Amazing Stories was an anthology series in the 80’s. IIRC some episodes were new material, some were adaptations of stories originally published in the pulp magazine.
One episode is exactly the story you describe. Including a 30 year-old Tiny Tim announcing “I have decided that Tiny Tim is a boy’s name and that I am a man. I shall henceforth be known as Tiny Timothy!”
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I’ve seen the Blackadder Christmas special. It is very different from the episode above. For one, Blackadder is shown scenes of a very distant future-including a meeting with a space empress aboard a starship. The AS episode is set entirely in Victorian England.
Holy Crap! I remember that now! I didn’t watch it all, but I was flipping thru the channels and recognized the characters. Oh, now I gotta hunt it down!
“That Was Then, This Is Now” is sort of a sequel to “The Outsiders”. It’s set in the same place and the characters from The Outsiders get a brief mention in TWTTIN.
How about “Grease 2”, God help us! Horrid.
How about sequel songs? “It’s My Party” was followed by “Judy’s Turn To Cry”.
I’ve seen The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters, but it’s been years. It’s actually a PBS thing, made by WGBH and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Hard to say what was a sequel to what, really, since in GAFoJaOD Ralphie is a teenager, but it came out before A Christmas Story…
Actually, I think what you have a hold of there was an episode of the 80s revival of The Twilight Zone. I remember it as well. I remember Scrooge telling the kid to go to the shop for a goose, and when the kid says, “What, the one that’s as big as me?” Scrooge says, “No! The one that’s just big enough for a family of six!”
There’s a TV movie sort-of-sequel or prequel to A River Runs Through It called Ranger, The Cook, And A Hole In The Sky. Both are based on stories from the same Norman MacLean book. The TV movie is decent but it’s more of a sweet coming of age comedy.
The Hidden 2 also falls into that category of Sequels That Use Gratuitous Flashbacks To The Original To Pad Out Their Running Time.
The move Cruel Intentions was, of course, a modern teen sex romp based on Les Liaisons Dangereuses. I am a big fan of de Laclos’ book, and so watched both Cruel Intentions and the direct-to-video Cruel Intentions II. The latter was in fact a prequel to the former, and even had an extremely interesting premise–what would the affair between Valmont and Mertueil * have been like (if, of course, they were modern teens).
It was, naturally, executed poorly, in part because the filmakers insisted on making Valmont, the protagonist, sympathetic.
I cannot remember the names used in the modern version.
I was going to bring up Crule Intentions 2. What an awful movie! According to IMDB’s trivia, it was the first few episodes of a cancelled TV show that were edited together to form a semi-coherent movie. It was cancelled because of a truly tasteful and artistic scene involving a teenage girl using a horse saddle to pleasure herself.
What? Are you sure? I love The Lion in Winter, and can’t stand Beckett. I have often marvelled that the same actor, playing the same historical character, can produce two such utterly different characters. Henry II in Beckett is vain, shallow, egotistical and silly. Henry II in The Lion in Winter is cunning, intelligent, charistmatic and complex. IMO, the ability to do this is what makes O’Toole a great actor, not just a movie star.
Can you give me some kind of cite that Peter O’Toole extrapolated the one from the other?
Darkman had two straight-to-video sequels, with Arnold Vosloo (better known for playing Imhotep in the recent Mummy movies) playing the vigliante here. The first sequel was *Darkman II: The Return of Durant * with Larry Drake reprising his role from the first movie…
…which was strange because his character had been killed in an fiery helicoper crash.
The second sequel is Darkman III: Die Darkman Die, which is of course German for “The Darkman The”.
Tremors had two video sequels, too, with Michael Gross’s right-wing survivalist character in both.
The wooooooords get stuck in my throat.
The wooooooords get stuck in my throat.
The wooooooords get stuck in my throat.
Who could forget the dulcet tones of the lovely Kipp Hamilton singing those lines in the classic War of the Gargantuas? That was actually a sequel to the previous years Frankenstein Conquers the World.
. . . made in cooperation with American International’s producer Henry Saperstein, who decided the creatures looked more like Kong than Frankenstein’s monster and arranged for all references to the previous Frankenstein film be dropped, including a flashback that explained how a ‘brother’ of the monster emerged.
–The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Movies, Phil Hardy (1984)
Even further back, fresh D.W. Griffith’s classic movie version of his excellent treatise on race relations Birth of a Nation, Thomas Dixon tried his own hand at movie-making with filming the sequel he had written Fall of a Nation. I seem to recall reading that it’s sitting in some colleges film library somewhere.