# What TV series would you like to see come back? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 15, 2018, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-would-you-like-to-see-come-back/822963 "2018-10-15T04:55:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-would-you-like-to-see-come-back/822963/21 "2018-10-15T18:17:59Z")
It wasn’t a great show, but I’d like to see _Dark Matter_ get a proper ending at least. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2018, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-would-you-like-to-see-come-back/822963/22 "2018-10-15T18:36:01Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Northern Exposure. An updated show, in current day Alaska, with global warming concerns, melting glaciers, trailer trash meth labs looking at Russia across the way…(on second thought, maybe not an updated show, sounds grim!) Pretty sure you’re kidding here, but yeah, a realistic _Northern Exposure_ wouldn’t work. The quirky _sur_reality of Cicely was the real star of the show. My vote for this topic goes to _Deadwood_, possibly HBO’s best original show ever, and yes, that’s a high bar. We never did get a proper ending. At least make the movie they’ve been talking about for years. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-would-you-like-to-see-come-back/822963/23 "2018-10-15T18:38:01Z")
_The Starlost_. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-would-you-like-to-see-come-back/822963/24 "2018-10-15T19:08:13Z")
I’d like to see Neil Patrick Harris return to TV as an adult Doogie Howser, perhaps running his own department or as dean of medicine for a major trauma center, and dealing with all of the headaches of an independent adult. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-would-you-like-to-see-come-back/822963/25 "2018-10-15T19:13:44Z")
_Downton Abbey_. I would like to have seen how they dealt with the Great Depression and (if the series was long enough) the run-up to WWII. Or a household with a reformed Thomas as butler. Or Daisy finally getting away. 🙂 Yes, I know a _DA_ movie is coming. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-would-you-like-to-see-come-back/822963/26 "2018-10-15T19:14:46Z")
I asked this question out loud just now and the response from all was a resounding “Firefly” ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-would-you-like-to-see-come-back/822963/27 "2018-10-15T19:17:22Z")
Queer as Folk, so much has changed since 2005/6. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-would-you-like-to-see-come-back/822963/28 "2018-10-15T21:44:29Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I’d like to see Neil Patrick Harris return to TV as an adult Doogie Howser, perhaps running his own department or as dean of medicine for a major trauma center, and dealing with all of the headaches of an independent adult. That might be fun… I’ll nominate “Constantine” from a few years back on NBC with Matt Ryan as John Constantine. He got the character down pat, and the show was entertaining as well. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-would-you-like-to-see-come-back/822963/29 "2018-10-15T21:47:42Z")
“Knight Rider”, of course. I mean, a car that drives by itself and talks to the owner? How insane is that concept? Millenial’s minds would be blown away. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-would-you-like-to-see-come-back/822963/30 "2018-10-15T22:07:27Z")
I’m sure I’m in the minority here, but I’d love another season or 2 of Friends. I’d love to know what’s going on in their lives after all these years. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-would-you-like-to-see-come-back/822963/31 "2018-10-15T22:23:10Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > _The Starlost_. Yes! Closer to Harlan’s (RIP) original vision, where it takes several episodes before you get a complete picture of what the f is going on; e.g. NO outside shots of the Ark. That completely blows the whole reveal. At most, in the first episode, one of the characters, after leaving the Biosphere, can find a portal that reveals an infinite blackness with a field of stars – which would be mind-blowing, as these people would not know what real stars look like. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2018, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-would-you-like-to-see-come-back/822963/32 "2018-10-15T22:45:30Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I’d like to see Neil Patrick Harris return to TV as an adult Doogie Howser, perhaps running his own department or as dean of medicine for a major trauma center, and dealing with all of the headaches of an independent adult. Of course, among his staff would be a precocious teenaged doctor. Extra points if it’s a girl and/or a minority. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-would-you-like-to-see-come-back/822963/33 "2018-10-15T22:46:18Z")
> [@bump](#): > > That might be fun… > > I’ll nominate “Constantine” from a few years back on NBC with Matt Ryan as John Constantine. He got the character down pat, and the show was entertaining as well. Constantine with Matt Ryan is back. He was on an episode or two of Arrow and then appeared on several episodes of Legends of Tomorrow. He is now a series regular on the newest season. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2018, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-would-you-like-to-see-come-back/822963/34 "2018-10-15T23:05:54Z")
American Gothic. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-would-you-like-to-see-come-back/822963/35 "2018-10-16T01:16:15Z")
> [@Royal\_Nonesutch](#): > > “After After M_A_S\*H” is an idea whose time has rightfully come to soothe and heal a troubled nation… I think it was someone here on the SDMB who suggested Alan Alda should do a show about Hawkeye Pierce as a retired surgeon in Crabapple Cove who solves murder mysteries. Alan has recently revealed he has Parkinson’s, so a show like that isn’t likely to happen even if it was officially mooted, but it is still a great idea. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-would-you-like-to-see-come-back/822963/36 "2018-10-16T01:23:05Z")
the original concept of the equalizer …. morcan freeman could of done it years ago …… tho if he was control in the reboot would be cool ---
**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:** [October 16, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-would-you-like-to-see-come-back/822963/37 "2018-10-16T01:39:43Z")
> [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser](#): > > “Knight Rider”, of course. I mean, a car that drives by itself and talks to the owner? How insane is that concept? Millenial’s minds would be blown away. They brought it back a few years ago. It barely lasted a season. This time KITT was housed in a Ford Mustang that also could morph into other vehicles, such as a van, a pickup truck, and a Crown Vic police intercepter, and was voiced by Val Kilmer. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-would-you-like-to-see-come-back/822963/38 "2018-10-16T02:14:17Z")
Bring back funny variety shows like Carol Burnett or the Smothers Brothers. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2018, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-would-you-like-to-see-come-back/822963/39 "2018-10-16T02:25:40Z")
I liked Mission Impossible when it was a show about a team that worked together to accomplish cool missions. (Unlike the movies, which seem to be about only Tom Cruise’s character). And a heist show like Hustle was fun. (Never saw Leverage, although I heard that was similar.) And I also would not mind seeing the return of the original Law & Order, as long as it was the same episodic program with no serialized storylines. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-would-you-like-to-see-come-back/822963/40 "2018-10-16T02:36:07Z")
I would have said _Twin Peaks_… until they actually did it. I’d go with _Firefly_ or _Pushing Daisies_ and hope that they do a better job. Or maybe a really old show that nobody but me (it seems) even remembers: _Lucan_. Boy raised by wolves becomes a detective. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-would-you-like-to-see-come-back/822963.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-would-you-like-to-see-come-back/822963.md?page=3)