# Which dead TV shows do you most wish they would bring back? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 9, 2012, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-tv-shows-do-you-most-wish-they-would-bring-back/618250 "2012-04-09T12:54:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-tv-shows-do-you-most-wish-they-would-bring-back/618250/61 "2012-04-09T19:34:02Z")
I liked last year’s **Off the Map** series, that failed to get any real traction on ABC and was cancelled after about 10 episodes. I really wish they’d reconsider on that one. **Journeyman** was another ABC show from a couple years ago that got cancelled just as it was starting to get interesting. **Gilmore Girls** needed another season or two to finish telling the storylines. I’d settle for a TV-movie-reunion show to tie up some loose ends, but I doubt that’ll ever happen at this point, either. At least Lauren Graham has found steady work on **Parenthood**. Her character on that show is so beat-down and haggard-looking and depressive that I have a hard time even associating her with Lorelai Gilmore anymore. There was a great Michael Madsen series during the 90s called **Vegeance Unlimited** , that never got to even finish telling the story of the show’s premise - it was cancelled way too early. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-tv-shows-do-you-most-wish-they-would-bring-back/618250/62 "2012-04-09T19:50:32Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > _Kim Possible_ - maybe they could do a college years series. That would make my day. I want to see Ron use his monkey mastery skills, since he came into his own at the end of the series. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-tv-shows-do-you-most-wish-they-would-bring-back/618250/63 "2012-04-09T20:12:23Z")
Space: Above and Beyond. \*ducks thrown rotten fruit ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-tv-shows-do-you-most-wish-they-would-bring-back/618250/64 "2012-04-09T20:13:46Z")
Has anyone mentioned \*\*Firefly \*\*yet? heh heh heh And, yes, I know that a post-Serenity series would be very difficult to manage. And, yes, I know that the wonderful actors have gone on to other work. But, still… I want my **Firefly**. \ ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-tv-shows-do-you-most-wish-they-would-bring-back/618250/65 "2012-04-09T20:16:10Z")
Oh, I have to add _Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends_ to mine. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-tv-shows-do-you-most-wish-they-would-bring-back/618250/66 "2012-04-09T21:25:08Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > Space: Above and Beyond. > > \*ducks thrown rotten fruit _catches fruit_ NO! YOU WILL NOT HARM HIM! I loved that show too, and wished it actually played out to the end. I think by the time it was gone, the schedules were so wacky that I could never find out when it was being shown, so I missed a lot of the ending, if it ended I also want to say that Babylon 5: Crusade was a fun show even though it seemed to have missed the mark with many sci-fi fans, but I liked it a lot. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-tv-shows-do-you-most-wish-they-would-bring-back/618250/67 "2012-04-09T21:53:58Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > And, yes, I know that a post-Serenity series would be very difficult to manage. Casting it, sure. But plotwise, not at all. I was led to Firefly via Serenity, not the other way around, and I thoroughly enjoyed watching all those flashbacks. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-tv-shows-do-you-most-wish-they-would-bring-back/618250/68 "2012-04-09T22:09:55Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I was ready for \*\*The West Wing \*\*to keep going with the new administration. I know some thought it had lost something the last few years, but I hated to see it end. It lost a lost a lot in Season 5 and 6, but I thought Season 7 as very strong. I would have liked to have seen the next admin. I especially would have liked it if it had been a Republican Administration, just to see what it would look like. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-tv-shows-do-you-most-wish-they-would-bring-back/618250/69 "2012-04-09T22:18:02Z")
Firefly MST3K ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-tv-shows-do-you-most-wish-they-would-bring-back/618250/70 "2012-04-09T22:26:05Z")
Lost…what?.. I don’t know why MST3K couldn’t be re-run on some channel starting from the beginning, I only ever saw a handful of episodes from the last year it was on and missed all of the early ones. And I want a third season of Carnivale - I want to know how Ben and Justin figure in the inevitable detonation of the atomic bomb, dammit! HBO could have made that third episode with all the money they pissed away on bombs like John From Cincinatti. But what I REALLY want to see is hosted ‘Creature Features’ come back. We loved that stuff back in the 80’s (and even earlier with local programming) - Elvira, Up All Night, Commander USA, Joe Bob Briggs’ Drive-In Theater. Good times. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-tv-shows-do-you-most-wish-they-would-bring-back/618250/71 "2012-04-09T22:39:01Z")
If were possible to keep the level of quality up, _Samuri Jack_. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-tv-shows-do-you-most-wish-they-would-bring-back/618250/72 "2012-04-09T22:44:34Z")
_Kim Possible, The College Years._ Why oh why does Disney hate money? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-tv-shows-do-you-most-wish-they-would-bring-back/618250/73 "2012-04-09T23:25:53Z")
[Huff](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huff_%28TV_series%29), a show nobody’s ever heard of from Showtime starring Hank Azaria and Oliver Platt. The second season ended with a hell of a cliffhanger and then. . . nothing. Also, I still miss my Friends. Although How I Met Your Mother tries to fulfill my white buddies hanging out at a (coffee) bar needs, I just don’t care about them anywhere near as much. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-tv-shows-do-you-most-wish-they-would-bring-back/618250/74 "2012-04-09T23:32:33Z")
Hows about **When Things Were Rotten**? mmm ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-tv-shows-do-you-most-wish-they-would-bring-back/618250/75 "2012-04-09T23:43:37Z")
My So-Called Life Firefly ---
**Author:** ![Jilaad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jilaad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jilaad)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-tv-shows-do-you-most-wish-they-would-bring-back/618250/76 "2012-04-10T01:04:06Z")
The Middleman. I will never forgive ABC Family for dropping that show while keeping tripe like Secret Life of the American Teenager. Never. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-tv-shows-do-you-most-wish-they-would-bring-back/618250/77 "2012-04-10T01:33:56Z")
Okay, maybe there is something I don’t know, maybe I wil be openly ridiculed, but… **Jericho** Of course we would have t ignore those last two ridiculous episodes where they tried to wrap up all the story lines in a tidy bow. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![emu2swan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@emu2swan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emu2swan)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-tv-shows-do-you-most-wish-they-would-bring-back/618250/78 "2012-04-10T01:44:53Z")
Boston Legal Buffy Angel ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-tv-shows-do-you-most-wish-they-would-bring-back/618250/79 "2012-04-10T01:53:07Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Unfortunately, **Firefly** _can’t_ come back. **Serenity** answered too much and changed the 'Verse, and if it resurrected it would mean an end to **Castle** , **L.A. Complex** , **Homeland** and a lot more. Plot-wise I don’t think it’d be difficult at all, and the main actors could film a 12-episode season (like Dexter) in between their other shows. > [@charmstr](#): > > All of the shows I would have listed have already been mentioned except for one: I may be the only person in the world, but I loved _The Sarah Connor Chronicles_ and was devastated when it ended. (Well, “devastated” is hyperbole. It was only a TV show after all. On the other hand, I do still have a [music video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOlu2AA6mck) on my iPod created from the show). I’d like a season more of that, too. There was just nothing bad about the show and lots good, and it ended with nothing wrapped up at all. The Good Guys wrapped up quite neatly (there was no over-arching plot-arc, but the characters had developed and it felt like an actual ending) but the premise is till definitely enough for another season or two. I might be the only person who thinks that, though. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-tv-shows-do-you-most-wish-they-would-bring-back/618250/80 "2012-04-10T02:02:03Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > My So-Called Life I’m thinking the original cast is going to have a little trouble passing for teens anymore. I’m pretty sure Claire Danes is close to double the age she was when the show aired. I didn’t watch **Firefly** till after it was cancelled, and I kind of like it as a mini-series + movie. So many shows get driven into the ground, I’m pretty happy with Firefly being a short-lived series that stayed good throughout. I’d be down for more **Rome** though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-tv-shows-do-you-most-wish-they-would-bring-back/618250.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-tv-shows-do-you-most-wish-they-would-bring-back/618250.md?page=5)