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1	It was once common (possibly universal) to retitle a TV show if it ran in syndication parallel to its first-run appearance. (This may have been mandated by contract.)
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3	This usually involved taking some of the words away from the title (or adding some, particularly "The Adventures of" or "The Best of"). Occasionally the syndication title will end up being something really bizarre (as in the case of ''Series/{{Lexx}}'', whose first four episodes, for legal reasons, air under the title ''Tales from a Parallel Universe'').
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5	Sometimes, the reruns preserve the original title while "New" is inserted into the first-run series, especially with game shows.
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7	Syndication titles are almost never used anymore, and were almost always forgotten in favor of the original title once the original could be used without any issues (there are a couple of exceptions where the syndication title became better known).
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9	Can also refer to the repackaging of what were originally distinct incarnations of a series under a blanket title.
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11	Some films have also been retitled when shown on TV, typically to differentiate them from later remakes or SimilarlyNamedWorks.
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13	Shows whose initial run was retitled for other reasons (such as ''These Friends of Mine''/''Series/{{Ellen}}'', ''Enterprise''/''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', ''Series/MrsColumbo''/''Kate Columbo''/''Kate Loves a Mystery'') are outside the scope of this entry unless they were subsequently aired under a single title. Also outside the scope of this entry is the practice, common in the early days of videotape, of having two episodes of a TV series [[CompilationMovie hastily edited together and presented under a new title as if it were an original movie]].
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16	!!Examples:
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20	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
21	* ''Film/{{Babes in Toyland\|1934}}'' (1934) was retitled ''March of the Wooden Soldiers'' when the movie began airing on television in the early 1950s. This was because the rights to the original title had been sold for the remake, though that was still in DevelopmentHell at the time. (The StorybookOpening was deleted from this version for the same reason.)
22	* ''Film/TerrorOfMechagodzilla'' ran on local stations in a mostly uncut and expanded form under that title at the same time a heavily edited version played in theaters as ''The Terror of Godzilla'' in 1978.
23	* ''Film/{{Satisfaction}}'' (1988) was originally released theatrically under this title as a collaboration with Creator/{{NBC}} and Creator/AaronSpelling as a starring vehicle for Creator/JustineBateman. When the movie made its network television debut in 1991, the movie was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r3Do_FuS5c renamed ''Girls of Summer'']] [[OutOfFocus with the emphasis on]] Creator/JuliaRoberts (who had a relatively minor role in this movie) due to her success with Film/PrettyWoman.
24	* The 1936 ''[[Film/FlashGordonSerial Flash Gordon]]'' serial was retitled ''Space Soldiers'' for 1950s television airings, to avoid confusion with the made-for-TV ''Series/FlashGordon1954''.
25	* ''Some Like it Hot'', a 1939 movie featuring Creator/BobHope, Shirley Ross and Gene Krupa, has aired on television under the title ''Rhythm Romance'', which helps distinguish it from the better-known 1959 movie ''Film/SomeLikeItHot''.
26	* The ''Series/GetSmart'' feature film ''The Nude Bomb'' was shown on cable as ''The Return of Maxwell Smart''.
27	* The early ''Film/OurGang'' shorts were sold into syndication as ''The Little Rascals'', as Creator/{{MGM}} retained the rights to the ''Our Gang'' title.
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31	* ''Series/TheManyLovesOfDobieGillis'' as ''Dobie Gillis''.
32	* ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'' as ''Mister Rogers''. The show's title was originally written as "Misteroger's Neighborhood" until it was realized that it might confuse kids learning to spell.
33	* ''Series/LaverneAndShirley'' as ''Laverne and Shirley and Friends/Company''
34	* ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'' as ''The Dick Van Dyke Daytime Show''
35	* ''Series/TheRockfordFiles'' as ''Jim Rockford, Private Investigator''
36	* ''Series/ThePhilSilversShow'' as ''Sergeant Bilko''
37	* ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'' as ''Andy of Mayberry''
38	* ''The Bob Cummings Show'' as ''Love That Bob''
39	* ''Private Secretary'' as ''Susie''
40	* ''Series/ILoveLucy'' was rerun by CBS during the daytime as ''Lucy in Hollywood'', and ''Lucy in Connecticut'' after the original was retooled into ''The Series/LucyDesiComedyHour''.
41	* ''The Series/LucyDesiComedyHour'' was syndicated as ''We Love Lucy'' in the 70s.
42	* ''Series/{{Emergency}}!'' as ''Emergency One''
43	* ''Series/{{CHiPS}}'' as ''[=CHiPS=] Patrol''
44	* ''Series/{{Ironside 1967}}'' as ''The Raymond Burr Show''
45	* ''Marcus Welby, M.D.'' as ''Robert Young, Family Doctor''
46	* ''Series/HappyDays'' as ''Happy Days Again''
47	* ''Series/{{Lassie}}'' as ''Timmy and Lassie'' (or ''Jeff's Collie'', for the early seasons before Timmy showed up)
48	* The ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' TV movies as ''Tales from a Parallel Universe''
49	* ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'' as ''Turbocharged Thunderbirds''
50	** Subverted, as it was a revoiced and re-edited version of the show which took the piss out of the original stories and characters. Brits, to whom ''Thunderbirds'' is as much of a 1960s icon as Music/TheBeatles or Radio Caroline, were appalled, and creator Gerry Anderson allegedly ordered all copies of ''Turbocharged Thunderbirds'' destroyed. Anderson didn't totally succeed, as an episode was screened at a convention in 2006.
51	*** Anderson sold his rights in both Thunderbirds and his earlier shows to ITC in the late 1960s after he found himself in personal financial problems. He had absolutely no control over any exploitation of the show from that point onwards. He had no power to order Turbocharged Thunderbirds destroyed, and it still exists in full; indeed, it was sold on VHS in the late 1990s and was being repeated in Japan as late as 2009.
52	* ''Series/TheCarolBurnettShow'' as ''Carol Burnett and Friends''
53	* ''Series/TheRopers'' as ''Series/ThreesCompany's Friends: The Ropers''
54	** Also ''Three's a Crowd'' as ''Series/ThreesCompany, Too''
55	** Both Shows regained their original titles when shown on Creator/AntennaTV in 2011.
56	* ''Series/{{CSI}}'' (the original) as ''CSI: Las Vegas''
57	* ''Series/AmericanIdol'' as ''American Idol Rewind'' is a bit of a weird case. ''Rewind'' was a "new" show compiling old material with new narration and interviews.
58	* In its later years, the syndicated episodes of ''Series/MagnumPI'' kept their title, but the first-run episodes were titled simply ''Magnum''.
59	* The earlier black and white episodes of ''Series/{{Gunsmoke}}'' as ''Marshall Dillon''.
60	* ''{{Series/Bonanza}}'' as ''Ponderosa''
61	** In the 90's, The Family Channel ran episodes from seasons 6-14 as ''The Lost Episodes'', which were [[NonIndicativeTitle never lost]], just digitized.
62	* In the mid-'90s Creator/ComedyCentral split some ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episodes into two hour-long parts, added new introductory segments with Michael J. Nelson as "Jack Perkins" (longtime host of A&E's ''Biography'' series), and syndicated them as ''The Mystery Science Theater Hour''. These versions also appeared in broadcast syndication for a brief period.
63	* ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'' (originally ''Dragnet 1967'', ''Dragnet 1968'', etc.) and ''Badge 714'' (which was used for the earlier black and white episodes).
64	** The episodes of "Dragnet" would have a jarring edit to replace the "Dragnet 19xx" title with a generic "Dragnet" one. When the series was shown on Nick At Nite, the original titles remained in place.
65	* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' (also called ''Best of Power Rangers'' and ''Power Rangers Generations'', originally ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'', ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'', etc.).
66	* The Ward Bond episodes of ''Series/WagonTrain'' as ''Major Adams, Trailmaster''.
67	* The original ''Series/YouBetYourLife'' as ''The Best Of Groucho.''
68	* ''Series/KraftSuspenseTheatre'' as either ''Suspense Theatre'' or ''Crisis''.
69	* ''Richard Diamond, Private Detective'' as ''Call Mr. D''.
70	* ''Series/TheTonightShowStarringJohnnyCarson'' airs on Creator/AntennaTV as ''Johnny Carson'', as it is scheduled against the [[Series/TheTonightShowStarringJimmyFallon current incarnation]] of ''Series/TheTonightShow'' on Creator/{{NBC}} in much of the country.
71	* ''Gangbusters'' as ''Captured''.
72	* ''Series/TheMillionaire'' as ''If You Had a Million''.
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76	* Referenced in ''Webcomic/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield''. "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1275 #1275: Square Root of Minus The Arbuckle Family in Reruns]]" is a satirical "syndicated" version of an early comic (#2). The middle panel is cut out, and the series' title is changed. The author's note also explains that "if [the show] was still being produced, the syndicated version would frequently be retitled."
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80	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' as ''Smurfs' Adventures''
81	* Inverted with ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks''. When it was syndicated in 1988, the new episodes on Creator/{{NBC}} were shown under the new title ''The Chipmunks''.
82	* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'': The 1976-78 episodes from ''The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour'', ''Scooby's Laff-A-Lympics'' and the 1978 edition of ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' were syndicated as ''The Scooby-Doo Show.''
83	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' shorts were repackaged in the 1960s-1970s as ''The Bugs Bunny Show'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/TheBugsBunnyRoadRunnerShow The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour]]''. Another inversion, since it aired variably on two networks (ABC and CBS), rather than in syndication.
84	** There were several packages of Warner cartoons not seen on the networks that were syndicated. The A.A.P. shorts (1931-48 Merrie Melodies and color Looney Tunes), the Sunset/Guild package of black-and-white Looney Tunes, ''Bugs Bunny & Friends'', and ''Porky Pig & Friends'' (packaged after Porky's show left ABC and included the redrawn Looney Tunes. Many of the so-called "Dork Age" cartoons (Daffy and Speedy cartoons, the Alex Lovy shorts) would first see TV airtime in 1970 on ABC's Saturday morning show ''Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp.''
85	* Some reference sources errantly say that ''WesternAnimation/TheHairBearBunch'' went into syndication after its CBS run under the name "The Yo-Yo Bears," which was its name in development. The show was shelved for ten years until the USA Network picked it up for its Cartoon Express block.
86	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' as ''Jem and the Holograms'' (subverted since "Jem" is still the onscreen title)
87	* ''WesternAnimation/LazerTagAcademy'' as ''Laser Patrol''
88	* ''WesternAnimation/KingLeonardoAndHisShortSubjects'' as ''The King And Odie Show''.
89	* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'': The show began airing on Creator/{{ABC}} in 1959 as ''Rocky and His Friends''. In 1961, new episodes movied on Creator/{{NBC}} as part of ''The Bullwinkle Show'', while older episodes aired in syndication as part of ''The Rocky Show''. The show was retitled ''Bullwinkle's Moose-o-Rama'' on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, and then ''The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show'' on Creator/CartoonNetwork. Finally, international prints were titled ''The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends'' and those are the prints that are used on official DVD releases.
90	* ''The Puppy's New Adventures'' and ''WesternAnimation/ThePuppysFurtherAdventures'' as ''The Puppy's Great Adventures''
91	* Jay Ward's 1964 series ''WesternAnimation/HoppityHooper'' went into syndication as ''Uncle Waldo's Cartoon Show.''
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