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Old 12-06-2008, 06:18 PM
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Blue Lamp > Dixon of Dock Green. Even returning from the grave.
As did Harry Lime in the TV (and radio) series The Third Man.

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The Four Just Men
Gideon's World
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Gideon's World??
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Gideon's World??
An ITC series with John Gregson as JJ Marric/John Creasey's Insp Gideon. It followed the film Gideon's Day with Jack Hawkins as Insp Gideon.
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An ITC series with John Gregson as JJ Marric/John Creasey's Insp Gideon. It followed the film Gideon's Day with Jack Hawkins as Insp Gideon.
You mean Gideon's Way?

Or Gideon C.I.D by our American cousins.
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You mean Gideon's Way?

Or Gideon C.I.D by our American cousins.
I do indeed.
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The Four Just Men
Gideon's World
The Saint
Now, all these have "literary" roots. I can accept that both Gideon and Four Just were directly influenced by the Films - the look and conception being heavily borrowed.

But surely the Saint TV series is simply a new reworking of a famous pulp fiction character already exploited in many films and radio and stge productions.

It would be like saying the Jeremy Brett Holmes series was "taken from" the Basil Rathbone films rather than from the books.
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Fair comment ... but 'Robin Hood' gets a mention and the same reasoning could apply to him.

Berman and Baker had been making 'Saint'-like films for ages, the Tom Conway 'Duke Martin' films and Blackout with Max to name but three. IIRC they fully acknowledged that what they were trying to do with the series was to recreate the 'style' of those films and the 'Saint' and 'Falcon' films of the 40s.

I think the 'Saint' deserves to be on the list.
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Fair comment ... but 'Robin Hood' gets a mention and the same reasoning could apply to him.

Berman and Baker had been making 'Saint'-like films for ages, the Tom Conway 'Duke Martin' films and Blackout with Max to name but three. IIRC they fully acknowledged that what they were trying to do with the series was to recreate the 'style' of those films and the 'Saint' and 'Falcon' films of the 40s.

I think the 'Saint' deserves to be on the list.
Maybe so. I don't know the old Saint movies well enough to argue - I was just trying to make trouble.
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Maybe so. I don't know the old Saint movies well enough to argue - I was just trying to make trouble.
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House Calls with Wayne Rogers based on film of same name. Private Benjamin short lived series based on film. Topper tv series starring Leo G Caroll based on film of same name.

Docto Kildare tv series that stemmed from flim series based on novels by Max Brand.

Serpico.

There is a pattern here most of the above mentioned only run for one season or two with the exeption of Doctor Kildare which ran from 1961 to 1967
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'Casablanca' (1942) spawned two TV series. One in the fifties starring Charles McGraw (11 episodes). David Soul tried again in the eighties. This only lasted 5 episodes, even though it used some of the original sets from the film.
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Was SHOGUN a film before a series?
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'Moonrunners' (1975) with James Mitchum was the forerunner of the Dukes of Hazzard TV series. Waylon Jennings did the narration for the film and for the TV show.
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