TV Shows that seem to become more popular when they reached Syndication

[USATVFAN]

Name TV shows that becamce more popular after they went into syndication.

Reba-Got around 4 Million viewers a week but that was great for the WB(The network it aired on) it was there Top Rated Show, had it been NBC, ABS or CBS it would have been cancelled. Not alot of people knew she had a sitcom or notice or they ignored the show but when it reached syndication everybody fell in love with it and that the help DVD Sales.

The Fresh Prince

[Jude The Obscure]

The Brady Bunch--everyone got into it as a rerun staple and that turned it into the phenom it still is in pop culture.

[Zoneboy]

Star Trek (TOS)

[browneyes106]

I agree with the OP on Reba. One of my friends loved the show when it started airing on Lifetime. I kind of Family Guy is one of those shows my sister got into the show one time when she saw a rerun on TBS.

[Jude The Obscure]

I think George Lopez also fits this description--more people are discovering it now, then when it originally ran on ABC.

[TVFactFan]

I think George Lopez also fits this description--more people are discovering it now, then when it originally ran on ABC.


Ad I'm one of those of people-lol It's hard for me to watch shows in primetime because of Sports so I never got a chance to see it.

George Lopez-"I BE LIKE THIS"


LOL_LOL

[JulieSomoski]

WKRP - definitely got more popular in syndication, as it was never a break-out for CBS, with all the schedule shuffling it endured during the 4 years it aired.

Probably NewsRadio, too, for the same reasons as WKRP.

[ryan423]

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
George Lopez
Reba
That '70s Show

[Dusty's Fan]

The Brady Bunch--everyone got into it as a rerun staple and that turned it into the phenom it still is in pop culture.

Well stated, and I think to a certain extent you could say the same for another Sherwood Schwartz series, Gilligan's Island.

[catlover79]

Barney Miller seemed to become a major hit in syndication after it ended its network run in the spring of 1982.

[jimpickens]

The Munsters
The Beverly Hillbillies
Gilligan's Island
The Addams Family
MASH
Happy Days
Green Acres
Married With Children
Futurama
Charlie's Angels
Family Guy
Gunsmoke
The Monkees
The Twilight Zone
The original Star Trek
Battlestar Galactica

[TVFactFan]

I think The Fresh Prince was popular from the start, and from it's original run....

it seems Happy Days, popular during it's 11 year run, has gotten even more popular in the 20 years since....which im glad



i think it was only popular the first couple of years, because NBC was going to cancel the show in 1993 but they decided to give it another shot

[Skywalker]

The Odd Couple
Taxi
Wings
Still Standing
Bosom Buddies

[yankeesrj12]

I think Kings of Queens got more popular in syndication.

[GARFIELDKOOL]

The Munsters
The Beverly Hillbillies
Gilligan's Island
The Addams Family
MASH
Happy Days
Green Acres
Married With Children
Futurama
Charlie's Angels
Family Guy
Gunsmoke
The Monkees
The Twilight Zone
The original Star Trek
Battlestar Galactica

Married With Children was popular during it's first run, at least to me. Because Fox was a young network at the time it aired, and wasn't full-fledged the ratings probably didn't show, compared to the big three, but it was popular. I remember at the time when it was hot, everyone talked about the show.

[browneyes106]

I think Kings of Queens got more popular in syndication.

I remember my uncle became a fan when our WB channel started airing episodes back in 2004.

[browneyes106]

Married With Children was popular during it's first run, at least to me. Because Fox was a young network at the time it aired, and wasn't full-fledged the ratings probably didn't show, compared to the big three, but it was popular. I remember at the time when it was hot, everyone talked about the show.

It was popular to my family during it's first run. Back when Fox started the area where I grew up here in New Mexico somehow managed to pick up Fox on antennas. But I remember in the town near us no one was able to get Fox because there were a lack of transmitters in the state at the time. There were several areas in New Mexico that didn't get Fox until the mid 90's. The show got popular with people here in '92 or 93 because the ABC affiliate started airing MWC nightly at 10:30.

[megamanj2004]

It was popular to my family during it's first run. Back when Fox started the area where I grew up here in New Mexico somehow managed to pick up Fox on antennas. But I remember in the town near us no one was able to get Fox because there were a lack of transmitters in the state at the time. There were several areas in New Mexico that didn't get Fox until the mid 90's. The show got popular with people here in '92 or 93 because the ABC affiliate started airing MWC nightly at 10:30.

Wait, you lived in New Mexico during the '90s?

[TVFactFan]

NBC wasn't going to cancel it. It was 1994, and Will Smith was going to personally end it, then it would of eventually been canceled through Will leaving, but fan letters and people persuaded him to renew the show, and it continued on for 2 more years. That's why at the end of "A Philadelphia Story", it says- Fresh Prince of Philadelphia??

That would of been the worst ending in history lol, Solomon...

That doesn't right to me,m why would he want to end after 3 years? I have to put this on my research list

[markway895]

The Munsters
The Beverly Hillbillies
Gilligan's Island
The Addams Family
MASH
Happy Days
Green Acres
Married With Children
Futurama
Charlie's Angels
Family Guy
Gunsmoke
The Monkees
The Twilight Zone
The original Star Trek
Battlestar Galactica
The Beverly Hillbillies and Happy Days were not more sucessful in syndication. They were both #1 Neilson rated shows for years during their original runs. I think MASH was up there too.

[catlover79]

The Beverly Hillbillies and Happy Days were not more sucessful in syndication. They were both #1 Neilson rated shows for years during their original runs. I think MASH was up there too.
Plus Charlie's Angels was in the Top 5 its first two seasons, and still in the Top 15 in its third. The last two seasons when Kate Jackson left the show dropped out of the Top 30 altogether.

[Stuck In The '70's]

The Beverly Hillbillies and Happy Days were not more sucessful in syndication. They were both #1 Neilson rated shows for years during their original runs. I think MASH was up there too.
Gunsmoke was also ranked #1 for 4 straight years. Green Acres was also a top 20 show.

[TVFactFan]

Gunsmoke was also ranked #1 for 4 straight years. Green Acres was also a top 20 show.


And that's because it was no cable or internet during the 1958-1961 era-LOL

[Stuck In The '70's]

And that's because it was no cable or internet during the 1958-1961 era-LOL
I can't agree with you. I loved watching those shows. lol

[factsoflife]

What I Like About You fits this bill. I think that not too many people watched it when it was on the WB because either people didn't want to watch shows on the wb or they just didn't know about it, but since entering syndication it's become a pretty popular show. I would also say the same about The Steve Harvey show.

[browneyes106]

What I Like About You fits this bill. I think that not too many people watched it when it was on the WB because either people didn't want to watch shows on the wb or they just didn't know about it, but since entering syndication it's become a pretty popular show. I would also say the same about The Steve Harvey show.

I never really got into What I Like About You until it went into syndication. I think it was a great show and Jennie has a lot of comedic talent.

[steevo]

The Odd Couple never pulled in great ratings when ABC originally aired it, but it became popular in syndication.

After it was canceled by Fox the first time, Family Guy became a hit when it aired on Adult Swim (the DVD sales helped, too). It was so much a hit that Fox even bought it back.