Other long-running franchises

[Captain Comics]

Alien

1. Alien (1979)

2. Aliens (1986)

3. Alien 3 (1992)

4. Alien: Resurrection (1997)

5. Alien vs. Predator (2004)

6. Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)

7. Alien: Covenant (2017)

Baby Huey

Monogram Serials

1. Baby Huey (1950)

2. Baby Huey and the Martian Rocketmen (1951)

Showa Era

3. Baby Huey, the Baby Giant (1961)

4. Baby Huey vs the Fox (1962)

Revival

5. Baby Huey's Easter Adventure (1999)

6. Baby Huey on Earth-2 (2000)

7. Baby Huey Into Darkness (2002)

8. Baby Huey and the Curse of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl with Acute Nebulophilia (2007)

9.  Baby Huey: This Time It's Personal (2022)

Beach Party

AIP

1.Beach Party (1963)

2. Muscle Beach Party (1964)

3. Bikini Beach (1964)

4. Pajama Party (1964)

5. Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)

6. Ski Party (1965)

7. How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965)

8. Sergeant Deadhead (1965)

9. Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)

10. Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966)

11. Fireball 500 (1966)

12. Thunder Alley (1967)

Paramount

13. Back to the Beach (1987)

Blondie

1. Blondie (1938)

2. Blondie Meets the Boss (1939)

3. Blondie Takes a Vacation (1939)

4. Blondie Brings Up Baby (1939)

5. Blondie on a Budget (1940)

6. Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940)

7. Blondie Plays Cupid (1940)

8. Blondie Goes Latin (1941)

9. Blondie in Society (1941)

10. Blondie Goes to College (1942)

11. Blondie's Blessed Event (1942)

12. Blondie for Victory (1942)

13. It's a Great Life (1943)

14. Footlight Glamour (1943)

15. Leave It to Blondie (1945)

16. Life with Blondie (1945)

17. Blondie's Lucky Day (1946)

18. Blondie Knows Best (1946)

19. Blondie's Big Moment (1947)

20. Blondie's Holiday (1947)

21. Blondie in the Dough (1947)

22. Blondie's Anniversary (1947)

23. Blondie's Reward (1948)

24. Blondie's Secret (1948)

25. Blondie's Big Deal (1949)

26. Blondie Hits the Jackpot (1949)

27. Blondie's Hero (1950)

28. Beware of Blondie (1950)

Bring It On

1. Bring It On (2000)

2. Bring It On Again (2004)

3. Bring It On: All or Nothing (2006)

4. Bring It On: In It to Win It (2007)

5. Bring It On: Fight to the Finish (2009)

6. Bring It On: Worldwide Cheersmack (2017)

7. Bring It On: Halloween (2022)

 

Elvis

1. Love Me Tender (1956)
2. Lovin' You (1957)
3. Jailhouse rock (1957)
4. King Creole (1958)
5. G.I. Blues (1960)
6. Flaming Star (1960)
7. Wild in the Country (1961)
8. Blue Hawaii (1961)
9. Follow that Dream (1962)
10. Kid Galahad (1962)
11. Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
12. It Happened at the World's Fair (1963)
13. Fun in Acapulco (1963)
14. Kissin' Cousins (1963)
15. Viva Las Vega (1963)
16. Roustabout (1964)
17. Girl Happy (1964)
18. Tickle Me (1965)
19. Harem Scarem (1965)
20. Frankie & Johnnie (1966)
21. Paradise Hawaiian Style (1966)
22. Spinout (1966)
23. Easy come, Easy Go (1967)
24. Doyble Trouble (1967)
25. Clambake (1967)
26. Stay Away Joe (1968)
27. Speedway (1968)
28. Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
29. Charro (1969)
30. The trouble with girls (1969)
31. Change of Habit (1969)

Fast and Furious

1. The Fast and the Furious (2001)

2. 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)

3. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)

4. Fast & Furious (2009)

5. Fast Five (2011)

6. Fast & Furious 6 (2013)

7. Furious 7 (2015)

8. The Fate of the Furious (2017)

9. F9 (2021)

Related

10. Better Luck Tomorrow (prequel, 2002)

11. The Turbo Charged Prelude for 2 Fast 2 Furious (video, 2003)

12. Los Bandoleros (video, 2009)

13. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)

Harry Potter

1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)

2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010)

8. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011)

Prequels

9. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

10. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

11. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2022)

 

Marx Brothers

Paramount

1. The Cocoanuts (1929)

2. Animal Crackers (1930)

3. Monkey Business (1931)

4. Horse Feathers (1932)

5. Duck Soup (1933)

MGM

6. A Night at the Opera (1935)

7. A Day at the Races (1937)

8. At the Circus (1939)

9. Go West (1940)

10. The Big Store (1941)

United Artists

11. A Night in Casablanca (1946)

12. Copacabana (1947, Groucho solo)

13. Love Happy (1949)

RKO

14. Room Service (1938)

15. Double Dynamite (1951, Groucho solo)

16. A Girl in Every Port (1952, Groucho solo)

Mexican Spitfire

1. The Girl from Mexico (1939)

2. Mexican Spitfire (1940)

3. Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940)

4. The Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941)

5. Mexican Spitfire at Sea (1942)

6. Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (1942)

7. Mexican Spitfire's Elephant (1942)

8. Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event (1943)

Mission: Impossible

1. Mission: Impossible (1996)

2. Mission: Impossible II (2000)

3. Mission: Impossible III (2006)

4. Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol (2011)

5. Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation (2015)

6. Mission: Impossible — Fallout (2018)

7. Mission: Impossible 7 (2022)

8. Mission: Impossible 8 (2023)

Mr. Wong

Boris Karloff

1. Mr. Wong, Detective (1938)

2. The Mystery of Mr. Wong (1939)

3. Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939)

4. The Fatal Hour (1940)

5. Doomed to Die (1940)

Keye Luke

6. Phantom of Chinatown (1940)

Nancy Drew

Bonita Granville

1. Nancy Drew ... Detective (1938)

2. Nancy Drew ... Reporter (1939)

3. Nancy Drew ... Trouble Shooter (1939)

4. Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939)

Maggie Lawson

5. Nancy Drew (TV, 2002)

Emma Roberts

6. Nancy Drew (2007)

Sophia Lillis

7. Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)

Pink Panther

1. The Pink Panther (1964)

2. A Shot in the Dark (1964)

3. Inspector Clouseau (1968)

4. Return of the Pink Panther (1975)

5. The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)

6. Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)

7. Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)

8. Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)

9. Son of the Pink Panther (1993)

10. The Pink Panther (2006)

11. The Pink Panther 2 (2009)

Planet of the Apes

1. Planet of the Apes (1968)

2. Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

3. Escape From Planet of the Apes (1971)

4. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)

5. Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)

1st reboot

6. Planet of the Apes (2001)

2nd reboot

7. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

8. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

9. War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

Predator

1. Predator (1987)

2. Predator 2 (1990)

3. Predators (2010)

4. Alien vs. Predator (2004)

5. Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)

6. The Predator (2018)

Rocky

1. Rocky (1978)

2. Rocky II (1979)

3. Rocky III (1982)

4. Rocky IV (1985)

5. Rocky V (1990)

6. Rocky Balboa (2006)

7. Creed (2015)

8. Creed II (2018)

9. Creed III (2022)

Terminator

1. The Terminator (1984)

2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

3. Terminator: Rise of the Machines (2003)

4. Terminator: Salvation (2009)

5. Terminator: Genisys (2015)

6. Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

Torchy Blane

Glenda Farrell

1. Smart Blonde (1937)

2. Fly-Away Baby (1937)

3. The Adventurous Blonde (1937)

4. Blondes at Work (1938)

6. Torchy Gets Her Man (1938)

7. Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939)

8. Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939)

Lola Lane

5. Torchy Blane in Panama (1938)

Jane Wyman

9. Torchy Blane ... Playing with Dynamite (1939)

[ClarkKent_DC]

If the benchmark of "long-running" is a minimum of six, how about the Bring It On series? From the genre of the Inspirational Sports Movie, featuring rival cheerleading squads in a battle for the championship. The wrinkle? The rich (and white) school's team has won past championships by copying moves from the poor (and Black) school's team. The captain of the defending team discovers this chicanery perpetrated by her predecessors and agonizes over how to make it right.

All of the sequels went straight to video, all of them follow the exact same plot, and none of them include actors from any of the previous ones.

Just for kicks and giggles, there's one coming up next year that marries the Inspirational Sports Movie with the Halloween franchise.

1. Bring It On (2000)
2. Bring It On Again (2004)
3. Bring It On: All or Nothing (2006)
4. Bring It On: In It to Win It (2007)
5. Bring It On: Fight to the Finish (2009)
6. Bring It On: Worldwide Cheersmack (2017)
7. Bring It On: Halloween (2022)

[Richard Willis]

Over time, while perusing the TV schedule of Turner Classic Movies, I've seen several listings for "Mexican Spitfire" movies, or which there were eight. I haven't watched one yet, but Wikipedia tells me that the titular character is played by an actual Mexican actress (Lupe Velez) and that the stories skewer the attitudes towards Latinos. Now I'm looking forward to seeing them.

The Girl from Mexico (1939)
Mexican Spitfire (1940)
Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940)
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941)
Mexican Spitfire at Sea (1942)
Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (1942)
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant (1942)
Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event (1943)

Mexican Spitfire Film Series

Lupe Velez

[JD DeLuzio]

You know, you're going to get quoting as a source on a non-existent Baby Huey film series.

However, the Mr Wong films consist of:

Boris Karloff:

Mr Wong, Detective (1938)

The Mystery of Mr. Wong (1939)

Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939)

The Fatal Hour (1940)

Doomed to Die (1940)

Keye Luke:

Phantom of Chinatown (1940)

As I mentioned, I've only seen the last one, which take place at the start of Wong's career. Phantom is a prequel or perhaps a reboot that never led to other films.

Nancy Drew: (TV series excluded. There appear to have been a few)

Bonita Granville:

Nancy Drew... Detective (1938)

Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939)

Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter (1939)

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939)

Maggie Lawson (Made for TV)

Nancy Drew (2002)

Emma Roberts:

Nancy Drew (2007)

Sophia Lillis:

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)

[Richard Willis]

Whichever one of these is real might have qualified as a war crime two decades earlier.

Randy Jackson said:

Baby Huey was a Japanese product? 

JD DeLuzio said:

Showa Era:

Baby Huey, the Baby Giant (1961)

Baby Huey vs the Fox (1962)

[Dave Palmer]

Blondie

[Philip Portelli]

Charlie Chan?

The Thin Man?

Hercule Poirot?

Sherlock Holmes?

Ocean's Eleven?

Andy Hardy?

OZ?

Abbot & Costello?

The Marx Brothers?

[Luke Blanchard]

That last Presley film should be Change of Habit. It's about plainclothes nuns.

I happened to watch Charro! yesterday. It's a so-so dramatic Western. Presley doesn't make much of his role, but the script doesn't give him much to do. The only song is the one Presley sings over the opening titles.

[Captain Comics]

Jeepers, kids!

CK, glad to put your series up there, but if some are straight-to-video, mark 'em that way. I've been backfilling on some of the horror series for that, and it's more work than I'm willing to do.

So, everyone: If your movie wasn't released to actual theaters, that's cheating, so at least do me the courtesy of marking it that way on the front end. I'll still add it, but with a parenthetical.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

A comprehensive list of ALFRED HITCHCOCK movies would be nice (but don't ask me to provide it).

[Jeff of Earth-J]

On the chance PP was just spitballin', I can take The Marx Brothers off his hands.

THE MARX BROTHERS

Paramount

The Cocoanuts (1929)

Animal Crackers (1930)

Monkey Business (1931)

Horse Feathers (1932)

Duck Soup (1933)

MGM

A Night at the Opera (1935)

A Day at the Races (1937)

At the Circus (1939)

Go West (1940)

The Big Store (1941)

United Artists

A Night in Casablanca (1946)

Copacabana (1947 - Groucho solo)

Love Happy (1949)

RKO

Room Service (1938)

Double Dynamite (1951 - Groucho solo)

A Girl in Every Port (1952 - Groucho solo)

There's also The Story of Mankind (1957) which features all three brothers in separate cameos, but I don't count that one myself.

[Philip Portelli]

Here are The Thin Man films!

Quick note: Nick Charles is NOT the titled Thin Man! That's actually the victim of the first (and only) book but the name stuck.

THE THIN MAN (Nick & Nora Charles) all by MGM

The Thin Man (1934)

After the Thin Man (1936)

Another Thin Man (1939)

Shadow of the The Thin Man (1941)

The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)

Song of the Thin Man (1947), though the first time that I read about it, it was listed as "Son of the Thin Man".

Sherlock Holmes is beyond me!

[Richard Willis]

Philip Portelli said:

Quick note: Nick Charles is NOT the titled Thin Man! That's actually the victim of the first (and only) book but the name stuck.

Not unlike The Pink Panther