Spinoffs That Lasted Longer Than Original?
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Spin-offs That Lasted Longer Than The Original?
While watching some of this weekend's "Benson" marathon on TV Land, I realized the show ran almost twice as long as "Soap." Have any other spin-offs been more successful than the original?
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Frasier lasted about the same as Cheers, I think.
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Family Matters outlasted Perfect Strangers.
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition has lasted longer and been far more popular than the original Extreme Makeover.
Saved By The Bell: The New Class lasted longer than than Saved By The Bell, which lasted longer than Good Morning, Miss Bliss.
What's Happening Now beat What's Happening by one episode (66 to 65)
Happy Days lasted longer than Love, American Style, but that might not really count since LAS wasn't really a series.
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition has lasted longer and been far more popular than the original Extreme Makeover.
Saved By The Bell: The New Class lasted longer than than Saved By The Bell, which lasted longer than Good Morning, Miss Bliss.
What's Happening Now beat What's Happening by one episode (66 to 65)
Happy Days lasted longer than Love, American Style, but that might not really count since LAS wasn't really a series.
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The 3 Naked Gun movies are longer in length than the total for the 6 Police Squad episodes...
They probably made more, too...
They probably made more, too...
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Originally Posted by GuessWho
Taking characters from one show and giving them their own show
j/k.
For the record I was making a joke in the post you responded to. I was paying homage to the Simpsons episode where Ralph Wiggum wins first prize for best diarama by simply displaying a set of Star Wars action figures in their original unopened packaging and then he famously asks, "What's a diarama?"
Anyways, Barnaby Jones wasn't a spinoff of The Mod Squad. In fact you'd have to go a long way to find two more different "cop" shows where one started the year that another was cancelled.
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Originally Posted by Holly Martins
Uh, what's sarcasm and btw throw in the definition of irony too.
j/k.
For the record I was making a joke in the post you responded to. I was paying homage to the Simpsons episode where Ralph Wiggum wins first prize for best diarama by simply displaying a set of Star Wars action figures in their original unopened packaging and then he famously asks, "What's a diarama?"
Anyways, Barnaby Jones wasn't a spinoff of The Mod Squad. In fact you'd have to go a long way to find two more different "cop" shows where one started the year that another was cancelled.
j/k.
For the record I was making a joke in the post you responded to. I was paying homage to the Simpsons episode where Ralph Wiggum wins first prize for best diarama by simply displaying a set of Star Wars action figures in their original unopened packaging and then he famously asks, "What's a diarama?"
Anyways, Barnaby Jones wasn't a spinoff of The Mod Squad. In fact you'd have to go a long way to find two more different "cop" shows where one started the year that another was cancelled.
From imdb: William Conrad appeared on many early episodes of Barnaby Jones as Frank Cannon. Barnaby and Betty had originally appeared on "Cannon" (1971) after Barnaby's son Hal, who was a good friend of Frank's, was murdered. Cannon helped Barnaby eventually track down his son's killers.
And by the way, if you are going to be making a joke that requires using someone's voice (kinda hard on a message board) or at least a picture that wasn't included, don't be surprised if people don't understand you're joking, especially if you add words that weren't in the original quote that you were referring to.
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Originally Posted by Holly Martins
I was paying homage to the Simpsons episode where...
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Originally Posted by GuessWho
Having not watched an episode since the first season, that one went right over my head
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Happy Days was a spinoff of Love, American Style, and lasted a few years longer.
Knots Landing lasted a season more than Dallas,
So did The Facts of Life (from Different Strokes)
And also Kung Fu: The Legend Continues ran longer than Kung Fu.
Knots Landing lasted a season more than Dallas,
So did The Facts of Life (from Different Strokes)
And also Kung Fu: The Legend Continues ran longer than Kung Fu.
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Technically does a spin-off have to last longer to be considered more succesful? Cause look at 'Angel,' many people consider that to be more superior a show than "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
And in 23 posts I am shocked that nobody has yet to mention ANY of the Star Trek spin-offs...
And in 23 posts I am shocked that nobody has yet to mention ANY of the Star Trek spin-offs...
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I was paying homage to the Simpsons episode where...