User:Robkelk/sandbox/TV series based on works from other media

A list of television shows (both live-action and animated) based on works from other media.

Inspired by (and first list compiled from) the thread at http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=142809

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See also Animated Adaptation and The Anime of the Game.

TV Series Based on Film
Pilot Movie is a sublist of this list.

Examples Need Sorting: Rush Hour Minority Report 12 Monkeys Dusk 'til Dawn Ash vs Evil Dead Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Sarah Conner Chronicles Highlander Stargate SG-1 The Limitless The Librarians (based off the three made-for-TV movies with Noah Wylie) 10 Things I Hate About You 9 to 5 The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin Alice Alien Nation Anna and the King (from The King and I) The Bad News Bears Bad Teacher Bagdad CafÃ© Bates Motel (from Psycho) Beastmaster Beyond Westworld (from Westworld) Blade: The Series Blue Thunder Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice Bustinâ€™ Loose Casablanca The Client The Client List Clueless The Courtship of Eddieâ€™s Father The Crow: Stairway to Heaven Damien (from Omen) Dangerous Minds The Dead Zone Dirty Dancing Doctor in the House Down and Out in Beverly Hills F/X: The Series Fame Fargo The Farmerâ€™s Daughter La Femme Nikita Ferris Bueller Flipper Foul Play Freddieâ€™s Nightmares (from Nightmare on Elm Street) Frequency Friday Night Lights The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Gidget Going My Way Gung Ho Harry and the Hendersons Honey, I Shrunk the Kids House Calls How to Marry a Millionaire In the Heat of the Night Lassie Loganâ€™s Run M*A*S*H Madigan The Magnificent Seven Max Headroom McCloud (from Cooganâ€™s Bluff) Mr. Belvedere (from Sitting Pretty) Naked City National Velvet The Net No Time for Sergeants The Odd Couple The Paper Chase Paper Moon Parenthood Peyton Place Planet of the Apes Please, Donâ€™t Eat the Daisies Police Academy: The Series Private Benjamin RoboCop: The Series Serpico Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Starman Stir Crazy Sugarfoot (from The Boy from Oklahoma) Time Cop Transporter: The Series Uncle Buck Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea War of the Worlds Weird Science The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles 101 Dalmations: The Series Aladdin Buzz Lightyear of Star Command Lilo and Stitch: The series The Little Mermaid Timon and Pumbaa Ace Ventura: Pet Detective The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Back to the Future Beetlejuice Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures Conan the Adventurer Dawn of the Croods Dreamworks' Dragons (from How to Train Your Dragon) Jumanji The Karate Kid Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness Little Shop (from Little Shop of Horrors) The Mask: The Animated Series Men in Black: The Series The Mummy: The Animated Series The Neverending Story The Pink Panther The Real Ghostbusters Teen Wolf The Adventures of Superman (from Superman and the Mole Men, both starring George Reeves) Battlestar Galactica (original) She-Ra: Princess of Power Star Wars: the Clone Wars Star Wars: Rebels Droids (from Star Wars) Ewoks (from Star Wars) Transporter Lethal Weapon Training Day
 * The Adventures of Long John Silver (from Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island, has continuity of cast)

TV Series Based on Literature

 * Little House On The Prairie
 * Perry Mason

TV Series Based on Radio

 * Dragnet
 * Gunsmoke
 * The Green Hornet
 * The Third Man (from The Adventures of Harry Lime, starring Orson Welles)

TV Series Based on Theatre

 * The Odd Couple

TV Series Based on TV Series
See also Spin-Off and Poorly-Disguised Pilot
 * Happy Days (from Love, American Style)