And The Outer Limits.
Posted on 05/30/2013 12:43:52 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
Ok I'll start: I would like to see a re-make of the TV Series "Emergency".
I always thought that “Roy” was always kinda grumpy.
“Trust me! I know what I’m doing!”
Paper Chase, The Sixth Sense, Room 222, Combat, The Defenders, The Alfred Hitchcok Hour, Have Gun-Will Travel, My Three Sons,
Before being married to Dr. Early, she had been married to Jack Webb, executive producer of the series.
I led Three Lives—with Keith Suntherland as the FBI agent who infiltrates the Progressive (ie Communist) movement. Yes, I am an old timer.
Is it because all creativity is now obsolete? We have to dredge up classics and re-invent them? Remember the movie “McHales Navy” or “Wild Wild West” - the TV shows that are remakes will be like that. The only thing people will do is compare the new one with the old one and how much better the old one was.
The church would be torn down and replaced with a mosque. The idyllic sounds of horse and buggy in Walnut Grove would be replaced by a crazy muezzin calling the nutbars to prayer five times a day.
Do you remember "Hennesey"..the series about the Navy doctor..it first gave us the GORGEOUS Abby Dalton, and of course, the basset hound "Cleo"
Lots of possible actors to play the two starring roles..
Then there's "Barney Miller"....the greatest cop show ever made..Jack Soo was da man...
And The Outer Limits.
Brilliant casting! But how do you know they’ll gel as a group? :0)
If you can find a copy of the long out of print “Twelve O’clock High,” do so. The movie is one of the finest WW II films ever made, and the book is even better than the movie..
I second 12 O’Clock High, Rat Patrol, and Combat (although the later was loosely remade in the late 80s, set in VietNam and called “Tour of Duty.”)
The problem with remaking shows like Wild Wild West, Rat Patrol, Combat, and 12 O’Clock High is finding modern actors to replace the likes of Robert Conrad, Christopher George, and Robert Lansing, to name a few. Who are you going to find among TV’s “metrosexual” actors today to be the “man’s man” for shows like these?
As far as seeing a movie made, I would love to see a feature length film about the story of the last stand of the tin can sailors. If you have never heard of this story, get the book and read it! Here’s the link:
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Stand-Tin-Sailors-Extraordinary/dp/0553381482
Believe it or not Bobby Troupe was a United Sates Marine.
I loved both shows..but any remakes would pale compared tro the originals..
Actually, the basset hound Cleo, was from Jackie Cooper’s previous series, “The People’s Choice,” which co-starred Patricia Breslin. “Hennesey” came a year or two later.
Second the motion for Baa Baa Blacksheep. But they’d need to lose the carrier approaches to angled deck supercarriers with Phantoms and Intruders spotted in the landing area, as well as the WWII nurses in hot pants and Farrah Fawcett style feathered hairdos.
I’d also add Tales of the Gold Monkey, a short-lived 80s series about a South Pacific inter-island transport pilot involved in all sorts of pre-WWII intrigue. I still want my own Grumman Goose thanks to that show. But they’d need to get their timelines straight, the Flying Tigers didn’t reach operational status until after Pearl Harbor ... not 3-4 years before. And like Blacksheep they’re have to forget the cheesy plot lines.
Mannix, with Jack from LOST in lead role.
They’ve already had remake TV series of the Twilight Zone and Outer Limits back in the 90’s.
Speaking of Emergency all those shows are on ME TV back to back to back Dragnet Adam 12 and Emergency
One show should reboot might be corney Dragnet they may have turn into Southland or the Shield TV show
LAPD has their warts
It was created by Jack Webb who employ ex wife Julie London and her husband Bobby Troup
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