Classic TV Shows they shouldn't or couldn't remake now?

Oct 7, 2018 17:13:41 GMT telegonus said:

Ramar Of The Jungle, Captain Gallant Of The Foreign Legion, The Life & Legend Of Wyatt Earp, Father Knows Best and such, by today's standards, "dated" fare as Peter Gunn, 77 Sunset Strip and Hawaiian Eye. Some shows, like Gunn and the similarly "ambianced" Mr. Lucky are of their time and of their place, and there's no bringing back that that compelling Noir world of gamblers, petty criminals, jazz musicians, beatnicks and con men. The waterfront dives (all million dollar condos now), with the foghorns in the background just wouldn't fit into a 21st century show. Even done as period pieces, meticulously detailed, they could be made to look handsome, but their emphasis on offbeat characters, the lack of much action, would likely not attract many viewers under fifty.

Very true. One of the things that tends to annoy me with current Hollywood efforts to replicate that era is that they tend to look 'set-designed' to death. You just can't reproduce the look of those times in a naturalistic way; and the lack of emphasis on 'character' types as opposed to 'stars' is something I've bewailed the dearth of for years now.

You and I have discussed 'Secret Agent' (a/k/a 'Dangerman") elsewhere previously, and that show is a good example: in the era of Jason Bourne and the Mission Impossible film franchise, could John Drake's world of bleak and noir-esque espionage, with its pointed de-emphasizing of flashy pyrotechnical technologies, be made to work at all now, or draw audience interest at all? Probably not.