Sorry!! I hadn't meant to be cryptic! I actually meant The Iron Horse with Dale
Robertson, which debuted as a series before the Name of the Game movie aired.
But Peter is also right that, in between, Ironside slipped in and did both a
movie and a series. Maybe, now that he brought it up, the success of Ironside
for Universal made them look back and consider what other TV movies might yield
a hit show.

--- In nameofthegame@yahoogroups.com, "dataguy592003" <phh205@...> wrote:
>
>
> Ironside (TV film, March 1967-- series debut September 1967)
> BTW, Name Of The Game story editor Steven Bochco did "supplementary"
writing(extra stuff to pad the running times)on the first 6 series Ironsides.
>
> Peter
>
>
> --- In nameofthegame@yahoogroups.com, John <actingman6@> wrote:
> >
> > This is stretching my trivia prowess...what was the show?
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:40 AM, r0thornhill <r0thornhill@> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > At that time, only one show had ever gone from TV-movie to series. It
> > > wasn't planned that way, and it wasn't an industry practice yet, so it may
> > > just have taken that long for someone to think of it.
> > >
> > > --- In nameofthegame@yahoogroups.com <nameofthegame%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > > "dataguy592003" <phh205@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello John,
> > > >
> > > > Interesting question, could be that the relatively risky "long form"
> > > aspect of Game kept the idea in the formative stage a little longer than
was
> > > the norm for most TV series then. Keep in mind, "Columbo" (also a
Universal
> > > LF series) took 3 years and two pilots to become a regular series.
> > > >
> > > > Peter
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --- In nameofthegame@yahoogroups.com <nameofthegame%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > > John <actingman6@> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I have always wondered why it took two years for Fame Is...to go from
> > > highly
> > > > > rated movie to Name Of..series.
> > > > >
> > > > > I would have thought it would have gone to series in Sep '67 rather
> > > than Sep
> > > > > '68.
> > > > >
> > > > > An extra year?
> > >
> >
> >
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> >
>