History Main / SoundToScreenAdaptation

* The BBC Radio 4 {{Mockumentary}} ''Delve Special'', starring StephenFry as IntrepidReporter David Lander was adapted for ChannelFour as ''Series/ThisIsDavidLander'' (then, when Fry couldn't make a second series, Creator/TonySlattery [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute took over]] for ''This Is David Harper'').

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks''

* Several interviews and music performances recorded for ''Q'' on {{CBC}} are filmed and posted to the show's Youtube channel. In particular, a video clip of an interview with Billy-bob Thorton (in which Mr Thornton was clearly intoxicated and Jian Ghomeshi kept his cool) went briefly viral.

* In an interesting example, a few episodes of ''Radio/TheDebaters'' were filmed to be aired on {{CBC}} television in 2011. TV cameras were set up in the theatre where the show was usually recorded in front of a live audience, and the show was produced completely unchanged.

* ''{{Miranda}}'' started off as ''Miranda Hart's Joke Shop'' on radio.

* ''TheMightyBoosh'' ran for one series on the radio (as ''The Boosh'') before the stories were adapted for television. Subsequent series have used all-new material.

* ''GuidingLight'' is currently known as the longest-running scripted soap opera. This is assisted by the fact that it started out as a radio serial in the 1937, with the Tv version beginning in 1952. The show actually ran concurrently (running the same storylines) on radio and TV between 1952 and 1956. Notably, Guiding Light is the only radio soap opera to successfully transition to TV.

* Radio series ''That Mitchell and Webb Sound'' was adapted into the TV series ''ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'', although the radio series is continuing.
* A less well known transition saw ''TheBurkissWay'' transfer to TV as ''End of Part One''.

* Somewhat more successfully, ''Radio Active'' became ''{{KYTV}}''.
* Several episodes of ''TheGoonShow'' were adapted for a 15-minute puppet version called ''The Telegoons'' starring the original cast as VoiceActors. There were also a couple of TV remakes of Goon Show episodes, but that was done by pointing cameras at a radio performance.

* ''[[Series.DeadRingers Dead Ringers]]'' spent many happy years on radio before making the shift to television. There is still the occasional radio special.
* ''ArmstrongAndMiller'' also began on radio.
* Popular TV series ''HaveIGotNewsForYou'', which was originally devised as an adaptation of Radio Four's ''TheNewsQuiz''.

* ''LittleBritain''

* ''TheNavyLark'' has had both two television shows (both latest for a short time) and one film.

* ''OurMissBrooks''

* Creator/DylanThomas's {{BBC}} radio play ''Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices'' was made into a film in 1972. Creator/TheBBC made an AnimatedAdaptation in 1992, using the original radio soundtrack. There have also been several stage versions, including a ballet.

* ''TheMaryWhitehouseExperience''

* Lee and Herring themselves had the ''FistOfFun'' radio show, which was adapted into an identically-named TV series.

* Creator/DylanThomas's {{BBC}} radio play ''Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices'' was made into a film in 1972. TheBBC made an AnimatedAdaptation in 1992, using the original radio soundtrack. There have also been several stage versions, including a ballet.

* The spoof radio news show ''OnTheHour'' was later turned into TV series ''TheDayToday'' -- which itself spawned ''Series/BrassEye''. ''TheDayToday'' rarely reused old radio material, due in part to the acrimonious departure of two writers, Stewart Lee and Richard Herring, whose work was subsequently edited out of ''On The Hour'' repeats and would not be reused for TV.

* This was one step taken by the ''Doctor in the House'' series of stories; originally a collection of books by Richard Gordon, they were adapted into a series of films starring Dirk Bogarde and directed by Ralph Thomas in the 1950s and early 1960s. In the late 1960s, some of the stories were adapted for radio in two thirteen-episode series, ''Doctor in the House'' and ''Doctor at Large'', starring [[TheGoodLife Richard Briers]] and Ray Cooney (Cooney also wrote the scripts). Between 1969 and 1979, the stories were adapted for television, with the characters re-named, in the series ''Doctor in the House'', ''Doctor at Large'', ''Doctor in Charge'', ''Doctor at Sea'', ''Doctor on the Go'', the Australian transplant ''Doctor Down Under'', and the short lived early 1990s revival ''Doctor at the Top''. The television series is perhaps more notable for its writing staff and its guest cast than for its primary cast (which at various times included Martin Shaw (''Series/TheProfessionals''), Jonathan Lynn (co-writer of ''YesMinister''), George Layton (successful comedy writer and initial star of ''Series/ItAintHalfHotMum''), and Richard O'Sullivan (''Man About the House'')). Graeme Garden (himself a qualified doctor) and Bill Oddie wrote many episodes together before ''Series/TheGoodies'' became successful enough to demand their full attention, and Creator/GrahamChapman (also a qualified doctor) and Creator/JohnCleese wrote many more scripts, both together and with other co-writers, during breaks in the writing schedule for ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. (An episode of ''Doctor at Large'' written by Cleese and featuring a brusque hotelier with a domineering wife later provided the blueprint for ''FawltyTowers''.) [[OnlyFoolsAndHorses David]] [[WesternAnimation/DangerMouse Jason]] was a guest star in various episodes of both the radio and the television series.

* Not a direct switch, but some of the cast of ''Creator/MontyPython'' started out on ''Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain'' on radio (John Cleese as a performer, Graham Chapman and Eric Idle as occasional script contributors) before making the jump to television, first on ''The Frost Report'' (again, with Cleese as a performer and all five British Pythons as writers), then via ''At Last the 1948 Show'' and ''Do Not Adjust Your Set'' to Glory. ''Series/TheGoodies'' also started out on ''ISIRTA'' before moving to television, Tim Brooke-Taylor in ''At Last the 1948 Show'' and Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie in ''Twice a Fortnight'' (alongside Terry Jones and Michael Palin in their first programme in front of the cameras), and then all three in ''Broaden Your Mind'' and eventually ''The Goodies''. Some gags and sketches originally written for ''ISIRTA'' resurfaced in the various television programmes; this was less common for the Pythons than it was for the Goodies since the latter were all ''ISIRTA'' alumni (compared to only Cleese for the Pythons), and Garden and Oddie were prolific contributors to the scripts for ''ISIRTA'' (Oddie primarily with musical numbers) and subsequently wrote the scripts for ''The Goodies''.

* BBC Radio 4 stalwart ''Radio/JustAMinute'' was adapted for television several times, with unreleased pilots made in 1969 and 1981, a regional London series in 1994 (with some minor visual gimmicks), another series in 1995 (playing out some kind of bizarre Midlands vs. London team game with Dale Winton and Tony Slattery as captains), and finally two proper BBC TV broadcasts in the original format in 1999 and 2012. Unlike the short-lived TV versions, the radio version continues to this day.

* The BBC Radio 4 {{Mockumentary}} ''Delve Special'', starring StephenFry as IntrepidReporter David Lander was adapted for ChannelFour as ''This Is David Lander'' (then, when Fry couldn't make a second series, [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Tony Slattery took over]] for ''This Is David Harper'').

* This editor, being an old fart, may be the only one to remember it but, ''Dick Barton, Special Agent'', possibly a British takeoff of his namesake Tracy, began as a radio show but had a telly season back in the '70s.

* Several interviews and music performances recorded for '''Q''' on {{CBC}} are filmed and posted to the show's Youtube channel. In particular, a video clip of an interview with Billy-bob Thorton (in which Mr Thornton was clearly intoxicated and Jian Ghomeshi kept his cool) went briefly viral.

* Probably the best known example is ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', which started off as [[Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy a radio show]] and was adapted into [[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy a television series]], [[VideoGame/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy a computer game]], [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy a film]], [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy a series of popular books]] and a towel. The radio series actually comprises the first two ''HHGG'' books plus some material that never made its way into the other adaptations. The third, fourth, and fifth books were then adapted ''back'' into a radio series using the original cast 20 years later.

* In an interesting example, a few episodes of ''Radio/TheDebaters'' were filed as is to be aired on {{CBC}} television in 2011. TV cameras were set up in the theatre where the show was usually recorded in front of a live audience, and the show was produced completely unchanged.

* Several interviews and music performances recorded for '''Q''' on {{CBC}} are filed and posted to the show's Youtube channel. In particular, a video clip of an interview with Billy-bob Thorton (in which Mr Thornton was clearly intoxicated and Jian Ghomeshi kept his cool) went briefly viral.

* ''ThisAmericanLife'' on [[strike:{{NPR}}]] PRI, and now {{Showtime}}. Very, very rare modern American example.

* BBC Radio 4 stalwart ''JustAMinute'' was adapted for television several times, with unreleased pilots made in 1969 and 1981, a regional London series in 1994 (with some minor visual gimmicks), another series in 1995 (playing out some kind of bizarre Midlands vs. London team game with Dale Winton and Tony Slattery as captains), and finally a proper BBC TV broadcast in the original format in 1999. Unlike the short-lived TV versions, the radio version continues to this day.

* The spoof radio news show ''OnTheHour'' was later turned into TV series ''TheDayToday'' -- which itself spawned ''BrassEye''. ''TheDayToday'' rarely reused old radio material, due in part to the acrimonious departure of two writers, Stewart Lee and Richard Herring, whose work was subsequently edited out of ''On The Hour'' repeats and would not be reused for TV.

** Best known these days is probably the ''RoyalCanadianAirFarce''.
** Slightly lesser known, (and shorter lived), ''TheFrantics''.

* The original ''{{Dragnet}}'' was a famous example, with creator and lead actor Jack Webb bringing most of his radio team with him to the new show.

** Probably the most famous was ''WayneAndShuster'', who started in radio in 1941, moved to TV in the 1950s, stayed on until the 1980s, and their show was in reruns well into the 1990s.

* ''TheShadow'', starring Alec Baldwin, about an amoral man given the power of telepathy during a trip to the mysterious East. Pulp crime-fighting ensues.

* ''MeetThePress''