especially since Tom Selleck’s career hasn’t been thriving of late. John Travolta probably wouldn’t go for it, but a “Welcome Back, Kotter” reunion would be fun, too. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526051/19 "2010-01-23T19:26:57Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Yeah, but as long it’s set in “modern times”. I was disappointed that we never got to see a real flash forward to the present. Eric & Donna as a middlge aged couple with teens of their own, Red & Kitty as elderly grandparents, Jackie living in a trailer park, etc. Hyde would either be dead, in jail, or a far right born-again uber-patriotic Conservative Christian. Not sure what would happen to Kelso, but Fez and Laurie actually having a child together (linking Fez to the Forman family forever) would be interesting. Agreed that it would have to be set in the future. Eric and Donna would’ve turned into Kitty and Red. Jackie’d be chasing after Fez, as would many other women, while he would remain a playboy. Hyde probably would be a conservative, upstanding member of society (and former vet). Kelso’d have become a college professor. Laurie would undoubtedly end up a pastor’s wife. ---
**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 23, 2010, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526051/20 "2010-01-23T19:29:22Z")
I always loved the Gunsmoke / Matt Dillon reunions. They did four Matt Dillon movies in the early 1990’s. James Arness still looks pretty good. Here’s a recent interview. I’m ready to see him ride a horse again. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJsjup72W_8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-old-tv-shows-need-to-have-a-reunion-show/526051.md?page=2)