Brady Bunch, Flintstones, Honey Mooners, Bewitched, Leave it to Beaver, Miami Vice, Beverly Hillbillies, Dragnet, Car 54 Where Are You, Dukes of Hazard, George of the Jungle, Mr. Magoo, He-Man, Inspector Gadget, Lost in Space, Mchales Navy, Mission Impossible, Mod Squad, Starsky and Hutch, My Favorite Martian, Popeye, Wild West and many others. Almost no tv show makes a good movie.
>>>Almost no tv show makes a good movie.
Broadly speaking you are right but I’d take issue with Dragnet and Popeye. Jack Webb did I believe two feature Dragnet movies. Other then length and higher caliber guest stars like Richard Boone and Dennis Weaver, both films were indistinguishable from the 50s series episodes. If you liked the show you liked the movies.
And Robin Williams’ Popeye was true to the spirit of the original Max Fleischer cartoons. It was a commercial flop but I appreciated the effort to stay true to the material.
Beyond those two you are exactly right.
And one more casting addition to make Gilligan contemporary:
Will Smith as producer Harold Hecuba.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
Do not forget: Stay out of debt; Think twice, and take this
good advice from me, Guard that old solvency.
There’s just one other thing you ought to do.
To thine own self be true.
But in hip hop.
Is this a Billy Joel song?
Very true but I did kind of like the Starsky & Hutch movie.
To me, it's because of the different nature of the two media.
TV shows rely, more or less, on a viewer's awareness of past episodes. It's the build-up and continuity of the ongoing story that makes it work, or not. That medium and story-telling usually doesn't translate well to a movie. Instead, the movie feels like a stretched-out TV episode, or maybe two.
It isn't a complete, self-contained story like a good movies is.
There are exceptions, of course, but that's what most TV-to-movie shows feel like to me.