"BIG SCREEN TO SMALL SCREEN: CLASSIC CINEMA'S TV REMAKES." (052)
EPISODE 52 - "BIG SCREEN TO SMALL SCREEN: CLASSIC CINEMA'S TV REMAKES." (052) - 09/09/2024
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Sometimes, a classic film is primed for being turned into a successful television series — think “M*A*S*H*,” “Alice,” “In The Heat of the Night,” or “Peyton Place.” But this isn’t always the case. There have been many classic films turned into TV shows with less-than-stellar results. Does anyone remember the “Casablanca" TV show on ABC with Starsky & Hutch star DAVID SOUL filling in for HUMPHREY BOGART? Don’t worry, nobody else does either! This week, we take a look at a few of the TV series that were based on classic movies that didn’t quite hit the mark.
SHOW NOTES:
Sources:
Television Series of the 1950s (2016), by Vincent Terrace;
Encyclopedia of TV Shoes: 1925 - 2010 (2011), by Vincent Terrace;
The Complete Directory To Prime Time Network TV Shows (1988), by Time Brooks and Earle F. Marsh;
TCM.com;
IMDBPro.com;
Wikipedia.com;
Movies Mentioned:
Operation Petticoat (1959), starring Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Dina Merrill, and Arthur O’Connell;
Halloween (1978), starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence;
Topper (1937), starring Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, and Billie Burke;
How To Marry A Millionaire (1953), starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell;
The Third Man (1949), starring Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, and Alida Valli;
My Sister Eileen (1942), starring Rosalind Russell and Janet Blair;
My Sister Eileen (1955), starring Janet Leigh, Betty Garrett, and Jack Lemmon;
Please Don’t Eat The Daisies (1960), starring Doris Day and David Niven;
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison;
Casablanca (1942), staring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Peter Lorre, and Sydney Greenstreet;
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