tv shows based on movies, where the tv version is better

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since Buffy and M*A*S*H are the only movie-based shows i can think of, so far the answer is "all of them"

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

What about my big fat greek sitcom?

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

bill and ted the cartoon

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

most of them were just so bad that they never lasted more than a few episodes. there was a ferris bueller tv show, and a fast times tv show.
I don't remember the movie Fame and can barely remember seeing the tv show.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

list here

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

my big fat greek sitcom: it is presumably a sitcom = it is shorter than the movie = it is better

ok the other ones tip the scales tho

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

and here

what's happening being based on cooley high seems like a bit of a stretch.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I think The Pink Panther is the only real answer.

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

hey i never knew "what's happening!!" was based on Coolie High
(xp - yes)

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Buffy is the greatest answer to this - I'm not convinced that the MASH TV show is better than the film. The anti-Buffy might be Alice, a dreary sitcom based on Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

la femme nikita?

― todd swiss (eliti), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i'm not a big fan of MASH in either format, but much as i like Gould & Sutherland i think the tv version is better cast and benefits from a more straightforward directing/editing style. i'm surprised more Altman movies didn't get the series treatment, come to think of it.

i've never seen Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore but i always thought it was a sad & heavy drama!!

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Thoughts on The Odd Couple?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

no way m*a*s*h tv better than the movie, good call on the odd couple.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i sort of suspect that when people think of either version of the Odd Couple, the couple that springs immediately to mind is Matthau and Randall. great themetune.

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

the only Altman movie better than its tv equivalent REAL OR IMAGINED is The Long Goodbye

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

b-b-but the tv equiv of the long goodbye is the rockford files!!!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

title sequence of the Rockford Files - better than all films ever

(oh and Gosford Park is possibly better than 'upstairs downstairs' which i have never seen)

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

In a variation on the theme, I thought the early-70s Star Trek cartoons were pretty good, esp. the ones with Larry Niven scripts.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

the m*a*s*h movie is craptacular so i guess the tv show is better

there was a fast times show??!?!?

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Thursday, 9 September 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"Delta House" (based on "Animal House") was unwatchably poor.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

michelle pfeiffer was in that wasn't she?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

animal house was also based on mash, pretty much

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The pilot episode of the TV spinoff included on the Meet Me in St. Louis DVD is hilarious.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

did the tv version of casablanca (that was to star either starsky or hutch, i forget) ever actually air?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)

besides the gould/sutherland awesomeness, mash is really not all it's cracked up to be

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)

a "player" tv show would probably be better than the movie

(tim robbins character and whoopi goldberg character team up to greenlight scripts and solve crimes)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

it's altman's most misogynistic movie (which is sayin' something!)

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

one thing i like very very much about entourage is that it isn't the player tv series

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

which blount, mash or player?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

mash

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

still gould/sutherland makes up for ALOT, and i really really like it when altman suddenly decides he'd rather make a sports movie

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

btw this is funny:

http://fametracker.com/blue_moons/future_2003_03_18.shtml

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

(mostly for the casting)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Stargate - is it better than the movie? Ive not seen the movie but the TV show has moments of silly humour I dont mind.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

that show looks like it's entirely filmed in a vancouver ravine

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahah it probably is!

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean I was commenting on that wathing it last night - "oh look theres that tunnel they seem to go in and out of every damn show" and "oh look, there's the spaceship set from Babylon 5".

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

seriously! that's one cheap-looking show

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

HIGHLANDER
Adrian Paul > Christopher Lambert

― Tx, Thursday, 9 September 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

was i hallucinating the last time i watched television or is scott bakula in every new sci fi series?

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Thursday, 9 September 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

if only!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 September 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

i think i remember hearing the the casablanca tv series did air, but wasnt it like more than 20 years after the movie was released?

thats just asking for failure.

― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 9 September 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I liked Party Girl with Christine Taylor more than Party Girl with Parker Posey.

The Monkees was better than A Hard Day's Night, also.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 9 September 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

David Soul played Rick in the Casablanca tv show, sadly i saw the first episode (i think it was only on for a couple of weeks before getting yanked.)

― H (Heruy), Thursday, 9 September 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Weird Science was a better TV show. (Love both though)

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 9 September 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Batman the Animated Series that sort of sprang from the movies was superior. But you'd expect me to say that.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 9 September 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

that tv show based on kids was pretty bad IMO

― amateur!!st, Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

You mean Malcolm in the Middle? Yeah, that show sucks.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

The Monkees was better than A Hard Day's Night, also.
No way in hell.

― briania (briania), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Amateurist means
http://www.classicmedia.tv/assets/circles/casper.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

no, i mean the one where each week telly and caspar infect a different teenage girl with HIV. amanda bynes has the chloe sevigny part.

― amateur!!st, Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

You're joking, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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