prequel series
Before-the-story episodes
A prequel series is a sequence of films, books, or television episodes set before the events of an existing work, exploring backstory or earlier time periods.
The term combines prequel with series to indicate multiple installments rather than a single prequel: The prequel series follows Obi-Wan's early years as a Jedi.
- originStarting point or source
- origin storyAccount of how something began
- backstoryCharacter's past narrative
- spinoffDerived work from original
- flashbackInvoluntary past memory
franchise · trilogy · saga · shared universe · canon · timeline · episode · pilot · reboot · prologue · lore · beginning · younger · earlier · predecessor · expansion · universe · retcon
- televisionTV, television, broadcast, TV shows, network television
- book seriestrilogy, duology, tetralogy, pentalogy, saga
- Spinoffsbackdoor pilot, derivative, offshoot, Frasier, Better Call Saul
- TV seriessitcom, soap opera, miniseries, pilot episode, season finale
- television adaptationsminiseries, remake, dramatization, novel adaptation, literary adaptation
prequel, prequels, series, sequel, sequels, sequence, sequences, sequential, sequentially