Question for the Heckler.

[Green Lantern]

Heckler I have a question for you. I kind of wondering about something.
Was Star Trek the Motion Picture one of the first TV shows that was made into a full length movie or was there other tv based movie?


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[Yerdaddy]

Gunsmoke started on the radio, then went to TV, then had it's first movie in 1958(?). I think the same goes for The Lone Ranger. Superman came out a year before Star Trek, ('78/'79 respectively).

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[Green Lantern]

Gunsmoke started on the radio, then went to TV, then had it's first movie in 1958(?). I think the same goes for The Lone Ranger. Superman came out a year before Star Trek, ('78/'79 respectively).


Thanks.... but I don't think the Superman movie was based on the 1950's TV show

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[jafter]

It is funny that back in the day Hollywood would make a movie and then they would have a tv show later.
Please Don't eat the daisies, the Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Hogans Heroes, Alice, and MASH are a few that I remember but now they have to steal British tv shows to make new shows. Hollywood is making movies of tv shows.
Brady Bunch, Mission Impossible, Scooby Doo, Twilight zone.

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[jamesdiggy]

Marty & The Days of Wine and Roses were both TV Dramas(Playhouse 90 I believe) before they were movies. But they weren't weekly series. Oh wait, what about the 1966 Batman movie w/ Adam West and Burt Ward? That was made during the run of the series on TV.

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[The Blowhard]

Great question. I need to think about this one. I remember seeing "Batman" in the theater. I know there were many others..hmmm.
Wait, I also remember seeing "A Man Called Flintstone"! :)

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[Doogie]

Star Trek the Motion picture was a definite response from Paramount Studios against MGM and their huge success with "Star Wars". Lucas had pitched Star Wars to Paramount and Universal. Universal would launch a suit against Lucas and MGM a few years later over "Jawas", which Universal claimed from Jaws...

Star Trek certainly wasnt the first and unfourtunatly it wont be the last...

In my honest opinion, Star Trek 2 should be considered the 'first' of all Star Trek films...Kahn kicks total ass and lead to story lines for other 4

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