I know what you mean. It would be like digging up an old SF show from the 60s and making a new series out of it -- like a new generation of "Star Trek". (or a deep space version ... or just a guy in a space-traveling police box...)
Try this on for size.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybIyzTO4zhU&feature=related
Imagine, a return of Battlestar Galactica, that followed this line.
Rather than GINO, or Battlestar 90210