IMO comic books wouldn’t count unless they were originally in the graphic novel format (even if they weren’t advertised as such for instance if the term Graphic Novel hadnt been around yet, a limited edition series of comic books would count.) So then you could possibly have a successful Graphic Novel, Comic Book, TV show AND movie!
But then again I’m not the OP 
I think Planet of the Apes would count. It started as a book, went on to a popular series of movies, and it also had (I think) two tv series from it (one live-action, one animated)-- that’s gotta count, tho I don’t know how successful the tv shows were.
More British ‘New Wave’ cinema.
Stan Barstow wrote A Kind of Loving in 1960, the film version appearing in 1962. It won an award at the Berlin film festival. In 1982, Granada TV produced a 10 part series with Clive Wood as Vic Brown and Joanne Whalley as Ingrid. This version of the story was, I believe, based on the Vic Brown trilogy comprising A Kind of Loving, The Watchers on the Shore, and The Right True End. The last two novels were published in 1966 and 1976 respectively.
There was also a play produced for the theatre in 1970.
Actually another one that I have read, and seen both as a movie and a TV show, and enjoyed each time (well for a while in the last case) was Stephen King’s The Dead Zone.
**The Cisco Kid ** – based upon an O. Henry short story, it was made into a series of movies and eventually a TV series that ran for over 150 episodes.
Zorro – originally appeared in The Curse of Capistrano, the character was immediately made into the movie The Mark of Zorro (rereleases of the book changed the title to match). Disney made it into a TV series in the late 50s, and there have been many other iterations.
The Waltons. The book: Spencer’s Mountain by Earl Hamner. The movie: Spencer’s Mountain (1963) with Henry Fonda and Maureen O’Hara (also the television movie pilot The Homecoming: A Christmas Story). The series: The Waltons.
Also, Logan’s Run, novel in 1967, movie in 1976 and television series in 1977-78.
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Just call me The Skimmer…I totally missed that in my eagerness to post.
All Creatures Great and Small
book by James Herriot (he’s the English vet with the animals)
movie in 1974, with Anthony Hopkins
BBC tv series starting in the late 70s
and continuing the animal theme, Born Free
book by Joy Adamson in 1960
movie in 1966
TV series in 1974 - it was only one season so I don’t know how successful we would consider that, but they must have syndicated the heck out of that thing because I remember it being on almost perpetually when I think back to the hazy summer broadcast television of my childhood.
Death Note: manga 2003-2006; anime TV series 2006-2007; 2 live-action films in 2006.
That’s okay; Madge Thigpen forgives you.
Didn’t Hitchhiker’s start as a radio show?
Davy Crockett’s autobiography was a big best seller of the 19th century (there was probably a lot of fiction in it, too). His life was made into several movies starting with silent films and going on to a Disney-produced TV series in the 1950s.
Last of the Mohicans was an extremely popular early US novel. It’s first movie adaptation was in 1920, but there were remakes in 1932, 1936, and 1992. In 1957, it was adapted for TV as Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (with Lon Chaney, Jr.!). There was a miniseries in 1991.
Brideshead Revisited.
Novel (1945) TV series (1981) and film (2008).
Damn, yes it did. Poo.
Dewey Finn stole my thunder with the reference to Spenser’s Mountain (I own the tape).
But there seems to be an elephant in the room that nobody’s brought up yet…
Sherlock Holmes.
Not only book…movies…TV shows, but also radio show and on the stage.
In God We Trust (All Others Pay Cash), by Jean Shepherd.
Never heard of it? It’s an anthology of short stories by the celebrated anecodtalist & rambler, orginally published in Playboy.
A Christmas Story was adapted from several of the stories therein, and The Wonder Years followed from there.
(Of course, not much of Shepherd’s boozy, irreverent humour found its way into The Wonder Years.)
Peter Pan
Multiple short stories, books, plays, movies, and a 65 episode animated series on the Fox network.
My Friend Flicka, National Velvet and similar stories all started as books, then made it to movies and finally TV (usually as shows targeted to children.)
The very popular 1950s series Mama started out as a novel, then a play and movie (both with the better known title I Remember Mama.)
