OT: What shows would you like to see come back?

[peter noble]

This is borrowed from OWD over at the nuthouse but it would be interesting to see your choices.

1. What TV show would you like to see a continuation of (apart from BSG)?

2. What TV show would you like to see a remake of?

Here are my answers.

1. (a) Magnum pi (my favourite TV show) I'd like to see a two hour TV movie, maybe Thomas becoming a pi again after retiring from the Navy, helped by the usual gang and his daughter.

(b) A final TV movie of Prey (quite popular over here in Blighty), though Debra Messing's salary would be a bit of a problem I suspect!

(c) A mini-series of Space: Above And Beyond. Definitely up for some more Wildcard action.

2. (a) Someone to do a U.S. version of the BBC series SF Blake's 7, a gang of convicted criminals rebelling against a fascist Earth Federation aboard an alien super-spaceship called Liberator.

(b) Automan 2.0. Fondly remembered by quite a few people. With the adavancement of CGI and the popularity of superheroes, this is a no-brainer!

What are your picks?

Regards,

Peter

[kingfish]

I think the idea of bringing V back as a continuation shows great business sense. I hope they decide to do a Space 1999 remake with some of the original cast. Landau could play the part of Bergman. I was also reading that there many of the fans want a DS9 movie. I agree. Sisko was a great character who was left in limbo like poor Starbuck at the end of G-1980

[peter noble]

Aren't there plans for Space 1999 movie?

Michael could answer that one :)

Peter

[Flamingo Girl]

I'd love to see a reunion or the Cosby Show, to see if they finally got all the kids out of the house, if Vanessa and Dabnis stayed together, and if Rudy and "Bud" got together or are still just good friends.

The Hardy Boys would be a nifty one to redo. Mystery Shows are always fun.

[Hito]

I want an Airwolf movie.

[Erzengel]

I want An Airwolf movie and reunion. Model kits, etc... and to get into the cockpit would be the dream of a life time...

[Dawg]

OOOOOh - Airwolf

:drool:

But the first setup - Jan Michael Vincent & Ernest Borgnine

(Just have to make sure JMV's dried out a little) :o

I am
Dawg

[LordStarFyre]

...Called "Welcome to the Inquisition"

Ron Moore can be the first, ah , guest...

I want to be cast as the Inquisitor....

[Dawg]

the SPANISH INQUISITION!!

from Monte Python, of course

I am
Dawg


(P.S. sorry, LordStarFry, couldn't resist!)

[Erzengel]

Then again we better find out who owns the rights to Airwolf, don't want it back if the company who owns it is into re-imaginings...

[LordStarFyre]

RE-IMAGINE Deep Space Nine.

SISKO - Alcoholic, angry, blames his Mentally Retarded son Jake for the death of his Mother who was gang raped by Evil Bajoran Priests angry at the violent take over of their station.

DAX - The Only Man on the Station who truly understands Sisko. Secretly in love with Sisko.

Let's give Star Trek the Re-Imagining it deserves. Of course, I'm now an expert, because although I didn't watch much of Deep Space Nine, I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night...

[Erzengel]

Such violence, such hate.

Maybe this'll make you feel better.

http://www.b5tech.net/movies/movies.htm

Scroll down to the Enterprise glory mov.

[Micheleh]

"But people never expect....the SPANISH INQUISITION!!"

Oh, thanks! That's just what I needed, lol!

*Strolls off singing under my breath...*

"The inquisition.... what a show!...
...the inquisition.... don'cha know....
.....I know you're wishin'... that we'd go away...
.........But the inquisition's here and it's here to stay!"

[captmiloman]

CONTINUATIONS/REUNIONS:
Moonlighting(Maddie Hayes is kidnapped and it's up to David Addison to find her).
Miami Vice(Castillo is shot and Crockett & Tubbs work outside the law to find who did it.)
Space:Above & Beyond
Greatest American Hero

REMAKES:
Space:1999
Buck Rogers(Since the '79 version was a remake, this wouldn't bother me.)
Cyborg/The Six Million Dollar Man(it would be interesting to see contemporary adaptions of all four novels without the changes for the TV series.)

[KJ]

1. "The Man from Uncle"

(1.B) "The A-Team"

(1.C) "V"

On Question 2


2. "Kung Fu" (a new kick ass version, not the wimpy PC laden 1970's one)

(B) "Monkey"! Based on the Chinese legend tale "Journey to the West" one without camp, an updated, hard and edgy version instead!

(C) Gerry Anderson's U.F.O. series

(D) Sapphire and Steel (little known U.K. series with David McCallum from The Man from Uncle*)

KJ

[Erzengel]

Ok, I'll get more detailed.

1) Airwolf, V, Knight Rider with a new actor and a better car not that team knight rider felgercarp they put out a bit ago, Doctor who (I know it's british but I just got through watching the series with a group of friends who between us managed to get all the tapes they released to vid), McGuyver (not sure if I spelled it right?), A-Team would be nice, but not the same..., I remember magnum pi..

Top priority for me of the above will alway remain with airwolf.

2) Not many I'd like to see remade, space 1999 would be cool.. I do wish they'd redo such movies as Battlefield Earth and wing commander though...

[newt]

Originally posted by Flamingo Girl
I'd love to see a reunion or the Cosby Show, to see if they finally got all the kids out of the house, if Vanessa and Dabnis stayed together, and if Rudy and "Bud" got together or are still just good friends.

I think the guy who played "Bud" died last year...

[Philloz]

1) Robotech/Macross: We never found out what happened to Rick Hunter and company after they went into space ....

2) Space: Above and Beyond: At least a TV movie or miniseries to address the unanswered questions left by the finale

3) Twin Peaks: Left with a mega-cliffhanger unresolved (namely, Agent Cooper being possessed by "BOB")

4) Most importantly, Galactica 1980: Did Starbuck ever get off that planet or what? ;)

[cobrastrikelead]

AirWolf would be supreme. Spent quite a few Saturday nights watching it while working on the Mustang.

[Erzengel]

Who owns the rights to airwolf? I think we should at least start a campaign to get it put back on the air in reruns and released on dvd. If they haven't done so already, if they have my store doesn't get them...

[Hito]

Originally posted by Erzengel
Ok, I'll get more detailed.

1) Airwolf, V, Knight Rider with a new actor and a better car not that team knight rider felgercarp they put out a bit ago, Doctor who (I know it's british but I just got through watching the series with a group of friends who between us managed to get all the tapes they released to vid), McGuyver (not sure if I spelled it right?), A-Team would be nice, but not the same..., I remember magnum pi..


A Knight rider movie is in the works. Produced by David haslehoff who may appear as Devin Miles...
MacGuiver is also getting the movie treatment with a Young Mac in the lead and Richard Dean Anderson as the mentor fogure.
An A-Team movie have also been rumored but i havent heard about it latly.
Doctor Who is always on the verge of coming back but they never seem to get it right.

[Hito]

I'd like to see Airwolf done up as an animated movie like Final Fantasy.
Then they could make a cool CGI character of Hawke & Dominic that looks like Jan Michel Vincent and Ernist Borgnine in their prime.

[Hito]

Originally posted by Erzengel
Who owns the rights to airwolf? I think we should at least start a campaign to get it put back on the air in reruns and released on dvd. If they haven't done so already, if they have my store doesn't get them...

http://www.blackstar.co.uk/video/item/7000000062031
http://www.blackstar.co.uk/video/item/7000000065221
http://www.blackstar.co.uk/video/item/7000000068472
http://www.blackstar.co.uk/video/item/7000000072915
:D

too bad they are not here in the states

Volume 3 has the best episode

Moffett's Ghost On a secret mission behind the Iron Curtain, Hawke loses control of the onboard computer, which was programmed on a timer by Airwolf's creator, Dr. Moffett... now Airwolf is set to destroy any aircraft in its range.

[KJ]

{1) Robotech/Macross: We never found out what happened to Rick Hunter and company after they went into space ....}

Thats because the Macross series in the U.S. known as Robotech is made up of the original Macross and two other anime's "Southern Cross" and "Mospeda" (New Generation) thats why Rick's arc never really was realised or met any conclusions outside the Macross storyline in Robotech.

Word is "Robotech 3000" is in the works, so if you're a fan of Robotech/Macross you must already know of this! But i'll point it out to everyone here anyways. My opinion is nothing will really come close to the classic Macross epic saga (Southern Cross comes close though)

As for more on the continuation/remake question

Continuations

1) Sliders (For a series that really got worse and changed too much, after seasons 4 and 5 you really want to find out about what happen after Rembrant Brown slide to "Earth Prime" in the last episode?)

2) Blake's 7 ??? Did Avon really get it ? (Come on in sci-fi there is hundred and one ways to come back)

3) Forever Knight (Canadians loved this series and so did we, over here in the U.K.)

4) The Invisible Man (2 seasons ain't enough we want more?)

5) {Animation/Cartoon Wise} we want: Thundercats, The Adventures of The Galaxy Rangers, Dungeons and Dragons, Visionaries, Ulysses31, Batman and Superman adventures (from the WB).

6) The Six Million Dollar Man (What have the O.S.I. been doing all these years?)

Remakes

1) Dragonball GT (if you followed Z and watched this you know what i'm talking about?)

[jewels]

Originally posted by LordStarFyre
RE-IMAGINE Deep Space Nine.

SISKO - Alcoholic, angry, blames his Mentally Retarded son Jake for the death of his Mother who was gang raped by Evil Bajoran Priests angry at the violent take over of their station.

DAX - The Only Man on the Station who truly understands Sisko. Secretly in love with Sisko.

Let's give Star Trek the Re-Imagining it deserves. Of course, I'm now an expert, because although I didn't watch much of Deep Space Nine, I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night...

I barely remember DS9: wasn't DAX female? or am I mixing up with Kira?

[Hito]

Originally posted by Lord Kingjason
{1) Robotech/Macross: We never found out what happened to Rick Hunter and company after they went into space ....}



They produced 3 episodes of a series called the Sentenels.
It was supposed to take place after the macross saga and tells the story of the mission to the Robotech masters homeworld.

They never finished it becasue of some kind of strike that happned in hollywood at the time but they made the firts 3 episodes into a movie and released it.
It and The soundtrack should be available where even you get your anime.

There is also a book series by the same name that raps up all the loose ends

[jewels]

Originally posted by Philloz
Most importantly, Galactica 1980: Did Starbuck ever get off that planet or what? ;)
It was a very bad, bad, baaaaad dream. He was never there, nor was Angela, Cy, or the baby Dr. Zee. It was all a baaaaaaad dream. It was good to see Dirk at that point, but it was a baaaaad dream. It meant something worse happened to Apollo. It was a total nightmare. ;)

[Philloz]

Originally posted by Hito
They produced 3 episodes of a series called the Sentenels.
It was supposed to take place after the macross saga and tells the story of the mission to the Robotech masters homeworld.

There is also a book series by the same name that raps up all the loose ends

Yes, I've seen the Sentinels video. It's a very frustrating thing to watch ... all you get is a taste of what was planned.

I've read the "Jack McKinney" books as well, and they were okay, but they were basically made up out of whole cloth since James Luceno and the late Brian Daley (the writing team that made up "Jack McKinney") didn't have much in the way of completed scripts to work with.

[Hito]

oh wow
i dint know that Brian Daley had died.
that is sad to know.
The writing team of Jack McKinney was really great.

[Philloz]

Unfortunately, Brian died in 1996 of pancreatic cancer, just before recording was completed on his radio play adaptation of "Return of the Jedi." He was especially beloved by "Star Wars" fans for his terrific work on the radio series and his popular trilogy of Han Solo novels, which are considered "official" canon lore by Lucasfilm.

His last work, the "Gamma L.A.W." series, was completed and edited by Luceno and published after his death.

[KJ]

I've heard of this. Is this the same Star Wars radio play that had John Lithgow (3rd Rock From The Sun) do the voice of C3-P0?

Just asking

KJ

[Philloz]

Originally posted by Lord Kingjason
I've heard of this. Is this the same Star Wars radio play that had John Lithgow (3rd Rock From The Sun) do the voice of C3-P0?

Right play, wrong part. John Lithgow actually voiced Yoda in both "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi" radio dramas.

The only original cast member to do all three was Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO. Mark Hamill played Luke in the first two, but was voiced by Joshua Fardon in "Jedi." Billy Dee Williams played Lando in "Empire," but was replaced by Arye Gross in "Jedi."

Brock Peters, who played Opposser Solon in the BSG episode "Murder on the Rising Star," did the voice of Darth Vader in all three.

All three were broadcast on National Public Radio and are available on CD.

[KJ]

Hope this CD radio play if scripted from the original Star Wars script, has scenes that didn't make the films! It would be like reading from a book/novel and getting the story and saga of Star Wars told in full.

Right?

KJ

[Philloz]

The first series in particular has many, many extra scenes; it's spread across 13 half-hour episodes. The first episode deals with Luke Skywalker's life on Tatooine, including a Skyhopper canyon race and the scenes with his buddy Biggs that were shot but deleted from the film. The second focuses on Leia's involvement with the Rebels, telling the story of how she got ahold of the Death Star plans and featuring an early encounter with Vader. It's a terrific companion to the film. Han's character is also fleshed out quite a bit as well.

One curious bit is that Daley rescripted the originally deleted docking bay scene between Han and Jabba; he replaced Jabba with a hatchetman of his named Heater, who threatened to hire "Boba Fett himself" if Han failed to pay back the money he owed. Of course, when they recorded the show (in 1979), no one could forsee that one day Lucas would restore the scene in the film, with a newly-incorporated Fett and a CGI Jabba.

[BST]

RE-IMAGINE Deep Space Nine.

SISKO - Alcoholic, angry, blames his Mentally Retarded son Jake for the death of his Mother who was gang raped by Evil Bajoran Priests angry at the violent take over of their station.

DAX - The Only Man on the Station who truly understands Sisko. Secretly in love with Sisko.

Let's give Star Trek the Re-Imagining it deserves. Of course, I'm now an expert, because although I didn't watch much of Deep Space Nine, I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night...

:tos:

LSF,

I would respectfully include the following addition:

CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER - Dr. Bashir wouldl be female. Name: Julia, of course. Wouldn't be true to the effort if we didn't have at least 1 character do the 'gender switch'!



JEWELS,

You are correct, (both of Dax's Trill hosts, on DS9, were female - Jadzia & Ezri).
Kira, too.


BST

[Hito]

I'd rather see them reimagine the entire trek franchise.
It is in a rut and in serious need of change.

Too bad enterprise isnt any good otherwise it would be the perfect vehicle to do just that.

[Dawg]

Hito - were you a fan of TNG?

If so, I direct your attention to Season 1 - pretty poor by many standards, but it came into its own during Season 2 (for one thing, Riker grew a beard and looked less like a kid). The characterizations improved, the writing improved, etc. etc.

If you weren't a fan of TNG -

Nevermind. :)

I am
Dawg:

[KJ]

Season 1 of TNG is still a classic to be enjoyed though. Riker without the beard, La Forge at conn, Worf with his old uniform, LT Yar as security chief (later killed off) and several good episodes like : Lore's first appearance, LaForge in command of the Stardrive section of the Enterprise during a battle, Q first and second appearance (before he became a soft touch? reappearing pain in the ass type) the reappearance of the Romulans! and the "Conspiracy" episode!!! (The one where Riker and Picard killed an alien infesting a starfleet officer and they phasered him* damn it was gorey)

I always like to compared the first two seasons to the others seeing the changes made to Star Trek TNG Even if filled with cheezy 80's acting, the first season is still a classic.

*- By the way, that Conspiracy episode was deemed at the time as too non Star Trek. But it was originally planned out as a first major storyarc which would have been followed up with sequel episodes. Damn shame it wasn't, although i do believe DC Comics or Malibu comics (which ever had the rights afew years back) did do a Conspiracy follow up story? Up till now i can't find it? wonder whether or not it was based on the original episode story scripts never used?

Anyone know of a place where unfilmed Star Trek TNG scripts are available to download? alot of trek sites don't have unfilmed scripts to download it gonna be out there somewhere.

KJ

[Dawg]

I agree. I liked the Conspiracy arc, and was disappointed that was never followed up on. Same with several other promising story lines (like that cute blonde Q).

But as enjoyable as it might be, stiff performances, awkward dialogue and that sense of everybody waiting for the other shoe to drop were there that first season, that's my point. I think it's probably pretty normal, too, as the actors and the writers get a feel for the characters (and each other) and what they are capable of. Some click quicker than others.

I think it's possible that Enterprise will improve in Season 2; we'll just have to wait and see.

Kind of like we're doing here....

BTW, have you seen Sept17's thread, "We didn't give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor"? Maybe there's something we can do.....

I am
Dawg

[GalacticanCajun]

I would definitely want to see Airwolf come back

[kingfish]

Originally posted by Lord Kingjason
Season 1 of TNG is still a classic to be enjoyed though. Riker without the beard, La Forge at conn, Worf with his old uniform, LT Yar as security chief (later killed off) and several good episodes like : Lore's first appearance, LaForge in command of the Stardrive section of the Enterprise during a battle, Q first and second appearance (before he became a soft touch? reappearing pain in the ass type) the reappearance of the Romulans! and the "Conspiracy" episode!!! (The one where Riker and Picard killed an alien infesting a starfleet officer and they phasered him* damn it was gorey)

I always like to compared the first two seasons to the others seeing the changes made to Star Trek TNG Even if filled with cheezy 80's acting, the first season is still a classic.

*- By the way, that Conspiracy episode was deemed at the time as too non Star Trek. But it was originally planned out as a first major storyarc which would have been followed up with sequel episodes. Damn shame it wasn't, although i do believe DC Comics or Malibu comics (which ever had the rights afew years back) did do a Conspiracy follow up story? Up till now i can't find it? wonder whether or not it was based on the original episode story scripts never used?

Anyone know of a place where unfilmed Star Trek TNG scripts are available to download? alot of trek sites don't have unfilmed scripts to download it gonna be out there somewhere.

KJ


I also liked the episode titled The Battle in which the Ferengi return Picard's old ship the Stargazer and force him to relive the battle by using a mind altering device. In fact one of the Ferengii were played by Armin Shimmerman who later went on to play Quark on DS9.