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Sound-to-Screen Adaptation
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Hollywood is famed for being cautious about trying anything new, hence the constant stream of rip-offs, imitations and other-media adaptations that pour into cinemas like so much slurry. But the same is true of television, too. One method that's particularly popular in Britain is adapting radio series — usually Sit Coms or Sketch Shows — for television. They generally retain the cast and writers (who, in the case of comedies, are usually the same people) and it's fairly common for them to reuse swathes of material for their TV series. After all, if only a tiny chunk of the potential audience heard it the first time around then there's not much harm in recycling is there? Although it may seem cynical, there are two fairly sensible reasons for adapting from radio to television. First of all, it shows that there is an existing audience for the programme, something which is important given the cost of modern TV productions. Secondly, it allows access to a pool of writing talent that is new to television but nevertheless has prior experience of putting together a weekly show. In Britain, many comedians see radio as the middle stage of career advancement, coming before TV but after stand-up and stage work (film being a fourth step, though not accessible to most). In America, this was more common in the 1950s, as a number of "golden age" Radio Drama programs made the transition to the tube. Often leads to They Changed It, Now It Sucks! among the core radio audience. For the reverse of this, see Audio Adaptation. |
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Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life started life as a radio quiz. The hour long pilot/trial film was merely a filmed version of the audio broadcast. | |
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Slightly lesser known, (and shorter lived), The Frantics. | |
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Best known these days is probably the Royal Canadian Air Farce. | |
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Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! became simply Count Arthur Strong on television. Although a few plotlines are recycled, the different setting and supporting cast have led some fans of the radio show to dispute whether it's a true adaptation or merely a sequel. | |
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The original Dragnet was a famous example, with creator and lead actor Jack Webb bringing most of his radio team with him to the new show. | |
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Whose Line Is It Anyway? started as a BBC radio program. | |
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Adventures in Odyssey has about seventeen video episodes, which occasionally air on TV. As a whole, they're pretty different experiences. | |
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BBC Radio 4 stalwart Just a Minute was adapted for television several times, with unreleased pilots made in 1969 and 1981, a regional London series in 1994 (with some minor visual gimmicks), another series in 1995 (playing out some kind of bizarre Midlands vs. London team game with Dale Winton and Tony Slattery as captains), and finally two proper BBC TV broadcasts in the original format in 1999 and 2012. Unlike the short-lived TV versions, the radio version continues to this day. | |
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The Shadow, starring Alec Baldwin, about an amoral man given the power of telepathy during a trip to the mysterious East. Pulp crime-fighting ensues. | |
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The Crime Doctor series of films was based on a long running radio program of the same name. | |
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Father Knows Best | |
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Goodness Gracious Me | |
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A TV pilot of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue was produced but never broadcast, owing to difficulties in making the show "visual". Much later, the stage show and video I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue — Live! proved very successful simply by treating it as a radio recording — the only concessions to the medium being that the teams stood up for the singing rounds, and Samantha couldn't ever quite make it to a show. | |
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På Minuten, the Swedish adaptation of Just a Minute, filmed six episodes for the television series Nöjeshallen in 1975. | |
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Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge | |
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Meet the Press | |
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Red Dwarf was loosely based on Dave Hollins: Space Cadet, a recurring character from the radio sketch show Son of Cliché. | |
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Italian radio show Lo Zoo Di 105 became a Comedy Central show in 2011. | |
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In and Out of the Kitchen became a short-lived BBC Four TV series. | |
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Hancock's Half Hour specifically started as a radio series in 1954, and made the jump to TV in 1956. From 1956 to 1959 the two versions ran simultaneously. Both were spectacular smash-hits. | |
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Old Harry's Game received a clay animation television show adaptation pilot, although it never quite made it to series. | |
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The BBC Radio 4 Mockumentary Delve Special, starring Stephen Fry as Intrepid Reporter David Lander was adapted for Channel 4 as This Is David Lander (then, when Fry couldn't make a second series, Tony Slattery took over for This Is David Harper). | |
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Dead Ringers spent many happy years on radio before making the shift to television. It has now shifted back to radio. | |
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Radio series That Mitchell and Webb Sound was adapted into the TV series That Mitchell and Webb Look, although the radio series is continuing. | |
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Many old time radio shows, mostly comedies, later became successful TV shows. Examples include The Jack Benny Program (radio: 1932-55, TV: 1952-65)and Burns & Allen (radio: 1933-52, TV: 1950-58), whose shows made the transition with almost no changes in format. And Chandu The Magician became a movie serial. |
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Our Miss Brooks began on radio in 1948, with a TV version following in 1952 and theatrical movie, which acted as the series finale, in 1956. Many of the TV episodes were adaptations of radio episodes. Also notable was a retool in the final season of the TV version that introduced many dramatic changes — all of which were completely ignored by the radio version (still running concurrently) and by the subsequent movie. | |
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They Think It's All Over started out as a Radio 5 series presented by sportscaster Des Lynam, with two teams of two players each captained by Rory Bremner and Rory McGrath (who went on to become the only person to appear in every episode of the TV adaptation). The radio version was a more sedate, straight sport quiz than its television counterpart. | |
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The Mighty Boosh ran for one series on the radio (as The Boosh) before the stories were adapted for television. Subsequent series have used all-new material. | |
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Golden age radio sitcom My Friend Irma starring Marie Wilson as lovable Dumb Blonde Irma Peterson produced two feature films and a television show. | |
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Somewhat more successfully, Radio Active became KYTV. | |
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A Prairie Home Companion is one of the few examples of a movie based on a radio show. And a meta one at that. | |
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The Mary Whitehouse Experience | |
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In 1957, The Six Shooter was adapted into a TV series titled The Restless Gun and starring John Payne in the Jimmy Stewart role, renamed from 'Britt Ponset' to 'Vint Bonner'. | |
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The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | |
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In an interesting example, a few episodes of The Debaters were filmed to be aired on CBC television in 2011. TV cameras were set up in the theatre where the show was usually recorded in front of a live audience, and the show was produced completely unchanged. | |
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People Like Us was turned into a television series and reused several scripts, but added various visual gags as well. | |
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Popular TV series Have I Got News for You, which was originally devised as an adaptation of Radio Four's The News Quiz. | |
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Probably the most famous was Wayne and Shuster, who started in radio in 1941, moved to TV in the 1950s, stayed on until the 1980s, and their show was in reruns well into the 1990s. | |
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Sean Lock's radio series 15 Minutes of Misery was adapted into another radio series, 15 Storeys High, which itself was later adapted into the TV series of the same name. | |
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The Trouble With You Lilian began as a radio series that aired on BBC Radio 4 from 1966 to 1969. While Patricia Hayes played Lilian in both, Madge was originally played by Beryl Reid who was unavailable for the TV series leading to Dandy Nichols taking her role. | |
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Little Britain | |
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Guiding Light is currently known as the longest-running scripted soap opera. This is assisted by the fact that it started out as a radio serial in 1937, with the TV version beginning in 1952. The show actually ran concurrently (running the same storylines) on radio and TV between 1952 and 1956. Notably, Guiding Light is the only radio soap opera to successfully transition to TV. | |
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Lee and Herring themselves had the Fist of Fun radio show, which was adapted into an identically-named TV series. | |
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Blue Jam, an hour-long psychedelic mix of disturbing 'ambient comedy' and music, was later translated to television minus the music in the form of Jam and the 'remix' show Jaaaaaam. The majority of the sketches were taken directly from the radio show. | |
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On The Town With The League of Gentlemen retained most of its characters upon transferring to television, but changed the village's name from 'Spent' to 'Royston Vasey' (as a Shout-Out to comedian Roy "Chubby" Brown, whose real name is Royston Vasey, and who later appeared on the show as the town's mayor). | |
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This American Life on PRI, and now Showtime. Very, very rare modern American example. | |
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Unaccompanied Minors is based on a non-fiction story by Susan Burton which first appeared on an episode of This American Life, and is the first product of a first-refusal deal that Warner Brothers Pictures has with stories that appear on the radio program. | |
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Probably the best known example is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started off as a radio show and was adapted into a television series, a computer game, a film, a series of popular books, three LP records, and a towel. The radio series actually comprises the first two HHGG books plus some material that never made its way into the other adaptations. The third, fourth, and fifth books were then adapted back into a radio series using the original cast 20 years later. | |
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This was one step taken by the Doctor in the House series of stories; originally a collection of books by Richard Gordon, they were adapted into a series of films starring Dirk Bogarde, James Robertson Justice, and Leslie Phillips and directed by Ralph Thomas from 1954 to 1970. In the late 1960s, some of the stories were adapted for radio in two thirteen-episode series, Doctor in the House and Doctor at Large, starring Richard Briers and Ray Cooney (Cooney also wrote the scripts). Between 1969 and 1979, the stories were adapted for television, with the characters re-named, in the series Doctor in the House, Doctor at Large, Doctor in Charge, Doctor at Sea, Doctor on the Go, the Australian transplant Doctor Down Under, and the short-lived early 1990s revival Doctor at the Top. The television series is perhaps more notable for its writing staff and its guest cast than for its primary cast (which at various times included Martin Shaw (The Professionals), Jonathan Lynn (co-writer of Yes, Minister), George Layton (successful comedy writer and initial star of It Ain't Half Hot, Mum), and Richard O'Sullivan (Man About the House)). Graeme Garden (himself a qualified doctor) and Bill Oddie wrote many episodes together before The Goodies became successful enough to demand their full attention, and Graham Chapman (also a qualified doctor) and John Cleese wrote many more scripts, both together and with other co-writers, during breaks in the writing schedule for Monty Python's Flying Circus. (An episode of Doctor at Large written by Cleese and featuring a brusque hotelier with a domineering wife later provided the blueprint for Fawlty Towers.) David Jason was a guest star in various episodes of both the radio and the television series. | |
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Miranda (2009) started off as Miranda Hart's Joke Shop on radio. | |
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The Navy Lark has had both two television shows (both latest for a short time) and one film. | |
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Several Golden Age radio shows were adapted into films, including Fibber McGee and Molly, The Great Gildersleeve, The Life Of Riley (prior to its better-known TV adaptation), A Date With Judy, and My Friend Irma. | |
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