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* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfShirleyHolmes'' was adapted to TV from a series of novels produced by Winklemania Productions, UK. If you grew up in TheNineties, it's almost a guarantee you've heard of the series: it aired in over 80 countries and was translated to 8 languages. The books are nowhere ''near'' as well-known.
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* ''Series/{{Lingo}}'' (2002-07), one of the most successful original shows for Creator/{{GSN}}, was a revival of a one-season game show from TheEighties hosted by Michael Reagan (the original was notorious for the production company going bankrupt and not paying its contestants).
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* While the ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' by series Creator/GeorgeRRMartin has had a cult following in fantasy circles for nearly two decades, it was ''Series/GameOfThrones'', HBO's hit adaptation of the books, that ingrained Martin's fantasy world in mainstream popular culture. This is somewhat of an AvertedTrope, because fans and critics are ''constantly'' talking about the comparison of the books to the television show, so it's as well known as something like ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' or ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. This has only intensified with the controversial series ending, where many people are hoping to see the "real" ending as done by GRRM.
** The same could be said about ''Literature/FireAndBlood'', the lesser known spinoff book that got adapted into ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon''.
** The same could be said about ''Literature/FireAndBlood'', the lesser known spinoff book that got adapted into ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon''.
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* A lot of people know the Canadian high school drama franchise ''Franchise/{{Degrassi}}''. A lesser amount of people realise that the [[Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration show they think of when hearing the name]] is a revival of a pair of [[Series/DegrassiJuniorHigh series from]] [[Series/DegrassiHigh the 80s]], nor that even those series were preceded by an [[Series/TheKidsofDegrassiStreet even earlier children's show]]. And a much smaller amount of people have no idea that the entire franchise was born out of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Makes_a_Movieshort film adaptation of a 1974 children's book]].
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* ''Series/BandOfBrothers'': This critically-acclaimed miniseries about Easy Company's exploits is based on the nonfiction book of the same name, which has since been overshadowed by the TV series to the point that subsequent editions released after 2001 use a photo of the miniseries as its cover.
* ''Series/Kingdom2019'': Most people (both in South Korea and overseas) don't know that the show is based on the webcomic ''Kingdom of the Gods''.
* ''Series/TheUntamed'' is just one of many adaptations of ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi''. The novel is hugely popular in China but the series is more famous internationally.
* Not only was ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' based on [[Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrairie a book]], ''Little House in the Big Woods'' and ''Farmer Boy'' preceded its publication. (And not only that, but the series was based more on the book that came ''after'' it, ''On the Banks of Plum Creek'').
* While some people do know that ''Series/ILoveLucy'' was inspired by Creator/LucilleBall's radio show ''My Favorite Husband'', it can be assumed that few but the most diehard fans have actually listened to that program, and thus don't know just how heavily the television series was drawn from it. Many ''I Love Lucy'' episodes have a corresponding ''My Favorite Husband'' episode they were based on, and [[https://archive.org/details/MyFavoriteHusband/ if you do listen to the latter]], you will be surprised at how similar the plots are, down to some lines and jokes having been copied word for word.
* The science show ''Series/BeakmansWorld'' has proven so popular, very few people know that it was adapted from a Sunday comic strip titled ''You Can With Beakman & Jax'', which ran up until the creator's passing in 2016, long after the show was over.
* In this day and age, far more people are aware of the 1980 ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'' movie, or the [[Series/FlashGordon2007 2007 TV series]], or even the ''[[Film/FlashGordonSerial 1930s serials]]'' than are aware that it was a [[ComicStrip/FlashGordon daily newspaper comic]] that ran for nearly 70 years. Though the 1980 movie does try to remind people, by including images from the comic strip in its opening titles.
* ''Series/TheMeetingPlaceCannotBeChanged'' was originally a novel.
* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': Everyone knows the series, and some remember [[Film/{{MASH}} the movie]] it was based on. How many know the movie was adapted from [[Literature/{{MASH}} a series of novels]]? Not that you'd recognise Hawkeye from the books to the show.
** Played with on a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch where host Elliot Gould is a guest on a morning talk show.
--->'''Pinky Waxman''': "Let's talk about ''Series/{{MASH}}''!\\
'''Leo Waxman''': ''Series/{{MASH}}''! It's my favorite show!\\
'''Elliot Gould''': Well, I was in the movie, not the TV show...\\
'''Leo Waxman''': It was a ''movie''? Who knew?
* The original ''Series/MatchGame'' had two celebrity panelists, four contestants, and no {{double entendre}}s. It's the second version, ''Match Game '73'', that everyone remembers. It doesn't help that virtually all of the original series [[MissingEpisode no longer exists on tape.]] To an extent, not many know that ''Series/FamilyFeud'' was derived from the "Audience Match" endgame of ''Match Game '73''.
* The British version of ''Series/{{The Office|UK}}'' was popular in America before the [[Series/TheOfficeUS American version]] started airing, but the latter was what truly turned the show into a household name. Due in part to BritishBrevity, the American version has lasted much longer and has been one of the most popular sitcoms of its era. Although the British version is regarded as a classic, the American version is still the best known. Creator/RickyGervais often makes [[SelfDeprecation self-deprecating]] jokes about Creator/SteveCarell being more famous than he is. The German and French versions also have better ratings than the original in their respective countries.
* By this point, when people think of ''Series/MrBelvedere'', they're most likely thinking of Christopher Hewett's '80s sitcom, little realizing that the title character was once played on the big screen by Clifton Webb...or that before ''that'', he was a character in a novel by Gwen Davenport.
* ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' is now best remembered for being the silly and not particularly good film that was later adapted into a very successful franchise anchored by the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' TV series. Creator/JossWhedon launched the TV show due to dissatisfaction over the ExecutiveMeddling in the film's production and considers his original script for the film, not the film that was actually made, to be canon, basically making this one of the few ''intentional'' instances of this trope.
* The '70s sitcom ''Series/{{Alice|1976}}'' was based on the 1974 movie ''Film/AliceDoesntLiveHereAnymore''. The movie has been eclipsed not only by the TV show but also by the [[Film/TaxiDriver later]] [[Film/RagingBull movies]] of its director, Creator/MartinScorsese.
* These days the ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' TV series is much better known than the ''Literature/{{Dexter}}'' book series. It also affected the font on the front of the books, changing the capital "T" in DEXTER to "t" to resemble the show.
* ''Series/StargateSG1'' is far more popular than the film that spawned it, ''Film/{{Stargate}}''. ''SG-1'' lasted for ten seasons, spawning two TV sequels, ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' and ''Series/StargateUniverse''; two direct-to-DVD-movies; a remastered version of its pilot episode; numerous novels; and an {{M|assivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame}}MORPG (though this seems to be stuck in DevelopmentHell).
** Also an FPS, Online TCG, another FPS, and other direct-to-DVD movies for the spin-off that are supposedly going to happen if Creator/{{M|etroGoldwynMayer}}GM is ever solvent again.
* Creator/AndrewDavies changed the ending of the novel ''Series/{{House of Cards|UK}}'' in his [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] adaptation. The programme was so much more successful than the (still modestly successful) book that author Michael Dobbs wrote a sequel, ''To Play the King'', and {{retcon}}ned it to fit with the ending of the programme. Then Davies adapted ''To Play the King'' and exactly the same thing happened again.
** Many American fans of the Creator/{{Netflix}} adaptation ''Series/{{House of Cards|US}}'' are likely unaware of the original British series or the book. While the British show was a CultClassic, it was very short-lived and remained virtually unknown outside of England, and wasn't particularly a household name even there. Even nowadays, British people are likely more familiar with the American adaptation than the British original.
* Although Creator/BarrySonnenfeld claimed ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'' was directly based on [[ComicStrip/TheAddamsFamily the original comics]], every significant detail was taken from [[Series/TheAddamsFamily the TV series]] (for example, the original comic strip never named the characters).
* ''Series/IClaudius''; the miniseries displaced [[Literature/IClaudius Robert Graves's novel]].
* The 60s TV adaptation of ''Radio/TheGreenHornet'' has displaced the original radio series on which it was based. This is most obvious in the characterization of Kato: in the original radio series Kato was merely Britt Reid's valet and the Hornet's companion, and had no notable martial arts skills. Creator/BruceLee's portrayal of Kato as martial arts master and all around badass is now so firmly entrenched in the audience's expectations that all subsequent adaptations of the property have that as a prominent part of Kato's characterization.
** In the 1990s NOW Comics adaptations, the writers went so far as to [[RetCanon make the entire Kato family]] (Ikano Kato, companion of the 30s-40s Hornet, Hayashi Kato, son of Ikano and companion of the 60s and 90s Hornet, and Mishi Kato, half-sister of Hayashi and companion (for a time) of the 90s Hornet) proficient martial artists
*** The above displacement of Kato is so famous he got his own Expy without Green Hornet (the 90s martial arts film, Black Mask, has people comment upon the characters' similarity).
* Many Japanese tourists, upon seeing the ''Film/{{Backdraft}}'' attraction at Ride/UniversalStudios, wondered why they were playing the theme music to ''Ryoori no Tetsujin'' (known elsewhere as ''Series/IronChef'').
* Creator/TellySavalas first played Lt. Series/{{Kojak}} (listed in the credits as "Kojack") in an Abby Mann-scripted teleplay about a real-life MiscarriageOfJustice called ''The Marcus-Nelson Murders'', which was itself based on a book by Selwyn Raab. However, Raab wrote that book as a non-fiction work, not a novel, so Kojak did debut for television.
* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfShirleyHolmes'' was adapted to TV from a series of novels produced by Winklemania Productions, UK. If you grew up in TheNineties, it's almost a guarantee you've heard of the series: it aired in over 80 countries and was translated to 8 languages. The books are nowhere ''near'' as well-known.
* The original book ''Literature/DeepLove'' had a large cult following in Japan and while there was a series of popular manga (with multiple spin-offs) the live-action drama was by far more popular.
** The book actually started out as a series of web novels (keitai shousetsu, i.e. a web novel that was published on a site that was made for cell phone viewing) which got so popular they got novelized.
* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' was based on a 1950s Creator/{{EC|Comics}} horror comic of the same name, complete with Crypt-Keeper.
* A lot of people know that ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' is an adaptation of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', but few people realize that the LiveActionTV sitcom is based off [[Comicbook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch a long-running comic book series]], besides those who watched ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaAndTheGroovieGoolies''. ComicBook/{{Archie|Comics}}'s had been attempting to avert this in the 2010s. Sabrina's main comic series was on hiatus for years until it was rebooted for ''ComicBook/ArchieComics2015'', but she has had multiple appearances in the main ''Archie'' comics, she has a [[WesternAnimation/SabrinaSecretsOfATeenageWitch new cartoon]], she's a major character in ''ComicBook/AfterlifeWithArchie'', and she has a new DarkerAndEdgier retelling called ''ComicBook/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina''. Still, whenever you search or talk about her, most remember the show first.
* The British crime TV series ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' has hugely overshadowed the book series by Caroline Graham that it was inspired by and that early episodes were adapted from.
* Another British crime series of the same era, ''Series/ATouchOfFrost'', is much better known than the series of novels by R D Wingfield that it was a (significantly {{bowdlerise}}d) adaptation of.
* ''Manga/Life2002'' started out as a manga, but the TV drama is considerably better-known for whatever reason.
* ''Literature/{{Dinotopia}}''. Fewer people know about the novels now because of the TV series.
* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' falls into this to a point -- not everyone realizes there were movies first.
* ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'' is one of the prime examples of this trope. The TV series was extremely popular and generated many iconic images and sounds; most people are unaware that the TV series was originally based on the novel ''Cyborg'' by Creator/MartinCaidin (despite it being named on the end credits), and the book has become almost entirely forgotten.
* It's not as bad as others, but when most people think of ''Theatre/TheOddCouple'', the [[Series/TheOddCouple1970 TV series starring Tony Randall and Jack Klugman]] is usually the first version to come to mind instead of the original play (Klugman actually played Oscar on Broadway ''before'' the series) or [[Film/TheOddCouple1968 the movie]].
* It comes as a shock to many fans of ''Series/KillingEve'' that the show is based on a fairly obscure series of novels called ''Vilanelle''. As the popularity of the show has skyrocketed, the novels have become somewhat more popular. Based on customer reviews from various e-commerce sites, the general consensus seems to be that the novels are decent in concept but the show executes it better.
* How many Creator/{{HBO}} viewers realize that ''Series/TrueBlood'' was based on Charlaine Harris' imaginative book series, ''Literature/TheSookieStackhouseMysteries''?
* For a while before he made his way to the big screen, many people outside the USA didn't realise that the Hulk was [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk a comic book character]] that got turned into [[Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977 a TV series]].
* ''Series/SixHundredSixtySixParkAvenue'': This series is based (very loosely) on a book by Gabriella Pierce. Chances are you have never even heard of the book.
* ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' is a weird example of a show displacing ''itself''. The original version ran from 1975 to 1991 on daytime network television (primarily Creator/{{NBC}}, except for a stretch from 1989 to early 1991 when it was on Creator/{{CBS}} instead). The nighttime, syndicated version began in 1983 and has continued ever since. Given that daytime ended so long ago, and given that most of it before the mid-1980s was [[MissingEpisode wiped]], the lack of references to daytime is understandable.
* The current versions of ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' (1984) and ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' (1972) are actually revivals of older shows. The original ''Jeopardy!'' ran from 1964 to 1974 with Art Fleming as host. Try bringing up Bill Cullen as host of ''The Price is Right'' (which he did from 1956 to 1965), and you'll get people born within the last thirty years ask "You mean Bob Barker wasn't the first host?"
* ''Series/SaleOfTheCentury'' is another example. Most people today recall the 1980s series hosted by Jim Perry and developed for Australian TV by Reg Grundy. It was originally created by Al Howard and aired on NBC from 1969 to 1973 and was hosted by Jack Kelly (1969-71) and Joe Garagiola (1971-73).
* ''Series/{{Lingo}}'' (2002-07), one of the most successful original shows for Creator/{{GSN}}, was a revival of a one-season game show from TheEighties hosted by Michael Reagan (the original was notorious for the production company going bankrupt and not paying its contestants).
* ''Series/ChainReaction'' (2006-2007) is another GSN example, a revival of a show that aired on NBC in 1980, then USA from 1986-1991. Despite lasting only two seasons, it was rerun heavily in the ensuing years and revived twice, keeping it much fresher in viewers' minds. It got to the point where a 2021 GSN ad promoted reruns of the 2006 version as "the original Chain Reaction", completely ignoring the two previous ones!
* ''Music/FlightOfTheConchords'' was originally a radio series, but the HBO TV series is much more well-known. There are also cases of fans not realizing that Flight of the Conchords are a real band.
* The "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch originated on ''Series/AtLastThe1948Show'', but when two of the performers, Creator/JohnCleese and Creator/GrahamChapman, later became one-third of Creator/MontyPython, they began including the sketch in their live touring stage shows. Thanks both to their popularity (and it being on the album ''AudioPlay/MontyPythonLiveAtDruryLane'' and the 1982 concert film ''Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl'') and the relative obscurity of ''At Last the 1948 Show'', the sketch is now more associated with Monty Python.
** Also, the "Silly Job Interview" from Episode 5 first appeared in the American TV special ''Film/HowToIrritatePeople'', with Graham Chapman's interviewee role being filled instead by Tim Brooke-Taylor.
** And there's John Philip Sousa's ''Liberty Bell March'', which was chosen to serve as the ThemeTune to the Pythons' series, ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', due to it being in the [[PublicDomainSoundtrack public domain]]. It is now known more as the "Monty Python Song" than as a standalone piece of music, which makes it doubly hilarious when it's performed at campaign rallies and presidential inaugurations.
** Some Python fans are completely unaware of ''Flying Circus'', only knowing the troupe through its various theatrical films.
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'' TV show is much more well-known than [[ComicBook/TheWalkingDead the comic book it is based on]].
* ''Series/PressYourLuck'' is a CultClassic in the GameShow field... but how many know that it was actually a ReTool of an older game show called ''Series/SecondChance''? Especially since most of ''Second Chance'' was erased...
* Many American viewers are unaware that ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' began in Britain in [[TheEighties 1988]]. Even fewer people--from both countries--know that it started as a ''[[SoundToScreenAdaptation radio]]'' show.
* ''Series/BananasInPyjamas'' was based off a song from the Australian children's series ''Series/PlaySchool''. In the original animation, there were six bananas and ten bears, and the Rat In The Hat wasn't present.
* ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'' was based on a memoir by Piper Kerman (who Piper Chapman's name was derived from.) Most people aren't aware of the source material, and those who are discovered it through the show.
* The vast majority of audiences who have heard of Franchise/PerryMason likely only know the franchise through the landmark 1957-66 television series starring Raymond Burr as the title character (or the slew of {{Made for TV Movie}}s, again starring Burr, lasting from 1985-1993), unaware that it was based on a series of novels written over the course of four decades by Erle Stanley Gardner. Not only that, but the books and their characters also lent themselves to several theatrical films, a radio series, and even a second television adaptation (though it was less well-received than the first).
* The 60s sitcom ''Series/{{Hazel}}'' started as a cartoon series by Ted Key, published in the ''Saturday Evening Post''.
* While the ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' by series Creator/GeorgeRRMartin has had a cult following in fantasy circles for nearly two decades, it was ''Series/GameOfThrones'', HBO's hit adaptation of the books, that ingrained Martin's fantasy world in mainstream popular culture. This is somewhat of an AvertedTrope, because fans and critics are ''constantly'' talking about the comparison of the books to the television show, so it's as well known as something like ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' or ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. This has only intensified with the controversial series ending, where many people are hoping to see the "real" ending as done by GRRM.
** The same could be said about ''Literature/FireAndBlood'', the lesser known spinoff book that got adapted into ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon''.
* The [[Series/CatfishTheTVShow reality show]] adaptation of ''Film/{{Catfish}}'' is much more well known than the documentary it's based on.
* Although there have been some efforts to change this perception, odds are that if you show most people fight scene footage from ''Franchise/SuperSentai'', they'll think it's from ''Franchise/PowerRangers''. In some rather extreme cases, this can even apply to other Tokusatsu franchises such as ''Franchise/KamenRider'' and ''Franchise/UltraSeries'', despite the fact that the former follows individual heroes (who sometimes work together) with fiberglass/leather armor as opposed to a team of spandex-clad heroes[[note]]unless one is watching ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGobusters'', which has suits made from leather, or any pre-''Series/KagakuSentaiDynaman'' series, since in ''Dynaman'' they began using spandex suits[[/note]], and the latter is made by an ''[[Creator/TsuburayaProductions entirely different company]]''.
* ''Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu'' is recognised far better as a live-action drama than as a manga, especially since it launced Gen Hoshino's memorable DancingTheme [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVc8MTRzKtI "Koi"]].
* ''The Girlfriend Experience'' originated as a 2009 Creator/StevenSoderbergh film, which did virtually no business and was regarded by most who saw it as one of Soderbergh's worst films. Chances are most of the TV version's viewers never even realized it was based on the film unless they saw the film's writers credited in the end-of-episode credits.
* ''Film/AlienNation'' the movie was a moderate hit, else it probably wouldn't have been adapted for network TV to begin with. ''Series/AlienNation'' the show only lasted for one season - although this had more to do with financial problems at Fox overall than series underperformance - and 5 TV movies. Nonetheless more people seem familiar with the show than the movie.
* The Creator/SyFy series ''{{Series/Haven}}'' is a loose adaptation of the Creator/StephenKing story "The Colorado Kid." In everyone's defense, it's more an AdaptationExpansion, and comes very close to being InNameOnly. However, the show does not shy away from the fact it's a King story, and fans will notice the [[MythologyGag references]] to his other works sprinkled throughout. Even the titular town is a reference to King's "Literature/TheTommyknockers," as the original short story takes place elsewhere.
* Unlike fellow spin-off ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'', many people don't seem to realize that ''Series/DonkeyHodie'' is a spin-off of ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'' despite the main titles mentioning this fact, likely because the character it is based on only appeared in 59 episodes of the show. It's gotten to the point where some people have actually questioned why Donkey's friend isn't named Sancho Panda to go with the ''Literature/DonQuijote'' reference, when the truth is that Purple Panda was a ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' character.
* Despite the controversy generated by ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'', not that many people know that the show is adapted from the rather obscure ''The Lord of the Rings Appendices'' and not from the more known ''Silmarillion'', leading to a lot of confusion of why the show took so many liberties from the source material instead of just adapting the story as it is.
* ''Series/MidnightDiner'' presents an interesting case: when it was released internationally on Creator/{{Netflix}}, it did so under the name ''Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories''. Those who watched it didn't realize they started with ''the fourth season'' as there were previously three 10-episode seasons and a feature-length film released before ''Tokyo Stories'', which never left Japan. Netflix eventually brought the first three seasons onto their platform internationally under its original title, ''Midnight Diner''. Simultaneously, many viewers also don't realize the show is actually adapted from a {{Manga}} written by Yarō Abe called ''Shinya Shokudō'' (深夜食堂; literally, "late night diner").
* ''Series/Kingdom2019'': Most people (both in South Korea and overseas) don't know that the show is based on the webcomic ''Kingdom of the Gods''.
* ''Series/TheUntamed'' is just one of many adaptations of ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi''. The novel is hugely popular in China but the series is more famous internationally.
* Not only was ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' based on [[Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrairie a book]], ''Little House in the Big Woods'' and ''Farmer Boy'' preceded its publication. (And not only that, but the series was based more on the book that came ''after'' it, ''On the Banks of Plum Creek'').
* While some people do know that ''Series/ILoveLucy'' was inspired by Creator/LucilleBall's radio show ''My Favorite Husband'', it can be assumed that few but the most diehard fans have actually listened to that program, and thus don't know just how heavily the television series was drawn from it. Many ''I Love Lucy'' episodes have a corresponding ''My Favorite Husband'' episode they were based on, and [[https://archive.org/details/MyFavoriteHusband/ if you do listen to the latter]], you will be surprised at how similar the plots are, down to some lines and jokes having been copied word for word.
* The science show ''Series/BeakmansWorld'' has proven so popular, very few people know that it was adapted from a Sunday comic strip titled ''You Can With Beakman & Jax'', which ran up until the creator's passing in 2016, long after the show was over.
* In this day and age, far more people are aware of the 1980 ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'' movie, or the [[Series/FlashGordon2007 2007 TV series]], or even the ''[[Film/FlashGordonSerial 1930s serials]]'' than are aware that it was a [[ComicStrip/FlashGordon daily newspaper comic]] that ran for nearly 70 years. Though the 1980 movie does try to remind people, by including images from the comic strip in its opening titles.
* ''Series/TheMeetingPlaceCannotBeChanged'' was originally a novel.
* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': Everyone knows the series, and some remember [[Film/{{MASH}} the movie]] it was based on. How many know the movie was adapted from [[Literature/{{MASH}} a series of novels]]? Not that you'd recognise Hawkeye from the books to the show.
** Played with on a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch where host Elliot Gould is a guest on a morning talk show.
--->'''Pinky Waxman''': "Let's talk about ''Series/{{MASH}}''!\\
'''Leo Waxman''': ''Series/{{MASH}}''! It's my favorite show!\\
'''Elliot Gould''': Well, I was in the movie, not the TV show...\\
'''Leo Waxman''': It was a ''movie''? Who knew?
* The original ''Series/MatchGame'' had two celebrity panelists, four contestants, and no {{double entendre}}s. It's the second version, ''Match Game '73'', that everyone remembers. It doesn't help that virtually all of the original series [[MissingEpisode no longer exists on tape.]] To an extent, not many know that ''Series/FamilyFeud'' was derived from the "Audience Match" endgame of ''Match Game '73''.
* The British version of ''Series/{{The Office|UK}}'' was popular in America before the [[Series/TheOfficeUS American version]] started airing, but the latter was what truly turned the show into a household name. Due in part to BritishBrevity, the American version has lasted much longer and has been one of the most popular sitcoms of its era. Although the British version is regarded as a classic, the American version is still the best known. Creator/RickyGervais often makes [[SelfDeprecation self-deprecating]] jokes about Creator/SteveCarell being more famous than he is. The German and French versions also have better ratings than the original in their respective countries.
* By this point, when people think of ''Series/MrBelvedere'', they're most likely thinking of Christopher Hewett's '80s sitcom, little realizing that the title character was once played on the big screen by Clifton Webb...or that before ''that'', he was a character in a novel by Gwen Davenport.
* ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' is now best remembered for being the silly and not particularly good film that was later adapted into a very successful franchise anchored by the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' TV series. Creator/JossWhedon launched the TV show due to dissatisfaction over the ExecutiveMeddling in the film's production and considers his original script for the film, not the film that was actually made, to be canon, basically making this one of the few ''intentional'' instances of this trope.
* The '70s sitcom ''Series/{{Alice|1976}}'' was based on the 1974 movie ''Film/AliceDoesntLiveHereAnymore''. The movie has been eclipsed not only by the TV show but also by the [[Film/TaxiDriver later]] [[Film/RagingBull movies]] of its director, Creator/MartinScorsese.
* These days the ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' TV series is much better known than the ''Literature/{{Dexter}}'' book series. It also affected the font on the front of the books, changing the capital "T" in DEXTER to "t" to resemble the show.
* ''Series/StargateSG1'' is far more popular than the film that spawned it, ''Film/{{Stargate}}''. ''SG-1'' lasted for ten seasons, spawning two TV sequels, ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' and ''Series/StargateUniverse''; two direct-to-DVD-movies; a remastered version of its pilot episode; numerous novels; and an {{M|assivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame}}MORPG (though this seems to be stuck in DevelopmentHell).
** Also an FPS, Online TCG, another FPS, and other direct-to-DVD movies for the spin-off that are supposedly going to happen if Creator/{{M|etroGoldwynMayer}}GM is ever solvent again.
* Creator/AndrewDavies changed the ending of the novel ''Series/{{House of Cards|UK}}'' in his [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] adaptation. The programme was so much more successful than the (still modestly successful) book that author Michael Dobbs wrote a sequel, ''To Play the King'', and {{retcon}}ned it to fit with the ending of the programme. Then Davies adapted ''To Play the King'' and exactly the same thing happened again.
** Many American fans of the Creator/{{Netflix}} adaptation ''Series/{{House of Cards|US}}'' are likely unaware of the original British series or the book. While the British show was a CultClassic, it was very short-lived and remained virtually unknown outside of England, and wasn't particularly a household name even there. Even nowadays, British people are likely more familiar with the American adaptation than the British original.
* Although Creator/BarrySonnenfeld claimed ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'' was directly based on [[ComicStrip/TheAddamsFamily the original comics]], every significant detail was taken from [[Series/TheAddamsFamily the TV series]] (for example, the original comic strip never named the characters).
* ''Series/IClaudius''; the miniseries displaced [[Literature/IClaudius Robert Graves's novel]].
* The 60s TV adaptation of ''Radio/TheGreenHornet'' has displaced the original radio series on which it was based. This is most obvious in the characterization of Kato: in the original radio series Kato was merely Britt Reid's valet and the Hornet's companion, and had no notable martial arts skills. Creator/BruceLee's portrayal of Kato as martial arts master and all around badass is now so firmly entrenched in the audience's expectations that all subsequent adaptations of the property have that as a prominent part of Kato's characterization.
** In the 1990s NOW Comics adaptations, the writers went so far as to [[RetCanon make the entire Kato family]] (Ikano Kato, companion of the 30s-40s Hornet, Hayashi Kato, son of Ikano and companion of the 60s and 90s Hornet, and Mishi Kato, half-sister of Hayashi and companion (for a time) of the 90s Hornet) proficient martial artists
*** The above displacement of Kato is so famous he got his own Expy without Green Hornet (the 90s martial arts film, Black Mask, has people comment upon the characters' similarity).
* Many Japanese tourists, upon seeing the ''Film/{{Backdraft}}'' attraction at Ride/UniversalStudios, wondered why they were playing the theme music to ''Ryoori no Tetsujin'' (known elsewhere as ''Series/IronChef'').
* Creator/TellySavalas first played Lt. Series/{{Kojak}} (listed in the credits as "Kojack") in an Abby Mann-scripted teleplay about a real-life MiscarriageOfJustice called ''The Marcus-Nelson Murders'', which was itself based on a book by Selwyn Raab. However, Raab wrote that book as a non-fiction work, not a novel, so Kojak did debut for television.
* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfShirleyHolmes'' was adapted to TV from a series of novels produced by Winklemania Productions, UK. If you grew up in TheNineties, it's almost a guarantee you've heard of the series: it aired in over 80 countries and was translated to 8 languages. The books are nowhere ''near'' as well-known.
* The original book ''Literature/DeepLove'' had a large cult following in Japan and while there was a series of popular manga (with multiple spin-offs) the live-action drama was by far more popular.
** The book actually started out as a series of web novels (keitai shousetsu, i.e. a web novel that was published on a site that was made for cell phone viewing) which got so popular they got novelized.
* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' was based on a 1950s Creator/{{EC|Comics}} horror comic of the same name, complete with Crypt-Keeper.
* A lot of people know that ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' is an adaptation of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', but few people realize that the LiveActionTV sitcom is based off [[Comicbook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch a long-running comic book series]], besides those who watched ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaAndTheGroovieGoolies''. ComicBook/{{Archie|Comics}}'s had been attempting to avert this in the 2010s. Sabrina's main comic series was on hiatus for years until it was rebooted for ''ComicBook/ArchieComics2015'', but she has had multiple appearances in the main ''Archie'' comics, she has a [[WesternAnimation/SabrinaSecretsOfATeenageWitch new cartoon]], she's a major character in ''ComicBook/AfterlifeWithArchie'', and she has a new DarkerAndEdgier retelling called ''ComicBook/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina''. Still, whenever you search or talk about her, most remember the show first.
* The British crime TV series ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' has hugely overshadowed the book series by Caroline Graham that it was inspired by and that early episodes were adapted from.
* Another British crime series of the same era, ''Series/ATouchOfFrost'', is much better known than the series of novels by R D Wingfield that it was a (significantly {{bowdlerise}}d) adaptation of.
* ''Manga/Life2002'' started out as a manga, but the TV drama is considerably better-known for whatever reason.
* ''Literature/{{Dinotopia}}''. Fewer people know about the novels now because of the TV series.
* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' falls into this to a point -- not everyone realizes there were movies first.
* ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'' is one of the prime examples of this trope. The TV series was extremely popular and generated many iconic images and sounds; most people are unaware that the TV series was originally based on the novel ''Cyborg'' by Creator/MartinCaidin (despite it being named on the end credits), and the book has become almost entirely forgotten.
* It's not as bad as others, but when most people think of ''Theatre/TheOddCouple'', the [[Series/TheOddCouple1970 TV series starring Tony Randall and Jack Klugman]] is usually the first version to come to mind instead of the original play (Klugman actually played Oscar on Broadway ''before'' the series) or [[Film/TheOddCouple1968 the movie]].
* It comes as a shock to many fans of ''Series/KillingEve'' that the show is based on a fairly obscure series of novels called ''Vilanelle''. As the popularity of the show has skyrocketed, the novels have become somewhat more popular. Based on customer reviews from various e-commerce sites, the general consensus seems to be that the novels are decent in concept but the show executes it better.
* How many Creator/{{HBO}} viewers realize that ''Series/TrueBlood'' was based on Charlaine Harris' imaginative book series, ''Literature/TheSookieStackhouseMysteries''?
* For a while before he made his way to the big screen, many people outside the USA didn't realise that the Hulk was [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk a comic book character]] that got turned into [[Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977 a TV series]].
* ''Series/SixHundredSixtySixParkAvenue'': This series is based (very loosely) on a book by Gabriella Pierce. Chances are you have never even heard of the book.
* ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' is a weird example of a show displacing ''itself''. The original version ran from 1975 to 1991 on daytime network television (primarily Creator/{{NBC}}, except for a stretch from 1989 to early 1991 when it was on Creator/{{CBS}} instead). The nighttime, syndicated version began in 1983 and has continued ever since. Given that daytime ended so long ago, and given that most of it before the mid-1980s was [[MissingEpisode wiped]], the lack of references to daytime is understandable.
* The current versions of ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' (1984) and ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' (1972) are actually revivals of older shows. The original ''Jeopardy!'' ran from 1964 to 1974 with Art Fleming as host. Try bringing up Bill Cullen as host of ''The Price is Right'' (which he did from 1956 to 1965), and you'll get people born within the last thirty years ask "You mean Bob Barker wasn't the first host?"
* ''Series/SaleOfTheCentury'' is another example. Most people today recall the 1980s series hosted by Jim Perry and developed for Australian TV by Reg Grundy. It was originally created by Al Howard and aired on NBC from 1969 to 1973 and was hosted by Jack Kelly (1969-71) and Joe Garagiola (1971-73).
* ''Series/{{Lingo}}'' (2002-07), one of the most successful original shows for Creator/{{GSN}}, was a revival of a one-season game show from TheEighties hosted by Michael Reagan (the original was notorious for the production company going bankrupt and not paying its contestants).
* ''Series/ChainReaction'' (2006-2007) is another GSN example, a revival of a show that aired on NBC in 1980, then USA from 1986-1991. Despite lasting only two seasons, it was rerun heavily in the ensuing years and revived twice, keeping it much fresher in viewers' minds. It got to the point where a 2021 GSN ad promoted reruns of the 2006 version as "the original Chain Reaction", completely ignoring the two previous ones!
* ''Music/FlightOfTheConchords'' was originally a radio series, but the HBO TV series is much more well-known. There are also cases of fans not realizing that Flight of the Conchords are a real band.
* The "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch originated on ''Series/AtLastThe1948Show'', but when two of the performers, Creator/JohnCleese and Creator/GrahamChapman, later became one-third of Creator/MontyPython, they began including the sketch in their live touring stage shows. Thanks both to their popularity (and it being on the album ''AudioPlay/MontyPythonLiveAtDruryLane'' and the 1982 concert film ''Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl'') and the relative obscurity of ''At Last the 1948 Show'', the sketch is now more associated with Monty Python.
** Also, the "Silly Job Interview" from Episode 5 first appeared in the American TV special ''Film/HowToIrritatePeople'', with Graham Chapman's interviewee role being filled instead by Tim Brooke-Taylor.
** And there's John Philip Sousa's ''Liberty Bell March'', which was chosen to serve as the ThemeTune to the Pythons' series, ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', due to it being in the [[PublicDomainSoundtrack public domain]]. It is now known more as the "Monty Python Song" than as a standalone piece of music, which makes it doubly hilarious when it's performed at campaign rallies and presidential inaugurations.
** Some Python fans are completely unaware of ''Flying Circus'', only knowing the troupe through its various theatrical films.
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'' TV show is much more well-known than [[ComicBook/TheWalkingDead the comic book it is based on]].
* ''Series/PressYourLuck'' is a CultClassic in the GameShow field... but how many know that it was actually a ReTool of an older game show called ''Series/SecondChance''? Especially since most of ''Second Chance'' was erased...
* Many American viewers are unaware that ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' began in Britain in [[TheEighties 1988]]. Even fewer people--from both countries--know that it started as a ''[[SoundToScreenAdaptation radio]]'' show.
* ''Series/BananasInPyjamas'' was based off a song from the Australian children's series ''Series/PlaySchool''. In the original animation, there were six bananas and ten bears, and the Rat In The Hat wasn't present.
* ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'' was based on a memoir by Piper Kerman (who Piper Chapman's name was derived from.) Most people aren't aware of the source material, and those who are discovered it through the show.
* The vast majority of audiences who have heard of Franchise/PerryMason likely only know the franchise through the landmark 1957-66 television series starring Raymond Burr as the title character (or the slew of {{Made for TV Movie}}s, again starring Burr, lasting from 1985-1993), unaware that it was based on a series of novels written over the course of four decades by Erle Stanley Gardner. Not only that, but the books and their characters also lent themselves to several theatrical films, a radio series, and even a second television adaptation (though it was less well-received than the first).
* The 60s sitcom ''Series/{{Hazel}}'' started as a cartoon series by Ted Key, published in the ''Saturday Evening Post''.
* While the ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' by series Creator/GeorgeRRMartin has had a cult following in fantasy circles for nearly two decades, it was ''Series/GameOfThrones'', HBO's hit adaptation of the books, that ingrained Martin's fantasy world in mainstream popular culture. This is somewhat of an AvertedTrope, because fans and critics are ''constantly'' talking about the comparison of the books to the television show, so it's as well known as something like ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' or ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. This has only intensified with the controversial series ending, where many people are hoping to see the "real" ending as done by GRRM.
** The same could be said about ''Literature/FireAndBlood'', the lesser known spinoff book that got adapted into ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon''.
* The [[Series/CatfishTheTVShow reality show]] adaptation of ''Film/{{Catfish}}'' is much more well known than the documentary it's based on.
* Although there have been some efforts to change this perception, odds are that if you show most people fight scene footage from ''Franchise/SuperSentai'', they'll think it's from ''Franchise/PowerRangers''. In some rather extreme cases, this can even apply to other Tokusatsu franchises such as ''Franchise/KamenRider'' and ''Franchise/UltraSeries'', despite the fact that the former follows individual heroes (who sometimes work together) with fiberglass/leather armor as opposed to a team of spandex-clad heroes[[note]]unless one is watching ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGobusters'', which has suits made from leather, or any pre-''Series/KagakuSentaiDynaman'' series, since in ''Dynaman'' they began using spandex suits[[/note]], and the latter is made by an ''[[Creator/TsuburayaProductions entirely different company]]''.
* ''Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu'' is recognised far better as a live-action drama than as a manga, especially since it launced Gen Hoshino's memorable DancingTheme [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVc8MTRzKtI "Koi"]].
* ''The Girlfriend Experience'' originated as a 2009 Creator/StevenSoderbergh film, which did virtually no business and was regarded by most who saw it as one of Soderbergh's worst films. Chances are most of the TV version's viewers never even realized it was based on the film unless they saw the film's writers credited in the end-of-episode credits.
* ''Film/AlienNation'' the movie was a moderate hit, else it probably wouldn't have been adapted for network TV to begin with. ''Series/AlienNation'' the show only lasted for one season - although this had more to do with financial problems at Fox overall than series underperformance - and 5 TV movies. Nonetheless more people seem familiar with the show than the movie.
* The Creator/SyFy series ''{{Series/Haven}}'' is a loose adaptation of the Creator/StephenKing story "The Colorado Kid." In everyone's defense, it's more an AdaptationExpansion, and comes very close to being InNameOnly. However, the show does not shy away from the fact it's a King story, and fans will notice the [[MythologyGag references]] to his other works sprinkled throughout. Even the titular town is a reference to King's "Literature/TheTommyknockers," as the original short story takes place elsewhere.
* Unlike fellow spin-off ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'', many people don't seem to realize that ''Series/DonkeyHodie'' is a spin-off of ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'' despite the main titles mentioning this fact, likely because the character it is based on only appeared in 59 episodes of the show. It's gotten to the point where some people have actually questioned why Donkey's friend isn't named Sancho Panda to go with the ''Literature/DonQuijote'' reference, when the truth is that Purple Panda was a ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' character.
* Despite the controversy generated by ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'', not that many people know that the show is adapted from the rather obscure ''The Lord of the Rings Appendices'' and not from the more known ''Silmarillion'', leading to a lot of confusion of why the show took so many liberties from the source material instead of just adapting the story as it is.
* ''Series/MidnightDiner'' presents an interesting case: when it was released internationally on Creator/{{Netflix}}, it did so under the name ''Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories''. Those who watched it didn't realize they started with ''the fourth season'' as there were previously three 10-episode seasons and a feature-length film released before ''Tokyo Stories'', which never left Japan. Netflix eventually brought the first three seasons onto their platform internationally under its original title, ''Midnight Diner''. Simultaneously, many viewers also don't realize the show is actually adapted from a {{Manga}} written by Yarō Abe called ''Shinya Shokudō'' (深夜食堂; literally, "late night diner").
