What Are Some TV Shows Based On Popular Movies You Didn't Know Existed?

21 comments

I don't know because I didn't know they existed... It's quite a quandary.
National Lampoon Animal House. It was called Delta House, but had some of the same characters and actors from the movie. I was so upset when it got cancelled that teen me even wrote a letter of complaint to the network.
The Highlander series slapped.
- I legit didn't know it was a movie when I was younger until like the third time I saw a rerun on the episodees with Connor in them. Was very confused, thought I kept missing episodes.
I'll give a more recent one. What we do in the shadows. I feel at this point that the show is more popular than the movie was.
Two come to mind.

Casablanca

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures
Ace Ventura and Napoleon Dynamite both had cartoon series. I learned that recently.
- There was a Back to the Future animated series I remember from being a kid too.
  
  I didn’t know about this one either.
- Ghostbusters and Beetlejuice animated series as well.
  
  Those ones I knew about! I used to watch the Beatlejuice animated series when I was a kid. Also, I watched it before I ever watched the original movie.
Wait... they made a series out-of Logan's Run?
- Was it a limited run?
If I didn't know they existed, how would I know they exist?
Nightmare on Elm street was a 2 season show in the late 80s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy's_Nightmares
Buffy the vampire slayer
- I actually didn’t know that was a movie until after watching the show.
There was a single season sitcom in 1990 called Ferris Bueller. His sister was played by an unknown actress by the name of Jennifer Aniston.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098795/
This is quite the quandary. Do I reply with lesser known spin-offs or do I answer the question that’s impossible to answer honestly?

21 comments