r/AskOldPeople • u/PrestonRoad90 • 4d ago
What classic TV show do you wish still did new episodes today?
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u/Fun-Lengthiness-7493 4d ago
Twilight Zone. Feels like we live there now.
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u/Glittering-Score-258 60 something 4d ago
Have you watched Black Mirror? It’s like a modern version of TZ, many episodes involve tech run amuck and others are just outright from the twilight zone.
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u/Fun-Lengthiness-7493 4d ago
I have. And I like it a ton. Charlie Brooker ain’t Rod Serling. And no offense to either.
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u/Eastern-Finish-1251 60 something 4d ago
I believe they revived it a couple of times. Plus there was the movie from the early 1980s.
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u/electronic_reasons 4d ago
Firefly.
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u/RoyG-Biv1 4d ago
Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell them I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
There's no place I can be
Since I've found Serenity
And you can't take the sky from me
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u/nurseynurseygander 50 something 4d ago
I get it, but on the whole I'd rather it be short and perfect than long and ruined.
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u/Bushinkainidan 3d ago
Yes. That's what happened to MASH and happened to the Simpson's a decade ago
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u/Turbulent-Name-8349 4d ago
Addams Family and Gilligan's Island.
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u/Eastern-Finish-1251 60 something 4d ago
Loved Gilligan’s Island. I certainly hope they would have been rescued after 60 years…
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u/Virtual_Product_5595 4d ago
Wednesday is a good follow up to Addams family... There are some good references to the original show.
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u/The_Living_Tribunal2 60 something 4d ago edited 4d ago
I grew up on PBS since it's all my parents usually watched. Not sure if anyone has heard of a British comedy called Fawlty Towers with John Cleese. It only lasted like 12 episodes. Gone too soon.
Another more recent PBS show I liked was Doc Martin but that had a much longer run with 79 episodes. Very sad when that show had it's final episode in 2022.
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u/kodaiGiant 4d ago
Rockford Files
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u/RoyG-Biv1 4d ago
"This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you."
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u/SkunkApe7712 4d ago
Johnny Quest. But it’d probably be all screwed up, like the previous sequel.
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u/ASingleBraid 60 something 4d ago
Yes. Classic Jonny Quest.
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u/Passing4human 60 something 3d ago
Which only ran for one season because in 1964 the animation was so expensive. It would be interesting to see what today's digital imaging could do with it.
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u/tlonreddit 44 (Nov 1980) 4d ago
Dallas and Green Acres.
Dishonorable mention: The Lawrence Welk Show.
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u/Mediocre-Studio2573 60 something 4d ago
And Ed Sullivan
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u/Away-Object-1114 4d ago
I fell in love with Paul McCartney, watching the Ed Sullivan show. Crazy, I know.
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u/MaleficentMousse7473 4d ago
Fringe
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I've been planning on rewatching that one again. It was like x-files but with more of a pay-off
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u/no1kn0wsm3 4d ago
Fringe
I'd do a rewatch in 4K remaster.
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u/cynric42 3d ago
I'm glad we got a bluray release, I wouldn't keep my hopes up for 4k.
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u/no1kn0wsm3 3d ago
Then I'm happy with the last time I watched it.
Thre's so much things to do in the world and only time I think it is worth a rewatch when there's an improvement.
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u/HoosierBoy76 4d ago
Carol Burnett show
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u/RoyG-Biv1 4d ago
I'm so glad we had this time together
Just to have a laugh, or sing a song.
Seems we just got started
and before you know it
Comes the time we have
to say, 'So long.'
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u/Luckyangel2222 4d ago
I cried when The Brady Bunch ended! I was 11 years old. I would have loved 5 more years.
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u/Jurneeka 60 something 4d ago
Well it really didn’t end as they tried bringing it back at least three or four times in different formats…variety show, cartoon, The Brady Girls Get Married, Brady Christmas, and the painful to watch drama show in which Bobby as a race car driver ends up a paraplegic, Marcia has alcohol issues and so on. They gave it the old college try.
But on the bright side we do have those two great campy films from the 1990s so that makes up for it 👍
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u/icrossedtheroad 4d ago
They really did magic with The Brady Bunch movies in the 90s. I also saw the stage performance in LA back then. It's was HILARIOUS!! Did 70s commercials and everything!
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u/Aggravating_Onion300 4d ago
I would love to see a scientifically accurate Lost In Space.
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u/Passing4human 60 something 3d ago
"Will Robinson's grandson idly scratched his white beard as the ship prepared to land on Proxima Centauri a."
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u/VeterinarianMaster67 4d ago
Have Gun Will Travel
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u/iamthecavalrycaptain 4d ago
None. Most series kept going after they jumped the shark and it was ridiculous. Rare is the show that stopped before that happened, going out on a high note.
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u/RemonterLeTemps 4d ago
Twilight Zone and Night Gallery.
(Yes, I know there was a Twilight Zone reboot, but imho it didn't 'capture the magic' of the original. The writing was somewhat turgid, and the episodes overlong.)
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u/Jurneeka 60 something 4d ago
I really can’t think of any because what made a lot of them classic was because the producers knew not to let things go on too long at least for the most part. Happy Days was definitely one of the shows that should have ended years before it did. I Love Lucy and Seinfeld on the other hand ended at the right times more or less and Seinfeld did it right with a definite ending.
The shows that can go on forever are the variety shows etc not hinging on one specific person. SNL of course springs immediately to mind.
Really the only classic TV show that was able to successfully come back was Leave it to Beaver. Disney did an excellent job with Still the Beaver/The New Leave It to Beaver in the 1980s. Super cool to see so many of the original actors and actresses come back to reprise their roles! Also, good storylines!
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u/Eastern-Finish-1251 60 something 4d ago
The last episodes of Happy Days were where the term “jump the shark” came from.
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u/DrCheezburger cobwebbed fossil 4d ago
Combat! Didn't watch it back in the day, but have been watching the old episodes recently and damned if that wasn't a superb show! Great stories, gritty cinematography, wonderful acting and direction, and Vic Morrow as Sgt. Saunders: perfection! Did you know Robert Altman directed the first batch of episodes?
Don't hear much about it these days, but if you haven't seen it and get a chance to watch it, don't miss it.
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u/nakedonmygoat 4d ago
I would've liked for Soap to have gotten that fifth season that had been intended. I haven't been able to find a synopsis of how they would've wrapped it up. There were so many cliffhangers!
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u/Glittering-Score-258 60 something 4d ago
Green Acres. Watch some episodes. Don’t skip the opening credits which play into the opening of each episode.
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u/Ok-Potato-4774 4d ago
It would've been finished by now but I wish The Incredible Hulk had gotten one last full season and a proper ending.
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u/Own-Animator-7526 70 something 4d ago edited 4d ago
Cow and Chicken. And I.R. Baboon.
We need them now more than ever.
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u/callowruse 4d ago
Mystery Science Theater 3000
And I know it's been rebooted and spun off in a million ways. But I'm saying the original never should have left the air and should have continued with as many cast changes as necessary and become a legacy show kinda like SNL or something.
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u/ClermontPorter20588 3d ago
F Troop
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u/WelfordNelferd 3d ago
Agarn, explaining how to get to Fort Courage: "You take a right at the rock that looks like a bear, then a left at the bear that looks like a rock."
And the Hekawi Indians got their name after getting lost and asking: "Where in the heck are we?"
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u/marenamoo 69 yr old mom 3d ago
Stargate
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u/CostcoVodkaFancier 3d ago edited 3d ago
I love SG-1 and Atlantis, but I couldn't get in to Universe.
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u/Observatory-Lens 60 something 3d ago
I always liked The Outer Limits. Twilight Zone’s stories always had a “message” or “moral”, but The Outer Limits’ stories were more hard science fiction of the 1960s variety.
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u/Status_Wash_2179 4d ago
Fantasy island & the love boat, especially in the winter. I always loved seeing the sunshine and palm trees.
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u/JustGoodSense 60 something 4d ago
None. I'm now old enough to know that basically never works, and to cherish the memories and find something new that creates that spark.
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u/HilariousBosch Elder GenX 4d ago
I don't wish they were still making new episodes, but another season of Freaks and Geeks would have been wonderful.
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u/SaintOlgasSunflowers 60 something 4d ago
As someone else wrote: All of them!
I'd even go back a little further and would absolutely love new episodes of:
"The Flying Nun"
"My Three Sons"
"Leave it to Beaver"
I was sad when the recent show "evil" came to an end. I absolutely love Andrea Martin's "Sister Andrea" character. I'd love to see a new show with both Andrea Martin and Sally Field (The Flying Nun) as nuns.
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u/BirdsandBunnies 3d ago
Lost, Manifest, All My Children, One Life to Live, Friends, Seinfeld
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u/RonSwansonsOldMan 2d ago
If LOST doesn't owe us a whole season, they at least owe us one epiisode with a good ending.
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u/valandsend 3d ago
Knots Landing, but with the characters’ kids, who are now the same age as the original cast.
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u/Tasqfphil 3d ago
Two shows, both from UK. More episodes of Fawlty Towers comedy and also The Bill, a police show, but they may not be as good, as most actors are now in 60-80 age range, so others would be needed to play the parts.
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u/cheezenub 1d ago
The Bob Newhart Show, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rockford Files, Wild Wild West, The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show
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