Switching Teams-er, Networks

[anotherguyTN]

In network to syndication there was also WKRP In Cincinnati. (Originally on CBS) With all the WKRP fans on this board, how did that one slip by? (I know, most people would rather forget the syndicated version. : )

In Canadian shows, The Red Green Show was on CHCH, then CFPL, Global, and finally CBC in Canada, and eventually PBS in the US.

 

[Ultimajock]

If you wanted to extend this to shows that started in network primetime and finished up in first-run syndication (and could have aired in primetime in certain markets), four shows immediately come to mind...

Hee Haw (originally on CBS)
21 Jump Street (originally on Fox)
Mama's Family (originally on NBC)
Charles in Charge (originally on CBS)

add "Baywatch" (originally on NBC) to that list...

...and "SheSpies" (also originally on NBC)...

...also making a shift was "The Ghost & Mrs. Muir," I believe from NBC to ABC...

 

[Ultimajock]

"The Red Skelton Hour" (CBS to NBC)

...actually, Skelton had started out with a half-hour on NBC, which eventually shifted to CBS and expanded to an hour a couple of years after the move. Then, when Red returned to NBC, it was in a half-hour format again, so "The Red Skelton Hour" itself never appeared anywhere but CBS...

 

[bpatrick]

Anybody mention "Lassie" and "Wild Kingdom," which
jumped from CBS and NBC, respectively, to syndication
at the same time "Hee Haw" and Welk moved to syndication
(1971)?

In 1973, after ABC canceled it, there was a weekly syndicated
version of "The Dating Game," while "Sale Of The Century" (the
Joe Garagiola version) moved from NBC into weekly syndication.
Neither made it. "Dating Game" did return as a daily syndicated
show in 1978, while "Sale" returned to NBC in 1983 with Jim Perry
as host (probably its most successful version). "Concentration"
moved into syndication in '73 as well, after NBC dropped it.
Jack Narz was host, and it lasted five years.

I could argue that Dinah Shore moved from network to syndication.
When "The Joker's Wild" cut so deeply into the ratings of her NBC
morning show, "Dinah's Place" that NBC dropped it, she went over
to the CBS o&os and started a full-fledged 90-minute talk show
that competed successfully with Mike and Merv for six years. Her
show was syndicated by 20th Century-Fox, IIRC. ("Joker" made an
even more successful transition to syndication.)

 

[Kurt Toy]

The $10,000 Pyramid jumped from CBS to ABC in 1974.

 

[ricksegers]

What's My LIne made the jump from weekly CBS to daily syndication.

 

[tah]

The Magnificent Seven started out on CBS and finished up on TNN which now SpikeTV.

Man..........I miss westerns :'(

 

[Markxxx]

Seems like most of the shows, (not all but most) switched and then the new network was just trying to pump one more year out them.

Or in the case of network to syndications, the shows did that to try go get 100 episodes so they had a better chance to sell into rerun syndication.

Wasn't Silver Spoons also in off net first run too? Maybe that was mentioned I didn't see it.

 

[RyanHoward]

"Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" was another. That show premiered on ABC in 1996 and then
in 2000, it bolted over to the WB for three more seasons.

 

[ShawnHill1]

Seems like most of the shows, (not all but most) switched and then the new network was just trying to pump one more year out them.

Or in the case of network to syndications, the shows did that to try go get 100 episodes so they had a better chance to sell into rerun syndication.

Wasn't Silver Spoons also in off net first run too? Maybe that was mentioned I didn't see it.

Yeah, the last season of Silver Spoons was in first-run syndication, as was the last two seasons of Punky Brewster...two shows that once headlined NBC's Sunday night lineup in the mid-80s (or did one replace the other on Sunday night?)

 

[1069_KIFR]

Late Night with David Letterman went from NBC to CBS as Late Show with David Letterman

Tom Snyder NBC's Tomorrow Show went to CBS as The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder*

*don't know if that really counts since he did many other projects in between time. And it wasn't a direct transition to the other network.

 

[Markxxx]

the WB picked up a couple of shows too. Besides Sabrina, didn't they pick up that show with the two African-American twin, it had the guy from WKRP and Jackee Harry.

And the WB also picked up a show with Joey Lawrence too.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

"Taxi" (ABC to NBC) (I even remember the promos thereof, which featured Danny De Vito saying, "Same Time, Better Station!")

I remember those however in some cases it wasn't always meant for ABC either.

Around the same time as this ( Taxi moving to NBC ), Hampton Roads' NBC affiliate WAVY-TV 10 used the slogan "Same Time, Better Station" in ads against WTKR (CBS), and the area's two indies as well, WYAH and WTVZ and of course WVEC (ABC). For example in the Fall of 1982 WAVY snagged The Peoples Court away from WYAH using the slogan "BETTER Time, Better Station".

One such ad featured a pic of WYAH founder 700 Club host Pat Robertson with a black X across his face and under that, WAVY's logo. The ad actually appeared in TV Guide. Wonder what Pat thought of that? He must have since forgiven WAVY since that station today airs the 700 Club.

Late Night with David Letterman went from NBC to CBS as Late Show with David Letterman

Tom Snyder NBC's Tomorrow Show went to CBS as The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder*

*don't know if that really counts since he did many other projects in between time. And it wasn't a direct transition to the other network.

Along the lines of the 1982 NBC "Taxi" promos ("Same Time, Better Station") as well as the mention of David Letterman's 1993 switch from NBC to CBS--don't forget the similar CBS "Late Show" promos that aired throughout the summer of '93--"Same Dave, Better Time, New Station!"

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Hold it! You're not gonna like this picture...

...because you forgot The Bob Cummings Show
(perhaps better known by its daytime/syndication
title Love That Bob).

NBC to CBS to NBC (plus ABC later for daytime reruns).

 

[chris12]

Some other shows that went from prime time to syndication
Webster
Too Close For Comfort
What's Happening had a revival in the 80s as What's Happening Now
In The Heatf The Night switched fom NBC to CBS
Father Dowling Mysteries switced from NBC to ABC as did Matlock

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Some other shows that went from prime time to syndication

Too Close For Comfort

When "Too Close for Comfort" went into syndication, wasn't it renamed "The Ted Knight Show" before Knight's passing in 1986?

 

[bpatrick]

If you'll go back a couple of pages you'll find
that I mentioned that "Too Close For Comfort"
became "The Ted Knight Show."

 

[Tim-In-Houston]

"JAG" is one of the few successful jumps. Started out for one season on NBC before finding a home and audience on CBS for the next nine.

 

[Davros2006]

Going overseas...

UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE ended a 25-year-run on ITV in 1987 and was revived on BBC2 in 1994. Also, NEIGHBOURS began on the Seven Network in 1985 and jumped to Network Ten the very next year, and it's been on Ten ever since.

 

[mleach]

What's Happening had a revival in the 80s as What's Happening Now

True What's Happening Now was a revivial as What's Happening but there was a good 6-year gap between the two. What's Happening ended their run on ABC in 1979, What's Happening Now began their synidcated run in 1985. Because of that gap and because of the many differences between the two, I don't know if I would consider What's Happening a show that "switched teams".