Topic: Movies Based on TV Series

[addicted2dvd]

Being a huge TV series watcher... I tend to enjoy films that are based on TV series... and have quite a few in my collection now. But I was wondering what everyone considered the best films based on TV Series...

Here is what I have in my collection...

21 Jump Street
The A-Team (unwatched)
The Addams Family
Addams Family Values
The Avengers (1998) (unwatched)
Bewitched
The Brady Bunch Movie
A Very Brady Sequel
The Brady Bunch in the White House
Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
The Dukes of Hazzard
The Flintstones
The Fugitive
Get Smart
Land of the Lost
Maverick (Unwatched)
Mission Impossible
Mission Impossible 2
Mission Impossible 3 (Unwatched)
Star Trek
Star Trek 2
Star Trek 3
Star Trek 4
Star Trek 5
Star Trek 6
Star Trek: Generations
Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek: Insurrection
Star Trek: Nemesis
Star Trek (2009)
Starsky and Hutch
S.W.A.T.
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
The Three Stooges: The Movie
Twilight Zone: The Movie

So am I missing any that are must see?

[Rogmeister]

Technically, The Three Stooges don't belong since their original shorts played in theaters first, not on TV.

As far as stuff left off, what about the Star Trek movies?

[addicted2dvd]

Of course! I have them all... somehow missed adding them to the list though.

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I loved "Shaft".

More a Rip-Off than a movie based on the series, but nevertheless a fun-watch, is "Starsky & Hutch".

[addicted2dvd]

Starsky and Hutch is another one I missed putting in my list. I have (and enjoyed) that one as well.

[addicted2dvd]

Added the Star Trek films and Starsky & Hutch to my list.

[DSig]

Added the Star Trek films and Starsky & Hutch to my list.

Starsky and Hutch .. oh I though you said "best" films 
Wild Wild West?
Green Hornet
Batman

[GSyren]

Wouldn't Batman and Green Hornet be considered to be based on the comics rather than on the TV shows?

[Tom]

Serenity, which is based on/continues Firefly. Great movie to a great series.

Not great, but could count as being based on a series/cartoon: Masters of the Universe
Or the Scooby Doo movies.

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Not to forget the several great movies that resulted from "The Muppet Show" and "The Simpsons Movie"

[DSig]

Wouldn't Batman and Green Hornet be considered to be based on the comics rather than on the TV shows?

Well the tv shows were before the movies <G>

[addicted2dvd]

Wild Wild West was based on a TV series wasn't it? I do have that one as well... been years since I seen it.

I feel the same as Gunnar when it came to Batman and Green Hornet... or you could add all the Superman movies.. all the Spider-Man movies... all the Fantastic Four movies. Pretty much most the comic book films.

I also feel like a continuation with the same cast is something different then what I am talking about here. I consider them more a reunion movie then anything else.

[Rogmeister]

Wouldn't Batman and Green Hornet be considered to be based on the comics rather than on the TV shows?

Well the tv shows were before the movies <G>

Wrong!  Batman and Green Hornet both were in the movies first, in movie serials of the 1940s...of course Tim Burton's Bat man wasn't based on the Batman series regardless.  And I'm not positive but Green Hornet may have originated on old time radio.

[Dragonfire]

I think Green Hornet was a radio show first. 
I do believe that Batman and Superman were in the comics before the first of the serials started.  The serials were done because the comics were so popular..which lead to the tv shows...the movies...etc.

[Rogmeister]

I think Green Hornet was a radio show first. 
I do believe that Batman and Superman were in the comics before the first of the serials started.  The serials were done because the comics were so popular..which lead to the tv shows...the movies...etc.

Absolutely correct about Batman and Superman.  Superman debuted first in Action Comics #1 (1938) and Batman debuted a year later in Detective Comics #27.  Superman debuted on film first in a series of cartoons from the Max Fleischer Studios (in theaters).  I think the first of those came out either in 1941 or 1942.  The first Batman serial came out in 1945, I think...I could be off a year.