In response to NBC's upcoming revival of Knight Rider, New York Magazine's Vulture Blog compiled a list of TV shows from the 80's more deserving of a revival. Gay visibility on television took a number of forward steps in the 80s, but those were mostly characters who'd make a few guest appearances. Here are some shows whose revival could appeal to our nostalgia while also adding to the small number of gay characters on television.

Too Close for Comfort

Too Close for Comfort started out as a sitcom about a San Francisco couple dealing with their daughters' stepping into independence and adulthood, but took a turn when Jim J Bullock appeared as Monroe Ficus. Monroe was meant to appear in just one episode, but the character worked so well (especially against Ted Knight's easily frustrated Henry Rush) that Bullock was a full cast member in the second season. Since then, Bullock has come out, been a fixture on Hollywood Squares, co-hosted a short-lived talk show with Tammy Faye and provided the voice for Queer Duck ... it could be interesting to see Bullock play Monroe once more, only this time as an openly gay man who's become more comfortable with who he is -- even if he's no more physically coordinated than when he left a meatball on Henry Rush's ceiling.

Bosom Buddies

In the original Bosom Buddies two straight guys dress as women to be able to live in a women-only building where the rent is cheap ... but what if one of the guys in the new version were a drag performer? It'd require a careful balancing act to avoid broad stereotypes, but there could be some great comedy in seeing a performer used to playing "fierce" women learn to take a more mundane personality while in drag.

Scarecrow and Mrs King

With former Charlie's Angels and Making Love star, Kate Jackson, in one of the lead roles, I always figured Scarecrow and Mrs. King had a gay following; the concept seems ripe for a revival with a gay twist. Jackson played a divorcée who gets accidentally drawn into a world of international espionage by Lee "Scarecrow" Stetson (Bruce Boxleitner). Gays have been long wishing for a gay version of the dashing international spy (we'll see that wish granted Robert Gant's first Jacob Keane film debuts on Here!) and if a remake of Scarecrow and Mrs. King featured a gay agent "Scarecrow" there could be not only some action and intrigue, but also a twist on the usual gay male/straight female friendship. 

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• Brothers & Sisters' war-hating matriarch Sally Field will play former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's upcoming biopic of the great leader. Out playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America, Munich) is set to script.

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• in GQ, Stephen Colbert lists the things that are making him gay, and AfterElton.com is not among them. Frowny-face.

• Our pal Michael Portantiere has some great snaps of out actors David Hyde Pierce, Christopher Sieber, Jim J. Bullock and more at the Broadway Flea Market fundraiser.