These TV Shows Did So Well That They Got Box Office Spin-Offs

Star Trek

The Star Trek timeline is pretty hard to keep up with. The original show starred William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy and ran from 1966 to 1969. Since then, there have been several other series in the franchise that details the adventures of Captain Kirk and Officer Spock.

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The More You Know

  • The Hulk made his debut in 1962.
  • During the filming of the movie Titanic, an angry crew member put PCP in James Cameron’s soup, sending him and 50 others to the hospital.
  • The names of the taxi driver and the policeman in everybody’s favourite Yuletide outing, It’s A Wonderful Life, are Bert and Ernie. The writers working on Sesame Street at the time claim it’s merely a coincidence.
  • The first-ever animated film to be nominated for Best Picture was Beauty and the Beast in 1981
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.