Top TV Spinoffs

Once a television series becomes a bona fide hit, network types typically ask the next question: How can we keep milking this idea until everyone is sick of it?

Ergo, the “spinoff” — allowing one (or more) members of the cast of a successful series to branch out into a whole new venture.

Sometimes it works, often it doesn’t. TVLand searched through the annals, polled its readers, and determined its Top 10 spinoffs.

Here are the Top 5, with the original series in parentheses:

  5 - Rhoda (Mary Tyler Moore Show)

  4 - Knots Landing (Dallas)

  3 - Laverne & Shirley (Happy Days)

  2 - The Jeffersons (All in the Family)

  1 - Frasier (Cheers)

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