# What TV spinoffs would you like to see? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 12, 2013, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667 "2013-09-12T15:33:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/21 "2013-09-13T02:05:39Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > “Vera.” It’s the story of the Widow Peterson, set inBoston in the mid-90s, shortly after “Cheers” went off the air. Or better yet, set in the mid-80s, telling Vera’s story while Norm’s at the bar. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/22 "2013-09-13T02:10:50Z")
A “24” season revolving around President Aaron Pierce ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/23 "2013-09-13T02:27:20Z")
> [@Hello\_Again](#): > > I’m still waiting for the Wire sitcom spinoff, **Omar’s Comin’!** > _When Omar has to move in with his gran, he’s forced to keep his life of vigilante profiteering a secret. Hijinx and hilarity ensue… you’ll be left wondering: will she ever figure out he doesn’t work at the airport?_ I could go for this, too. The only other show that has any characters that I could accept spinoffs for would be _Boardwalk Empire_ and Chalky or Richard, with a possible Van Alden as well. _The Sopranos_ is too far in the past to get a good spinoff for, and the whole cast of _Justified_ could be transplanted to other shows if/when the main show goes sour. I just hope that never happens. Other characters I really like, but don’t think they have what it takes to support a new show, would be Cho from _The Mentalist_, Kalinda from _The Good Wife_ and maybe the two guys from _Terriers_ if they’d just bring that show back as it was. ---
**Author:** ![Orr\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ee59a6/32.png) [@Orr\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orr_G)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/24 "2013-09-13T03:40:05Z")
_The Creed Bratton Experience_ ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/25 "2013-09-13T05:54:41Z")
I’d like to see a spinoff of Terra Nova that had dinosaurs in it! ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/26 "2013-09-13T07:33:30Z")
I’ve been waiting ages for a Star Trek that’s set in the Academy. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/27 "2013-09-13T13:31:25Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > I could go for this, too. The only other show that has any characters that I could accept spinoffs for would be _Boardwalk Empire_ and Chalky or Richard, with a possible Van Alden as well. Van Alden practically does have his own “spin-off”. He went almost an entire seasons without interacting with the main cast. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2013, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/28 "2013-09-13T13:46:04Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > They did the concept with **Homicide: Life on the Streets** with **Homicide: Second Shift** , which showed the detectives on the night shift. You haven’t heard of it because it was web only (in 1997), though there were crossovers with the main TV show. At one point a couple of the detectives from second shift showed up on the TV show and asked one of the stars to discuss something they were working on. Dammit how come this is the first I have ever heard of that? > [@Barking\_Dog](#): > > I’ve been waiting ages for a Star Trek that’s set in the Academy. That’s all we need. More teens in Star Trek. Wasn’t Wesley enough of a lesson to everyone? ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/29 "2013-09-13T14:03:55Z")
I always wanted to see a Star Trek show featuring the equivalent of a USO troupe going around entertaining Star Fleet crews, and getting caught up in various emergencies or conflicts. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/30 "2013-09-13T14:10:26Z")
> [@Barking\_Dog](#): > > I’ve been waiting ages for a Star Trek that’s set in the Academy. Monday - Class. Study until 3am. Tuesday - Class. Study until 3am. Wednesday - Lab. Study until 5am. Thursday - Class. Study until 3am. Friday - Lab. Study until 3am. Saturday - Do laundry. Study until 3am. Sunday - Ready dorm room for inspection. Study until midnight. Riveting! ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/31 "2013-09-13T14:50:47Z")
I’d like to see **Law & Order: Before Miranda** , with a young Lenny Briscoe and his rookie partner John Munch busting a young Jack McCoy for shoplifting. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/32 "2013-09-13T14:57:27Z")
**Star Trek: Klingon Home World** - Worf moves to Klingon and is both a native and a fish out of water as he tries to run a small insurance agency. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/33 "2013-09-13T15:10:48Z")
I would like to see a spinoff about a small-time trading vessel in the Star Trek universe, trading in dangerous areas with dangerous people but without the kind of security that comes with being an armed Federation warship. Sort of Serenity meets Star Trek, though to tell the truth I was thinking more of Andre Norton’s “Solar Queen” stories. Harcourt Fenton Mudd, of course, would be the captain. ---
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/34 "2013-09-13T15:14:16Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#): > > _The Case of the Colonist’s Corpse_ by Tony Isabella and Robert Ingersoll, was the first (and so far, only) _Samuel T. Cogley_ mystery. Cogley, you may recall, was Capt. James T. Kirk’s attorney in the _Star Trek_ (TOS) episode, _Court Martial_. The novel was essentially a Perry Mason story set in the Star Trek universe, and I think that would make for a good television series. _Crisis on Centaurus_ also featured Mr. Cogley, although it wasn’t a Perry Mason style mystery. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/35 "2013-09-13T15:16:45Z")
I’d love to see a show set in a retirement community where a group of old folks become friends with “the last group of people I ever thought I’d make friends with… and I was right”. Residents of the retirement community include widowed psychologist Bob Hartley, retired detective Barney Miller and his wife, curmudgeonly ancient journalist Lou Grant, and sexpot former waitress Alice Hyatt from Phoenix (who Barney mistakes for a former co-worker). And Patrick Stewart as a man who swears that he’s really a starship captain who’s been beamed here and lived for 50 years among these people. And perhaps Barney could visit the world’s oldest living former detective, 107 year old Phil Fish. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/36 "2013-09-13T15:20:55Z")
I’d like to see a _Burn Notice_ spinoff with Jesse and Sam running a bar and helping people that are in trouble. It would be less serious, like _BN_ was the first couple of seasons, with Michael and/or Fi stopping by once in a while. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/37 "2013-09-13T15:33:58Z")
I’d like to see a spinoff of the recent BSG series that focuses on the first Cylon war, not the crappy thing they did instead. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/38 "2013-09-13T17:28:02Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > I would like to see a spinoff about a small-time trading vessel in the Star Trek universe, trading in dangerous areas with dangerous people but without the kind of security that comes with being an armed Federation warship. Sort of Serenity meets Star Trek, though to tell the truth I was thinking more of Andre Norton’s “Solar Queen” stories. Harcourt Fenton Mudd, of course, would be the captain. The “Han Solo” route with [Thadiun Okona](http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Thadiun_Okona) could be better. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/39 "2013-09-13T17:36:15Z")
Potsie’s Kids…a 20-year later spin off of Happy Days with Potsie Webber as a single father of two one of whom looks a great deal like Ralph Mouth. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/40 "2013-09-13T17:43:37Z")
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