I thought BB was later connected to B:TAS, not the other way around.
Successful spinoffs?
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IIRC, isn't The Colbert Report a spin-off of The Daily Show with John Stewart?
In its odd way, there have been a couple of major talk show spin-offs. Dr. Phil was a major force on Oprah Winfrey before he got his own series. And now Steve Wilkos, the big, bald security guard from Jerry Springer, has his own series. (The difference is that Wilkos does his show without a trace of irony. Springer seems to have completely given up and always looks bored on his own show, which continues to dig up new samples of human filth willing to flaunt their sordid personal lives on national TV. On the other hand, Wilkos gets through his show by yelling at all of his guests and guilt tripping them about their trashy behavior. It's kinda like if Dr. Phil didn't have any psychiatric training.)
In its odd way, there have been a couple of major talk show spin-offs. Dr. Phil was a major force on Oprah Winfrey before he got his own series. And now Steve Wilkos, the big, bald security guard from Jerry Springer, has his own series. (The difference is that Wilkos does his show without a trace of irony. Springer seems to have completely given up and always looks bored on his own show, which continues to dig up new samples of human filth willing to flaunt their sordid personal lives on national TV. On the other hand, Wilkos gets through his show by yelling at all of his guests and guilt tripping them about their trashy behavior. It's kinda like if Dr. Phil didn't have any psychiatric training.)
I never heard that before. I figured that since Kevin Conroy voiced Batman in both shows and Bruce Timm created both shows they were automatically connected from day one and I never gave it a second thought.
The Andy Griffith Show actually wasn't a spin-off. It was an intended pilot episode of Make Room for Daddy (or The Danny Thomas Show). None of the Williams characters appeared in Griffith's show.
However, Mayberry RFD kept most of the supporting characters from Griffith's show and stayed in Mayberry.
--Ted
However, Mayberry RFD kept most of the supporting characters from Griffith's show and stayed in Mayberry.
--Ted
To one of the above posts: Yes, The Colbert Report is technically a spinoff of The Daily Show, because Colbert's character came directly from the show. He has just fine tuned it beyond what we saw for years on The Daily Show.
Actually, after doing some research, none of the Batman Beyond characters ever appeared on Batman: The Animated Series. By the time BB was on the air, B:TAS was over and Justice League had started. After BB ended its solo run, which ironically included its own failed spinoff show 'The Zeta Project'. While BB was on the air, it had a crossover episode with Static Shock, another superhero cartoon from the WB.
Future Batman (Terry McGinnis) appeared in a two-part JLA episode, and then later in an episode ('Epilogue'; now considered to be the 'true' finale for Batman Beyond). In that episode, which takes place 15 years after the last BB episode in the timeline, Terry discovers during a medical procedure that he is actually the son of Bruce Wayne. Initially Terry believes that Bruce was responsible for this, but later finds out that the character Amanda Waller secretly attempted to create another Batman by giving Terry the same genes as Bruce Wayne, and then attempted (and failed) to have Terry's parents killed to create what she believed were the exact circumstances that created Batman. She inadvertently succeeded when Terry's father was murdered by Derek Powers in the BB pilot, which led to him becoming a new Batman.
This is a bit convoluted, and I haven't seen the episode myself, but it's not all that shocking to be honest. Considering the technology shown in BB, it's all possible.
Here is the quote from Wikipedia about this:
didn't the Jetsons spin off from Flintstones?
I've rented both Adam-12 and Emergency. In the first episode of Emergency when paramedics were forbidding by law from performing more the basic first aid, LAPD officers Reed and Malloy made a cameo appearance. Even though it broke the normal Jack Webb real world realism since the paramedics were LA County and not City Firefighters so either the cops or the paramedics were outside of their jurisdiction when they met. Afterwards when a cop was needed on Emergency it was always a LASD Deputy who normally wore a helmet in that era.
Bloody hell, I'd totally forgot about Naked Video until I read this.There's always that spinoff from the Tracey Ullman Show... "The Simpsons".
Heck, you could also include "Rab C Nesbitt" (from "Naked Video") too.
Interestingly, both sitcoms would go on to become more famous than their parent sketch show roots.
There was also Beverly Hillbillies / Petticoat Junction / Green Acres.
And Make Room for Daddy / Make Room for Granddaddy - this led to a spinoff for the lead, which led to the spin-off which became the Andy Griffith show and its various spinoffs
And Perfect Strangers / Family Matters (the elevator lady from PS got her own show as the mom on FM)
All in the Family / Archie Bunker's Place (the others were already mentioned) it also had Gloria, but I wouldn't really call that successful
Beverly Hills 90210 / Melrose Place / Models Inc
Has Carol Burnett Show / Mama's Family been mentioned?
Are You Being Served? / Are You Being Served? Again!
Dallas / Knots Landing (though KL was created first)
Diffrent Strokes / Facts of Life
I remember Designing Women having a spinoff years later focusing on Suzanne, but can't remember much about it.
Extreme Makeover / Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (the spinoff is way more of a success than the original)
Golden Girls / Empty Nest / Nurses / Golden Palace
Good Morning Miss Bliss and the various Saved by the Bell shows, with the "original" SBTB show being the most popular, and technically That's So Raven! is a spinoff, and the one with the kid brother going to live in the white house is another spinoff
He-Man / She-Ra
Besides the already-mentioned Xena, Young Hercules also spun off from Hercules
Degrassi or whatever it was called has had about a million spin-offs
S-Club / S-Club 7 / S-Club 8, etc.
Oh and about a billion Power Rangers spinoffs
SNL / 30 Rock
Six Million Dollar Dude / Bionic Woman
Can't remember the name, but I think Avery Brooks had his own "Hawk" spinoff of whatever show that character came from
X-Files / Millennium (and I think there was another one with some of the recurring guys)
Also, seems like MTV and VH1 do a ton of spin-offs of their "realty" shows ... Surreal Life / My Fair Brady, the real world / road rules challenge shows, that guy with the clock for a necklace / I love new york, and on and on.
I'm sure there's lots more, but that's what I can remember off the top of my head.
Edited to add in this link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_spin-offs ... Holy hell, there's a lot of spin-offs out there!
And Make Room for Daddy / Make Room for Granddaddy - this led to a spinoff for the lead, which led to the spin-off which became the Andy Griffith show and its various spinoffs
And Perfect Strangers / Family Matters (the elevator lady from PS got her own show as the mom on FM)
All in the Family / Archie Bunker's Place (the others were already mentioned) it also had Gloria, but I wouldn't really call that successful
Beverly Hills 90210 / Melrose Place / Models Inc
Has Carol Burnett Show / Mama's Family been mentioned?
Are You Being Served? / Are You Being Served? Again!
Dallas / Knots Landing (though KL was created first)
Diffrent Strokes / Facts of Life
I remember Designing Women having a spinoff years later focusing on Suzanne, but can't remember much about it.
Extreme Makeover / Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (the spinoff is way more of a success than the original)
Golden Girls / Empty Nest / Nurses / Golden Palace
Good Morning Miss Bliss and the various Saved by the Bell shows, with the "original" SBTB show being the most popular, and technically That's So Raven! is a spinoff, and the one with the kid brother going to live in the white house is another spinoff
He-Man / She-Ra
Besides the already-mentioned Xena, Young Hercules also spun off from Hercules
Degrassi or whatever it was called has had about a million spin-offs
S-Club / S-Club 7 / S-Club 8, etc.
Oh and about a billion Power Rangers spinoffs
SNL / 30 Rock
Six Million Dollar Dude / Bionic Woman
Can't remember the name, but I think Avery Brooks had his own "Hawk" spinoff of whatever show that character came from
X-Files / Millennium (and I think there was another one with some of the recurring guys)
Also, seems like MTV and VH1 do a ton of spin-offs of their "realty" shows ... Surreal Life / My Fair Brady, the real world / road rules challenge shows, that guy with the clock for a necklace / I love new york, and on and on.
I'm sure there's lots more, but that's what I can remember off the top of my head.
Edited to add in this link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_spin-offs ... Holy hell, there's a lot of spin-offs out there!
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What"s the fun of looking on wiki? The net has become too link happy nobody ever talks anymore
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Checking IMDB
A Man Called Hawk was born from Spenser For Hire. I'm not sure if it can be called successful, while the character returned for the followup Spensor TV movies the show didn't survive to finish one season.
Okay, All in the Family was well titled, because it has a family tree. It is a grandparent!
All in the Family
|
Maude -------The Jeffersons ---- Gloria ----Archie Bunker's Place---704 Hauser
| |
Good Times Checking In
Gloria was Gloria divorcing Mike and raising Joey in the desert while working as a vet assistant for the Penguin, if I remember correctly.
Archie Bunker's Place was a continuation of AitF after Gloria left and Edith died.
704 Hauser was a bad show about a family with no affiliation with anyone from AitF or it's spinoffs, but they lived in Archie & Edith's old house.
Checking In was about the Jefferson's maid running her own hotel. It sucked.
Since Goober Pyle from the Dukes of Hazzard was Gomer Pyle's cousin, does that makes the Dukes of Hazzard a spinoff?
Also to add some trivia... Ed Asner played Lou Grant on the comedy The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and then later on his own self titled drama series. He won an emmy for both shows, making him the only person to win an emmy for playing the same character in a drama and a comedy.
One important one that was missed... Sesame Street begat the Muppet Show!
Mork & Mindy and Laverne & Shirley from Happy Days was mentioned, Happy Days also spun off Joanie Loves Chachi and Happy Days Again (And an animated Saturday morning cartoon).
The Cosby Show and Different World come to mind...
Dallas spun off Knots Landing... It had Gary Ewing as a star, who is kind of like Cooper Manning.
Degrassi spun-off Degrassi: The Next Generation which has been pretty successful. I think it's in its 8th season now. It's also been successful in the sense that it uses the characters from the old show very well. One of them is a teacher on the show, married to another original character (their daughter is the main character of the new show). In the beginning of the series there was another old character who had taken in one of the students, and he dated a woman that was an original character as well. I think the principal from the original was on the show for a while too. And there are various mentions throughout the show of people and events from the original. Someone who watched the original could easily enjoy the spin-off even though it's advertised as a teen show.
Wait, since Gomer Pyle is in Full Metal Jacket, does that make the movie a spin-off as well?
In the first season it was always LA County deputies, but later they had blue-uniformed officers with generic "POLICE" shoulder patches. Vince had apparently transferred to this new, unspecified agency.
What was the deal with the helmets, a vehicular safety thing? Whenever they turned on the siren, the paramedics put their helmets on. If a call got canceled, they turned the siren off and took the helmets off.
There was also a season four "Emergency" episode that was intended to introduce a spin-off about LA County animal control officers that was called "905 Wild." Mark Harmon was in it, and long time character actor David Huddleston. IIRC veterinarian Huddleston had to talk Dr. Brackett through surgery on a baby goat over the phone.
--Justin
No that was a cultural reference to Gomer of the TV show, of the screw up recruit being called Gomer Pyle. Pilots of the era also called North Vietnam AF pilots Gomer. It was meant to break down the recruit before he was built up. A nickname for all the recruits seemed weird but the novel and movie was like that. When I went through Army basic it was private or "shithead"
Wait, since Gomer Pyle is in Full Metal Jacket, does that make the movie a spin-off as well?
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