CBS to remake Streets of San Francisco (oh please don’t ruin it)

July 31, 2008

Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, Programming, Reality-Free

There was a time I was completely obsessed with The Streets of San Francisco. I never really watched it when it was on ABC in prime time, except for an episode here and there, but I used to watch it each day in the afternoon after school when a local station aired repeats. It was one of the highlights of the day for a while. It’s one of those solid 70s shows with a good cast and some interesting guest stars (Arnold Schwarzenegger as a weight lifter who kills people when they make fun of his size!).

CBS is going to remake the show, and I have the ability to only envision it’s going to be CSI: San Francisco. The beauty of these old shows was the cast, so I don’t know what you get by just taking the title and putting new actors in there. Hopefully they’ll keep the old theme song, and resist the urge to add rap lyrics to it.

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