Canceled TV Show That 'Should' Be Brought Back

[damanryechea]

the cosby show

diffrent strokes

[Nhdj743]

Boston Legal

[deadman36g]

Carnivale
Deadwood
Freaks and Geeks
Undeclared
Firefly

and most importantly

Arrested Development

[justdrop]

Eli Stone
Better off Ted
Party Down

[jenna85]

Firefly
Veronica Mars
Deadwood
Space 1999

[bwayne337]

Arrested Development
Scrubs

[IdolEyes787]

Firefly
Veronica Mars
Deadwood
Space 1999

Good list but you kind of lost me with Space 1999.

[megabyteme]

Archie Bunker
MASH
Jeffersons
BJ and the Bear
Knight Rider (with Hasselhoff!)
Bosom Buddies
Mork and Mindy
Happy Days/Jonie Loves Chochi

[IdolEyes787]

Archie Bunker
MASH
Jeffersons
Buddy and the Bear
Knight Rider (with Hasselhoff!)

There was no show called Archie Bunker.
You either mean All in the Family or Archie bunker's Place.

And it was BJ and the Bear.

[clocker]

I think I'd be disappointed if any of my favorite shows was to be reanimated.

Both Cracker* and Prime Suspect tried to do it and although they weren't terrible, neither was up to the level of the originals.
Great shows capture magic in a bottle and trying to recreate that is well nigh impossible...better to look back fondly than risk the almost inevitable disappointment.

Part of the problem is that truly innovative work is not self aware...the folks of Firefly might have thought they were doing good work (and I think they were) but they weren't operating under the pressure of being a cult favorite, so they had no one to please but themselves.

This fondness for looking backwards is what gives us such execrable crap as the new A-Team movie and the upcoming Yogi Bear film and it simultaneously throttles new thinking...why come up with a new idea when it's so easy to mine the past?

Look at shows that managed to survive- SNL and The Simpsons- both arguably great in their heyday, both now long past their prime.
Just like Brett Favre, they keep coming back- even when no one particularly cares.

I fondly remember when I was a South Park fanatic but haven't seen a new episode in probably five years...times changed, I changed and even though I think it was groundbreaking TV, it just doesn't interest me anymore.
Is that how I want to remember Firefly or Arrested Development?
No.

*Not talking about the gawdawful American version that stank up the place for a few episodes...