Book and Film Titles with One Letter Changed

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  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    The 39 Stops
    Spy thriller in which Richard Hannay escapes false claims of murder by getting on one of the slowest stopping services on the rail network.
  • The 39 Stens

    The sequel, involving lots of guns,
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    The 39 Stets

    The tale of an indecisive proofreader
  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    Piglet wrote: »
    The 39 Stets

    The tale of an indecisive proofreader

    Clever!

  • The 39 Staps

    By an author who over-used 18th-century oaths...
  • Ivanhop - Russian nickname for Long John Silver
  • The Glue Afternoon - A Valentine-card making project in nursery class got stickily out of hand
  • Sons and Movers - a history of a housemoving company
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    Child's Pay
    A Good Guy doll becomes possessed by the spirit of a labour law protestor.
  • The RogueThe Rogue Shipmate
    Farmer Giles of Am

    Tolkein's character takes the farm next to the Archers'.
  • Winner in Madrid - an international thriller set during the 2002 IAAF World Cup in Athletics at the Madrid Olympic Stadium.
  • Casabianca - Spanish language drama about the POTUS
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    Blue Pater
    A show designed for children to indoctrinate them into conservative Catholicism.
  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    Flue Peter
    The original title of 'The Water Babies'
  • Muddlemarch - Chaos at the Trooping of The Colour
  • HarryCHHarryCH Shipmate
    The Great Lace

    Two stuntmen have a tatting contest.
  • Truth - the Victorian tale of a 'fallen woman' whose attempts to regain a respectable life are foiled by gossip revealing her one mistake
  • The Big Bleep - a tense drama about a "live" TV show censor
  • ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
    Horror movies

    Hallowee — The story of a serial killer with a weak bladder

    Alion — In space, no one can hear you roar

    Leperchaun — Magical mischief-maker almost kills lots of people in humorous ways, but fall apart first
  • ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
    The Kong James Bible

    It’s got really, really big type.
  • The Housetrap
    A dramatisation of the song Hotel California
  • DafydDafyd Hell Host
    A Stud in Scarlet Watson meets Holmes, who dresses in red. There is blatant homoerotic subtext.
  • DafydDafyd Hell Host
    The Pound of the Baskervilles Trading on their experience with spectral dogs, the Baskervilles go into the dog catching business.
  • Dafyd wrote: »
    A Stud in Scarlet Watson meets Holmes, who dresses in red. There is blatant homoerotic subtext.

    "What are you doing with that lemon curd, Holmes?"
    "Lemon entry, my dear Watson!"

    I'll get me coat...
  • @Sandemaniac Nice one 🤣😂🤣

    The Lathering Storm - fascinating film covering the little-known crisis in the hairdressing sector
  • ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
    Derp Throat —the dumbest erotic film ever made
  • Deep Threat - an overview of submarine warfare
  • HarryCHHarryCH Shipmate
    Diet Hard

    Assorted people try desperately to lose weight.

  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    ChastMastr wrote: »
    Derp Throat —the dumbest erotic film ever made

    Debbie Doses Dallas

    Graduating with a pharmacology degree from Southern Methodist University, our titular heroine stays local and opens a highly succesful chain of drugstores.
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    Eternal Sunshine Of The Sootless Mind
    The original title of The Water Babies
  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    Sipech wrote: »
    Eternal Sunshine Of The Sootless Mind
    The original title of The Water Babies

    Nice! The 'Cider with Rosie' franchise did well with, 'Cider with Josie' and 'Cider with Posie', but then bombed with the Oscar Wilde-themed follow up, 'Cider with Bosie'.
  • ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
    RockyRoger wrote: »
    Sipech wrote: »
    Eternal Sunshine Of The Sootless Mind
    The original title of The Water Babies

    Nice! The 'Cider with Rosie' franchise did well with, 'Cider with Josie' and 'Cider with Posie', but then bombed with the Oscar Wilde-themed follow up, 'Cider with Bosie'.

    And then was revitalized with the animated musical, Ciderella!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Beauty and the Feast

    Feature-length Nigella

  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    And then there's 'Mobius Dick', the story of a geometrycrazed plasitc surgeon who does an interesting transformation of a patient's private part. Is there no end to it?
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    RockyRoger wrote: »
    And then there's 'Mobius Dick', the story of a geometrycrazed plasitc surgeon who does an interesting transformation of a patient's private part.

    Doubtless like the idol found in the secret groves of Queen Maachah in Judea.
  • The Heap -one of a series of gardening self-help booklets, this one on composting
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    The Treat Escape

    It's basically Charlie And The Chocolate Factory but instead of kids, it's prisoners of war.
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    Stir Wars

    An interminable series of mega$ blockbusters about intergalactic warfare over whether sentient beings should stir their tea or coffee clockwise or anti-clockwise.

  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    edited April 21
    Put out More Fags

    Inspired by the title of Evelyn Waugh's novel published the previous year, in 1943 a Air Raid Warden describes the excitement he gets from the enforcement side of his duties.

    His next work Snoop from 1947 did not do so well in the ratings.

  • The Whelp - manual for novice dog breeders on the care of the new-born pup.
  • The Whining - so what, Joneeeee
  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    Have we had the long running sitcom 'Fiends'?
  • ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
    RockyRoger wrote: »
    Have we had the long running sitcom 'Fiends'?

    There is the excellent animated series of shorts on YouTube, Making Fiends. (This is real.)

    For changing a letter, there’s the saga of subway riders with terrible colds, Trainsnotting.

    The novel series about climbing a very tall ladder to reach Mount Doom, Lord of the Rungs.

    Unattended children have to figure out, on their own, how to manage an office (chaos ensues) in Lord of the Files.
  • DafydDafyd Hell Host
    Tartan A baby boy is orphaned in the Highlands and is brought up by a pack of squirrels who teach him the ways of the hills.
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    American Psyche
    A delve into why the inhabitants of one country claim to be the most free in the world, when they're not even allowed to cross the road without getting arrested.
  • Being Read - A 'How To Succeed' manual for budding writers.
  • Lobe in a Cold Climate - a study of frost-damage to extremities in extreme cold
  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    edited April 28
    And then there's 'Get Farter' about reaching a state of contentment benignity by not caring about flatulance. The follow up was titled, 'The Song of Pongs'.
    and who can forget the film about an outbreak of urticaria in a small american town, 'The Stepford Hives'?
  • SipechSipech Shipmate
    Yes Minster
    Jim Hacker is appointed as the most hapless Archbishop of York, constantly bamboozled by his Archdeacons, especially The Venerable Humphrey.
  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    Sipech wrote: »
    Yes Minster
    Jim Hacker is appointed as the most hapless Archbishop of York, constantly bamboozled by his Archdeacons, especially The Venerable Humphrey.

    Nice! This could work.
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