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Shows That Changed Networks

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FredLeonard

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Mostly one network cancelled a show and another picket it up (and then cancelled it again). Sometimes, though, the show got a better deal.

Disneyland/Walt Disney Presents/The Wonderful World of Color
Father Knows Best
Hazel
Leave It To Beaver
Make Room for Daddy
My Three Sons
The Real McCoys
Rocky/Bullwinkle
Scrubs
Taxi
Wonder Woman

More?
 
From the early days of television, Mike Stokey's Pantomime Quiz made it to four networks during its run: In order, it was seen on: CBS, NBC, DuMont, CBS, ABC, CBS, and ABC.
 
Brooks and Marsh used to have a list of network-switching shows in the appendix, but they dropped it from the 20th anniversary edition. Thumbing through it, I find:
Adventures of Ellery Queen(50s versions on DuMont and ABC; 1975 version on NBC)
Airwolf (had a final season on USA Network in 1987, after CBS cancelled it)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents/Hour(switched from CBS to NBC in 1960, back to CBS in '62, whn it expanded to an hour, and ended up back on NBC for its final year in '64-65); 80s version aired on NBC, then switched to USA.
American Bandstand(ended up on USA in 1989, after a syndicated season following ABC's cancellation in '87)
Andy Williams-his best remembered shows were on NBC in the 60s and very early 70s, but he had previously had summer series on CBS('58) and ABC('59)
Armstrong Circle Theatre(one of the longest-running dramatic anthologies, NBC from '50-57, then CBS til '63)
Arthur Murray-his dancing lessons were on all four networks most years from '50 to '60.
Author Meets the Critics-a 1948-54 literary discussion, aired on 3 of the 4 networks(excluding CBS).

Bachelor Father(1957-62; CBS for two years, NBC for 2, ABC for 1)
Bank on the Stars(obscure quiz show, on CBS in 1953, hosted by Jack Paar, then on NBC the next year, with Bill Cullen)
Batman(1966-68) almost made the list; NBC was interested in picking it up after ABC cancelled in '68...but passed when informed the sets were being destroyed, and NBC would have had to have new ones built; Holy Budgets!)
Baywatch(nobody watched it on NBC in '89-90; nobody admitted to watching it syndication afterwards).
Beat the Clock(aired on CBS for most of the 50s in prime time; the daytime version began in '57, switched to ABC the next year, ran til '61)
Big Town(newspaper drama, aired on CBS from '50-54, NBC til '56, and, oddly, also aired in reruns on Dumont in '53).
Blind Date (ABC '49-51, then NBC and Dumont; dating show with Arlene Francis)
Blondie(two different versions, NBC in '57. with the film Dagwood, Arthur Lake and Pamela Britton; CBS in '68, with ex-'Sugarfoot' star Will Hutchins and Patricia Harty; this was the original lead-in to 'Hawaii Five-O')
Bob Cummings' sitcom went back and forth between NBC and CBS between '55 and '59.
Boxing-if you count ABC's Wednesday night series from 1955-60 as a continuation of CBS's Wednesday 'Pabst Blue Ribbon Bouts'(1948-55), then this would qualify, although Pabst discontinued sponsorship when the series left CBS. There was a three-year gap of no Friday night boxing between NBC cancelling the 'Gillette Cvalacade of Sports' in '60, and ABC shifting its Saturday fights to Fridays in '63.)
Break the Bank-this Bert Parks/Bud Collyer quiz airedon each of the 'big 3', '48 to '57.
Brotherly Love-forgettable sitcom with the three Lawrence brothers(Joey, Matthew and Andrew), one season each on NBC and UPN, '95-97.
Bullwinkle-depends on whether you count 'Rocky and His Friends' (ABC '59-61) and 'The Bullwinkle Show' (NBC, '61-64) as one series, or two.
Burke's Law-originally on ABC,'63-66, including change to 'Amos Burke, Secret Agent'; revival on CBS, '94-95).
 
'Candid Camera'-best remembered for its lengthy CBS run in the '60s, and revivals in the '90s, it aired on ABC and NBC briefly in the late '40s and early '50s.
'The Carol Burnett Show'-Brooks and Marsh lists her short-run(four weeks) 1979 ABC summer show as a continuation of her 1967-78 CBS classic, apparently because Tim Conway and Vicki Lwrence were regulars on both).
'Cavalcade of America'-dramatic anthology, on ABC in '52-53, then NBC the next four years)
'Celebrity Time'(CBS and ABC '49-52; couldn't decide on a format, originally a quiz, then gradually became a comedy-variety show).
'Charlie Wild, Private Detective'-CBS, ABC, DuMont, from '50-52.)
'Clueless'(ABC, then UPN, late '90s)
'Columbo'(NBC in the '70s, ABC in 1989, and periodically through the early 200s).
 
'Danny Thomas Show'(as 'Make Room for Daddy' on ABC, switched titles in '56, switched networks to CBS in '57; thereafter, the original title was used for daytime network and syndicated reruns; interestingly, while ME TV promotes the show as 'Make Room for Daddy', the prints they run use the later title).
'Davis Rules'(Randy Quaid-Jonathan Winters sitcom, flamed out on ABC in '91, failing to capitalize on the post-Super Bowl slot for its premiere, switched to CBS in '92)
'Diff'rent Strokes' as mentioned.
'Dollar a Second'(Jan Murray quiz show, DuMont, ABC, NBC, 53-57)
'Doorway to Danger(1951-53 spy drama, NBC and ABC)
'Dotty Mack Show'(this 'singer', who really just pantomimed and lip-synched to records, was on DuMont and ABC, '53-56.)
'Down You Go'(all four networks, '51-56, but primarily DuMont, this word game was perhaps the closest thing to a long-running hit show the network had)
'Ethel and Albert'(based on a radio sitcom, the Big 3 networks from 1953-56).
'Family Feud'(ABC, '76-85, and CBS, '88-93)
'Family Matters(switched to CBS in '97-98, after 8 years on ABC)
'Father Knows Best'(original episodes on CBS and NBC from 1954-60, reruns on ABC in '62-63)
 
Guess no one has mentioned Wagon Train on NBC, later on ABC.
 
these are the shows i remember switching networks

FAMILY MATTERS (ABC, 1989-1997, CBS, 1997-1998)
STEP BY STEP (ABC, 1991-1997, CBS, 1997-1998)
SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH (ABC, 1996-2000, THE WB, 2000-2003)
THE CRITIC (ABC, 1994, FOX, 1995)
BAYWATCH (NBC, 1989-1990, SYNDICATION, 1991-2001)
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (THE WB, 1997-2001, UPN, 2001-2003)
CHARLES IN CHARGE (CBS, 1984-1985, SYNDICATION, 1987-1990)
CLUELESS (ABC, 1996-1997, UPN, 1997-1999)
FATHER DOWLING MYSTERIES (NBC, 1989, ABC, 1990-1991)
GROUNDED FOR LIFE (FOX, 2001-2002, THE WB, 2002-2005)
MEDIUM (NBC, 2005-2009, CBS, 2009-2011)
POWER RANGERS (FOX, 1993-2002, ABC, 2002-2010, NICKELODEON, 2011-PRESENT)
PASSIONS (NBC, 1999-2007, THE 101, 2007-2008)
PUNKY BREWSTER (NBC, 1984-1986, SYNDICATION, 1987-1988)
ROSWELL (THE WB, 1999-2001, UPN, 2001-2002)
SISTER, SISTER (ABC, 1994-1995, THE WB, 1995-1999)
SLIDERS (FOX, 1995-1997, SCI-FI CHANNEL, 1998-2000)
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (SYNDICATION, 1987-1991, CBS, 1990-1997)
WEBSTER (ABC, 1983-1987, SYNDICATION, 1987-1999)
UNSOLVED MYSTERIES (1987-1997, CBS, 1997-1999, LIFETIME, 2001-2002)
AMERICA'S MOST WANTED (FOX, 1988-1996, 1996-2011, 2011-2012, LIFETIME, 2011-2012)
 
Looking up a list in the back of a book really seems like cheating.
 
FredLeonard said:
Looking up a list in the back of a book really seems like cheating.
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???By that logic, referring to old TV listings when posting them here is also cheating, since we should have committed them to memory first. ::)
 
The Hogan Family (originally titled Valerie, and later, Valerie's Family) is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from March 1, 1986 to May 7, 1990, and on CBS from September 15, 1990 until July 20, 1991.
 
KML-224 said:
The Hogan Family (originally titled Valerie, and later, Valerie's Family) is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from March 1, 1986 to May 7, 1990, and on CBS from September 15, 1990 until July 20, 1991.
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Hmm, now that's just verbatim regurgitation from Wikipedia. Sounds suspiciously like cheating to me, and we've learned that if there's a type of person that irritates FredLeonard almost as much as Local TV Airheads, it's cheaters. But don't worry, I won't say anything.

Ah, but seriously, off the top of my head, one that's gone unmentioned so far is The Paper Chase (first season on CBS, repeated on PBS, seasons 2-4 on Showtime).
 
"Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour": DuMont (1948-49), NBC
(1949-54), ABC (1955-57), NBC (1957-58), CBS (1959, overlooked
is the first Sunday-afternoon version of the show in the fall of 1958
and winter of 1959), ABC (1960), CBS (Sunday afternoons, 1960-70).

"GE College Bowl": CBS (1959-63), NBC (1963-70).

"Password": CBS (1961-67), ABC (1971-75), NBC (as "Password Plus"
1979-82 and as "Super Password" 1984-89).

"Pyramid": CBS (1973-74), ABC (1974-80), CBS (1982-88)

"The Edge Of Night": CBS (1956-75), ABC (1975-84)

"Search For Tomorrow": CBS (1951-82), NBC (1982-86)

"Let's Make A Deal": NBC (1963-68), ABC (1968-76), NBC (1990),
CBS (2009-present)

"Match Game": NBC (1962-69), CBS (1973-79), ABC (1990-91) (also
part of NBC's "Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour" in 1983-84)

And to get to primetime:

"JAG" started on NBC in 1985, lasted one season there, then moved to CBS.

"The Jeff Foxworthy Show": ABC (1995-96), NBC (1996-97)

"Ripley's Believe It Or Not": NBC (1949-50), ABC (1982-86)

"The Steve Allen Show/Comedy Hour" (I'm listing only his primetime variety shows):

CBS (1950-52), NBC (1956-60), ABC (1961), CBS (1967), NBC (1980-81)
 
Sliver Spoons
WWE Monday Night Raw (USA 1993 - 2000 ,TNN/Spike TV 2000-05 and back to USA 2005-present)*

WWE SmackDown (UPN 1999 - 2006 ,CW 2006-08 ,My Network TV 2008-10 ,Sy-Fy 2010-present)

TNA Impact! / TNA Impact Wrestling (Fox Sports Net 2004-05 ,Spike TV 2005 - present).

* - WWE(F) Wrestling USA 1983 - 2000 ,TNN/Spike TV 2000-05 and back home to USA 2005-present
 
Forgot "Name That Tune": NBC (1953-54), CBS (1954-59),
NBC daytime (1974-75 and 1977).

Also "Masquerade Party": NBC (1952), CBS (1953 and summer
1954), ABC (1954-56), NBC (1957), CBS (summer 1958), NBC
(1958-59), CBS (fall 1959 as a stopgap replacement for "Name
That Tune"), NBC (Jan-Sep 1960).

Both shows were revived in syndication in 1974; "Masquerade
Party" (with host Richard Dawson) lasted one season; "Name
That Tune (with Tom Kennedy) lasted, I believe, seven. (Jim
Lange hosted a syndicated version in the '80s.)

Speaking of Tom Kennedy, there was "You Don't Say!" on NBC (1963-69)
and ABC (1975). (Jim Peck hosted the 1978 syndicated version.)

And two really old classics that got their start on radio: "Truth Or
Consequences" (CBS, 1950-51; NBC, 1954-65; and three syndicated versions
between 1966 and 1987); "It Pays To Be Ignorant" (CBS, summer 1949; NBC,
summer 1951; a syndicated version with host Joe Flynn, 1973-74).

And moving away from game shows, how about "The George Gobel Show"
(NBC, 1954-59; CBS 1959-60, alternating with Jack Benny on the Eye Network)?

Also "Bachelor Father" (CBS, 1957-59; NBC, 1959-61; ABC, 1961-62).
 
The longest running scripted program in the history of broadcasting....."The Guiding Light":

NBC Radio (Red Network) 1937 to 1947

CBS Radio 1947 to 1956

CBS Television 1952 to 2009

From 1952 to 1956, the show ran simultaneously on both CBS Radio and CBS Television.
 
As long as we are including network radio ....

Meet the Press: Mutual > NBC.
 
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