Movies made into GOOD TV series'

[JohnL]

Fast Time at Ridgemonth High -> Fast Times

Ferris Buellor's Day Off -> Ferris Buellor

Clueless -> Clueless

Parenthood -> Parenthood

Dirty Dancing -> Dirty Dancing

War of the Worlds -> War of the Worlds

Alien Nation -> Alien Nation

>Buffy. Movie sucked, but the series is oddly addicting.

I didn't think the movie was that great either, but I've found that if you watch it while imagining it as an episode of the TV show, it doesn't seem so bad.

[raj]

And which came first, the Naked Gun movies, or the Police Squad! series?

[Pete B6K]

Police Squad came first, I'm pretty sure.

The only two good movie-tv conversions I can think of right now are Stargate SG-1, which I quite like, and Weird Science, which started off really well.  When it was first shown in the UK it started off being broadcast at like 12:30 on a Tuesday night, pretty much noone noticed it and it gained a little bit of cult status with fans of the film.  BUt around the same time it started getting shown two or three times a day on Trouble (a channel thats pretty much filled with Fresh Prince/Hangin With Mr Cooper/Baywatch/Parkers/Steve Harvey repeats, among lots of other crap) it really went downhill, wasnt funny anymore.  But I thought all the cast were really well chosen.

Pete

[Todd R.]

Does a TV miniseries count as a film? If so, then V: THE SERIES was based on the miniseries V and V: THE FINAL BATTLE.

Filmation produced a FLASH GORDON cartoon in the early 80's. It was based on the comic strip, but it's debut on TV was intended to capitalize on the feature film's release.

[Perk]

Well Bill and Ted had 2 shows on one a cartoon and one a live action on Fox that didn't last more than a week I think.  Then Robocop had two shows a saturday morning cartoon, who's only episode I remember is when a reporter blames Robo Cop for pushing him in his version of a tape, but then another reporter played her tape with the volume up where Robo tells him to move because something was going to kill him.  And then there was the Live action show hich was pretty funny.

O and I can't forget Mantis, Pointman, and Nightman.  All based off of Tv movies

[Philip]

Hey... I wanted to THANK YOU guys for all these related posts for this topic.  I run a radio prep service, and with the timely debut of My Big Fat Greek Life (which I smell a BIG stink bomb), your comments sparked the idea for me to create a list of movies and the TV series that were made/based on them.  I went a step further to name the star of the movie and the star in the TV series that played them.  Here's the list (for grins).  They're not in any particular order:

MOVIE/STAR
TV SERIES/STAR

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore/Ellen Burstyn
Alice/Linda Lavin

M*A*S*H*/Donald Sutherland
M*A*S*H*/Alan Alda

The Courtship Of Eddie's Father/Glenn Ford
The Courtship Of Eddie's Father/Bill Bixby

Working Girl/Melanie Griffith
Working Girl/Sandra Bullock

Buffy, The Vampire Slayer/Kristy Swanson
Buffy, The Vampire Slayer/Sarah Michelle Gellar

9 To 5/Lilly Tomlin
9 To 5/Rita Moreno

Starman/Jeff Bridges
Starman/Robert Hays

The Odd Couple/Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau
The Odd Couple/Tony Randall, Jack Klugman

Clueless/Alicia Silverstone
Clueless/Rachel Blanchard

Fast Times at Ridgemont High/Sean Penn
Fast Times/Dean Cameron

Ferris Bueller's Day Off/Matthew Broderick
Ferris Bueller/Charlie Schlatter

Parenthood/Steve Martin
Parenthood/Ed Begley, Jr.

Dirty Dancing/Patrick Swayze
Dirty Dancing/Patrick Cassidy

Serpico/Al Pacino
Serpico/David Birney

Logan's Run/Michael York
Logan's Run/Gregory Harrison

The Paper Chase/Timmothy Bottoms
The Paper Chase/James Stephens

Paper Moon/Ryan O'Neal
Paper Moon/Christopher Connelly

Private Benjamin/Goldie Hawn
Private Benjamin/Lorna Patterson

The Big Easy/Dennis Quaid
The Big Easy/Tony Crane

Harry and the Hendersons/John Lithgow
Harry and the Hendersons/Bruce Davison

The Net/Sandra Bullock
The Net/Brooke Langton

Party Girl/Parker Posey
Party Girl/Christine Taylor

The Client/Susan Sarandon
The Client/JoBeth Williams

Gidget/Sandra Dee
Gidget/Sally Field

Hotel/Rod Taylor
Hotel/James Brolin

Honey I Shrunk the Kids/Rick Moranis
Honey I Shrunk the Kids/Peter Scolari

Thanks again!

[lonecorndog]

raj wrote:
>
> And which came first, the Naked Gun movies, or the Police
> Squad! series?

Police Squad! came first.

[JohnL]

I just thought of another one;

The Bad News Bears