Episodes starting one one show and finishing on another

[chris12]

What are some occasions where an episode started on one show and had its conclusion on another,not including the gimmick stunt types that were done in the 90s like the TGIF crystal ball or the NBC THursday blackout stunts but actual storyline plots. One was with Happy Days with the shotgun wedding and concluding on Laverne and Shirley.

 

[tlyle]

This probably includes any show that launches a new show using the old show as a pilot. You referenced Happy Days which did the same with Mork and Mindy's first episode. Mary Tyler Moore launching Rhoda is another one. I am sure there are other pilot's that continued into the new shows.

 

[Braves2005]

Getting Together which starred Bobby Sherman and Wes Stern as singer-songwriters started off as an episode of The Partridge Family in March 1971 and later in the fall of 1971 returned as its own show which only lasted 13 episodes until it was cancelled in December 1971.

Three's A Crowd (1984-1985) which starred John Ritter and Mary Cadorette started off as part of the final episode of Three's Company and both characters in bed together with a "To Be Continued" sign to end the prior series and to start Three's A Crowd that fall.

 

[ShawnHill1]

If I remember correctly, there were a couple of occasions where a particular storyline started on the original Law & Order, and then finished up on either of its spinoffs, Special Victims Unit or Criminal Intent. It's happened eariler in the decade, and since I'm not a faithful viewer of any of the L&O shows (although I do watch the Original and SVU sometimes), I couldn't say when those episodes aired for sure.

 

[bpatrick]

Once on "Marcus Welby, M.D." Dr. Kiley (James
Brolin) faced a malpractice suit after the death of
a patient he was attending. The trial took place
two nights later on "Owen Marshall, Counselor
At Law" (Welby's sister show, as both were produced
by David Victor), and Marshall (Arthur Hill) got Kiley
off.

The night of the conclusion, CBS pre-empted its entire
Thursday-night lineup for a three-hour block of public-
affairs programming. ABC deliberately scheduled the
Welby/Marshall episode for that week, and "Marshall"
found itself the number-three show of the week (its
lead-in, "Longstreet," came in at number five).

 

[radiorob2.0]

There was the epic "Kill Oscar" episodes that bounced back and forth between The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman. John Houseman plays the evil Dr. Franklin who first creates killer robots that take the form of women called Fembots, and you thought Mike Myers thought of it first. Then when the Fembots failed he invented a weather machine to destroy the world.

Sci-Fi Channel in their early days would show both shows and devoted an entire afternoon to the "Kill Oscar" epic. There was a TV in my office and I accomplished little that day.

 

[YEKIMI]

There was an episode of "Law & Order" that ended up crossing over to "Homicide: Life On The Streets"....or it may have been the other way around. And as an added note, I believe Richard Belzer has the record for playing the same character, Detective Munch, 6, 7 or 8 different shows. No other character has appeared on more shows in the same role.

 

[glc]

The most recent example of this, I guess, would be the "CSI"/"Without A Trace" crossover from last year or the year before.

Also, "Magnum, PI" did this a couple of times- once each with "Simon & Simon" and "Murder, She Wrote".

 

[Ultimajock]

...this is a concept that pretty much grew out of the Jack Benny-Fred Allen "radio feud" of 1936-37; it culminated with the "Jell-O Program" of 14 March 1937, which was the highest-rated individual network radio show of the year. Allen himself utilised the concept again eleven years later, when a couple of his program storylines continued onto "The Henry Morgan Show," which followed Allen's on the NBC schedule...

 

[bpatrick]

For a time "The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show" followed
"The Jack Benny Program" on NBC radio, and Phil would
talk about what had happened moments earlier on the
Benny show, on which he also appeared. I'm not sure,
but there may have been a carryover or two from one
show to the next.

 

[KyDXIn]

Let's not forget the Paul Henning trilogy of shows: the Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and Green Acres.

Characters would intermingle with one another in the story lines of the other shows. Examples include:
1. Granny would "go home" to Petticoat Junction at the birth of Betty Jo's baby.
2. Drysdale went to Hooterville to keep Jed from buying Sam Drucker's bank.
3. Drysdale went to Silver Dollar City to keep Jed from buying the bank there.
4. Various Christmas and Thanksgiving shows celebrating at the Shady Rest.
5. Eb's high school performs the play "the Beverly Hillbillies" after writing Henning for a script.

Funniest line ever spoken in a sitcom in my opinion was the "pot" line when Jethro was with the hippies in Central Park.

Granny went into the woods to bring Jethro home. Cops were dispatched to arrest the hippies, but they run into Granny first. They think she is lost, but it was lunchtime and she was going to draw Jethro's attention by smoking some crawdads...

Tony: Want to come with us Granny?
Granny: I can’t. I’m going down to the lake to smoke some crawdads.
Fred: Smoke some what?
Granny: Crawdads. But first I need a little pot.
(The police officers seize her)

Her arrest was imminent until...

(The Police officers are holding onto Granny as a a big group of hippies, Jethro's Merry Men, run past)
Fred: You see that?
Tony: Yeah, must've been fifteen, twenty hippies.
Fred: Should we hold onto this one or go after them?
Tony: Let’s go with the easy way. Let’s go get the twenty hippies.

 

[gr8oldies]

There was a "Different Strokes/Hello Larry" joint episode (probably a last ditch effort to save McClean Stevenson's show) where Larry wants Drummond to finance his purchase of a TV station.