I don’t know if this is considered a spinoff, as it’s a sequel/reworking of the series, but the drama Tattinger’s (about a restaurant) became the sitcom Nick & Hillary.
Also, was Beverly Hills Buntz (a spinoff of Hill Street Blues) a comedy?
Happy Days -> Mork & Mindy. Yes, both sitcoms, but such radically different styles. The first was about remembering the past fondly, while the spin-off was about examining the presejnt day.
And while we’re on the subject, what about Happy Days’ cartoon spin off, where the genre became science fiction adventure.
Happy Days (sitcom) spun off Mork & Mindy (science fiction).
I can see it being cheaper to pay the book or movie people for the rights to the character than to the TV people for the rights to be a spinoff.
Wonder Woman went from WWII to a (then) modern day secret agent type setting.
No, there wasn’t much to link Trapper John to MAS*H - but there wasn’t much to link Lou Grant to the Mary Tyler Moore show, either. They were spin offs- not a continuation of the same show with missing characters and/or a change in focus ( like All in the Family which became Archie Bunker’s Place )
You don’t say. And did any other Happy Days spin-offs have a science fiction setting?
Whether one is cheaper than the other is impossible to predict based on generalizations.
I can’t seem to track down the details of that case, but I’m pretty positive that none of it turns on the word “spinoff,” which is not a term of art in copyright law. The short, uncited description in the Wikipedia article makes it sound like the issue of whether Trapper John was derivative of MASH the TV show or whether it was derivative of MASH the film (which was derivative of the Hooker novel).
Yeah, but the difference for me was Lou Grant was a pretty decent show (haven’t seen it in 30+ years so maybe my memory is just more forgiving). Trapper John was just an incredibly generic, lame, boilerplate Medical Center show. And Ed Asner’s performance did do justice to the MTM character, just in a mostly dramatic setting (i.e. he was a decent, likeable, somewhat curmudgeonly newspaper editor). There was really no attempt (that I could see) in TJ to pay homage to either Wayne Rogers’ or Eliot Gould’s character.
Wasn’t there a competing Trapper John-type show that ironically did star Wayne Rogers? It was based on a Walter Matthau movie.
House Calls with Vanessa Redgrave.
Sorry, Lynn Redgrave.
The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang(1980), a half hour Saturday morning cartoon with the group traveling in a time machine.
For someone named Czarcasm, you seem to have a strange problem with actually spotting sarcasm.
Sorry, but I have no way to tell how deep or shallow your knowledge base is, and thus I mistakenly thought you were sincere in your request. I have since adjusted my opinion of your sincerity, and your manners.
It sounds like the Baby Ruth argument to me.
Sure, the producers of Trapper John can claim they based their show off the movie or the book if it’s advantageous for them to say so. But realistically, the book came out in 1968 and the movie came out in 1970. The television series ran from 1972 to 1983 and was a huge success. When they made Trapper John, MD in 1979, what do you think they were looking at?
Well, that’s merely a question of fact. I’m more interested in the actual jurisprudence.
I would love to know your definition of porn. Torchwood is rique at times and targeted at an older audience but it isn’t close to porn, soft or hard. A smattering of curse words, no nudity, some adult situtions. It is most certainly in the same genre as Doctor Who only targeted at a slightly older audience.
In 1965 the daytime soap opera As The World Turns spun off a nighttime drama-Our Private World.
You’re being wooshed. About an hour before Bosda posted about Mork & Mindy, Peter Morris posted about Mork & Mindy AND the Happy Days cartoon. Peter Morris was knocking Bosda for not having read his post, and then knocking you for not having read it either.
I know that, but that is when you tell the victim that she/he has been whooshed, which I certainly was. Talking about a “strange problem” in spotting sarcasm has just a bit of a knife twist to it.
Oh, well-no big deal, considering.