Could it be made in this day and age or would it be considered too taboo?


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They could make a modern version of it, but I guarantee it wouldn't be any good. Flying Nun was a product of it's time, fantasy sitcoms were popular in the 1960's. It's not the greatest show but is a cute show, special effects were primitive as often times the wires attached to Sally Field as she "flew" through the air were very visible. But the series has a time capsule quality of the late 1960's. The 3rd season needs to be issued on DVD so the series can be completed.

It might work on one of the Christian channels, but in prime time there would be too much protest. Sad but true. I don't think you even have to be Christian to find it charming but nowadays it is so difficult to do literally anything without offending someone.

Plus the corniness of the show wouldn't work very well in today's ultra cynical world. It, like most of the other sitcoms of the 60s and early 70s, would probably be laughed off the air. And that's very sad.

Les we forget a few years back we got such stuff as "Homeboys in Outer Space" and "The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfiefer" :lol:

Then there was the caveman show, but that lasted only a few episodes, and several episodes were made but never broadcast

I can see a nun/sister in a corny tv show, since their portrayals have been getting more inaccurately lately, but don't think it would have gained much popularity.

Maybe aimed at a young audience. But for the adults the show is a bit fluffy,(corny) which was great in the 1960's. Audiences now are more susfisticated. (I can't spell) so the show wouldn't last.

There was the sitcom "Sister Kate" which ran for one season (18 episodes) on NBC in 1989-90. It starred Stephanie Beecham (who had just finished a run as 'Sable Colby' on DYNASTY) as a nun who was put in charge of an orphanage, with young Jason Priestly as one of the orphans. It was cancelled due to low ratings.

Could it be made in this day and age or would it be considered too taboo?

I wouldn't say so much as taboo but more like stupid, as was the case with many sitcoms of that era, you had talking horses (Mister Ed) and flaky genies (I Dream Of Jeanie).

The show would never be made today.

Forget about the flying.

She would be a feminist atheist that went around suing the church and trying to prove that 100% of priests were a secret society of child molesters including the Pope.

Yet even though all the priests molested boys somehow gays would be heroes and victims, but not responsible.

Then again, one of the PBS shows which has grown enormously in popularty over the past few seasons is 'Call the Midwife' - about an order of nuns in England who are also midwives. It's a dramedy for sure (plenty of laugh-out-loud moments) and very appealing - as it takes you back in time (early 1960s) when life was rather simple.