List of television series made into books

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Often a television series becomes so successful and popular or attains such a cult status that the franchise produces books either directly based on it (adapted from the episode scripts) or strongly inspired by it (but describing new adventures of the characters).

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Television series

The following is a list of television series which were used as the basis for novels (see also Category:Novels based on television series).

Title TV seriesBooksNotesReferences
Angel List of Angel novels [1]
The Avengers (TV series) The Avengers (TV series)#Novels
Bagpuss Bagpuss#Books
Beauty and the Beast Beauty and the Beast novelizations [2]
Being Human Being Human novels [3]
Beverly Hills, 90210 Beverly Hills novelizations [4]
Bewitched Al Hine [5]
The Bill The Bill#Novels
The Bionic Woman The Bionic Woman books [6]
Blake's 7 Blake's 7#Books and magazines
Buffy the Vampire Slayer List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels [7]
Castle Castle tie-in works [8]
Catweazle Catweazle novels [9]
Charmed List of Charmed books [10]
Citizen Smith Citizen Smith#Novel
Class Class books [11]
Columbo Columbo books [12]
The Crystal Maze The Crystal Maze#Literature
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CSI novels [13]
CSI: Miami CSI novels [14]
CSI: NY CSI novels [15]
Dad's Army List of Dad's Army books and memorabilia
Dallas Dallas books [16]
Dark Shadows Dark Shadows books [17]
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman Dr. Quinn books [18]
Doctor Who List of Doctor Who novelisations
Dalek comic strips, illustrated annuals and graphic novels
[19]
Dynasty Dynasty books [20]
Flight 29 Down Flight 29 Down books [21]
Full House Full House books [22]
The Good Life The Good Life novelisations
Ghost Whisperer Ghost Whisperer novels [23]
Grimm Grimm novels [24]
Hannah Montana List of Hannah Montana books [25]
Highlander: The Series Highlander: The Series novels [26]
Home and Away Home and Away#Merchandise and spin-offs [27] [28]
I Dream of Jeannie Al Hine
Life on Mars Life on Mars novels [29]
Lizzie McGuire Lizzie McGuire books [30]
Luther Luther: The Calling [31]
Millennium Millennium books [32]
Mobile Suit Gundam List of Gundam manga and novels
Monk Monk books [33]
Murder, She Wrote List of Murder, She Wrote novels [34]
My So-Called Life My So-Called Life novel [35]
Neighbours Neighbours spin-offs#Books
Once Upon a Time Once Upon a Time novel [36]
The Originals The Originals novels [37]
Primeval List of Primeval books and novelisations [38]
Psych Psych novels [39]
Quantum Leap Quantum Leap books [40]
Revenge Revenge book
Red Dwarf Red Dwarf#Novels
Roar Roar books [41]
Roswell Roswell novels [42]
Round the Twist Round the Twist#Marketing and publishing [43]
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch Sabrina books [44]
The Sarah Jane Adventures The Sarah Jane Adventures books [45]
The Secret World of Alex Mack List of The Secret World of Alex Mack books [46]
The Six Million Dollar Man Six Million Dollar Man books [47]
Smallville Smallville novels [48]
So Little Time So Little Time books [49]
Space: 1999 List of Space: 1999 books and other media [50]
Space: Above and Beyond Space: Above and Beyond books [51]
Star Trek List of Star Trek novels [52]
The Sweeney The Sweeney#Books
Teen Wolf Teen Wolf novels [53]
Torchwood List of Torchwood novels and audio books [54]
The Tribe The Tribe novels [55]
Twin Peaks Twin Peaks books [56]
Two of a Kind Two of a Kind books [57]
The Vampire Diaries Stefan's Diaries [58]
Wishbone List of Wishbone books [59]
Vi på Saltkråkan Seacrow Island [60]
The X-Files The X-Files literature [61]

Web series

The following is a list of web series which were used as the basis for novels.

Title Web seriesBooksNotesReferences
I Heart Vampires I Heart Vampires: Birth (A Confessions of a High School Vampire Novel) [62]
Carmilla Carmilla book [63]
Pretty Dudes Pretty Dudes: The Novel [64]

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  18. "The Bounty".
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  20. "Dynasty. A series by Eileen Lottman".
  21. "Static (Flight 29 Down #1)".
  22. "Full House: Stephanie".
  23. "Ghost Whisperer: The Haunted (Ghost Whisperer (Idw))".
  24. "Grimm - The Icy Touch".
  25. "Keeping Secrets".
  26. "Highlander: The Element of Fire".
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  30. "When Moms Attack!".
  31. "Luther: The Calling".
  32. "Millennium".
  33. "Monk Books".
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