# TV shows ripped off from movies

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 10, 2004, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-ripped-off-from-movies/279218 "2004-12-10T22:15:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-ripped-off-from-movies/279218/41 "2004-12-13T04:10:02Z")

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> [@Sampiro](#):
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> Shortly after the _Look Who’s Talking_ series premiered there came a series called [Baby Talk](http://imdb.com/title/tt0101041/), a sitcom with the premise of a single mom and her baby whose inner dialogue is voiced by a celebrity. (Julia Duffy was the original star but was replaced after a few episodes by Mary Page “Kiss of Death” Keller, the woman brought in to assassinate quite a few bad series in the 80s and 90s.)

Baby Talk was actually an approved spinoff of Look Who’s Talking.

And I swore I watched it because April O’Neil from TMNT II was the mom, but the IMDB (and you) say otherwise.

Damn faulty memory.

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**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-ripped-off-from-movies/279218/42 "2004-12-13T04:19:51Z")

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_Xena_ looks to be inspred by _Red Sonja_ by way of _The Bride Wore White_ and a little _Supercop_ (Note: the Supercop refered to was Michelle Yeoh’s character, NOT Jackie Chan)

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**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-ripped-off-from-movies/279218/43 "2004-12-13T04:34:35Z")

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> [@Lumpy](#):
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> Also I may be imagining it, but wasn’t there at least one “chop suey western” predating _Kung Fu_?

**Red Sun** predated it by a year; it was a Charles Bronson western featuring a Japanese samurai.

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