TV shows you’d love to see return

JupiterKid

So AHers (please mods don’t shunt this to the TV forum:o) what TV shows from your youth would you like to see back on air?

On RTÉ the show Hands, which originally ran from 1974 to 1983. Great show documenting handcrafts (such as basket weaving, woodworking, pottery, making hurley sticks, clothing, even curragh boat making). Sadly most of these traditional crafts have died out as our world has become globalized and skills passed down from generation to generation are lost. I only very vaguely remember Hands as I was only 8 when it ended but I saw it re-run in the 2000s and loved it.

Happily in the past 25 years there has been a resurgence of crafts, much of it driven arty/hippy types from abroad who’ve come here to settle. It would be great to see a new Hands show for the 21st Century.

A revived Mailbag but obviously not letters of disgruntled viewers but tweets, emails and FB posts. A new rural drama - Glenroe for the 2020s sorta - with shenanigans and gossip and farmers galore. Maybe a farmer growing hemp in her fields, a gay male farming couple, a Polish mushroom grower and an Amsterdam style coffee shop run by a Brazilian singer..hub of the community.:pac:

Other TV shows I’d like to see come back are That’s Life (loved it!), Tomorrow’s World, The Krypton Factor, World In Action and some more I can’t think of just now.

And Treasure Hunt! Loved watching that show with my mum as a kid in the 80s and seeing Anneka frantically running around in her helicopter to get the next clue. They did a couple in Ireland towards the end of the show.

Would love to see Reality TV rubbish shows go on the major wane but I know that’s
just not going to happen!

The Blizzard of Odd.
Paths to Freedom.

eviltwin

The Word, The Bill and Rikki Lake.

EmmetSpiceland

The Wonder Years.

ILoveYourVibes

Spaced.

TEAM BRIAN!

But Rick and Morty is still on and the best of brock samson so im good

Del2005

I don't know. They have remade a few shows from the 80s and they are crap. If you watch the original you can see it wasn't that good we just had less options and had to get up to change the channel.

Milye already tried to sell grass in an episode of Glenroe.

TV and cinema should be going forward for new ideas not remaking old stuff.

laguacamaya

The Office
One man and his dog

JohnnyFlash

Utopia
American Gothic
Bullseye

ILoveYourVibes

Mad men was amazing ...but well it ran its story.

kowloon

+1 on Spaced, also loved Blizzard of odd. Venture Bros and Rick and Morty come out at such a slow pace they count as coming back.

Your Face

Dukes of Hazzard

Firefly


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*Sobs*

Nikki Sixx

A modern and more sexed up version of Glenroe.

Duff

Home Improvement.

Stoner

The A Team

We missed our chance for a decent cast in the movie

Rampage was too small for BA, he's probably bigger than Mr T, but back then a Mr T body seemed huge.

Hannibal didn't suit Neeson imo

Anyway. Do it again, with more up-to-date special forces types.

Outlaw Pete

Love to see Due South return (with the original Ray).

Maybe Quantum Leap, even if it was a reboot, as long as Scott got to be in the first episode passing along the baton as it where, great show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD25zo_fTPw

Canis Lupus

Space Above and Beyond

kowloon

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Space Above and Beyond

The Pacific campaign in Space. I expect that'll be rebooted some day.

Junkyard Tom

There was a show about a dog with no owner who went from town-to-town helping to solve crimes -- I think it was called 'The Crime Fighting Dog Who Wouldn't Settle Down'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgGKSjiw0HQ

zvone

The Office
Stargate
Frasier
Carnivale
Deadwood
The Job (Denis Leary)....

kowloon

zvone wrote: »

The Office
Stargate
Frasier
Carnivale
Deadwood
The Job (Denis Leary)....

Deadwood is coming back with a movie.

bodhrandude

We need a decent music programme for the gig and festival going public, what happened to No Disco, Under Ether, The Eleventh Hour with Dave Fanning, yeah I know we have Other Voices (But it can be pretentious sometimes) and Music from D' Telly but its just not enough.

SnazzyPig

The Water Margin.

ILoveYourVibes

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

There was a show about a dog with no owner who went from town-to-town helping to solve crimes -- I think it was called 'The Crime Fighting Dog Who Wouldn't Settle Down'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgGKSjiw0HQ

Really? Is that the real plot?

It kind of feels like it could be just terrible ..or just the cutest im not sure.

I bet he broke lots of kids hearts!

JupiterKid

Part of an episode of Hands. Loved this programme when it re-ran on RTÉ in the 2000s. Showed an earlier, simpler Ireland and the traditional crafts when time was plentiful and social media, email and the rat race simply did not exist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGjKRvGH17U

The Late Late Show

The obvious one is Love/Hate. Others I'd like to see are a TV series of David Brin's The Postman, done more gritty than the Costner film version and made by the same people who did The Handmaid's Tale TV series (which thankfully is coming back very soon). And perhaps a modern Miami Vice series by Breaking Bad's creator Vince Gilligan.

flazio

Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Agent Carter.
Middle 2 together as Heroes for Hire if they like just please don't leave the series as they did.

Feisar

outTHERE

Hamsterchops

The New Avengers
The return of the Saint
Randall & Hopkirk
Top of The Pops
The A Team ...

bonzodog2

Sledge Hammer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGYKU7mbv74

Thelonious Monk

Star Trek TNG but alas my prayers have been answered there’s some kind of Picard series on it’s way.

Edgware

The Virginian

dodderangler

Spartacus and Vikings,
Only two shows I really watched from start to finish without missing an episode.

s7ryf3925pivug

Ajin

Thelonious Monk

There was a show called Rome from HBO which was excellent but only made for 2 series

Outlaw Pete

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Maybe Quantum Leap, even if it was a reboot, as long as Scott got to be in the first episode passing along the baton as it where, great show.

He could probably do the whole show. Looking at him in Enterprise - years after I used to watch Quantum Leap - it was like the man had not aged a day.

flazio wrote: »

Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Agent Carter.

They can keep Iron Fist if they give me back Punisher and keep up with more Jessica Jones. Of the whole Netflix Marvel thing I would rank Iron Fist the lowest. I liked a lot of it - don't get me wrong - it was just the worst of a good bunch for me.

Achasanai

Spaced, Deadwood, Firefly.


I wouldn't want to see many others as most finished properly and it's usually better to finish on a high if you can.

Nigel Fairservice

Ed, the show about the bowling alley lawyer.

Agent Coulson

Oh Boy!

Quantum Leap.

malinheader

On the buses.
Mind your language.
Kung fu. new series.
Minder.

Craggo

Keeping up appearances

glwaymiko

Rockford files,

GBX

The 6 O'clock news. No need for the extra minute for the bells of doom.

TuringBot47

Game of Thrones !

FireFly
Babylon 5

Tomorrows World... I remember when they demonstrated a new device called a laser and said it was a solution waiting for a problem. (Yeah, I'm that old)

Fred Dibnahs programmes about steam engines, but sadly he passed away.

Robbie Coltrane in "Cracker".

Purgative

Bewitched.

Out of nowhere my mind made me remember Buck Rogers. Do not think I have thought of that show for any reason in decades.

Erik Shun

malinheader wrote: »

On the buses.
Mind your language.
Kung fu. new series.
Minder.

Perhaps look out for "Warrior"... Based on Bruce Lee's original idea of a Chinese immigrant in 1870's-80's San Francisco...it's quite good ...no shaolin monks though

Ilovethe bonesofyou

Love these nostalgia threads.

I'd go for The Wonder Years and This Life. Would definitely watch This Life again. Went to watch it on YouTube a while back and for some reason didn't seem to have the very first episode.

They're the only two I can think of for now anyways.

Sonny noggs

The Unit

KaneToad

Rentaghost

valoren

I'd like to see "How it's made" do a spin off called "How it works".