What TV Show has the most Spin offs?

[Drtooth]

"Gilligan's Island" also nearly got spinoffs (or sequel series). The proposed series with the gang from the island running a hotel (two TV movies were made for this), and one that would have had Gilligan marry Mary Ann, the Professor marry Ginger, and both couples have children.

Let's not forget Filmation's 2 animated Gilligan's Island shows.

 

[minor muppetz]

As for the first official episode of "Happy Days" (the one where Richie nearly goes "all the way" with a girl), there were actually two versions shot. One (called "The Happy Days") featured a different actress playing Joanie (though not the same one from "Love, American Style").

I had no idea of that. I wonder if it still exists in the Paramount vaults (or anywhere).

 

[D'Snowth]

I almost forgot, but M*A*S*H had three spin-offs, one of which was only mildly successful, the other two not so much.

- TRAPPER JOHN, MD: I think this actually came about while M*A*S*H itself was still running, but at any rate, it was basically about Trapper returning to his own practice in Boston after the war; Wayne Rogers didn't reprise the role, but rather, Pernell Roberts played the aging Trapper. Supposedly, however, this was actually supposed to be a spin-off of the movie, not the series.

- AfterMASH: This was a weird concept, but CBS clearly didn't want M*A*S*H to go away just yet, so they created this spin-off in which Potter, Klinger, and Mulcahy ended up working together at the same stateside hospital in Missouri; it was a miserable flop, and even Jamie Farr said it wasn't a pleasant experience working on it. It only lasted two seasons, the second of which never even finished airing because of poor ratings.

- W*A*L*T*E*R: An attempt to give Radar his own spin-off, but what happened was his mother died, he failed as a farmer, so he sold the family farm, moved to St. Louis with his cousin, and the two of them joined the police force. Only the pilot episode was filmed, and it was such a poor pilot, the series was never greenlit.

 

[Mo Frackle]

I had no idea of that. I wonder if it still exists in the Paramount vaults (or anywhere).

It does. I have a copy of it.

 

[snichols1973]

Let's not forget Filmation's 2 animated Gilligan's Island shows.

Dusty's Trail, featuring Forrest Tucker (F Troop's Sgt. O'Rourke), and Bob Denver, wasn't exactly a spin-off of Gilligan's Island, but rather a revised version set in the Old West, with a stagecoach that gets separated from the wagon train and tries to find its way back, and Sherwood Schwartz, who created both sitcoms, virtually reworks the characters from GI into an Old West setting.

The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West wasn't really a movie, but rather a compilation of episodes with no consistent storyline or plot, later released on public domain videocasettes and DVD's....

 

[D'Snowth]

HOGAN'S HEROES almost had a spin-off, but Bob Crane's murder prevented that from happening.

 

[Mo Frackle]

This forum lists a great deal of spinoffs.
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/forumdisplay.php?f=163

This thread talks about spinoffs that never happened.
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=30535

 

[Mo Frackle]

I had no idea of that. I wonder if it still exists in the Paramount vaults (or anywhere).

Not to advertise, but I've posted the pilot on Youtube if anyone is curious about it.