CBS' Elementary sounded awfully familiar to BBC viewers when it was announced - the modern-day Sherlock Holmes thing had just been done, and well, as Sherlock. The show could be good, but why redo such a recent concept when there are true gems that could stand to be dusted off? We think the time may have come for the following five cult hits:
Sapphire and Steel - David McCallum and Joanna Lumley played elements-made-human who investigated frightening supernatural events caused by rips in the fabric of time. Things got increasingly weird, and the series ended with them trapped in an inter-dimensional roadside diner for eternity. It's time to bust them out.
Blake's 7 - From Terry Nation, creator of the Daleks, this 1978 show featured a political dissident in a fascist future, fighting the power with a crew of seven in what looked sort of like a backwards-flying starship Enterprise. Like Sapphire and Steel, it ended bleakly; in this case with most major characters dead. But who's to say Blake didn't have an illegitimate kid?
Robin of Sherwood - We know the BBC did a new Robin Hood in 2006, and in typical British fashion, it once again - yep! - ended on a downer. But we want more of the 1984 version with Clannad music, deer-headed pagan gods and Ray Winstone as the most badass Will Scarlet ever.
The Tripods - The mid-'80s TV adaptation of John Christopher's War of the Worlds-Planet of the Apes hybrid only covered two-thirds of the story. This needs a full-on remake; Disney has had the rights since the '90s, and needs to "Tri, tri again."
Red Dwarf - A slacker, a neurotic jerk of a hologram, a senile computer and a super-evolved cat are the only crew left on a mining spaceship, three million years after everyone else onboard has died. Six new episodes of this 1988 cult comedy were recently shot, and are eagerly awaited.
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