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Night Court revival
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Here's a clickbait link that brought up a few characters I forgot about...hopefully we will see a couple
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https://www.heraldweekly.com/what-h...night-court-behind-the-scenes-facts/20?xcmg=1
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https://www.heraldweekly.com/what-h...night-court-behind-the-scenes-facts/20?xcmg=1
31 Years Ago Tonight (May 31, 1992).
The series finale for the original.
The series finale for the original.
This calls for a multiBull head-slap.
I'm a few episodes into S6 in my re(?)watch.
I'm a few episodes into S6 in my re(?)watch.
They still got it.
Too bad the show doesn't. I've tried to like this but I just can't. Maybe it's because the original Night Court is one of my all time favorite shows and I can't help but make comparisons. Logically, I know that I shouldn't but emotionally I can't help it. I just don't care for this new version. It's the palest of shadows of the original. With the exception of Dan, it's really hard for me to like any of these characters. They should have left well enough alone but this is what Hollywood does these days. Remake something instead of making something new.
I will watch the first episode of season 2 just to see Marcia Warfield.
People have been attributing that to Hollywood "these days" for almost as long as Hollywood has existed. There have always, always been remakes, and revivals of older TV series are nothing new. Dragnet was revived in the '60s. The '70s and early '80s had animated revivals of old series like Gilligan's Island, Batman, Flash Gordon, The Lone Ranger, and Zorro, and Gilligan had three live-action revival movies. Columbo and Perry Mason were revived in the late '80s-'90s, after a short-lived attempt to remake Perry Mason with new actors in the '70s. Then there were all the revivals Michael Sloan specialized in making in the '80s, like the three bionic revival movies, the movies The Return of the Man from UNCLE and The Return of Sam McCloud, and the 1990s TV series Kung Fu: The Legend Continues.
And that's my point. Most of the examples I cited were revivals of the original shows, direct in-continuity sequels with some or all of the same cast. There is nothing remotely new about that practice.
Other examples include The Avengers (the '60s British spy show) being revived as The New Avengers in the '70s, Leave it to Beaver being revived in the '80s as Still the Beaver, The New WKRP in Cincinnati in the early '90s, and the Mission: Impossible revival in 1988 (though that was in response to the writers' strike that year and was originally planned as a remake of old scripts). Maverick was briefly revived in 1981 as Bret Maverick. There were three different revivals of Get Smart! -- the theatrical movie The Nude Bomb, the TV movie Get Smart Again!, and a short-lived sequel series with Andy Dick playing Maxwell Smart's son. There were a couple of attempts in the '80s to revive The Brady Bunch, as a sitcom and as a drama.
And don't forget, a musical variety show which had them all in-character for some odd reason. There was also a cartoon series that actually spun off things such as the Wonder Woman cartoon of all things.
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Not exactly. Filmation's The Brady Kids did feature Wonder Woman's first ever screen appearance in 1972, but it did not lead to a series. Her next animated appearance was in Hanna-Barbera's Super Friends starting in 1973, as part of the Justice League. The closest we've ever gotten to a Wonder Woman animated series was an abortive attempt in 1993 to make her the lead of an all-female hero team show intended to sell a line of action figures, which was cancelled before a pilot was made.
The Brady Kids did spin off one series, though -- Mission: Magic! starring Rick Springfield. A teacher named Miss Tickle (pun on "mystical") had been developed for season 2 of The Brady Kids, but Lou Scheimer decided to pitch a series built around her to promote the importance of teachers. I'm not sure it quite counts as a spinoff, though, because she debuted as a regular in Mission: Magic! a week before her sole Brady Kids appearance.
Anyway, The Brady Kids was contemporaneous with season 4 of The Brady Bunch, so it was a spinoff itself rather than a revival. There were a number of animated adaptations in the early '80s of then-current live-action series such as Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, and The Dukes of Hazzard (plus a Mork & Mindy animated series that debuted the season after the live-action show ended).
Sorry, my bad. I did mean Super Friends, not specifically a cartoon of her own. But still regardless, the Brady cartoon was her first ever appearance that served as an introduction. Interesting how cartoons could act as backdoor pilots for other properties even when they were technically incompatible.
I doubt that had anything to do with it. Super Friends came about when Hanna-Barbera acquired the rights to adapt the Justice League of America comics, and Wonder Woman had been a perennial member of the JLA from the beginning, so of course she would've been included. Not to mention that Wonder Woman had always been famous; in the '40s, when comics were huge, she was surpassed in popularity only by Superman and Batman, and in the '50s she was one of the main targets of Fredric Wertham's attack on comics. The makers of Batman '66 made a dreadful concept film for a sitcom based on her in the '60s, and the cover of a Wonder Woman comic appeared onscreen in Midnight Cowboy in 1969.
The Brady Kids appearance may be a trivia footnote as her first screen appearance as a speaking character, but it sure as hell wasn't her "introduction," and there's no reason to think it influenced Hanna-Barbera in any way. Correlation does not imply causation, certainly not for a character who'd already been famous for three decades.
Ok, would it be better if I said, "first animated appearance"? I realize she had been in comics before that, but I don't think it's unreasonable to assume she was being used as a testbed.
Of course it's unreasonable, because a Filmation show would not be a "testbed" for a Hanna-Barbera show. Not only were they two separate companies, but they were each other's primary rivals -- the DC and Marvel of 1970s Saturday morning animation, or the Mac and PC, or the Coke and Pepsi. Filmation would not have been in the business of trying things out for the competition's benefit.
Richard Moll, who played Bull, has passed away at 80.
https://x.com/morgfair/status/1718030870009770246?s=20
May he RIP.
Screw 2023.
https://x.com/morgfair/status/1718030870009770246?s=20
May he RIP.
Screw 2023.
Rest in Peace, Big Guy.
We loved you.
We loved you.
Rest in peace Bull.
Oh damn. 
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