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How does Serenity/Firefly compare?

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Wednesday, October 3, 2007 11:28 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


How does Firefly rank in terms of cancelled TV shows and how many years elapsed before Major Motion Picture was released?

For instance, I think Star Trek was cancelled in 69 after 3 season, and then MMP was around 1979.
Firefly debuted Sep 02 and can'd Dec 02, and BDM was Sep 05.

Anybody know of a quicker turnaround for a cancelled series?



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Thursday, October 4, 2007 12:26 AM

MOOSE


The only other show I can think of off-hand is Police Squad. Canceled after 3? (there are 6 total) episodes in 1982, revived as The Naked Gun movie series starting in 1989.

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Thursday, October 4, 2007 4:01 AM

JONGSSTRAW


Quote:

Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:
How does Firefly rank in terms of cancelled TV shows and how many years elapsed before Major Motion Picture was released?

For instance, I think Star Trek was cancelled in 69 after 3 season, and then MMP was around 1979.
Firefly debuted Sep 02 and can'd Dec 02, and BDM was Sep 05.

Anybody know of a quicker turnaround for a cancelled series?


Don't know if this counts, but the original Battlestar Galactica ran for 22 episodes from 1978-1979. A full length "movie" was released a few years later, but it was merely a combination of a 2-part and a one part episode...was called Mission Galactica....used episodes "Living Legend" & "Fire In Space". I saw it in the theater on the big screen...with SENSAROUND SOUND & it was pretty awesome.

Twilight Zone ended its' 158 episode run 1n 1964, and the motion picture came out around 1981.






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Thursday, October 4, 2007 9:05 AM

RHUTTNER


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Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:
How does Firefly rank in terms of cancelled TV shows and how many years elapsed before Major Motion Picture was released?

For instance, I think Star Trek was cancelled in 69 after 3 season, and then MMP was around 1979.
Firefly debuted Sep 02 and can'd Dec 02, and BDM was Sep 05.

Anybody know of a quicker turnaround for a cancelled series?






Not sure if you would count this since the show wasn't so much cancelled but ended instead. Star Trek: The Next Generation ended 5/94 and the movie Star Trek Generations came out 11/94, so thats 6 months turnaround.

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Sunday, October 7, 2007 7:45 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


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Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:
How does Firefly rank in terms of cancelled TV shows and how many years elapsed before Major Motion Picture was released?

For instance, I think Star Trek was cancelled in 69 after 3 season, and then MMP was around 1979.
Firefly debuted Sep 02 and can'd Dec 02, and BDM was Sep 05.

Anybody know of a quicker turnaround for a cancelled series?




No, this (STNG) was not what I meant. This was part of the overall "Star Trek Plan" and STNG Movies were supposed to replace the original cast works, as they were aging and unable to continue performing.

I wasn't really considering Superman, Batman, and others which had different cast, but I can't even think of any of those with less than 3 years between cancellation (apparent end of the verse) and ressurection in MMP. Is FF/Serenity the quickest turnaround?

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Not sure if you would count this since the show wasn't so much cancelled but ended instead. Star Trek: The Next Generation ended 5/94 and the movie Star Trek Generations came out 11/94, so thats 6 months turnaround.


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