Monday, Aug. 23, 1993
Nick At Nite: The Movie
The Fugitive is only the latest of a recent spate of movies that are based on a very specific type of TV show: the ones that baby boomers watched in the '60s as kids and that then became classics of camp popular culture, seen everywhere in reruns. Is the logical conclusion of all this that someone will make a movie of The Beverly Hillbillies? Yes, it is.
TWILIGHT ZONE
Film released: 1983
TV show aired: 1959-65
Updated how: No Rod Serling narration in film
DRAGNET
Film released: 1987
TV show aired: 1952-70
Rerun status: Nick at Nite
THE UNTOUCHABLES
Film released: 1987
TV show aired: 1959-63
Updated how: No Walter Winchell narration in film
BATMAN
Film released: 1989
TV show aired: 1966-68
Updated how: No Robin, no Frank Gorshin in film; no Expressionism in show
ADDAMS FAMILY
Film released: 1991
TV show aired: 1964-66
Updated how: Film's Morticia played by Jack Nicholson's ex-girlfriend
DENNIS THE MENACE
Film released: June '93
TV show aired: 1959-63
Rerun status: Nickelodeon
THE FUGITIVE
Film released: August '93
TV show aired: 1963-67
Rerun status: A&E
THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES
Film release: This fall
TV show aired: 1962-71
Rerun status: TBS
Updated how: Billionaires
THE FLINTSTONES
Film release: Spring '94
TV show aired: 1960-66
Rerun status: Cartoon Net.
MAVERICK
Film release: Summer '94
TV show aired: 1957-62
Updated how: In film, Mel Gibson as young James Garner, James Garner as older James Garner