Do You Remember ‘The Outsiders’ TV Show?

If you were young in the early ’80s, you almost definitely have fond memories of The Outsiders — Francis Ford Coppola‘s 1983 drama about friendship, love, and death among a group of teens in 1960s Tulsa. Packed with stars of tomorrow like Tom Cruise, Ralph Macchio, Emilio Estevez, Diane Lane, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze and Rob Lowe (the film was Lowe’s cinematic debut), as well as already-famous Matt Dillon and Leif Garrett, the film was a modest box office success upon its release — but when VHS technology became more popular in the late ’80s, The Outsiders became an incredibly popular rental, and interest in continuing the story of the Curtis boys began to grow.

When a film is popular, naturally, Hollywood begins to plan the sequel. But given that the careers of almost every Outsiders cast member hit the stratosphere shortly after the film released, a sequel with the original actors was out of the question. S.E. Hinton, who wrote the original hit novel the film was based on, was also adamant that the book would never have a written sequel.