Continuum of Sitcoms

[MrCleveland]

I'm going to make a top-16 list of 16 Sitcoms That Should Continue.

What sitcoms would you like to see as a continuing sitcom?

[cnnbcbs]

Growing Pains around Ben and/or Carol's family with the widowed mother living with them. Mike can make a guest appearance. Be a good companion with the new Who's The Boss?

If they can revive Frasier, take a shot with Cheers. You could do it without Sam and have new ownership. Norm and Cliff around as patrons, maybe Carla still works there. Passing of the torch.

Facts of Life can be done two different ways. Take the 'Fuller House' approach and have one of the bestie pairs: Natalie and Tootsie move in together as single moms with young daughters. The other take would be similar to the originals finale that was a spin-off pitch, where Blair would be dean of Eastland and maybe two of the other three in the Garrett role as den mother. This take would focus more on a new generation of young women.

One of my pipe dreams would be a continuation of Perfect Strangers.

Designing Women. Three of the original cast are are still living. They could have a field day with topical events, like the Murphy Brown continuation did. Would probably die on a broadcast network but work better on a streaming service.

Family Matters, we never got a "proper" finale. Maybe Laura and Steve have two kids now a popular son and a nerdy daughter--roles reversed! Eddie can hang around as the 'wacky" uncle.

On Comedy Bang Bang once they had 'Garry Marshall" come on and pitch his "Happy Days" revival that took place 'the next day' after the show ended. I'd like to see this done with some show, just make the audience overlook the advanced age of the actors. Like a SNL skit where 40 year olds play teenagers.

Alice. Alice's grandchild and daughter-in-law move in with her after Tommy dies, maybe they can all run "Mel's Diner" together, just ignore that it was being torn down in the finale. As the Will and Grace revival and The Conners taught us is that you can be selective and ignore continuity whenever the hell it suits you.

I could see Norman Lear trying to milk his original legacy with something like an All in the Family revival centered around Gloria's son or grandchild. Laverne and Shirley, Lenny is a divorced dad of two daughters named, wait for it.....Laverne and Shirley!
Set two decades behind like the original show. Do a legit Happy Days revival around the son that Fonzie adopted at the end of Happy Days. The actor was later on Valerie/Hogan Family. Also set a few decades behind in the late 90s.

Charles in Charge. Thirty-Five years later and Charles is still the aupair for that same house with yet another new family living there! My cannon is he never stopped living there and probably worked through like a dozen families by now.

Carol Burnett Show/Mama's Family. Vicki Lawrence sould revive Mama. Since she patched things up with Carol she could return as Eunice. Vinton and Naomi are living elsewhere/off-screen. Their delinquent teenage daughter Thelma Jr moves in and fulfills the Bubba role. Eunice had another son mentioned in 'The Family's sketches, Bubba's brother. I'd cast that role as well.

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Originally Posted by cnnbcbs

Growing Pains around Ben and/or Carol's family with the widowed mother living with them. Mike can make a guest appearance. Be a good companion with the new Who's The Boss?

If they can revive Frasier, take a shot with Cheers. You could do it without Sam and have new ownership. Norm and Cliff around as patrons, maybe Carla still works there. Passing of the torch.

Facts of Life can be done two different ways. Take the 'Fuller House' approach and have one of the bestie pairs: Natalie and Tootsie move in together as single moms with young daughters. The other take would be similar to the originals finale that was a spin-off pitch, where Blair would be dean of Eastland and maybe two of the other three in the Garrett role as den mother. This take would focus more on a new generation of young women.

One of my pipe dreams would be a continuation of Perfect Strangers.

Designing Women. Three of the original cast are are still living. They could have a field day with topical events, like the Murphy Brown continuation did. Would probably die on a broadcast network but work better on a streaming service.

Family Matters, we never got a "proper" finale. Maybe Laura and Steve have two kids now a popular son and a nerdy daughter--roles reversed! Eddie can hang around as the 'wacky" uncle.

On Comedy Bang Bang once they had 'Garry Marshall" come on and pitch his "Happy Days" revival that took place 'the next day' after the show ended. I'd like to see this done with some show, just make the audience overlook the advanced age of the actors. Like a SNL skit where 40 year olds play teenagers.

Alice. Alice's grandchild and daughter-in-law move in with her after Tommy dies, maybe they can all run "Mel's Diner" together, just ignore that it was being torn down in the finale. As the Will and Grace revival and The Conners taught us is that you can be selective and ignore continuity whenever the hell it suits you.

I could see Norman Lear trying to milk his original legacy with something like an All in the Family revival centered around Gloria's son or grandchild.

For Growing Pains, I don't think Ben (Jeremy Miller) would be big enough of a draw. Carol (Tracey Gold) would be preferable. Kirk Cameron though has had differences with the cast - so likely no Mike. Growing Pains would be difficult to revive logistically and creatively, as it'd just be a basic family sitcom.

For Facts of Life, I feel it needs all four: Jo, Blair, Tootie, and Natalie to at least make an appearance in a revival, even if all four are not regulars. If it's revived, the main actors would probably be all young girls anyways like Saved By the Bell has young adults as the primary actors.

For Family Matters, they should bring back Judy too

[merlinjones]

Eunice, Mama, and Ellen are trapped together in a Golden Girls retirement type situation (even if only a one-shot special). Hell on Earth for each of them.

The narcissist cast of Seinfeld are still living in their own world - but now pestered by in-your-face millennials trying to change them.

Once tony Cheers has fallen to being a dive bar for sketchy characters in a seedy neighborhood - yet our old friends are still sitting there watching the world go by.

[SledgeBarone]

Originally Posted by merlinjones

Once tony Cheers has fallen to being a dive bar for sketchy characters in a seedy neighborhood - yet our old friends are still sitting there watching the world go by.

This one would be really interesting and plausible for the original actors to return to.

[MrCleveland]

Would it be okay if I post my opinion as a video this Thursday?

[Furienna]

Originally Posted by cnnbcbs

Family Matters, we never got a "proper" finale. Maybe Laura and Steve have two kids now a popular son and a nerdy daughter--roles reversed! Eddie can hang around as the 'wacky" uncle.

Well, I believe that Laura and Steve would be divorced by now.
But I don't think that whoever would write the new episodes would agree with me.

[MrCleveland]

Originally Posted by Furienna

Well, I believe that Laura and Steve would be divorced by now.
But I don't think that whoever would write the new episodes would agree with me.

Unfortunately...I disagree! But I can see Eddie Winslow getting divorced! And if Judy Winslow is back...(I think) it should be an Inter-race relationship.

I have one for Gimme a Break!...the show revolves around Joey Donovan (Joey Lawrence) who is trying to rebound after losing everything and hears about Nell Harper's daughter who's now the Glenlawn Chief of Police and her influences of her mother telling her about Chief Carl Kaniski. So Joey takes a job being Mrs. Harper's housekeeper as well as a father figure for the children after Mrs. Harper's husband dies.

With Who's The Boss?, the show should be called She's The Boss!, it revolves around Samantha Micelli who divorced her husband after she had an injury while trying out for women's baseball. So she now works at John Bower's house who is married...to a man (well...Danny Pintauro is gay and this isn't the first time there was a gay couple on television). Tony and Andrea are now a significant couple...I dunno how comfortable Tony Danza would feel about the plot tho....

[treky]

I think it'd be interesting to see a revival of CHEERS