(Challenge) Your fav film/tv show, in another decade

"The Simpsons" or "Family Guy" wouldn't work back in the 1950s--if the FCC doesn't drive them off the air, the Catholic Legion of Decency would. They'd have to be a lot tamer.

Hhhmmm wouldn't that just make them the "Flintstones"?;)
 
Hogan's Heroes, 1986 instead of 1966 debut: A drama set in WW II, where Hogan and his men must try to help others escape with the occasional sabotage (no foiling weapons that weren't in use in OTL in this one), and deal with the grim realities of fighting the war behind enemy lines. As the Cold War ends, the show's tone changes a bit and the men become a little looser and more willing to joke around, but not a whole lot, and the theme remains the same - fighting against a seemingly unstoppable machine, with the only hope the fact that someone besides the fat guard Schultz is clearly on their side. general Burkhalter seems to have divided loyalties, as does Klink, and viewers speculate till the last episode, in 1990, that one or both may be secret Allied agents, too.

(*Note - in the original, we do know Schultz is a Social Democrat, from one ep., but here, he would clearly side with the Allies, not just ignore stuff. Klink might still be a dupe, but a much deeper dupe, his lack of spine coming from his being like Hamlet, not sure which side to take and whether to take a stand. Gen. Burkhalter does allow a lot of people to come through Stalag 13 in our HH, and ignored a couple things that were borderline, and with his also allowing the dupe Klink to stay there, shows he *could* have been Nimrod, a British agent referred to in one episode where he is one of the only likely people it could be. Here, the mystery would run much deeper and be much clearer.*)

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"Full House" - starts 1957: Think "Leave It To Beaver" with girls, with part of the comedy D.J., the oldest girl, forced to be the mother figure, treating it in a more lighthearted way. Joey is the goofy next door neighbor and Danny's best friend, brother-in-law Jesse a young rock and roller just as the craze is starting, but while both appear in every episode to help after Danny's wife dies, neither lives with them. Insead, it's D.J. dealing with things as disciplinarian, but her struggles with balancing her responsibilities at home and trying to be a teen treated in a more lighthearted approach. Also, not as much misbehavior, D.J. would run a very tight ship. The focus would sort of be on her outwardly doing this, especially with Michelle, rather than just implied (as in "someone had to do something for her to be as good as she was") like is brought out in the Chronology. This way, Danny is more invisible, instead of outwardly ignoring some of Michelle's misbehavior. Some may still speculate he suffers from depression over losing Pam, though, just as some do now with OTL's FH.
 

maverick

Banned
Superman as a jaunty 1900s mini-adventure?

A Superman movie 38 years before he appeared on the comics:p

Actually, not as crazy as it could be, Chris Oakley did something called "Man of Steel", in which Superman was a French superhero created by Jules Verne in the 1870s...
 
All in the Family

Archie Bunker's he's an airplane pilot who survived a hijacking, a friend died in 9/11 maybe.

Edith's best friend is a lesbian.

Mike is an Arab journalist.

Gloria is a left-wing pot smoker.

Maude was a spinoff of All in the Family; she could be a middle-aged lesbian.
 
A Superman movie 38 years before he appeared on the comics:p

Actually, not as crazy as it could be, Chris Oakley did something called "Man of Steel", in which Superman was a French superhero created by Jules Verne in the 1870s...

Well the OP never said anything about the POD from OTL. After all, most of the ideas shown would be invalid.

The Oakley idea you mention sounds fascinating.

For my Film Studies class I wrote a Fantomas story, done in the style of 21st century superhero/detective stories, which had an unnerving similarity to Dark Knight that I later watched

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantômas
 
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