The list for August 8, 1997
The Top 15 Old TV Show Plots Updated
for the 90’s (Part II)
for the 90’s (Part II)
- “Lassie” — Timmy falls down the old well, bringing a CNN news crew and a dozen benefit concerts before Lassie can even say, “Woof”.
- “Lost in Space” — Hilarity abounds when the Robot discovers what appears to be a remote control car examining rocks on the red planet.
- “Bonanza” — Federal ATF agents lay siege to the Ponderosa after Adam, Hoss, and Little Joe declare themselves “freemen.”
- “Diff’rent Strokes” — Willis joins the Dallas Cowboys.
- “My Three Sons” — Ernie learns a valuable lesson about genital warts.
- “MTV’s Gilligan’s Island” — Seven people from diverse backgrounds arrive at a hip exotic South Pacific island, where they’ll room together for the next few years while a camera catches every zany development.
- “Dobie Gillis” — Maynard G. Krebbs smokes some bad crack and hallucinates that he’s a castaway stuck on an island with a bunch of other nitwits.
- “Happy Days” — Fonzie contracts herpes but is quickly healed after snapping his fingers and yelling, “Hey!”
- “Hogan’s Heroes ” — Sgt. Schultz opens a great new soup restaurant in Manhattan.
- “The Honeymooners” — Trixie and Alice surprise the boys by returning from the mall with pierced tongues.
- “The Fugitive” — Dr. Richard Kimble, the prime suspect in his wife’s murder, decides to stop searching for the “real murderer” so he can concentrate on his golf game.
- “The Brady Bunch” — A loan shark shows Greg the ins and outs of a compound fracture, and Marcia gets hit in the nose by a drive-by shooting.
- “Mork and Mindy” — Mindy panics when “Dr. Mork” breaks out the probe.
- “The Andy Griffith Show” — Guest star Michael Jackson’s keen interest in Opie has Andy worried and Barney in a snit.
And the Number 1 Old TV Show Plot Updated for the 90’s…
- “Bewitched” — Samantha gives Darren a permanent woody; Endora mischievously relocates it to his forehead; Darren explains it to Larry Tate by saying it’s part of his new marketing campaign for Unicorn Industries.
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CREDITS
Selected from 149 submissions from 52 contributors.
Today’s list authors were:
- Hank Weilevy, Fairless Hills, PA — 1 (4th #1)
- Randy Wohl, Ma’ale Adumim, Israel — 2
- Jesse Garon, San Francisco, CA — 3
- Wade Kwon, Birmingham, AL — 4
- Bo Williams, Huntsville, AL — 4, 11
- Spike Jones, Atlanta, GA — 5, 14
- Doug Johnson, Santa Cruz, CA — 6
- George Olson, Colorado Springs, CO — 7
- Paul Paternoster, Redwood City, CA — 8
- Bruce Ansley, Baltimore, MD — 9
- Peg Warner, Derry, NH — 10
- Alan Smithee, Sugar Land, TX — 12
- David Kass, Brooklyn, NY — 13
- Greg Sadosuk, Fairfax, VA — 15
- The Monkees, Los Angeles, CA — Ambience
- Joel McClure, Royal Oak, MI — Banner tag
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