Movies to TV; TV to Movies

[Klaw59]

With the movie versions of Bewitched and The Dukes of Hazzard coming out some time this year, I thought it would be interesting to list all the television series derived from movies, and movies that came after television series. Here's what I came up with. The list is long so bear with me. Let's see if we can think of others:

MOVIES TO TV

M*A*S*H*
Movie: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould
TV: Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson

In The Heat Of The Night
Movie: Rod Steiger, Sidney Poitier
TV: Carroll O'Connor, Harold Rollins

The Odd Couple
Movie: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matheau
TV: Jack Klugman, Tony Randall

Inherit The Wind
Movie: Spencer Tracy, Frederick March
TV: Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott

Peyton Place
Movie: Troy Donahue ?
TV: Ryan O'Neal

Harper Valley PTA
Movie and TV: Barbara Eden

Breaking Away
Movie: Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Paul Dooley
TV: Shaun Cassidy

Bob, Carol, Ted and Alice
Movie: Elliott Gould, Natalie Wood, Robert Culp
TV: Robert Urich

Shaft
Movie and TV: Richard Roundtree
Another movie on Shaft was released a few years ago starring Samuel L. Jackson

No Time For Sargeants
Movie: Andy Griffith
TV: Andy Griffith also starred in a live performance. Another series came out in the early 60's starring an actor whose name escapes me.

Courtship of Eddie's Father
Movie: Glenn Ford, Ronny Howard
TV: Bill Bixby, Brandon Cruz

Born Free
Movie: ?
TV: Gary Collins, Diana Muldaur

Planet of the Apes
Movie: Charleton Heston, Roddy McDowell
TV: James Naughton
A Planet of the Apes movie remake came out a few years ago with Mark Wahlberg


TV TO MOVIES

Batman
TV: Adam West
Movie: Michael Keaton, George Clooney, Val Kilmer, Christian Bale

Superman
TV: George Reeves
Movie: Christopher Reeve

Spiderman
TV: Nicholas Hammond
Movie: Toby McGuire

Beverly Hillbillies
TV: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan
Movie: Jim Varney

Bewitched
TV: Elizabeth Montgomery
Movie: Nicole Kidman

Dukes of Hazzard
TV: Tom Wopat, John Schneider, Catherine Bach
Movie: Jessica Simpson (she's the only cast member I know)

The Hulk
TV: Bill Bixby
Movie: Eric Bana

The Fugitive
TV: David Janssen
Movie: Harrison Ford
The Fugitive was brought back to TV for a short run with Timothy Daly as lead

Starsky and Hutch
TV: David Soul, Paul Michael Glaser
Movie: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson

The Mod Squad
TV: Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III
Movie: Giovanni Ribisi

Maverick
TV: James Garner
Movie: Mel Gibson, James Garner, Jody Foster
Jack Kelly and Roger Moore also starred in the TV version

The Untouchables
TV: Robert Stack
Movie: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery
Another TV version of the Untouchables came out in the early 90's

The Twilight Zone
TV: Rod Serling et. al.
Movie: Vic Morrow, Kathleen Quinlan, John Lithgow
In the movie, Morrow and several children were killed in a stunt during a chase scene

Wyatt Earp
TV: Hugh O'Brian
Movie: Kevin Costner

Star Trek
TV: William Shatner
Movie: William Shatner
Of course, there were 82 versions of Star Trek on TV after the movies became popular

X-Files
TV and Movie: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson

Battlestar Gallactica
TV and Movie: Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch

The Brady Bunch
TV: Florence Henderson, Robert Reed
Movie: Shelley Long, Gary Cole

"Requirem For A Heavyweight"
TV: Jack Palance, Keenan Wynn, Ed Wynn (live play)
Movie: Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Anthony Quinn

Fantastic Four
TV: Animated
Movie: Uma Thurman may be one of the cast members

Dragnet
TV: Jack Webb, Harry Morgan (1960's), Jack Webb, Ben Alexander (1950's)
Movie: Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks

Wild Wild West
TV: Robert Conrad, Ross Martin
Movie: Wil Smith, Kevin Klein

Twin Peaks
TV and Movie: Kyle McLachlan

SWAT
TV: Steve Forrest, Mark Shera, Robert Urich
Movie: Samuel L. Jackson

The Lone Ranger
TV: Clayton Moore
Movie: ?

James Bond O07
TV: Barry Nelson
Movie: Sean Connery, Roger Moore, et al

My Favorite Martian
TV: Bill Bixby, Ray Walston
Movie: Christopher Lloyd

Dennis The Menace
TV: Jay North
Movie: Walter Matheau

I Spy
TV: Robert Culp, Bill Cosby
Movie: Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson

Mission Impossible
TV: Steven Hill, Peter Graves, Martin Landau
Movie: Tom Cruise

"Marty"
TV: Rod Steiger, Nancy Marchand
Movie: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair

"12 Angry Men"
TV: ?
Movie: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb

"Days Of Wine and Roses"
TV: Cliff Robertson, Piper Laurie
Movie: Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick

 

[rugrats1]

> MOVIES TO TV
>
> The Odd Couple
> Movie: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matheau
> TV: Jack Klugman, Tony Randall

There was also a short-lived TV version with a mostly-black cast, "The New Odd Couple" from 1982, which starred Demond Wilson and Ron Glass as Oscar and Felix, respectively.

> Peyton Place
> Movie: Troy Donahue ?

Lana Turner was also one of the stars.

> TV: Ryan O'Neal

Other TV cast members included Mia Farrow, Mariette Hartley, Leslie Nielsen and Lee Grant. Of those stated above, only Ryan O'Neal was on the entire series.

NBC later brought the soap back as an all-new daytime entry, "Return To Peyton Place", which was seen from April 1972 to January 1974.

> No Time For Sargeants
> Movie: Andy Griffith
> TV: Andy Griffith also starred in a live performance.
> Another series came out in the early 60's starring an actor
> whose name escapes me.

A relative unknown, Sammy Jackson. And it was on ABC during the 1964-1965 season.

> Planet of the Apes
> Movie: Charleton Heston, Roddy McDowell
> TV: James Naughton

Roddy McDowell also starred in the TV series.

>
> TV TO MOVIES
>
> Batman
> TV: Adam West
> Movie: Michael Keaton, George Clooney, Val Kilmer, Christian
> Bale

There was also a 1966 "Batman" theatrical feature that was released simultaneously with the TV series, with the same stars (except for Catwoman, who was played by Lee Meriwether in the film).

> The Lone Ranger
> TV: Clayton Moore
> Movie: ?
>
Two theatrical features were released in 1956 and 1958, with Clayton Moore playing The Lone Ranger and Jay Silverheels reprising his role as Tonto.

Of course, there were also, I think, theatrical serials that predated the TV series.

But we shouldn't forget (or maybe we should) the 1981 feature "The Legend Of The Lone Ranger", which starred unknowns Klinton Spilsbury and Michael Horse and the Ranger and Tonto, respectively. Christopher Lloyd and Jason Robaeds also appeared in lesser roles.

 

[Braves2005]

Leave It To Beaver was made into a movie in 1997 with a cast largely made up of unknowns. It flopped at the box office.

The Honeymooners are going to debut in movie theaters next week and I don't know how movie goers will feel about this movie.

I kind of know exactly how The Dukes Of Hazzard will go over in movie theaters looking at pictures of who plays Bo,Luke and Daisy,the original cast members are better. The actors look like Coy and Vance Duke from the 1982-1983 season than they do Bo and Luke Duke.

I wished that The Mod Squad would have done better at the box office. Claire Danes is another identifiable name.

There was another Dragnet TV series in 2002 which starred Ed O'Neill from Married With Children.

Other movies based on TV Shows.

Fat Albert
Rocky And Bullwinkle
My Favorite Martian
Dudley Do-Rite

 

[SweetT8201]

Other TV shows based on movies:

Dangerous Minds
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Harry and the Hendersons
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Men in Black: the Series (animated)
Swamp Thing (animated)

 

[rugrats1]

One more:

The "Police Academy" films, which were made into two TV series (one animated, one live-action, both flops).

And in TV-to-movie, lest we forget "Police Squad", a short-lived TV series that spawned three successful "Naked Gun" films and a career shift for Leslie Nielsen from drama to comedy.<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by rugrats1 on 06/01/05 04:47 PM.</FONT></P>

 

[6tothebronx]

How about "Code Red" - the tv series about the LA fire dept. I can't remember if the movie or tv series came first.


> One more:
>
> The "Police Academy" films, which were made into two TV
> series (one animated, one live-action, both flops).
>
> And in TV-to-movie, lest we forget "Police Squad", a
> short-lived TV series that spawned three successful "Naked
> Gun" films and a career shift for Leslie Nielsen from drama
> to comedy.
>

 

[ShawnHill]

> How about "Code Red" - the tv series about the LA fire dept.
> I can't remember if the movie or tv series came first.

I'm not familiar with that one...I can think of some more, what about SNL skits & characters that were made into movies:

The Blues Brothers
The Blues Brothers 2000
Wayne's World 1 & 2
The Ladies' Man
Coneheads
Stuart Saves His Family
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
Superstar
A Night at the Roxbury
It's Pat

 

[KingDaevid]

...interesting that nobody's yet mentioned the movie/TV sitcom OPERATION PETTICOAT; the movie co-starred Tony Curtis, whose daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis, was a supporting player on the ABC late '70s sitcom...

...anyone ready to allow "The Ed Sullivan Show"/I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND, or "The Monkees"/HEAD?...

...and then there's the only game show to cross from TV to movies: "The Gong Show"/THE GONG SHOW MOVIE...<P ID="signature">______________
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http://ultimajock.blogspot.com
"Fear and God do not inhabit the same space." DICK GREGORY</P>

 

[gr8oldies]

SCTV charachters Bob and Doug McKenzie (Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis)"Strange Brew". John Candy's Schmenge Brothers appeared in "Home Alone".

A particularly bad movie to TV transfer was "My Big Fat Greek Wedding(Life)". The TV show was a disaster.

> > How about "Code Red" - the tv series about the LA fire
> dept.
> > I can't remember if the movie or tv series came first.
>
> I'm not familiar with that one...I can think of some more,
> what about SNL skits & characters that were made into
> movies:
>
> The Blues Brothers
> The Blues Brothers 2000
> Wayne's World 1 & 2
> The Ladies' Man
> Coneheads
> Stuart Saves His Family
> Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
> Superstar
> A Night at the Roxbury
> It's Pat
>
<P ID="signature">______________
"You can't say 'moron' on the radio, you can only say 'moron' on television"...FCC official on an episode of "The Fairly Oddparents" which my son watches</P>

 

[ccmfan]

> SCTV charachters Bob and Doug McKenzie (Dave Thomas, Rick
> Moranis)"Strange Brew". John Candy's Schmenge Brothers
> appeared in "Home Alone".
>
> A particularly bad movie to TV transfer was "My Big Fat
> Greek Wedding(Life)". The TV show was a disaster.
>
> > > How about "Code Red" - the tv series about the LA fire
> > dept.
> > > I can't remember if the movie or tv series came first.
> >
> > I'm not familiar with that one...I can think of some more,
>
> > what about SNL skits & characters that were made into
> > movies:
> >
> > The Blues Brothers
> > The Blues Brothers 2000
> > Wayne's World 1 & 2
> > The Ladies' Man
> > Coneheads
> > Stuart Saves His Family
> > Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
> > Superstar
> > A Night at the Roxbury
> > It's Pat
> >
>

With Dragnet there was also a movie from the 60's with Jack Webb and Harry Morgan. I don't know if it was made for TV or theatrical, but I've seen AMC play it and once they ran intros by mistake like it was going to be the Dan Aykroyd / Tom Hanks comedy remake, but it turned out to be the one from the 60's instead. And on the TV side there was also the remake with Ed O'Neill a few years back that was later called LA Dragnet. In looking at IMDB I also found out that there was a cable version on USA in 1989 and 1990 called Dragnet - the 90's. I never heard of that one before.

With Twilight Zone on TV there was also the 80's version on CBS and in syndication, and the current version that started on UPN but is now in syndicatation with Forrest Whitaker.

There was also a short run Back to the Future cartoon series.

 

[rugrats1]

> In looking at IMDB I also found out that
> there was a cable version on USA in 1989 and 1990 called
> Dragnet - the 90's. I never heard of that one before.

The actual title was "The New Dragnet", which was only in production for about a year or two. The show was releasd in tandem with another revival -- "The New Adam-12".

The show was on USA and in syndication in the early-1990s, but was first seen exclusively on WWOR in New York and KCOP in Los Angeles in 1989 before going wide.

 

[RobertMoore]

Here's a few more:

Bagdad Cafe
Movie: CCH Pounder
TV: Jean Stapleton, Whoopi Goldberg

Party Girl
Movie: Parker Posey
TV: Christine Taylor

Josie & The Pussycats
TV:[Voices of] Cheryl Ladd, Casey Casem
Movie: Rosario Dawson, Tara Reid, Rachel Leigh Cook

Get Smart
TV: Don Adams
Movie("The Naked Bomb"): Don Adams

Doctor Who
TV: William Hartnell, Tom Baker, Peter Davidson, Christopher Eccleston
Movie: Peter Cushing
[The 1996 TV Movie doesn't count because they picked up where the original series left off].

 

[leach]

The Flintstones

The Flintstones..."A Man Named Flintstone" ( 1966 ) and "the Jetsons meet the Flintstones" ( 1990 ? ), may have been the other way around. Come to think of it there was "The Jetsons The Movie" that came out in the early 90's. I think the voice of George Jetson ( George O'hanlon ) died not long after the movie came out.

Then of course you had those two Flintstone live action movies that came out in the 90's. One has Liz Taylor in it playing Wilma's mother. That was a big deal back then. I think that was the first movie she made in years and to my knowledge the last one she has done.

 

[TimL]

> > In looking at IMDB I also found out that
> > there was a cable version on USA in 1989 and 1990 called
> > Dragnet - the 90's. I never heard of that one before.
>
> The actual title was "The New Dragnet", which was only in
> production for about a year or two. The show was releasd in
> tandem with another revival -- "The New Adam-12".
>
> The show was on USA and in syndication in the early-1990s,
> but was first seen exclusively on WWOR in New York and KCOP
> in Los Angeles in 1989 before going wide.
>


The USA/WWOR Dragnet had unknowns playing the principal leads (none named Joe Friday)

Jeff Osterhage - Det. Vic Daniels
Thalmus Rasulala - Capt. Boltz
Don Stroud - Capt. Lussen-The only halfway recognizable name here
Bernard White - Carl Molina



Dragnet was also made into a color feature film in 1954.

 

[ShawnHill]

Re: The Flintstones

> The Flintstones..."A Man Named Flintstone" ( 1966 ) and "the
> Jetsons meet the Flintstones" ( 1990 ? ), may have been the
> other way around. Come to think of it there was "The Jetsons
> The Movie" that came out in the early 90's. I think the
> voice of George Jetson ( George O'hanlon ) died not long
> after the movie came out.
>
> Then of course you had those two Flintstone live action
> movies that came out in the 90's. One has Liz Taylor in it
> playing Wilma's mother. That was a big deal back then. I
> think that was the first movie she made in years and to my
> knowledge the last one she has done.
>
"The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones" was a made-for-TV movie that came out in 1987-88, and it was one of the last vocal performances of Daws Butler (Elroy), he died in 1988. The movie aired on the Boomerang channel on Monday afternoon.