I beg to differ. The '50s ended as soon as Eisenhower left office, and (as was noted in American Graffiti) the '60s started with surfing music. Hell, I was seven years old in 1962, and I could tell the times had **definitely **changed!
Laverne & Shirley is a spin off of Happy Days
I’d forgot that detail!
That’s a fair point of view. There was a change as Kennedy took office.
Nope. The Critic was originally aired on ABC; it was cancelled and picked up by Fox. There was a crossover episode when the show switched networks.
It was created by two ex-Simpsons writers, but they set out to make it as different from the Simpsons as they could.
Simpsons creator Matt Groening was so furious that FOX did this that he had his name removed from the credits of that episode. Kind of ironic now, being that the episode (A Star is Burns) was actually pretty good (and contains one of my favorite lines). And besides that, The Simpsons itself hasn’t been good at all in over 15 years*!*
You can stretch it to six.
Make Room for Daddy
The Danny Thomas Show
The Andy Griffith Show
Mayberry RFD
Hee Haw (George Lindsey brought his Goober character over from Mayberry RFD to Hee Haw)
Hee Haw Honeys
I wouldn’t be so sure that Hee Haw Honeys didn’t morph into Playboy Channels “Electric Blue”.
Hey what about all the shows Richard Belzer has been on as “Munch”?
I’ve added a spoiler tag so it stays in tune with the two click rule.
All in the Family was an American copy of Till Death Us Do Part.
Three’s Company was an American copy of Man About the House.
So, arguably you can add another generation to the US versions of those shows, depending on how you define “spin-off”.
Post #24.
Or maybe even with the Kennedy/Nixon debates. Politics were never the same again!
Almost forgot this little honey: 
Another sign the '60s had begun:
Barbara Eden, mmmmmmmmmmmmm! :oNot sure. I’m not familiar enough with them.
I did not know about Good Times. Good one!
Thanks. I don’t know these but a quick look at their wikipedia page suggests they are more continuation/sequels.
I count it as one by the OP’s definition. Characters introduced in one show get their own show = spin off.
It’s similar to how Mork only appeared in one episode of Happy Days but then got his own show.
Not really but that is pretty interesting. Thanks for sharing.
“Love, American Style” was a graveyard for passed over pilots after a bit of editing, and they broadcast “Love and the Television Set”. Sometime after that, Ron Howard got cast in “American Graffiti”, which did pretty well. Between the success of AG and the Broadway musical “Grease”, a network decided to take another look at that pilot that Garry Marshall made with Ron Howard that nobody was interested in the first time around.
How about Wallace & Gromit’s “A Close Shave”>“Shaun the Sheep”>“Timmy Time”?
FTR, I don’t consider a program that started out as a “backdoor pilot” to be a spin off. Or a sequel either.
Unrelated to the OP but I always thought that Summer of '42 was a likely inspiration for Happy Days. The three boys in the pic left-to-right would correspond to Ritchie, Potsie and Ralph. In the first season of Happy Days the characters of Ritchie and Potsie were especially much more like their supposed counterparts in Summer of '42.
