Spinoffs That Actually Worked- Page 2

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 2/20/10 at 7:25pm

CSI Miami
Law and Order: SVU

[sabrelady]

Posted: 2/20/10 at 8:57pm

Lou Grant was spun off the character from The Mary Tyler Moore show.
Angel was spun off Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

SNL has spun of a lot of the skits into movies but I think only The Blues Brothers and Waynes World were successful.
I think one of the earliest was December Bride spinning off into Pete and Gladys (REALLY OLD!!!)

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 2/20/10 at 9:02pm

Stockardfan.. yup... in a couple episodes... Coach Lubbock was the gym teacher at Mike Seaver's school... and in one episode they fired him and Mike did that protest to save his job and he goes to the coach's home and you meet all the kids... shortly after that episode.. the coach eventually lost his job and was ok with it and then they spun it off to Just the Ten of Us!!!

[singtopher]

Posted: 2/20/10 at 9:08pm

Extreme Makeover: Home edition is infinitely more successful than Extreme Makeover.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 2/20/10 at 9:25pm

Wasn't Lou Grant pretty famous for switching up the style completely and making it a drama?

Also the character Det. Munch on SVU was on Homicide: Life On The Street which is pretty interesting since the only common trait shared between those shows was that they were both on NBC.

Boston Legal took Spader's character, who closed out The Practice, and was far superior as a show.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 2/20/10 at 10:21pm

I do vaguely remember the 10 of us being a spinoff of GP now that u mention it.

[degrassifan]

Posted: 2/20/10 at 11:10pm

The City...if you count reality tv.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 2/20/10 at 11:15pm

Surreal Life-> Flavor of Love-> Flavor of Love: Charm School
_______________Rock of Love__-> Rock of Love: Charm School

[degrassifan]

Posted: 2/20/10 at 11:30pm

Oh, don't forget I Love New York, New York Goes To Work, New York Goes to Hollywood, Real Chance of Love, I Love Money, and whatever show that has The Entertainer on it.

:)

[jasonf]

Posted: 2/20/10 at 11:31pm

The Star Trek series -- Next Generation, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise - did pretty well.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 2/20/10 at 11:35pm

And 'I Wanna Work For Diddy'

I Love The 70s (80s, 90s, new millennium, more new millennium because we can)

[Eris0303]

Posted: 2/21/10 at 4:07am

While Saved By the Bell wasn't actually a spin off (as was mentioned before) it did have two spin offs. Saved By the Bell: The New Class and Saved by the Bell: The College Years. While TCY didn't last a season I believe TNC did last quite some time. Whether show as good or not can be argued but it was on for 7 seasons.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 2/21/10 at 7:54am

^ Yeah, they kept replacing some of the kids every season or so. I think they did graduate in the series finale.

Oh yeah, and Dustin Diamond was the only character from the original, including junior high to appear in every series and special. He was missing from the first season of the New Class series though.

Updated On: 2/21/10 at 07:54 AM

[StockardFan]

Posted: 2/21/10 at 9:23am

He is one crazy mofo. Did you see him on celebrity fit club?

[StageManager2]

Posted: 2/21/10 at 9:27am

^^^
Did you see his sex tape? :-P

[StockardFan]

Posted: 2/21/10 at 9:29am

EWWWWW! NO!!! Was there really a sex tape? Who would have sex with him?

[StageManager2]

Posted: 2/21/10 at 9:34am

Plenty of chicks, apparently. And they were hot, too. I guess former fame (however limited) is an aphrodisiac.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 2/21/10 at 11:39am

Good Times was a successful "sort-of" spin-off of Maude. The show was originally conceptualized as an independent series, but they later decided to feature the leads in Maude. Once Good Times hit the airwaves, the character of James had a different background and there was no mention of Florida or James having ever lived in New York or working for Maude.

[kooky]

Posted: 2/21/10 at 11:42am

MTM .... Rhoda ... it was a fun show.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 2/21/10 at 11:43am

Ugh, I don't care how famous he was, I wouldn't have sex with him!

[Stage Door Sally]

Posted: 2/21/10 at 1:01pm

Two of my fave spinoffs are The Honeymooners from The Jackie Gleason Show, and Fernwood 2-night from Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

[Magdalene]

Posted: 2/21/10 at 6:57pm

All In The Family had the most successful spin offs---plus Good Times spinning off Maude, and Checking In spinning off The Jeffersons.

Didn't Promised Land spin off Touched By An Angel?

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 2/21/10 at 8:23pm

Screw the critics... and the low rates. 'Joey' kicked ass.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 2/21/10 at 8:35pm

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

[Tom1071]

Posted: 2/22/10 at 1:01pm

Knots Landing
Melrose Place
The Jeffersons