Blade --> Blade, The Series
Buffy The Vampire Slayer --> Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Hmm, it seems vampires like to go from the big screen to the small.
Something I was thinking about over the long weekend:
We all know that there are countless TV shows made into movies, the list is just inifinite.
But here is a real puzzler, how many movies have been made into TV shows (and of those, how many actually successful)?
All that I can think of is M*A*S*H and ummmm, ok ok, that's all I can come up with.
What can you come up with?
Blade --> Blade, The Series
Buffy The Vampire Slayer --> Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Hmm, it seems vampires like to go from the big screen to the small.
Stargate would be most obvious. Good movie that became a long running hit (11 seasons I believe).
Currently, there is Friday Night Lights.
Lots of Sci Fi stuff
Alien Nation
Logan's Run
Timecop
Planet of the Apes
Highlander
Also
Buffy
Clueless
Tarzan
Alice
Peyton Place
Young Indiana Jones
Did the Star Trek cartoon come along after the first Star Trek movie? If so, we would have a TV show to a movie to a TV show!!
Do the Star Wars cartoons, Clone Wars, count?
Someone already mentioned Planet of the Apes, there was a POTA cartoon as well.
There was an animated version of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and an animated Clerks too. There is an animated Men in Black series as well.
--Jason "most of these really, really sucked, but there is a nostalga value to some" Evans
In addition to "Clueless", "Ferris Bueller" and "Fast Times [at Ridgemont High]" also were short-lived TV shows based off hit teen movies.
But clearly Buffy is one of the best shows ever - an amazing feat considering how bad the movie was.
As TV was just getting started, several movies or movie serials became TV shows.
For instance, Superman, which became a radio show, then a cartoon series, was made into a feature film in 1951, a year before the successful George Reeves series was first aired.
The 1955 Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Richard Greene, spun off the 1938 Erroyl Flynn movie of the same name. Roy Rogers and Dale Evans started out in feature films before they moved to television.
There was a Life with Father, The Third Man, The Thin Man and Northwest Passage -- all based on the famous movies of the same names. Topper was a huge TV hit, based on the Cary Grant movie of that name.
There are a lot more from the early days ...
Wasn't Battlestar Galactica a movie before it became a tv show?
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
50's & 60's Oaters were mostly derived from big screen films.
It was a TV series at first, though the series was launched with a long pilot episode that one could call more of a TV movie. I am not aware of Battlestar ever being in theaters, though I think Richard Hatch spent the better part of a decade pushing for a Gallactica movie until the new TV series really took off.
--Jason "nice future computer --> " Evans
The Odd Couple
Wasn't the Ferris Bueller series called "Parker Lewis Can't Lose."?
And in the category of TV series that were better than the movies, how about "Friday the 13th - The Series." Had absolutely nothing to do with the movie (thank god), and was actually a pretty good premise, although the acting was weak.
"There can BE only one."
No, there was a separate Ferris Bueller series that debuted about the same time as Parker Lewis but ti got cancelled while Parker survived for a few years.
Parker Lewis stared Billy Jacoby, who has always been a favorite of my wife and mine since his stellar turn as Buddy in Just One of the Guys.
--Jason "the wife and I watched Parker Lewis every week... don't ask me why" Evans
Parenthood