They made Dragnet into a movie. I mean the one in the 80’s with Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks of course. But they haven’t made any of the spin-offs, like Adam-12 or Emergency into movies yet.
“Living the life of Riley” means living the good life, specifically living a life of luxury or spending freely without having to work hard for it. The title of the radio series, movie, and tv show The Life of Riley was meant somewhat ironically, as Riley was a blue-collar industrial worker. The Life of Reilly is a film of a one-man stage show by Charles Nelson Reilly.
Actually, “Dobie Gillis” was based on this 1953 movie with Debbie Reynolds.
As for other old TV shows mentioned in this thread, over the last 20 or so years there have been talks to make movies out of “I Dream of Jeannie,” "Gilligan’s Island, “Have Gun Will Travel,” and “Hogan’s Heroes.” So far, none of these projects made it out of the early stages of development.
Several years ago in another thread, I suggested “Kolchak – The Night Stalker” would make a good movie if they stayed fairly true to the source material (unlike the short-lived TV remake which was basically a retread of “The X-Files”).
Streets of San Francisco. A Quinn Martin Production.
Many great suspension-bashing, hill-leaping car chases possible. Hollywood likie.
It was so bad you may have blocked it from memory, but there was a Beverly Hillbillies movie.
I can see The Avengers or The Saint as movies, not to mention *I Spy * and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Avengers as a movie? As long as you keep Uma Thurman away from it, it might work.
I’m thinking more along the lines of Keira Knightly. In thigh high leather boots. And a mini skirt. And umm, I’ll be in my room.
WKRP in Cinccinatti
I’m surprised no one has made a new Baretta movie. It was the grittiest show on TV at the time, and had a pretty compelling lead character. It seems like a good candidate for a modern remake.
If they had the gall to make Bilko without Phil Silvers then, believe me, nothing is sacred.
Considering that The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was TV’s stab at James Bond, only with less sex (and more tongue in cheek), it’s perfectly understandable that there isn’t a big push for an U.N.C.L.E. movie. We already have Bond, and we already had more than enough Bond spoofs (the Flint movies, the Matt Helm movies, and Get Smart).
In any event, there already HAVE been U.N.C.L.E. movies – two were released while the series ran, and with the original cast, no less. A third was a made-for-TV movie in the early 80s (and which featured George Lazenby driving an Aston-Martin as an all-but-name James Bond!)
Russell Crowe has been connected to the *Hogan’s Heroes * project for some time, but I don’t know if it will ever come to be.
I can barely remember a thing about it, but I know I used to love Vendetta.
Whatever it was about!
IMDB tells me it ran for 3 seasons from 66 - 68, yet it never seems to get name-checked…
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Happy Days hasn’t been remade (thank goodness).
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Happy Days is now being done as a stage musical. Can a movie musical be far behind?
Sort of movie-d as The Maltese Bippy in 1969.
The Rifleman
Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford; who could step into those boots?
This thread is giving me the heebie-jeebies. I’m not sure which of the movies suggested alarms me the most, but Patty Duke and the Flying Nun have got to be near the top.
Green Acres?
Oh dear.