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This is a list of theatrically released feature films that are based on British television programmes.

Comedy

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TV programme Film
Title Channel Premiere End Title Premiere
Absolutely Fabulous BBC2 / BBC1 1992 2012 Absolument fabuleux 2001
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie 2016
Da Ali G Show[notes 1] Channel 4 2000 2004 Ali G Indahouse 2002
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 2006
Brüno 2009
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 2020
Are You Being Served? BBC1 1972 1985 Are You Being Served? 1977
The Army Game ITV 1957 1961 I Only Arsked! 1958
Bad Education BBC Three 2012 2014 The Bad Education Movie 2015
The Benny Hill Show ITV 1969 1991 The Best of Benny Hill 1974
Bless This House ITV 1971 1976 Bless This House 1972
Bottom BBC2 1991 1995 Guest House Paradiso 1999
The Catherine Tate Show BBC Two / BBC One 2004 2007 The Nan Movie 2022
The Comic Strip Presents... Channel 4 1982 2016 The Supergrass 1985
Eat the Rich 1987
The Pope Must Die 1991
Churchill: The Hollywood Years 2004
Dad's Army BBC1 1968 1977 Dad's Army 1971
Dad's Army 2016
The Dick Emery Show BBC1 1963 1981 Ooh… You Are Awful 1972
Father, Dear Father ITV 1968 1973 Father, Dear Father 1973
For the Love of Ada ITV 1970 1971 For the Love of Ada 1972
George and Mildred[notes 2] ITV 1976 1979 George and Mildred 1980
Harry Enfield's Television Programme BBC2 1990 1992 Kevin & Perry Go Large 2000
Horrible Histories[notes 3] CBBC 2009 Present Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans 2019
The Inbetweeners E4 2008 2010 The Inbetweeners Movie 2011
The Inbetweeners 2 2014
I'm Alan Partridge[notes 4] BBC2 1997 2002 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa 2013
Keith Lemon's Very Brilliant World Tour[notes 5] ITV2 2008 2008 Keith Lemon: The Film 2012
The Larkins ITV 1958 1960 Inn for Trouble 1960[1]
The League of Gentlemen BBC Two 1999 2002 The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse 2005
Love Thy Neighbour ITV 1972 1976 Love Thy Neighbour 1973
The Lovers ITV 1970 1971 The Lovers! 1973
Man About the House ITV 1973 1976 Man About the House 1974
Monty Python's Flying Circus BBC1 1969 1974 And Now for Something Completely Different 1971
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl 1982
Mr. Bean ITV 1990 1995 Bean 1997
Mr. Bean's Holiday 2007
Mrs. Brown's Boys[notes 6] BBC One 2011 TBD Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie 2014
The Muppet Show[notes 7] ITV 1976 1981 The Muppet Movie 1979
The Muppets 2011
Muppets Most Wanted 2014
Nearest and Dearest ITV 1968 1973 Nearest and Dearest 1972
Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width ITV 1967 1971 Never Mind the Quality Feel the Width 1973
The Office BBC Two 2001 2003 David Brent: Life on the Road 2016
On the Buses ITV 1969 1973 On the Buses 1971
Mutiny on the Buses 1972
Holiday on the Buses 1973
People Just Do Nothing BBC Three 2014 2018 People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan 2021
Please Sir! ITV 1968 1972 Please Sir! 1971
Porridge BBC1 1974 1977 Porridge 1979
Rising Damp ITV 1974 1978 Rising Damp 1980
Stella Street BBC Two 1997 2001 Stella Street 2004
Steptoe and Son BBC TV 1962 1974 Steptoe and Son 1972
Steptoe and Son Ride Again 1973
That's Your Funeral BBC1 1970 1971 That's Your Funeral 1972
The Thick of It BBC Four / BBC Two 2005 2012 In the Loop 2009
Till Death Us Do Part BBC1 1965 1975 Till Death Us Do Part 1968
The Alf Garnett Saga 1972
The Trip BBC Two / Sky Atlantic / Sky One 2010 2020 The Trip 2010
The Trip to Italy 2014
The Trip to Spain 2017
The Trip to Greece 2020
Up Pompeii! BBC1 1969 1970 Up Pompeii 1971
Up the Chastity Belt 1971
Up the Front 1972
Whack-O! BBC Television Service 1956 1972 Bottoms Up 1960
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? BBC1 1973 1974 The Likely Lads 1976
Whoops Apocalypse ITV 1982 1982 Whoops Apocalypse 1986

Drama

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TV programme Film
Title Channel Premiere End Title Premiere
The Avengers ITV 1961 1969 The Avengers 1998
Callan ITV 1967 1972 Callan 1974
Downton Abbey ITV 2010 2015 Downton Abbey 2019
Downton Abbey: A New Era 2022
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale 2025
Edge of Darkness BBC2 1985 1985 Edge of Darkness 2010
The Grove Family BBC Television Service 1954 1957 It's a Great Day 1955
Man at the Top ITV 1970 1972 Man at the Top 1973
Pennies from Heaven BBC1 1978 1978 Pennies from Heaven 1981
Play for Today BBC2 1970 1984 Scum[notes 8] 1979
The Saint ITV 1962 1969 The Saint 1997
The Sentimental Agent ITV 1963 1963 Our Man in the Caribbean 1962
The Singing Detective BBC1 1986 1986 The Singing Detective 2003
The Six Wives of Henry VIII BBC2 1970 1970 Henry VIII and His Six Wives 1972
Spooks BBC One 2002 2011 Spooks: The Greater Good 2015
State of Play BBC One 2003 2003 State of Play 2009
The Sweeney ITV 1975 1978 Sweeney! 1977
Sweeney 2 1978
The Sweeney 2012
Traffik Channel 4 1989 1989 Traffic 2000
Widows ITV 1983 1985 Widows 2018

Science fiction

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TV programme Film
Title Channel Premiere End Title Premiere
Doctor Who BBC TV 1963 1989 Dr. Who and the Daleks 1965
Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. 1966
Doctor Who: The Movie 1996
Doomwatch BBC1 1970 1972 Doomwatch 1972
The Quatermass Experiment BBC Television Service 1953 1953 The Quatermass Xperiment 1955
Quatermass II BBC Television Service 1955 1955 Quatermass 2 1957
Quatermass and the Pit BBC Television Service 1958 1959 Quatermass and the Pit 1967
Quatermass ITV 1979 1979 The Quatermass Conclusion 1980
Thunderbirds ITV 1965 1966 Thunderbirds Are Go 1966
Thunderbird 6 1968
Thunderbirds 2004

Documentary

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TV programme Film
Title Channel Premiere End Title Premiere
The Blue Planet BBC One 2001 2001 Deep Blue 2003
Planet Earth BBC One / BBC HD 2006 2006 Earth 2007
Earth: One Amazing Day 2017
Walking with Dinosaurs BBC One 1999 1999 Walking with Dinosaurs 2013
Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D 2014

Children's television

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TV programme Film
Title Channel Premiere End Title Premiere
Fireman Sam BBC1 / Channel 5 1987 TBD Fireman Sam: Alien Alert! The Movie[2] 2017
The Magic Roundabout BBC1 / Channel 4 1965 1992 Dougal and the Blue Cat 1972
The Magic Roundabout 2005
Postman Pat BBC1 / CBeebies 1981 2017 Postman Pat: The Movie 2014
Shaun the Sheep[notes 9] CBBC 2007 TBD Shaun the Sheep Movie 2015
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon 2019
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends[notes 10] ITV 1984 2021 Thomas and the Magic Railroad 2000
Wallace and Gromit BBC1 1989 2008 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 2005

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ The Ali G character first appeared in The 11 O'Clock Show
  2. ^ The George and Mildred characters first appeared in Man About the House (1973)
  3. ^ Horrible Histories was based on the book series of the same name
  4. ^ The Alan Partridge character first appeared in the radio programme On the Hour (1991) and on TV in The Day Today (1994)
  5. ^ The Keith Lemon character first appeared on TV in Bo' Selecta!
  6. ^ Mrs. Brown's Boys evolved from the radio play Mrs. Browne's Boys (1992) and a book series
  7. ^ The Muppets originated in the US TV programme Sam and Friends (1955), and appeared in other shows predating The Muppet Show
  8. ^ Based on Scum (television_play), which was filmed in 1977 and aired in 1991
  9. ^ The Shaun character first appeared in A Close Shave (1995)
  10. ^ Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends was based on The Railway Series of books

References

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  1. ^ Marcus, Laurence; Hulse, Stephen R. (19 October 2000). "The Larkins". Television Heaven. Archived from the original on 21 January 2013. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  2. ^ Carling, David; Douglas, Su (17 June 2017). "Fireman Sam: Alien Alert! The Movie". IMDb.
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