Describe a plot for a TV series that was never made...

[KansDem]

I would have liked to seen an(other) "Odd Couple" show produced, only this time it would star David Odgen Stiers and Kelsey Grammar. One would be a professor of classics and the other a professor of philosophy. Anyway, they both are hired at an elite ive-league college and both requested faculty housing for the first year. However, the college makes a mistake and gives them the same apartment, which they discover when they show up for the first day of classes.

Because housing is so tight, they both agree to share the cramped quarters, then proceed to "out-arrogant" each other with witty repartee...



on edit: This would be a 1/2-hour sitcom...

[Frank Cannon]

1. I always wanted to make a TV series called "Good Lord!"

about Jesus and the Apostles.

Nothing rude or blasphemous, though. It would only focus on Jesus's ministry as he went around preaching. Miracles and the Crucifixion would be left out of it.

I just think those Apostles were a wacky bunch and lend themselves to some great comedy. Jesus would more-or-less be the straight man. (I used to picture him being played by Joel Higgins. Now, I would probably enlist Nathan Fillion.)

[KansDem]

4. Has potential!

I think Martin Mull would make a fantastic straight-man Jesus:



...without the glasses, of course.

[Mike 03]

9. I love Martin Mull, and have since I was a little kid.

Has "America 2-Night" ever been put on DVD? Or even video? I would buy that in two seconds.

I idolized that show, although my parents would only let me watch it when I didn't have a school day the next day.

[KansDem]

11. Could you be possibly referring to "Fernwood 2 Night?"

I think I know what you mean. Mull played the perfect straight-man to Fred Willard's zaniness. I always enjoyed watching it at the end of the day!

Fernwood 2 Night

[sarge43]

8. That sounds like fun.

The episode everyone loves is "JC Goes Home".

First words from Mom and Dad.

Joseph: So. You still running around with those bums? No job? Figures.

Mary: The neighbors are beginning to talk. The ben Hurs have this daughter - nice girl. You should meet her. Your father isn't getting any younger. When are you taking over the business?

When JC returns.

Peter: Hey man! How's things back in Nass?

JC: Don't ask.

[Frank Cannon]

23. See what I mean?

This idea is a comedy gold mine. And the outrage of the fundies would guarantee a hit.

[sarge43]

25. Agree lot's of potential

The miracles shouldn't be dropped.

JC's encountered with the demon Legion who's a smart ass and the possessed pigs (as they stampede through the village and dive into the Sea of Galilee, Thomas: Uh. That didn't go well. You gotta work on your routine, dude.)

[datasuspect]

2. i always thought "Son of Sanford and Son" would have been a good concept

Synopsis

Fred Sanford never eats Juan's mofongo and leaves it in the fridge.

some of his skin cells drop into it and one of Lamont's eyelashes falls into it.

over time, an organism grows in it and becomes a 8 foot tall reptilian humanoid creature that marries aunt esther.

[KansDem]

3. "...becomes a 8 foot tall reptilian humanoid creature that marries aunt esther"

WOW!!! Why wish that on the 8-foot-tall reptilian humanoid creature?

[Deja Q]

5. Terry Nation, in 1967, wanted to launch a TV series in America, starring...

the Daleks.

[Initech]

6. I want a sitcom based on the Reagan administration.

[no name no slogan]

7. I once had an idea where I got in this car accident

where the other guy was at fault. However, since he didn't have insurance and could pay for it, the court sentences him to be my butler instead.

I think it would've been hilarious.

[KansDem]

10. Yes!!!

Imagine the joke potential:

"Jeeves, can you bring the tray of food in here? And don't bump into anything, Okay?"

"Sir, I relish being your butler, but for a change of pace, could I be you chauffeur too?"
"Certainly you jest!"

"Who do I hear mowing the lawn?"
"Jeeves"
"Quick, everybody jump three feet into the air. And stay there!"

[struggle4progress]

12. "Communist Parties"

The warm wacky adventures of a gaggle of young Trotskyite organizers who are organizing on the factory floor by day and partying their brains out by night, in an increasingly successful effort to bring the working class to power in a small American town. Follow them every week as they fight their own residual bourgeois tendencies, unionize the sheriff's department, and force the local factory owner to share profits and decision-making with his employees

[KansDem]

22. Would this be circa 1920s?

I could see some of Peter Sellers "I'm Alright Jack" in this plot...

[struggle4progress]

24. I was thinking "timeless contemporary" -- the factory owner has to be from approximately

1910 with flinty aristocratic ideas but good intentions, the grandfolks all drive classics from the 30s and 40s, the sheriff's modeled on small-town 1950s and likes to hang out in the 1950s drugstore but his deputies are likeable rednecks right out of some 1970s car-chase movie, the Trotskyites' mentor is sort of a 1960s needs-a-haircut radical Carl Sagan look-alike, his wife is a 1980's version of Angela Davis whom he met in Nicaragua during the Reagan era -- there's a beatnik poet, there's a trailer-park "massage parlor" (which the Trotskyites are trying to organize into the same industrial union as the sheriff's deputies), and so on. We'll give the younger Trotskyites cell-phones and laptops; one of the older ones can be a back-to-the-land Luddite who has a composting toilet and a battery-powered radio but no TV

[charlie and algernon]

13. I think a Bull Durham type series would be great

A 35 yr old MLB player is sent back to the minors to a sucky AAA team. He ends up mentoring future stars and becomes the heart and soul of the team. But more importantly, the show is a look at America's pastime and how it inspires and affects all those involved, from the players, coaches, and fans.

Richard Schiff plays the Manager.

[Mojambo]

14. Mine's a movie actually.

A buddy "cop" feature where Jerry Seinfeld and Garry Shandling play a pair of washed up former comedians who the FBI hire to go undercover on the stand up circuit to solve a string of comedy club murders.

[KansDem]

20. This would be good!

Sort of like an "I Spy" scenario? I could see humor in not only the situations these two would get into, but also in the "lame" routines that eventually led to their "washed-up former comedian" status! It could be so painful you'd want them to succeed as undercover agents!

[Mike 03]

15. Describe a thread that is a dream come true for Hollywood executive producers. NT

[XemaSab]

16. I think it would be cool to do a show that was the making of a movie

where after 22 episodes or whatever, the season finale was the actual movie.

[KansDem]

21. Yeah!

A kind of unfolding of the making of the movie resulting in the actual movie itself...

Sehr gut!...

[RFKHumphreyObama]

17. I have long wanted to make a series called "Freshman President"

The basic premise would revolve around a Democratic presidential nominee (probably a conservative Southern Democrat from Alabama or Mississippi) who selects a freshman (first-term) congressman as his running mate both for geographical reasons and to solidify his support among the party’s left wing base. The ticket would get elected but then the President-elect would die just before the inauguration and the rookie congressman would become President. The show would focus on how the new President, who has not had much experience with Washington and politics, gradually adjusts to the realities and constraints of executive power while yet not losing his idealism.

I’d have Aaron Sorkin as Executive Producer and I always envisioned Rob Lowe as the rookie congressman who would assume the presidency

[charlie and algernon]

18. If Rob Lowe is reprising Sam Seaborn, then go for it

[rcrush]

19. A black sitcom that doesnt make you go...

Like anything on UPN or I guess it would TBS today.