No “Our Miss Brooks” or “Green Hornet?”
But the radio show was first, as were the books. IIRC, the sequence was: BBC radio --> books --> BBC TV (also shown in the US) --> more books --> movie.
I’m waiting for the TV version of Mame, which would have:
book --> Broadway play --> movie --> Broadway musical --> movie --(hypothetically)–> TV
A&E did a series based on Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe novels.
Here’s a switch - The 1957 tv show Have Gun – Will Travel was so popular they decided to do a radio version. Richard Boone was Paladin on tv, John Dehner had the role on radio.
Guiding Light started as a radio show in 1937.
"The Adventures of Dobie Gillis" was based on the short stories and novels by Max Shulman.
Oops… should be **“The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis”. ** :smack:
The short lived teen series “Life as We Know It” was based on a nonfiction book called “Losing It”.
Post 11.
I, Claudius.
the 6 ep TV show followed a 12 ep radio show which followed a book
IIRC - the book was written at the same time as the screen play to be released simultaneously with the movie
One of the more interesting reincarnations is The Third Man.In the movie,Harry Lime is a charming rogue,who is shot to death by the police. The radio show was based on the early adventures of Lime before he went bad.The tv show I only dimly remember as some kind of mystery show but Lime is clearly a good guy
Alien Nation.
The Beastmaster.
Serenity.
Hey, I can dream, can’t I?
According to no less a source than Uncle John’s Ultimate Bathroom Reader, Sherwood Schwartz says he had already submitted the Brady Bunch script, but no one touched it until the success of Yours, Mine and Ours showed that audiences were ready for a story about large blended families. His original title for the show was even Yours and Mine, but the producers of the movie threatened suit. Even though they probably would have won, they decided to simply change titles. One alternative: The Brady Brood.
Then a play (1973?)
“Brady Bunch” started out as an idea (titled “Yours and Mine”) that ABC originally rejected until Yours Mine and Ours was released. The same network originally rejected “Happy Days” until American Graffiti was released.
Another “Ghostbusters”, a live-action series with a gorrilla, predated the adventures of Peter, Ray, Egon, and Winston by nearly a decade.
I’m finding several sources saying the book was 1968, the movie 1969.
I know the original intention of 2001 was as you describe, though.
oh yeah, that’s right. :smack:
I wonder if “Yours and Mine” would have been reworked as an episode of “Love, Amercian Style” had the latter premiered a year earlier.
“Bewitched” was ‘inspired’ by the movie [URL=http://imdb.com/title/tt0051406/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxxPUJlbGwsIEJvb2sgYW5kIENhbmRsZXxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8aHRtbD0x;fc=1;ft=20Bell, Book and Candle.
The movies Fame and Logan’s Run became a short-lived TV series.
The comic strip “Blondie” was adapted into a series of movies and then a TV series in the 1950s.