# Guess the movie from the TV shows **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 5, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769 "2012-09-05T17:56:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/81 "2012-09-10T04:39:48Z")
_**The Courtship of Eddie’s Father Leave It to Beaver Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In**_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/82 "2012-09-10T12:23:59Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > _**The Courtship of Eddie’s Father > Leave It to Beaver > Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In**_ Bill Bixby, Tony Dow, and Henry Gibson in . . . The Kentucky Fried Movie! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/83 "2012-09-10T15:36:03Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Bill Bixby, Tony Dow, and Henry Gibson in . . . The Kentucky Fried Movie! Nice job- I didn’t think that would be so easy! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/84 "2012-09-10T16:17:00Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Nice job- I didn’t think that would be so easy! In fairness, I’d built the post right before yours around THE INCREDIBLE HULK, and so had just been pondering the assorted roles of Bill Bixby. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/85 "2012-09-13T14:34:23Z")
It seems as if this thread has jumped the shark and is dying. But just so nobody is left hanging, I’ll give the answers to all my unsolved posers: SpongeBob SquarePants The Walking Dead Ally McBeal Clancy “Mr. Krabs” Brown + Jeffrey de Munn + = The Shawshank Redemption Third Rock from the Sun Rescue Me The Electric Company Joseph Gordon Levitt + Daniel Sunjata + Morgan Freeman = The Dark Knight Rises 30 Rock Growing Pains The West Wing Alec Baldwin + Leonardo Dicaprio + Martin Sheen = The Departed The Man From U.N.C.L.E. 8 Simple Rules Wanted: Dead or Alive David McCallum + James Garner + Steve McQueen = The Great Escape Gunsmoke The Saint Maude Burt Reynolds + Roger Moore + Adrienne Barbeau = Cannonball Run Judging Amy Monk 24 Amy Brenneman + Ted Levine + Dennis Haysbert = Heat Medium Sex and the City 21 Jump Street Patricia Arquette + Sarah Jessica Parker + Johny Depp = Ed Wood Mr. Belvedere L.A. Law Spin City Bob Uecker + Corbin Bernsen + Charlie Sheen = Major League Kojak The Love Boat All in the Family Telly Savalas + Gavin Macleod + Carroll O’Connor = Kelley’s Heroes Green Acres F Troop Hill Street Blues Eddie Albert + James (bugler Dobbs) Hampton + Michael Conrad = The Longest Yard ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/86 "2012-09-13T20:11:24Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > It seems as if this thread has jumped the shark and is dying. But just so nobody is left hanging, I’ll give the answers to all my unsolved posers: And I’ll do the same: Wilfred=Elijah Woods Spin City=Michael J. Fox Taxi = Christopher Lloyd so the movie is “Back to the Future II” (in which a young Elijah Woods appears as a kid at the 80’s Diner, playing the shoot-em-up video game) ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/87 "2012-09-13T21:08:46Z")
OK then. Seinfeld (Jason Alexander) Monk (Hector Elizondo) Saving Grace (Laura san Giacomo) **Pretty Woman** Scrubs (John McGinley) Entourage (Kevin Dillon) 21 Jump Street (Johnny Depp) **Platoon** Sons of Anarchy (Ron Perlman) Arrested Development (Jeffrey Tambor) Merlin (John Hurt) **Hellboy** Deadwood (Brian Cox) The Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan) Californication (Angus McFadden) **Braveheart** Picket Fences (Tom Skerrit) Homicide: Life on the Streets (Yaphet Kotto) Big Love (Harry Dean Stanton) **Alien** ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/88 "2012-09-13T21:17:40Z")
And mine as well: Emily’s Reasons Why Not (Heather Graham) The Wild Thornberrys (Lacey Chabert) Friends (Matt LeBlanc) _ **Lost in Space** _ The Phil Silvers Show (Billy Sands) The Love Boat (Gavin MacLeod) The Carol Burnett Show (Tim Conway) **_McHale’s Navy_ (the 1960s movie, not the remake with Tom Arnold), and I think all of them were in _McHale’s Navy Joins the Air Force_ as well** Fridays (Melanie Chartoff as Didi) A Different World (Cree Summer as Susie) Star Trek: the Next Generation (Whoopi Goldberg as a park ranger) **_The Rugrats Movie_ (Whoopi was not in either _Rugrats in Paris_ _or The Rugrats Go Wild_)** ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2012, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769/89 "2012-09-16T02:30:13Z")
Mine: **Tales of the Gold Monkey** - Roddy McDowall. **The Jeff Foxworthy Show** - Matt Clark. **The Incredible Hulk** - Jack Colvin. **Dallas** - Victoria Principal. **Homicide: Life On The Street** - Ned Beatty. \*\*The Young Riders \*\* - Anthony Zerbe. All of 'em alongside Paul Newman in THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JUDGE ROY BEAN. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-tv-shows/633769.md?page=4)