Claire Danes, Giovanni Ribisi, and Omar Epps are revamping the delinquents-turned-good guys of ''The Mod Squad'' on screen this March. But they're not expecting audiences to remember the original show the way ticket buyers would for a TV-to-screen adaptation of, say, ''The Brady Bunch.'' Says cowriter-director Scott Silver, ''Our target audience in their 20s doesn't remember the show,'' which went off the air in 1973.

Even Silver, who is 34, had only the faintest memories of the triumvirate before signing onto the project: ''I knew there was Linc (now played by Epps), and I knew there was what's-her-name, and the white guy.'' (FYI: that would be Julie, originally played by Peggy Lipton, and Pete, played by Michael Cole). Still, ''there are certain expectations about how true you're going to stay to the original show. You don't want to offend the original fans. Or, do you give a sh-- about the original fans? It's hard to know how to deal with these things.''

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