As it shouldn't be picked up. This story was funny in the 60s , even campy, but it really won't work today. There are so many shows from that time that they could try to reboot and make it work today. How about Lost in Space? With all the computer cgi that have today , that show could reallly work. Especially if they went for a more serious take ,instead of the campy feel the original had.
The original LIS was quite serious. It wasn't until 1965 (when it went to color) that it became a kiddie-fest. There was an interview with the actor who played Dr. Smith (Johnothan Harris) explaining how he was originally supposed to be only on the pilot, but he made the perfect villain and they kept him. He explained how he saw the writing on the wall. As an actor he knew that the saboteur, seditious malcontent was wearing thin. He started to morph his character to the comic relief. Oh, the pain, the pain!
Then there was the movie from 1998. I must have been the only one who liked it! That kind of look and feel is exactly what LIS needed. Unfortunately the script of that movie didn't carry with the general public. But that look and feel is a winner.
Now, the Musnters... everyone has fond memories of that series. But it was a LOW-RATED mild success that only lasted three years. In an era with only three channels (at best), The Munsters it was #18 in the ratings in its first season and it dropped sharply after that. It is a one-joke show. We remember it as funnier than it was because we were all kids (or unborn and remember the reruns on Nick at Nite). But watching reruns now, the show is just tired.
The only shows from the 60s that stand a shot are action dramas like "Hawaii 5-0", which has a new life now. Shows like Mannix, Ironsides, Streets of San Fransisco, The Saint, heck even something like Daktari could make it now with the right tweaks. Then there is Mission:Impossible which had mild success in its TERRIBLY written 1990s revival. The movie franchise killed off Jim Phelps as a turn-coat (something I never forgave the movies for doing), but a TV reboot of the whole thing would be great!
Or the family dromedy. No... not the Brady Bunch. But things like "The Waltons" or even a properly updated "My Three Sons" could have legs.
But not The Munsters.
