Good catch!

I thought you meant to call John Jim because you were talking about Josh Mostel playing Bluto's brother and that Jim Belushi must not have been available at the time. Or did you make the "mistake" somewhere else in the video?

Also, the Fast Times movie came out in 1983, not 1986. I think the series was in 1986.

As you said ,this is not a new phenomenon. When I was a kid (born 1954) I was aware of shows based on "The Thrd Man", "The Thin Man", "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ", "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir ", "Please Don't Eat the Daisies ", "The Whackiest Ship in the Army" and doubtless hundreds of other one season wonders I can't remember. Of the few successes, there was "Peyton Place " done as a Prime Time soap, airing several nights a week. It introduced the world to Mia Farrow and Ryan O' Neal. Speaking of Mr. O'Neal he and his daughter Tatum starred in "Paper Moon". Came time for the inevitable doomed series neither was available. So a young Jody Foster played the Tatum role. (Which reminds me of the odd series version of cult movie "Baghdad Cafe". The film featured C.C.H. Pounder and German actress Marianne Sagebrecht. The series starred Whoopi Goldberg and Jean Stapleton. Probably the only time the TV actors were more famous than the film counterparts!) I was fascinated to learn some of these were successful. You didn't mention "Clueless "which lasted several seasons with a Canadian clone of Alicia Silverstone and the original Dionne. Thanks for an enjoyable and educational video.

Let’s face it: if John Belushi hadn’t died, he would’ve ended up a sitcom dad, too.

Exactly

Probably another neutered for TV thing.

He'd been so relentlessly associated with his TV martian role for so long that I'm not at all surprised that he wanted so much to be associated with a different character. He'd already proven many times over how versatile & talented he was, but the public just wanted to remember him for certain roles.

Not unusual. If you think about it the characters in the TV "M.A.S.H." were for the most part different from their Altman counterparts.

He had to give up a recurring role as Erin Gray‘s uncle on *Silver Spoons* to do to this show when it was ultimately canceled, and when *Silver Spoons* came back for what turned out to be it’s last season, it was in syndication, so they couldn’t afford him anymore, apparently.

Thank you for sharing. I had high hopes for the series, and wish it had continued. Still today, Starman the film makes me feel good.

same

Me too! I wish they had continued with the series and had a better ending to it.

I remember when Starman premiere I was very sick my Mom and other family members wanted me to go to the hospital I didn't want to until I see the shows premiering on ABC that night I love Starman Robert Hayes one of my favorite actors did a great job.

To be honest, Planet of the Apes TV show was a lot of fun. We had the toy figures, too. It is here because it only got 14 episodes in one season (short lived for the US).

I had stayed up late with my Dad to watch all the movies, as they came on tv. I became obsessed with Planet of the Apes. I had most of the toys, and all the trading cards, which were based on the tv series, but I hadn't seen the tv series at that point. This made the trading cards confusing for me. I recall wondering why Cornelius was called Galen, and why Ursus was called Urko. @@GENXPERIENCE

NO, NO, Noooooooooooooooooooo. That is one of my favorite films..Had NO IDEA they bastardized it with a TV show. Thanks. I am still going to look it up.

LOL

Foul Play one of my favorite comedy I also like Foul Play TV series with one of my favorite actors Barry Bostwick and one of my favorite the beautiful late great actress Deborah Raffin never missed an episode even it was short lived.

​@@GENXPERIENCEI'm like you, I had no idea they made a TV series out of Foul Play. I'm unsure about checking it out. Will I weep?

That was how Paramount made up to him for replacing him with John Travolta in *Grease:* by letting him replace Chevy Chase. But Deborah Raffin is no substitute for Goldie Hawn. Was Ruth Buzzi busy?

I appreciate it. Trying to be relaxed documentarian with fun. Of course, I loved POA TV show, too.

I thoroughly enjoyed that movie, BUT had no idea it went to TV. Thanks for letting me know...and for the compliment.

I like both the film and the TV series.

I agree as YIJ and Buffy were done quite well, and liked. I think as the 90s went along there were some better ones for sure. I liked POA too, but it just got cancelled with one season, sadly. I didn't mention Nightmare because with 2 full seasons, it wasn't a bad anthology series, I liked it.

​@@GENXPERIENCE I like those series too but some episodes of Freddy's Nightmares was terrible.

Buffy is a prime example of a TV series that outshined its movie original. Perhaps also Stargate SG1 and all its spinoffs.

Agree on the Indiana Jones but maybe on Highlander I ❤ed those movies so much even 4 on 2nd no the show was better than 4. But at least they brought everyone together? in a way 😊

I saw that in my research....guess it just isn't going to work, lol.

John Candy made that movie work, so any attempt to do it without him was doomed to failure.

This! And they actually paid respect to the source material instead of trying to declare it as "superior".

YOu are correct. By by the end of the 2nd season, she was out. That may have been why so many changes. But still lasted 5 years.

It had to go to first-run syndication to do it, and by that time, there was a completely new cast, and it switched from being shot on film to being shot on tape. It wasn’t terrible, but it was never going to match the original film. It’s interesting as sort of a female-centric prototype of *The Office.* I’m sad Fox basically buried it after it went off the air and Disney has not changed that. One of the original movie cast members had already committed to another show: Marian Mercer was on *It’s a Living,* which already was a show about working women before this and even about a month before the movie premiered.

And I loved her too.

it is

Tubi shows alot if my favorite series/ shows/sitcoms of the past I watched like Logan's Run.

Terrible, huh?

I wasn’t too crazy about the original movies, to tell you the truth.

It was a nice idea, and knowing John was on Delta House, he probably did his best with TV. But Hughes was so successful, AND ICONIC, with his stories in film. Thank you for filling me in.

I remember John Hughes was one of the writers for National Lampoon Magazine. and did Delta House from a magazine I read or from the documentary I like that sitcom Delta House and the other ones. I'm glad Jaws 3 wasn't a comedy that sounds very disturbing.

And I saw Gung HO in theaters, YIKES. I agree, why is that a TV show?

Yeah that movie came and went it was so pointless cause that movie was a low point for Michael Keaton

I remember watching the pilot of Gung-Ho while I was very sick I like it.

They also did a TV version of the movie *Nothing in Common* with Tom Hanks and Jackie Gleason. Who wanted that?

Because ABC canceled Lucille Ball’s show after 8 weeks and passed on a potential *Webster* spinoff called *Almost Home* with Mac Davis and Norman Fell. Bob Iger was at ABC at the time in a pretty high position, but the actual programmer was a guy named Brandon Stoddard. He was basically the anti-Tartikoff.

They did not at the time. They did not get it until they merged with Universal in the 2000s.

I didn't hate it, for sure. But I had similar "Hollywood' Confusion, lol. Plus they had the reusable space sphere too. I think it could have gotten better if they tried harder in a second season.

Uh huh

YOu got that right.

Also, Planet of the Hutch was actually set 500 years before Taylor's landing - which was why the humans could still talk. Zaeus was the movie version's ancestor.

Although I called the POA humans Starsky & Hutch, I also was thrilled to catch ALL of those named on TVs. Sadly they only made the cut due to them getting canned, but they were the most fun.

@@GENXPERIENCE I know, but I enjoyed making the puns, especially since the Mego figures were the same for both shows. 😆

I have noticed that shows I loved seemed to go on much longer than 1 season. Sad, but there must be something to that.

Starman could have gone on longer, for sure.

@@GENXPERIENCE I agree 100%

Same, those were exactly the two I liked. I know I watched the Planet of the Apes show probably in reruns (was it on during the day?) but I was so young, I really have no memory of it besides that I liked it and loved Roddy McDowell the best. But Logan's Run had a big impact on making me a scifi fan.

lol. Amazing. I love that you caught in 85, but yeah, I'd have to see the DVDs to job my memory.

@@GENXPERIENCE I was maybe four or five at the time. If I remember correctly syndicated version was- as pretty common at the time- part of a repackage show. Each 25 minute episode was chopped up so you would get about 5 minutes a day plus a recap. I don't know if it was a Hanna Barbera or Mulberry Street repackaging. Though I do remember a bunch of kids would introduce segment usually from the most early 80s set imaginable, but sometimes from various locations, usually a science center, or a zoo, or something.

It’s what the TV version of the OG should’ve been. Shame about the third season, though. They dumped it into reruns on USA Network almost as quickly as it was over.

I don't blame you, I try them all...or most of them. I think I did. Did not see Steel, but I did like POA.

Sony is releasing *Steel Magnolias* on UHD and they are actually including that pilot with it!

Probably right about thinking of the show date. Thank you, I missed that date after all the times I review it. DOH!

Still a guilty pleasure of mine.

Surprisingly had some good production value, too.

I remember that having so many, it got convoluted.

They did a *Problem Child* cartoon without him.

Yup, aware...just said the TV show date by mistake. Oh well.

That's awesome. Thank you for watching and sharing that, too.

When you got something good...why not share, right?

1967-Gotta love being a Gen X'er.@@GENXPERIENCE

That is actually a success story, right! It had incredible source material, came to TV and people LOVED it. One that worked. THank you

I promise I did not have any inside knowledge, NO. Cool

@@GENXPERIENCE I never thought you did. I actually thought they took it from your post or it could just be coincidence.

It is not an extensive list for sure, but I remember Harry & The Henderson's show.

So many.

I remember quark by image only....and now I am just laughing at the premise, Sanitation? LOL

LOL, I'll go with that.

I thought that she was a singer, singing "The Rose" and "Wind Beneath My Wings".

@dhenderson1810 Comparing her to Bette Midler is like comparing a turd to Devil's food cake. Ech...

@@dhenderson1810😅😅😅You know who THAT was for real!!!!

@@michaelmitchell5098 Yeah, Bette Midler, who this women looks like.

I guess I did my job, lol. Sorry

I know, but I saw that he went by Gary (and it is documented) for people like me who couldn't find how to say it, and did not want to butcher it.

Hmmm, I think Logan's Run and Bionic Woman came out same year, so hard to tell.

@@GENXPERIENCE oh I meant the west world influence on the Fembots. Wasn’t Wedt World many years before?

FOX rocked that first year. Thanks for watching. Starman could have been great.

It did not have the same heart as the movie.

Maybe it would have been more successful on another network. ABC seems to be responsible for watering it down. Maybe CBS would have been a better choice for it since they tried to bring back *The Twilight Zone* and let *Beauty and the Beast* (the Vincent and Catherine version) run three seasons.

Werewolf was such fun.

No kidding about Caddyshack. I'm thinking of doing an entire show on MOVIE and TV Shows that SHOULD BE MADE TODAY. And i am including this classic crap that was funny.

There were shows inspired by Saturday Night Fever that failed spectacularly in the late 1970's.

Makin’ it! Whoo hoo hoo

If they had done it right after the movie came out, they still would not have been able to get to Ted Knight as he already committed to *Too Close For Comfort.* All the SNL contingent left it and TV behind by that point. It would have been disastrous. The foul language would have been removed, and the race and class politics would have been either diluted or turned into a bad rip-off of a Norman Lear show. On the other hand, *Caddyshack II.*

Right! Didn't even know about it until after.

You are correct. I had forgotten until you said it, and it was vaguely familiar. IT was 1990 with Mickey Rooney, and now, I remember. Thank you

And I felt like it could have been good.

Every network tried to capitalize on the success of *Animal House.* Trouble is, I didn’t think the original was as good as the hype led people to believe. Without John Belushi, and with whoever replaced him being at the mercy of network censors, and with cable not being competitive with network TV yet like it be became by the end of the century, these shows were all doomed. If they tried again today, it would be canceled for offending somebody.

There was some shapely superheroes for sure. I did enjoy X Men cartoons. And yeah, love that about B&T cartoon.

I like X-Men animated series and Bill & Ted cartoon was ok but it wasn't like Teen Wolf cartoon and Back To The Future cartoon.

They were also able to get *What’s Happening!!,* which would be a TV-PG at most by today’s standards, out of the R-rated *Cooley High.* Ratings killed TV and *Family Guy* is its ghost.

@@Attmay I considered mentioning What’s Happening, but balked for 2 reasons. 1) while its own credits do cite Cooley High, it veered so far from the source movie that I wasn’t sure it could be rightly called a sitcom version. To me Happy Days was closer to being a sitcom spinoff of American Graffiti. And 2) I wasn’t sure whether WH was considered a success. It was before my time but the reruns 😆 were in regular rotation. It didn’t last long on prime time, and the last season or so shifted the focus away from Ray and friends and toward Little Earl.

OMG, you are right. did not recognize the name (or her face). Thanks for that.

Maybe it was a tough time to get right...but you are correct.

@@GENXPERIENCE I'm always reminded of Dragnet, especially when they featured made-for-TV hippies and such. Cheers....

They were at the mercy of advertisers. If they showed what the 60s were really like, they would be giving free advertising time to a stealth competitor they have been afraid of for decades.

I Have heard of the other Uncle Buck TV show...and yeah, another fail, lol.

How long before they remake *The Odd Couple* in Spanish?

I thought about it. Actually there are about a dozen more. So other things to discover. There were even other winners (I mention a few in the show).

@@GENXPERIENCE Bad news bears did manage to survive a season but get a bit retooled in the second season that sort of got the show cancelled. speaking of movies to tv shows. I find it funny is both bell and ted got both a live action and animated series. same with Robocop and Police Acadamy.

I would agree it wasn't bad. It could have even been better...they should have let it go to Season 2

You do. Wow, I didn't know anyone full episodes anywhere. No, I did get it from another site, not yours...but now I know where to watch an episode or two.

It wasn't horrible. It was only 1 season. It could have been better, but another season would have helped.

@@GENXPERIENCE I liked Michael Cavanaugh as George Fox. I agree it needed at least one more season.

A TV show? OMG, you are kidding.

100%, nudity was common...for MOVIES, lol.

Why do you think I used the Title of the Show? As a mash up, YOU CAN"T BRING THESE MOVIES TO TV (that was the whole joke). Oh boy

I said OVERLAP, geez

It wasn't bad, too bad they cut it short. I loved the movie.

Because Katey Sagal wants to do live-action TV and music on the side.

Oh my. I must have missed that one.

@@GENXPERIENCE u didn't miss much, it was horrible

Are you even paying attention?

@@GENXPERIENCE yes. the show was called FERRIS BUELLER not PARKER LEWIS. One aired on Fox, the other didn’t. one lasted three seasons, the other flopped hard and was quickly cancelled. one aired for years on USA, the other hasn’t aired since the original airing. you clearly slapped it together and thought that nobody would notice or botched it with bad information. but given uow badly you missed multiple other shows it’s your laziness

It sounds like it had the talent, just a lot of drama with changes to actors and lawsuits. Too much change for the little show, I guess.

@@GENXPERIENCE True, I kinda remember that..I remember hearing about it in little biographies..back then, thanks for the reply :) 👋

I don't take advice from un-American traitors, thanks.

It might just be outside of the GEN Xperience, but X men are awesome enough to include.

No

Just because you personally didn't like it, doesn't negate the millions who do like it. It can legit be called beloved even though not every single person on the planet over over 8 billion felt that way.

Fair enough@@grannyweatherwax8005

Agreed