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[neadods]

What Five Series Would You Resurrect if You Could?

This list pretty much doubles as my WHY IS THIS NOT ON DVD YET? list too.

1 - Max Headroom

2 - She Wolf of London/Love and Curses. Either version. Both. Have them live in LA and occasionally travel back to England; I'd be in heaven.

3 - Brimstone. They canceled it just as it took off and then Skiffy added insult to injury by running an extremely cliched and crappy knockoff.

4 - The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. It would be a bit hard to do this without one of the major heroes (goodbye, Julius, you're missed) but it was also cut down just as it was gearing up. (Okay, this is on DVD at least.)

5 - Beyond Reality. The first season was incredibly lame. The second season - alas, not on DVD, was really brilliant.

And as a bonus, these two cartoons should have run forever: Men in Black (so much more adventurous than the sequel movie) and Real Ghostbusters. Nobody says good writing is reserved for live action...

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

Max Headroom was so good and so smart and so ahead of its time. It's not on DVD yet? THat sucks.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

It was, it was, it was, and it's not. Sucks like a hoover.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Damn. I loved that show. And most Americans were just oblivious to Max Headroom as anything other than that thing in the Coke ads or whatever it was. But I LOVED that show. Damn damn damn. We need that.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

It was *brilliant*! I feel a bit sorry for Matt Frewer, though; he's never going to be in anything as innovative again.

[gonzai55.livejournal.com]

I caught the first ep of Brisco at Farpoint this year, and finally managed to win a copy on Ebay in the spring. I've been watching in dribs and drabs (Mom despises Westerns) but definitely enjoying it. (Maybe there's a DVD set loan in your future...)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Oh, I got a copy the year it came out, from friends who knew the filthy, filthy things I wanted to do with Lord Bowler if only he were real. Watching Julius ride a horse was a religious experience.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

I'm both surprised and pleased to see this list not include Firefly (which I've come to think doesn't suck, but isn't the awesomeness that Browncoats claim it to be).

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr would have been lovely to see continued and developed. But at least it didn't end on a cliffhanger.

My one vote for something missing from this list is Alien Nation, which did end on a cliffhanger, and whose subsequent movies were simply not sufficient.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Between thee and me, Firefly doesn't do a damn thing for me, never has.

I seriously thought about putting Alien Nation on the list, but decided that the movies had helped, as opposed to the shows that just up and disappeared one day.

My current list

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

1. American Gothic. Skeeery, so skeery.

2. Pushing Daisies.

3. Firefly.

4. Wonderfalls

5. The Middleman!

Re: My current list

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Middleman! How can I forget Middleman when I'm in the middle of catching up with the series? Brilliantly silly stuff that needed more PR and more time.

Re: My current list

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

Middleman = THANK HEAVENS THEY MADE DVDS SO BEAUTIFUL AND SO QUICKLY! I needed to watch them again. So sad they canceled the show, it should have run for years.

Re: My current list

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Yes, it should. I'm so grateful for the DVDs, because then I can at least catch up and keep what little there is to enjoy.

[cedara]

1 - Max Headroom

Yes, please.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

WHY is this not on DVD? WHY?

[cedara]

The Suits have no idea that someone would actually buy it. They didn't believe that anyone would buy Babylon 5 dvds/tapes back then and were surprised how well they sold.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

They're idiots. IIRC, Max Headroom is close to the top of "tvshowsondvd" where people vote for what they most want to come out on DVD.

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

I have DVDs of most of what you mentioned, above. If you google the name of the show you're interested in and "DVD", there's a good chance you'll find it for sale on line. You take your chances on quality, but I've almost always been very happy by my purchases, both online and at cons. That said, if TPTB came out with professional, *unedited* DVDs of any show I have a bootleg of, I'd buy them in a minute.

Conversely, I desperately desire bootleg original copies of a show called Keen Eddie, but cannot find it anywhere because Paramount came out with professional DVDs of it, which I purchased... only to find they cheapened out and replaced 80% of the music with generic studio music that often doesn't match the emotional temperature of the scene it's underscoring. Every time I find a possible download, it turns out to be the professional version with the bad music.

[calliopes_pen]

She Wolf of London/Love and Curses.

I loved that show so much when I managed to catch it on the Sci-Fi Channel. Back when they actually showed things like that.

5 - Beyond Reality.

For the longest time, I thought I was the only one who ever watched that. Nice to see someone else did. Sadly, the only thing I really remember about it is the opening credits. That, and something about a mirror being important in an episode.

I would have been 9 when season 1 started, going by what I can determine through IMDB.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I forget which little channel had She Wolf first, but it was brilliant. (Don't even start me on the All Wrestling Channel and its attitude towards its original market.)

Ironically, I loathed Beyond Reality when it started. Then I promised boogiebabe_smap I'd tape it for her when she was out of town, and they started their second season with a string of really strong episodes and I fell hard. The one you're thinking of was the first episode ever.

[calliopes_pen]

According to Wikipedia, it was USA Network that had She-Wolf of London/Love and Curses first.

I remember watching Beyond Reality for a few episodes, at the very least. I think they showed the first season, and then around here they changed the schedule without warning. Wikipedia doesn't say what channel it aired on.