# What are some of the worst/wierdest lesser-known "Official" sequels to popular works? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [November 8, 2020, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-worst-wierdest-lesser-known-official-sequels-to-popular-works/925029 "2020-11-08T03:08:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-worst-wierdest-lesser-known-official-sequels-to-popular-works/925029/101 "2020-11-11T23:31:28Z")
> [@Wallaby](#): > > And fewer still know about the 3rd movie ’ The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island’ I thought this was fairly well-known, if only for its “yes, this was a real thing!” title. I may have even seen it. I saw at least one of the Gilligan’s Island movies when it was broadcast. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-worst-wierdest-lesser-known-official-sequels-to-popular-works/925029/102 "2020-11-12T00:11:10Z")
becuase it was a separate movie apparently they were going to make it an anthology : > **[Halloween III: Season of the Witch](https://halloweenmovie.fandom.com/wiki/Halloween_III:_Season_of_the_Witch)** > > This article is about the third film. For other meanings, see Halloween III. "You don't really know much about Halloween. You thought no further than the strange custom of having your children wear masks and go out begging for candy." ―Conal Cochran... ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-worst-wierdest-lesser-known-official-sequels-to-popular-works/925029/103 "2020-11-12T00:26:46Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > _When Worlds Collide_ has the lesser-known sequel _After Worlds Collide_ by the same authors. It’s the adventures of the teams that make it off of Earth as they explore the new planet. Very different tone from the apocalyptic first book. No George Pal movie either. I haven’t read either since I was 11, but I remember liking the sequel more, and thinking that the ending was obviously setting up another sequel, which as far as I know never happened. I wonder what I’d think of them now. I’ve read both, but didn’t much care for the sequel, because it has one of those features that I HATE when I find it in a book – “The bad guys (aliens in this case) can clearly get at us an knock us off one at a time any time they want, so we won’t even try to protect ourselves.” What? They deserve to be outta the gene pool. T.H. White pulled this one in his mystery _Darkness at Pemberley_, which I hate for the same reason. (Yes, the same guy who wrote _The Once and Future King._) ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-worst-wierdest-lesser-known-official-sequels-to-popular-works/925029/104 "2020-11-12T03:02:39Z")
Remember when Animal House spawned three different TV series - “Delta House” (the official version), “Brothers and Sisters” and “Co-ed Fever” - all of which failed, presumably because no one could figure out how to make “Animal House” humor fit into 1970s TV Standards and Practices… ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-worst-wierdest-lesser-known-official-sequels-to-popular-works/925029/105 "2020-11-12T03:14:48Z")
**Ferris Bueller’s Day Off** begat two TV series: a direct **FB** spin-off which bombed, and **Parker Lewis Can’t Lose** which lasted three(?) seasons and was quite good (remember Mrs. Musso’s thumb?). ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-worst-wierdest-lesser-known-official-sequels-to-popular-works/925029/106 "2020-11-12T03:42:34Z")
_Freeway_, an absolutely brilliant film, was followed by the direct-to-video _Freeway 2: Confessions of a Trickbaby_, which is … whatever the opposite of “brilliant” is. Both films were written and directed by the same person, so _Freeway 2_ doesn’t even have the excuse of being cranked out for a quick buck by hacks who didn’t get the previous film. _Freeway 2_ isn’t even a real sequel; it doesn’t have any of the characters or actors from _Freeway_. They’re both modern retellings of fairy tales and feature foul-mouthed female protagonists, but otherwise the two films have nothing to do with each other. ---
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_Eerie, Indiana_ had a spin-off series on Fox Kids. _Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension_ had an entirely different cast (necessary, since it was eight years later) but no imagination. It tried to be weird, but the writers had no feel for it. For instance, they glossed over the cast change, basically ignoring it. The original would have made that the entire plot. Marshall:. I keep telling you, we don’t look the same! Mom: Of course we do, Marshall. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-worst-wierdest-lesser-known-official-sequels-to-popular-works/925029/108 "2020-11-14T01:41:20Z")
> [@Wallaby](#): > > And fewer still know about the 3rd movie ’ The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island’ which involves the Harlem Globetrotters (duh!) battling a team of Robot Aliens in a basketball match to prevent them (the aliens, not the Globetrotters) from taking over the world. Oh My God. I just pissed my pants laughing at this! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-worst-wierdest-lesser-known-official-sequels-to-popular-works/925029/109 "2020-11-14T01:47:19Z")
Even better, it had Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Scatman Crothers and a very young Rosalind Chao as a desk clerk. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-worst-wierdest-lesser-known-official-sequels-to-popular-works/925029/110 "2020-11-14T01:57:20Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Remember when Animal House spawned three different TV series - “Delta House” (the official version), “Brothers and Sisters” and “Co-ed Fever” - all of which failed, presumably because no one could figure out how to make “Animal House” humor fit into 1970s TV Standards and Practices… They were still trying to address the same issue twenty years later when ABC attempted to make an animated TV series out of the movie _Clerks_. ---
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I loved the original \*Eerie Indiana \*. When I heard they were bringing it back I was ecstatic. Unfortunately the new series didn’t have any of the charm of the original. ---
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I feel like they accidently sabotaged themselves by declaring at the end of the second episode that it was the last episode. ---
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> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > animated TV series out of the movie _Clerks_ I _love_ this show. Well, I did. Haven’t seen it for a while, but used to have a DVD set of the 6 episodes. ---
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The thing with both traditional drawn animation and CGI is that there’s a heavy fixed cost investment in creating the graphics: in CGI (and computer assisted 2D animation) the character and animation database, and in traditional drawn animation the “learning curve” of how long it takes the artists to become familiar enough with the characters to be able to crank out cells speedily. Both favor being able to use the established graphics to churn out as many sequels as will sell since they’re comparatively faster and cheaper. ---
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One of my favorite movies as a 13 year old was the 1982 cult classic _The Sword and the Sorcerer_. from the first time I saw it in the theatre, I had been waiting on the sequel that was teased in the end credits and I quote “Watch for Talon’s Next Adventure _Tales of an Ancient Empire_ coming soon…” 28 years later, the sequel finally came… and it’s unwatchable. It did not come soon and it’s not even Talon’s next adventure… more like his last adventure, although apparently he spent the years travelling and fathering children all over the place which would probably have made a better film and had better acting. ---
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There was “History of the World, Part 1” (1981), which has a teaser at the end for “Part 2”, which has never been released (probably was never planned to be released). ---
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ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness wrote: > When Worlds Collide has the lesser-known sequel After Worlds Collide by the same authors. It’s the adventures of the teams that make it off of Earth as they explore the new planet. Very different tone from the apocalyptic first book. No George Pal movie either. I haven’t read either since I was 11, but I remember liking the sequel more, and thinking that the ending was obviously setting up another sequel, which as far as I know never happened. I wonder what I’d think of them now. Harlan Ellison wrote an account of his involvement with a George Pal _When Worlds Collide_ sequel pitch (I think the story was told in his brief _Comics Journal_ column, “An Edge in My Voice,” but this would have been 40 years ago). Pal couldn’t get a meeting with the studio for his proposal, and he asked Ellison to intervene on his behalf. Ellison set up a meeting with a studio head and even attended it, to his regret. The studio executive, after listening to the pitch, said he’d consider it, but only if Ellison were attached as a screenwriter. Ellison couldn’t commit to it, and Pal, crushed, couldn’t prevail on Ellison to do any more. This ended Pal’s career and he died soon afterwards. ---
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> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > Harlan Ellison wrote an account of his involvement with a George Pal _When Worlds Collide_ sequel pitch (I think the story was told in his brief _Comics Journal_ column, “An Edge in My Voice,” but this would have been 40 years ago). Pal couldn’t get a meeting with the studio for his proposal, and he asked Ellison to intervene on his behalf. Ellison set up a meeting with a studio head and even attended it, to his regret. The studio executive, after listening to the pitch, said he’d consider it, but only if Ellison were attached as a screenwriter. Ellison couldn’t commit to it, and Pal, crushed, couldn’t prevail on Ellison to do any more. This ended Pal’s career and he died soon afterwards. This story seems a little odd. Pal wasn’t destitute and out of work at the end of his life – he was actively working on an adaptation of another of Philip Wylie’s novels, **The Disappearance**. There were preproduction sketches published and everything (it would have been a real departure for Pal. The sketches were definitely at least R-rated). According to his Wikipedia page, he was also working on _The Voyage of the Berg_. This page says the film about the Berg was actually in production – [FUN BREAKING NEWS: GEORGE PAL (ACTOR)](http://tkd-arpit.blogspot.com/2014/11/george-pal-actor.html) . the Wikipedia page lists two other projects he was working on, including a sequel to The Time Machine. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-worst-wierdest-lesser-known-official-sequels-to-popular-works/925029/119 "2020-11-17T16:38:00Z")
Ellison’s account made it seem a lot more heartbreaking. I poked around and found a copy of _An Edge in My Voice_ at [openlibrary.net](http://openlibrary.net). Much of what I remembered from this story from 40 years ago was accurate, though it was from his personal recollections, not a well-documented or -researched news article. As rosy as his late career might look on WIKI and IMDB, Pal’s fortunes from 1968 were in decline. _Doc Savage: Man of Bronze_ was supposed to be his comeback, and it was a huge flop. He was perceived as someone whose filmmaking skills peaked with _When Worlds Collide_ (Ellison described Pal’s later career with phrases like “…couldn’t get arrested in this town” and “…had to hustle like a newcomer.”) I remembered the column as appearing in _The Comics Journal,_ but it was actually the September 1980 issue of _Future Life_. I also remembered it as a sequel to _When Worlds Collide_; it was more like a remake. The other details were pretty accurate, and if you have access to _An Edge in My Voice_, the George Pal story is chapter two. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-worst-wierdest-lesser-known-official-sequels-to-popular-works/925029.md?page=5)