List of films made into television programs

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This a list of films that were later adapted as television shows.

Contents 1 Follow-ups and prequels 2 Remakes 3 Series premiered before their films 4 Upcoming 5 See also

[edit] Follow-ups and prequels

These series follow the events of the original movie, so they can be considered sequels of it, take place before the movie or are set within the same universe.

Title	Follows	Type	Notes
Delta House	Animal House	Live
Aladdin	Aladdin	Animated	Set between the movie and the direct-to-video sequel.
Alien Nation	Alien Nation	Live
Back to the Future: The Animated Series	Back to the Future	Animated
Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Live	Set one year after the movie.
Clerks: The Animated Series	Clerks	Animated
Clueless	Clueless	Live
Fievel's American Tails	An American Tail: Fievel Goes West	Animated
Freddy's Nightmares	Nightmare on Elm Street	Live	Anthology
Friday Night Lights	Friday Night Lights	Live
Highlander: The Series	Highlander	Live
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids	Live	This show supposedly takes place before Honey, I Blew Up The Kid
The Little Mermaid	The Little Mermaid	Animated	Takes place one year before the movie.
Little Shop	Little Shop of Horrors	Animated	Follows many of the characters from the movie in junior high school.
Lock, Stock...The Series	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels	Live
Men in Black: The Series	Men in Black	Animated
Mr. Belvedere	Sitting Pretty	Live
My Big Fat Greek Life	My Big Fat Greek Wedding	Live
Planet of the Apes	Planet of the Apes	Live	Set in the same universe, but before the movie.
Power Rangers: Turbo	Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie	Live
The Real Ghostbusters	Ghostbusters	Animated
Stargate SG-1	Stargate	Live	Set one year after the movie.
The Star Wars Holiday Special Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure Ewoks: The Battle for Endor Star Wars: Droids Star Wars: Ewoks Star Wars: Clone Wars	The Star Wars films	Live/animated
The Legend of Tarzan	Tarzan	Animated	Set between the movie and the direct-to-video sequel.
Tremors	Tremors	Live
Venus et Apollon	Venus Beauté		French
War of the Worlds	The War of the Worlds	Live	Set 35 years later
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles	The Indiana Jones films	Live	Depicting the live of the young Indiana Jones

[edit] Remakes

These series are remakes of the original movie.

• Adventures in Babysitting
• Alice (from Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore)
• Anna and the King (from Anna and the King of Siam)
• Baby Boom
• Beetlejuice (animated; from Beetlejuice)
• The Courtship of Eddie's Father
• The Crow: Stairway to Heaven (from The Crow)
• Delta House (from Animal House)
• Dixon of Dock Green (from The Blue Lamp)
• Doctor in the House
• Fame
• Fast Times (from Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
• Ferris Bueller (from Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
• The Four Seasons
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
• Godzilla and Godzilla: The Series (animated, from the American movie Godzilla)
• Harry and the Hendersons
• In the Heat of the Night; The show was made 21 years after the movie, and was modernized to the 1980's. Virgil Tibbs and Chief Gillespe were the only characters from the movie to be written into the show.
• The Adventures Of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (from Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius)
• Logan's Run, from the film of the same title
• Timon and Pumbaa (based on characters in The Lion King, not actual movie)
• M*A*S*H
• 9 to 5 (based on the movie "Nine to Five")
• The Odd Couple
• The Pink Panther (animated) - based on movie title sequences
• The Paper Chase
• Parenthood
• Peyton Place
• Teen Wolf
• Twelve O'Clock High
• Uncle Buck
• Weird Science
• What's Happening!! (and sequel, from Cooley High, 1975; the series was moved from 1960s Chicago to 1970s Los Angeles)
• Working Girl

Attack of the killer tomatoes (animated)

[edit] Series premiered before their films

• DuckTales
• Rugrats, The Rugrats Movie
• The Fairly OddParents
• The Powerpuff Girls

[edit] Upcoming

These series have not yet aired, or are still in production.

• Star Wars: Clone Wars (3D, animated, based on the Star Wars films)
• Star Wars live-action TV series

[edit] See also

• List of TV shows made into films