


Gildersleeve from the old time radio comedy show Fibber McGee and Molly became the star of his own program The Great Gildersleeve (1941–1957). One of the earliest spin-offs of the modern media era, if not the first, happened in 1941 when the supporting character Throckmorton P.

particular topics, characters or events). In media, a spin-off (or spinoff ) is a radio program, television program, film, video game or any narrative work, derived from already existing works that focus on more details and different aspects from the original work (e.g.
