Just because television is called the "small screen" doesn't mean it can't have big screen ideas. In the history of the greatest TV shows turned into movies, what are the best of all time?
In 1954, the barriers that separated the world of TV and movies began to blur when the hit television crime drama Dragnet, directed by creator Jack Webb (who also starred) was made into a movie. Dragnet was already something of a "franchise" before this happened - it began life as a radio drama in 1949 - but its financially profitable adaptation into a movie proved that moviegoing audiences were willing to show up for anything, so long as they know what it's about.
