TV shows that became cartoons

[Retro4Life]

They don't seem to do this much any more (yes, I suppose 'thankfully' but back in the day [I'm talking early to mid 70s], there was a certain naive charm in the practice), but I was thinking about a few examples at work and thought I'd share them with you.

1) The Brady Bunch (The Brady Kids)
2) The Partridge Family (Partridge Family:2200AD)
3) Gilligan's Island (Gilligan's Planet)
4) All in the Family (Wait til Your Father gets Home, the Barkleys)
5) The Odd Couple (The Oddball Couple)


Anyone have any others?

[robyrob]

Happy Days and Mork and Mindy

[Vahan]

Punky Brewster (It's Punky Brewster), and ALF (ALF: The Animated Series, later paired in a one-hour block with it's own spin-off titled ALF's Tales).

[Jude The Obscure]

Laverne & Shirley

the Addams Family became not one, but two animated series

so did Gilligan--the other one was the New Adventures of Gilligan.

[steevo]

The Dukes Of Hazzard-The Dukes (1983)-At first, it starred the replacement characters of Coy and Vance since it was developed during that year Schnieder and Wopat walked off the show. When the Dukes returned for 11 more episodes later in '83, the originals Bo and Luke replaced them.

The Original Star Trek-(1972-73)- All of the original actors voiced their characters. Leonard Nimoy threatened to walk unless the original actros got to voice their characters. Chekov wasn't included, but Walter Koenig wrote an episode.

[treky]

I DREAM OF JEANNIE, I think MASH also did.
HAPPY DAYS had "FONZIE AND THE HAPPY DAYS GANG"

[Raisingdad2004]

Sabrina: The Teenage Witch spun off a cartoon series, where Sabrina was voiced by Mellisa Joan Hart's younger sister. 'course, there was a cartoon series before that so this might be a case of cartoons becoming TV shows.

[treky]

"THE FLINTSTONES" was loosely based on "THE HONEYMOONERS"(in fact Jackie Gleason was going to sue over it, but his lawyer talked him out of it)

"TOP CAT" was loosely based on "SGT. BILKO".

[Zoneboy]

"THE FLINTSTONES" was loosely based on "THE HONEYMOONERS"(in fact Jackie Gleason was going to sue over it, but his lawyer talked him out of it)

"TOP CAT" was loosely based on "SGT. BILKO".

Glad you mentioned these because Wait Till Your Father Gets Home was very loosely based on All in the Family. Other than that there's no connection between the 2 shows.

[comedyfreak]

There was a Munsters cartoon when the show ended and also one for Lost In Space

[jimpickens]

The Lone Ranger
Batman numerous times
Superman
Zorro
Baggy Pants and The Nitwits the Nitwits based two Laugh In characters played by Ruth Buzzi and Artie Johnson
Emergency Plus 4
Lassie Rescue Rangers or something like that
Tarzan
Family Ties had a short lived cartoon series
Valley Of The Dinosaurs loosely based on Land Of The Lost
MUTTS based on MASH

[tv star collector]

Sorry, but there was never a cartoon show based on Family Ties. You
might be thinking of the cartoon version of the movie Back to the Future..

The following live-action shows did all have cartoon counterparts:

Time for Beany (Beany & Cecil)
The Lone Ranger (two versions)
Tarzan
Zorro (two versions)
The Brady Bunch (The Brady Kids)
Lassie (Lassie's Rescue Rangers)
My Favorite Martian (My Favorite Martians)
I Dream of Jeannie (Jeannie)
The Addams Family (two versions)
Emergency! (Emergency + Four)
Star Trek
Gilligan's Island (New Adventures of Gilligan, Gilligan Planet)
Partridge Family (Partridge Family: 2200 A.D.)
The Odd Couple (The Oddball Couple)
Isis (Secrets of Isis)
Laugh-In (Baggy Pants & the Nitwits)
Happy Days (Fonz & the Happy Days Gang)
Laverne & Shirley (Laverne & Shirley in the Army)
Mork & Mindy
Dukes of Hazzard (The Dukes)
The Muppet Show (Muppet Babies)
Punky Brewster (It's Punky Brewster)
ALF (ALF and ALF Tales)
Tales From the Crypt (Tales From the Cryptkeeper)
Sabrina the Teenage Witch (Sabrina, the Animated Series)

Also: the following shows were at least influenced by earlier live-action series ...
The Flintstones (The Honeymooners)
Top Cat (Sergeant Bilko)
Calvin & the Colonel (Amos 'n' Andy)
The Jetsons (Blondie)
Scooby-Doo (Dobie Gillis)
The Barkleys (All in the Family)
Casper and the Angels (Charlie's Angels)

Although they never became series, animated pilots for the following shows aired on The ABC
Saturday Superstar Movie:
Nanny and the Professor ("Nanny and the Professor," "Nanny and the Phantom Circus")
Gidget ("Gidget Makes the Wrong Connection")
Bewitched ("Tabitha and Adam and the Clown Family")
That Girl ("That Girl in Wonderland")
Lost in Space
The Munsters ("The Mini-Munsters")
Also: "Luvcast U.S.A." was influenced by Love, American Style.

[Scoobiedoo30]

M*A*S*H did not become a cartoonyou are thinking of AfterMASH.

[jimpickens]

I heard that they were planning a FT cartoon but the idea was nixed by the cast as being a dumb idea. There was also a cartoon version of Shazam that featured the the Marvel family.

[Zoneboy]

M*A*S*H did not become a cartoonyou are thinking of AfterMASH.

There was a cartoon version called M-U-S-H which aired as part of the Groovie Goolies and Friends

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrZ7csjtnPg

[tv star collector]

I had read that there was an animated version of Car 54, Where Are You? that sometimes aired as a segment of the syndicated series Wait Till
Your Father Gets Home. Having never seen that series (aside from the
pilot, which aired on ABC's Love, American Style), I don't know whether or not this is true.

[JamesG]

I believe the 80s muppet show Fraggle Rock had a short-lived animated show that lasted one season.

[ekkostar]

Why Night Court never got an animated spinoff I'll never know, it would have done rather well seeing as the main series was a live-action cartoon, especially in later episodes.

[markway895]

Also worth mentioning all the animated versions of tv characters on the Scooby Doo Mysteries.
and
Abbott & Costello
Laurel & Hardy
The 3 Stooges
The Little Rascals

[Torgo]

Sabrina: The Teenage Witch spun off a cartoon series, where Sabrina was voiced by Mellisa Joan Hart's younger sister. 'course, there was a cartoon series before that so this might be a case of cartoons becoming TV shows.

Or comic books becoming TV shows since they were all from the 'Sabrina The Teenage Witch' comic book series published by Archie Comics.

[Torgo]

I had read that there was an animated version of Car 54, Where Are You? that sometimes aired as a segment of the syndicated series Wait Till
Your Father Gets Home. Having never seen that series (aside from the
pilot, which aired on ABC's Love, American Style), I don't know whether or not this is true.

Unless they edited it out I don't recall seeing a version of Car 54 on Wait Till Your Father Gets Home during it's Cartoon Network airings in the 90's

[Torgo]

'Super Dave: Daredevil for Hire' (1992), spun off from Super Dave ('88), which was a spin-off of Bizarre('80)

'The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley' (1988) was spun off from SCTV/Saturday Night Live

There's a pilot for 'The Animated Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie' (2003) spun off from SCTV(And their feature length film- Strange Brew)

A proposed animated version of Ark II never happened(concept art can be seen on the extras of the TV series DVD release)

[Chain Gang Member]

In a looney tune cartoon,they had mice who acted like the main characters of The Hooneymooners

[jimpickens]

Good to see that somebody remembers The Oddball Couple.

[JamesG]

Roseanne Barr starred in a short-lived 1990 cartoon Little Rosie. I do not know if this had anything to do with the sitcom Roseanne.

Anyone know more about this one?

[dakert]

Dont forget about "The Planet Of The Apes" cartoon available on DVD

[comedyfreak]

Dennis The Menace was in the newspaper funnies first, then the tv show and cartoon.

[tv star collector]

Roseanne Barr starred in a short-lived 1990 cartoon Little Rosie. I do not know if this had anything to do with the sitcom Roseanne.

Anyone know more about this one?

Little Rosey, which aired on ABC from 1990 to 1991, was a cartoon version of a 10-year-old Roseanne Barr, who finds adventure in fantasy and
real life within her family circle and neighborhood. Kathleen Laskey supplied
Rosey's voice. [Source: TV Guide Guide to TV (Barnes & Noble; 2004)]

In 1992, Nelvana--in association with Little Rosey Productions--produced a
prime-time TV special, Rosey and Buddy, in which the two fun-loving
characters create havoc when they drive into cartoonland to rescue their
friends from network weasels. The show was created by Tom Arnold and
directed by Larry Jacobs. Roseanne and Tom Arnold provided the voices
for the title characters. [Source: TV Guide magazine]

[Torgo]

Dont forget about "The Planet Of The Apes" cartoon available on DVD

I have that. The animation may not be the best, and some of the voice acting a little cheesy. But it has excellent writing and storlines.

[JamesG]

I know that in 1994 there was a short-lived Highlander animated series.

However, I do not know if it is related to the movies, to the series, or if it is an independent adaptation.

[Schmoopie]

It's already been mentioned, but I used to love watching "The Three Stooges" cartoon!