In your opinion, anyway.
I’ve not noted that much success with this maneuver. Bewitched sure didn’t do well. Beverly Hillbillies and Car 54 seemed to suck. So did Wild, Wild West.
OTOH, Police Squad was a great TV show (albeit short-lived) and a great flick.
Now we’ve got Get Smart coming at us. Can My mother the car be far away?
One that didn’t suck was The Addams Family – Raul Julia and Christina Ricci, what wonderful casting!
Agreed. And it made an even better pinball machine!
That was wonderful. Damned if I can think of others at the moment, though.
The movie Dragnet was great, but it was more of a spoof of a non-sitcom TV show. And Brady Bunch movie wasn’t bad either, but that was due to it spoofing the original.
I liked the first two Brady Bunch movies. And the first Charlie’s Angels movie.
You’d have to stretch the definitions of both sitcom and successful to include the Mel Gibson knockoff of Maverick, but it’s in the ballpark and I was able to think of it right away.
Lucy and Desi made The Long, Long Trailer (1954) which did fairly well as I recall. Not a direct copy of the sitcom as such, but everybody was pretty in on the reason the movie came out.
I may run into some disagreement here, but I kinda liked Sgt. Bilko with Steve Martin.
And, though not a true sitcom, the 1966 version of Batman was very entertaining.
I liked the Adams family and Brady Bunch movies as well.
Unmade good movies would include the Love Boat and Fantasy Island. There is some quality material there for semi-spoofs especially for the Love Boat.
I said none of them ever turn out well in the Get Smart thread, but I did like the Addams Family movie a lot when I was a kid.
That was actually the start of the TV series, wasn’t it? I was a big fan of that show.
There were only two of them- theatrically, at least. There was a made-for-TV movie about the Bradys in the White House a couple years ago, but I don’t know if it was as tongue-in-cheek as the films were.
No, the Batman movie was released to coincide with the state of Season 2.
I don’t know if it’s old enough but…
Star Trek!!!
Well, the even-numbered ones, anyway. And even that formula died with the TNG ones…
British sitcom movies are pretty awful
Are You Being Served
Dad’s Army
Porridge
On the Buses
All of these were turned onto celluloid with unfortunate results.
I never really considered it a sitcom, but okay…
It already came at us once: The Nude Bomb. That was in 1980, though. Maybe it’s just time for another?
It wasn’t really a sitcom originally, but I quite liked the Rocky and Bullwinkle movie that was out a few years ago. Just DeNiro (playing Fearless Leader) saying, “You talking to me? Are you talking to me?” was priceless.
I’ll see Rocky and Bullwinkle and raise you George of the Jungle.