Old TV Shows

Have you ever watched a TV show that you thought was just brilliant as a kid or teenager, but when you saw a rerun in more current times, the show somehow turned terrible? I have had many of those experiences - Magnum PI is one that comes to mind.

But there is one show that has survived the test of time...The Rockford Files. The old reruns of this show still keep me entertained. I have a Netflix account and I can even watch the shows on my computer when I'm in between movies - waiting for the next one to arrive in the mail. When I first started re-watching the Rockford Files, I feared that it would be like the others: it seemed great back then, but it would now seem lacking. That was not the case at all. James Garner and the cast of characters keep it moving. There is a story with a pretty good plot, but excellent writing - humor mixed in very well with the action.

This needs to recaptured somehow, but it seems like remakes of old shows always fail. Maybe David Chase can put something together. He was a young writer on Rockford back in the day before he went on to create the Sopranos. What are your experiences of re-watching old shows from your youth?