If you could take a kid's show from your childhood...

[KeyserCorleone]

And reboot it into a more serious, and potentially TV-14 show like Samurai Jack did, what would it be? Other than the obvious choices, Power Rangers, Pokemon and TMNT?


As an aspiring writer who values childhood, I think about this kind of thing very often. There are a lot of things I'd like to rewrite or remake because the initial concepts would have serious strengths, but end up being brought down by one or another thing.



Some key choices for me are Yugioh, since it had character development unlike most monster-battler animes, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs because COME ON, and Martin Mystery but leaning further to the original comic's story.


And I confess, I have an ongoing fanfic on DA rebooting one of the most hated shows on Earth (though it got better as it went on), and fixing all of the mistakes while making fun of them: Loonatics. :P It's going perty well.

[crumbsroom]

I used to watch a spectacularly weird and creepy Canadian show called Read All About It which promoted childhood literacy by teaching them how to read such terms as "Presumed Dead"


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It knowingly or unknowingly had elements of Giallo splashed all throughout it, and if it was made into a modern day film, I would tease this more to the forefront.



I clearly would not overlook the kiddies getting their reading lessons though. The only thing more important to a developing brain than murder is the ability to enjoy a good book.

[ynwtf]

I would be interested to see a Pg-13 to R rated remake of Spiral Zone, which was already pretty dark for a kids' show. This wasn't available where I lived and I could only catch bits of it when visiting my grandma down around Tampa, FL, but this kinda freaked me out in a good way. All I remember is that there was some kind of manufactured disease that turned people into zombies. The gadgetry toys were possibly in the top five toy designs that I can remember.

The cartoon intro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvHxhUyPiq4

A toy commercial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ELBSSa_A5g

Here's a clip detailing the history of it. There's enough here to create at least a Ghosts of Mars level movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JYHioEZ2F8

[John Dumbear]

Two of my favorite shows as a child have already been rebooted as parodies of the original. As an adult, I dig both of these.

Jonny Quest ---> The Venture Brothers
Davey and Goliath ---> Moral Orel

[Torgo]

The Legend of Prince Valiant ('91-'93), maybe? Besides Arthurian legend still being something many people are passionate about, it has such a wholesome and optimistic vibe, which with the success of shows like Ted Lasso is in right now.

[Allaby]

I want to see an edgy version of Barney the purple dinosaur.

[John Dumbear]

I want to see an edgy version of Barney the purple dinosaur.
Close,"Death to Smoochy"


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[KeyserCorleone]

I want to see an edgy version of Barney the purple dinosaur.

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On the subject of reptiles, I just realized... though I haven't seen Dragon Tales since I was eight and have no intention of seeing it again, I know I could world-build the shit out of it in a more mature reboot. Crap, now I half wanna do it and half hate myself for wanting to do it.

[Captain Steel]

The New Zoo Revue.

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It would kind of be like the Island of Dr. Moreau: where "three delightful animals" are evolved to have human intelligence & emotions, while a young man & woman are charged with controlling them! (What could possibly go wrong?) ;)

[Flicker]

I was about to say Ulysses 31 but I'm not sure there's much to change to it, actually. I suspect too much would be lost in a remake.

Maybe Captain Future, but again, either my memories trick me or there wouldn't be much to change.

The Tintin cartoons by Ellipse would have benefited from a bit of grit. It's like they took the comics and adapted for 4 years old. But they were so good graphically that a more faithful adaptation would seem redundant, lacking a visual identity of its own.

There's been a cartoon adaptation of the Bob Morane novels and it was quite bad. I'd love an adaptation that, instead of looking like that :

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would look more like this :

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or just that :

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But I suppose that any animation, nowadays, would be condemned to the cheapest, flash-like animation. Actually, one thing I liked with the original Johnny Quest series is how its graphic style evoked the kind of illustration I could find in these old second-hand Bob Morane novels. The stories' "textures" would require that. Something grainy and dusty, far from the slick, basic, stylized, easy-to-render constraints of computer-assisted animation.

[Captain Steel]

I'm actually surprised they haven't made a Johnny Quest live action movie.
It could appeal to so many modern demographics: two handsome, adventurous, adult men who live together (one a professor with a goatee), raising two young boys - one of them an Asian Indian! And there's a cute little dog too!

With the right cast, I could see numerous serials (until the boys got too old)!

[KeyserCorleone]

There was gonna be a tv series of Atlantis the Lost Empire, but it got cancelled... I would've watched the living soul out of it.


Kim Possible has potential for a more serious tv show, if not one that picks fun of cartoons. And I got word that a live-action Ben 10 is being developed. I guess if any cartoon in that era deserved to be live-action, it's the first iteration of that show.

ONE MORE THING! And it isn't Jackie Chan Adventures. I seriously want a Riverdale and Stranger Things-style dark teen comedy about Scooby Doo.