A 14-hour sequel, Roots: The Next Generations, aired in 1979, featuring the leading African-American actors of the day.

His remaining films were Death Hunt ( 1981 ) with Charles Bronson, Gorky Park ( 1983 ), Dog Day ( 1984 ), and The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission ( 1985 ; a sequel with Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Richard Jaeckel picking up where they'd left off despite being 18 years older ); his final appearance was in The Delta Force ( 1986 ) with Chuck Norris.

In 1987, enduring fan interest, partially preserved by the first four installments of the Star Trek film franchise from 1979 to 1986, those films ' popularity led to the development of the Star Trek sequel Star Trek: The Next Generation, which became extremely successful, and led to the later sequels Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and finally Star Trek: Enterprise, which ended in 2005.

* War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave, a sequel to David Michael Latt's film, directed by C. Thomas Howell.

* Ultraman Nexus ( 2004 – 2005 ) is set in 2009, acting as a sequel to the 2004 film Ultraman: The Next which was set in its production year.

Relatively successful, it became something of a cult classic and was successful enough to warrant a sequel, Cheech & Chong's Next Movie, in 1980, and Nice Dreams in 1981.

Because of its success, Howell directed and starred in a straight-to-DVD sequel War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave in 2008, which was heavily criticized.

They included " The Strike ", which won the Golden Rose of Montreux ; " More Bad News ", a sequel to " Bad News Tour " showing the band reforming after five years to play at Castle Donington ; and " Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door ", written by Mayall and Edmondson in the violent style of their sitcoms Filthy Rich and Catflap and Bottom, which featured Peter Cook as a psychotic contract killer ( the eponymous Mr. Jolly ) and Nicholas Parsons.

Following the success of Porky's in America and Europe there was a sequel in 1983 titled Porky's II: The Next Day.

Prior to this, New Line was responsible for genre films and cult classics such as Dark City, The Mask, the Austin Powers film trilogy, the fantasy Pleasantville, the Final Destination series, the Nightmare on Elm Street series, the film Friday ( and its two sequels Next Friday and Friday After Next ), the films of John Waters, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films, the highly successful movie adaptation of Mortal Kombat ( as well as its ill-fated sequel Mortal Kombat: Annihilation ) and the Rush Hour films.

Next year Cresswell's print sequel was published, The Return of the Psammead ( 1992 ), which was the basis for a TV sequel of the same name in 1993.

It is the second book by Jasper Fforde and the sequel to the adventures of literary detective Thursday Next in The Eyre Affair.

A sequel, The Next Joe Millionaire, followed in October 2003.

* John Byrne's 2112, a comic book series prequel / sequel to John Byrne's Next Men

Next Winstone would get a prime part in Ripley's Game, the sequel to The Talented Mr. Ripley, in which he once again played a gangster.

In February 2005, upon the release of the three-DVD " Karate Kid Collection ", Variety magazine called The Next Karate Kid a " boilerplate coming-of-age sequel " but notes that Swank's " plucky determination and athletic drive shines through " that film as it would later do in Million Dollar Baby.

It was announced in February 2011 that Byrne would finish the Next Men series with issue # 9 of the 2010-2011 series, but a sequel named " Aftermath " immediately followed.

A sequel series called Aftermath, written by John Byrne and published by IDW right after the conclusion of the Next Men series proper continued the numbering from the original series, starting with # 40 and concluding with # 44.

Deuteros: The Next Millennium is the sequel to the sci-fi strategy video game Millennium 2. 2, published by Activision for the Amiga and Atari ST. Ian Bird designed and wrote the game, with graphics by Jai Redman and music by Matt Bates.

He reprised the role in the film's sequel, Next Friday, but did not appear in the third film of the series, Friday After Next.

Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation is a 1992 sequel to the 1984 comedy Revenge of the Nerds.

After the release of the seventh film, Star Trek Generations, in 1994, Paramount tasked writers Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore with developing a sequel.

Because the non-canonical Chodak race reappear in the Star Trek: Generations game, it is considered a sort of sequel to A Final Unity.

The rest of the Chaotix members, with the exception of Mighty, would later appear in Sonic Heroes, Shadow The Hedgehog, and in Sonic Rivals, its sequel, and Sonic Generations.

" Several titles that were announced as Elseworlds books prior to this have yet to see publication, such as Generations 4 ( announced by John Byrne, but possibly placed on the back-burner due to lack of good press for & low fan response to Generations 3 ), Superboy's Legion 2 ( rumored sequel by Alan Davis ; presumably planned after he finished JLA: Another Nail ) and The Teen Titans Swingin ' Elseworlds Special ( cancelled, possibly due to controversial material concerning John F. Kennedy ).

This oversight was addressed in the game's sequel, Asteroids Deluxe, and led to significant changes in the way game developers designed and tested their games in the future.

The character was played by Rosamund Pike in the sequel Wrath of the Titans, the second of a planned trilogy.

Vinge's Children of the Sky, " a near-term sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep ", set ten years later, was released in October 2011.

In 2011, it was announced that Druyan would be part of the writing and production teams for a sequel to COSMOS, to be called Cosmos: A space-time Odyssey, which is expected to be telecast in 2013.

Evil Dead II made enough money internationally that Dino De Laurentiis was willing to finance a sequel.

In addition, Raimi needed $ 3 million to finish his movie, but Universal was not willing to give him the money and delayed its release because they were upset that De Laurentiis would not give them the rights to the Hannibal Lecter character so that they could film a sequel to Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs.

It is the sequel to Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human, which was a sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner, and the book on which the film was based, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?.

It was eventually followed by another sequel, The Dark Knight Rises ( 2012 ), which serves as a conclusion to Nolan's film series.

It was followed by the sequel Batman: Arkham City ( 2011 ), which also received widespread acclaim and holds a Metacritic ranking of 94 %.

Warner Bros. was willing to fund the project on the condition that Gibson sign for another Lethal Weapon sequel, which he refused.

The studio rejected the idea as they wanted a sequel, not a prequel, though Schumacher was able to include very brief events in Batman's past.

Bixby was executive producer of the three Hulk made-for-television sequel movies in the late 1980s and in 1990.

A sequel, entitled Night of the Ghouls, was finished in 1959, but due to last-minute financial problems, was not released until 1987.

In 1916, " Food For Young Children " along with its sequel for adults, " How to Select Foods " was the first USDA guide to give specific dietary guidelines.

Founded by Greg Stafford, its first game was actually a wargame, White Bear and Red Moon, which later mutated into Dragon Pass and its sequel, Nomad Gods.

On television, the made-for-TV movie The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders ( which aired January 14, 1979 ) starring Jane Seymour was a highly-rated success, spawning the 1980 sequel The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders II.

Another early step in the history of computer animation was the 1973 movie Westworld, a science-fiction film about a society in which robots live and work among humans, though the first use of 3D Wireframe imagery was in its sequel, Futureworld ( 1976 ), which featured a computer-generated hand and face created by then University of Utah graduate students Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke.

In the late 1990s, Cronenberg was announced as director of a sequel to another Verhoeven film, Basic Instinct, but this also fell through.

Although the two parts are now normally published as a single work, Don Quixote, Part Two was a sequel published ten years after the original novel.

This was a sequel to the Hilbert-Ackermann book Principles of Mathematical Logic from 1928.