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* ''[[Series/{{KYTV}} Radio Active]]'' has had two since ending in 1987. The first, in 2002, was an "in character" reunion looking at what had happened to the eponymous station in the 25 years since the last series. The second, in 2016, was essentially a new recording of one of the old episodes, slightly revised due to [[ArtistExistenceFailure the death of Geoffrey Perkins in 2008]].

* ''[[Series/{{KYTV}} Radio Active]]'' has had two since ending in 1987. The first, in 2002, was an "in character" reunion looking at what had happened to the eponymous station in the 25 years since the last series. The second, in 2016, was essentially a new recording of one of the old episodes, slightly revised due to [[CreatorExistenceFailure the death of Geoffrey Perkins in 2008]].

* ''Series/TheTonightShow with Jimmy Fallon'' has had fun with getting actors from specific shows to reprise their characters in an obviously non-canon skit. One of his first was getting Danny Tanner, Jesse Katsopolis and Joey Gladstone (Bob Saget, John Stamos and Dave Coulier) from ''Series/FullHouse'' to comfort him about the opportunity to host the Tonight Show, complete with Full House's trademark SentimentalMusicCue. Another involved getting most of the cast of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' to lampoon all the memorable bits from that show.

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'' has had numerous campaigns for a reunion WhereAreTheyNow episode for the characters. The writers have had to put down several rumours and it's the number one question the actors face. And with the ten year anniversary of the finale coming up the pressure is only getting worse.

** ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' is to ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' as ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'' is to ''Kamen Rider''. For the thirty-fifth anniversary, the most notable ability of the Gokaigers is to transform into Rangers of previous years. However really ticking this box is the appearance of various characters from previous series as guest stars. Though most characters are replaced with AlternateUniverse equivalents played by different actors, quite a few characters are played by their original actors.

** The '''eighth''' movie in the ''Den-O'' series is [[MilestoneCelebration the movie of the franchise's 40th year]] and thus brings all main Riders up to Series/KamenRiderOOO, with particular focus on OOO, Den-O and [[Series/KamenRider the Double Riders]].
** Like ''Super Sentai'''s "Vs." series, Kamen Rider recently started a series of movies of this nature, collectively known as ''Movie Wars''. The most recent saw ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'', ''OOO'', ''Double'' and the first seven Riders joining forces, though the focus was on the first two.

* ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie: 15 Years Later'' (1985) had all the original cast save Larry Hagman, who couldn't participate due to his role on ''Series/{{Dallas}}''; instead, Wayne Rogers served as [[TheOtherDarrin The Other Tony]]. A second reunion movie, ''I Still Dream of Jeannie'' (1991), kept Tony [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen offscreen]].

** In a rare case of a specific team coming back entirely on their own, ''Series/NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger'' had a "Ten Years Later" V-Cinema special in 2013. In 2015, ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' got the same treatment.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' was a Reunion Game for the voice casts of several Disney classics through the last century; most of the original cast returned (including people such as James Woods as Hades, and Creator/BrianBlessed as Clayton as well as the original voice of Alice and Wendy a good 50 years after the initial films came out). Some of the cast of ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' returned, as did most of ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'' (save Creator/RobinWilliams, who was already recast since the TV series in the 90's), ''{{Disney/Hercules}}'', ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' (save Samuel E. Wright), ''{{Disney/Tarzan}}'', and ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' (save Creator/JerryOrbach who had since passed away). The most no-shows were ''Disney/TheLionKing'' with only Ernie Sabella as Pumbaa and Cheech Marin as Banzai, and ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' where the entire cast was shooting the sequels and couldn't make it (although Creator/JohnnyDepp supposedly really wanted to do it). Geoffrey Rush did come back to voice Barbossa, but only in Australian copies.

** Issue 500's strip, "The Stockbridge Showdown", had the Twelfth Doctor team up with the living DWM comic companions to fight one of the strip's big villains.

* ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' had ''The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex'' in 2013. A magic spell goes awry, [[LiteralSplitPersonality splitting Alex into a good and bad Alex]] and leading the family try and stop the bad clone from [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the world]].

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' is unique among all TV series as its reunion episodes feature the different actors who have played ''the same character''. To date there have been: "The Three Doctors" (1972-73; featuring the First, Second and Third Doctors); "The Five Doctors" (1983; featuring the first five Doctors, plus a number of former co-stars); "The Two Doctors" (1985, featuring the Second Doctor and popular 1960s companion character Jamie [=McCrimmon=] joining the incumbent Sixth Doctor and Peri); "Dimensions in Time" (1993, a special shown as an item during ''Series/ChildrenInNeed'' that featured the Third to Seventh Doctors and various former companions); "Time Crash" (2007 comedy minisode featuring the Fifth and Tenth Doctors); and the two-parter "The Name of the Doctor" and "The Day of the Doctor" (both for the 50th anniversary in 2013) that saw ''every'' Doctor appear in some form. This list does not count additional episodes such as "Mawdryn Undead" (1983) and "School Reunion" (2006) which featured the return of individual cast members from the show's past.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' has the crossover special with ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' in 2005. By then, the show was over, and the cast was back to reprise their roles (except T.J., who had to be done by the same kid who did him in the DTV movies.
* Parodied on ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' when Brain tries to stage fake one in an attempt to TakeOverTheWorld.

* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'''s ChristmasSpecial was made 18 months after the show ended. It may not seem like a long time, but because the show dealt with teenagers, it was obvious that they were too old for the show. Making it worse was that the movie was only supposed to take place a few weeks after the GrandFinale.

* February 2005 saw a Reunion Show for ''Series/OneDayAtATime''.

* Almost every season of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' from ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' onward will have at least one reunion show where the team from the previous series teamed up with that of the current one to fight a threat from their equally-EnemyMine minded villains. The most extreme case of this, however, was ''Forever Red'', where all the Red Rangers from all seasons prior to ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'' teamed up to stop TheRemnant of [[Series/PowerRangersZeo the Machine Empire]] from rebuilding [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Serpentera]]. More recently, the fifteenth anniversary episode ''Once a Ranger'' (in ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'') features one Ranger from each of [[Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm the]] [[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder past]] [[Series/PowerRangersSPD four]] [[Series/PowerRangersMysticForce seasons]], led by ''[[Creator/JohnnyYongBosch one]]'' from the '''[[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers second]]''' season, returned to pinch-hit for the temporarily-depowered regulars.
** Yet another reunion show is coming for the show's 20th anniversary ''[[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce Super Megaforce]]'', featuring ~10 of approximately 60 ranger actors—largely from older seasons—whom producers contacted by mass email a few weeks before shooting (out of many more who weren't contacted). That includes Jason David Frank, Sean Cw Johnson, Alison MacInnis, Jason Faunt, Danny Slavin, Patricia Ja Lee and most of the rangers of ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai''.
* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'': ''Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger'' and ''Series/JAKQDengekitai'' (the first two series) had a team-up movie, but annual team-ups wouldn't become a tradition until ''Series/ChourikiSentaiOhranger''; like ''Forever Red'', they had their own multi-season team-ups in the wake of ''Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger'' and ''Series/GoGoSentaiBoukenger'' (at the expense of the single-season team-up; no ''Gaoranger vs. [[Series/MiraiSentaiTimeranger Timeranger]]'' or ''Boukenger vs. [[Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger Magiranger]]'' exist. In fact, the ''Gaoranger'' team-up screwed any major ''Timeranger'' presence over!).
** ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' is to ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' as ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'' is to ''Kamen Rider''. For the thirty-fifth anniversary the most notable ability of the Gokaigers is to transform into Rangers of previous years. However really ticking this box is the appearance of various characters from previous series as guest stars. Though most characters are replaced with AlternateUniverse equivalents played by different actors, quite a few characters are played by their original actors.
** In a rare case of a specific team coming back entirely on their own, ''Series/NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger'' had a "Ten Years Later" V-Cinema special in 2013. In 2015, something similar was announced for ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger''.

* ''Return to Mayberry'' (1986) successfully reunited almost the entire cast and crew of ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow''.

* Robert Young's other series, ''Marcus Welby M.D.'', also had two reunion movies, in 1984 and 1988.

* ''TheDukesOfHazzard'' reunion movie revolved around the wedding of Enos and Daisy Duke. A second reunion movie, ''Hazzard in Hollywood'', came in 2000.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' was a Reunion Game for the voice casts of several Disney classics through the last century; most of the original cast returned (including people such as James Woods as Hades, and Creator/BrianBlessed as Clayton as well as the original voice of Alice and Wendy a good 50 years after the initial films came out). Some of the cast of ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' returned, as did most of ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'' (save Creator/RobinWilliams, who was already recast since the TV series in the 90's), ''{{Disney/Hercules}}'', ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' (save Samuel E. Wright), ''{{Disney/Tarzan}}'', and ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' (save Jerry Orbach who had since passed away). The most no-shows were ''Disney/TheLionKing'' with only Ernie Sabella as Pumbaa and Cheech Marin as Banzai, and ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' where the entire cast was shooting the sequels and couldn't make it (although Creator/JohnnyDepp supposedly really wanted to do it). Geoffrey Rush did come back to voice Barbossa, but only in Australian copies.

** An episode of ''Series/ComediansInCarsGettingCoffee'' featured George Costanza as Jerry's guest for the episode, with a cameo appearance from Newman. Which is weird, because in another episode, [[CelebrityParadox he had on an out-of-character Michael Richards]].

* ''Series/TheBobNewhartShow 19th Anniversary Special'' (1991) had Bos discussing [[{{Series/Newhart}} his crazy dream about being a Vermont innkeeper]] with his friends and patients. To which Howard responds about [[Series/IDreamOfJeannie dreaming of being an astronaut down in Florida]].

* ''TheOprahWinfreyShow'' had a few of these in its final season, including one with Oprah's former competitors, Ricki Lake, Donahue, and Sally Jessy Raphael. She also reunited with Iyanla Vanzant, who she had a falling out with after she refused to do a SpinOff show with Oprah and went to another network.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' was a Reunion Game for the voice casts of several Disney classics through the last century; most of the original cast returned (including people such as James Woods as Hades, and {{BRIAN BLESSED}} as Clayton as well as the original voice of Alice and Wendy a good 50 years after the initial films came out). Some of the cast of ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' returned, as did most of ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'' (save Creator/RobinWilliams, who was already recast since the TV series in the 90's), ''{{Disney/Hercules}}'', ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' (save Samuel E. Wright), ''{{Disney/Tarzan}}'', and ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' (save Jerry Orbach who had since passed away). The most no-shows were ''Disney/TheLionKing'' with only Ernie Sabella as Pumbaa and Cheech Marin as Banzai, and ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' where the entire cast was shooting the sequels and couldn't make it (although Creator/JohnnyDepp supposedly really wanted to do it). Geoffrey Rush did come back to voice Barbossa, but only in Australian copies.

* In another Nickelodeon example, [[DoubleDare1986 Marc Summers and John Harvey]] reunited on an episode of NBC Philadelphia's ''The 10! Show'' in late 2010, and the two participated in a ''[[DoubleDare1986 Double Dare]]''-esque challenge. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqdLjFB3xLM The interview portion is here,]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDZBl6sKvn0 the challenge portion is here.]]

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' was a Reunion Game for the voice casts of several Disney classics through the last century; most of the original cast returned (including people such as James Woods as Hades, and {{BRIAN BLESSED}} as Clayton as well as the original voice of Alice and Wendy a good 50 years after the initial films came out). Some of the cast of ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' returned, as did most of ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'' (save Creator/RobinWilliams, who was already recast since the TV series in the 90's), ''{{Disney/Hercules}}'', ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' (save Samuel E. Wright), ''{{Disney/Tarzan}}'', and ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' (save Jerry Orbach who had since passed away). The most no-shows were ''Disney/TheLionKing'' with only Ernie Sabella as Pumbaa and Cheech Marin as Banzai, and ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' where the entire cast was shooting the sequels and couldn't make it (although Creator/JohnnyDepp supposedly really wanted to do it). Geoffrey Rush did come back to voice Barbossa, but only in Australian copies.

* ''Series/ISpy'' got two. One was a standard made-for-TV movie titled ''I Spy Returns'' that featured Robert Culp and BillCosby reprising their TV roles in a backdoor pilot for a "next generation" spin-off that never sold. And in 1999, Culp and Cosby reunited on Cosby's sitcom - conveniently titled ''Cosby'' for an AllJustADream episode in which Cosby's sitcom character, after watching an episode of ''I Spy'' on TV, dreams that he is Alexander Scott, sharing an adventure with Kelly Robinson (Culp).