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If you could bring back one TV show from yester-year that isn't made any more, what TV show would bring back and why?
My choice would be Blankety Blank. I remember watching it as a kid with Terry Wogan and was a bit confused by it all. Only looking back on it as an adult it becomes clear that it wasn't about winning the game at all, it was all about the guest's wit. I reckon with today's comedians on there it'd be pretty funny. 'Supermatch game, supermatch game!'
Also, they never made the other episodes of 'The Tripods' either.
Anyway, over to you.
Spitting Image. We need it now more than ever.
Hill Street Blues, remade with better dialogue and higher budgets. It's hard to watch now because tv has improved so much, but the general idea and themes are still very relevant.
The original authentic “Catchphrase”
The Adventure Game - DoogyRev!
+1 for Spitting Image too
when rudolf nureyev pulled his tights too high he was caught .... ..... .....
Love Thy Neighbour
It's good but it's not right.
Say what you see!
Yes spitting image would be ace.
3-2-1 - because the clues were just sooooo obscure.
Take the High Road
Fawlty Towers. But it'd be rubbish, so actually no.
The Fast show. Best comedy sketch show of all time. Unlike other good ones e.g. not the nine o'clock news, it wasn't news/current affairs dependent so doesn't seem to date.
The Fast show.
Fawlty Towers
Nooo - these are great examples of shows that knew when to stop. Better to just do a couple of series then quit rather than limping on with the same tired old gags for ever (looking at you, Mrs Brown's Boys. Though to quit at the top it'd have to have been pulled before the opening credits of the first episode)
Kick Start
You Bet (maybe)
Due South
Jeremy Kyle obvs..!
And MASH, but set in a more modern theatre. I occasionally watch an old episode and MASH is still excellent.
It's A Knockout - I was only little but thought it was hilarious!
Spitting Image +1
Red Shoe Diaries
Spitting Image. We need it now more than ever.
Arguably satire is now redundant- as is characture really - how could you exaggerate the features of trump, Bannon, Farage, may, boris or gove for comic effect?
Theres no bubble for satire to burst anymore. Not with the burst boils we’ve got in politics just now. A public squeezing of their own boils seems to be what people need to do in order to get elected it seems
anyway I nominate Jim’ll Fix It. A reboot presented by Jim Al-Khalili and every week he fixes it for someone to be fired around the large hadron collider.- whether they asked him to or not.
It’s A Knockout
Ive held in my own hands.... Kilmarnock’s Its a Knockout trophy.
Some of the Sci Fi shows that would really benefit from modern special effects...like Space 1999 and Blakes 7.
The Golden Shot
Ive held in my own hands…. Kilmarnock’s Its a Knockout trophy.
Stuart Hall said something similar 😳
I nominate Tomorrow People
Firefly
And MASH, but set in a more modern theatre.
MASH went on way too long. The first few seasons were funny, but it was really stale by the end. 25 episodes would have been funny, they ended up making 256.
+1 for MASH being overcooked by the series end.
Oh and another vote for a modern interpretation of Blake's Seven here.
Airwolf - still get goosebumps when I hear the music. I'd imagine it'd be crap if I watched it again mind 🙂
Jamie and the Magic Torch.
Only more edgy, knowing and significantly darker with "adult" themes and a clear story arc, a bit like the reboot of Battlestar Galactica
It would be a toss up between Pigeon street and The shoe people I think.
Jim’ll Fix It.
Only change the name to:
Bloahard’ll **** It.
Boom!
👍🤯👊
Tiswas ..... best Saturday morning kids program ever!
I won't say bring back Errie, indiana. Instead i just wish they had never cancelled it after the first season (and no I dont count the abomination they made a few years later).
LA to Vegas was also a great modern comedy, should never have been cancelled
American Gothic, the original one with Lucas, Meryln, Caleb etc.
Moonlighting.
Hannibal. Definitely needs a season 4. Superb show.
The Adventure Game
First thing I thought of before I'd even opened the thread. Surely ripe for a reboot with the current rise in popularity of escape rooms? Gronda gronda.
American Gothic, the original one with Lucas, Meryln, Caleb etc.
Something I didn't realise at the time (and was very confused as a result): The show was broadcast out of order, so continuity made very little sense. Like, they'd kill off a character in one episode only for them to reappear as if nothing had happened next week. The curious thing is, they didn't bother to fix this for the DVD box set, the episodes are on the discs in broadcast order. The show's finalé is at the start of disc 5, so you get to see how it all ends and then you've got another disc and a half left to go.
Re MASH
It has been bought back, hasn't it ? ..... Catch 22
Airwolf, blue thunder, streethawk, knight rider - anything futuristic involving vehicles really.
Celebrity Deathmatch but with real celebrities.
Knightmare
Adults, bigger budget, possibly LSD but that's not a deal breaker
I would have also said Kick Start but it would just be fully of kids on KTM's doing backflips
Quantum leap.
Bloody loved that show.
It's time for 'The Wire' to have another series.
My Name is Early because the characters were great.
I would say 'Deadwood' but they did with a TV Movie tying up the old series from 10 years ago, for whatever reason I couldn't get into it.
All the old fishing programmes, even though I've not fished for years.
Jossies giants
Stookie
Scully
Bullseye
Supergran
Tales of the unexpected
The twighlight zone
The Golden Shot
I apologetically admit that when my phone rings I have a tendency to say "Who's calling the Golden Shot? Bernie, the bolt please. Up a bit, left a bit."
Pro-Celebrity Boxing. I'd love to see Tyson Fury v Ann Widdicombe.
I'd like a version of the West Wing but based on the Trump administration
Knightmare
I met Hugo Myatt not so long ago. Lovely guy.
In a Q&A after an interview I got up and asked if Treguard would DISMISS me from the room, he obliged with full on eye-rolling and overacting. Made my inner 14 year old very happy indeed.
Cheers
You're welcome. (-:
3-2-1 – because the clues were just sooooo obscure.
Even as a kid, I always wondered about this - whether the clues were deliberately obtuse so that they could manipulate the outcome.
Week 1: "well, it says use your mettle, and what else is made out of metal? That's right, it's the car!"
Week 2: "well, it says use your mettle, and what else is made out of metal? That's right, it's Dusty Bin!"
I suspected there was a bit of Hobson's Choice going on. Even when the clues led you somewhere logical, it seemed fairly arbitrary as to whether ol' Ted would tell them that's what the prize was or that they'd just ruled out that prize. Didn't help that he looked like someone you wouldn't buy a used car from.
As has been said, Blakes 7 & American Gothic.
Blakes 7 must be ripe for a remake with all the latest TV wizardry available these days. and American Gothic just needs to be redone.
Time Team or Scrapheap Challenge.
lol @ scrapheap challenge. It was a good show but always a bit strange when they rounded a corner to find a fully operational internal combustion engine with exactly the right gear ratio they needed to hoist the weight of 3 men from the water and put them down on a canal barge.
Tomorrows World.
In fact they should put all the old episodes on the iPlayer.
Spitting Image.
Play for Today.
Fingerbobs
Yoffy was a qualified proctologist. True fact.
Airwolf, blue thunder, streethawk, knight rider – anything futuristic involving vehicles really.
They did remake Knightrider. It wasn't great.
MacGyver too - there's a reboot which is currently on Season 3. That's not the same either. 🙁
I'd like to see Tomorrow's World again. Used to love that as a kid, all these futuristic things like CDs and supermarket scanners.
The Mary Whitehouse Experience. And Adam and Joe show. Classics of the era.
lol @ scrapheap challenge. It was a good show but always a bit strange when they rounded a corner to find a fully operational internal combustion engine with exactly the right gear ratio they needed to hoist the weight of 3 men from the water and put them down on a canal barge.
It wasn't always like that. I remember one team spending an hour or two with a hammer and block of wood trying to get the pistons to move in one block they found. I'm sure someone showed them to the right engine later though.
A Town Called Eureka
Space 1999
UFO
Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons.
The Persuaders, the opening montage was awesome.
Firefly or Look Around You. Either of those would be great.
Due South
Definitely Maple Syrup bloke good cop bad cop for the win
New Yankee Workshop. Nae drama, spats, staged rubbish. Just good wholesome big tools and craftsmanship with a Bawston brogue. Superbly relaxing too.
"Ain't Half Hot Mum" - complete with Rangi Ram in blackface and the Sgt Major making homophobic insults.
That would rattle a few cages 🙂
Quantum Leap- another goodun!
Columbo I like too!
Some great suggestions, Green wing had another series in it.
Gladiators.
Think they done gladiators and it flopped, on sky iirc.
Spitting Image was supposedly dropped because the government became too much a parody of itself. It's way more that now.
Love Thy Neighbour
Perfect for the Brexit generation.
Anyway, +1 Blake's 7. It would need a decent reboot. No point trying to continue it as very few would know what it was and the old cast are dying off. Needs to capture the dystopian future and battle with the Federation, and ditch all the silly alien of the week nonsense. Though in concept it's just Robin Hood in space. Not sure if has a place these days.
Love Thy Neighbour
Perfect from the Brexit generation.
My thoughts exactly.
I'd love for there to be a decent weekly sci-fi show again worth watching, nothing comes close to Star Trek: The Next Generation and X-Files from the early 1990s.
And Frasier, unusually funny to me at least for a mostly American show.
I’d loved to have seen where Dollhouse would have ended up.
Really pissed off that they cancelled Alcatrazm. The last episode of season 1 when they did a little tribute to Bullitt delighted me.
Oh and we need Punisher S3.
All day I've been thinking there's one TV show I've forgotten about that could be ace again and I've just remembered what it is. It's The Word, bring back The Word.
Airwolf
Blakes Seven
Spitting Image
Manimal.
Killing Eve.
I need more now!
It’s The Word, bring back The Word.
I’d love to see so old ones again, it all seemed so edgy back in the day, bet it’s pretty mild by today’s standards.
Yes Minister - a good satirical complement to Spitting Image.
70s style OU - complete with kipper ties, brown shirts and serious amounts of theory to get your teeth into.
Not sure about Blake's seven. I don't think they could capture that proper 1970s English bleakness. The re-make of Survivors wasn't a patch on the original.
70s style OU – complete with kipper ties, brown shirts and serious amounts of theory to get your teeth into.
Wouldn't be the same if you didn't have to get up at 5am to watch it!