Good Movies That Became Bad TV Shows

[70 and 80s kid]

The few episodes I saw of "The Outsiders" seemed to fit this category, but I don't know if it was based on the movie or the book.

 

[71dude]

Mr. Belvedere

 

[LKellerIII]

The 1962 My Mother the Car movie starring Cary Grant as Dave Crabtree and Angela Lansbury as Gladys (the car) was far superior to the TV show.

just trying to see if anyone is paying attention...

Many readers who expected reliable information here would frown upon false information posted on purpose.

Uh...I figure that most people are smart enough to realize how ridiculous and unlikely my little joke was. I also figure most people have a sense of humor.

 

[harrisburgpatv]

The 1962 My Mother the Car movie starring Cary Grant as Dave Crabtree and Angela Lansbury as Gladys (the car) was far superior to the TV show.

just trying to see if anyone is paying attention...

Many readers who expected reliable information here would frown upon false information posted on purpose.

Uh...I figure that most people are smart enough to realize how ridiculous and unlikely my little joke was. I also figure most people have a sense of humor.

Don't mind him. He's hell-bent on making sure everything on the internet is factually correct for people years later to find and that tripped him up a bit. I found it funny.

 

[Corky Marlowe]

I know there was never a "My Mother The Car" movie, but it actually sounds like it could have been funny! Cary Grant would have been good in the lead role, and maybe Peter Ustinov as Captain Manzini.

 

[onairb]

I know there was never a "My Mother The Car" movie, but it actually sounds like it could have been funny! Cary Grant would have been good in the lead role, and maybe Peter Ustinov as Captain Manzini.

As we know, Cary Grant did not want to do another 'car movie', since the public associated him so strongly with his role as the voice of KITT in the 'Knight Rider' movie(co-starring Jack Nicholson ;D)

 

[anotherguyTN]

I know there was never a "My Mother The Car" movie, but it actually sounds like it could have been funny! Cary Grant would have been good in the lead role, and maybe Peter Ustinov as Captain Manzini.

PLEASE don't give any producers ideas!!!!  :

 

[FredLeonard]

The 1962 My Mother the Car movie starring Cary Grant as Dave Crabtree and Angela Lansbury as Gladys (the car) was far superior to the TV show.

just trying to see if anyone is paying attention...

Many readers who expected reliable information here would frown upon false information posted on purpose.

Uh...I figure that most people are smart enough to realize how ridiculous and unlikely my little joke was. I also figure most people have a sense of humor.

Thanks for de-railing the thread.

 

[Ultimajock]

I know there was never a "My Mother The Car" movie, but it actually sounds like it could have been funny! Cary Grant would have been good in the lead role, and maybe Peter Ustinov as Captain Manzini.

...actually, this idea sounds plausible when keeping in mind that Cary Grant had played one of the charming ghosts in the original 1937 movie Topper...

 

[FredLeonard]

I know there was never a "My Mother The Car" movie, but it actually sounds like it could have been funny! Cary Grant would have been good in the lead role, and maybe Peter Ustinov as Captain Manzini.

...actually, this idea sounds plausible when keeping in mind that Cary Grant had played one of the charming ghosts in the original 1937 movie Topper...

Which DID become a TV show. Production values were very poor, even for early (low budget) TV but I always thought Leo. G. Carroll was a much better "Topper" than Roland Young. Robert Sterling (former husband of Ann Southern, voice of "My Mother the Car") was not quite Cary Grant. Thurston Hall (as Topper's boss on TV) was terrific.

Other bad adaptations...

John Grisham's "The Client."

The Farmer's Daughter (Saving grace as Inger Stevens, much better than Loretta Young who was completely unbelievable in the role and way too old; William Windom was terrific and a worthy successor to Joseph Cotton. )

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Edward Mulhare instead of Rex Harrison; Mulhare replaced Harrison in the Broadway cast of My Fair Lady).

How to Marry a Millionaire (Barbara Eden in the Marilyn Monroe role).

Actually, The Odd Couple was not a bad TV show - at least not at first, until Gary Marshall turned it into another three-camera, play for a quick laugh sitcom and got rid of all the poker buddies except Murray. Tony Randall was a better Felix than Jack Lemmon (I wish I could have seen Art Carney, who created the role on Broadway). Matthau and Klugman were both great Oscars.

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Bad movie; bad adaptation.

Sugarfoot.

 

[chris12]

Ferris Bueller in fall 1990 on NBC had Jennifer Aniston as the sister and was set in California rather than Chicago, gone by the end of the year.

 

[BD Sullivan]

NBC's short-lived "Joe and Valerie" was a pretty blatant rip-off of "Saturday Night Fever"

 

[onairb]

"Animal House" led all three networks to try to create a genre by copying the show during early 1979; ABC actually bought the rights to the characters(but not the title) with "Delta House"; NBC's frat-com was called "Brothers and Sisters", and CBS had the infamous one-week blunder, "Co-Ed Fever".

 

[FredLeonard]

Not all TV shows taken from movies are bad...

Walt Disney's Zorro (based on the Douglas Fairbanks silent film, a favorite of Walt's as a young man, plus the Tyrone Power sound version)

Richard Greene in The Adventures of Robin Hood (from both Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn film versions)

 

[KeithE4]

Richard Greene in The Adventures of Robin Hood (from both Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn film versions)

But then, there was Mel Brooks' Robin Hood parody from 1975, the mediocre When Things Were Rotten, which lasted half a season on ABC.

 

[anotherguyTN]

Richard Greene in The Adventures of Robin Hood (from both Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn film versions)

But then, there was Mel Brooks' Robin Hood parody from 1975, the mediocre When Things Were Rotten, which lasted half a season on ABC.

And then Mel Brooks would have his own Robin Hood Movie later with Robin Hood: Men in Tights.