BobbyNBC10 said:
Also "Scrabble" with Chuck Woolery: original run on NBC daytime from July 1984-March 1989, then a brief revival on the Peacock from January-June 1993.
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Also "Scrabble" with Chuck Woolery: original run on NBC daytime from July 1984-March 1989, then a brief revival on the Peacock from January-June 1993.
Well, in my defense, I did say "almost"! ;Dmleach said:
Thanks for filling the gaps in my memory. I don't ever recall seeing the short-lived "sequel" on TV anywhere, but I might not have known where to catch it, or if it was even on in my area. Didn't they have some different actors playing at least some of the parts, who were not in the original? I am guessing that Stepfanie Kramer had gone on to Hunter by then?Tim from Springfield said:
He Said, She Said/TattleTales (produced under the first title for syndication at NBC in 1969-70, revived on CBS under the second title in 1974, cancelled by CBS in 1978, revived on CBS in 1982 for two years)
Any truth to the rumor that Rex Winston and Ed Anger were one and the same? (You notice you never saw them together...)
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THE LAW AND MR. JONES, starring James Whitmore, ran for one season, 1960-61. A letter-writing campaign forced ABC to bring it back with new episodes in the spring of 1962.
Several TV series filmed additional episodes for syndication after they were cancelled by the networks. In addition to the better-known MAMA'S FAMILY and CHARLES IN CHARGE, such 1950s series as AMOS N ANDY, WALTER WINCHELL FILE, GANGBUSTERS and TOMBSTONE TERRITORY went this route.
Several TV series filmed additional episodes for syndication after they were cancelled by the networks. In addition to the better-known MAMA'S FAMILY and CHARLES IN CHARGE, such 1950s series as AMOS N ANDY, WALTER WINCHELL FILE, GANGBUSTERS and TOMBSTONE TERRITORY went this route.
Hal Erickson said:
In the 80's and early 90's it seemed like it was a trend for some shows that had a 2 or 3 year run on a network to do new epsodes in syndication. Was that possibly to get enough episodes to go into 5 nights a week syndication? I know I remember seeing an ad in a Broadcasting magazine once trying to sell syndicated episodes of Cheers after its first few seasons saying that Paramount would guarantee at least 5 seasons, and that if it was cancelled by NBC before its fifth season that they would continue it in syndication. Of course in the case of Cheers that wasn't necessary. Was this a normal tactic of the production companies at that time?
Hal Erickson said:
Didn't something similar happen over two decades later on CBS with "Cagney and Lacey"? IIRC it was cancelled in 1983 but was brought back in the spring of 1984.
Also, reruns of "Angie" (ABC 1979-80) surfaced on ABC daytime in the summer of 1985.
Haven't the British stopped and restarted "Dr. Who" several times?
There have been several mentions of game shows that were canceled
and revived, and in the late '60s and all through the '70s (especially with the coming
of the access rule) there were quite a few revivals, among them:
Truth Or Consequences
What's My Line?
To Tell The Truth
I've Got A Secret
Beat The Clock
Password
Name That Tune
Treasure Hunt
Masquerade Party
It Pays To Be Ignorant
The $64,000 Question (as The $128,000 Question)
Tic Tac Dough
and, of course, The Price Is Right (both on CBS and in syndication)
Jeopardy! had a short-lived revival on NBC (with a different format)
in 1978-79; in 1984 it returned in basically its original format and with
Alex Trebek. The rest is history.
Camouflage had that disastrous Chuck Barris-produced version in
1980, and the 2007 word-game version on GSN didn't fare much better.
Barris (or somebody) struck out with the 1988 revival of The Gong Show.
And these reality-based shows have been revived, sometimes more
than once:
Candid Camera
This Is Your Life
You Asked For It
People Are Funny (probably not many people remember the 1984
version with Flip Wilson as host)
The Original Amateur Hour (aired briefly in 1992 on the Family Channel,
with Willard Scott replacing Ted Mack, who had passed away in 1976)
There have been several mentions of game shows that were canceled
and revived, and in the late '60s and all through the '70s (especially with the coming
of the access rule) there were quite a few revivals, among them:
Truth Or Consequences
What's My Line?
To Tell The Truth
I've Got A Secret
Beat The Clock
Password
Name That Tune
Treasure Hunt
Masquerade Party
It Pays To Be Ignorant
The $64,000 Question (as The $128,000 Question)
Tic Tac Dough
and, of course, The Price Is Right (both on CBS and in syndication)
Jeopardy! had a short-lived revival on NBC (with a different format)
in 1978-79; in 1984 it returned in basically its original format and with
Alex Trebek. The rest is history.
Camouflage had that disastrous Chuck Barris-produced version in
1980, and the 2007 word-game version on GSN didn't fare much better.
Barris (or somebody) struck out with the 1988 revival of The Gong Show.
And these reality-based shows have been revived, sometimes more
than once:
Candid Camera
This Is Your Life
You Asked For It
People Are Funny (probably not many people remember the 1984
version with Flip Wilson as host)
The Original Amateur Hour (aired briefly in 1992 on the Family Channel,
with Willard Scott replacing Ted Mack, who had passed away in 1976)
...that was Columbia Tristar that peddled the '88 revival of The Gong Show. Chuck Barris had long before then fire-saled his production company, moved to the south of France and married Red...bpatrick said:
Another game show: You Bet Your Life, with Groucho Marx in the 50's, and short runs with Buddy Hackett in 1980 and Bill Cosby in 1992.
British shows could open a whole new can of worms since so many of them ran different "series" over time that weren't always from one season to the next. For example Fawlty Towers had two series in 1975 and 1979. That and Doctor Who are probably just the beginning.
British shows could open a whole new can of worms since so many of them ran different "series" over time that weren't always from one season to the next. For example Fawlty Towers had two series in 1975 and 1979. That and Doctor Who are probably just the beginning.
"British shows could open a whole new can of worms since so many of them ran different "series" over time that weren't always from one season to the next. For example Fawlty Towers had two series in 1975 and 1979. That and Doctor Who are probably just the beginning."
"The Black Adder" was similar, with several seasons that were set in times ranging from the Middle Ages to World War 1.
"The Black Adder" was similar, with several seasons that were set in times ranging from the Middle Ages to World War 1.
According to IMDB:
The Black Adder 1983
Blackadder II 1986
Blackadder III 1987
Blackadder Goes Forth 1989
The Black Adder 1983
Blackadder II 1986
Blackadder III 1987
Blackadder Goes Forth 1989
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Surprised no one said "Knight Rider" The beloved first run compared to the (not even a whole season) version from a couple years ago. Using a FORD COBRA?
Knight Stalker, with the newer version not lasting, what two or three episodes?
Knight Stalker, with the newer version not lasting, what two or three episodes?
bpatrick said:
The BBC originally ran the first season of 'Doctor Who' over 46 weeks from November '63 til the fall of '64. As the years went by, seasons got shorter, 20 to 26 weeks, and it was common to have a 3-to-6 month gap between seasons.
In the early '80s, the BBC shifted the show from once a week with a 6-month season and an autumn start(technically end of August) and an early-spring finish, to a three-month run, starting early January, twice a week. So, there was a nine-month break between the last Tom Baker(actor who played the role the longest) episode in early '81, and the much-anticipated debut of Peter Davison the following January.
A few years, and a couple of Doctors, later, starting in early 1985, the BBC 'rested' the show for 18 months, delaying its next season til the fall of '86.
Eventually, the original run ended in late '89, though the BBC never officially 'cancelled' the show; instead, it kept the concept alive through licensed books and other media, before reviving the show in 2005(in the interim, there was a one-shot TV movie in 1996, co-produced with Fox)
You guys listed a lot of "redux" shows here - in other words, new shows that piggybacked on the success of the originals. The newly redone versions of Hawaii Five-O and The Twilight Zone which came decades after the original wouldn't count in my mind as these are/were really a different show than the originals.
A more interesting list would include ONLY those shows which were gone, then brought back with the original cast and format pretty much in tact. Family Guy is a good example of that.
A more interesting list would include ONLY those shows which were gone, then brought back with the original cast and format pretty much in tact. Family Guy is a good example of that.
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