Ferris Bueller 1990, cancelled after 13 episodes.

Fast Times (1986) only aired 7 eps.
based on Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

Based on movies of the same name unless otherwise noted.

Delta House (based on Animal House) (1979)
Uncle Buck (1990-1991)
Parenthood (1990-1991)
Working Girl (1990)
Baby Boom (1988-1989)
Baby Talk (based on Look Who's Talking) (1991-1992)
My Big Fat Greek Life (based on My Big Fat Greek Wedding) (2003)

"10 Things I Hate About You" (2009-10) had 20 eps.
Based on the 1999 film

The Bad News Bears.

Besides MASH, has there ever been a successful sitcom based on a film? The Klugman/ Randall Odd Couple is another success (I just thought of). But the successes of making a film into a TV show rarely works.

Besides MASH, has there ever been a successful sitcom based on a film? The Klugman/ Randall Odd Couple is another success (I just thought of). But the successes of making a film into a TV show rarely works.
Alice was based on Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore .

Makin' It was based on Saturday Night Fever but only lasted eight weeks from Feb-March 1979.

Clueless. A massive hit film in 1995, a TV series based on the film debuted in 1996 was cancelled by ABC after 1 season and ran on UPN network for 2 more seasons.

Unfortunately it was considered by all to be a creative failure, stemming at least in-part due to Alicia Silverstone, the star of the movie not agreeing to appear on the TV show. Her recast Rachel Blanchard was just not as good an actress. Also in order to bring it to TV, the tone of the series was adjusted and was not the same as the movie. The movie was witty, wry and at times irreverent, and the TV series was sappy, poorly constructed and stupid.

There was a show in the early 70's that didn't last long called Anna and the King, based on the Broadway musical hit The King and I.


The Courtship of Eddie's father TV show was based on a movie with the same name from 1963 starring Glenn Ford and Shirley Jones. In this case though the show was a hit that lasted from 1969 to 1972!

Besides MASH, has there ever been a successful sitcom based on a film? The Klugman/ Randall Odd Couple is another success (I just thought of). But the successes of making a film into a TV show rarely works.yes, but THE ODD COUPLE wasn't a hit in it's original run on ABC; in fact it was almost canceled at the end of each of it's 5 seasons. It only became a hit in syndicated reruns.

The African Queen was a very short lived 76 series that only lasted a few episodes and then there was Blue Thunder that only lasted one season.

in the 70s or 80s didn't NBC have a failed series based on the Humphrey Bogart movie CASABLANCA?

BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE on ABC in the early 70s.

Harry and the Hendersons - 1991-93

Alice was based on Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore .

Also 'Mr. Belvedere' was based on Sitting Pretty (1948) with Clifton Webb as Mr Belvedere. The 1980's series was the 4th attempt to make Mr Belvedere into a series, there were 3 failed pilots in the past (One in 1956, one in 1959, and one in 1965)

The more recent "Bad Teacher" (2014) was a dud. CBS canceled it after airing 3 eps.

Based on the 2011 film.

Semi-Tough (1980) based on the 1977 Burt Reynolds movie.

Harry and the Hendersons - 1991-93

It ran for three seasons and 72 episodes. I would hardly call that a failure. It's more of a forgotten show.

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A League of Their Own ran for five episodes (with one unaired episode) on CBS in 1993.

They made a Blazing Saddles spin-off sitcom that never aired. They allegedly filmed four seasons. The pilot episode of Black Bart was included as a bonus feature on the Blazing Saddles 30th Anniversary DVD and the Blu-ray disc. It aired on Trio in 2003.

BLACK BART (1975): Based on Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles, Louis Gossett, Jr. and Steve Landesberg star in this pilot that chronicles the adventures of a black sheriff and his quick-draw deputy working in a small, bigoted Arizona town in the Old West.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazing_Saddles#TV_series

The weird IP story of the forgotten "Blazing Saddles" TV spin-off
https://boingboing.net/2021/03/25/the-weird-ip-story-of-the-forgotten-blazing-saddles-tv-spin-off.html

Hats Off Entertainment did a video on it last year, but it looks like they made it private on their YouTube channel.

Sitcoms based on movies that failed
Working Girl
Gidget
Outsourced
Love Bug
Harper Valley PTA
9 to 5
Barber Shop
Bob & Carol And Ted & Alice
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Party Girl
Gung Ho
Baby Boom

Lots of failed pilots based on sitcoms
Adventures in BabySitting
Turner and Hooch
Legally Blonde
Diner

Sitcoms that were in between success and failure
Private Benjamin
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Please Don’t Eat The Daisies

Sitcoms based on movies that were successful

Courtship Of Eddie’s Father
Honey I Shrunk The Kids
Flipper
Weird Science

Uncle Buck (1990-1991)

The 2016 series also flopped.

Sitcoms based on movies that were successful

Courtship Of Eddie’s Father
Honey I Shrunk The Kids
Flipper
Weird ScienceYou forgot the biggest success of all: M*A*S*H.

Not a sitcom but The Warriors movie had a failed series in 1980.

Sitcoms based on movies that failed
Working Girl
Gidget
Outsourced
Love Bug
Harper Valley PTA
9 to 5
Barber Shop
Bob & Carol And Ted & Alice
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Party Girl
Gung Ho
Baby Boom

Lots of failed pilots based on sitcoms
Adventures in BabySitting
Turner and Hooch
Legally Blonde
Diner

Sitcoms that were in between success and failure
Private Benjamin
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Please Don’t Eat The Daisies

Sitcoms based on movies that were successful

Courtship Of Eddie’s Father
Honey I Shrunk The Kids
Flipper
Weird Science

The pilot of Adventures in Babysitting is as far as I know, still on YouTube, albeit in poor quality. I'm kind of not surprised that it wasn't turned into a series. Adventures in Babysitting is a film that's pretty high stakes.

It's naturally hard to maintain that type of energy in a weekly, half hour sitcom. I mean, was every week, Chris Parker (the Elisabeth Shue character from the film) and her young charges, going to be thrown into madcap hijinks in the city, while the parents are out of the house?

The writers would have to contrive a new excuse and reasoning for why the plot for that week's episode becomes set into motion.

Based on movies of the same name unless otherwise noted.

Delta House (based on Animal House) (1979)
Uncle Buck (1990-1991)
Parenthood (1990-1991)
Working Girl (1990)
Baby Boom (1988-1989)
Baby Talk (based on Look Who's Talking) (1991-1992)
My Big Fat Greek Life (based on My Big Fat Greek Wedding) (2003)

I can immediately guess or tell why Delta House didn't work. Because it had to conform to the standards of prime-time network television of the day, a lot of the raunchy, irreverent, politically incorrect humor from the Animal House had to be toned down and sanitized.

The pilot of Adventures in Babysitting is as far as I know, still on YouTube, albeit in poor quality. I'm kind of not surprised that it wasn't turned into a series. Adventures in Babysitting is a film that's pretty high stakes.

It's naturally hard to maintain that type of energy in a weekly, half hour sitcom. I mean, was every week, Chris Parker (the Elisabeth Shue character from the film) and her young charges, going to be thrown into madcap hijinks in the city, while the parents are out of the house?

The writers would have to contrive a new excuse and reasoning for why the plot for that week's episode becomes set into motion.

Yeah that would be a hard one. Maybe just a sequel instead of a show.



You forgot the biggest success of all: M*A*S*H.

I think someone already mentioned it.

Sitcoms based on movies that failed
Working Girl
Gidget
Outsourced
Love Bug
Harper Valley PTA
9 to 5
Barber Shop
Bob & Carol And Ted & Alice
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Party Girl
Gung Ho
Baby Boom

Lots of failed pilots based on sitcoms
Adventures in BabySitting
Turner and Hooch
Legally Blonde
Diner

Sitcoms that were in between success and failure
Private Benjamin
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Please Don’t Eat The Daisies

Sitcoms based on movies that were successful

Courtship Of Eddie’s Father
Honey I Shrunk The Kids
Flipper
Weird Science

Alice was a successful sitcom based on the movie Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, lasting 9 seasons.

The pilot of Adventures in Babysitting is as far as I know, still on YouTube, albeit in poor quality. I'm kind of not surprised that it wasn't turned into a series. Adventures in Babysitting is a film that's pretty high stakes.

It's naturally hard to maintain that type of energy in a weekly, half hour sitcom. I mean, was every week, Chris Parker (the Elisabeth Shue character from the film) and her young charges, going to be thrown into madcap hijinks in the city, while the parents are out of the house?

The writers would have to contrive a new excuse and reasoning for why the plot for that week's episode becomes set into motion.
The pilot is still on YouTube, I never knew this existed it has Joey Lawrence and Brian Austin Green before their voices cracked.

Alice was a successful sitcom based on the movie Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, lasting 9 seasons.

Yes it was. I only listed ones that hadn’t been mentioned yet.

The pilot is still on YouTube, I never knew this existed it has Joey Lawrence and Brian Austin Green before their voices cracked.

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Incidentally, that same week in 1989 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_in_American_television), CBS aired another failed pilot for sitcom that was based on a relatively recent movie. On July 4, 1989, CBS broadcast a pilot (https://www.slashfilm.com/831702/the-coming-to-america-tv-show-that-never-saw-the-light-of-day/) for a proposed Coming to America (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_to_America_(TV_pilot)) TV series (https://setthetape.com/2021/03/05/coming-to-america-pilot-error/) starring Tommy Davidson as the brother of Eddie Murphy (https://www.facebook.com/MurphyMondayPodcast/videos/coming-to-america-tv-show-pilot-from-1989-tommy-davidson-plays-akeems-brother-wh/145504617411069/)'s character Prince Akeem from the movie.

Tales of the God Monkey was a Raiders of the Lost Ark ripoff that wasnt any good and had poor ratings and it was cancelled. I think it could have been a good show but probably the budget for the series wasnt enough and it was silly and not good.

Bagdad Cafe starring Whoopi Goldberg and Jean Stapleton, which only ran for 15 episodes in 1990. Although the 1987 German/US film version wasn't a major hit in the US, it was a success in Germany and was well-received by the critics on both sides of the Atlantic.

Tales of the God Monkey was a Raiders of the Lost Ark ripoff that wasnt any good and had poor ratings and it was cancelled. I think it could have been a good show but probably the budget for the series wasnt enough and it was silly and not good.

Tales Of The Gold Monkey was not a Raiders rip off, Donald P. Bellisario was inspired by the 1939 Cary Grant film Only Angels Have Wings, Donald had been trying to sell the show before Raiders came out, but because of the success of Raiders, Gold Monkey got greenlit because it was also set in the 1930s.