View Full Version : Television shows that were unofficially inspired by films


TMC
02-25-2016, 04:07 AM
For example:
Bewitched - Bell Book and Candle

Hogan's Heroes - Stalag 17

I Dream of Jeannie - The Brass Bottle

Star Trek - Forbidden Planet

Space 1999 - 2001: A Space Odyssey

The Dukes of Hazzard - Moonrunners

Full House - Three Men and a Baby

The Brady Bunch - Yours, Mine and Ours and With Six You Get Eggroll

Makin' It - Saturday Night Fever

Bosom Buddies - Some Like It Hot

Heroes - Unbreakable

Happy Days - American Grafitti and Fonzie being somewhat inspired by The Lords Of Flatbush

Battlestar Galactica (1978) - Star Wars

The Flash (1990) - Batman (1989)

Daredevil - Batman Begins

McCloud - Coogan's Bluff

Hunter - Dirty Harry

W.E.B. (a very short run show in 1978) - Network

Parker Lewis Can't Lose - Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Brothers and Sisters and Co-ed Fever - Animal House

Lou Grant and The X-Files - All The President's Men (with Kolchak: The Night Stalker thrown in for The X-Files)

Person of Interest - Minority Report

Airwolf - Blue Thunder

Game of Thrones - Lord of the Rings

Sopranos - Goodfellas

Northern Exposure - Local Hero

The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. - Back to the Future Part III

Quantum Leap - Heaven Can Wait and Back to the Future

Automan - Tron

Baby Talk - Look Who's Talking

Torgo
02-25-2016, 08:29 AM
Brisco County came from Carlton Cuse' love of 50s and 60s westerns, and scifi, so he combined the two.
One of its made inspirations was the series The Wild Wild West.

Sal
02-25-2016, 10:53 PM
The Monkees - A Hard Days Night and Help

Welcome Back Kotter - Cooley High

The Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle - No Time For Sergeants

The Real McCoys and The Beverly Hillbillies - The Ma and Pa Kettle series

Get Smart - The James Bond series

Mr Ed - Francis The Talking Mule



If you wish, I could also make a strong case that Gilligans Island is really The Wizard Of Oz in a tropical setting.

TMC
02-26-2016, 02:56 AM
The Monkees - A Hard Days Night and Help

Welcome Back Kotter - Cooley High

The Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle - No Time For Sergeants

The Real McCoys and The Beverly Hillbillies - The Ma and Pa Kettle series

Get Smart - The James Bond series

Mr Ed - Francis The Talking Mule



If you wish, I could also make a strong case that Gilligans Island is really The Wizard Of Oz in a tropical setting.

What's Happening!! was originally going to be a direct TV adaptation of Cooley High. But from what I've gathered, the network felt that the setting was too grim (and I guess that there was already Good Times as the resident "Chicago ghetto sitcom" of the day). So instead of a one camera sitcom set in '60s era Chicago, What's Happening! as it ultimately became, was turned into a three camera sitcom set in modern day Los Angeles.

The White Shadow was also apparently, inspired bu Cooley High.

Torgo
02-26-2016, 09:42 AM
Automan - TRON

Tales Of The Gold Monkey - Only Angels Have Wings (1939), the series was greenlighted after the success of Raiders Of The Lost Ark.

myowndrownedworld
02-26-2016, 10:13 AM
Bewitched was actually inspired by I Married a Witch, not Bell Book and Candle.

Torgo
02-26-2016, 01:21 PM
The creators of the British scifi themed sitcom Red Dwarf said the John Carpenter scifi comedy Dark Star was one of their main inspirations.

Tubehead
02-26-2016, 03:37 PM
limitless tv show was inspired by the movie limitless!!

Torgo
02-26-2016, 03:39 PM
limitless tv show was inspired by the movie limitless!!

That's an official spin-off. The OP is talking about show unofficially inspired by movies.

Torgo
02-26-2016, 04:23 PM
The Dukes Of Hazzard - Moonrunners (1975)

Though Dukes might be considered a remake considering:

There's an Uncle Jesse, there's a Sheriff Rosco P Coltrane, and Wayland Jennings does on Moonrunners what he later did on the Dukes Of Hazzard.

robyrob
02-27-2016, 12:35 PM
although the success of American Graffiti led to it getting picked-up as a series, the Happy Days pilot was actually produced before the movie was made, and aired (February 25, 1972) as an episode of Love, American Style before the movie was released (August 2, 1973).