Movies that bombed as TV series

[mleach]

Hi everyone:

I can name plenty of TV series that bombed as movies...

"The Beverly Hillbillies"...
"The Honeymooners"...
"McHale's Navy"...

Shall I go on?

You can also add The Brady Bunch. Not the 1988 Christmas movie as that was a TV movie which we see on ABC Family and I think in syndication as well (If I'm not mistaken) every year. I'm talking about the version which didn't have the original cast in it. The 1988 Christmas movie had the original cast plus a few new characters. The 1988 movie is enjoyable while the recasted version OTOH is an UTTER COMPLETE DISASTER and simply epitomizes how much Hollywood has gone to the dogs as of late.

That's the one I can think of at the moment.

Cheers

if you mean the 1994 flick The Brady Bunch Movie, actually many of the original cast DID appear in the flick. They just were not doing their original roles. Barry Williams ( Greg ) played a music producer, Florence Henderson ( mom ) played their Grandmother, Chris Knight played a coach and even Ann B. Davis was in it too, playing a truck driver named "Shultzy" ( her role from the old "Love That Bob" show ) Plus I think the names "Eve Plumb" and "Maureen McCormick" got a mention too.

And on top of that Sherwood Schwartz who gave us the Bradys in the first place had a hand in the movie too even though he did push the envelope such as the Marcia "lesbian" scene if you want to call it that Davy Jones doing a metal version of his "Brady classic" and I think there was even a scene that had Jan calling up one of those 976 sex lines trying to pass the guy on the phone off as George Glass to Marcia. Come to think of it, I think the latter was in the second Brady flick.

I actually didn't think the Brady Bunch movie wasn't too bad. Now for "A Very Brady Sequel" other than a brief scene of the old brady Kids cartoon show..that wasn't much.

 

[bpatrick]

As corny as it was in the 60's, I loved DRAGNET. The off the cuff remarks were hilarious. Then they made the mistake of making it into a movie with Dan Ackroyd which blew in my opinion. The 80's version " Teh New Dragnet " was ok but forgettable. Then it was re lived again starring Ed O'Neil. Awful.

I think Aykroyd and Tom Hanks were trying to lampoon a show
that had become a joke by the late '60s; Sgt. Friday was so
out of touch with the new youth culture as to be downright
laughable. It's just that somehow Aykroyd trying to be Jack Webb
doesn't quite come off.

Although the series came first, "Police Squad!" lasted only about
six weeks, although the movies did fairly well. I hated to see the
series go; it was, in my book, the most creative sitcom of the early
'80s--you HAD to watch it to get all the subtle references--and it
established Leslie Nielsen as a fine comic actor.

"The Paper Chase" had a reasonably-successful (by cable standards),
if sporadic, life on Showtime...and they actually showed Hart, Ford, and
Bell graduating! Actually, I liked the series better than the movie; I could
do without the subplot of Hart and Kingsfield's daughter (Lindsay Wagner).
I think there were two (maybe three) problems with the CBS version:
(1) being on against "Happy Days" and "Laverne And Shirley"; (2) trying to
involve Houseman in every episode (he sat out the Hart-escorts-the-Russian-
gymnast episode, feeling it wasn't true to the spirit of the show); and (3)
unless you've been there, law-school teaching is, as Houseman said, "new and
totally unfamiliar to most of you." Although things are changing, most law
professors do little lecturing, preferring to let students figure out the law through
the method of question-and-answer.

Although it's never been made into a movie, the similar "White Shadow" more
successfully accomplished what "The Paper Chase" was trying to do: show a
group of young people develop their skills in a particular area, be it law or basketball.
Probably most of you have played on an athletic team and can better understand what
Coach Reeves was trying (successfully) to accomplish.