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Two (or more) different shows with the same title

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bpatrick

Have we done this one yet? How many pairs (or more)
can you think of with the same title but different formats?
I'm not talking here about shows like The Price Is Right that return
with the same title but with a different format, but rather two
or more separate, unrelated shows. For example:

Wheel Of Fortune: the familiar version I'm sure many of you
watch every night, and a show (circa 1953) that rewarded
good deeds by having the person on the receiving end of the
good deed spin the wheel for a cash prize for the person who
did the deed

Happy Days: the monster-hit sitcom and a 1970 CBS variety
show saluting the songs and fads of the 1930s and '40s

E/R and ER: One's a comedy, the other's a drama. Both are
set in hospitals and both featured George Clooney

Hunter: Three versions: Barry Nelson (1955) and James Franciscus
(1977) as spies; Fred Dryer (1980s) as a cop

Three's A Crowd: The successor to Three's Company and the controversial
Chuck Barris game show of 1979-80 (revived on GSN with Alan Thicke)

Face The Music: a 15-minute musical show that followed Douglas Edwards' newscast
in the '50s and a 1980 game show with Ron Ely as host

And, of course, The Doctors: the NBC soap (1963-82) and the current
Dr. Phil-like talk show.
 
How about The Eleventh Hour?...4 times:

An short-lived American TV drama in the mid 1960s about psychiatrists, a 4 part British series in 06 with Patrick Stewart, a Candian drama series about a fictional TV news magazine (02-05), and a new Jerry Bruckheimer produced drama based on the 06 British series.
 
Karen (twice as sitcoms): 1964-1965 on NBC and in 1975 on ABC with Karen Valentine.

Make Me Laugh (twice): 1950's and in 1979-1980 as a game show with Bobby Van as host.
 
I Spy - two different shows

#1 - 1955 syndicated anthology series, starring Raymond Massey.
#2 - 1965-68 adventure on NBC, starring Robert Culp and Bill Cosby.
 
...three different cases of shows named after their stars:

The Joey Bishop Show, sitcom (NBC/CBS 1961-65) and talk show (ABC 1967-69)
The Smothers Brothers Show, sitcom (CBS 1965-66) and variety show (NBC 1975)
The Dick Cavett Show, talk show (ABC/PBS/USA/CNBC/TCM 1968-present) and variety show (CBS 1975)
 
Saturday Night Live - how could we forget that one?

#1 - 1975 variety show starring Hah-Wad Co-Sell. This disaster could also be #1 on the list of the most mis-cast shows of all time. ;D

#2 - Current show that was originally called NBC Saturday Night.
 
"Make Me Laugh" was essentially the same
format in both versions: three comedians each
get 60 seconds to try to make the contestant
laugh; the contestant gets $1 for every second
he/she can keep from laughing.
 
Ultimajock said:
...three different cases of shows named after their stars:

The Smothers Brothers Show, sitcom (CBS 1965-66) and variety show (NBC 1975)
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Their variety show was titled "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" - probably to differentiate it from the earlier sitcom (Smothers Brothers Show) which was not a success.

And it ran on CBS from 67-69. As we all know, it was popular, but cancelled by CBS because the network was very uncomfortalbe with the anti-Vietnam War and counter-culture sentiments expressed on the show.
 
Lkeller said:
Ultimajock said:
...three different cases of shows named after their stars:

The Smothers Brothers Show, sitcom (CBS 1965-66) and variety show (NBC 1975)
Click to expand...

Their variety show was titled "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" - probably to differentiate it from the earlier sitcom (Smothers Brothers Show) which was not a success.

And it ran on CBS from 67-69. As we all know, it was popular, but cancelled by CBS because the network was very uncomfortalbe with the anti-Vietnam War and counter-culture sentiments expressed on the show.
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The Smothers Brothers did have a variety show on NBC in 1975 titled
"The Smothers Brothers Show." They used "The Smothers Brothers
Comedy Hour" as the title of their 1988 CBS series which was essentially
the same as the 1967-69 show, with the addition of Tommy's "Yo-Yo Man"
routine.
 
bpatrick said:
Lkeller said:
Ultimajock said:
...three different cases of shows named after their stars:

The Smothers Brothers Show, sitcom (CBS 1965-66) and variety show (NBC 1975)
Click to expand...

Their variety show was titled "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" - probably to differentiate it from the earlier sitcom (Smothers Brothers Show) which was not a success.

And it ran on CBS from 67-69. As we all know, it was popular, but cancelled by CBS because the network was very uncomfortalbe with the anti-Vietnam War and counter-culture sentiments expressed on the show.
Click to expand...

The Smothers Brothers did have a variety show on NBC in 1975 titled
"The Smothers Brothers Show." They used "The Smothers Brothers
Comedy Hour" as the title of their 1988 CBS series which was essentially
the same as the 1967-69 show, with the addition of Tommy's "Yo-Yo Man"
routine.
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I stand corrected! I have no memory of either later program. I rarely watched TV in the mid 70s (didn't even have one for a couple of years), but I'm not sure how I missed the 88 CBS series...
 
And, of course, The Doctors: the NBC soap (1963-82) and the current
Dr. Phil-like talk show.
I wondered what was up with that...Saw "The Doctors" listed in TV Guide a week or so ago and thought I was having a Life On Mars Moment.
 
Just thought of another: "The Champions."
The first was a British-made series that was
"Laugh-In"'s 1968 summer replacement, an
adventure series about two men and a woman
given super powers by a Himalayan mystic; the
other is a syndicated sports show from the 1970s.
 
...of course, the all-time record for series run *simultaneously* would have to be All-Star Wrestling. Since the professional wrestling business was operated on a strictly territorial basis before Vince McMahon Jr. took his WWF promotion nationwide circa '85, there were several promotions to use that TV title in prior years. There are three -- Minneapolis' AWA, New York's WWWF and San Antonio's Southwest Championship Wrestling -- that I can think of immediately...
 
In adition to the famous NBC sitcom friends there was a short lived ABC Comedy/Drama Friends on ABC in March-April 1979 which had Jill Whelan.

There were three different versions of a game show called Break The Bank, one from 1948-57 with Bert Parks, one in 1976-77 with Tom Kennedy and Jack Barry and a 1985-86 with Gene Rayburn and Joe Farago.

I've seen old listings from the early 70s from what appeared to have been a local show on WFLD 32 Chicago called What's Happening which of course was the name of the 1976-79 ABC sitcom.
 
There were also two different versions of "Strike
It Rich." The first (1951-59), hosted by Warren Hull,
was similar to "Queen For A Day": people with some
need could win money by answering a few simple questions,
or they might get their needs through the show's "Heart Line,"
wherein viewers contributed what the person needed. The
second (1986-87), hosted by Joe Garagiola, was more a
straightforward q&a show without the charity elements.
 
Braves2005 said:
Make Me Laugh (twice): 1950's and in 1979-1980 as a game show with Bobby Van as host.
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Bobby Van sadly was dying of cancer ( malignant brain tumor ) as he was doing Make Me Laugh. Van would die very soon after he did the last Make Me Laugh in 1980. Unlike Gene Siskel, when he returned to Sneak Previews while he was still ill, Bobby Van as I can recall showed no signs at all at being ill. Was Van's illness kept from the public until after his death?

Come to think of it I believe a number of local stations were still airing Make Me Laugh after Van's death and looking back it wouldn't surprise me that some of the stations didn't know Van was ill...much less already dead.
 
* "Double Dare" -- a 1976 game show with Alex Trebek, with the "spoilers"; a 1980s game show with Marc Summers, with "green slime"; and a forgettable 1985 CBS crime drama.

* "Hard Copy" -- a 1990s tabloid TV series, and a forgettable 1987 CBS crime drama.
 
At least for prime time shows, this topic is quite easy to
look it up in your Funk and Wag...uh...Brooks & Marsh. ;)
 
In addition to "Who's the Boss?" (ABC, 1984-92) with Tony Danza, there was another show (a panel game show) also called "Who's the Boss?" that aired briefly on ABC during 1954, with Mike Wallace as one of the hosts.

Very little information was found online about the early "Who's the Boss," other than the panelists attempted to identify a celebrity through his/her secretary.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046664/

In addition, while not quite having the same title, prior to the premiere of "Full House" in September 1987 on ABC, there was a British game show called "Bob's Full House" (named after host Bob Monkhouse) that aired on BBC1 starting in 1984 (and ran until 1990). Its format was similar to that of the short-lived game "Trump Card." Information on "Bob's Full House" is available on Wikipedia at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob's_Full_House
 
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