Question Do you know what was the first TV show to have a feature length movie made about it while the show was still on the air Did that show see a bump in ratings because of the movie Ryan FlickChick This is an interesting question and I have to say up front that I have no way of answering the second part Im sure there is a way of getting ratings information for 1960s television shows and checking against the release dates of the appropriate feature films but it would involve physically sifting through archived network information that isnt readily available to outsiders And the more I think about it the less I am sure that the information is even there were talking about the same networks that regularly reused videotapes or dumped the only copies of early shows into catch-all storage facilities and forgot about them The first two Superbowl broadcasts were taped over and no-one knows what became of Johnny Carsons first appearance on The Tonight Show No
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