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Network Necrophilia

Mazarine

02:27 / 23.01.02

Okay, it seems like practically everyone's lost a series or two in this round of cancellations, (Daria, X-Files, Tick, Invisible Man, but shows have been getting cancelled since <hyperbole> time immemorial. </hyperbole>

So if you had the powers of TV necromancy, who would you bring back from the grave?

I will obviously miss Daria. Other cartoon losses which I mourn are Liquid Television and Spy Groove, both MTV numbers. Especially Liquid Television- does abyone else remember a little sketch, "This is Not Frank's Planet" ?
Spy Groove had potential. No more, no less.

In the live action, I miss Strange Luck. I barely remember it, but what I recall I liked.

So which corpse, moldy, fresh, etc, would you resurrect?

Margin Walker

04:13 / 23.01.02

"Night Flight"--it had everything from weird animation to odd flicks ("Liquid Sky", "Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains!") to the video for "Fish Heads". One would think that a show would be able to fill it's shoes by now (it went off the air in, like, 1992), but alas....

<sniff>

Fist Fun

04:47 / 23.01.02

I would bring back The Young Ones cos it only has about nine episodes didn't it. I remember writing a story in primary seven about a character called Scarletgub (as opposed to Goldielocks). It started of being based on Vyvyan but then he sort of became a psycho female bus driver cos it fitted the story. We all read out our stories and everyone laughed heartily at mine( or perhaps just at me). Anyway Scarletgub was cool, so perhaps I should resurrect her...

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T*M*U*M*A

11:41 / 23.01.02

MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATRE 3000!!..

christ i miss that show.

and a new 'Stopit and Tidyup' wouldnt go amiss..

'Jammmm' the late night remix version of jam..

The Day Today.. The Mary Whitehouse Experiance.. Blackadder..

the list goes on and on and on and on and..

Ria

11:50 / 23.01.02

Margin Walker I love you for bringing up Night Flight, the official television show of '80's teenage freaks.

I would like to bring back that BBC test card of that little girl with that frightening doll.

deja_vroom

11:58 / 23.01.02

MillenniuM.

(notice the geek care that I took in typing it's title excatly as it appeared in the opening scenes...)

rizla mission

12:18 / 23.01.02

I'd like to give Lee & Herring a new show, cos the BBC's apparently dumped them, thus striking the final blow in their war against funny TV programmes.

Captain Zoom

13:50 / 23.01.02

Mazarine - absolutely "Strange Luck". I do remember it and it was amazing.

And, honestly, Deep Space 9. I loved that show.

Zoom.

Mazarine

16:56 / 23.01.02

quote:Originally posted by The Most Useless Man Alive:
[QB]MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATRE 3000!!..

christ i miss that show.
[QB]

Amen to that. I was in a comic shop over the summer and saw the Diabolik comic book series. Now there was a film.

Seth

19:37 / 23.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Captain Zoom:
And, honestly, Deep Space 9. I loved that show.

Me too. I find myself missing the characters, as though they were friends I may never see again. There's a run of books that pick up where Season 7 left off, which are apparently not that bad. I may invest, if I can manage to swallow my cool enough to buy a Trek book.

They should make a low budget Benny Russell movie or mini-series to finish everything off - just one long surreal Prophet style vision quest. I'd go see it! Needn't even be much more than a TV movie.

Is anyone else hoping that Section 31 will crop up in Enterprise? It seems silly to miss the opportunity.

Lothar Tuppan

20:25 / 23.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Captain Zoom:
Mazarine - absolutely "Strange Luck". I do remember it and it was amazing.

I loved Strange Luck. I also second the amazing show MillenniuM, but only if Morgan and Wong get to run it.

Night Flight was very cool also.

Hmmm.... I just can't think of any others right now.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

09:22 / 24.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Margin Walker:
"Night Flight"--it had everything from weird animation to odd flicks ("Liquid Sky", "Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains!") to the video for "Fish Heads". One would think that a show would be able to fill it's shoes by now (it went off the air in, like, 1992), but alas....

<sniff>

Oh I know...it made being married too young and being home on Friday nights bearable.

I would bring beck Twin Peaks, of course, and Chris Elliot's Get A Life, just because it confused way too few people the first time out.

Mazarine

09:22 / 24.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Solitaire Rose:

I would bring beck Twin Peaks, of course, and Chris Elliot's Get A Life, just because it confused way too few people the first time out.

ditto and ditto.

I would also bring back the entire network of MTV before it started to... how can I put this... turn into a lame ass fucking fiasco. I miss MTV of the 80s. I miss the moonman, the old mottos, the actual videos, but this sentiment is old enough to be carbon dated.

In this same vein, I had some hope for Nickelodeon's rise to something similar to its former glory with the advent of Zim and the Oddparents, though this is not to be. It used to be a truly twisted network. You Can't Do That On Television, Turkey TV, Count Duckula, Danger Mouse, Bannana Man, the list goes on.

Molly Shortcake

09:22 / 24.01.02

Sledge Hammer

Trust me, I know what I'm doing

They added a laugh track when it went into syndication. Fuckers.

[ 24-01-2002: Message edited by: Ice Honkey ]

Trijhaos

09:22 / 24.01.02

Forever Knight. It was a great show and the lst episode left me with a number of questions, mainly is Nick dead? When Angel first started and it seemed that it was going to go the same route with the whole self-loathing vampire helping out the cops I was excited, but I was ultimately disappointed when they started throwing in the whole supernatural bad guy aspect.

Margin Walker

23:40 / 25.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Captain Zoom:
Mazarine - absolutely "Strange Luck". I do remember it and it was amazing.

Or the other Fox show D.B. Sweeney was in--"Harsh Realm". Fox promoted that show relentlessly, only to pull the plug on it after only 4 or 5 episodes. yeah, I don't get it, either.

And for music shows, that David Sanborn show that only ran for 1 season ("Night Music"?). It's not everyday you see Sonic Youth on the same show as the Indigo Girls....

The Monkey

06:39 / 26.01.02

"The Young Ones" gets resurrected first. Everybody else can queue up.

Honestly, I'd revive some of the older, more twisted Nick and MTV cartoons.
I miss "Rocko's Modern Life," which started out incredibly sick and twisted in a subtextual way, then cleaned up, and finally disappeared. You gotta love any show that prominently features a castrated male cow as a protagonist, not to mention a fast food restaraunt called "Chokey Chicken."
And "The Maxx" which made no bloody sense but had some sort of wonderful cadence to it. I tried reading the comic, but it's so far along that I can't get into the plot.

I miss the Izz.

Kisses from the Outer Church,
[smack]

The Monkey

06:41 / 26.01.02

By the way...
I wasn't old enough to truly appreciate "Night Flight," but I think I have childhood traumas rooted in that "Fish Heads" thing....

Our Lady of The Two Towers

08:22 / 26.01.02

Babylon 5: Crusade.

Because the Captain rocked. They did need to have more fight scenes, and the technomages should have been a lot more sarcastic...

Fra Dolcino

08:22 / 26.01.02

s'gottta be the muppets. Not the later stuff, but the original format. I suppose it hasn't really aged that well, but if it could reproduce that magic of Sunday evenings before school, it'd be brill

Other than that, I can't beleive no-one's mentioned the 'A-team.

And of course, I'd have to re-animate 'Henry's Cat'.

I also got into 'Ultra-Violet', with Jack Davenport, when it was on. I know nothing ever happened in it, but the idea was great and might have worked if the funding had been there.

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Mazarine

12:40 / 26.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Fra Dolcino:
s'gottta be the muppets. Not the later stuff, but the original format. I suppose it hasn't really aged that well, but if it could reproduce that magic of Sunday evenings before school, it'd be brill
[ 26-01-2002: Message edited by: Fra Dolcino ]

Ages ago there was an interview on the Daily Show, Jon Stewart talking to Kermit the Frog. I think they were talkin' about the Muppet Show coming back, but they weren't sure when. I'd be amped.

gentleman loser

20:42 / 26.01.02

The Adventures of Pete and Pete.

If you never saw it, I couldn't entirely explain it. Let's just say that it was creative, hilarious, weird and one of the few shows that I can think of that could be enjoyed by kids and adults. Bonus: bizarre wall to wall cameos by the likes of Hunter S. Thompson, Steve Buscemi, Chris Elliot, Janeane Garofalo, Patty Hearst, Iggy Pop and Adam West, to name a few.

One of the few things that kept me from putting a bullet through my head in the early 90's. Seriously.

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Mazarine

01:05 / 27.01.02

Weird, I was just telling one of my coworkers about this thread, and he said I should throw down Pete and Pete. The elder Pete goes to my school, oddly enough.

Another show my coworker suggested that I couldn't believe I forgot: The State. How in the name of all that's pixelated could I forget The State?

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