10 Resurrected TV Shows That Should’ve Stayed Dead

6. Get Smart

The original Get Smart was about as weird and funny as a half hour show was legally allowed to be in the late 1960s. Created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, it starred Don Adams (later the voice of Inspector Gadget, sort of ripping off his own show) as Maxwell Smart/Agent 86 and Barbara Feldon as Agent 99 (that was her name), agents of CONTROL, a top-secret U.S. counter-intelligence agency. It was everything you'd want out of a spy show created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, complete madcap slapstick madness with awesome running jokes. And eventually they added a bunch of weird psychedelic stuff, too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1eUIK9CihA The show ran five seasons and bowed out gracefully. There were two reunion movies in the '80s: The Nude Bomb in theaters in 1980 and Get Smart Again on TV in 1989. Reviews were mixed, but both were written by members of the original show's writing staff (with the latter having Brooks and Henry on board), so they were perfectly in the spirit of the original series and hey, they were just one-off movies decades later, so they can afford to be not so good. We expect that of reunion movies, don't we? Well, Get Smart Again was successful enough that development started on a new Get Smart that eventually landed on Fox. Adams and Feldon were back, with Max now heading CONTROL, the star agent of which was now their son Zach. Played by Andy Dick?!!?!?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2ULUpuZbCE Yes, Andy Dick. This worked just about as well as you'd expect. It was absolutely terrible, and made worse by one of the worst laugh tracks in the history of television. The show is obviously not recorded in front of a live studio audience and looks like it may not have been filmed with a laugh track in mind. It ran seven episodes before mercifully being cancelled, and Dick quickly moved on to playing Matthew on NewsRadio, which was easily the greatest role of his career.