There can't be that many. I'll name the ones I can think of.

The Andy Griffith Show / Mayberry R.F.D.
All in the Family / Archie Bunker's Place
Three's Company / Three's a Crowd
The Golden Girls / The Golden Palace
Good Morning, Miss Bliss / Saved by the Bell / SBTB: The College Years
Scrubs / Scrubs: Med School (also known as season 9 of the original show)

I guess we can also count:
What's Happening!! / What's Happening Now!! (There was a gap in between seasons, but I consider them to be the same show just with six or so years in between seasons 3 & 4)

Are there others?

Are you limiting this to comedies? Because this list could go on for a while if you count dramas as well. Here are a couple more that I can think of off the top of my head:

Cheers/Frasier
Friends/Joey
Diff'rent Stokes/Facts of Life
Happy Days/Mork & Mindy/Joanie Loves Chachi/Laverne & Shirley

Even your list has a few omissions, in addition to Archie Bunker's Place, All in the Family also spun off Maude and The Jeffersons, and Andy Griffith also spawned Gomer Pyle USMC.

Are you limiting this to comedies? Because this list could go on for a while if you count dramas as well. Here are a couple more that I can think of off the top of my head:

Cheers/Frasier
Friends/Joey

Nope, not just comedies. I mean they're the main ones I, personally am into but I'd love to hear about other genres as well.

Okay then, here goes:

Star Trek/The Next Generation/Deep Space Nine/Voyager/Enterprise
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel
CSI/CSI: Miami/CSI: New York
JAG/NCIS/NCIS: LA
Law & Order/Law & Order: SVU/Law & Order: Criminal Intent/Law & Order: LA

That's just a few :)

Are you limiting this to comedies? Because this list could go on for a while if you count dramas as well. Here are a couple more that I can think of off the top of my head:

Cheers/Frasier
Friends/Joey
Diff'rent Stokes/Facts of Life
Happy Days/Mork & Mindy/Joanie Loves Chachi/Laverne & Shirley

Even your list has a few omissions, in addition to Archie Bunker's Place, All in the Family also spun off Maude and The Jeffersons, and Andy Griffith also spawned Gomer Pyle USMC.

I'm not talking about "spin-offs" in which they take a character from the show and give them their own show. I'm talking about Continuations, which are generally known as "spin-offs" but are really just the next seasons of a show with a different title.

I'll explain:

When, in 1968, Andy Griffith announced he was leaving "The Andy Griffith Show", they simply cast Ken Berry to be the new star of the show. Since it couldn't be called "The Andy Griffith Show" anymore, they changed the title to "Mayberry R.F.D." and continued for three more seasons.

In 1979, after finishing nine seasons of "All in the Family," it was decided to change the focus of the show from the Bunkers at home to Archie at work at his bar. The series was retitled "Archie Bunker's Place" and lasted four more seasons.

In 1984, the producers of "Three's Company" had decided to change things. They got rid of Janet, Terri, Larry and Furley, focused on Jack and his new live-in girlfriend, Vicki and continued under the new title "Three's a Crowd."

In 1992, Bea Arthur left "The Golden Girls." They shot a series finale and then the next season got the three remaining "girls" back together for a new show where they run a hotel. Though it could still be conisdered The Golden Girl's last season, just without Dorothy and set at a hotel.

All of these follow-up shows are considered Spin-Offs but really are just Continuations of the original series.

As for "Scrubs," the creator of the show wanted it to end with season eight. He made a series finale but ABC wasn't ready to let it go. So it was renewed for a ninth season. Lawrence (the creator) wanted it to have a different name (Scrubs: Med School) and be considered a spin-off but ABC wasn't prepared to change the name. So that's a show that's generally considered the final season of the show despite Lawrence's wishes.

The examples you gave are very simply spin-offs. I apologize for not explaining myself earlier.

Not sure how to classify M.A.S.H./After M.A.S.H., its sort of a continuation series, but a completely different setting. Maybe its more a spin-off.

I'm not talking about "spin-offs" in which they take a character from the show and give them their own show. I'm talking about Continuations, which are generally known as "spin-offs" but are really just the next seasons of a show with a different title.

I'll explain:

When, in 1968, Andy Griffith announced he was leaving "The Andy Griffith Show", they simply cast Ken Berry to be the new star of the show. Since it couldn't be called "The Andy Griffith Show" anymore, they changed the title to "Mayberry R.F.D." and continued for three more seasons.

In 1979, after finishing nine seasons of "All in the Family," it was decided to change the focus of the show from the Bunkers at home to Archie at work at his bar. The series was retitled "Archie Bunker's Place" and lasted four more seasons.

In 1984, the producers of "Three's Company" had decided to change things. They got rid of Janet, Terri, Larry and Furley, focused on Jack and his new live-in girlfriend, Vicki and continued under the new title "Three's a Crowd."

In 1992, Bea Arthur left "The Golden Girls." They shot a series finale and then the next season got the three remaining "girls" back together for a new show where they run a hotel. Though it could still be conisdered The Golden Girl's last season, just without Dorothy and set at a hotel.

All of these follow-up shows are considered Spin-Offs but really are just Continuations of the original series.

As for "Scrubs," the creator of the show wanted it to end with season eight. He made a series finale but ABC wasn't ready to let it go. So it was renewed for a ninth season. Lawrence (the creator) wanted it to have a different name (Scrubs: Med School) and be considered a spin-off but ABC wasn't prepared to change the name. So that's a show that's generally considered the final season of the show despite Lawrence's wishes.

The examples you gave are very simply spin-offs. I apologize for not explaining myself earlier.

Ah, gotcha, I just saw the word spin-off and thought, "dang, there's a bunch of those!" Your criteria does make it a bit more tricky. :)

Sanford & Son/The Sanford Arms, also (debatable) Sanford

Too Close For Comfort/The Ted Knight Show

Not sure how to classify M.A.S.H./After M.A.S.H., its sort of a continuation series, but a completely different setting. Maybe its more a spin-off.

Yeah, I was thinking about this one, too. I think it's more of a spin-off. "M*A*S*H" was set in Korea during the war. "AfterMASH" followed the lives of three of the regular characters after the war is over and they've gone home. It seems to me more like a "Frasier" or "Joey" where it's after the original show is over and takes some characters (or in the case of Frasier and Joey, just one character) in a new setting for a new story.

I Love Lucy/ Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour

Maude/Good Times, The Cosby Show /A Diffrent World, The Jackie Gleason Show/The Honeymooners, The Carol Bernet Show/Mamma's Famliy ,The Mary Tyler Moore Show/Roada/Phiyllis/Lou Grant

I've changed the title of this thread so there wouldn't be any more confusion. This isn't for straight up spin-offs. It's about shows that are considered to be spin-offs but technically are just continuations of the original series.

McMillan & Wife/McMillan

Little House on the Prarie/Little House: A New Beginning

'The Mary Tyler Moore Show'/'Lou Grant'

'The Virginian'/'The Men from Shiloh'

'Valerie'/'Valerie's Family'/'The Hogan Family'

:) The Brady Bunch/The Brady Bunch Variety Hour/The Brady Brides/The Bradys, The Virginian/The Men From Shiloh, Dragnet-1950s/Dragnet-1960s/The New Dragnet-1990s?,Lassie-Jeff's Collie/Lassie and Timmy/Lassie-Forest Ranger/Lassie-Alone/The New Lassie/Lassie's Rescue Rangers(Animated), Flipper/The New Flipper

:) The Brady Bunch/The Brady Bunch Variety Hour/The Brady Brides/The Bradys, The Virginian/The Men From Shiloh, Dragnet-1950s/Dragnet-1960s/The New Dragnet-1990s?,Lassie-Jeff's Collie/Lassie and Timmy/Lassie-Forest Ranger/Lassie-Alone/The New Lassie/Lassie's Rescue Rangers(Animated), Flipper/The New Flipper

Battlestar Galactica/Galactica 1980/Battlestar Galactica/Caprica


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:) Lassie-Jeff's Collie/Lassie and Timmy/Lassie-Forest Ranger/Lassie-Alone/The New Lassie/Lassie's Rescue Rangers(Animated)

Jeff's Collie was the syndicated title for the Tommy Rettig episodes as was Timmy and Lassie for the John Provost episodes so they're not a continuation. I'm not sure if Lassie's Rescue Rangers would count or not but since it's Adam's thread, he can decide that.

@#&*#! Spammers!!!


:lol: Which spammers?

:lol: Which spammers?

When I last logged on to this thread someone had posted what was obviously SPAM. So I posted a thread so it wouldn't appear as the "Last Post". I've seen those things stay on for days!:mad:

Re: Lassie

This show ran for 19 consecutive seasons from 1954 to 1973, 17 years on CBS and the last two in syndication.

I was six years old when I first watched Lassie and it was well into the "Ranger" years then. I soon became aware that there were two older "versions" of this show being played on weekend afternoons (at least in my area, near Detroit, Michigan), the aforementioned Jeff's Collie and Timmy & Lassie. At least I always believed that there were two other "versions". Why? I wouldn't find out until after the advent of the Internet. It was then I learned that this show was one long series, and when they decided to syndicate it, they also decided to "Split" the series, running the first three seasons as Jeff's Collie, Seasons 5-8 as Timmy & Lassie and Seasons 12 -19 as simply Lassie. The Buffoons who broke up this series left out four seasons!:mad: Including the season where we are first introduced to Timmy who later becomes Lassie's Owner (Season Four) and the Season where Timmy's Family moves to Australia (Season 11) and a Quarentine Law forces them to leave the dawg behind, and she ends up with the Rangers. They also left out Seasons Nine and Ten where Lassie had interludes away from the Farm. The Producers of this series realised John Provost was growing up, and they were looking for a way for the series to continue without him. Some of the Charactures in these Episodes were looked upon as "Candidates" for lassies next Owner, these included Truck Drivers, Air Force Acadamy Cadets and of course, the one they finally chose, the Forest Rangers. It wasn't until, using a method I refuse to say on the grounds it may incriminate me, was I able to see these "Lost" Episodes, and put all the pieces together! :D

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I can certainly understand that but the best thing to do is to report any spam you may see and an Admin. or Mod. will take it from there. I report a ton of spam and it's almost always eradicated very quickly. Spam that goes unreported will most likely stay around until someone does report it or if an admin. or mod. happens to catch it.

Cursed became The Weber Show
Wednesday 9:30/8:30 Central changed to My Adventures In Television
Tattingers cut it's running time in half and became Nick & Hillary
Central Park West morphed into CPW

Seaquest DSV/Seaquest 2032

Loving = The City
The Torkelsons = Almost Home
Zoe, Zack, Duncan and Jane = Zoe
The Tonight Show with Jack Paar = The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson = The Tonight Show with Jay Leno = The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien = The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Fox After Breakfast = The Vicki Lawrence Show
Talk Soup = The Soup
Might Morphin Power Rangers = Power Rangers Zeo
Toast of the Town = The Ed Sullivan Show
CBS Evening News with Dan Rather= The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric
These Friends of Mine = Ellen

I believe that Mirrorball was just a continuation of Absolutely Fabulous under a different title.

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman = Forever Fernwood

I may be wrong about this one but here goes:

The Rosie O'Donnell Show = The Caroline Rhea Show

A lesser known adult swim cartoon-
Aqua Teen Hunger Force/Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1

Josie and the Pussycats (1970-72), Josie in Outer Space (1972-73)

Scooby Doo:

The Scooby Doo Show (originally aired as one half of The Scooby Doo/Dynomutt Hour from 1976-77, as part of Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics from 1977-78 and late in 1978 as part of Scooby's All-Stars)(1976-79)
Scooby Doo and Scrappy Doo (originally as part of The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show; 1980-81, The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show; 1981-82, The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour; 1982-83)
)
The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show (1983-84)
The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries (1984-85)
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo (1985-86)

What's New Scooby Doo? (2002-05)
Shaggy and Scooby Get a Clue! (2006-08)

The Wayne Brady Show, The Tony Danza Show talk shows

Star Trek The Original Series '66-69 and Star Trek The Animated Series from '73-'75 This animated series continues the adventures of the U.S.S. Enterprise, taking advantage of the visual freedom of animation to present stories with more alien elements. How about The Lucy Show '62-'65 with Lucy Carmichael and Vivian Bagley then '65-'66 Lucy Carmichael moved from Danfield to L.A. and was on her own continuing her adventures with Mr. Mooney.

It's a Living - Making a Living - It's a Living

I've changed the title of this thread so there wouldn't be any more confusion. This isn't for straight up spin-offs. It's about shows that are considered to be spin-offs but technically are just continuations of the original series.

This thread is really hard. For the most part shows that you mention like Archie Bunker's Place and Three's a Crowd are spin-offs like Frazier and Joey the minute only one surviving cast member makes its to the new show.

To me a continuation of a show is one that keeps a larger percentage of the original cast like;

What's Happening? - What's Happening Now?
MASH - AfterMASH
The Andy Griffith Show - Mayberry RDF
Saved by the Bell - Saved by the Bell: The College Years
WKRP in Cinnicinati - The New WKRP in Cinnicinati
The Golden Years - The Golden Palace
It's a Living - Making a Living - It's a Living
Get Smart - The New Get Smart
Gilligan's Island - The Gilligan's Island Movies

Scooby Doo:

The Scooby Doo Show (originally aired as one half of The Scooby Doo/Dynomutt Hour from 1976-77, as part of Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics from 1977-78 and late in 1978 as part of Scooby's All-Stars)(1976-79)
Scooby Doo and Scrappy Doo (originally as part of The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show; 1980-81, The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show; 1981-82, The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour; 1982-83)
)
The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show (1983-84)
The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries (1984-85)
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo (1985-86)

What's New Scooby Doo? (2002-05)
Shaggy and Scooby Get a Clue! (2006-08)


Wow who could forget Scooby Doo! Perfect example!

And theres even another new Scooby show: Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010-Present)

According to imdb Scooby Doo Where Are you came out Sept 13, 1969-1972 and continued with The New Scooby Doo Movies from 1972-1973. Then the rest of the incarnations which contined with the gang up til present.