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tv star collector
11-08-2005, 07:41 PM
O.K. A while back, someone posted a thread for non-fiction books about television. So, I'm going to start one for fictional adaptations of TV shows.
Everyone feel free to add their own. These are the titles in my library .....
Paperback books: LUCAS TANNER, TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL, LITTLE HOUSE ON
THE PRAIRIE, COLUMBO, DIAGNOSIS MURDER, McCLOUD, AMAZING STORIES,
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, CHARMED, NIGHT GALLERY, ROSWELL, STAR
TREK VOYAGER, XENA WARRIOR PRINCESS, BONANZA, HEC RAMSEY, THE LONE
RANGER, THE MEN FROM SHILOH (THE VIRGINIAN), THE ADDAMS FAMILY, THE
BEVERLY HILLBILLIES, THE FLYING NUN, GET SMART, THE GHOST AND MRS.
MUIR, HAPPY DAYS, BAYWATCH, WISHBONE.
Whitman Juvenile Books (hardcover): CIRCUS BOY, DRAGNET, GILLIGAN'S
ISLAND, LASSIE, WELLS FARGO, Walt Disney's ANNETTE.

gilligan fanatic
11-08-2005, 09:53 PM
here is what I have I also have Mash Goes to Vienna

tvfan0101
11-08-2005, 10:10 PM
I have roughly 125 or so television tie-in novels, not counting Star Trek.

The only list I have is incomplete:

Baretta, Ironside, Room 222, Strange Report, Bobby Sherman, Switch, Charlie's Angels, Search for Tomorrow, The Edge of the Night, Get Smart, The Time Tunnel, Mannix, I Spy, The Young Rebels, The A-Team, The New People, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Six Million Dollar Man, The Man from Atlantis, Planet of the Apes, V, Doctor Who, Space Precinct, CSI: Miami, The X-Files, Battlestar Galactica, Earth: Final Conflict, Stargate: SG-1, Land of the Giants, Get Smart, Space: 1999, Mission: Impossible, The Addams Family, Gomer Pyle USMC, The Quester Tapes, Earth 2, The Twilight Zone, Happy Days, Space: Above and Beyond, seaQuest DSV, Welcome Back, Kotter, Lucas Tanner

Plus many, many more. I also have many duplicates for some of the above titles.

gilligan fanatic
11-08-2005, 10:12 PM
tv star collector, what is the fiction Gilligan's Island book?

tv star collector
11-09-2005, 10:18 AM
here is what I have I also have Mash Goes to Vienna
Thanks for posting the pix. That's the same HAPPY DAYS novel that I have.

tv star collector
11-09-2005, 10:30 AM
tv star collector, what is the fiction Gilligan's Island book?
GILLIGAN'S ISLAND (Whitman, 1966) is a 212-page hardcover book. It is written by William Johnston, who wrote several very funny paperback novels including the GET SMART, FLYING NUN and HAPPY DAYS series. He also wrote several other Whitman juvenile books, incl. BEWITCHED, DR. KILDARE, F TROOP, IRONSIDE, THE MONKEES and THE MUNSTERS. The book is illustrated by Robert L. Jenney, who also illustrated such Whitman books as CIRCUS BOY and WELLS FARGO and several Dell comics, incl. the movie adaptations of THE CREATURE, FRANKENSTEIN, THE WOLFMAN, and SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS. (Surprisingly, there never was a GILLIGAN'S ISLAND comic book(although there were two Filmation cartoon versions.))

gilligan fanatic
11-09-2005, 11:29 AM
GILLIGAN'S ISLAND (Whitman, 1966) is a 212-page hardcover book. It is written by William Johnston, who wrote several very funny paperback novels including the GET SMART, FLYING NUN and HAPPY DAYS series. He also wrote several other Whitman juvenile books, incl. BEWITCHED, DR. KILDARE, F TROOP, IRONSIDE, THE MONKEES and THE MUNSTERS. The book is illustrated by Robert L. Jenney, who also illustrated such Whitman books as CIRCUS BOY and WELLS FARGO and several Dell comics, incl. the movie adaptations of THE CREATURE, FRANKENSTEIN, THE WOLFMAN, and SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS. (Surprisingly, there never was a GILLIGAN'S ISLAND comic book(although there were two Filmation cartoon versions.))

hmm I have seen that book at ebay. I never knew that was non fiction, I always thought it was like a making of book, cool.

tv star collector
11-09-2005, 07:09 PM
hmm I have seen that book at ebay. I never knew that was non fiction, I always thought it was like a making of book, cool.
Yes. In fact, I found my copy on eBay, for a closing bid of only $10.00. (In my
price guide, it is valued at up to $30.00.) It is a cool book if you can find it.