List of Titles of Works Based On Shakespearean Phrases - Film/Television

Film/Television

Antony and Cleopatra

• Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days" (episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus)

As You Like It:

• Under the Greenwood Tree, 1918 film (II.v)
• Under the Greenwood Tree, 1929 film
• "All the World's a Stage", Ugly Betty episode (II.vii)
• All the World's a Stooge

Hamlet

• Less Than Kind, 2008 television series (I.ii)
• "Thine Own Self", 1994 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode (I.iii)
• To the Manor Born, 1979–81 television series (a play on "to the manner born", I.iv)
• "Remember Me", 1990 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode (I.v)
• Murder Most Foul, 1964 film with Agatha Christie's Miss Marple (I.v)
• Leave Her to Heaven, 1945 20th Century Fox film version of Williams novel with Gene Tierney (I.v)
• North by Northwest, 1959 film by Alfred Hitchcock (II.ii)
• "The Conscience of the King", 1966 Star Trek episode (II.ii)
• "The Paragon of Animals", 1998 Babylon 5 episode (II.ii)
• To Be or Not to Be, 1942 film (remade in 1983 by Mel Brooks). (III.i)
• "Perchance to Dream", 1959 The Twilight Zone episode (III.i)
• "Perchance to Dean", 2009 The Venture Bros. episode
• What Dreams May Come, 1998 film version of Matheson novel. (III.i)
• Slings & Arrows, 2003 Showcase Original Series. (III.i)
• Outrageous Fortune, 1987 film written by Leslie Dixon (III.i)
• Outrageous Fortune, 2005–10 television series (III.i)
• "Mortal Coil", 1997 Star Trek: Voyager episode (III.i)
• The Undiscovered Country, 1991 Star Trek film (III.i)
• Alas! Poor Yorick!, 1913 film starring Fatty Arbuckle (V.i)
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, 1990 film version of Stoppard play. (V.ii)

Henry IV, part 2

• Chimes at Midnight, 1965 film by Orson Welles (III.ii)

Henry V

• "Once More Unto the Breach", Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode (III.i)
• Band of Brothers, miniseries based on book (IV.iii)

Julius Caesar

• "Not to Praise Him", The Bill
• Cry 'Havoc', 1943 MGM film with Margaret Sullavan (III.i)
• "The Dogs of War", Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode (III.i)
• "The Dogs of War", The West Wing Season 5 episode (III.i)
• The Evil That Men Do (film) (III.ii)
• The Serpent's Egg (film)++ (II.i)
• The Ides of March (film)

King John

• Twice-Told Tales, 1963 film (III.iv)

King Lear

• "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth", Star Trek animated episode (I.iv)

Macbeth

• "Dagger of the Mind", Star Trek episode (II.i)
• "All Our Yesterdays", Star Trek episode ++ (V.v)
• All Our Yesterdays, UK Television historical news programme of the 1960s - 1970s (V.v)
• "The Birnam Wood", The West Wing Episode Season 6 (IV.i etc.)
• Something Wicked This Way Comes, 1983 film (IV.i)
• "Something Wicked This Way Comes", Ugly Betty episode
• "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes", South Park episode
• "Something Wicca This Way Comes", Charmed episode
• "Something Wicked", Supernatural episode
• The Sound and the Fury, 1959 film (V.v)

The Merchant of Venice

• The Quality of Mercy (Hasenjagd – Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen), 1994 Austrian film
• The Quality of Mercy 2002 film, starring Mary-Louise Parker
• "The Quality of Mercy", Babylon 5 episode (IV.i)
• "Quality of Mercy", The Outer Limits (I.xiv)
• A Quality of Mercy, The Twilight Zone episode (III.xv)
• "The Quality of Mercy", Early Edition episode

A Midsummer Night's Dream:

• Ill Met by Moonlight, 1957 film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (II.i)
• "Ill Met by Moonlight", 1996 episode of Gargoyles (II.i)

Othello

• Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs (from "The Beast with Two Backs", II.i)
• A Beast With Two Backs, 1968 television play by Dennis Potter
• "Journey's End" (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (V.ii)

Richard II

• The Demi-Paradise, 1943 film with Laurence Olivier (II.i)
• The Hollow Crown, 2012 television adaptation of the Henriad (III.ii)

Richard III

• My Kingdom for a Horse, 1988 BBC TV series starring Sean Bean (V.iv)
• The Winter of Our Discontent, 1983 TV movie of Steinbeck novel. (I.i)
• Where Eagles Dare, 1967 film (I.iii)

Romeo and Juliet

• "By Any Other Name" (Star Trek episode) (II.ii)
• What's in a Name? (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys) (II.ii)

The Sonnets

• The Darling Buds of May, UK TV comedy based on HE Bates’ novel.++ (XVIII)
• Fortune and Men's Eyes, 1971 film of later play (XXIX)
• A Waste of Shame, 2005 drama (CXXIX)

The Tempest

• Rich and Strange, 1931 film by Alfred Hitchcock (I.ii)
• "Sea Change" (Transformers episode) (I.ii)

The Winter's Tale:

• Fresh Horses, 1988 film by David Anspaugh