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With the resurgence of such shows as A-Team, Incredible Hulk and even the Care Bears, why don't the networks bring back some other stuff we haven't seen in a while.

My list:

Greatest American Hero—had a great theme song and the humorous parody was cool.

Misfits of Science—I saw two episodes and then it was gone...

Monsters—Best late-night action in the 90's.

Twilight Zone—Scared me stiff as a kid.

Wattya think?

Farscape

Mystery science theater 3000

Tremors the series

The Six Million Dollar Man

Fletch

Starskey & Hutch

* Mission: Impossible

* All in the Family

* The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

* Land of the Giants

* The Time Tunnel

* The Rookies

* S.W.A.T.

* Wiseguy

* Hawaii Five-0

* Get Smart



Post Edited (08-11-03 16:40)

Farscape and American Gothic.

Star Trek with the original TV music and color. Return of all the original stars. Yea ! ! ! Captain Kirk, Spock, Bones, Scotty, Sulu, Checkov, Lavura, Anson, and Klingons.

And yes to Mystery Science Theater. Loved that show.

Earth-2

Greatest American Hero



More to come later

Dark Angel
Space Above & Beyond
Firefly
Dr. Who
Babylon 5: Crusade
The Chronicle
Farscape
Outer Limits
Twilight Zone

I always wanted the show FAMILY MATTERS to survive to this very day. I mean, I have nothing but fond memories of the show and I am still entertained it (i.e., it shows up at 8:00 in the morning and I usually catch it). And the show was produced at a time when the old 'TGIF' days actually had a good show to offer before the pre-Disney days.

Sure, 'TGIF' delivered some off-kilter shows like STEP-BY-STEP and BOY MEETS WORLD (two shows that I really hated back then), but FAMILY MATTERS was a trendsetter back in the day. The show wasn't heavily corrupted with "counter culture" like BOY MEETS WORLD and STEP-BY-STEP. Even today, "counter culture" seems to have taken over TV sitcoms rather than just entertaining.

American Gothic

Space Rangers

Babylon 5

Quantum Leap (with a decent ending this time!)

I-Man (or the Invisible Man, you know, the one with Quicksilver)

The Greatest American Hero? I'm totally down with that - but he has to be Mr. HINKLEY, none of this "whoops-our-main-character-has-the-same-name-as-a-presidential-would-be-assassin-let's-change-the-name-to-not-offend-anyone" crud...

animated shows:

Dragon's Lair (loved it, short lived though it was)

Star Blazers

Voltron with the Lions, not the land/sea/air team

just to name a few!

FIREFLY, FIREFLY, FIREFLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also:
John Doe

Probe

You Can't Do That on Television

Doug, Ren and Stimpy, Rako's Modern Life, AHH!Real Monster!, Saulte Your Shorts, Round House, Welcome Back Freshmen, What Would You Do On T.V.? NickArcade. Really pretty much every show that appeared on Nickalodian before it went to "Channel of CRAP!" (Chalk Zone seems to be the only good show on the channel now.)

-the first rule of fat club-

The Brady Bunch

The Darkside

CHiPs

The Hitchhiker

Here are my choices:

The Kindred

Forever Knight

Knight Rider (The Original)

Dukes Of Hazzard

Six Million Dollar Man and/or Bionic Woman (ver 2.0)

New York Undercover

The Greatest American Hero (Believe it or not, I'm walking on air...)

Viper

Freedom

Soldier of Fortune Inc.

Voltron (Five lions)

Bionic Six

Mask

Mighty Orbots

The Ghostbuster (real and the Filmation  version)

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Bulls**t, I still can't hear you , sound off like you got a pair

Here's a few off the top of my head that would be great to have back

lancelot link secret chimp

just the ten of us

The pitts (this show was the b-movie of tv, wish fox didn't kill it this soon)

family guy

weird science

duckman

I agree with:
Quantum Leap
Firefly
Duckman
Family Guy
Monsters
Farscape

I's also like to add:
Tales from the Darkside
Werewolf
Newsradio

Ah, yes! LANCELOT LINK, SECRET CHIMP! That brings back memories of Saturday mornings from when I was a kid.

I am now going to spin this off into a "great Saturday morning TV show" thread.

Get a Life w/Chris Elliot
Tales from the Dark Side
The Pitts

Titus

Family Guy

Here's a list of shows that I watched alot of. Not sure if you could actually ever bring them back:

Star Trek (original)
Twilight Zone (original)
Candid Camera (first reality show)
Biography (70's)
World at War
Happy Days
Laverne and Shirley
Saturday Night Live
Odd Couple
Gilligans Island
Three's Company
F-Troop
I Dream of Jeanie
Dukes of Hazard
Get Smart
Bowling for Dollars (hosted by Ralph Kiner)
H.R. Puffinstuff
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
The Bugaloos
Wonderama
Mod Squad
Speed Racer
Battlestar Galactica
Mash
Taxi
Cheers(early ones)
Seinfeld
Fear (and other reality TV)
Extreme Elimination Challenge
Scar Tactics
WWE Wrestling (they've run out of ideas)

Mets Baseball (sometimes the Yankees)
Georgia Championship Wrestling (WTBS)
Extreme Championship Wrestling

Million Dollar Movie (WOR , WWII Films and Classic Drama on Sundays in the 70's))
Chiller Theater (WPIX)
Monster Movie Matinee (Saturdays at 12 or 1 pm in the 70's)
Abbott and Costello Movies (WPIX)
The Bowry Boys (WPIX)
Godzilla Movies (WPIX)
Westerns (Saturday Mornings)

i definitely agree with:

Family Guy
Farscape
Futurama [i miss it already, we haven't even got it on tv here at the moment though there's still a good few seasons left by my count, so hurray!]

Haven't even seen Firefly, [not out here] but its done by Joss Whedon [what a champ!] so it must be good, so bring it back so we can see it!

wow, they all start with 'F', how about that? odd...

um... also definitely M.A.S.K, Voltron, He-Man [ ;-) ]  Ghostbusters [animated], Dark Angel [though it would need a major writing revamp]

Its a shame Buffy's over, i am still in severe denial [just watched final episode a few hours ago], but i'll get over it eventually :(:(:(

and for all you australians out there, bring back micallef, on any station and any format.  Damn you to hell channel nine!

You guys have some great shows listed here.  Really brings back the memories..

I wholeheartedly agree with MST3K.

Transformers (the old style, not this new crap)

G.I. Joe

Thundercats

He-Man

M.A.S.K.

Family Guy

Nick Arcade

And, the best show ever, that I doubt anyone on here has seen or even remembers.. Video Power.  It was a show in the early 90s that was a gameshow for kids.  Kids would square off against each other for the rights to run through a giant obstacle course in the end.  The obstacle course was littered with hundreds of video games, and you had so long to grab as many as you could.  And, if you were lucky, you had the chance to snag a Neo-Geo, which was the mother of all videogame systems at the time.  Greatest show ever.

Nick

There needs to be reruns of these shows -

Tales From The Darkside
The Hitchhiker
Police Woman
Bionic Woman/Six Million Dollar Man
Family
Vega$
The Fall Guy
TJ Hooker
The Streets Of San Francisco

There are a few that I would love to see brought back.

The Phoenix

Automan

Shazaam

Dark Shadows

Night Gallery

Matt Houston

Tarzan with Ron Ely

Ok  I know a few are probably really corny but I kinda liked watching them.

Callysto wrote:

> There are a few that I would love to see brought back.
>
> The Phoenix
>
> Automan
>
> Ok  I know a few are probably really corny but I kinda liked
> watching them.
>
Well, the cheeze-o-meter goess off with these two, but I'd love to see them again too.
 I can only remember certain episodes, like the one where the main character played the "phoenix" video game in the arcades, used his medallion to get 5 extra games.

Then there was anytime automan's car turned a corner and the sidekick got splatted against the window. great stuff. The whole "people use far less electricity during the daytime" is COMPLETELY dated now, just with internet use and all.

Didn't both of these shows only last one season?

Another one I'd like to bring back, though it'll never happen, was NOWHERE MAN. Cool concept, even if it was an X-Files rip-off.

Oh yeah, does anyone remember that short lived, Rick Springfield show, based on the DC comic "Human Target"?
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Bulls**t I still can't hear you sound off like you got a pair

Yes I think perhaps they made one season.

I sure wish they could have ended the Phoenix series with him finding out about the girl he was looking for though. Oh well you will have that now won't you.

>Didn't both of these shows only last one season?

Automan - 13 episodes
The Phoenix - Pilot movie & 4 episodes

 Automan  (http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-1921/)
 The Phoenix  (http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-8251/)

I'd like The Secret World of Alex Mack back.



Post Edited (08-13-03 01:36)

OH YEAH! The Secret World of Alex Mack that was AWESOME! I think it still has a pretty nice and orginial feel to it. I remeber it was one of the show my mom loved to watch and she asked me to tell about it whenever it came on. I wonder how Space Cases, Nickelodian's Star Trek, and the Tommor People do doday?

-the first rule of fat club-

amen

Callysto - Good call on Matt Houston. I remember a local station reran it just shortly after it was cancelled and that was the last time I ever saw it.

Are you Afraid of the Dark?, that show that was on Nickelodeon with interesting stories

Dinosaur, the sitcom with the dinosaurs

Mission Hill

Rocko

The Greatest American Hero (Believe it or not, I'm walking on air...)
Dr. Who
Farscape
Voltron
Ark II
Blakes 7
Red Dwarf
Stargate SG-1 ( Broadband)
Get Smart
Frances the Talking Mule
Topper
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Sifl and Olly- quite possibly the only good thing mtv had going for it in 1998-1999, cancelled of course but lasted longer than I thought it would. Taped all of the episodes and even have the unreleased season 3 but I wish they would show them again.

I don't really get nostaligic for T.V. shows to the point of wanting them back.  Most shows fit within a cultural context and a personal context and it's hard to think of those shows out of that context.  Miami Vice was very much a product of it's time, for example, would it make any sense now?

The exception being shows that were cancelled recently and you wish they would go on, because you are still in the same context

Fearless Freep wrote:

>Most shows fit within a cultural context
> and a personal context and it's hard to think of those shows
> out of that context.  

This is true in many cases. ROWAN AND MARTIN'S LAUGH - IN, for instance, was a huge success during its original run. But the show is so "late 60s," that any attempts at reruns have not been very successful. The humor just doesn't translate well to current times.

On the other hand, you have shows like LEAVE IT TO BEAVER, which are dated, yet they seem to still appeal to modern audiences.

I wonder if DANCE FEVER (with Denny Terrio wearing polyester clothes and gold chains) could ever make a strong comeback on the rerun circuit.



Post Edited (08-15-03 16:39)

I remember the one show I hated was "Land of the Lost..."  I couldn't stand that show for whatever reason.

Booker!!!!! Where have you gone Richard Grieco?. I apologize, I've been drinking.

Millennium (although it would be out of place now seeing as the millennium has already passed.)

Brimstone

G vs E (or Good vs Evil as it was called on sci fi)

Tales from The Crypt

Tales from The Darkside

Dinosaurs

The Tick

Invader ZIM

Mad Libs

Sightings

Futurama

Monsters

Zombie And The Amazing Mushroom Man

Voyagers - it had 1 or 2 seasons..is that too much to ask?

FREAKZOID!!!!!!!!!!!(HOW COULD I BE SO FORGETFULL!!??)

-the first rule of fat club-

If somebody mentioned it, I agree 100%.  But if not, Misfits of Science.  Please bring that back.  It was on when I had no control of the tv on friday night (or my own tv for that matter) I had to be subjected to boring crap like Dallas and Falcon's Crest.
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Bulls**t, I still can't hear you, sound off like you got a pair.

I would like to see...
the secret world of alex mack
are you afraid of the dark
Higher Ground (cancelled after 22 episodes but still a show i remember watching)
tales from the crypt
round house
david the nome
the elephant show
rainbow brite

Isn't this the sema group of people who complain abuot Hollywood remaking the same movies?

I want all of the old scifi channel shows back

Scifi Buzz
Mst3k
Saturday night anime (Anime movies and OAV's, like Green Legend Ran, Armitage III, Robot Carnival, Iria: The Zeiram Animation, Akira)
Sightings

I also want TNT to reinstate their Monster Vision and continue to show Ray Harryhausen movies.

Why did this thread get dug up from August of 2003??

I was going to say Joe Bob Briggs needs a new show, but screw that! I'm with Menard, bring back Elvira. She's the original gangsta. (well.... unless you count Vampira, but that's before my time)

Doooood, "Nowhere Man" wasn't  an X-Files rip-off, it was a "Prisoner" rip-off, practically word for word. I think they had to stop making them because there were only 17 episodes to rip off. I liked it, because at least they picked something good to rip off, but I really wished they would've added something, like twist endings so that obsessive "Prisoner" fiends wouldn't always know what was going to happen.

Was John Doe the one with the song that was like: Give me a sign/One from a simpler place and time/dada da doodee doo de doooo.... YOU ONLY WANT WHAT YOU CAN'T HAVE - UH - UH... ?

Seinfeld.
Beavis & Butthead
All SF/Fantasy/Horror anthologies with creepy opening narration.
X-Files
Animated Star Trek (Captian Kirk could be voiced by any man in the world. I don't even do Nickolson, and I do a decent Shatner).
Sliders (tied with Riverworld for the greatest premise in the history of fiction)
Pre-Panda Rape Simpsons
Johnny Bago (Guy on the lam in a Winnebago)
StarCade (Game show with arcade games)

& so many more. Here's a post I did on my blog about Voyagers one time:
http://davemunger.blogspot.com/2004/02/i-had-chance-to-use-my-powers-few-days.html

I think the coolest links in it are broken now.

 A couple that I don't think have been mentioned:
VR5
Isis
Hot Dog
Beakman's World
Square One (with Mathnet)
Electra Woman & Dynagirl
Space Academy

Hmm, that's more than a couple. Oh well.

I'd like to see a new version of "What's My Line" but only if they make it like the original version. Everyone must be polite and wear evening clothes. That cracks me up on the Game Show network how quite and well organized that show was (especially after watching reruns of Match Game from the 70s).

I forgot Brisco County Jr., fun little show.

I'd luv to see...

Salvage One
Wizards & Warriors
Automan
Land of the Giants
Jason  Of Star Command
Land of the Lost (the original version, not the crappy series made in the 90's)
In Search Of  (this show would always freak me out as a kid)

i want ...

>Rocko's Modern Life
>Adventures of Pete & Pete
>Salute Your Shorts
>Double Dare
>Legend of the Hidden Temple
>What Would You Do ?
>Malcome & Eddie
>Dinosaurs

This just reminds me of how bad current TV is, but here's my list:

Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Monsters
Tales From the Darkside
Fear (the MTV reality show, this was one of the most original and scary ideas on TV)
Space Cases (Nickelodeon sci-fi show w/ lost alien students)
Popular
Undergrads (MTV doesn't know a good thing when it has it)
3 South
KaBlam! (the last good Nickelodeon show)
Angel (season 6 sounded awesome)
Sliders (with a proper ending)
American Gothic

Brimstone

G vs E

Lexx

Ah, G vs E. What other show could have great lines like,  "Emmanuel  Lewis! The man's an animal!"

Brimstone

Invisible Man  - The one on Scifi with Vincent Ventresca and Paul Ben-Victor.

The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne

Briscoe County, Jr.

Tremors the series. I wanna see Burt and company busting mu-tate ass!
Curse you, Sci-fi Channelllllllll!....