# 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:** 3
**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, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/41 "2013-09-13T17:48:53Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Malph. It used to be, but Ralph became a porn actor and for professional reasons changed his last name. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/42 "2013-09-13T17:49:45Z")
> [@TV\_time](#): > > 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. Or a spin-off with Potsie’s grandkids struggling to make ends meet during the late-2000’s recession. Call it _Crappy Days_. ---
**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, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/43 "2013-09-13T17:59:22Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Malph. No, Mouse. As in Ralph S. Mouse of The Mouse and the Motorcycle fame. ---
**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, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/44 "2013-09-13T18:14:55Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > The “Han Solo” route with [Thadiun Okona](http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Thadiun_Okona) could be better. Not really. Never saw that ep, but it does not sound interesting. I like Norton’s “Solar Queen” scenario for good reasons. It had a well-constructed set of characters to match TOS, and an interesting universe filled with large, predatory corporations, a military that regarded small traders as unconvicted smugglers, not without reason, dangerous alien races, interesting alien races, strange alien artifacts and all sorts of weirdness. Would have made a great competitor for Star Trek, except it had the a terrible flaw for sixties SF … a female protagonist! ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/45 "2013-09-13T18:40:13Z")
Housework- a Scrubs-style comedy set at Princeton Plainsboro. Everybody that has to deal with Dr House and wasn’t in the other series. ---
**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, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/46 "2013-09-13T19:19:26Z")
> [@aNewLeaf](#): > > Housework- a Scrubs-style comedy set at Princeton Plainsboro. Everybody that has to deal with Dr House and wasn’t in the other series. [hijack] Funny thing about Princeton Plainsboro. The name was totally fictitious. The hospital in Princeton was simply called the Princeton Medical Center. It was old and they couldn’t expand where it was. So a new hospital was built. It opened last year. The name of the new hospital is University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro. An example of life imitating art. [/hijack] ---
**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, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/47 "2013-09-13T21:41:05Z")
Forget Potsie, I’d like to watch “Malph.” ---
**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, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/48 "2013-09-13T21:47:44Z")
Fonzie would be right for my retirement community vehicle. Along with Laverne and Shirley, except they’d have to do some digital youthening to make Penny Marshall a convincing 70 something. _GLORIA_ bombed when it premiered 30 years ago, but it might be interesting catching up with her in her 60s, with at some point a cameo by Rob Reiner. ---
**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, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/49 "2013-09-13T23:06:34Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Not really. Never saw that ep, but it does not sound interesting. Okana’s tactics are. He tried to evade _Enterprise_-D by bouncing his ship off their shields! Mudd’s tactics seem to be limited to “get captured and escape … eventually”. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/50 "2013-09-14T01:03:39Z")
_Marshall and Lily_, in which an idealistic environmental lawyer and an artistic kindergarten teacher jettison their dysfunctional friends and set out to raise a family in New York City. ---
**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 14, 2013, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/51 "2013-09-14T02:15:13Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ecks](#): > > Star Trek: The Next Generation: Night Shift > > The Enterprise crew always seems to be on duty or off duty together. Obviously there must be a night crew that runs the ship when the main crew is off duty. This wacky band of misfits and screwups have just as many adventures as the regular crew, with the added complication that they have to have everything cleared up by the time Picard wakes up, so they can report another uneventful night shift. That’s an awesome idea! For that matter, how about they chronicle the early lives of all of the “ensign Smiths” that got killed off. Let’s see; Bones, Spock, Kirk, and ensign Smith beam down. You know who’s gonna die! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/52 "2013-09-14T23:58:22Z")
I’ve always wanted to watch an NCIS the early years, where Gibbs is the probie and Mike Franks is in his prime. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2013, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/53 "2013-09-15T00:43:27Z")
There [was talk](http://sciencefiction.com/2011/08/26/warehouse-13-update-on-h-g-well-spinoff/) on SyFy of there being an HG Wells spinoff from _Warehouse 13_, which I think the episode of her in the past with Gareth David-Lloyd was supposed to be the branching point from, but it never eventuated. Shame, it would’ve been great. ---
**Author:** ![EvilMinion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@EvilMinion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilMinion)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/54 "2013-09-15T01:11:20Z")
> [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](#): > > When they spun off the incredibly crappy Joey from Friends, I thought the strongest spinoff they could have done from that show would have been one showing Chandler and Monica in their new home taking care of their kids. They were in a neighborhood where they could have interacted with lots of people. And Chandler and Monica were by far the most stable two people out of all the characters by the final episode of Friends. I think the married life of Mike ‘Crapbag’ Hannigan and Phoebe ‘Princess Banana Hammock’ Buffay would have made for a good spin-off as well. > [@Panthan](#): > > I think Monroe and Rosalee would make more interesting main characters in a series than Nick and Juliette on Grimm. YES. The actor who plays Nick is nice to look at, but otherwise Nick and Juliette are so blah. I’d like to see a show about Blutbaden throughout history, with the Grimms as minor characters that show up every now and again. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/55 "2013-09-15T02:50:13Z")
_Criminal Minds_ with the team killed b4 the pilot. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/56 "2013-09-15T15:51:46Z")
The _Star Trek_ TOS episode “Assignment: Earth” was intended to be a pilot for a series. I would like to have seen more of it. I would like to see a spinoff from _Magnum P.I._ dealing with Higgins and his half-siblings. ---
**Author:** ![Musky\_Moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/57 "2013-09-15T18:23:37Z")
The Cross Time Adventures of Captain Jack Harkness and Professor River Song. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/58 "2013-09-16T13:46:24Z")
My Two Lives, a prequel to both Seinfeld and King of Queens. The main character tries to live two lives in New York City as both Frank Costanza and Arthur Spooner. Starring Ben Stiller. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/59 "2013-09-16T14:06:15Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > 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. I like that premise! Could add some other old folks from other shows…how about Maurice from Northern Exposure, a big blowhard fish landed in a small pond, come down in the world since losing a lot of his fortune but still trying to be top dog. “Let me tell you again about my astronaut days…” groooooaaaannnnn… ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667/60 "2013-09-16T14:10:26Z")
And don’t forget Arthur Spooner and Frank Costanza, one guy convinced he is two different people. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-spinoffs-would-you-like-to-see/668667.md?page=2)