In a world that sees movies being turned into TV shows and popular television series like Psych being turned into films ad nauseam, it's hard to imagine a time in which this just wasn't a common practice. For just over the first half-century of movie history, movies were left to take inspiration from books, plays, and legends, or were simply derived from their own original screenplays. It didn't take long for things to get shaken up after the invention of TV, though. With certain early small-screen shows instantly bursting in popularity, it only made sense for Hollywood to decide to make the jump and capitalize on them at the box office.
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