10. Swiss Family Robinson
The Great American Road Trip may have been a Vacation-level disaster, but the idea of families competing seems like a solid idea. In this family competition, six families are marooned on an island where they each get a treehouse to live in, and they have to compete in treasure hunts and physical challenges to win food and luxury items. At the end of every episode, the families must slingshot water balloons at invading pirates to protect their homes.

9. The Love Boat
Most of the love-seeking contestants on The Bachelor and The Bachelorette should be quarantined from humanity, anyway, so why not put them on a boat? Yes, we know Love Cruise flopped with a similar premise a few years back, but we think with the right host, the right format, and the right theme song ("Soon we'll be falling in looooove..."), the premise could be back in business.

8. The Flying Nun
In these trying economic times, everyone is feeling the pinch, even your local parish or nunnery. So why not give those nuns the opportunity to win cash prizes by jumping out of a plane? Not only will the sisters get increasing amounts of money for their ability to hit targets while skydiving, hang-gliding and parasailing, it will also bring them physically closer to God.

7. The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Another dating show, this one would be catered to single dads, looking for a woman who can be a mother to his child -- or children, for that matter, although the show's name doesn't allow for more than one kid. I'm sure they can work something out financially with the unnamed child, though.

6. Land of the Giants
Inspired by the fairly obscure sci-fi show about astronauts who end up on a planet where everything is 12 times Earth size, contestants must somehow use a giant everyday object for the purpose it is intended. That may sound simple, but imagine having to write a sentence with a six-foot-tall pencil in a short period of time, or dial a rotary phone as big as your car. Of course, the Japanese have probably done something like this already.

5. My Mother the Car
If you thought it must have been annoying to be a contestant on The Great American Road Trip, with your entire family stuck in an RV with you, imagine driving cross-country and the only thing on your radio is your mother's voice. With the help of their mothers at home acting as navigators and clue-interpreters, contestants need to make it from checkpoint to checkpoint to win cash prizes.

4. Sea Hunt
Ordinary Americans are given a splash course in scuba diving, and compete against each other in an underwater treasure hunt scenario. There are also physical challenges, relay races and other competitions to eliminate the contestants, who will of course, be monitored by trained underwater lifeguards, to prevent any more... permanent eliminations.

3. Beverly Hillbillies/Green Acres
Basically the same show, the competition would find six families either moved from Beverly Hills to the sticks, or vice versa, and having to attend social functions and engage in physical or cultural challenges. In the sticks, cultural challenges might include taking care of farm animals. In Beverly Hills, it might include putting together a fashionable outfit, or smoothly inserting themselves into a private cocktail party conversation. We have no idea. Winner in the Bev-Niner gets a mansion; winner in the sticks gets a second mansion.

2. The Monkees
Non-professional musicians are hired via an audition process to join one of six different bands, but there's a catch -- they actually have to learn some basic instruments, work together and play live gigs every week. The bands are judged against each other on how well they play their Monkees songs, and those who can't pull it together enough to improve week after week are sent packing. The winner gets a completely ironic record deal.

1. The Fugitive
The ultimate reality show: A man (or woman) is released in Los Angeles, and told that they have to find his way to New York by a certain date. They're given a limited amount of money, and they have to stop at various checkpoints along the way to get more. Meanwhile, they're being hunted by several hunters who have the same amount of money, and if one of those hunters "catches" the fugitive along the way (a simple tag will do it), the fugitive is eliminated and that hunter is now the new fugitive. It will be the most expensive -- and the most awesome -- TV series in the history of mankind, especially if as many of the contestants get arrested as we think will.

What classic TV show would you like to see as a reality show? We couldn't figure out how Hogan's Heroes would work, or we would have totally listed that one.