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X Meets Y: Live-Action TV
Serial storytelling meets Film:
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Shows
(Roughly in Alphabetical Order)
24 Commando Dirty Harry The West Wing torture .
The A-Team The Dirty Dozen Mission: Impossible Airwolf The A-Team MacGyver 'Knight Rider if you prefer) in a helicopter.
American Horror Story American Beauty The Shining Alias James Bond meets Felicity Alphas X-Men The Wire Automan Knight Rider TRON Being Erica Quantum Leap Peggy Sue Got Married The Big Bang Theory Friends Revenge of the Nerds Blue Mountain State Friday Night Lights Porkys meets Greek Bosom Buddies Laverne and Shirley Some Like It Hot The Brittas Empire Fawlty Towers The Office Buffy the Vampire Slayer Joss Whedon refers to it as My So-Called Life The X-Files Burn Notice Miami Vice The A-Team MacGyver James Bond CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Law and Order Hollywood Science .
Campus PD (G4): COPS MTV's College Life
Castle Moonlighting Murder, She Wrote Moonlighting and never seeing Murder She Wrote ," says star Nathan Fillion.)
Casualty 1909 has been described by one critic as "Cranford being overrun by zombies. Chefs vs. City : The Amazing Race Man v. Food Community Arrested Development Undeclared Criminal Minds Without A Trace Saw Crownies Law & Order: Trial by Jury Grey's Anatomy Crusade Blake's 7 The Hobbit Babylon 5 The Daily Show CNN Headline NewsWeekend Update . Dance Moms (Lifetime) is Toddlers And Tiaras Bring It On Dance Your Ass Off is The Biggest Loser meets Dancing with the Stars . I'm guessing that's probably how they sold it, too.
Death Valley is Buffy meets Cops .
The Deep End Scrubs Boston Legal Drive (2007) was Lost Cannonball Run .
Dual Survival Survivorman The Odd Couple The Event 24 and Lost Everybody Hates Chris That '70s Show Malcolm in the Middle Eureka The Andy Griffith Show Dexter's Laboratory Firefly Blade Runner Cowboy Bebop Food Tech (History Channel): Good Eats Dirty Jobs Fringe The X-Files Altered States The Twilight Zone Dark Angel Game of Thrones described by George R. R. Martin as "The Sopranos Middle Earth ."
Glee Fame The Office High School Musical The Office , for the younger set).
The Golden Girls The original plan was for Rue McClanahan to be Rose and Betty White to be Blanche. Not only did the actresses feel better suited for the opposite characters, but Bea Arthur almost did not want to be involved for fear of the show only being "Maude and Vivian meet Sue Ann Nivens" (as White and McClanahan would resemble characters from their previous series).
Good Eats Science Show mixed with a Cooking Show — or if you prefer specific show examples, Mythbusters Beakman's World Bill Nye the Science Guy Cooking with Science (the actual book series that inspired the show) mixed with Emeril Lagasse...
Heroes X-Men Lost Hogan's Heroes The Great Escape Sitcom formula.
The Hour Drop the Dead Donkey Spooks House Sherlock Holmes ER Black Jack iCarly Lizzie McGuire YouTube Iron Chef Japan Professional Wrestling .
JAG A Few Good Men Top Gun Kamen Rider The League of Gentlemen Monty Python's Flying Circus Coronation Street The Wicker Man Twin Peaks Leverage Burn Notice Mission: Impossible Life on Mars The Sweeney Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Lion Maru G GARO Deuce Bigalow Male Gigolo Lost The Twilight Zone Gilligan's Island Lord of the Flies The Prisoner Lost In Austen Life on Mars Pride and Prejudice Luther Columbo Dirty Harry Man v. Food Diners, Drive-ins and Dives meets Competitive Eating.
Man Vs Fish : Man Vs Wild Manswers Brainiac: Science Abuse The Man Show Miami Vice Brandon Tartikoff , who was the NBC executive that green-lighted the show.
Misfits Heroes crossed with Skins The Mighty Boosh Monty Python's Flying Circus Flight of the Conchords The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nóg Power Rangers Mythbusters Jackass Mr. Wizard ".
NCIS JAG CSI: Crime Scene Investigation No Ordinary Family The Incredibles Heroes Nowhere Man The X-Files The Fugitive Out of the Wild: The Alaska Experiment : Survivor Survivorman One Way Out : David Blaine meets Jackass Persons Unknown Lost The Prisoner Survivors The Pretender Quantum Leap The Fugitive Prison Break The Bourne Series meets The Shawshank Redemption The Prisoner James Bond Pushing Daisies Murder, She Wrote Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain QI is quiz bowl meets stand-up comedy.
Reaper Brimstone Clerks Repo Games : Cash Cab Operation Repo - Answer the repo man's questions correctly and you get to keep your car.
The River Paranormal Activity Heart of Darkness , with a small dusting of Cannibal Holocaust Rizzoli And Isles Bones Cagney And Lacey Rookie Blue Scrubs NYPD Blue Round the Twist The Swiss Family Robinson meets The X-Files Royal Pains Burn Notice Northern Exposure Sanctuary Torchwood minus moral ambiguity and sex.
Saving Grace Joan of Arcadia The Shield SeaQuest DSV Star Trek under WATER .
Slingers Hustle Firefly Skins Parker Lewis Can't Lose Kids . Smallville Superman Dawson's Creek Sons Of Anarchy The Sopranos American Chopper Special Ops Mission (The Military Channel): Survivorman Star Trek (TOS)Horatio Hornblower The Outer Limits Stargate Universe Stargate SG-1 or Atlantis ) meets Battlestar Galactica 2005 The Last Starfighter Flight of the Phoenix meets Lost in Space Step by Step The Brady Bunch The Odd Couple Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad Ultraman Saved by the Bell Supernatural Angel The X-Files The Sarah Connor Chronicles The Dukes of Hazzard Star Wars Survivor was described by Mark Burnett in his companion book for the first season of the show as "Gilligan's Island meets Ten Little Indians meets Lord of the Flies meets The Real World ."
Terra Nova Jurassic Park Avatar Three Sheets The Thirsty Traveler meets Insomniac With Dave Attell Tin Man The Wizard of Oz Space Opera , but it's too much of a genuine Space Opera to be a mere Recycled In Space .
Torchwood The X-Files This Life Angel Queer As Folk The Vampire Diaries Dawson's Creek Twilight Scream .* All but Twilight are Kevin Williamson productions.
Vintergatan Scooby-Doo Monty Python and the Holy Grail Star Trek The Voice is American Idol Dragons Den Warehouse 13 Fringe Eureka Moonlighting Weaponizers (Discovery): Junkyard Wars meets BattleBots meets Twisted Metal Weird Science I Dream of Jeannie Beavis and Butthead White Collar 48 Hours meets Catch Me If You Can 'The Young Ones : La Bohème Bottom
Characters
(Roughly In Order by Last Name)
