# Would Movies Based On 1960's TV Classics Be Popular? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 6, 2011, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-movies-based-on-1960s-tv-classics-be-popular/598835 "2011-10-06T23:11:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-movies-based-on-1960s-tv-classics-be-popular/598835/41 "2011-10-08T12:38:24Z")
[quote=“TriPolar, post:32, topic:598835”] Yeah, because that Stalag 17 movie Hogan’s was based on wasn’t ever made?[/Q You would think that 'Hogan’s Heroes" was based on “Stalag 17”, a famous play and film that won William Holden an Oscar. Except for the fact that creator Bernard Fein, who was a private on the “Sgt Bilko” show, said he was trying to create an similar antiauthority vibe, only set in a prison. It was after four years of trying to sell it that he gave up, got on a plane, saw someone reading “Von Ryan’s Express” and said “that’s it. A POW camp”. Of course Fein could be lying to avoid a plagiarism lawsuit. [http://www.tvguide.com/news/question-friends-66805.aspx](http://www.tvguide.com/news/question-friends-66805.aspx) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-movies-based-on-1960s-tv-classics-be-popular/598835/42 "2011-10-08T13:13:35Z")
Mr. Ed was played by a palomino horse, part Saddlebred and part part-Arabian. His name was Bamboo Harvester. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-movies-based-on-1960s-tv-classics-be-popular/598835/43 "2011-10-08T15:16:24Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Mr. Ed was played by a palomino horse.. Of course, of course. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-movies-based-on-1960s-tv-classics-be-popular/598835/44 "2011-10-08T15:19:59Z")
How about the Dick Van Dyke Show? ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-movies-based-on-1960s-tv-classics-be-popular/598835/45 "2011-10-08T15:25:06Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > How about the Dick Van Dyke Show? I don’t think anyone could capture the pure wonder of Mary Tyler Moore. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-movies-based-on-1960s-tv-classics-be-popular/598835/46 "2011-10-08T15:27:18Z")
Gilligan’s Island maybe with the Harlem Globetrotters … ---
**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:** [October 8, 2011, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-movies-based-on-1960s-tv-classics-be-popular/598835/47 "2011-10-08T15:37:56Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > I don’t think anyone could capture the pure wonder of Mary Tyler Moore. Amy Adams? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-movies-based-on-1960s-tv-classics-be-popular/598835/48 "2011-10-08T15:49:55Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Russell Crowe has made noises in the past about a film version of Hogan’s Heroes; accounts vary as to whether he would play Hogan or Newkirk. He’d want to show off his acting chops. Sergeant Schultz. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-movies-based-on-1960s-tv-classics-be-popular/598835/49 "2011-10-08T15:57:05Z")
So how about a movie of _[The Invaders!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOLGrXOtuwQ)_ A Quinn Martin Production. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-movies-based-on-1960s-tv-classics-be-popular/598835/50 "2011-10-08T18:49:53Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > How about the Dick Van Dyke Show? What, an updated version or a retro version? Maybe the latter, as a period piece. I don’t think a new version would work, you couldn’t capture the cheerful enthusiasm of the original; it’s too different a world now. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-movies-based-on-1960s-tv-classics-be-popular/598835/51 "2011-10-08T19:34:58Z")
I think the Trix rabbit has tried (and failed with) enough gambits to support a hundred-minute scenario… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-movies-based-on-1960s-tv-classics-be-popular/598835/52 "2011-10-08T19:45:01Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > How about the Dick Van Dyke Show? DVD would be a hard act to follow. I can’t think of many people that could pull off that kind of controlled nimbleness. Maybe Jim Carrey? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-movies-based-on-1960s-tv-classics-be-popular/598835/53 "2011-10-08T19:58:48Z")
_Wild Wild West_ would work as a movie if the people producing and directing it didn’t deliberately take a dump on it’s memory. I could see Matt Damon as James West, John de Lancie as Artemis Gordon, and maybe Ben Kingsley as Dr. Loveless(using _The Lord Of The Rings_ shrinky-dink effect.) ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-movies-based-on-1960s-tv-classics-be-popular/598835/54 "2011-10-08T21:01:36Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > They call it “Dances With Wolves”. 😛 meanie! ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-movies-based-on-1960s-tv-classics-be-popular/598835/55 "2011-10-08T23:53:05Z")
I think something based on “Combat” could work, although you could say it’s been done with real life miniseries like “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific”. But then I ususally check out the Hitler channel to see what WWII documentary they are showing so I suppose that series/movies based on it could last a century like Westerns did. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-movies-based-on-1960s-tv-classics-be-popular/598835/56 "2011-10-08T23:55:08Z")
Re: _The Dick Van Dyke Show_ I was talking about an egomaniac TV star and subservient producers/writer. Charlie Sheen/Chuck Lorre? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2011, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-movies-based-on-1960s-tv-classics-be-popular/598835/57 "2011-10-09T11:10:40Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > How about the Dick Van Dyke Show? > [@Czarcasm](#): > > DVD would be a hard act to follow. I can’t think of many people that could pull off that kind of controlled nimbleness. Maybe Jim Carrey? \ Don’t even mention _that person’s_ name in the same breath with Dick Van Dyke! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-movies-based-on-1960s-tv-classics-be-popular/598835.md?page=2)