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looking at the top 10 TV shows that
returned from the dead number 10 punky
brewster in 1984 to 1986 1987 to 1988
she was a pint-sized lovable and spunky
girl who was known for her bold wardrobe
and earth-shattering ability to melt the
heart of her cantankerous guardian
actress Sally moon fry stepped into
punky Brewster's mismatched high-top
tennis shoes and gone as an avid young
audience when NBC first but the show on
air unfortunately the audience was just
not large enough for NBC's rating
standards and after two seasons the show
was axed but a widespread movement in
the mid-1980s known as first-run
syndication breathed new life into punky
brewster for one more season the format
in the revival was similar to the
original NBC run though some of the
storylines revealed a more mature tone
in the end the revival in syndication
matched the NBC run bringing punky
brewster to the illustrious mantle of
eighty eight episodes spanning four
seasons the perfect combination meant
the lovable character has lived on over
the years through reruns on various
broadcast cable and online outlets
number nine mother's family 1983 to 1984
1986 to 1990 the Southern Fried humour
displayed on Mama's Family was fairly
straightforward but the history behind
the series's origin and various attempts
at getting on the air is more storied
actress Vicki Lawrence who first gained
fame on the Carol Burnett Show stepped
into the elderly mummers signature
sagging support hose through a series of
sketches known as the family several
years after Burnitz hit variety show
went off the air producer Joe Hamilton
Burnitz then husband shopped around the
idea of a spinoff of the family sketches
Hamilton sold the idea of bringing the
standalone sitcom by then known as
momma's family to NBC chairmen grant
tinker over a game of golf in the early
1980s mother and her brood which in the
early episodes featured the occasional
appearance by Burnett and established
actresses Betty White and rue mcclanahan
only had a brief stay on NBC the series
was booted off the airwaves after a
season and a half of middling ratings
but Lawrence got back into a support
hose after a two-year hiatus Mama's
family was more successful in
syndication than it was in its original
NBC
run the series ran through early 1990
number 8 jag 1995 to 1996 1997 to 2005
the naval themed series headlined by
actor David James Elliott's was pitched
as a hybrids of the plots in Top Gun and
a few good men with two blockbuster
films his inspiration jag seemed poised
for success but NBC the network who
ordered a pilot to series dumped it in a
sleepy timeslot and the drama ranks
number 79 in the ratings at the end of
its inaugural season with such low
ratings Jagan's the ship series rode in
on seemed sank but CBS seeing potential
in the series swept to the rescue and
brought the series back midway through
the 1996 to 1997 season ratings
gradually rose and over the years the
drama found its way into the top 20 on a
few occasions throughout its long-lived
run Jag's lineage is also traced to
another exceptionally long-lived CBS
drama NCIS as the latter was a spinoff
of the mothership no pun intended
number 7 Charles in Charge 1984 to 1985
1987 to 1990 Scott Baio's first attempt
at a starring role in a series Joanie
Loves Chachi fell flat but the happy
days alone struck a gold the second time
around albeit with a few twists and
turns along the way he played a male
housekeeper Charles in Charge aired for
one season on CBS to low ratings but the
sitcoms production company scholastic
shopped it around and struck a deal to
end new episodes through first-run
syndication after a year-and-a-half
respite there were significant cast
changes between the two versions of the
sitcom while Charles and his sidekick
best friends the absentee named Buddy
Willie Aames appeared throughout the
sitcoms run Charles cared for the
Pembroke family during the CBS run but a
plot twist resulted in the titular
character tending to the Powell brood
throughout the rest of the series run in
syndication number six Leave It to
Beaver 1957 to 1958 1958 to 1963
unlike most series receiving the c-word
a well-worn black-and-white sitcom Leave
It to Beaver continue to run without so
much as a hiccup when CBS announced it
was axing the show after one season ABC
almost immediately swooped in and
revived the defining period piece known
for wholesome moral lessons and Barbara
Billingsley s amazing ability to vacuum
in high heels and pearls in a quirky
case of deja vu
mid-1980s reboot of the sitcom had a
very similar scenario the Disney Channel
ran an update of the sitcom with many of
the same actors reprising their roles
still the vive however met an early
demise on the kiddie cable channel and
it was revived on a different cable
outlet Ted Turner's then Atlanta
superstation WTBS number 5 community
2009 to 2014 and 2015 the fear of
cancellation was always an annual
occurrence on community a critically
acclaimed low rated cult classic sitcom
that centered around a group of adults
from disparate backgrounds who attended
the fictitious Greendale Community
College throughout its five-year run on
NBC community received plenty of buzz
for the on-screen and off-screen antics
that took place but after years of
back-and-forth rumors about the show's
fate NBC finally pulled the trigger at
the conclusion of the 2013 to 2014
season handing creator Dan Harmon a pink
slip after a few months of dormancy
executives of the internet company Yahoo
announced that they were bringing the
series back for another season through
the company's Yahoo screen service which
at the time had just begun dabbling in
original productions the cost of
acquiring the rights to stream new
episodes of community approved cost
prohibitive however and the series bowed
out after one additional season on line
number four Baywatch 1989 to 1990 and
1991 to 2001 once considered America's
most exported entertainment program
Baywatch was known for plot lines that
weren't nearly as skimpy as the bathing
suits the beach babes wore throughout
the series decade plus run NBC
introduced the David Hasselhoff headline
series but through its back in the ocean
after one season through the wonders of
first-run syndication the producers of
Baywatch struck a deal to revive the
series after a one-year hiatus selling
new episodes to TV stations across the
u.s. as time went on the show became a
cash cow because the rights were sold to
TV networks on other countries spanning
the globe
number three Cagney and Lacey 1982 1982
to 1983 1983 to 1988 of all the series
receiving second chances the police
procedural Cagney & Lacey is notable for
a number of reasons chief among them
being the fact that it was not canceled
once but twice by the same network early
in its run the drama about two female
detectives suffered a number of
asked changes in the pilot episode
actress Loretta Swit played detective
Christine Cagney but when the drama was
ordered series actress Meg foster
stepped into the role actress Tyne Daly
played detective Marybeth Lacey
throughout the run after a low-rated
tryout series of six episodes CBS
canceled the series at the close of the
1981 to 1982 season vocal outcry is
about what was believed to be a
trailblazing series however prompted CBS
executives to reverse their decision so
long as Fausto was replaced with actress
Sharon glass Cagney and Lacey soldier
Don for its second season but executives
remained weary of the anemic ratings the
drama was canceled again at the close of
the 1982 to 1983 season but advocates
for quality television mounted a
stunning campaign the publicity coupled
with notably high ratings during summer
reruns prompted executives to again
change their mind from there the show
enjoyed a long healthy and far more
stable run number 2 Family Guy
1999 to 2002 2005 to present premiering
in a coveted spot immediately after the
Superbowl the odds initially looked good
for Family Guy the Fox networks first
major foray into launching an animated
primetime series since the Simpsons hit
the airwaves a decade earlier but after
four seasons of basement-dwelling
ratings network executives pulled the
plug on the antics of the Griffin family
after several years of dormancy to
eyebrow-raising factors impressed Fox
executives and prompted a revival in
2005 for one the Cartoon Network had
been airing reruns of the series on its
Adult Swim block of programming and it
received high ratings another factor
that led to the about-face decision were
the volumous profits from DVD sales
suggesting strong interest in the series
since its revival Family Guy has been a
venerable staple on Fox's Sunday night
lineup number one Arrested Development
2003 to 2006 and 2013 to the present
praised by critics and viewers for razor
sharp satirical dialogue Arrested
Development garnered heavy publicity for
his portrayal of the wealthy deeply
dysfunctional Bluth family unfortunately
bull the media buzz surrounding the show
did not translate into ratings magic
after three low rated seasons Fox gave
the comedy the ax
any attempted revival appear dead when
creator Mitch Hurwitz indicated the show
would not be transitioning to Showtime
yes
however the rest of development did come
back to life in 2013
officials at streaming video service
Netflix began dipping their toes into
the pool of original programming they
commissioned a fourth season of the show
that essentially picked up seven years
after the show went off the air and
another season is currently in the works
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