What childhood TV shows deserve a reboot?

The success of X-Men '97 raises the question: Which of our favorite series growing up should return?

By Saloni Gajjar, Tim Lowery, Drew Gillis, Mary Kate Carr, Cindy White, Meredith Hobbs Coons, Jen Lennon, William Hughes | April 18, 2024 | 12:00pm

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What childhood TV shows deserve a reboot?

Clockwise from bottom left: Faerie Tale Theatre, The Pirates Of Dark Water, Aaahh!! Real Monsters, and Dungeons & Dragons Screenshot: YouTube

Reboots are normally frowned upon, especially if it’s a project you’ve cherished for a long time. How dare anyone touch it and potentially ruin something fun you grew up with. Yet along comes X-Men ’97, which proves it’s still possible to nail the whole bringing-back-a-beloved-series thing. In that spirit, we asked The A.V. Club staff: What beloved TV show from your childhood deserves a reboot?

Kablam!

Kablam! | Complete Season One | 1996 - 1997

Action League Now! and Prometheus And Bob, you will always be famous. They were two of my favorite shorts of Nickelodeon’s KaBlam! The animated sketch comedy took fun risks with the genre (the PAB stop-motion was amazing). It lampooned cartoons while also providing original humor, and I remember laughing a lot while watching it. The show ran for four seasons, which is pretty great. But that doesn’t mean a new generation of children, along with the grown-ups who enjoyed it back then, wouldn’t want KaBlam! to return with inventive goofiness. [Saloni Gajjar]

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