# TV Shows You'd Like to See Become Movies
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-become-movies/316860
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 13, 2005, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-become-movies/316860 "2005-08-13T13:51:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2005, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-become-movies/316860/1 "2005-08-13T13:51:10Z")
What with the current fad of old TV shows being turned into movies, and, frankly, what with some of these movies being bad beyond words, I thought I’d put the question to y’all.
I, personally, would like to see “Murphy Brown” brought to the big screen. Yes, I know it’s about TV, but so were “Network” and “Broadcast News”.
Just wondering, is all.
Robin
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2005, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-become-movies/316860/2 "2005-08-13T14:07:14Z")
None of them!
**Stop the Madness!**
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2005, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-become-movies/316860/3 "2005-08-13T14:19:14Z")
**Angel** , but not Buffy. I think Angel is more fit to the big screen.
Other than that, I’d say **Firefly** , which is coming.
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### Author:  [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-become-movies/316860/4 "2005-08-13T14:25:04Z")
I am at a loss as to why we have not yet seen a 6 million dollar man movie (although they would need to adjust the title for inflation).
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-become-movies/316860/5 "2005-08-13T14:25:17Z")
**Deep Space Nine** , **Quantum Leap** , and a wrap up finale of **Joan of Arcadia**. I wouldn’t turn up my nose at **Sports Night** either.
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### Author:  [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2005, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-become-movies/316860/6 "2005-08-13T15:20:34Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#):
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> I am at a loss as to why we have not yet seen a 6 million dollar man movie (although they would need to adjust the title for inflation).
It’s coming. Being made right now, with Jim Carrey.
As for me, I’d love to see a _Justice League Unlimited_ movie, with heightened stakes, reality-threatening events, and the occasional dramatic death. If they did something like Crisis on Infinite Earths as a full-length movie, that would be amazing.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-become-movies/316860/7 "2005-08-13T15:40:45Z")
An NC17-rated _Three’s Company_.
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### Author:  [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-become-movies/316860/8 "2005-08-13T16:03:01Z")
If only they’d make a big screen adaptation of [The Banana Splits](http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/tv/kids/bananasplits.htm) life would be complete.
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### Author:  [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-become-movies/316860/9 "2005-08-13T16:14:14Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#):
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> It’s coming. Being made right now, with Jim Carrey…
I assume you’re kidding.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-become-movies/316860/10 "2005-08-13T16:19:57Z")
**Samurai Jack** , live action. Maybe with Sam Raimi or Robert Rodriguez directing.
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### Author:  [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2005, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-become-movies/316860/11 "2005-08-13T16:33:54Z")
Haven’t they done, or are planning to do, a remake of _I Dream of Jeanie_? I could see a version that’s more serious and slightly darker than the TV show, where Jeannie’s sexual interest in Maj. Nelson is much more explicit and rather less innocent. Not quite have her be a succubus, but something like the Tim Powers novel _The Stress of Her Regard_.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-become-movies/316860/12 "2005-08-13T16:34:01Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#):
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> I assume you’re kidding.
There’s no entry in the IMDB, but the rumor has been floating around for a couple of years.
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2005, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-become-movies/316860/13 "2005-08-13T17:15:15Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#):
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> An NC17-rated _Three’s Company_.
My eyes! My eyes!
_flees screaming from the thread_
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-become-movies/316860/14 "2005-08-13T17:37:02Z")
> [@ivylass](#):
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> My eyes! My eyes!
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> _flees screaming from the thread_
Oh come on, I’m casting Ernest Borgnine and Phyllis Diller as the Ropers!!
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-become-movies/316860/15 "2005-08-13T17:39:35Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> **Angel** , but not Buffy. I think Angel is more fit to the big screen.
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> Other than that, I’d say **Firefly** , which is coming.
:dubious:
[Buffy the Vampire Slayer](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103893/)
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### Author:  [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-become-movies/316860/16 "2005-08-13T17:57:45Z")
Well, the movie was canon to the series, so it was really more of a Tv series made based on a movie. Ya’ would think fans would know that. However, I could certainly appreciate the idea of a “Ten years after the series ends, the old crew has to take out a new threat” movie.
Oh, and I would love to see A Kim Possible movie. However, I would not like to see an “Inspector Gadget” style, “Let’s combine all the plots we can into one mega plot, and abandon the origin.” Instead, I would rather see an adventure that using the big screen to full advantage.
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-become-movies/316860/17 "2005-08-13T18:09:06Z")
Sooner or later we are going to see a _Rawhide_ movie. Clint Eastwood will probably direct.
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-become-movies/316860/18 "2005-08-13T18:14:09Z")
Picket Fences
Early Edition
Just Shoot Me
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### Author:  [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-become-movies/316860/19 "2005-08-13T22:06:11Z")
Definitely _Farscape._ More for my own selfishness to see the cast together again than anything else. And I’d like to see what they can do with a movie budget, as opposed to a smaller, cable TV network budget.
_Night Court_. No reason, just been watching the marathon on TVLand.
E.
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### Author:  [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youd-like-to-see-become-movies/316860/20 "2005-08-13T22:11:27Z")
I’d love to see a **Babylon 5** movie, but only if it had J. Michael Straczynski at the helm.
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