# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [September 21, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/41 "2015-09-21T19:00:19Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Several series just fell short of the mark: _The A-Team_, _Charlie’s Angels_, _Maverick_, and _21 Jump Street_ only made it to five seasons and a movie. _Starsky & Hutch_ and _The Wild Wild West_ only made it to four seasons and a movie. _Maverick_ should count. Five seasons of the original series, one season of something called _Young Maverick_, a season of _Bret Maverick_, two or three TV movies and a theatrical release, all featuring James Garner. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/42 "2015-09-21T19:00:51Z")
Futurama has enough seasons, 7, but it’s 4 movies were released on DVD not in theaters, and the movies were later edited to be the 5th season. So I’m not sure if it counts. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/43 "2015-09-21T19:29:27Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > _Dark Shadows_ reached six seasons and a movie. That’s a good one – they made two movies with the original cast (while they were taping the series – it was a LOT of work), long before the recent Johnny Depp movie. ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/44 "2015-09-21T20:36:54Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Doesn’t count. The movie wasn’t released in theaters. Nice to see fellow H:LotS fans though! ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/45 "2015-09-22T00:44:18Z")
> [@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. Good question. I don’t think the spirit of the original quote would cover something like _The Dukes of Hazzard_; it seems unlikely that Abed was hoping that _The Cape_ would run for six seasons and then 20 years later a movie would be made with the same premise but a completely different cast. But since I didn’t rule out remake/reboot movies in the OP, I’ll allow it. > [@Blake](#): > > In that case we are gong to need to include all the other remake movies: Bewitched, Brady Bunch, Addams Family, Scoobie Doo, Astroboy etc. Well, not _all_ of them – _The Brady Bunch_ and _The Addams Family_ didn’t make it to six seasons on TV. > [@Coriolanus](#): > > The Muppet Show, though that was only in its 4th season when The Muppet Movie was released. I thought of _The Muppet Show_ when I was writing the OP, but it actually only ran for five seasons. The larger Muppet franchise includes several other TV shows, TV specials, and by my count eight theatrical movies, so in that sense they’ve far surpassed “six seasons and a movie”, but strictly speaking I don’t think they count. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/46 "2015-09-22T02:39:07Z")
Heck, _Police Academy_ had six movies and a season. (Technically seven movies, but that wasn’t as clever - the joke or the film) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/47 "2015-09-22T03:10:32Z")
As mentioned in the current Staff Report, Pokemon would qualify. Probably a bunch of other anime, too-- Dragonball Z comes to mind. Does _Avatar: The Last Airbender_ count? Between the original and _Legend of Korra_, it totaled 7 seasons, and had a (better off not existing) movie adaptation. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/48 "2015-09-23T02:27:11Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Heck, _Police Academy_ had six movies and a season. > > (Technically seven movies, but that wasn’t as clever - the joke or the film) Police Squad had 6 episodes and a movie. And then two more movies. And OJ! :eek: > [@Jophiel](#): > > And **Beavis & Butthead** Didn’t run 6 seasons. I think it was 3. 4 if you count the short lived 2010 (I think that was the year) revival. What about Power Rangers? At least two theatrical movies were made based on the Mightly Morphin version, and though that incarnation only lasted the first 3 seasons of the show, some other version of Power Rangers has continued to be produced year after year nearly continuously since. Wiki says it’s 22 seasons total across the various versions (in the US anyway, it could be different in Japan) and a reboot movie is supposedly due in 2017. ---
**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:** [September 23, 2015, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/49 "2015-09-23T16:05:16Z")
_Leave It to Beaver_ ran six seasons from 1957-63. _The New Leave It to Beaver_ ran six seasons as well, from 1983-1989 (101 episodes, these were not full seasons apparently), and there was a _Leave It to Beaver_ movie starring Janine Turner and featuring Barbara Billingsley and Ken Osmond in different roles than in the TV series. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061/50 "2015-09-23T16:39:23Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Didn’t run 6 seasons. I think it was 3. 4 if you count the short lived 2010 (I think that was the year) revival. MTV calls it [nine seasons](http://www.mtv.com/shows/beavis_and_butthead/) for Beavis & Butthead. [Wiki calls it eight](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beavis_and_Butt-head). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-made-it-to-at-least-six-seasons-and-a-movie/732061.md?page=2)