List of films based on British television series explained

This is a list of theatrically released feature films that are based on British television programmes.

Comedy

TV programme				Film
Title	Channel	Premiere	End	Title	Premiere
Absolutely Fabulous		1992	2012	Absolument fabuleux	2001
					2016
^[1]		2000	2004	Ali G Indahouse	2002
					2006
				Brüno	2009
				Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan	2020
Are You Being Served?	BBC1	1972	1985	Are You Being Served?	1977
		1957	1961	I Only Arsked!	1958
Bad Education		2012	2014		2015
	ITV	1969	1991		1974
Bless This House	ITV	1971	1976	Bless This House	1972
Bottom	BBC2	1991	1995	Guest House Paradiso	1999
		2004	2007		2022
	Channel 4	1982	2016		1985
				Eat the Rich	1987
					1991
					2004
Dad's Army	BBC1	1968	1977	Dad's Army	1971
				Dad's Army	2016
	BBC1	1963	1981	Ooh… You Are Awful	1972
Father, Dear Father	ITV	1968	1973	Father, Dear Father	1973
For the Love of Ada	ITV	1970	1971	For the Love of Ada	1972
George and Mildred^[2]	ITV	1976	1979	George and Mildred	1980
Harry Enfield's Television Programme	BBC2	1990	1992	Kevin & Perry Go Large	2000
Horrible Histories^[3]	CBBC	2009	Present		2019
		2008	2010		2011
					2014
I'm Alan Partridge^[4]	BBC2	1997	2002		2013
Keith Lemon's Very Brilliant World Tour^[5]	ITV2	2008	2008		2012
	ITV	1958	1960	Inn for Trouble	1960^[6]
		1999	2002	The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse	2005
Love Thy Neighbour	ITV	1972	1976	Love Thy Neighbour	1973
	ITV	1970	1971		1973
Man About the House	ITV	1973	1976	Man About the House	1974
Monty Python's Flying Circus	BBC1	1969	1974	And Now for Something Completely Different	1971
				Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl	1982
Mr. Bean	ITV	1990	1995	Bean	1997
				Mr. Bean's Holiday	2007
Mrs. Brown's Boys^[7]		2011	TBD	Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie	2014
^[8]	ITV	1976	1981		1979
					2011
				Muppets Most Wanted	2014
Nearest and Dearest	ITV	1968	1973	Nearest and Dearest	1972
Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width	ITV	1967	1971	Never Mind the Quality Feel the Width	1973
		2001	2003		2016
On the Buses	ITV	1969	1973	On the Buses	1971
				Mutiny on the Buses	1972
				Holiday on the Buses	1973
People Just Do Nothing		2014	2018		2021
Please Sir!	ITV	1968	1972	Please Sir!	1971
Porridge	BBC1	1974	1977	Porridge	1979
Rising Damp	ITV	1974	1978	Rising Damp	1980
Stella Street		1997	2001	Stella Street	2004
Steptoe and Son		1962	1974	Steptoe and Son	1972
				Steptoe and Son Ride Again	1973
That's Your Funeral	BBC1	1970	1971	That's Your Funeral	1972
		2005	2012	In the Loop	2009
Till Death Us Do Part	BBC1	1965	1975	Till Death Us Do Part	1968
					1972
		2010	2020		2010
					2014
					2017
					2020
Up Pompeii!	BBC1	1969	1970	Up Pompeii	1971
				Up the Chastity Belt	1971
				Up the Front	1972
Whack-O!		1956	1972	Bottoms Up	1960
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?	BBC1	1973	1974		1976
Whoops Apocalypse	ITV	1982	1982	Whoops Apocalypse	1986

Drama

TV programme				Film
Title	Channel	Premiere	End	Title	Premiere
		1961	1969		1998
Callan	ITV	1967	1972	Callan	1974
Downton Abbey	ITV	2010	2015	Downton Abbey	2019
					2022
Edge of Darkness	BBC2	1985	1985	Edge of Darkness	2010
		1954	1957	It's a Great Day	1955
Man at the Top	ITV	1970	1972	Man at the Top	1973
Pennies from Heaven	BBC1	1978	1978	Pennies from Heaven	1981
	ITV	1962	1969		1997
	ITV	1963	1963	Our Man in the Caribbean	1962
	BBC1	1986	1986		2003
	BBC2	1970	1970	Henry VIII and His Six Wives	1972
Spooks		2002	2011		2015
State of Play		2003	2003	State of Play	2009
	ITV	1975	1978	Sweeney!	1977
				Sweeney 2	1978
					2012
Traffik	Channel 4	1989	1989	Traffic	2000
Widows	ITV	1983	1985	Widows	2018

Science fiction

TV programme				Film
Title	Channel	Premiere	End	Title	Premiere
Doctor Who		1963	1989	Dr. Who and the Daleks	1965
					1966
Doomwatch	BBC1	1970	1972	Doomwatch	1972
		1953	1953		1955
Quatermass II		1955	1955	Quatermass 2	1957
Quatermass and the Pit		1958	1959	Quatermass and the Pit	1967
Quatermass	ITV	1979	1979		1980
Thunderbirds	ITV	1965	1966	Thunderbirds Are Go	1966
				Thunderbird 6	1968
				Thunderbirds	2004

Documentary

TV programme				Film
Title	Channel	Premiere	End	Title	Premiere
		2001	2001	Deep Blue	2003
Planet Earth		2006	2006	Earth	2007
				Earth: One Amazing Day	2017
Walking with Dinosaurs		1999	1999	Walking with Dinosaurs	2013
				Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D	2014

Children's television

TV programme				Film
Title	Channel	Premiere	End	Title	Premiere
Fireman Sam		1987		Fireman Sam: Alien Alert! The Movie^[9]	2017
		1965	1992	Dougal and the Blue Cat	1972
					2005
Postman Pat		1981	2017		2014
Shaun the Sheep^[10]		2007	TBD	Shaun the Sheep Movie	2015
					2019
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends^[11]	ITV	1984	2021	Thomas and the Magic Railroad	2000
Wallace and Gromit	BBC1	1989	2008		2005

See also

• List of films based on television programs
• Cinema of the United Kingdom

Notes and References

1. The Ali G character first appeared in The 11 O'Clock Show
2. The George and Mildred characters first appeared in Man About the House (1973)
3. Horrible Histories was based on the book series of the same name
4. The Alan Partridge character first appeared in the radio programme On the Hour (1991) and on TV in The Day Today (1994)
5. The Keith Lemon character first appeared on TV in Bo' Selecta!
6. Web site: The Larkins . Marcus . Laurence . Hulse . Stephen R. . 19 October 2000 . Television Heaven . https://web.archive.org/web/20130121202702/http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/larkins.htm . 21 January 2013 . 2012-02-12.
7. Mrs. Brown's Boys evolved from the radio play Mrs. Browne's Boys (1992) and a book series
8. [The Muppets]
9. Web site: Fireman Sam: Alien Alert! The Movie . Carling . David . Douglas . Su . . 17 June 2017.
10. The Shaun character first appeared in A Close Shave (1995)
11. Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends was based on The Railway Series of books