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

Don't publish this list as-is to the Main pagespace! (This is a temporary reference document.) Instead, create categories and tag the appropriate pages.

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 Long John Silver (from Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island , has continuity of cast)
• 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 Café

Bates Motel (from Psycho)
Beastmaster
Beyond Westworld (from Westworld)
Blade: The Series
Blue Thunder
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Bustin' Loose
Casablanca
The Client
The Client List
Clueless
The Courtship of Eddie'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 Farmer's Daughter
La Femme Nikita
Ferris Bueller
Flipper
Foul Play
Freddie'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
Logan's Run
M*A*S*H
Madigan
The Magnificent Seven
Max Headroom
McCloud (from Coogan'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, Don'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 (from Ghostbusters)
• Teen Wolf
• The Adventures of Superman (from Superman and the Mole Men, both starring George Reeves)
• Battlestar Galactica (both)
• 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

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)