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)