From Book to TV lists some of the many television dramas and comedies that were inspired by books. The From Book to TV stories were adapted or used as the basis of many popular series, some of them long-running. Of course, not all of them are listed here.
From whose books were the following TV programmes adapted?
| A Touch of Frost | R. D. Wingfield |
| A Year In Provence | Peter Mayle |
| Agatha Raisin | M C Beaton |
| All Creatures Great and Small | James Herriot |
| Band of Gold | Kay Mellor |
| Billy Liar | Keith Waterhouse |
| Cadfael | Ellis Peters |
| Call the Midwife | Jennifer Worth |
| Campion | Margery Allingham |
| Dalgliesh | P. D. James |
| Dalziel and Pascoe | Reginald Hill |
| Doctor In The House | Richard Gordon |
| Dr Finlay’s Casebook | AJ Cronin |
| Game of Thrones | George R. R. Martin |
| Grantchester | James Runcie |
| Hamish Macbeth | M C Beaton |
| Hannay | John Buchan |
| Hornblower | C. S. Forester |
| House of Cards | Michael Dobbs |
| I, Claudius | Robert Graves |
| Inspector George Gently | Alan Hunter |
| Inspector Morse | Colin Dexter |
| Little House on the Prairie | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| Lovejoy | Jonathan Gash |
| Middlemarch | George Eliot |
| Midsomer Murders | Caroline Graham |
| Mr Selfridge | Lindy Woodhea |
| Orange Is the New Black | Piper Kerman |
| Ordeal by Innocence | Agatha Christie |
| Poldark | Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE |
| Porterhouse Blue | Tom Sharpe |
| Raffles | E. W. Hornung |
| Rebus | Ian Rankin |
| Rich Man Poor Man | Irwin Shaw |
| Sex and the City | Candace Bushnell |
| Sharpe | Bernard Cornwell |
| Smiley’s People | John le Carré |
| The Barchester Chronicles | Anthony Trollope |
| The Darling Buds Of May | HE Bates |
| The Forsyte Saga | John Galsworthy |
| The Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood |
| The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries | Ngaio Marsh |
| The Jewel in the Crown | Paul Scott |
| The Last Kingdom | Bernard Cornwell |
| The Mallens | Catherine Cookson |
| The Night Manager | John le Carré |
| The Pallisers | Anthony Trollope |
| The Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett |
| The Saint | Leslie Charteris |
| The Witness for the Prosecution | Agatha Christie |
| Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | John le Carré |
| War & Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| Widows | Lynda La Plante |
| Wire in The Blood | Val McDermid |
| Wycliffe | W. J. Burley |