What old TV shows should be re-made

like has been done with Battlestar Galactica?

My vote "The 6 Million Dollar Man"



PS: I guess this qualifies as my first copy cat thread, inspired by the which movies should be remade thread earlier today.

not sure if this is the kind of answer you seek. nothing but animated/actor drivel in kids programing.

one show that i always watched was Jon Gnagy "Learn To Draw". i'd be at the ready with paper and pencil; doing my best to follow the "Great Master" still not good at drawing, but it was an inspiration to try to.

Oh wait, that was "Stalag 17".

:yoiks:

Set in Gitmo or Abu Ghrib(sp).

:(

I find it very disturbing how much remaking is going on.

Is originality such a bad idea?

Is it not bad enough that they made a Mission Impossible movie, not to mention three of them?

TV has long been pretty sucky. There's no reason to extend that suckiness ad infinitum.

As an example the BBC Television Service in the 1950's made (for its time) an excellent science-fiction show/mini-series called the Quatermass Experiment. Video tape didn't exist, and it wasn't filmed. It was shot live, and of course this was in the time when the BBC _was_ the television service in the UK.

For the record, yes it was re-made quite recently - because the original script survived and people who remembered the original show helped out.

Both the BBC and independent TV stations in the UK were slow to recognize the archive value of these old TV shows. Remember the TV show "All in the Family"? Well that was based on the BBC's "Til Death Do Us Part". You can't see all of the episodes of that show because a lot got wiped out. A for Andromeda was another sci-fi show the Beeb made. Totally gone. And the TV show 'Juke Box Jury', especially episodes featuring The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Gone.

There's one TV show that I think could be re-made and could go down well. Dixon of Dock Green. Probably suit the PBS audience base best but since there's not actually many Dixon of Dock Green episodes in actual existence... then a remake would do nicely IMO.

But there are exceptions. Sometimes the "original" TV show is based on a great idea, perhaps a great author's story, but executed horribly - as an example, though it's a movie not a TV show, "I, Robot" - and if the idea is revisited it would serve the story and the audience much better.

And there are even exceptions to my expectations. When I first heard BSG was being remade or "reimagined" I cringed. Not that the original BSG was or was based on a great piece of art. But it was what was - a nice space opera/action show for Kids. To make it 'adult' seemed a silly idea at best.

But I am one of those who say the new BSG is hands down the best drama (scifi or not) TV on today.

Perhaps they could've used an 'original' premise but the new show is so well done does it really matter at this point? Not to me.

And for me the "Six million dollar man" seems like it might fit that same mold. It was a great action show for kids but the premise of the story leaves at lot of room for more adult themes to be explored which never were. There was a short lived show "The Invisible Man" on the SciFi network which came close at least to what I had in mind. And that's an example of how they could certainly use an 'original' idea to approach the same themes BUT if using an old premise helps get it on the air then by all means lets see them give it a go.

Most 'remakes' are just a rehash with bigger budgets and slicker effects. But if the remake is truly a 'revisit' to ideas left unexplored in a good old story and if those explorations are done well then I've now come to feel they are well worth doing.

how about Survivours? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072572/