Talk:List of animated spin-offs from prime time shows

Other shows
Should The Oddball Couple go on this list? It and The Odd Couple were adaptation spinoffs from the same play, rather than the cartoon being a spinoff of the prime time show, so I'd argue not.

Meanwhile, The Three Robonic Stooges is excluded because The Three Stooges was never a prime-time TV series. --Stlemur (talk) 16:13, 10 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Could The Barkleys be considered a spin-off of All in the Family? —Preceding unsigned comment added by TheSquirrel (talk • contribs) 00:12, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

US-centric
This list as it currently stands is limited to US television. I know of at least one example of an animated spin-off from a British live-action series ("The Infinite Quest" and the forthcoming "Dreamland", from Doctor Who), and I wouldn't be at all surprised to discover Japanese series that originated in live-action television and were later adapted to anime. I don't know enough about the subject of animated television to expand the article, so I'll just put the globalize tag on and hope that someone more knowledgeable comes along. :) —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 06:22, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, I think in Japan the reverse is the usual rule - anime turned into live action. Other than the Doctor Who examples (I nearly took out Scream of the Shalka as that was produced for the web, not broadcast, but the list doesn't specify only TV) I can't think of any other non-US cases of this. 68.146.64.9 (talk) 19:43, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

What about spinoffs?

 * What about animated series spin-offs (as opposed to remakes/continuations)? The Simpsons was a spin-off of the live-action The Tracey Ullmann Show, and as such should be included if this criteria is allowed. 68.146.64.9 (talk) 19:43, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Jeannie

 * Shouldn't Jeannie be excluded, as it's merely based on "I Dream of Jeannie" rather than a full spinoff? None of the characters or actors from the original series were used in the cartoon. --Comedy3 (talk) 13:16, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

What, exactly, is this a list of?
Right after removing an entry for Tracy Ullman/The Simpsons, I noticed the title of this article is "List of animated spin-offs from prime time shows", while the text directly above the table is "This is a list of live action prime time network television shows that were turned into animated series." The Simpsons qualifies based on the title but not the description. Looking at the list further, there are examples of animated shows that do not necessarily fit either of those descriptions. For example, Jeannie has a similar premise as the live-action show but doesn't feature any of the same characters (the video on YouTube with the closing credits is too blurry to make out if there is any reference to the live-action show, to make it official). Zorro first appeared in pulp magazines, so is the animated show based on the TV show or the original material? Should Tarzan, Superman and Batman (among many others) be included here as well? HalJor (talk) 21:38, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Removals
I removed Mister T because that series doesn't appear to have been spun off from The A-Team -- Mr. T's character on the animated show was named "Mr. T", not his "A-Team" character B. A. Baracus. I removed Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood because its parent series, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, was a daytime show on PBS rather than a prime-time network series and thus it doesn't fit the criteria for this list. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 01:28, 2 June 2020 (UTC)