Here's every TV show that WandaVision is based on (there's a lot) (2024)

The Twilight Zone is your classic horror series, in which there's a narrator guiding the viewer through a mix of creepy stories.

Think of it like a short story book.

The show was remade by Jordan Peele and it seems to have stayed with Jac Schaeffer, creator of WandaVision.

Speaking to Collider, he revealed its influence on him and the making of the new series: "'The Twilight Zone' is an enormous influence on me, personally.

"I really think that's actually how I learned to tell stories. It was so incredibly deft at that turn, where you think you're in one thing, and then suddenly it's flipped on its head. We were all incredibly enamored of that."

The Dick Van Dyke Show

Even if you haven't seen it, you've probably heard of it. The Dick Van Dyke Show is a comedy cult classic that followed a writer and his wife, both in the public and domestic spheres of their life.

It was clearly a big inspiration for WandaVision as director Matt Shakman met with Dick Van Dyke purely to quiz him on the ins and outs of his show.

Matt said to ET: "We learned from Dick Van Dyke that their number one rule for how they approached anything was that if it couldn't happen in real life, it can't happen on the show."

He added this influenced how he approached his own show.

Elizabeth Olsen, who plays Wanda, said their first episode was "a big love song to 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.' We tried to film it as authentic to that time period as possible."

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