films being made into tv programmes

[Foliage]

Patch1875 said:

utgjon said:

I've heard Limitless is the same as the film, too

Limitless was pretty good I thought quite clever and funny in places.

Yeah its worth a watch, I loved it purely for the fact the main character wasn't ambitious, was already a creative type and took some rather interesting approaches to tough situations, using his limitless intellect to come up with harmless and inventive ways of getting people to do what he wanted.

[Eric Mc]

Halb said:

Eric Mc said:

Halb said:

Coogan's Bluff and McLoud.

I prefer the film.

In that vein, "Alias Smith and Jones" bore some resemblances to "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".

If "in that vein" Alias Smith and Jones was based on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, like McLoud was on Coogan's Bluff, then yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCloud_(TV_series)

I was agreeing with you and offering another example.

Wiki says -

"Alias Smith and Jones" was made in the same spirit as many other American TV series of the time, from Huggins' own "The Fugitive" to "Renegade", about fugitives on the run across America who get involved in the personal lives of the people they meet. The major difference was that Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry were guilty of the crimes for which they were accused, but were trying to begin a noncriminal life.

The series was modeled on the 1969 film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. (Universal contract player Ben Murphy was offered to the producers because he was considered a Paul Newman lookalike.)[3] A number of similarities are seen between the film and the TV series: One of the lead characters in the film was called Harvey Logan (played by Ted Cassidy). In real life, Harvey Logan, also known by the nickname of "Kid Curry", was an associate of the real Butch Cassidy, and unlike the TV version, was a cold-blooded killer

[Halb]

Eric Mc said:

I was agreeing with you and offering another example.

Wiki says -

"Alias Smith and Jones" was made in the same spirit as many other American TV series of the time, from Huggins' own "The Fugitive" to "Renegade", about fugitives on the run across America who get involved in the personal lives of the people they meet. The major difference was that Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry were guilty of the crimes for which they were accused, but were trying to begin a noncriminal life.

The series was modeled on the 1969 film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. (Universal contract player Ben Murphy was offered to the producers because he was considered a Paul Newman lookalike.)[3] A number of similarities are seen between the film and the TV series: One of the lead characters in the film was called Harvey Logan (played by Ted Cassidy). In real life, Harvey Logan, also known by the nickname of "Kid Curry", was an associate of the real Butch Cassidy, and unlike the TV version, was a cold-blooded killer

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I have in the back of my mind another programme that not an exact translation. I quite like like the idea of a film idea and then subtly changing it, or perhaps even placing it in the same universe. I am sure series have come out of peripheral characters but cannot recall right now.

[Eric Mc]

How about the other way around - films derived from TV series.

I'll start with this classic -

[Halb]

I think it's qite a good film, I reckon a lot of those sort of cash grabs are, STeptoe and SOn, I like that film.

[Eric Mc]

I like this one -



It was often British comedy series that made it to the big screen - some more successfully than others.

[Riley Blue]

boxst said:

Always preferred Airwolf ....

Currently on ForcesTV: 2pm and 6pm, Channel 264

[FourWheelDrift]

I think every popular TV series in the 1970s got a film, Man About the House, Porridge, Rising Damp, Father Dear Father, Bless This House, George & Mildred, Dads Army.


One more film to TV series, the Carry on Films got a TV series, Carry on Laughing - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157218/

[Morningside]

FourWheelDrift said:

Been going on for ages. Some recent some old.

Film / TV Series

Alien Nation / Alien Nation
Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Blue Thunder / Blue Thunder
From Dusk till Dawn / From Dusk till Dawn the series
Hannibal films / Hannibal
Indiana Jones films / Loosely: Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
Logan's Run / Logan's Run
Planet of the Apes / Planet of the Apes series
Pyscho / Bates Motel
Terminator films / Sarah Connor Chronicles
Westworld / Westworld

Probably more if you think about it.

Logans Run the series was very good.

But why did they ditch The Sarah Connor Chronicles? Why? Why?

[Halb]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag_AFraxj-4