The My Favorite Martian reboot was just a movie, not a TV series, right? And Mork and Mindy re-runs are airing on Antenna TV. One is on now as I type this.
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The Munsters to return on NBC
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The My Favorite Martian reboot was just a movie, not a TV series, right? And Mork and Mindy re-runs are airing on Antenna TV. One is on now as I type this.
Yes My Favorite Martian was a movie like Bewitched, Bilko and McHales Navy. No I didn't know Mork reruns were on Antenna TV since I don't get that channel. I still doubt Mork & Mindy will be redone anytime soon mainly due to be "out of respect" for Robin. People no doubt will say it will be a s slap in the face of Robin Williams and they are looking for Robin's replacement. I remember Freddy Prinze when he killed himself while starring on Chico & The Man I don't remember anyone demanding the show be cancelled after Freddy's death but I do remember when Vic Tayback from Alice died of a heart attack in 1990 some stations including Baltimore's WMAR took off Alice reruns out of respect to Vic ( WMAR told me this ) alas Alice never returned.
IMO - Godfather 2 was an even better film than The Godfather. But it wasn't a re-boot. It was a sequel/prequel - Michael Corleone in the 50s and 60s, interspersed with flashbacks of Vito (Robert DeNiro), as a young man. It worked a third-time for The Godfather Saga, when they edited it back into chronological order - DeNiro - Brando - Pacino.
Some re-boots are hits, some are flops. There's probably a better chance of a hit for a re-boot than an "original" concept. As I said in an earlier post about the Miami Vicereboot, TV lives on spin-offs that are really just copies of the original hit show. CSI's a hit, so spin-it off to Miami and Los Angeles with different casts. Same with NCIS. Law & Order is a hit, so spin it off with different units of the NYPD. And now Dick Wolfe has moved the same concept to Chicago.
I understand that. But from the creator's point of view, it's easier to sell an idea or concept that is familiar to the buyer. Even if it's different, it's easier to explain that an original concept. Imagine trying to explain The Big Bang Theory. Much easier to explain Young Sheldon.
Why would you take down reruns out of "respect" for an actor who had died? If anything, it's a good opportunity for a "marathon." Celebrate the actor's work. I think most actors would prefer that, to seeing their work disappear after their death. As for Alice not returning...OK with me. That show made my teeth ache. I've seen Linda Lavin in quite a few things recently - now usually playing acerbic older women - and was surprised to see she's quite a good actor. Who knew? And you can "kiss my grits." <Ugh>
As for Chico and the Man - I remember that after Prinze's death, they recast the show with a young boy, who Jack Albertson kept calling "Chico" because he missed the older Chico. It was a desperate and maudlin concept. I think it lasted 13 episodes.
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Myself the reruns should stay out of respect but many ( especially younger folks ) don't feel this way. In my hometown a salesman from a local radio station died a few years ago. About a week before his death he recorded a commercial featuring his voice for a local shoe store. When he died the shoe store felt out of respect felt the ad should stay on the air for the rest of the year. At the time of his death he had 4 kids all under 30 and they felt the ad should go and the tapes locked in a box. For months the kids of the deceased and the shoe store were at it with each other over that 30 second ad. In the end the commercial was recorded by somebody else and the kids were happy. Death is strange but can be stranger when it comes to family.
While we're on the subject, Pat Priest turns 81 today. Happy Birthday!
A voice-over actor is a little different than an on-screen actor who gets a lot of air-time. I did think it was a little strange hearing Don La Fontaine's voice ("In a world where...") after his passing in movie previews he recorded before his death, but I pay attention to weird stuff like that, most people probably didn't know who he was, and didn't know he had passed. Smaller city - local guy people know - that's a little different too.
Great voice. I miss the guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjWKE-IJ4R8
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Similar to that, after the longtime Yankees PA announcer, Bob Shepherd, died, Derek Jeter continued to use a recording of Shepard's voice introducing him at his at-bats.
I believe Harry Carey's voice - or perhaps just his catch-phrases - carry on when the Cubs play. "Holy Cow!," and all that.
Yes, Beverly Owen is with us. According to Wiki, she turned 80 in May. Maybe her and Pat Priest can make a quick appearance in the show? (Not sure how their health is.) Ixnay - did you prefer The Addams Family more than The Munsters?
I wanted it to be more like the original but I could not deny that the pilot was pretty amazing.
There was a TV-movie about Robin Williams a few years back. They did such a terrible job with it I don't think the series should be redone. The man playing Robin did a halfway decent job, but no one could really capture Robin's manic energy. No one who played a character on the show gave an acceptable performance
although the girl playing Pam Dawber was pretty good when she wasn't Mindy.
"Twilight Zone" was on UPN a few years back. They even did some of the plots from the old show.
I vaguely remember both shows being in first run (I turned 5yo in the late summer of '66 just before both shows ended). I remember being an avid Munsters rerun watcher via WKBS-48 Philadelphia in my preteens in the 1973-75 period. IIRC The Addams Family aired in reruns on WTAF (now WTXF) -29 in that era but I hardly watched it, so I don't have much of a opinion on Gomez and company.
ixnay
I think that was when NBC decided to do a series of crappy made-for-tv movies that purported to give the "inside story" on shows like Mork and Mindy and Three's Company.
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