Live In Front Of A Studio Audience: Which Classic Sitcoms Will Be Done Next?

Less than a day has passed since ABC staged reenactments of Diff'rent Strokes and its offshoot The Facts of Life as part of its Live in Front of a Studio Audience franchise — but we're already thinking about what series will be featured the next go-round.

The first LIFOSA special aired May 2019, and recreated episodes of All in the Family and The Jeffersons. That was followed by a second installment in December 2019, featuring a new reenactment of All in the Family and a classic episode of Good Times.

Seeing as how all six reenactments thus far have been series created, developed or produced by the legendary Norman Lear — both Diff'rent Strokes and Facts of Life were products of Lear's now-defunct Embassy Communications production shingle — it seems likely that tradition will continue, should there be a fourth special. With that in mind, TVLine has compiled the following list of 10 other comedies that could be rebooted in the near future (assuming the decision to double dip on All in the Family won't be repeated with any other already tackled sitcom).

Scroll down to see which iconic series could get the Live in Front of a Studio Audience treatment next, then hit the comments with your casting suggestions for any of the featured shows.

Developed by Lear, this satirical soap opera starred Louise Lasser as the twice-titular character and ran for two seasons (or a total of 325 episodes) between January 1976 and July 1977. But with a reboot starring Schitt's Creek's Emily Hampshire recently ordered at TBS, revisiting this property by way of Live in Front of a Studio Audience may not be ideal at this point in time.

Created by Lear, this iconic one-and-done comedy served as a summer replacement for Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, and ran in first-run syndication from July 1977 to September 1977. The talk show parody starred Martin Mull as host Barth Gimble and Fred Willard as Gimble's sidekick/announcer Jerry Hubbard.

Fox's longest-running live-action sitcom — which ran for 11 seasons (or 259 episodes) between 1987 and 1997 — starred Ed O'Neill as Al Bundy, Katey Sagal as Peg, Christina Applegate as Kelly and David Faustino as Bud. It was produced by Embassy Communications.

Even though the sitcom was recently (if all too briefly) rebooted for Netflix and Pop TV, Lear previously told TVLine that he would "absolutely" revisit the original series. The CBS comedy ran for nine seasons (or 209 episodes) between 1975 and 1984, and starred Bonnie Franklin as divorced mother Ann Romano, Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie Bertinelli as teenage daughters Julie and Barbara, and Pat Harrington Jr. as Schneider.

Developed by Lear and considered NBC's answer to CBS' All in the Family, the popular working-class sitcom ran for six seasons (or 136 episodes) between 1972 and 1977. It starred comedian Redd Foxx as cantankerous junkyard dealer Fred G. Sanford, and Demond Wilson as peacemaking son Lamont. The series spawned two short-lived spinoffs — 1975's Grady and 1977's Sanford Arms — as well as two-season revival Sanford (sans Son), which ran from 1980-1981.

Ricky Schroder headlined this Embassy-produced multi-cam, which aired for five seasons (or 116 episodes) between 1982 and 1987. NBC pulled the plug after four years, at which point the show made the leap to first-run syndication for its fifth (and final) season. Other notable stars included Jason Bateman (who recurred as Ricky's BFF Derek during Seasons 1 and 2) and Alfonso Ribeiro (who played new BFF Alfonso in Seasons 3-5).

Though it only ran for one season on CBS, this 1982-1983 sitcom (also produced by Embassy) marked the first prominent TV role for Sex and the City's Sarah Jessica Parker, who was 17 years old when she was cast as Weemawee High School student Patty Greene.

Akin to The Facts of Life, rebooting this NBC sitcom — which ran for five seasons (or 116 episodes) between 1985 and 1990 — would afford audiences a chance to see original series stars Jackée Harry and Marla Gibbs reunite. Who wouldn't want that?!

Abed Nadir might have already concluded that the titular boss was, in fact, Judith Light's Angela Bower, but that's no reason not to revisit this beloved ABC sitcom, another Embassy production that ran for eight seasons (and 196 episodes) between 1984 and 1992 and also starred Tony Danza, Alyssa Milano and Katherine Helmond. (Update: A Who's the Boss? sequel series is in development at Amazon's Freevee, which makes it less likely to get the LIFOSA treatment.)

And then there's Maude. Before she was one of The Golden Girls, Bea Arthur represented the title character in this All in the Family spinoff centered around Edith Bunker's outspoken, left-wing cousin. The CBS sitcom ran for six seasons (or 141 episodes) between 1972 and 1978, and earned Arthur the 1977 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.