# What shows made it to (at least) six seasons and a movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 21, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061 "2015-09-21T03:08:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/1 "2015-09-21T03:08:52Z")
I was just thinking about the famous quote from _Community_ in which Abed predicted/hoped that a favorite TV show would make it to “six seasons and a movie”. He was referring to _The Cape_, which in reality only lasted ten episodes. The “six seasons and a movie” quote later became a slogan for _Community_ fans hoping the series would last at least six seasons. It now has, although the sixth season was online only and as of yet there’s been no _Community_ movie. So what shows have made it to at least six seasons and a movie? I am interested in TV shows that had at least one film adaptation, not TV shows based on a pre-existing film. So _M_A_S_H\* for instance wouldn’t count, since that was a movie first. I’m also not counting made-for-TV movies or specials as movies; I’m looking for movies that were released in theaters. The first two examples I could think of were _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ (7 seasons, 4 movies) and _The X-Files_ (9 seasons, 2 movies). There was also _Mystery Science Theater 3000_ (11 seasons, 1 movie). The only non-science fiction example that springs to mind is _Glee_ (6 seasons, 1 concert movie), although there must be others. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/2 "2015-09-21T03:13:30Z")
Sex and the City. Entourage (8 seasons and a movie). ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/3 "2015-09-21T03:21:39Z")
_The X-Files_, nine seasons, two movies, and it’s coming back to TV as a mini-series in January, 2016. Edit- Never mind. I see it was in the OP. That’ll teach me to read more thoroughly. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/4 "2015-09-21T03:24:55Z")
Does it have to be in that order? “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” had a movie, then seven season. (And a comic book series that creator Whedon decried is “in canon.”) Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/5 "2015-09-21T03:25:40Z")
If cartoons count, there’s The Simpsons and South Park. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/6 "2015-09-21T03:28:46Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > Does it have to be in that order? “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” had a movie, then seven season. (And a comic book series that creator Whedon decried is “in canon.”) Does that count? TV shows that had a pre-existing movie were specifically excluded from the OP. How about movie adaptations that had a different cast? _The Dukes of Hazzard_ ran for seven seasons, then had a movie with different actors than the ones on the TV show. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/7 "2015-09-21T03:30:37Z")
I was going to say The Twilight Zone, but it was only five seasons. Gilligan’s Island ran for 98 freaking episodes in three seasons, which translates to eight seasons in today’s TV, and then had three movies. I got nuthin’. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/8 "2015-09-21T03:35:16Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Gilligan’s Island ran for 98 freaking episodes in three seasons, which translates to eight seasons in today’s TV, and then had three movies. > > I got nuthin’. Made-for-TV movies were excluded in the OP. **Lamia** is looking for theatrical movies only. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/9 "2015-09-21T03:38:24Z")
_Spooks_ was a UK programme that was called _MI-5_ in its US run. It ran for ten series and then a movie was released earlier this year, called _Spooks: The Greater Good_. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/10 "2015-09-21T03:43:14Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I was going to say The Twilight Zone, but it was only five seasons. That’s only if you consider the original series of The Twilight Zone, which itself had 156 episodes. The two revivals in the 1980s and 2002-2003 added four more seasons and 132 more episodes. I think Twilight Zone should count. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/11 "2015-09-21T03:51:38Z")
_Emergency!_: 6 seasons, 5 movies. _The Facts of Life:_ 8 seasons, 3 movies. _Rugrats:_ 9 seasons, 3 movies. _Spongebob Squarepants:_ 9 seasons (and counting), 4 movies + a fifth in development. Apparently The Brady Brunch only ran five seasons, who knew. ETA: Just noticed that made-for-TV movies don’t count, so scratch the first two. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/12 "2015-09-21T03:54:42Z")
Get Smart - five seasons then The Nude Bomb, which only had Don Adams from the original. Mission Impossible (7 seasons) then movie with new cast. The Muppet Show, though that was only in its 4th season when The Muppet Movie was released. ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/13 "2015-09-21T04:08:35Z")
Dr. Who ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/14 "2015-09-21T04:13:23Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > How about movie adaptations that had a different cast? _The Dukes of Hazzard_ ran for seven seasons, then had a movie with different actors than the ones on the TV show. In that case we are gong to need to include all the other remake movies: Bewitched, Brady Bunch, Addams Family, Scoobie Doo, Astroboy etc. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/15 "2015-09-21T05:00:37Z")
Homicide: Life on the Street Surprisingly. The movie is really good, though. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/16 "2015-09-21T05:04:17Z")
_Dragnet_, starring Jack Webb. Leaving off the 1967-70 revival starring Webb and Harry Morgan, and the mediocre Dan Aykroyd-Tom Hanks movie, it originally ran for eight seasons from 1951-59 and had a 1954 [theatrical movie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragnet_(1954_film)) starring Webb and Ben Alexander. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/17 "2015-09-21T05:07:14Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Homicide: Life on the Street > > Surprisingly. > > The movie is really good, though. Doesn’t count. The movie wasn’t released in theaters. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/18 "2015-09-21T05:12:34Z")
Sesame Street. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/19 "2015-09-21T06:02:32Z")
Saturday Night Live, assuming you count the spinoff movies (Blues Brothers, Wayne’s World, etc.). ---
**Author:** ![TCMF-2L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tcmf-2l/32/16553_2.png) [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/20 "2015-09-21T10:57:11Z")
How about the complete opposite to what the OP is asking? **Police Squad!** only managed six episodes but spawned three films. TCMF-2L [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061.md?page=2)