Can you name all 10 of these forgotten TV reboots?

The Sixties, Seventies and Eighties will always be mined.

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Who needs original ideas when the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties gave us so many fantastic shows? 

For decades, television has been recycling its most familiar properties. They just announced a new Knight Rider. It doesn't matter when you take this quiz — that statement will probably be true. Occasionally, they click and turn into big hits, like MacGyver.

Sometimes, however, the reboots quickly fade into obscurity. Like this lesser-known 10. See if you can name that reboot!

  1. Andy Dick phoned in it in this 1995 reboot.
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  2. Malcolm McDowell starred in this 1998 reboot.
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  3. Which Eighties action favorite was rebooted as this crew in 1997?
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  4. This Sixties series made a syndicated comeback in 1987.
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  5. Monte Markham had the winning hand as this classic character in 1973.
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  6. This big family came returned to television for a new generation in 1991.
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  7. This 1994 reboot brought back the original star (pictured center).
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  8. "Matt Doyle" and "Gus Grant" were the new officers in this 1990 reboot.
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  9. Michelle Ryan played this Seventies action hero in a 2007 reboot.
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  10. Stuart Townsend revived this Seventies character in short-lived 2005 series.
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Can you name all 10 of these forgotten TV reboots?

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138 Comments

tbrian 1 month ago
You got 6 out of 10. Only saw or heard of two of these shows.
nemalki 11 months ago
10/10, and I watched most of 'em except for #5 (which I heard about in recent years but never seen).
JDnHuntsvilleAL 37 months ago
WOW, I've never heard of most of these.
Minnie212 47 months ago
5 out if 10 This was a real challenger.
GregLemieux 48 months ago
10/10. I actually enjoyed "The New Perry Mason" back when it was on.
scp 48 months ago
9 out of 10; that Monty Markham reboot from the seventies threw me.

At least two of these weren't reboots so much as sequels.
bnichols23 48 months ago
-snort2- Pitiful. Knew them all, & only one was any damn good -- Burke's Law.
metvpush 48 months ago
Laacey you are good, 4/10 for me on the reboots....
Lacey 48 months ago
9/10 and I got the LAST NAME of #10 right.
The funny thing is that I never saw any of the reboots.
bnichols23 Lacey 48 months ago
You didn't miss much, except for Gene Barry, & even his was hit/miss.
MrBill 48 months ago
10/10; I knew all of them - easy one for me.
Wiseguy 48 months ago
It's Hawaii Five-0 with a zero. The Five-0 stands for "50" as in the 50th state. (In both series the Five-0 stands for the number 50). Using the letter O is meaningless and stupid. (And don't give me the nonsense that CBS retitled the original series (after it was off the air for 30 years) to differentiate it from the new series. Other series such as Dark Shadows, Mission: Impossible, Star Trek (the animated series) and even Punky Brewster (the animated series)* and the first ALF animated series all reused the original title with no confusion.)
*When the series went to DVD it was retitled "It's Punky Brewster as if that was the title it was broadcast as.

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