Forgotten TV reboots

No Return to Hogan's Heroes yet.

 

Or My Mother the SUV.

 

There was a 1997 Showtime version of the 1960s lawyer show starring Beau Bridges and Martha Plimpton as the grandchildren of E G Marshall's character. Marshall died shortly after the start

 

Agreed, I was really disappointed when they cancelled it.

 

I loved it as well. Malcolm was great; he played the role totally differently.
Got my wife into it as well and she hated the original and McDowell gave her the heebies ever since she saw Clockwork Orange.

 

she was a cutie. Great legs, I will confess to occasionally watching her, but the show was really really cringe-worthy.

 

There were two attempts at a reboot prior to that, one with David Hasselhoff and one called Knight Rider 2010 in the early 90s. Neither made it past the pilot stage.

 

You should have her watch Calligula.

 

I'm still waiting for Hochmann's Heroes, the reboot set in a death camp proposed in the MAD parody of Hogan's way back when.

 

It isn't a reboot per se but it is interesting that when Mary Tyler Moore finally got her wish to play a divorcee in 1985's "Mary", the show folded after 13 weeks. Had some recognizable cast members in James Franciscus, Katey Segal and John Astin.

 

Knight Rider 2010 was a 1994 TV Movie that had no real connection with the original. The Knight Rider 2008 TV series should not be confuse with KR 2010.

Darryl

 

How the hell could any sane person think this was a good idea?

 

One of my favorite episodes. An All-star character actor cast.

 

I've always like this one..



Love how the t-shirt keeps changing.

Darryl

 

That wasn't even as bad as the earlier Mary show, done as a musical at CBS around 1978:



Horrible, horrible, horrible show. Even having David Letterman, Dick Shawn, and Michael Keaton as sidekicks didn't help. And by all reports, Mary herself was miserable and difficult to work with.

The 1986 sitcom with Katey Sagal was actually OK, not terrible; it was written and created by Ken Levine and David Isaacs, veterans of M*A*S*H, Cheers, Frasier, and many other fine TV shows. But it just didn't work. I think this might have been one of the first Sagal co-starring role on TV.

 

Lucille Ball tried a reboot of her Lucy character in a new series but it was painful to watch her try to re-attempt at her age the physical comedy she used to do.

 

As blah as Sanford was it does contain one of my favorite Fred Sanford scenes. After faking heart attacks for years he has a real scare and goes to the hospital. When he comes home Cal lectures him on faking heart attacks and how he needs to stop. When Fred opens the bill and sees it he says something like "Just one more time?!"

 

Another gem from UPN:



Love Boat: The Next Wave

 

I can truly say that Gary Busey...scares me ...

 

In 2000-2001 there was a short-lived reboot of The Fugitive starring Tim Daly. It only lasted 22 episodes but I watched every one of them and enjoyed it very much.

Here are some more, most already mentioned:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Television_series_reboots

 

Speaking of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, ABC was going to pick this up as a series if the telemovie was successful. (Spoiler alert: it wasn't, neither commercially nor in the ratings).

 

Oh, I worked on that show for three months. Very sad experience. The editor and producer I dealt with were terrific; it's always the nicest people who are stuck on the worst shows.

So help me, I called the show Death with Lucy for weeks. Just jaw-droppingly bad. But during the pilot, the producers were totally convinced the show was going to be on for years and years and years, just like all the previous Lucy shows. They had no clue how out of touch, awful, and unfunny the show was.

 

In 2004 John Woo was the producer for a proposed TV series remake of Lost In Space which made it as far as an unaired pilot.

It was not picked up as a series, but I just found out that the pilot can be found on YouTube.

http://lostinspace.wikia.com/wiki/The_Robinsons:_Lost_in_Space

 

This couldn't have lasted long. I certainly don't remember seeing it.