I recently watched the Logan's Run series. It was actually really good. Both Logan and Francis were intelligent characters that were playing cat and mouse. If anything, Francis was actually smarter and more capable than Logan. It made for an intriguing dynamic.
I give Ferris credit because I like the episode thats basically a shaggy dog story with the italian restaurant and the history report. In hindsight. Maybe that didnt need to be the final episode but obviously they save the best for last
I’ll give the odd couple a mention in the next video. I should have done it in this one. But it was truly MASH that kick started this trend into maximum overdrive.
@@mysocalledgenxlifeWhat are you basing this position off of? Odd Couple. Peyton place. Flipper. McCloud. Kung Fu. M.A.S.H. didn’t even do well its first season.
Hey, the actor playing Spicoli in Fast Times was Dean Cameron - “Chainsaw” from the film ‘Summer School’… A hilarious’80s film. Oh, and there’s Courtney Thorne-Smith, who also starred in ‘Summer School’.
"Playing hide and seek with their audience." The slogan of Network television for decades. We've even seen some of the most popular shows in history suffer this fate.
@@andrewblanchard2398 Mansplaining at its finest. What the hell are you even on about? You look like you're old enough to have been around when the show was in first run status and you're THAT wrong on facts?
@@andrewblanchard2398 A spinoff of what show? I've seen the movie Alice Doesn't Live here Anymore and the MC works in a diner while she tries to be a singer iirc.
@Marigen1971 ALICE tv series 1976 it ran for 9 seasons starring LINDA LAVIN as ALICE VIC TAYBACK as MEL POLLY HOLLIDAY as FLO FLO got her spinoff after ALICE
I remember they had a 'Bustin' Loose' tv show starring Jimmy Walker. The movie starred Richard Pryor I think they made a 'Working Girl' tv show but i know they made a 'Baby Boom' tv show
Yes, there was a Working Girl TV series that aired on NBC in 1990 and starred Sandra Bullock in the role that Melanie Griffith played in the movie. And there was also a Baby Boom TV show that aired on NBC in 1988 and starred Kate Jackson in Diane Keaton's role from the movie.
Loved Krisoff St.John in Bad News Bears. I see why was so successful. He played a memorable character on an episode of Happy Days as well. He was great on the Young and the Restless. RIP Krisoff.
a little known fact, there was a Blazing saddles tv show. it ran for FOUR!!! seasons. however, none of it aired. why? the show was only created as an attempt to keep the film rights for a possible sequel movie.
My mom watched the 9 to 5 show every week when I was a kid. I remember all the retooling and changes. It was baffling. Then, the return in syndication years later. Also the Pvt. Benjamin series was so of its time aa a show. Eileen Brennan was the true star of that show. I hated when it went 'indoors' and leaned into the laugh track.
Have you ever seen the unsold pilot of Coming to America? Mix "the fish out of water trope" with plot elements from Alice, and you get a perfect reason why this series never appeared on the CBS schedule. The series continues the exploits of Prince Akeem and his attempts to adjust to American culture. His father-in-law now runs a diner with a character patterned after Flo from the TV series Alice. I remember this pilot because of the following laugh-getting line: “Just think in 48hrs. I can be a Beverly Hills Cop in another 48 hours. You can be a Beverly Hills Cop 2! Why the live television audience didn't groan is beyond me.
@@mysocalledgenxlife Sabrina The Teenage which movie came before the actual tv series 1996 same year with Melissa Joan Hart but her aunts were portrayed by different actresses Sherrie Miller and Charlene Fernetz. Later tv movies included Sabrina Goes To Rome, Sabrina: Down under and Sabrina Friends Forever. There was also an animated version as well as an animated version in the 70's based on the Archie comics. 🐈⬛🧹🪄👱♀
I never understood why networks would switch shows times and/or day of the week. They wouldn’t pass it onto viewers very well and the change. Back then they might run a few ads about the change, but during the regular time slot maybe they should have notified those viewers at that time?
I also enjoyed Logan's Run, though I can understand why it didn't survive. It was akin to Ark II, but with some Logan's Run mixed in to try to play off of the popularity.
Three of these programs I loved, and still remember from when I was a kid. Private Benjamin, Star Man & the Robocop TV series. Yes, I know that they are different to the movies that preceeded them, but I still loved them all the same. On a side note, I believe that the bad owner of the kennels from the Pound Puppy cartoon was based upon Capt. Lewis from Private Benjamin.
I'm too young to remember the TV show 9-5 but having seen the movie, Jeffrey Tambor is such a dynamite pick for the boss. He creates a situation comedy wherever he goes, I swear. _The Mighty Tam-bor!!!_
They used to show Michael Keaton's stand-up special back in the '90s when Comedy Central played stand-up clips and specials like MTV with the music videos. I remember him being quite good at stand-up comedy! And I'm not an easy critic.
Breaking Away the TV series starred Shaun Cassidy after his Hardy Boys run. I loved the movie but the series lasted just one season if I'm not mistaken.
We had a few of these in the UK - Logans Run, 9 to 5, Private Benjamin and Robocop being ones that I saw, but only by chance. I always assumed that they were cheap time slot fillers due to either the late timings they were shown or buried in the Saturday afternoon slot which was where tv shows went to to die. I am surprised that we didn't get Serpico - unless it was that bad the UK buyers knew it'd be a stinker.
I hate to say it but you forgot to mention that in FAST TIMES TV SHOW that Claudia Wells, Courtney Thorne Smith, Dean Cameron were the stars which BY FAR to have this cast in the same show is EPIC. Even though the show is a BOMBER.... I STILL am Amazed to see Claudia Wells in this. Cause after BTTF she disappeared...
Harry and the Hendersons was an okay show based on an okay movie. Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a good show based on a bad movie. Party Girl was a cringe show based on a cringe movie. 😂🤷
Blazing Saddles had a terrible attempt at a TV show called “Black Bart” they released it as a special feature on the blu ray (or DVD). It was pretty bad.
I was just making a list of 70s/80s/90s shows that were turned into movies! It will be a future video. The question is…how many of those movies were any good?
When Polly Holliday, who played Flo left the Alice show for her spin-off, Diane Ladd, who played Flo in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore was actually brought in as her replacement.
I don't know if I somehow blocked some of these put of my mind like a trauma filled memory or if I just never saw them! Your channel is my guilty (not so guilty) pleasure. Thank you, Natalie, for all of these warm nostalgic memories 😊❤
Love this. Had a few on my watchlist and added a few. Can’t wait for part two. Maybe you can do a list of successful ones. Definitely would be a short video but interesting.
After Gung Ho, there was another attempt at adapting a Ron Howard movie in the form of Parenthood, which as a TV series, aired on NBC in 1990. The cast included Ed Begley Jr., Thora Birch, David Arquette, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Ken Ober from MTV's Remote Control.
The Logan's Run TV show was so much better when I was eight years old. I hadn't seen the film, of course, but I thought the show was really good. Probably because I was too young to see the movie. One thing is certain; my standards were much lower in 1977.
Patrick Dempsey was playing Mike Damone & Dean Cameron was playing Spicoli! If you listen to Patrick Labyorteaux's podcast Dean has some good stories about that show.
Digging into the deep recesses of my memory, I can only recall watching The Bad News Bears, Private Benjamin, and Starman out of the shows shown in this video. I would say Starman was the best of the three.
4:46 - As kids, we probably thought blowing on the barrel of your gun after you fire it seemed kind of cool; but in reality, that’s one of the most dangerous things you could possibly do.
8:36 it's funny you mentioned the boy from The Sound of Music, but here is the woman who played his sister in the movie. Lol. BTW, I've watched a lot of your videos (starting with the Soaps video), but now I'm subscribing! I love how you go through each show. Brings back such nostalgia. I was born in 82.
I said her Sound of Music co-star!! 😊 Sometimes I do leave out trivia and details so that people will bring them up in the comments. Engagement! lol. A RUclipsr trick.
Don't be so hard on yourself Natalie LOL! We grew up in age before the Internet so hence ot lack of knowledge of this fact! Plus we were so young and couldn't see everything back then. I've discovered many movies ended up as tv shows or tv show pilots that didn't go very far some lasted a season or two. My lists as follows Harry And The Hendersons tv series 1991 to 1993. Mrs. & Mrs. Smith tv series with Scott Bakula in 1996 before the movie with Angelina Jolie and Bradpitt. Other mentions are Uncle Buck, Coming To America, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fast Times, Delta House, Police Academy cartoon and live action tv show, Teen Wolf animated, Rambo animated, Robocop live action and animated, Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure animated, Weird Science, Working Girl, Young Indiana Jones, Conan, Back To The Future, The Karate Kid animated, Stir Crazy, Honey I Shrunk The Kids, Private Benjamin, Gung Ho! The Real Ghostbusters, Serpico, Revenge Of The Nerds (unsold pilot) Beetlejuice animated, and The Beastmaster to name a few LOL! 🤗👻📺🎥
Where in the world did you manage to find Private Benjamin episodes? I’ve been trying to find traces of that show forever. But what I did come here to write was, your mentioning of the TV series of Stir Crazy reminded me of another Richard Pryor lead film, 1981’s Bustin’ Loose, that was turned into a first run syndicated series in 1987 starring Jimmie ‘JJ’ Walker. It lasted 27 episodes.
Great job. Just discovered your podcast. I subscribed. One 1970's hit movie to and to your list of hit movie bad sitcom.would be , "Shaft". The movie 1971, TV show 1973-1974.
Okay, we weren't really allowed TV when I was growing up. The exception was pilot season. I have mental scars of Bad News Bears and Delta Hourse. Surprised Westworld didn't make the list. I watched it a couple years ago. It was freaking terrible. Worse than season 3 of the modern version. Peter Bonerz is said like the spy made a mistake: Bond errs without the D.
I Almost added Westworld! Part two of this video will be nearly one hour because of all of the titles I have left to talk about…so I ended up cutting some from the 70s and focused more on the 80s and 90s. But now I think I’m gonna have to do a part 3 for all the ones I cut. lol.
Pop Arena did a more detailed video on the Bad News Bears TV series for its Nick Knacks TV series, which chronicles the history of Nickelodeon, one show at a time. I feel like a Bad News Bears show could've worked (at least in terms of better capturing the "essence" of the film) had it come out a few years later (like around the time that edgier sitcoms like Married...with Children were making in-roads in prime time), and maybe had it aired on cable (like on FX) instead of over-the-air on CBS.
Great video again, cant wait for part 2 and to hear what you have to say about Ferris Buller's day off series and that super awkward scene with Ferris and his sister played by Jennifer Aniston... the balls on those producers and studio heads to make a series from a "lightning in a bottle" movie with hollywood legends!!!.... all these shows were DOA!!!
I liked the Starman series a lot. My brother and I to this day quote our favorite scenes and episodes from the show. C.B. Barnes went on to voice act our favorite Spider-man. 😮😮😮😊
Oddly enough, the Logans Run tv series was a "closer adaptation" of the novel. In the novel, the chase took place across the earth and "sanctuary" was located on the moon. Saying that, it was still a steaming pile. LOL :)
In regards to one of the shows produced because of the success of "Animal House", "Co-Ed Fever" was actually canned by CBS after only a single episode aired in February 1979. The remaining five, while unaired in the States, would later be seen in a late afternoon slot on a station in Vancouver, Canada of all places.
Most of these goofy shows were like B versions of the movies, sadly! MASH and Odd Couple will always be the exception, thought the series was better then the movies!!!!
That Robocop show was the worst. My brother and I watched an episode one Sunday and couldn't get through half of it. They turned him into a cartoon character, and he already had a cartoon!
This period of TV, is a shining example of what has always been a problem and has gotten worse in recent years: studios/networks/etc, never stop and focus on WHY something works, and instead are always a step behind culture, chasing trends. MASH worked as a TV after the movie, because the writing staff understood, while the story changes, character motivations, decisions, relationships, are what make the show and need to stay consistent. Donald Sutherland and Alan Alda played two very different versions of Hawkeye, but the consistency was both played an ordinary man, faced with extraordinary circumstances, and trying to navigate those waters without losing their principles, or going completely insane, whether that be by homemade gin, gallow’s humor, or just laughing in the face of madness. The show worked because it captured this in all aspects, while the stories change, as well as the people, the one thing that doesn’t is human nature under the high stress demands of an active combat zone; and how men and women deal with that, never does either. So many of these shows, like entertainment today, rely what’s trendy, a name, a branding, and sometimes that works, and most times, not. But the real brands we remember; the Star Wars, Godfather’s, Rambo’s, Seinfelds, Friends, name your favorite sitcom/movie here, often spawn from those ideas that don’t make Sense at the time. I mean, look at Seinfeld, arguably one of if not the biggest sitcoms of all time, are about 4 average people in an apartment building, and what happens in their day to day life. On paper, it sounds insanely boring: on TV, it’s relatable and works.
MASH was extremely well written and incorporated a lot of issues that were common during that time period. It had it's moments with comedy but a lot of episodes dealing with war, PTSD, ethics, communism (Col. Flagg), McCarthyism and even breakthroughs in healthcare at the time.
My family and I used to watch the Starman series, I liked it but I can't say I recall a specific episode only that they kept almost finding the mom that I think was played by Erin Gray iirc.
I was only a pre-teen at the time, but I loved the Bad News Bears, and later Private Benjamin (I never saw the actual film until it aired on tv years later) and those Animal House rip-off sitcoms (it didn't really seem odd that every network had a show about crazy college kids to me because it had basically become a genre like cop shows, high school setting shows, family sitcoms, etc.).
Nothing was more heartbreaking than that darn Clueless series. As a teenage boy what was obsessed with everything about that film, that got it WRONG. Points for getting a lot of original cast though.
Each decade was a different experience for me. I was born in ‘72. I remember and liked all the 70’s pilots (except for Serpico) because I was too young to see the movies so the TV show was my first exposure. As a result, I liked those shows better than the movies. In the 80’s we finally got cable and a VCR and I was older so I saw the movies before the tv shows and therefore didn’t like the tv shows. In the 90’s I was aware of how the studio system worked and how they were just mining a property for money so I pretty much didn’t care about the tv show versions.
32:52 - I’ll be honest with you. The only good thing about the uncle Buck TV show was that amazing theme song by my favorite country artist, Ronnie Milsap.
@@joshhickeysmoviereviews Before that, there was an unsold 30 minute long pilot that was based on Adventures in Babysitting that aired on CBS in July 1989.
After the Bad News Bears sitcom didn’t pan out, Billy Jacoby (Jayne) later became the all-purpose best friend in the 80s. He was Arnold Jackson’s friend Ricky on Diff’rent Strokes; Rick Stratton‘s friend Brad on Silver Spoons; he even had a one-shot appearance as Jonathan Bower’s friend Walter on Who’s the Boss (who only spoke in mumble-speak).
"Nothing screams comedy gold like FCC compliant" - LOL, Brilliant.
I recently watched the Logan's Run series. It was actually really good. Both Logan and Francis were intelligent characters that were playing cat and mouse. If anything, Francis was actually smarter and more capable than Logan. It made for an intriguing dynamic.
Parker Lewis was a better Ferris Bueller than Ferris Bueller.
That line is literally in the script for part two of this video . 😊
Mr. Lewis? Mr. Randall? Mr. Phillips? Hello?
I give Ferris credit because I like the episode thats basically a shaggy dog story with the italian restaurant and the history report.
In hindsight. Maybe that didnt need to be the final episode but obviously they save the best for last
Gotta give Charlie Schlatter some props for at least giving it a good try.
Parker Lewis ruled. Period.
The Odd Couple was on air when M.A.S.H was still in theaters.
I’ll give the odd couple a mention in the next video. I should have done it in this one. But it was truly MASH that kick started this trend into maximum overdrive.
@@mysocalledgenxlifeWhat are you basing this position off of? Odd Couple. Peyton place. Flipper. McCloud. Kung Fu.
M.A.S.H. didn’t even do well its first season.
I was just thinking of a few shows the other day.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Police Academy, and
Honey, I Shrunk The Kids became TV shows.
You’re ahead of me! Many of those will be in part 2. 😊
I remember that Ferris Bueller show, it was such a disappointment lol
I remember the 'Honey, I Shrunk The Kids' show. It came on same time period as the "Weird Science' tv show
Was there a live action police academy show? I remember the cartoon when I was a kid.
@@notreallydavek7237Yes. And Robocop was a cartoon before it was a live action TV show.
I finally watched the Logan's Run series and it was better than it had any right to be. Worth a watch.
Hey, the actor playing Spicoli in Fast Times was Dean Cameron - “Chainsaw” from the film ‘Summer School’… A hilarious’80s film. Oh, and there’s Courtney Thorne-Smith, who also starred in ‘Summer School’.
Thank you, I was like, “I am not seeing Patrick Dempsy anywhere.”
Summer School is a great movie with an incredible cast.
"Playing hide and seek with their audience." The slogan of Network television for decades. We've even seen some of the most popular shows in history suffer this fate.
Family Guy, Seasons 2-3.
This channel is an absolute treasure trove. Here's to you hitting 100K this year!!!
Besides M.A.S.H.....The t.v. show Alice was also a hit based of the movie Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
ALICE the TV show
was about a diner
it was a spinoff of
a TV show
I got it backwards
ALICE lead to the spinoff
FLO
starring POLLY HOLLIDAY
@@andrewblanchard2398 Mansplaining at its finest. What the hell are you even on about? You look like you're old enough to have been around when the show was in first run status and you're THAT wrong on facts?
@@andrewblanchard2398 A spinoff of what show? I've seen the movie Alice Doesn't Live here Anymore and the MC works in a diner while she tries to be a singer iirc.
@Marigen1971
ALICE tv series 1976
it ran for 9 seasons
starring
LINDA LAVIN as ALICE
VIC TAYBACK as MEL
POLLY HOLLIDAY as FLO
FLO got her spinoff after
ALICE
Wasn’t that a Lou Grant spinoff?
I remember they had a 'Bustin' Loose' tv show starring Jimmy Walker. The movie starred Richard Pryor
I think they made a 'Working Girl' tv show but i know they made a 'Baby Boom' tv show
Yes, there was a Working Girl TV series that aired on NBC in 1990 and starred Sandra Bullock in the role that Melanie Griffith played in the movie. And there was also a Baby Boom TV show that aired on NBC in 1988 and starred Kate Jackson in Diane Keaton's role from the movie.
I'm 46 now, and I watched that Private Benjamin show. It wasn't bad
Loved Krisoff St.John in Bad News Bears. I see why was so successful. He played a memorable character on an episode of Happy Days as well. He was great on the Young and the Restless. RIP Krisoff.
a little known fact, there was a Blazing saddles tv show. it ran for FOUR!!! seasons. however, none of it aired. why? the show was only created as an attempt to keep the film rights for a possible sequel movie.
The FUCK??? THEY SPENT MILLIONS, and never made a sequel???
While watching this, the Adult Swim sketch "Too Many Cooks" started circling in my head...
I had never seen that so I clicked away from this video to look at it and now that song is going to be in my head
I'm old enough to remember most of these shows. And truthfully? Starman was the better adaptation, than all the other shows on this list. 😂
Watched every episode, I think.
My mom watched the 9 to 5 show every week when I was a kid. I remember all the retooling and changes. It was baffling. Then, the return in syndication years later.
Also the Pvt. Benjamin series was so of its time aa a show. Eileen Brennan was the true star of that show.
I hated when it went 'indoors' and leaned into the laugh track.
Tricia Cast was also on The Young and The Restless with Kristoff St. John!
I caught that after I recorded the voice over! Good catch. 😊
I remember her as Jason Bateman's sister on "It's Your Move".
Have you ever seen the unsold pilot of Coming to America? Mix "the fish out of water trope" with plot elements from Alice, and you get a perfect reason why this series never appeared on the CBS schedule.
The series continues the exploits of Prince Akeem and his attempts to adjust to American culture.
His father-in-law now runs a diner with a character patterned after Flo from the TV series Alice. I remember this pilot because of the following laugh-getting line: “Just think in 48hrs. I can be a Beverly Hills Cop in another 48 hours. You can be a Beverly Hills Cop 2! Why the live television audience didn't groan is beyond me.
*gasp* Clueless was an amazing TV show! You take that back!
It’s gonna be in part 2…since it was the 90s. But I just couldn’t handle it compared to the movie!!! 😂😂
@mysocalledgenxlife Well, I also haven't seen it since it aired, so I very well might have nostalgic tinted lenses on about it.
@@mysocalledgenxlife Sabrina The Teenage which movie came before the actual tv series 1996 same year with Melissa Joan Hart but her aunts were portrayed by different actresses Sherrie Miller and Charlene Fernetz. Later tv movies included Sabrina Goes To Rome, Sabrina: Down under and Sabrina Friends Forever. There was also an animated version as well as an animated version in the 70's based on the Archie comics. 🐈⬛🧹🪄👱♀
I loved the series as well. Waiting for it to be on DVD or streaming.
I used to watch the show when it aired on Noggin's teen block, The N as a kid and I loved it!
I went down that same rabbit hole years ago and am still amazed a lot of these shows were ever made. The raunchier ones especially.
The RoboCop show came out when I was in high school and all I remembered about it was having a conversation with my friends about how lame it was lol
I thought Robocop- the series was a syndicated TV show from Canada. The series was notorious because of TV-MA violence.
Hey that kid with the 44 shirt is Kristoff St. John. He play David who was one of Denise's first boyfriends on The Cosby Show
Don't forget that Sparky Marcus was "Apeface" in Freaky Friday and the voice of Richie Rich for 4 seasons of Saturday cartoons.
And the voice of Gloria was Bart Simpson's Nancy Cartwright. That was a fun show.
Also Robocop was made into two awful Saturday morning cartoons.
Animal House and Uncle Buck had TV spinoffs?! 🤯 I hereby grant you a Doctorate in Television Archeology from Faber College, Ms. Gen X.
I never understood why networks would switch shows times and/or day of the week. They wouldn’t pass it onto viewers very well and the change. Back then they might run a few ads about the change, but during the regular time slot maybe they should have notified those viewers at that time?
Both Tricia Cast and Kristrof St. John went on from the Bad News Bears to The Young n The Restless for many years
You'd figure the fake Spicoli would have done better seeing how he spent his summer in "Summer School" with Marc Harmon.
I also enjoyed Logan's Run, though I can understand why it didn't survive. It was akin to Ark II, but with some Logan's Run mixed in to try to play off of the popularity.
Three of these programs I loved, and still remember from when I was a kid. Private Benjamin, Star Man & the Robocop TV series.
Yes, I know that they are different to the movies that preceeded them, but I still loved them all the same.
On a side note, I believe that the bad owner of the kennels from the Pound Puppy cartoon was based upon Capt. Lewis from Private Benjamin.
I'm too young to remember the TV show 9-5 but having seen the movie, Jeffrey Tambor is such a dynamite pick for the boss. He creates a situation comedy wherever he goes, I swear. _The Mighty Tam-bor!!!_
Missing from the 70s are shows based on Paper Moon with Jodie Foster taking the Tatum O'Neal part and an anthology series based on Love Story.
They used to show Michael Keaton's stand-up special back in the '90s when Comedy Central played stand-up clips and specials like MTV with the music videos.
I remember him being quite good at stand-up comedy! And I'm not an easy critic.
Breaking Away the TV series starred Shaun Cassidy after his Hardy Boys run. I loved the movie but the series lasted just one season if I'm not mistaken.
We had a few of these in the UK - Logans Run, 9 to 5, Private Benjamin and Robocop being ones that I saw, but only by chance. I always assumed that they were cheap time slot fillers due to either the late timings they were shown or buried in the Saturday afternoon slot which was where tv shows went to to die.
I am surprised that we didn't get Serpico - unless it was that bad the UK buyers knew it'd be a stinker.
Dean Cameron played Jeff Spicoli and James Nardini played Brad Hamilton, Patrick Dempsey played Mike Damone
I have it on DVD it wasn’t that bad I thought
I will defend the Clueless TV show until my dying breath, it wasn't the same as the movie but was it's own delightful thing.
I hate to say it but you forgot to mention that in FAST TIMES TV SHOW that Claudia Wells, Courtney Thorne Smith, Dean Cameron were the stars which BY FAR to have this cast in the same show is EPIC. Even though the show is a BOMBER.... I STILL am Amazed to see Claudia Wells in this. Cause after BTTF she disappeared...
Harry and the Hendersons was an okay show based on an okay movie. Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a good show based on a bad movie. Party Girl was a cringe show based on a cringe movie. 😂🤷
Blazing Saddles had a terrible attempt at a TV show called “Black Bart” they released it as a special feature on the blu ray (or DVD). It was pretty bad.
I like how in the 90's and early 2000's classic tv shows were made into movies.
I was just making a list of 70s/80s/90s shows that were turned into movies! It will be a future video. The question is…how many of those movies were any good?
@mysocalledgenxlife Can't wait to see it. Thanks
Tricia Cast was also on The Young & the Restless. R.I.P., Kristoffer St. John
I see a My So Called Gen X Life video, I immediately click
Much like the response to Belushi's actual younger brother 😂
Oh, Barry Bostwick! Did I have a crush on him! 😍😍😍
I just watched Alice the TV show with Linda Lavin. It was successful and based on the 1970’s movie Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore with Diane Ladd.
When Polly Holliday, who played Flo left the Alice show for her spin-off, Diane Ladd, who played Flo in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore was actually brought in as her replacement.
Birney definitely looked more like the real Serpico than Pacino did.
I agree that he definitely looked the part more than Pacino…but what they did to the character was awful!
@ oh for sure
I don't know if I somehow blocked some of these put of my mind like a trauma filled memory or if I just never saw them! Your channel is my guilty (not so guilty) pleasure. Thank you, Natalie, for all of these warm nostalgic memories 😊❤
Love this. Had a few on my watchlist and added a few. Can’t wait for part two. Maybe you can do a list of successful ones. Definitely would be a short video but interesting.
Great idea!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an example of the show being loads better than the movie that inspired it.
Lost media is always worth talking about. I enjoyed this first part and will be looking forward to the next part.
After Gung Ho, there was another attempt at adapting a Ron Howard movie in the form of Parenthood, which as a TV series, aired on NBC in 1990. The cast included Ed Begley Jr., Thora Birch, David Arquette, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Ken Ober from MTV's Remote Control.
Part two is coming soon 😊
The guy that plays Spicolli played Chainsaw in the movie Summer School.
The Logan's Run TV show was so much better when I was eight years old. I hadn't seen the film, of course, but I thought the show was really good. Probably because I was too young to see the movie. One thing is certain; my standards were much lower in 1977.
Now I want to make a series off the movie Amadeus in the style of That's my Bush.
There was one season of a "Paper Moon" tv show that starred a young Jodie Foaster
Patrick Dempsey was playing Mike Damone & Dean Cameron was playing Spicoli! If you listen to Patrick Labyorteaux's podcast Dean has some good stories about that show.
So you're pointing out that she made a mistake? Careful, she'll deny it.
Absolutely love all your videos!!! Can’t wait for part 2 & then what you have for us next. Always takes me back to my childhood 😊
I remember Gungho! I loved the show! I was a kid, which could be why
How about The Outsiders? lasted one season.
Part two is coming soon 😊
Digging into the deep recesses of my memory, I can only recall watching The Bad News Bears, Private Benjamin, and Starman out of the shows shown in this video. I would say Starman was the best of the three.
The Clerks cartoon was great though,there’s only six episodes but they’re hilarious
It's way too short-lived but it does fit my sense of humor
4:46 - As kids, we probably thought blowing on the barrel of your gun after you fire it seemed kind of cool; but in reality, that’s one of the most dangerous things you could possibly do.
8:36 it's funny you mentioned the boy from The Sound of Music, but here is the woman who played his sister in the movie. Lol. BTW, I've watched a lot of your videos (starting with the Soaps video), but now I'm subscribing! I love how you go through each show. Brings back such nostalgia. I was born in 82.
I said her Sound of Music co-star!! 😊 Sometimes I do leave out trivia and details so that people will bring them up in the comments. Engagement! lol. A RUclipsr trick.
@mysocalledgenxlife Oh, I missed that! Sorry! 😊
I never saw anything but the intro to the Gung Ho TV show. It was peak 80s, almost a parody of 80s tv show intros.
You just discovered pilots and shows from movies ?
Man your mind is gonna be blown when you see that bill and Ted pilot
Don't be so hard on yourself Natalie LOL! We grew up in age before the Internet so hence ot lack of knowledge of this fact! Plus we were so young and couldn't see everything back then. I've discovered many movies ended up as tv shows or tv show pilots that didn't go very far some lasted a season or two. My lists as follows Harry And The Hendersons tv series 1991 to 1993. Mrs. & Mrs. Smith tv series with Scott Bakula in 1996 before the movie with Angelina Jolie and Bradpitt. Other mentions are Uncle Buck, Coming To America, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fast Times, Delta House, Police Academy cartoon and live action tv show, Teen Wolf animated, Rambo animated, Robocop live action and animated, Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure animated, Weird Science, Working Girl, Young Indiana Jones, Conan, Back To The Future, The Karate Kid animated, Stir Crazy, Honey I Shrunk The Kids, Private Benjamin, Gung Ho! The Real Ghostbusters, Serpico, Revenge Of The Nerds (unsold pilot) Beetlejuice animated, and The Beastmaster to name a few LOL! 🤗👻📺🎥
You just had to spoil part two of this video!!! Couldn’t help yourself . 😂😂
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The Clueless TV show was actually good.
I will present my argument in part 2 😊
Alien Nation, though that series was pretty good....
BTW, I LOVE your channel it's absolutely awesome!
Thank you so much!
The kitchen set of the Uncle Buck series... looks like Family Ties???
Where in the world did you manage to find Private Benjamin episodes? I’ve been trying to find traces of that show forever.
But what I did come here to write was, your mentioning of the TV series of Stir Crazy reminded me of another Richard Pryor lead film, 1981’s Bustin’ Loose, that was turned into a first run syndicated series in 1987 starring Jimmie ‘JJ’ Walker. It lasted 27 episodes.
Leave yer dirty, filthy, network hands OFF my John Candy classics! (i can't believe that i need to say that)
Ok but Dean Cameron did a decent Spicoli, I’ve always liked Dean.
@iChristyD Yeah, also liked him in Summer School, Ski School and They Came From Outerspace. 📺📼🛸👨🚀
He’s still acting & has a band that he plays with nowadays. I always catch him on different TV shows & point him out to my Hubby.
Omg, Summer School is or of my FAVORITE movies!!!!! His character, Chainsaw, was iconic!!!!
Great job. Just discovered your podcast. I subscribed. One 1970's hit movie to and to your list of hit movie bad sitcom.would be , "Shaft". The movie 1971, TV show 1973-1974.
11:10 Better example is Revenge of The Nerds which only got 1 Episode compared to Delta House’s 13 Episodes
It’s on the Revenge Of The Nerds special edition DVD it’s horrendous
Robbie Rist as Booger... Good God.
@@harrykalb1187oh yeah he was god awful!!!
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I don't think it was bad, but there's also the TV version of PAPER MOON, with Christopher Connelly and Jodie Foster.
Okay, we weren't really allowed TV when I was growing up. The exception was pilot season. I have mental scars of Bad News Bears and Delta Hourse.
Surprised Westworld didn't make the list. I watched it a couple years ago. It was freaking terrible. Worse than season 3 of the modern version.
Peter Bonerz is said like the spy made a mistake: Bond errs without the D.
I Almost added Westworld! Part two of this video will be nearly one hour because of all of the titles I have left to talk about…so I ended up cutting some from the 70s and focused more on the 80s and 90s. But now I think I’m gonna have to do a part 3 for all the ones I cut. lol.
@mysocalledgenxlife I'll watch it!
Pop Arena did a more detailed video on the Bad News Bears TV series for its Nick Knacks TV series, which chronicles the history of Nickelodeon, one show at a time. I feel like a Bad News Bears show could've worked (at least in terms of better capturing the "essence" of the film) had it come out a few years later (like around the time that edgier sitcoms like Married...with Children were making in-roads in prime time), and maybe had it aired on cable (like on FX) instead of over-the-air on CBS.
Great video again, cant wait for part 2 and to hear what you have to say about Ferris Buller's day off series and that super awkward scene with Ferris and his sister played by Jennifer Aniston... the balls on those producers and studio heads to make a series from a "lightning in a bottle" movie with hollywood legends!!!.... all these shows were DOA!!!
I liked the Starman series a lot. My brother and I to this day quote our favorite scenes and episodes from the show. C.B. Barnes went on to voice act our favorite Spider-man. 😮😮😮😊
There was also a short lived Private Benjamin cartoon on Saturday mornings when I was a kid.
Oddly enough, the Logans Run tv series was a "closer adaptation" of the novel. In the novel, the chase took place across the earth and "sanctuary" was located on the moon. Saying that, it was still a steaming pile. LOL :)
In regards to one of the shows produced because of the success of "Animal House", "Co-Ed Fever" was actually canned by CBS after only a single episode aired in February 1979. The remaining five, while unaired in the States, would later be seen in a late afternoon slot on a station in Vancouver, Canada of all places.
Most of these goofy shows were like B versions of the movies, sadly! MASH and Odd Couple will always be the exception, thought the series was better then the movies!!!!
My Dad LOVED MASH!!! I remember him watching it with him when I was little. Snuggled up on his lap, watching MASH. What sweet memories 😊
That Robocop show was the worst. My brother and I watched an episode one Sunday and couldn't get through half of it. They turned him into a cartoon character, and he already had a cartoon!
This period of TV, is a shining example of what has always been a problem and has gotten worse in recent years: studios/networks/etc, never stop and focus on WHY something works, and instead are always a step behind culture, chasing trends.
MASH worked as a TV after the movie, because the writing staff understood, while the story changes, character motivations, decisions, relationships, are what make the show and need to stay consistent. Donald Sutherland and Alan Alda played two very different versions of Hawkeye, but the consistency was both played an ordinary man, faced with extraordinary circumstances, and trying to navigate those waters without losing their principles, or going completely insane, whether that be by homemade gin, gallow’s humor, or just laughing in the face of madness.
The show worked because it captured this in all aspects, while the stories change, as well as the people, the one thing that doesn’t is human nature under the high stress demands of an active combat zone; and how men and women deal with that, never does either.
So many of these shows, like entertainment today, rely what’s trendy, a name, a branding, and sometimes that works, and most times, not. But the real brands we remember; the Star Wars, Godfather’s, Rambo’s, Seinfelds, Friends, name your favorite sitcom/movie here, often spawn from those ideas that don’t make
Sense at the time. I mean, look at Seinfeld, arguably one of if not the biggest sitcoms of all time, are about 4 average people in an apartment building, and what happens in their day to day life. On paper, it sounds insanely boring: on TV, it’s relatable and works.
MASH was extremely well written and incorporated a lot of issues that were common during that time period. It had it's moments with comedy but a lot of episodes dealing with war, PTSD, ethics, communism (Col. Flagg), McCarthyism and even breakthroughs in healthcare at the time.
My family and I used to watch the Starman series, I liked it but I can't say I recall a specific episode only that they kept almost finding the mom that I think was played by Erin Gray iirc.
I was only a pre-teen at the time, but I loved the Bad News Bears, and later Private Benjamin (I never saw the actual film until it aired on tv years later) and those Animal House rip-off sitcoms (it didn't really seem odd that every network had a show about crazy college kids to me because it had basically become a genre like cop shows, high school setting shows, family sitcoms, etc.).
Nothing was more heartbreaking than that darn Clueless series. As a teenage boy what was obsessed with everything about that film, that got it WRONG. Points for getting a lot of original cast though.
Patti LaBelle's song Stir It Up was also used in the first Beverly Hills Cop movie.
I enjoyed this video, because it reminded me of all the good movies I have not seen in a long time.
There is one where I liked the movie and the show. Weird Science.
I loved Starman! I remember being so sad when it was cancelled.
Interestingly, although the Gung Ho TV series only lasted a handful of episodes, ABC re-aired it well into 1989.
I loved Star Man and Nine To 5. I love these reminders.
Each decade was a different experience for me.
I was born in ‘72. I remember and liked all the 70’s pilots (except for Serpico) because I was too young to see the movies so the TV show was my first exposure. As a result, I liked those shows better than the movies.
In the 80’s we finally got cable and a VCR and I was older so I saw the movies before the tv shows and therefore didn’t like the tv shows.
In the 90’s I was aware of how the studio system worked and how they were just mining a property for money so I pretty much didn’t care about the tv show versions.
32:52 - I’ll be honest with you. The only good thing about the uncle Buck TV show was that amazing theme song by my favorite country artist, Ronnie Milsap.
Adventures in Babysitting better be on this list. They tried to make a TV show but it was terrible
Without the adorable Elisabeth Shue, Adventures in Babysitting isn’t worth watching. The movie also featured future megastar Vincent D’Onofrio.
@@timothymarkin4481 I partially disagree. The Disney remake with Sofia Carson and Sabrina Carpenter is quite good
@@joshhickeysmoviereviews Before that, there was an unsold 30 minute long pilot that was based on Adventures in Babysitting that aired on CBS in July 1989.
After the Bad News Bears sitcom didn’t pan out, Billy Jacoby (Jayne) later became the all-purpose best friend in the 80s. He was Arnold Jackson’s friend Ricky on Diff’rent Strokes; Rick Stratton‘s friend Brad on Silver Spoons; he even had a one-shot appearance as Jonathan Bower’s friend Walter on Who’s the Boss (who only spoke in mumble-speak).
Speaking of Silver Spoons, Meeno Paluce appeared in a very special episode as Rick‘s friend Toby, who was being physically abused by his father.
I think he also appeared on 21 Jump Street once or twice. And of course we all know him as Buddy in Just One Of The Guys!
@@harrykalb1187 Was that that show with Dana Carvey?
You forgot about Parker Lewis Can't Lose
@@COMPFUNK2 21 Jump Street starred a young Johnny Depp, if that's what you're asking. Cops who looked young going undercover in high schools.
Wow who knew😂 i love this channel