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good list. I recall for a time they had brought back a show popular when my mom was younger--"Hazel".............I thought it was hilarious
Wish they would bring back
Coach
My Three Sons
as well as some others have mentioned.
I loved Coach. That's back when TV was good well not all TV I tried to watch Perfect Strangers as an adult and I couldn't get through it
Love the Nanny. Hated Sanford and Son. Would love to see Murphy Brown, Designing Women, Coach again. Roseanne is beat to death on another channel. But, every time I see an episode of The Nanny or Roseanne I stop and watch it, doesn't matter how long ago I last saw it. Could do without Full HOuse and Family Matters. I used to watch them, but like other stuff better.
I also miss Eight is Enough.
I would LOVE to see Murphy Brown and Designing Women come back! I figured with Dixie Carter's recent death the possibility of Designing Women returning for a short time may have been possible, but I guess I was wrong.
Esther was the only funny one on S&S. As long as she appears on an episode, it could stay on the air until I'm 70! Otherwise, it can go away like the other shows.
I wrote a letter once
It said "If you don't put Coach back on the air I will be disappointed. The skilled acting of Craig T Nelson will be missed"
But then white-out got spilled accidentally over it without me noticing and it made it look like I wrote
"If you don't put Coach back on the air I will kill Craig T Nelson"
Then Craig T Nelson showed up at my house with a gun and told me to "make it quick"
Sometime in the mid 90's, Nick, Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, AMC and a number of other channels had received a report from some study ( consultants ) that they need to start apealling to that "younger demographic" so out went the old..in came in the "new",in favor of shows that the consultants assumed would be popular with 20 and 30 year olds.
Also at the same time the consultants started, so they say anyway to the art of "testing" shows to see what works nationwide, not regional. This was one reason why Car 54 was dropped by Nick and Comedy Central. Cat 54 did well in New York City...but sucked in Phoenix and Denver, so said the consultants anyway. Of course did these people actually test Car 54 in Phoenix or Denver? Or did they just "assumed" ?
That "younger demo" is one key reason why Betty White is so popular now. If those 20 somethings didn't like her, chances are Betty would be enjoying her twlight years on some beach in Hawaii or someplace sipping cocktails right now rather than hosting an episode of Saturday Night Live and starring in a new show for TV Land.
Anyone that thinks Sandford & Son was funny obviously never saw the BBC sitcom on which it was based (which really WAS funny) Steptoe & Son.
Funny is subjective.
I've seen Steptoe. A lot of it went over my head (as in "Who/what are they laughing at?"), assuming I was able to understand WTF they were saying in the first place. Their dialect was heavy, to put it politely. I do much better with Northern dialects than I do with Cockney, especially when it's that Cockney rhyming slang stuff.
As a Los Angeles native who was an adult when Sanford was first broadcast, every bit of it hit home, including even the subtle local references that would get by a lot of Americans from other parts of the country.
I see you're from Sydney. Maybe the cultural humor didn't strike a chord?
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well not all TV I tried to watch Perfect Strangers as an adult and I couldn't get through it 
