Bathia_Mapes: "The Ropers" ("Three's Company" spinoff)

The Ropers was excellent! Norman Fell & Audra Lindlay? C'mon!

"Goober says 'hey'."
"'Hey' to Goober."

FirstNationalBastard: Lorelle: Lipspinach: Bathia_Mapes: "The Ropers" ("Three's Company" spinoff)

The Ropers was excellent! Norman Fell & Audra Lindlay? C'mon!

And the nearly-bald dude whose nerves Mr. Roper kept getting on...

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/always money in the Banana Stand.

Stellar casting!

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Three's a Crowd wasn't so much a spin-off as a remake of Robin's Nest.



Three's Company of course, was a re-make of "Man about the House"



They even hung out at the Regal Beagle Pub

Nick was a "retro-hippie"? Try "burnout".

Barfmaker: What about Archie's Place. And didn't Rhoda spin off from Mary Tyler Moore? I think both of those did okay for a while, no?

Were there others that came from MTM? Going kinda far back for what's left of my memory.

Cloris Leachman had her own show for a bit.

I remember when they gave Steve Urkel his own sitcom. It was called "Family Matters".

What? No love for Count Duckula?! For shame Fark, for shame...

HempHead: Barfmaker: What about Archie's Place. And didn't Rhoda spin off from Mary Tyler Moore? I think both of those did okay for a while, no?

Were there others that came from MTM? Going kinda far back for what's left of my memory.

Cloris Leachman had her own show for a bit.


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I believe "Maude" and "The Jeffersons" spun from "All in the Family" also.

HempHead: Barfmaker: What about Archie's Place. And didn't Rhoda spin off from Mary Tyler Moore? I think both of those did okay for a while, no?

Were there others that came from MTM? Going kinda far back for what's left of my memory.

Cloris Leachman had her own show for a bit.


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"Lou Grant" was pretty good.

Barfmaker: What about Archie's Place. And didn't Rhoda spin off from Mary Tyler Moore? I think both of those did okay for a while, no?

Were there others that came from MTM? Going kinda far back for what's left of my memory.

And Momma's Place came out of Carol Burnett didn't it? Or something...cripes I'm old.

Rhoda came from Mary Tyler Moore. Archie's Place was a continuation of All in the Family, after Jean Stapleton left the show. The Jeffersons was also a spinoff from All in the Family. They had been Archie Bunker's neighbor. But all of these shows were on for a few years. The article is about spinoffs that didn't make it past the pilot episode, like Amazon HIgh (Xena spinoff) and The Greatest American Heroine.

gravy chugging cretin.: I believe "Maude" and "The Jeffersons" spun from "All in the Family" also.

Yup. And "Maude" in turn spun off "Good Times".

"All in the Family" is the only show I can think of where the spin-offs had spin-offs.

All in the Family Spin-offs

There were a number of spin-offs considered from The Rockford Files, the one closest to being actually made was with Angel (Stuart Margolin) and Gandolph Fitch (Isaac Hayes), but it never got past preproduction on the pilot. There was a second one that would have featured Gandy and Marcus "Gabby" Hayes (Louis Gossett, Jr.), which never aired as its own show, but was a series epsode.

The Rockford Files did have a short-lived spinoff with Richie Brockelman: Private Eye, with Dennis Dugan.

I remember hearing on the radio once (I think it was Bob & Tom) about somebody releasing a special cd with nothing but the answering machine messages. Probably a gag, but I would have bought it.


"This is Jim Rockford. At the tone, leave your name and message. I'll get back to you."

""It's Norma at the market. It bounced. You want me to tear it up, send it back, or put it with the others?""

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None of them sound worse than Flo, which actually made it to air. Or Two and A Half Men, whose current season is a spinoff in all but name, for syndication purposes.

George 'Goober' Lindsey was originally wanted by Gene Roddenberry for the role of Captain Kirk but it never happened.

/True story bro

How about the little known spin off of Cheers? The Tortellis?

LonMead: There were a number of spin-offs considered from The Rockford Files, the one closest to being actually made was with Angel (Stuart Margolin) and Gandolph Fitch (Isaac Hayes), but it never got past preproduction on the pilot. There was a second one that would have featured Gandy and Marcus "Gabby" Hayes (Louis Gossett, Jr.), which never aired as its own show, but was a series epsode.

Wasn't there also plans to spin off Tom Selleck's character into his own show, which may or may not have led to Magnum, PI.?

FirstNationalBastard: Dwight_Yeast: LonMead: There were a number of spin-offs considered from The Rockford Files, the one closest to being actually made was with Angel (Stuart Margolin) and Gandolph Fitch (Isaac Hayes), but it never got past preproduction on the pilot. There was a second one that would have featured Gandy and Marcus "Gabby" Hayes (Louis Gossett, Jr.), which never aired as its own show, but was a series epsode.

Wasn't there also plans to spin off Tom Selleck's character into his own show, which may or may not have led to Magnum, PI.?

Speaking of Magnum, it wouldn't have been a spin-off, but Magnum and Quantum Leap creator Don Bellisario wanted Sam to leap into Magnum at some point, but it never came to be.

...maybe if there had been a 6th season, and Dr. Sam Becket had returned home....

The reasoning I heard for not doing the episode was that an episode of Magnum had been shown on a TV in Quantum Leap. So it was already established as a fictional universe within Quantum Leap. Still would have been awesome, though.

Married with Children begat Top of the Heap, which begat Vinnie and Bobby

Along parallel lines, I recently realized how many shows on at the moment have actors from Lost on them.

"The Sopranos" was a spin-off of "All In The Family"

Happy Days begat Lavern and Shirley, Mork and Mindy, Joanie Loves Chachi, and probably a few I forgot.

That's why Bob Boyette owns the entire terrace floor of the Sherry Netherland.

You wanna make cash showbiz kids? Stick to television.

Goober > Gomer

I'm still pissed The Wire spin-off "Omar: The Beginning" was never picked up

AliceBToklasLives: I'm still pissed The Wire spin-off "Omar: The Beginning" was never picked up

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Ah, but we have "Chalky" White instead.

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Three's a Crowd wasn't so much a spin-off as a remake of Robin's Nest.
Three's Company of course, was a re-make of "Man about the House"
They even hung out at the Regal Beagle Pub
Man About The House spun off into Robin's Nest, and Three's Company spun-off into Three's A Crowd.
Although, I don't know if I should call 'em spin-offs, or continuations.

Likewise, The Ropers was the American remake of

which was a spin-off of Man About The House (George & Mildred Roper were the London trio's landlords, just as Stan & Helen Roper were the Santa Monica trio's landlords.).