Can you name these '60s TV characters from their movie reboots?

Can you recognize these beloved characters as their not-so-beloved remakes?

 

Pop culture nostalgia seems to focus its attention on a 30-year distance. This is why you'll find businessmen wearing fat, gaudy neckties in the 1940s and 1970s. This is why the last decade has been so obsessed with the 1980s — and why the '90s are now roaring back.

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This is also why there were countless movie reboots of 1960s television shows in the 1990s. Everyone from The Brady Bunch to The Addams Family and The Fugitive returned to screens, only upgraded to the multiplex. Well, perhaps not always upgraded in quality. In fact, aside from the three we just mentioned, most of these remakes were ill-advised.

You know these iconic characters. In fact, many of them can be seen on MeTV. Let's see if you can recognize them in their rebooted form. Good luck!

  1. Shelley Long is best known as Diane on 'Cheers' but in 1995 she played this iconic mom.
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  2. Rick Moranis played this friendly fellow in 1994.
     Image: The Everett Collection
  3. Anjelica Huston portrayed this matriarch in 1991.
     Image: The Everett Collection
  4. Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman played this character in 2005. It is not the film that earned her an Oscar.
     Image: The Everett Collection
  5. Anne Hathaway played this character in 2008.
     Image: The Everett Collection
  6. Erika Eleniak of 'Baywatch' played this character in 1993.
     Image: The Everett Collection
  7. Christopher Lloyd of 'Taxi' played this character in a 1999 Disney film.
     Image: The Everett Collection
  8. Cameron Finley played this iconic kid in a 1997 reboot.
     Image: The Everett Collection
  9. Matt LeBlanc of 'Friends' played this character in a 1998 reboot.
     Image: The Everett Collection
  10. Claire Danes of 'Homeland' played this character in a 1999 reboot.
     Image: The Everett Collection
  11. Rocker singer David Johansen of the New York Dolls and Buster Poindexter fame played this cop in 1994.
     Image: The Everett Collection

Can you name these '60s TV characters from their movie reboots?

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37 Comments

DK 23 months ago
10/11. I didn't even know that there was a Leave it to Beaver movie.
RJOwles 29 months ago
What the hell is a Gunther Toody?
BarbaraSmith RJOwles 29 months ago
Car 54, Where Are You?
Calagax 32 months ago
Technically, Nicole Kidman did not play Samantha Stephens. She played an actress named Isabel Bigalow who was cast in a remake of Bewitched.
EllisClevenger 61 months ago
You got 10 out of 11
You brushed right through that with ease! Nice work!
Missed #8.
STTOS 62 months ago
You got 11 out of 11 - You brushed right through that with ease! Nice work! Had to guess on a couple of them but guessed correctly.
JeffTanner 62 months ago
I got 8 t of 11 -----------Got #s 8, 9, and 10 wrong.
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