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* One of the few ''movies'' to use this trope seriously is ''Franchise/StarWars'' -- the famous {{Opening Scroll}}s. However, they explain what occurred between the previous movie and the one that's coming up, rather than any summation of the last movie itself. (The exception is for ''Film/TheLastJedi'', as it's an ImmediateSequel to ''Film/TheForceAwakens''.)

* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse'' features this trope on a few specials when they are split into two parts in Creator/DisneyPlus. Clarabelle provides the recap for the first part of "Road Rally", Toodles narrates the first part of "Space Adventure" (along with the words ToBeContinued at the end of part one), Minnie summarizes the first part of the specials "Minnie's Winter Bow Show!", "Mickey's Monster Musical" and "The Wizard of Dizz!", Mickey recaps the first part of "Super Adventure!", and Goofy summarizes the first part of the TreasureHuntEpisode "Mickey's Pirate Adventure" and the GrandFinale "A Goofy Fairy Tale".

* The ''Literature/BadMermaids'' books ''On the Rocks'' and ''On Thin Ice'' open with summaries of the previous books.

* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' did this during its whole run. The dubbed version had two of them were recapped by a character from the previous season (Davis for ''[[Anime/DigimonTamers Tamers]]'', and Rika for ''[[Anime/DigimonFrontier Frontier]]'' until Melissa Fahn got a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot), the other four had each episode recapped by one of the characters.

** During its several long arcs, ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' would sometimes have a "Last time on [=DS9=]" that would cover the previous month or more of episodes.
** "Previously on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''/''Series/StarTrekVoyager''... *selected clips from the first part of the episode* ... And now for the conclusion"

* One of the few ''movies'' to use this trope seriously is ''Franchise/StarWars'' -- the famous opening scrolls. However, they explain what occurred between the previous movie and the one that's coming up, rather than any summation of the last movie itself.

* The ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' sequels all started with flashbacks to the previous films. Initially it was quite a long segment of scenes and plot to fill in the viewer as to what was happening, but as the series grew (in numbers and notoriety) it became more a montage of death scenes with a sprinkling of backstory.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': The syndicated "season 5" of the show is actually composed of the three [[BigDamnMovie films of the series]], cut into four episode-sized chunks each. The continuations of each movie each have a special "Previously on" bumper added to their beginning, all with a quick bonus gag from one of the main or recurring characters of the show.

** The third (and final) season premiere of [[WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020 the show's reboot]] begins with this, in which consists of the major part taken from the second season finale "23 and WB" and occasional cutaways of Yakko [[SpitTake spitting his coffee, ultimately culminating in the coffee mug doing a spit-take with Yakko.]]

* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' has a 20-second recap of information relevant to the episode mixed into the opening theme of most episodes. These usually give a decent idea of which characters will have an impact on the events, and sometimes foreshadow ''ChekhovsGun'' moments.

* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'', addressing recap to someone absent at the scene if at all possible. Or with jokes like UnreliableNarrator describing events differently from the video recap and immediately {{lampshad|eHanging}}ing it with her charming childish sincerity:

* A 'previously on' in ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' starts out straight, but then they jump to clips of scenes that didn't happen yet (Summer getting pregnant, Jerry's funeral, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick Rick marrying Morty]]...). It doesn't take long for Rick to notice, and realizes he and Morty are having their life forces drained by a meta creature named [[Pun Previous Leon]].

* ''Literature/TheMermaidChronicles'' novel ''Quest for Atlantis'' opens with a summary of ''Secrets of the Deep''.

* Many, but not all, episodes of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' began this way.

* Each ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' sequel begins with the date on which the previous movie's events ended, then shows that movie's ending, though in the first sequel it also doubles as a FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin.

* Each ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' sequel begins with the date on which the previous movie's events ended, then shows a re-enactment of that movie's ending.

* The pre-credits opening sequence of ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' replays [[spoiler:Spock's death]] from the end of ''Star Trek II''.

* "Previously on X-Men," an almost 16-minute video, gained some fame after being included on a Website/{{Cracked}} list of funny videos hiding on YouTube. The original was taken down, but the video was mirrored and can still be found, split into two parts. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-K1D8y_Pxs Part 1]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1esNZva90A Part 2.]]

* ''Series/Legion2017'', being a MindScrew show set in an AmbiguousTimePeriod with entire episodes set entirely within a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind, uses [[UnreliableNarrator “Apparently, on Legion”]] and "Ostensibly on Legion".

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has the second part of its occasional two-parter episodes open with these. However, these episodes are almost always aired in tandem anyway, resulting in ToBeContinuedRightNow.