Best Movie to TV Show Franchise....

I can't believe Stargate got a vote.

I have no idea what that name means.

I have to go with Buffy. The only one that I would even consider for a moment is MASH, but I've never been a huge fan. About SG-1: I've never actually watched a whole episode, but what I've seen was cheap-looking and corny. But I'm sure Buffy can come across that way too occasionally.

Bad enough that Stargate gets a vote but Highlander too? Buffy and M*A*S*H are the only ones listed that should be considered for votes. M*A*S*H had some funny stuff but 11 years was way too long. Buffy is still the Queen.

What about "Rambo: The Force of Freedom" animated series?

Buffy is skinny but isn't Jewish. And she beat the crap out of many Army men in Season 4. She could take an over the hill Colonel.

Willow's skinny AND Jewish and she could turn MacGyver's penis into a frog with a snap of her fingers. Buffy wins any way you slice it.

Didn´t Walker Texas Ranger start of as a movie? If so then it get´s my vote, Chuck Norris is da man.

If only MacGyver was also based on a movie...

Just kidding, sir. However, some might argue that a person who thinks Stargate is superior to Buffy has a not-so-tight grip on reality. Some might also argue that writing and acting count more in a comparison of two shows than the whole "my character can kick your character's butt" thing.
But not me, of course.

Buffy was fine. But I frequently watched Stargate SG-1 back in the day, because even the *worst* SG-1 episodes usually have points of interest, higher internal consistency, and better long-term plot development than most SkiFfy series. I probably had more respect for it than for anything else then in current production, particularly since Glassner & Wright had to start from a format which had been massively brain-damaged by Devlin and Emmerich before they ever got near it.

I think the folks doing Stargate deserved rather a lot more recognition for their first seasons than they got. The principal perps (Glassner, Wright, Powers, and Cooper) apparently put together a series format that actually made a modicum of sense and often played with a reasonable degree of coherence...i.e., they actually remembered from one episode to the next what happened, and didn't stay as static as Gilligan's Island.

They made a TV SERIES, instead of a flock of episodes.

I had some minor carps with clumsy (and occasionally very silly) dialog, occasional lapses of narrative logic, and a few off-the-wall tech schticks that beggar toleration; but when you get right down to the bottom line, the series consistently failed to be a waste of time, and clearly demonstrates the kind of work the big-budget guys on the major networks *should* be trying to do in the genre.

And despite all the "Canadian Content" restrictions on Canadian productions, since the Good Canuck SkiFfy Writers were all over on Stargate with Brad Wright. Canada's produced maybe two borderline acceptable SF writers in the last *half-century* (Van Vogt and Sawyer), and the production rate has not appreciably increased. Dunno whether it's the weather and grizzly bears, or the social programming from the teetering "school system," and the central nervous system damage from all that "socialized medicine" and Molson's.

*snicker*

There's no denying the greatness of the first three seasons of Buffy, but I'm surprised to see such Stargate SG-1 hate.

Ugh. Buffy was such a pandering piece of shit.

Adventures In Babysitting
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Baby Boom
Uncle Buck
Gung Ho
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures
Freddy's Nightmares

I've never dug Buffy AT ALL. I can understand why people could enjoy it, but whenever I watch it my brain slaps me around for wasting time watching a ridiculous show.

It's not worse than STARGATE, though. The movie was moderate fun, but the shows are SHIT. They don't even have those dudes in the cool Egyptian helmets!

The one and only Buffy!

For me, it's MASH.
The first three seasons of Buffy were brilliant, but the quality fell off after that.

Not that it matters but:
Sarah Michelle Gellar is Jewish but the character of Buffy, as far as we know is not a Member Of the Tribe.
You know, it's realy incredible how people who should know better confuse actors and the characters they are playing.

Never watched any of those television shows, none ever tickled my fancy. Or any other part of me for that matter. But, I'd assume it's Buffy. I don't see a magazine devoted to Highlander.

C'mon people.

Swamp Thing : The Animated Series.

Call me lame, but when I was a kid, I enjoyed the hell out of the Logan's Run TV series. Not so much the Planet of the Apes series.

What The F--- ???

Okay first of all Buffy only suffered one bad season. Season 4 was terrible. The quality picked up in season 5. And I thought season 6 and 7 were very enjoyable.

Second, WTF??!! Should know better??? WTf is that supposed to mean? I mean I didn't sit there confused about Buffy. I didn't go...."what's going on here? she's jewish why do they have a jewish actress playing a gentile?" Who's confusing actors with Characters? What the hell are you talking about?