Ten Live-Action Dramas That Deserve An Animated Spin-Off More Than The X-Files

House, M.D.

Medical dramas have a tendency to shift into soap opera territory, but House tried to stick to its initial premise that it was supposed to be a modern, medical update to Sherlock Holmes and his methodology. House’s rule at FOX lasted for a while and the doctor’s ornery attitude, but medical insight kept a lot of people entertained. This may seem somewhat regressive now in live-action, but there’s something exciting to the prospect of a bunch of fresh recruits getting their heads bitten off by House while they try to diagnosis mundane medical oddities. It’s a formula that’s not really present in any other animated series. Some people might argue that there’s a reason that there’s never been any animated medical dramas before, but something like this could open the floodgates and prove that it’s an angle that’s crazy enough to work. And nobody loves crazy more than Dr. House.