The 1970s series of Reginald Perrin is maybe the most famous sitcom to have been adapted from novels. Have there been hundreds of others though? Also, how many have been adapted for TV recently? It would seem to me to be quite a good idea.
Sitcoms adapted from novels
Yes I think it was!
Adrian Mole? Wasn't that the book first?
Was Watching a novel?
A Bit of a Do certainly was but that was more of a comedy drama.
Doctor In the House etc.
Danny King adapted Thieves Like Us from his Burglar Diaries.
Quote: Nick @ May 25 2009, 10:26 AM BSTWas Watching a novel?
Think the novel came after.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Gallaxy?
Quote: sootyj @ May 25 2009, 10:46 AM BSTHitchhiker's Guide to the Gallaxy?
The radio series came first, but the TV series does follow the novel more closely.
This doesn't really count as a sitcom, but Jeeves and Wooster was adapted onto the TV with Fry and Laurie. If I read any P.G Wodehouse, I do see those two in my minds eye as Jeeves and Wooster.
Scully ?
(Though more of a comedy drama serial)
Dickens Great Expectations was not the Nine O'CLock News.
Radio 4's SUPERB sitcom Bleak Expectations is (loosely) adapted from not one but TWO novels. Shock horror, and that.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole aged 13 and 3/4 yet
stand corrected someone did lol
>_< I wasn- Oh, nevermind.
Yes, I should be.
And SATC isn't so much a sitcom as it is a medieval torture device.
M*A*S*H was based on a film based on a novel.
I read an Auf Wiedersehen Pet book once