This is a switch from the post I placed on national TV. Go ahead and compile your list, if you have any.
One of many I can think of is the Brady Bunch.
One of many I can think of is the Brady Bunch.
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Classic TV Shows That Bombed As Movies
- Thread starter Mark Giardina
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...the one that came to my mind immediately was The Twilight Zone; of course, with Vic Morrow and two children being killed during production, that one was bound to have a pall cast over it upon release. (And, as a result, John Landis is the one person in Hollywood that, if I ever met him face-to-face, I'd probably try to wrap my cane around his skull.) Weren't there also movies of McHale's Navy and Sgt. Bilko in the '90s that flopped flatter than a pancake?...
The Honeymooners
Leave It To Beaver
The Mod Squad
Bewitched
Lost In Space
Leave It To Beaver
The Mod Squad
Bewitched
Lost In Space
Mark_Giardina said:
Actually the first Brady Bunch movie that came out in 1994 (?) was a hit, it was the second Brady flick that bombed.
Car 54, Where Are You? in the past has been called the worst example of a TV show bombing at the movies. Car 54 actually was on the shelf for a few years before it actually was released and it when it did, it was hated by so many the movie wasn't around for very long.
How about "The Gong Show Movie"? Although I hear it did air the popsicle girls act in its entirety...
Do SNL sketches count? If so, there's "Coneheads", "A Night At The Roxbury", "Stuart Saves His Family", and "It's Pat! The Movie".
One that never got made: There was to be a big-screen version of "Gilligan's Island" with Martin Short as Gilligan, John Goodman as the Skipper, and Leslie Nielsen as Mr. Howell. Somehow I get the feeling that if it had been made, it would belong here.
Did any of the "Charlie's Angels" flicks make enough $$ to not qualify as bombs, or are we talkin' strictly quality here?
Couple other random ones I just thought of: "The Avengers" and "The Dukes Of Hazzard".
Do SNL sketches count? If so, there's "Coneheads", "A Night At The Roxbury", "Stuart Saves His Family", and "It's Pat! The Movie".
One that never got made: There was to be a big-screen version of "Gilligan's Island" with Martin Short as Gilligan, John Goodman as the Skipper, and Leslie Nielsen as Mr. Howell. Somehow I get the feeling that if it had been made, it would belong here.
Did any of the "Charlie's Angels" flicks make enough $$ to not qualify as bombs, or are we talkin' strictly quality here?
Couple other random ones I just thought of: "The Avengers" and "The Dukes Of Hazzard".
The 1980 movie The Nude Bomb also known as The Return Of Maxwell Smart tried and failed to get Don Adams back in a big screen version of Get Smart, but it stank big time at the box office, I don't even believe that Barbara Feldon ever appeared in that film.
And I almost forgot the 1995 FOX series reunion of Get Smart with Adams and Feldon together again with Andy Dick playing their son which tanked after 8 episodes or more.
And I almost forgot the 1995 FOX series reunion of Get Smart with Adams and Feldon together again with Andy Dick playing their son which tanked after 8 episodes or more.
Corky Marlowe said:
...it did, and (re The Popsicle Twins) it did. Jaye P. Morgan's on-camera flashing of her breasts at one act was shown uncensored as well. It also made the rounds of the cable pay channels before Universal decided it wasn't even good enough to give a home video release. Since Della Barris' drug-related death, it's highly unlikely that Chuck Barris will authorise any DVD issue...
...I don't think 20th Century-Fox's 1966 Batman or the mid-'60s flicks Universal made out of The Munsters or McHale's Navy were noticed widely at the box office, either...
...one more that could be added would be The Monkees; the group's only theatrical film, HEAD, was so close in execution to their second TV season that it probably qualifies here...
Tim L said:
...well, Jim Beaver (Ellsworth on Deadwood), the widower of Cecily Adams (Don's daughter), has commented publicly that Don wasn't the easiest guy to get along with in his last years. In fact, it showed when Adams, Feldon, Robert Culp and Bill Cosby all showed up in the same sketch on NBC's 75th Anniversary special; I seem to recall that Don started griping on-camera about some petty annoyance while the other three were trying to keep to the script...
Although it had its problems, wasn't the 80's TV version of The Twilight Zone a result of the movie?
How about these:
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Mod Squad
As for "Bewitched", it did made a lot of money (around US $131,426,169 at last count) even though it was a $85 million dollar bomb.
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Mod Squad
As for "Bewitched", it did made a lot of money (around US $131,426,169 at last count) even though it was a $85 million dollar bomb.
ixnay said:
You're right I should have been more specific. Instead of bombed, as in losing money, I meant bombed as in lack of quality. For example TV's McHale's Navy was funny, while the movie wasn't.
I hope that explains what I meant by starting this post?
Don Adams himself said that if you looked up "disaster" in the dictionary it showed a picture of The Nude Bomb.Braves2005 said:
Then there is the opposite extreme with Police Squad with Leslie Nielsen, which lasted only a few weeks but was the basis for the Naked Gun movies.
It's relatively recent, so I have been surprised no one mentioned "Speed Racer".
anotherguy said:
Yes - though Mark Giardana who started this thread meant "bombed" not in terms of box office receipts , but in terms of quality. I thought Police Squad! was hilarious and clever, even if it just lasted 6 or 8 episodes. Actually, if you think about that kind of broad satire, a couple of seasons worth would have gotten pretty stale. Better that it was short-lived, but brilliant (IMHO).
The problem with The Honeymooners was that it looked like an extended episode of Amos and Andy much more than it did The Honeymooners. I don't think that Cedric The Entertainer could ever top Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden. Speaking of Amos and Andy, the TV show, I have heard years of rumors that that show was being made into a movie but nothing materialized. Is this true?
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