Bringing Back Shows

I could go for that...they could make Barbara Eden a mother and the daughter be the jeannie. Larry Hagman now deceased..they'd have to make Barbara a single mother, but they could do some good storylines with a teenage jeannie! I read that they are doing a spin off of Boy Meets World that was a favorite in the 90's...the boy in the family and his girlfriend were married the last season of the series and now it will be called Girl Meets World and those two now have a teenage girl and a younger son...but the same two actors will be playing the same parts, only grown up. I am anxious to see how taht goes..hopefully well! They have reprised Dallas...the prime time soap that made "cliff hanger" a world epidemic with "Who Shot JR?". Some of the originals are still cast, JR recently passing away and it be between his son and his brother Bobby's son...I watch it but if you didn't know what wen ton in the original series..you might have trouble understanding alot of not just what is going on, but WHY it is going on. But it is okay...I think tho, that far to much is going on in a single episode. Makes it kind of cluttered in my opinion. You dont' get over what just happened before you are well into the middle of what happened next! They tried bringing back The Brady Bunch...back in the 90's. Had a few 2 hour movies, and started a series, but it didn't go but one season. I think the world was just Brady Bunched out! Plus...I dont' think many could make the transition of the snotty nose little brats now grown up with weekly trauma! They did a few movies, and those were good as grown ups, but the series...rather bland and useless. And some, you just can't improve on perfection. Gilligan's Island..hilarious but to remake it today, not only would it not fly but it wouldn't be as funny. I so much loved the shows from the 60's and 70's. We didn't have TV then, but once married in the 70's, I got to catch up on the all of them and with TVland channel..they were all there and I enjoyed them. I Love Lucy is my all time favorite followed by The Andy Griffith SHow. Totally hilarious but no way could they reinact them.!

this is a good topic, because i was just thinking about that today. i would love to see them bring back good times.

I'd love to see a remake of Scarecrow and Mrs. King. I think with the times changing they would have to make Amanda King's role a little less ditzy. I mean she was smart, funny, and all that, but they made her a bit ditzy. I didn't mind, but you know there are always feminists waiting to get their dander up on how women are portrayed.

I think a good show is always a good show -- if it was good back then, it's still good today! I especially like how old shows give us a glimpse of the way things were because culture and society change so much over time. Generally, though, I'd prefer to just watch the old shows as they were instead of having them remade. If you can get the original cast members and want to continue the story as it was left off, that's another thing (I do like the new Dallas!)...but if you're going to just do the same show over again with new people I'm not so interested. Why not just create a new, original story in that case? I do think maybe some older shows that had some flaws could be remade to good effect. For instance, I bet there could be a new Gilligan's Island with a better cast and better writers...the thing I liked the most about that show was the concept. I don't count it as an all-time classic which couldn't be improved.

I Dream of Jeanie was popular and seems to be again. I like that they are bringing back so many of the shows. I am not too into the new ones. The original is always the best for me. It would be interesting to see how Jeanie would handle things now. She was still a genie and ignorant about the ways of the world so I don't know how up dated it could be without losing some of it charm. I think Jack Lord would like the new show too. The one I would love to see come back is Bewitched. I love it! My daughter loves it. It would be fun to see it updated and revamped.

I'm not really huge on revived or renwed shows. Well, I like the new Hawaii 5-0, but that must be because I'm not familiar with the old one. I'd rather people made nbew shows on original screenplays :).