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March 4, 2004 — USA Today looks at how Hollywood is churning out movie versions of multiple '70s television shows.

Over the next two years, no fewer than nine classic TV shows are headed to the big screen. After two Charlie's Angels movies, the nostalgia trip begins anew Friday with Starsky & Hutch, the comedy starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson. The film revives the cop show that ran from 1975 to 1979.

And there's more:

-- Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, with Sarah Michelle Gellar, arrives March 26.

-- Bewitched returns July 8, 2005, with Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman as Darrin and Samantha.

-- Thunderbirds, an adaptation of the 1960s TV puppet show about 21st-century heroes, hits screens Aug. 6 with Bill Paxton in the live-action lead.

-- Fat Albert rumbles back to life with Bill Cosby writing and Joel Zwick directing. It's due next year.

-- Mission: Impossible 3 is due in theaters May 6, 2005.

-- Also due in 2005 are big-screen treatments of Dukes of Hazzard and I Dream of Jeannie.

"Audiences feel comfortable paying for something they already know," says Paul Dergarabedian of box office tracking firm Exhibitor Relations. "That's why (studios) make so many sequels and adapt so many books."

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