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.
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.
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.
Nice to see fellow H:LotS fans though!
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.
Well, not all of them – The Brady Bunch and The Addams Family didn’t make it to six seasons on TV.
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.
Heck, Police Academy had six movies and a season.
(Technically seven movies, but that wasn’t as clever - the joke or the film)
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.
Police Squad had 6 episodes and a movie.
And then two more movies.
And OJ! :eek:
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.
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.
MTV calls it nine seasons for Beavis & Butthead. Wiki calls it eight.