Shows that make you think of one another

[ssetta]

There have always been certain programs that are often paired up with another program in the schedule, and are/were often aired together as part of a block.

The first I can think of is a memory from people’s childhood, Sesame Street/Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Even though they technically were not sister shows and produced by different companies, most PBS stations seemed to air them together. It got to the point where you couldn’t watch one but not the other. Every time someone mentions Mister Rogers, it makes me think of Sesame Street. However the other way around isn’t true for me, since I’m a die hard Sesame Street fan.

The next example is Wheel of Fortune/Jeopardy! Two syndicated game shows that have been on since 1983 and 1984, respectively. Since the mid 80s, almost every station on the east and west coast air them together. Both produced by the same company, both very popular but with completely different concepts. I almost always think of the other when I think of one of them.

And more recently, there’s the block of Let’s Make a Deal/The Price is Right. I’m not sure if it’s as significant as the others I’ve mentioned. Most CBS stations air them together, even advertise both of them, and they’re both produced by the same company. But the difference is that Price has been airing on CBS for 46 years, while LMaD has only been on since 2009, and it started as a void-filler for Guiding Light, which is why some affiliates still air it at 3pm.

 

[LKellerIII]

There have always been certain programs that are often paired up with another program in the schedule, and are/were often aired together as part of a block.

The first I can think of is a memory from people’s childhood, Sesame Street/Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Even though they technically were not sister shows and produced by different companies, most PBS stations seemed to air them together. It got to the point where you couldn’t watch one but not the other. Every time someone mentions Mister Rogers, it makes me think of Sesame Street. However the other way around isn’t true for me, since I’m a die hard Sesame Street fan.

The next example is Wheel of Fortune/Jeopardy! Two syndicated game shows that have been on since 1983 and 1984, respectively. Since the mid 80s, almost every station on the east and west coast air them together. Both produced by the same company, both very popular but with completely different concepts. I almost always think of the other when I think of one of them.

And more recently, there’s the block of Let’s Make a Deal/The Price is Right. I’m not sure if it’s as significant as the others I’ve mentioned. Most CBS stations air them together, even advertise both of them, and they’re both produced by the same company. But the difference is that Price has been airing on CBS for 46 years, while LMaD has only been on since 2009, and it started as a void-filler for Guiding Light, which is why some affiliates still air it at 3pm.

Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley.? I guess that wouldn't count because they L&S was technically a "spin-off" of HD. It seems to me there are two kinds of spin offs. The first are legitimate spin-offs, where it occurs to the producers that a secondary character on a hit show would make another good show. Examples are Rhoda, Maude, and The Jeffersons. These were all long running characters on the show they spun off from.

The second kind is when some new character is suddenly introduced on a hit show for the sole purpose of making a spin-off. Like Robin Williams showing up as an alien on Happy Days one time, just so he could be spun off into Mork & Mindy.

So perhaps I've violated the tenants of your thread...but just a thought

 

[anotherguyTN]

I'd guess Everybody Loves Raymond and King of Queens would count. King of Queens wasn't really a spinoff, but there were appearances by characters between the two shows, which was brought up in an earlier thread.