Hardly a week goes by without a network or streamer announcing some sort of reboot or re-imagining of an old TV series.

So before the well runs dry I'm challenging our talented posters to submit their own.

You can be as creative as you like, adhering to the original concept or using it as a starting point. If you have casting ideas, please include.

Should be fun.

To get things started

Barnaby Jones

(original 1973-80)Barnaby Jones is  a formerly retired investigator who with widowed daughter-in-law, run a private detective firm in LA. Jeddediah Jones, a much younger cousin Barnaby eventually joined the firm.

Reboot

Barnaby Jones is a 50 something silver fox who likes to use 'traditional' detective methods to solve crimes. Luckily his beautiful Asian  American daughter in law Betty Lin Jones is a tech wiz and can often step in to assist Barnaby. Also in the cast Barnaby's nephew Jed a 20 something Latin male who sparks some sexual tension with Betty.

Harte to Harte 

Original Hart to Hart  79-84

Self-made millionaire Jonathan and freelance writer Jennifer are the Harts - a globetrotting married couple with a talent for finding mysteries wherever they go. 

Reboot

Jonathan Harte is a young black tech billionaire who together with his influencer wife Gennifer play amateur detectives.

Get the idea? Looking forward to your concepts.

Rebooting this topic which got Zilch reaction last time around! Maybe this time...After all 5 years later this rebooting thing is still going on.

My latest contribution

The Partridge Family.

Still set in the early 70's, now with a more dramatic slant with comedic elements.

Shirly Partridge is still a single mom, struggling from paycheck to paycheck. Not a widow this time, but her deadbeat husband abandoned the family years ago.

Son Keith is all into music, which Shirley encourages as that seems to be the only spark in the family that looks destined for low paying jobs and working poverty. But Shirley is hesitant as her dreams of being a singer amounted to nothing more than warbling in cheap clubs for unappreciative crowds.

Daughter Laurie is already seeing her looks as her currency and dating unsuitable boys. Meanwhile 12 year old Danny is too streetwise for his age and could be headed on a dangerous path.

Shirly agrees to sing on a demo and through a bit of scheming from Danny, Keith and Laurie, it comes to the attention of Reuben Kincaid a music rep also trying to break through. He lands them a deal.

Reuben is attracted to Shirley and vice versa but Laurie also has her eyes on the guy.

Reuben's deal is not too sound but the record takes off and the group is on it's way.

Episodes deal with the family being plunged out of their depth trying to deal with success, the Partridge father returning trying to get a piece of the action, Rueben getting involved with shady characters, the kids dealing with sex, drugs and rock n roll etc.

So c'mon get happy and get those reboots happening!

Edited 16 hours ago16 hr by Paul Raven

With all this talk of A.I., I'm surprised no one has bothered to reboot this old chestnut and give it a more modern, less cheesy spin. (Don't say I didn't warn you!)

For whatever reason, I'm drawn to the idea of a Maude remake. It would still be a sitcom that gets dramatic (yeah, we're not ignoring abortion in this day and age), and the characters are mostly carried over, but tweaked. Walter's still a small businessman, but he has a restaurant rather than an appliance store. Vivian starts the series as a more blatant tradwife. And one of Maude's conflicts is wondering if she's out of touch with the Democratic Party, but not at all wanting to ally with the Republicans.

10 hours ago, Khan said:

With all this talk of A.I., I'm surprised no one has bothered to reboot this old chestnut and give it a more modern, less cheesy spin. (Don't say I didn't warn you!)

I swear you were born without any sense of whimsy or fun :) It's a cute show and I thought the concept was very ahead of it's time. A male and female married couple could have an instant child without pregnancy, paternity leave, midnight feedings, and are mature and self-sufficient.

If I were going to do a reboot.. I would do 'The Middle' especially since there are few shows that represent a working class mid west family.. and I would make sure to have the father and the mother be a partnership with both their flaws being called out and how they come together to problem solve without the mother being so insecure that she cuts down her husband to make herself feel better.