Favorite film adaptation of TV show?

"The Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" segment is up there with the best of '80s pop cinema. And Joe Dante's "It's A Good Life" is a blast ... until the lame ending. The rest -- meh (though the prologue with Albert Brooks and Dan Aykroyd is a fun, Tarantino-esque way to kick things off).

I can tell you some that were not even close to being good:

Charlie's Angels

The Avengers

The A-Team

The Man From Uncle

The Wild, Wild West

none of The X-Files movies

The Mod Squad

Dark Shadows (very disappointed in that one)

The only one I can think of in the same league as your choices, Angular, is Mission: Impossible; but I would love someone to do a quality film of Have Gun, Will Travel.

Which raises the question, Angular: by "best" do you mean a movie that is both really good as a movie AND faithful to the essence of its source material, or do you mean a movie that the poster, like Miss Margo, liked?

PS I would also love to see a quality film based on The Prisoner, but that may be impossible, not only because of casting issues, but because The Prisoner so clearly grew out of another series, one titled Secret Agent in the USA (with a killer theme song, Secret Agent Man, by Johnny Horton, which became a Top 40 hit, and had the line, "Secret Agent Man, they've given you a number, and taken 'way your name . . . odds are you won't live to see tomorrow"), and was titled Danger Man in Europe. The star was Patrick McGoohan, who--hey, presto!--right after the ending of that series, turns up in The Village as the prisoner, a man with a number and no name, suspected of treason. To do a Prisoner movie well, the makers would have to do a narrative that embraced both movies, and I have just realized that I have handed some Hollywood asshole a priceless idea.

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I loved it.