TV shows that need to come back
 

This follows the shows that gotta go thread, what do we need to bring back to make TV worth bothering with.

I nominate

Firefly...cancelled just before it became a hit on DVD and a movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303461/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_tv

Secret Agent/Dangerman/The Prisoner... there have been something like four different series already, how about number five.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058846/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerman http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061287/

Red Dwarf....the killed off Lister for the umpteenth time, so what happens next other than long standing movie rumours.
http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dwarf

I'm sure I can come up with more, how about you.

I second Firefly. Heck, anything from Joss Whedon would be welcome, though he deserves his current break.

I loved Sports Night, would love to see another show by the same writer(s) directed as well as that director and performed as well as that ensemble.

I would love to see an update on the campy Max Headroom. They could totally CGI him in 3-D in a virtual environment, and make his quirks more subtle.

Forget the charges of FOX having one political bias over another, not seeing Firefly through is proof of their incompetence in programming. I could not agree more on seeing this one return, cast intact. Including the dead ones!

http://img.inkfrog.com/pix/Starbase/browncoatspatch.jpg

Onto other shows -

The first one is not an exact remake but a hybrid that combines elements of "Stingray", "The Equalizer", & "The Saint". Make the protagonist a dotcom multimillionaire who has the funds to back his plays and is now looking for meaning in his life after selling out. He could have just fallen into this role by deciding to travel the US/Canada/Mexico and somewhere in the hinterlands he stumbles across someone needing help outside the system. This leads to his epiphany and as he has numerous contacts from his former life, he knows who can assist him. Anyways, I'd like to see a show along those lines. I'd put Duchovny in this role.

Another, Night Gallery. Let it be a clearinghouse for new & old directing and writing talent about the ironic, bizarre, or supernatural bends.

"The Cosby Show"

Well, sure Bill's probably too old now, but as a parent now I can't say enough about what this show did. Loving parents teaching and caring about their children, and dealing with real problems all while being hugely entertaining at the same time.
Cosby really got it and still does

"Freaks and Geeks"

:drool: Hi

you transatlantical new europeans and others won't know...

since i was 15 in the late 60s i await for the comeback of a french anvantgarde cartoon series:

Les Shadoks

http://www.toondra.com/vignettes/shadoks_serie.jpg

i was waiting all week for friday night to see this totally unconventional strange clips with a very interesting philosophical output like:
"You'd better pump even if nothing happens than risking something worse happens if you do not pump" (The Shadoks)

The story was two planets, on one lived some birdlike punks called the Shadoks, on the other the GiBis, (french/british).

http://leocat.free.fr/shadok/series/images/nourrit.jpg

The gibis had their brains in their bowlers, thats why the shadoks tried to steal the hats...

http://img.webring.com/r/s/shadok/navbarlogo


Their complete Language was "GA BU ZO MEU"

http://leocat.free.fr/shadok/general...es/cerveau.gif

and they calculate like

http://leocat.free.fr/shadok/general...ges/calcul.gif

their interplanetarian vehicle was alike this

http://leocat.free.fr/shadok/series/.../recyclage.gif


http://video.google.fr/videoplay?doc...52411475840230
http://www.kewego.de/video/iLyROoaftwHG.html



if you want more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Shadoks
http://leocat.free.fr/shadok/index.php
http://www.lesshadoks.com/index2.php?page=10
http://www.pierre-et-strategie.fr/en.../e_shadoks.htm
http://cqfd.epfl.ch/page59023-fr.html
http://glenn.sanson.free.fr/killtheshadoks/index.html

oh, i want it back!!!!!!

Yeah, "Night Gallery" would be great, as would the little-remembered now "Darkroom". "Crime Story"-I loved Dennis Farina in that one..I don't know what I liked the best about the series, the women, the music, the cars, or the fact that all the guys who played in it were UGLY. Definately NOT your typical Hollywood prettyboy series...

see: http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthr...ighlight=SHOWS

if only...
Midnight Special
The Prisioner
Shindig
Ed Sullivan
Mod Squad
American Bandstand
Batman
Wild Wild West

oops, + The Monkees

Big fan of Ray Luca.

Commander in chief...with Jenna Davis... that show lost its viewers because of the screw up of the network... there was a big hoopla about it ...the ratings were up there where they should have been then somebody either got fired ...quit or something in the production area...then there were re-runs for a long time ...and interest was lost ...when they brought it back for the last few episodes ...the interest was lost because of the newer shows comming out and after that it didnt have a chance ...

Just when it was getting good too... ...bummer... but the people who wrote in the the network wanted this ...then wanted that ...should'ave just let the writers go ...afterall it was just fiction...if it were real life ...well...then who would watch... get the same thing on the evening news ...

They can bring it back anytime in my book...

Thanks for putting all that inormation up. Les Shadoks looks quite enjoyable to me. The figures remind me of the ones at the beginning of the original Pink Panther films from the 60's. I wonder if the artists are one in the same?

Seconded! I still miss this show, 20 years later.
Fox said that Futurama would be back. I kept waiting... until I found out it will only be on cable's Comedy Central... in 2008! Shafted yet again...
Tom

"The Man from U.N.C.L.E."...Anybody remember THAT one ? Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughan) & Illya Kuriakin (David McCallum)

Firefly and Commander In Chief were both shows that should not have been canned.

Another one they could take up right where it left off (since all the characters are CGI, who cares, right?) -- Reboot. Heck, I'd be happy enough if some of the early seasons were released on DVD.Never heard of it, but it does look very interesting (and yes, the style reminds me of the Pink Panther cartoon as well). I just hope the content isn't ...well... Teletubby.

No, really isn't. its from '68, its very intellectual anarchic philosophical humour, a little aimed on EG an Brit/Fra relations and anything. It is very simple drawn, but has a very complete backround, the special language and calculation, philosophical aspects in the existance of those gibis and shadoks, its very complex. it was broadcasted only ONCE 1n 1968-70, never again... thats why it makes some people remembering it really starve (i can't how many times i saw Al Bundy on 20 different channels).
I found that it was synchronized ONLY in german additional to the original french Cartoon, nobody seemed to have been interested in this.
If anyone is good in french (canadians?) they should really check the french episodes that are found in the net.

Jacques Rouxel (February 26, 1931 - April 25, 2004)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaques_Rouxel

i can't find a connection to pink panther, but alot other famous stuff... the english wiki-entry is really short compared to the french...

I looked for that yesterday & came up short.

I think it was just a minimalist style that many artists of that era and earlier were comfortable with.

Absolutely! It was a great show. Very futuristic - Instead of "Open Channel D" we now have the chirp-chirp-chirp from Nextel. Same thing, only different.:scratch2: It was one of the first TV serial Spy-Vs-Spy type shows that ever went anywhere. And now for the bonus round, who played the director of U.N.C.L.E. on the show?

The other shows that need to come back are, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (am I being too obvious?), The life of Riley http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/L/...ifeofriley.htm , The Little Racals, The East Side Kids / The Bowery Boys. The Life of Riley with William Bendix was a lot like today's Ray Barone, Tim Taylor, and Ralph Kramden all rolled into one. Speaking of Ralph Kramden, The Honeymooners need to come back again.

Get Smart - obviously need some new characters.
Adams Family - same deal.
Dangermouse - cartoon.
Rocky & Bullwinkle - cartoon.
Fernwood Tonight - Martin Mull
The Kids in the Hall - various

I believe that was Leo G. Carroll who was over a barrel......

When Tarantula took to the hills?

In 1986, one of the local Boston TV stations played every episode of U.N.C.L.E over the summer during the week at 11:00PM. My wife & I started watching from the very beginning when they were B&W all the way through color and what we were amazed by was how much adult content was slipped past the standards boards. Frankly, what we take for granted now was really pushing the envelope and in many cases popping it altogether on U.N.C.L.E. I can recall over and over after Solo (it was mostly Solo) would deliver a one liner about whichever female was closest and we'd look at each other and say "I can't believe they got that through!" or "Did he just say what I thought he said?". You could not recreate that today and is really one of the things that made the show fun to watch, the running un-PC commentary. Goes hand in hand with Playboy, the batchelor pad, & Hai Karate of the day.

I am not sure I would want to see this one brought back unless it could come anywhere close to what the original was. But they couldn't do that, they would have to make it a reflection of today which to me, wouldn't be all that interesting. The original was near perfect and would be really tough to improved upon. I'd be afraid of it getting the recent Kolchak treatment.

That would be the one!

:thmbsp:

Man from Uncle, heck yeah, I had the attache case with all the goodies in it as a kid, which leads to the ultra cool,

T.H.E Cat.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060030/

It's takes a Thief.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062572/

The Avengers

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054518/

I Spy

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058816/

Dang, TV was better then.

Wild, Wild West...YES!

Shindig...uhmmmm.

Les Shadoks looks interesting.

You weren't the only one.

About any of the Irwin Allen shows- "The Time Tunnel" especially. Of course, being the misanthropic malcontent I am, guess which character on "Lost In Space" I liked best ? That's ANOTHER one they could bring back- Remember getting the Shite scared outta you by some of those aliens ? The one that STILL brings chills is that one that had the machine where anything you thought of, it would make it...And, of course, You-Know-Who tools it up & had to face that alien who looked like a 3-week dead guy covered w/cheese...

http://content.answers.com/main/cont...-mask-1966.JPG

Oh the pain.......

I loved Lost in Space for the first season, but like Voyage to the bottom of the sea, it lost that spooky feel when it went color.

..."Sit back as the Control Voice takes you from the inner mind to The OUTER LIMITS"...The 1963-65 version, while a bit uneven, was still one of the greats..The later version in the '80s & '90s, was too much into being Politically Correct, touchy-feely, & Teaching a Lesson than being scary...

Anybody remember Sky King.Was a good show in it's time.

Better still, I remember Penny!

Hubba Hubba

I was too young to be much impressed by Penny. But that Cessna 310-Va Va Va Voom..<grin>...Anyone remember another one from that era, "Highway Patrol" w/Broderick Crawford ?

Ever see when he was a Saturday night live and parody'd that show?

Another good one from my childhood was "F Troop"...Never saw the Sat Nite live parody of Highway Patrol...Anybody remember "The Invaders" ? Were there REALLY any invaders or was David Vincent crazy?...An' that other Quinn Martin offering, "The FBI...Starring Efrem Zimbalist Junior". He didn't look like no Efrem Zimbalist Junior, he looked more like somebody's Uncle Bob..."Efrem Zimbalist Junior" sounds like a name for a steakhouse, kinda like "Ruth's Chris Steak House"... "Efrem's Zimbalist Junior Steakhouse"...Think about it...Yeah, I know...It's about time for me to go take my Meds, so's I'll calm down...

Man from U.N.C.L.E.
 

As I am sure you know, David McCallum is on "NCIS" as Doctor "Ducky" Mallard.

On one episode, Kate asks "what was Ducky like as a young man?"

Gibbs replies "He was a lot like Illya Kuriyakin".

Thought I would fall out of my recliner. How many people do you think GOT that one?

I third Firefly. Great show that I only saw as dvd with my 16 year old. Got him hooked and saw all the episodes and Serenity in the HT setup. We bonded on that show. Man from Uncle was campy but fun. i liked the McGyver series.

I was too young to see it when it was on network but saw most of the episodes in syndication many years later. Unfortunately I have not seen it since. What I do recall though is that it seemed far more sophisticated in writing and character development than other shows of the era. It was not at all predictable and very gloomy. I'd like to see it again as I wonder how much of the show could be considered allegory towards the Cold War?

I remember that the proof of "The Invaders" was always JUST out of reach...Like in "The X-Files"...There was one character actor, Alfred Ryder, they used as one of the "big-shot, bossmen" Invaders..He always played a mean, creepy bastard type...