All in the Family - which has had more spin offs than any other TV show.
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| All in the Family - Archie, Edith, daughter Gloria, and her hubby Mike. |
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| The Jeffersons - the Bunkers' neighbors spun off to their own show when they moved on up to a swanky apartment in their show. |
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| Maude - Edith's liberal cousin got her own show after sparring with Archie a few times on the original show. |
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| Gloria - Archie and Edith's daughter left Mike and moved West - working for crusty vet Burgess Meredith while raising son Joey - in a one season flop. |
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| The original series spun off into a sequel series that centered around Archie buying his favorite bar and running it. |
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| 704 Hauser - In the strangest spin off - twenty years after the original show premiered, they tried a new show set in the house Archie and Edith had lived in, now with an African American family moving in - and father John Amos was nearly as short sighted as Archie was. This one didn't last long. |
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
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| The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Mary and her friends and co-workers and her life in Minneapolis. |
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| Rhoda - Mary's best friend moved away to her own show that ran for years. |
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| Phyllis - Mary's other pal also moved into a show of her own - but this one did not last very long. |
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| Lou Grant - in the strangest spin off here, Mary's boss graduated from the original sitcom into an hour long drama series that had him running a news bureau in a different city. This one also did very well, running for several seasons. |
Happy Days
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| Happy Days - an early cast shot. |
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| Laverne and Shirley - the girls dated Fonzie and Richie a couple of times, then got their own show that ran eight seasons. |
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| Mork and Mindy - a weird spinoff in that Happy Days introduced an alien character who then time traveled to the then modern day for the series. |
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| They broke the young lovers off to their own show but it didn't last long and they hightailed it back to Happy Days and finished out the run. |
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| Out of the Blue - Here's the winner for weirdest spinoff for this show - another fantasy concept started on the otherwise sorta realistic Happy Days about an angel - who then also showed up in the then modern day for a brief run on his own series. |
M*A*S*H*
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| M*A*S*H* - not the original cast, but the longest running lineup in the Korean War series. |
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| AfterM*A*S*H* - Three characters spun off to a two season run working in a veteran's hospital after the war. |
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| W*A*L*T*E*R* - A few years later, they tried to get a show out of Radar becoming a police officer back home. They only got the pilot made, but that still counts... |
Cheers
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| Cheers - where everybody knows your name. |
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| The Tortellis - Carla's ex-husband and his new family got their own show for a little while. |
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| Frasier - when Cheers ended, the crew continued working on a spinoff about Frasier and his life in Seattle with his friends and family. The two shows ran a total of twenty years (!). |
Three’s Company
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| Three's Company - the roommates and their landlords. |
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| The Ropers - the landlords spun off to their own short lived show. |
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| Three's a Crowd - after the original series ended, Jack and his girlfriend spun off to another series with the great Robert Mandan. |
The Andy Griffith Show
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| The Andy Griffith Show - there were more cast members, but here you get four. |
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| Gomer Pyle USMC - they sent goofy Gomer off to the Marines where he annoyed Sergeant Carter for several seasons. |
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| Mayberry RFD - When Andy Griffith was ready to pack it in - they decided to continue the show - spinning off with the supporting characters of the last couple of seasons carrying on for a few more. |
The Dukes of Hazzard
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| The Dukes of Hazzard - All of the stars and the car. |
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| Enos - they sent the deputy off to his own show as he went to work as a big city detective. It didn't last and Enos returned to the original show for the rest of the run. |
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| The Dukes - they got two Saturday morning seasons out of a worldwide car race between the Dukes and Boss Hogg and Rosco - with all of the original voices. |
Dragnet
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| The detectives on the case, and looking for "just the facts." |
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| Adam-12 - the spinoff followed the adventures of uniform officers Malloy and Reed - with the late great Martin Milner and Kent McCord starring. |
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| Emergency! - and the other spinoff focused on the paramedic side of things. |
The Golden Girls
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| The Golden Girls - the ladies looking their best. |
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| Empty Nest - the ladies' neighbor got his own show and they crossed over occasionally. |
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| The Golden Palace - After the original show ended on NBC, three of the ladies moved to CBS for another season as they ran a hotel with Cheech Marin as the hotel's chef. |
Until next post, you Can Poke Me With A Fork, Cause I Am Outta Here!