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