when did they stop using the title "MAKE ROOM FOR DADDY" and rename it "THE DANNY THOMAS SHOW"? Was it when it went from ABC to CBS? Or was it always titled "MAKE ROOM FOR DADDY" but the sydnicated reruns are titled "THE DANNY THOMAS SHOW"?

Make Room for Daddy debuted in the 1953-1954 season and starred Danny Thomas as nightclub entertainer Danny Williams and Jean Hagen as his wife, Margaret. After three seasons, Hagen quit. Rick Mitz (in The Great TV Sitcom Book) writes: "When Hagen left the show, a wet-eyed Danny
Williams explained to his kids that 'Mommy has gone to heaven.' That was the
end of Jean Hagen ... and of the 1955 season.
"The following year, 1956-1957, the program got a new name: The Danny
Thomas Show. In the last four episodes, widower Williams met Kathy O'Hara, a pretty Irish widow with soft red hair and slate-blue eyes. By the next fall they were married. (They would have been married sooner, but Marjorie Lord was superstitious and wanted to wait until the following season
because she was already getting married off-screen that year; she thought
'two weddings' in one year was bad luck.)"

I've always wondered why the most oft-syndicated episodes,
the CBS episodes, are always called MAKE ROOM FOR DADDY
with a bogus opening MAKE ROOM FOR DADDY credit.
Clearly, the show ran longer as THE DANNY THOMAS SHOW, and
these episodes SHOULD be called THE DANNY
THOMAS SHOW as they originally were titled.
Meanwhile, the episodes actually called MAKE ROOM FOR DADDY, with
Jean Hagen, are rarely syndicated, and when they ARE, their opening
credits are cut because the show was sponsored by THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY, and a scene in the tobacco field and the sponsor mention were all included in the original opening credits at that time.

Perhaps the show should be syndicated in two separate packages. The Jean Hagen years as "Make Room..." and the Marjorie Lord years as "Danny Thomas Show". In any case, this great show is nowhere to be seen!

Some sitcoms from the 50's were syndicated using different titles, the Bob Cummings Show was syndicated as Love That Bob, Private Secretary as Susie, The Phil Silvers Show as Sgt. Bilko...they don't seem to do that anymore.

I've never seen "The Phil Silvers Show" with the "Sgt. Bilko" title. When my local Fox (then ind.) reran it, it was TPSS.

I've never seen "The Phil Silvers Show" with the "Sgt. Bilko" title. When my local Fox (then ind.) reran it, it was TPSS.
I haven't seen it in such a long time I forget what my local channel ran it as. lol

I wonder why the powers that be felt the need to change names around in syndication? Why not just keep as they simply are.

I wonder why the powers that be felt the need to change names around in syndication? Why not just keep as they simply are.
Good question! When a show went on for so long that it was still producing new shows while the older episodes hit the syndication market, they'd rename the older episodes to keep the viewers from being confused(e.g. older episodes of 'Bonanza' got renamed after the Cartwright ranch the'Ponderosa' while newer episodes were still being made). Does that help?