# Which old movies need a TV reboot? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 3, 2019, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-movies-need-a-tv-reboot/844306 "2019-12-03T12:23:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-movies-need-a-tv-reboot/844306/41 "2019-12-04T19:42:02Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > There is a 70 year old Buck running on Facebook where he fell into a meteorite crater in the 1940s and awakened 500 years later. Someone dug him up or something. > What happened in 2419? thats what the original pair of stories written in the 20s and 30d was named when they put them together in book form in the 50s its originally when he woke up …[Buck Rogers - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Rogers) theyve rebooted him a few times it seems ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-movies-need-a-tv-reboot/844306/42 "2019-12-04T20:58:46Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > thats what the original pair of stories written in the 20s and 30d was named when they put them together in book form in the 50s > > its originally when he woke up …[Buck Rogers - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Rogers) > > theyve rebooted him a few times it seems Thanks! Here is [where the comic is running](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1638478066432491/) on Facebook. ---
**Author:** ![ralfy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ralfy/32/600_2.png) [@ralfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralfy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-movies-need-a-tv-reboot/844306/43 "2019-12-05T00:17:50Z")
There was a TV series of _Logan’s Run_ back in the 1970s, but it didn’t do very well. There was a _Buck Rogers_ TV show, too. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-movies-need-a-tv-reboot/844306/44 "2019-12-05T02:17:32Z")
I am big fan of the 1981 film _Scanners_ and its sequels. Apparently there have been attempts to remake it either as a film or tv series over the past 15 years but they stuck in “development hell” as they say. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-movies-need-a-tv-reboot/844306/45 "2019-12-05T02:44:16Z")
_Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_ done by the people who did _The Wire_. Butch and Sundance are somewhat sympathetic villains, trying to survive in a hostile West while holding together a group of cutthroats. Joe Lefors and his band of mercenaries are corrupt and violent while nominally on the side of the law. We see both sides and end every episode feeling more depressed than we did going in. Oh, and an eloquent, principled guy with a shotgun keeps robbing them. “Oh shit! Jedidiah’s comin’ round the bend!” ---
**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:** [December 5, 2019, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-movies-need-a-tv-reboot/844306/46 "2019-12-05T03:34:32Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > On Disney+ right now. It’s not bad, though aimed at a younger audience than the movie. I don’t count that as a proper thing. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-movies-need-a-tv-reboot/844306/47 "2019-12-05T03:46:55Z")
**It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World** : A multi-episode, cross country “treasure hunt” mini-series Roseanne would need to be cast in the obnoxious Ethel Merman role. The rest of the cast would include: Steve Martin, Bill Murray, Jim Carey, Chris Rock, Norm McDonald, Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Schaal, Will Ferrell, Seth Rogan, John Cleese, Randy Quade (driving his **Christmas Vacation** RV) and Cheech & Chong (driving their smoke-filled **Up in Smoke** lowrider). ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-movies-need-a-tv-reboot/844306/48 "2019-12-05T04:38:30Z")
> [@Tibby](#): > > **It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World** : A multi-episode, cross country “treasure hunt” mini-series > > Roseanne would need to be cast in the obnoxious Ethel Merman role. The rest of the cast would include: Steve Martin, Bill Murray, Jim Carey, Chris Rock, Norm McDonald, Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Schaal, Will Ferrell, Seth Rogan, John Cleese, Randy Quade (driving his **Christmas Vacation** RV) and Cheech & Chong (driving their smoke-filled **Up in Smoke** lowrider). Get Carl Reiner to play Smiler Grogan this time he is the only one left. Though his role was small as the Air Traffic Controller. Why not Ackroyd? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-movies-need-a-tv-reboot/844306/49 "2019-12-05T13:31:21Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > thats what the original pair of stories written in the 20s and 30d was named when they put them together in book form in the 50s > > its originally when he woke up …[Buck Rogers - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Rogers) > > theyve rebooted him a few times it seems Nitpick – the two original stories from 1928 and 1929 by Philip Francis Nowlan were assembled in the 1960s and published in hardcover as \*\*Armageddon 2419 A.D.\*\*by Avalon books in 1962 (with a preface by Robert Lowndes) and in paperback by Ace in 1963 (with a preface by Donald A. Wollheim). A 1969 reprint of that edition was still being sold in the 1970s, when I bought mine. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2411](http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2411) ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-movies-need-a-tv-reboot/844306/50 "2019-12-05T18:20:55Z")
Buckaroo Banzai. Do it in a similar fashion to Legends of Tomorrow, tongue in cheek adventure of the week with a season long overarching story/Big Bad. The first of course being The World Crime League. Flesh out who Perfect Tommy et al are as characters. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-movies-need-a-tv-reboot/844306/51 "2019-12-05T20:52:21Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > _Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_ done by the people who did _The Wire_. Butch and Sundance are somewhat sympathetic villains, trying to survive in a hostile West while holding together a group of cutthroats. “Rules? In a knife fight?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-movies-need-a-tv-reboot/844306.md?page=2)