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opus
10-11-2022, 04:19 PM
For instance, there was an episode of Benson called The Honeymooners

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0789347/

Any other examples of this out there?

BigManMike
10-11-2022, 04:59 PM
There was an episode of The Cosby Show called Full House.

Zoneboy
10-11-2022, 05:40 PM
Is this limited to only sitcoms? I can think of a few dramas this would also apply to.

Zoneboy
10-11-2022, 05:43 PM
The Andy Griffith Show had an episode called Three's a Crowd.

opus
10-11-2022, 06:06 PM
Is this limited to only sitcoms? I can think of a few dramas this would also apply to.

I could change the title to TV show episode titles that were also other TV shows.

Would that still work on the General Sitcoms board? (because I can’t move it)

Alan Brady's Hair
10-11-2022, 07:26 PM
There's a Wings episode, "All in the Family"

brianjohnson1984
10-12-2022, 08:32 PM
^ There's also a 1998 "Home Improvement" episode called "All In the Family"...and then one three weeks later called "Bewitched"

Full House had an episode in 1991 called "Fuller House"...years before the spinoff of that name.

Zoneboy
10-12-2022, 09:05 PM
The Twilight Zone had episodes titled "The Invaders" and "The Hitchhiker"

opus
10-12-2022, 10:32 PM
One Day At A Time had an episode called Small Wonder.

They also had an episode called The Good Life, which I figured had to have been a sitcom title at one point somewhere, so I looked it up. 4 seasons on the BBC.

And on the drama side ODAAT had an ep called Sisters, a show which ran on NBC for 6 seasons.

theoneandonlytvqueen
10-13-2022, 01:53 AM
Growing Pains has a 2 part Episode Called Family Ties

Growing Pains has an episode called The Nanny

Arrested Developmentt has an episode called Family Ties

Who's the Boss? has an episode called Who's the Boss?"

Scrubs has an episode called My Two Dads

The Middle has an episode called Two of A Kind

Mike &Molly has an episode called The Good Wife" & Eight Is Enough"

The Facts of Life & Sliver Spoons each have an episode called Growing Pains

Sliver Spoons has an episode called "Who's the Boss?

MA
10-13-2022, 07:25 AM
Curb Your Enthusiasm has an episode called Seinfeld.

icecream
10-15-2022, 12:31 PM
I could change the title to TV show episode titles that were also other TV shows.

Would that still work on the General Sitcoms board? (because I can’t move it)Yes. It is up to the OP, but general discussion of more than just sitcoms often happens on this board.

opus
05-27-2025, 12:56 PM
After 3 years I finally changed the thread title. Ok, so I’m no Usain Bolt.


Anyway, Touched By An Angel had these episode titles

- The Comeback

- Reasonable Doubt

- Last Call

- Millennium

- Promised Land (this show was a spinoff from this episode but I’ll count it)

ThisLittlePiggy
05-27-2025, 02:37 PM
ALF episode Weird Science

ThisLittlePiggy
05-27-2025, 02:39 PM
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode The Night Caller

ThisLittlePiggy
05-27-2025, 02:41 PM
Alice episode The Odd Couple

opus
05-28-2025, 11:17 PM
Some Hot In Cleveland episodes

- Love Is Blind

- Storage Wars

- Dr. Who?

- Naked and Afraid

- The Young and The Restless

- Family Affair

icecream
05-30-2025, 11:20 AM
The Closer (the TNT drama starring Kyra Sedgwick)
season 7, episode 6 "Home Improvement"
season 2, episode 7 "Head Over Heels" (Two shows with that title, one from the UK in 1993 and one from UPN in 1997- they lasted a combined 15 episodes. :lol:)

Also from The Closer, not quite the title but very close
season 2, episode 1 "Blue Blood"
season 7, episode 7 "A Family Affair"

AMackII
06-01-2025, 02:37 PM
Rugrats (OG 1990s version): Family Feud, The Odd Couple

ThisLittlePiggy
06-02-2025, 10:49 AM
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Angel

ThisLittlePiggy
06-02-2025, 10:50 AM
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Lie to Me

opus
06-02-2025, 12:34 PM
There was a Cafe Americain episode titled The Dating Game.

opus
06-02-2025, 04:48 PM
One Day At A Time had an episode called Small Wonder.

They also had an episode called The Good Life, which I figured had to have been a sitcom title at one point somewhere, so I looked it up. 4 seasons on the BBC.

And on the drama side ODAAT had an ep called Sisters, a show which ran on NBC for 6 seasons.

One Day At A Time also had an episode called The Dating Game (see previous post)

And an episode (2 parter) called Vegas.

ThisLittlePiggy
06-03-2025, 11:11 PM
Bonanza: The Fugitive

ThisLittlePiggy
06-03-2025, 11:13 PM
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin: Blood Brothers

opus
06-13-2025, 01:33 PM
there was an episode of Benson called The Honeymooners

There was also an episode of Three’s A Crowd called The Honeymooners

ThisLittlePiggy
06-14-2025, 10:05 AM
The Flintstones episode The Gambler

opus
06-16-2025, 01:19 PM
Laverne and Shirley had an episode titled Supermarket Sweep

ThisLittlePiggy
06-24-2025, 02:24 PM
The Walking Dead episode Prey

ThisLittlePiggy
06-24-2025, 02:26 PM
Happy Days episode Haunted

icecream
07-07-2025, 12:44 AM
There was an episode of Private Practice called Andromeda.

Adamantium
07-07-2025, 04:50 AM
There was an episode of NewsRadio titled "Big Brother".
There was an episode of NewsRadio titled "Who's the Boss?" (it was a 2-parter)
There was an episode of NewsRadio titled "Friends".
There was also an episode of Taxi titled "Friends".
There was an episode of Boy Meets World titled "The Honeymooners".
There was an episode of Boy Meets World titled "The Fugitive".

opus
07-07-2025, 06:04 PM
Barney Miller had an episode titled Bones

TVLegend
07-08-2025, 05:39 PM
The pilot episode of Three’s Company was titled “A Man About the House”, which was the name of the British sitcom that the show was based upon.

opus
07-16-2025, 11:44 PM
ODAAT had an ep called Sisters

Roseanne also had an episode called Sisters

bmasters9
07-18-2025, 09:26 AM
Growing Pains has a 2 part Episode Called Family Ties

Arrested Development has an episode called Family Ties


And Emergency! has a sixth-and-final-season episode called "Family Ties" from 1977.

icecream
11-05-2025, 12:05 AM
Last night's episode of FBI is called Manifest. Not the title, but during the show Without a Trace was said.

opus
11-10-2025, 03:00 PM
The first episode of Three’s A Crowd is called Family Affair