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   From: jayembeenospam@snurcher.com   
      
   Anim8rFSK  wrote:   
      
   >  moviePig  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Jul 30, 9:19 pm, "XXXXgizzieXXXX"  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>    First show to have a movie while it was still on the air.   
   >>   
   >> If true, that's a good one...   
   >   
   > Not true.  Not even remotely close to being true.   
      
   Weeeelllllll....depends on how you want to look at it. If you want to   
   say that it's the first show *in 25 years* to have a movie while it   
   was still on the air, then it's true. :-)   
      
   Anyway, they probably won't just take our word for that, so...   
      
   (In the close-but-not-quite department)   
      
   MUNSTER, GO HOME was released on 6 June 1966, just three weeks after   
   the final new episode of the TV series aired (12 May 1966).   
      
   FLIPPER'S NEW ADVENTURE, sequel to the original movie, was released   
   in May 1964, just four months prior to the beginning of the TV show.   
      
   (In the definite department)   
      
   HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS, released on 9 September 1970, the same day   
   that episode #1098 of the TV series aired. The second movie, NIGHT   
   OF DARK SHADOWS, was released on 4 August 1971, just four months   
   after the last new episode of the series aired (#1245, 2 April 1971).   
      
   BATMAN, released in August 1966, between the first and second seasons   
   of the TV series.   
      
   McHALE'S NAVY, released in July 1964, between the second and third   
   seasons of the TV series. Followed by McHALE'S NAVY JOINS THE AIR   
   FORCE, released in June 1965, between the third and fourth seasons   
   of the TV series.   
      
   (Unless I'm missing something, McHALE'S NAVY is still the only TV   
   series that had *two* movies released while the series was still   
   on the air. DARK SHADOWS came close, though.)   
      
   THE LONE RANGER, released in February 1956, between the fourth and   
   fifth seasons of the TV series.   
      
   DRAGNET, released in September 1954, just after the start of the   
   fourth season of the TV series.   
      
   And this is *not* including the TV series that had fix-up features   
   (films comprised of TV episodes strung together) released while   
   the series was still on the air, such as THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.   
   and the Ron Ely TARZAN.   
      
   -- jayembee   
      
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