50s/60s/70s tv shows that need to be made into big screen movies

* I love Lucy
* The Monkees
* The Jeffersons
* Sanford & Son: The Motion Picture
* The Bugaloos
* My Mother, the Car
* Captain Nice



See hollywood? I did for free what a lot of nincompoops get paid tens of thousands to think up! Trouble is, I can think of better, that's original, and will net you more than just the embarrassment you're currently getting.

Hollywood. Please. Stop already.

Give them through 2050, I think they will have covered them all. (That may be a conservative estimate as to how long it will take.)

Wait a minute, wasn't that done already? :P

This was the 1973-74 tv series created and written by Harlan Ellison. It ran for only 16 episodes and got cancelled. Keir Dullea (of 2001: a Space Odyssey) was the main character.

The story took place far into the future. When Earth became unliveable, its inhabitants left it and embarked on a great journey through space in a vessel supposedly 8,000 miles long (a big mother of a ship). Inside the ship were dozens of completely isolated self-contained biospheres, each the size of a small nation, that were home to many different cultures from Earth. Those cultures had changed since they were originally found on Earth and had evolved. However, the people only knew their own gigantic biosphere and didn't know they were on a space ship. Keir Dullea came from an Amish biosphere of an agricultural society and managed to find a way out of it, into the service corridors of the gigantic vessel. Once there, he found two other companions and they uncovered the terrible fate of the ship: it was on a collision course with a star. I liked the idea of Native American biospheres, Amish biospheres, etc. and the fact that the hero and his companions had to journey through these places to enlist support for their mission: to find the control center and the means to change the ship's course.

Unfortunately, Ellison got angry with the producers because they kept changing his vision and the series finally disappeared from the air. It had some interesting special effects, if anyone saw and remembers that TV show.

anything else, and it'll be crap.

It would resonate even more today, I think.

There is no justice in the world.

But that has gotten shelved and set aside so many times not many producers or directors want to be involved. Too bad - the original Logan's Run story was good and the first movie while full of flaws was a big hit. (My favorite scene is Peter Ustinov with the cats.) I hope the new version gets made. I say "new version" since it sounds as if it will be more like the original story than the first movie.

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
Sea Hunt
Have Gun Will Travel
Rescue 8
Life of Riley

Paladin was on in the wrong decade anyway. The gunslinger who hated guns and only used it as a last resort (of course he had to resort to it in every episode). He was a West Pointer who quoted Shakespeare and Lord Byron with ease. A gourmet chef and wine expert who could live in the wild on roots and berries. What a man!

not a handsome man but yet fantastic

I'm up to Season 2, Episode 72. Only the first three seasons are on DVD unfortunately.

and 77 Sunset Strip

Kookie! Get your comb!






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We need to include You'll Never Get Rich-(Sargent Bilko)-Phil Silvers show, and It's about time. Oh, Imogene Coca, I loved her.

1994, starring David Johansen and John C. McGinley.

Currently it is considered the 49th worst film of all time on imdb. For once, imdb may be accurate in their rating.

Okay, Hollywood types, move along, nothing to see here. Go make a movie out Ringworld or something...


Hey, you! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Derrickson">Scott Derrickson! Drop that Betamax or so help me God you'll be in the hospital next to that Romanian lady with the AquaNet can up her ass!

But who could play Jessica? Or Jody? Or Burt? Casting was what made that show - and would be essential to do right for a remake or movie.

and it'll explain how they had all those amenities and whipped creme for all the pies.

Like when the Munsters get time-transported back to the 19th century and wind up at the fort of "F Troop." Wouldn't that be hilarious!!!
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meets

I Married Joan

Note: Jeebus, I'm old!

But since Rhoda wasn't a "cute" loser who prevailed, it will never happen.

maybe even Laugh In and Ed Sullivan........

Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle) was set to star as Kato, but he bowed out. Seth Rogen (no, I'm not kidding) will be playing Britt Reid/The Green Hornet.

I remember Momma.
Life With Luigi
Amos and Andy
December Bride

First one wasn't all that good, save for George Miller's superlative "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet."

Hire four top-notch genre writers, and let 'em tackle Serling's winning formula.

as Don Knotts. He made the show.

The correct script could be so timely.


Tikki

..i heard.

:-(

OMG!

1997. Even with the lovely Janine Turner on board as June Cleaver it was pretty bad.

:scared:

Every time someone tries, all they do is fuck it up. There are just some things that should be left alone.

I'd just like to see them try....

With the original scripts.

Would make a great film

It was called Stalag 17 (1953).;-) But you're right the spoof on TV was very good.

and the one where they are looking for "information".

sometimes they do a good job. The recent remake of Get Smart wasn't bad. The two Brady Bunch movies are absolute classics. The Fugitive and Maverick in the early 90s were both good. Even back in the 80s you had The Untouchables and The Naked Gun.

Remakes and adaptations have been a part of film-making from the earliest days of Hollywood. Hell, the very first Hollywood feature film, The Squaw Man, which was filmed in 1914, was remade in 1918 and then again in 1931. So remakes are nothing new--they just give people a reason to continue the age-old complaint that Hollywood has "run out of ideas." It's also odd how people take remakes (of both films and TV shows) so personally, as if, say, the new version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is somehow a personal assault on their childhood memories of watching Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka.

Like movies adapted from other sources (books, plays, history, etc.), movies based on TV shows can be good or bad, depending on how they're handled.

Hey kids, what time is it?

might be interesting.

Emergency

I've heard rumors about being made as live action. I'm waiting. If for nothing else, the killer theme music.