# Which old sitcoms got turned into successful movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 4, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-sitcoms-got-turned-into-successful-movies/394555 "2007-03-04T17:57:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-sitcoms-got-turned-into-successful-movies/394555/1 "2007-03-04T17:57:18Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-sitcoms-got-turned-into-successful-movies/394555/2 "2007-03-04T17:59:33Z")
One that didn’t suck was _The Addams Family_ – Raul Julia and Christina Ricci, what wonderful casting! ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-sitcoms-got-turned-into-successful-movies/394555/3 "2007-03-04T18:00:58Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] One that didn’t suck was _The Addams Family_ – Raul Julia and Christina Ricci, what wonderful casting! [/QUOTE] Agreed. And it made an even better pinball machine! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-sitcoms-got-turned-into-successful-movies/394555/4 "2007-03-04T18:01:52Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] One that didn’t suck was _The Addams Family_ – Raul Julia and Christina Ricci, what wonderful casting! [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-sitcoms-got-turned-into-successful-movies/394555/5 "2007-03-04T18:02:54Z")
I liked the first two Brady Bunch movies. And the first Charlie’s Angels movie. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-sitcoms-got-turned-into-successful-movies/394555/6 "2007-03-04T18:10:37Z")
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)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047191/) 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. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-sitcoms-got-turned-into-successful-movies/394555/7 "2007-03-04T18:25:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-sitcoms-got-turned-into-successful-movies/394555/8 "2007-03-04T19:16:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-sitcoms-got-turned-into-successful-movies/394555/9 "2007-03-04T20:12:02Z")
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. [QUOTE=want2know] And, though not a true sitcom, the 1966 version of **Batman** was very entertaining. [/QUOTE] That was actually the start of the TV series, wasn’t it? I was a big fan of that show. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-sitcoms-got-turned-into-successful-movies/394555/10 "2007-03-04T21:19:17Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] I liked the first two Brady Bunch movies. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-sitcoms-got-turned-into-successful-movies/394555/11 "2007-03-05T00:47:19Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] That was actually the start of the TV series, wasn’t it? I was a big fan of that show. [/QUOTE] No, the Batman movie was released to coincide with the state of Season 2. ---
**Author:** ![Merkwurdigliebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@Merkwurdigliebe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merkwurdigliebe)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2007, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-sitcoms-got-turned-into-successful-movies/394555/12 "2007-03-05T00:51:16Z")
I don’t know if it’s old enough but… Star Trek!!! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2007, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-sitcoms-got-turned-into-successful-movies/394555/13 "2007-03-05T02:13:17Z")
[QUOTE=Merkwurdigliebe] I don’t know if it’s old enough but… Star Trek!!! [/QUOTE] Well, the even-numbered ones, anyway. And even that formula died with the TNG ones… ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2007, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-sitcoms-got-turned-into-successful-movies/394555/14 "2007-03-05T02:36:40Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2007, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-sitcoms-got-turned-into-successful-movies/394555/15 "2007-03-05T02:37:05Z")
[QUOTE=Merkwurdigliebe] I don’t know if it’s old enough but… Star Trek!!! [/QUOTE] I never really considered it a sitcom, but okay… ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2007, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-sitcoms-got-turned-into-successful-movies/394555/16 "2007-03-05T05:12:07Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] Now we’ve got **Get Smart** coming at us. [/quote] It already came at us once: [The Nude Bomb](http://imdb.com/title/tt0081249/). 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. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2007, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-old-sitcoms-got-turned-into-successful-movies/394555/17 "2007-03-05T07:45:28Z")
I’ll see _Rocky and Bullwinkle_ and raise you _George of the Jungle_.