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* ''Series/BarneyAndFriends''' format has constantly changed. The original ''Backyard Gang'' videos each took place at a different setting each episode and had a fixed cast of six kids (with one cast member being replaced halfway through the series' run and another having a one-time substitute), and Baby Bop was only introduced halfway through its run. After it was greenlit as a television series, the show stayed at a school, brought back four of the Backyard Gang kids, and introduced three new ones. BJ was introduced in Season 2, and three more kids were brought in. All of the Backyard Gang veterans had left by season 3, while Stella and Mr. Boyd made their debuts. Season 4 introduced a fully redesigned school set, brought in a new generation of kids while promoting a handful who had small roles in season 3 and/or were exclusive to home videos to full-time status, and added puppet characters Scooter [=McNutty=] and Miss Etta Kette. A third puppet, Booker T. Bookworm, joined in Season 5, but was cut in Season 6. Season 7 moved the setting from a school to a park and once again reshuffled its child cast; Stella and the puppets were gone but Mr. Boyd stuck around. Season 9 replaced all but a handful of the children and mixed park segments with parts on a white background featuring just the dinos. Season 10 introduced Riff and took on a TwoShorts format. Season 12 reverted to the full-length format and focused on story genres. Season 13 was about countries and cultures.

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* ''Series/BarneyAndFriends''' format has constantly changed. The original ''Backyard Gang'' videos each took place at a different setting each episode and had a fixed cast of six kids (with one cast member being replaced halfway through the series' run and another having a one-time substitute), and Baby Bop was only introduced halfway through near the end of its run. After it was greenlit as a television series, the show stayed at a school, brought back four of the Backyard Gang kids, and introduced three new ones. BJ was introduced in Season 2, and three more kids were brought in. All of the Backyard Gang veterans had left by season 3, while Stella and Mr. Boyd made their debuts. Season 4 introduced a fully redesigned school set, brought in a new generation of kids while promoting a handful who had small roles in season 3 and/or were exclusive to home videos to full-time status, and added puppet characters Scooter [=McNutty=] and Miss Etta Kette. A third puppet, Booker T. Bookworm, joined in Season 5, but was cut in Season 6. Season 7 moved the setting from a school to a park and once again reshuffled its child cast; Stella and the puppets were gone but Mr. Boyd stuck around. Season 9 replaced all but a handful of the children and mixed park segments with parts on a white background featuring just the dinos. Season 10 introduced Riff and took on a TwoShorts format. Season 12 reverted to the full-length format and focused on story genres. Season 13 was about countries and cultures.
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* ''Shining Time Station'' was retooled twice at the end of its life. First, while keeping its title, the show became a prime time series that aired in spurts as a series of specials. Unlike the child-pleasing daytime series, this version added elements of teen drama (such as the addition of a juvenile delinquent from an abusive household), and featured extensive location shooting, breaking free of the prior version's omnipresent train station interior. (The new-found sense of maturity was actually referenced on the show, as Mr. Conductor appeared as usual to relate an Island of Sodor story to the kids, only to be told that they had outgrown Thomas stories). After a handful of these episodes, the show returned to daytime under the new title of ''Mr. Conductor's Thomas Tales,'' which scrapped the entire cast except for George Carlin as Mr. Conductor, and focused almost entirely on Sodor segments.

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* ''Shining Time Station'' ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'' was retooled twice at the end of its life. First, while keeping its title, the show became a prime time series that aired in spurts as a series of specials. Unlike the child-pleasing daytime series, this version added elements of teen drama (such as the addition of a juvenile delinquent from an abusive household), and featured extensive location shooting, breaking free of the prior version's omnipresent train station interior. (The new-found sense of maturity was actually referenced on the show, as Mr. Conductor appeared as usual to relate an Island of Sodor story to the kids, only to be told that they had outgrown Thomas stories). After a handful of these episodes, the show returned to daytime under the new title of ''Mr. Conductor's Thomas Tales,'' which scrapped the entire cast except for George Carlin as Mr. Conductor, and focused almost entirely on Sodor segments.
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** Season 2: Cory, Topanga, and Shawn start going to John Adams High. Mr. Feeny follows them. Eric has a much larger role, and begins to take on TheDitz traits of his "[[TheDitz modern]] [[ButtMonkey persona]]." Topanga abandons her GranolaGirl roots and becomes a HollywoodNerd. More of Shawn's [[ParentalAbandonment home life]] is revealed. Mr. Turner, "the bullies," and [[LocalHangout Chubbie's]] are introduced. Also, the show loses [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome Minkus]], and abandons the old theme song and credits sequence.

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** Season 2: Cory, Topanga, and Shawn start going to John Adams High. Mr. Feeny follows them. Eric has a much larger role, and begins to take on TheDitz traits of his "[[TheDitz modern]] [[ButtMonkey persona]]." Topanga abandons her GranolaGirl roots and becomes a HollywoodNerd.nerd. More of Shawn's [[ParentalAbandonment home life]] is revealed. Mr. Turner, "the bullies," and [[LocalHangout Chubbie's]] are introduced. Also, the show loses [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome Minkus]], and abandons the old theme song and credits sequence.

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* ''Series/BarneyAndFriends''' format has constantly changed. The original ''Backyard Gang'' videos each took place at a different setting each episode and had a fixed cast of six kids, and Baby Bop was only introduced halfway through its run. After it was greenlit as a television series, the show stayed at a school, brought back four of the Backyard Gang kids, and introduced three new ones. BJ was introduced in Season 2. All of the Backyard Gang veterans had left by season 3, while Stella and Mr. Boyd made their debuts. Season 4 introduced a fully redesigned school set, brought in a new generation of kids while promoting a handful who had small roles in season 3 to full-time status, and added puppet characters Scooter [=McNutty=] and Miss Etta Kette. A third puppet, Booker T. Bookworm, joined in Season 5, but was cut in Season 6. Season 7 moved the setting from a school to a park and once again reshuffled its child cast; Stella was gone but Mr. Boyd stuck around. Season 9 replaced all but a handful of the children and mixed park segments with parts on a white background featuring just the dinos. Season 10 introduced Riff and took on a TwoShorts format. Season 12 reverted to the full-length format and focused on story genres. Season 13 was about countries and cultures.

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* ''Series/BarneyAndFriends''' format has constantly changed. The original ''Backyard Gang'' videos each took place at a different setting each episode and had a fixed cast of six kids, kids (with one cast member being replaced halfway through the series' run and another having a one-time substitute), and Baby Bop was only introduced halfway through its run. After it was greenlit as a television series, the show stayed at a school, brought back four of the Backyard Gang kids, and introduced three new ones. BJ was introduced in Season 2.2, and three more kids were brought in. All of the Backyard Gang veterans had left by season 3, while Stella and Mr. Boyd made their debuts. Season 4 introduced a fully redesigned school set, brought in a new generation of kids while promoting a handful who had small roles in season 3 and/or were exclusive to home videos to full-time status, and added puppet characters Scooter [=McNutty=] and Miss Etta Kette. A third puppet, Booker T. Bookworm, joined in Season 5, but was cut in Season 6. Season 7 moved the setting from a school to a park and once again reshuffled its child cast; Stella was and the puppets were gone but Mr. Boyd stuck around. Season 9 replaced all but a handful of the children and mixed park segments with parts on a white background featuring just the dinos. Season 10 introduced Riff and took on a TwoShorts format. Season 12 reverted to the full-length format and focused on story genres. Season 13 was about countries and cultures.


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* ''Series/KirbyBuckets'', during its first two seasons, was a sitcom about a teenage boy who wanted to be a professional cartoonist, not unlike ''Series/OutOfJimmysHead''. The format then shifted in season 3 to become a dimension-warping action show. The cartoon cutaways were dropped, only making brief cameos at the beginning and end of the season, and the episodic format was replaced by a serial-style series.
* ''Series/LabRats'' started off being a show about a teenage boy introducing his stepdad's bionic children into the real world, while occasionally having to fight of dangerous threats. The last three episodes of Season 3 and all of Season 4 moved the setting to an ''ComicBook/XMen''-style bionic academy in the middle of the ocean and focused more on the Lab Rats mentoring the abandoned bionic soldiers of the previous season's BigBad and the normal teenager starting to become a fighter of his own.
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* ''Series/AntFarm'' took the kids out of the local school (and by extension the A.N.T. program) and moved them into a boarding school owned by a high-tech corporation... for some reason. China's family got cut from the cast as a result.
* ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'' attempted this with a "relaunched" series that aired three years after the conclusion of the original series, and had almost none of the production crew or cast (save for Daniel [=DeSanto=] as Tucker, who formed the "New Midnight Society"). The revamped show did well enough to last a further two seasons.
* ''Series/BarneyAndFriends''' format has constantly changed. The original ''Backyard Gang'' videos each took place at a different setting each episode and had a fixed cast of six kids, and Baby Bop was only introduced halfway through its run. After it was greenlit as a television series, the show stayed at a school, brought back four of the Backyard Gang kids, and introduced three new ones. BJ was introduced in Season 2. All of the Backyard Gang veterans had left by season 3, while Stella and Mr. Boyd made their debuts. Season 4 introduced a fully redesigned school set, brought in a new generation of kids while promoting a handful who had small roles in season 3 to full-time status, and added puppet characters Scooter [=McNutty=] and Miss Etta Kette. A third puppet, Booker T. Bookworm, joined in Season 5, but was cut in Season 6. Season 7 moved the setting from a school to a park and once again reshuffled its child cast; Stella was gone but Mr. Boyd stuck around. Season 9 replaced all but a handful of the children and mixed park segments with parts on a white background featuring just the dinos. Season 10 introduced Riff and took on a TwoShorts format. Season 12 reverted to the full-length format and focused on story genres. Season 13 was about countries and cultures.
* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' got retooled several times of the course of its run:
** Season 2: Cory, Topanga, and Shawn start going to John Adams High. Mr. Feeny follows them. Eric has a much larger role, and begins to take on TheDitz traits of his "[[TheDitz modern]] [[ButtMonkey persona]]." Topanga abandons her GranolaGirl roots and becomes a HollywoodNerd. More of Shawn's [[ParentalAbandonment home life]] is revealed. Mr. Turner, "the bullies," and [[LocalHangout Chubbie's]] are introduced. Also, the show loses [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome Minkus]], and abandons the old theme song and credits sequence.
** Season 5: At the start of their senior year, Shawn reunites with his LongLostSibling Jack, who joins the main cast. Shawn, Jack and Eric (now attending college) move in together in an apartment, and Jack becomes Eric's best friend and comedy sidekick. Heretofore {{Kidanova}} Shawn gets a steady girlfriend Angela, who becomes a recurring character. Mr. Turner falls victim to ChuckCunninghamSyndrome and main high school set is changed to the senior hallway. The show gains an increased focus on running storylines, something it had already been experimenting with. Finally, the classic ThemeTune (with lyrics!) is introduced.[[note]]This retool even got a LampshadeHanging, with Chubbie's getting redesigned into a new restaurant at the start of the season.[[/note]]
** Season 6: Cory, Shawn, Topanga, and Angela graduate and go to [[CaliforniaUniversity Pennbrook University]]. [[RunningGag Mr. Feeny follows them]]. Angela becomes a member of the main cast. Cory and Topanga get engaged, but don't exactly make a mad dash for the altar. Rachel joins the cast and moves in with Eric (now a full-on {{Cloudcuckoolander}}) and Jack, setting up a LoveTriangle. Alan, Amy, and Morgan are reduced to CommutingOnABus.
* ''Series/TheElectricCompany1971'' returned in the late 00s as [[Series/TheElectricCompany2009 an updated version]] -- filled with rapping kids with superpowers fighting bad guys, MindControl plots, and other elements that reek of ExecutiveMeddling. Even Joan Ganz Cooney, the creator of ''Series/SesameStreet'', didn't think it was all that good.
* ''Series/H2OJustAddWater'' drops the leader of the main trio in Season 3. Lewis, the main male character, leaves to go study in America.
* For its fourth and final season ''Series/HannahMontana'' [[DemotedToExtra removed Mitchell Musso from the main cast]], moved the Stewart family into a bigger house, had Lilly come to live with them, and replaced the series' most-used outdoor set (a generic beach) with a [[FictionalCounterpart mock-up of Santa Monica Pier]]. Along with these sweeping changes, the show was renamed ''Hannah Montana Forever''.
* Similarly to the ''Series/HannahMontana'' example above, the fourth and final season of ''Series/LivAndMaddie'' moves the Rooneys to their Aunt Dena's house in Malibu, California following the destruction of their Wisconsin home at the end of season three, adds Liv and Maddie's [[CousinOliver cousin Ruby]] to the cast, and portrays the twins as attending a prestigious college. Also, the season is renamed ''Liv & Maddie: Cali Style''.
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* Although ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' gets a retool every year with new costumes and mecha (and as of the seventh season onward a new cast and storyline), some are more notable than others:
** Midway through ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'' 4/5 of the main cast were jettisoned in favor of a new cast. This was done to save the show from failing ratings, and the Retool was just enough of a ratings boost to warrant another season...
** ... Which was ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace''. The "kids in high school battle the MonsterOfTheWeek and go home" concept was left behind, and arc-based series with the Rangers, well, [[AC:[[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]]] took prominence. Additionally, the villains of all past series formed a LegionOfDoom. By the time it was over, fans underwhelmed by Turbo and ''then'' hit with the loss of their favorite characters (in addition to the belief that this would be the final series) had forgiven the SeasonalRot and wanted more. [[LongRunners They're still getting it]].
** ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' was also supposed to be the last season. It was also a vast departure from the way ''Power Rangers'' as usual is done. A post-apocalyptic world's last survivors are in a domed city defended by [[ThreePlusTwo three, then five]], [[SixthRanger then seven]] heroes led by the genius inventor who [[spoiler: actually created the evil AI that started the RobotWar]].
* ''Series/SavedByTheBell'':
** The show was retooled again after the gang graduated and moved on to CaliforniaUniversity. In addition to the new setting and a few new characters, the stories became somewhat more "grown-up." The new show didn't make it to a second season.
** ''The New Class'' spin-off was retooled every season with cast changes left and right. The show also featured a different set of non-Bayside episodes every season that took place at different locations including a country club, a mountain lodge, a cruise ship, and the local mall.
* ''Shining Time Station'' was retooled twice at the end of its life. First, while keeping its title, the show became a prime time series that aired in spurts as a series of specials. Unlike the child-pleasing daytime series, this version added elements of teen drama (such as the addition of a juvenile delinquent from an abusive household), and featured extensive location shooting, breaking free of the prior version's omnipresent train station interior. (The new-found sense of maturity was actually referenced on the show, as Mr. Conductor appeared as usual to relate an Island of Sodor story to the kids, only to be told that they had outgrown Thomas stories). After a handful of these episodes, the show returned to daytime under the new title of ''Mr. Conductor's Thomas Tales,'' which scrapped the entire cast except for George Carlin as Mr. Conductor, and focused almost entirely on Sodor segments.
* ''Series/SonnyWithAChance'' is about small town girl Sonny who joins the cast of her favorite sketch comedy show ''[[ShowWithinAShow So Random!]]''. Music/DemiLovato (who played the titular character) ended up quitting the show and taking a temporary break from acting after season two, to deal with some personal problems and also focus on their music career. Disney retooled it by {{defictionaliz|ation}}ing ''Series/SoRandom''. Yep, the show within the show became the actual show!
* While billed as a SpinOff of ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'', ''The Suite Life On Deck'' featured four of the main characters from its parent series (including the two leads), and simply changed the location from the hotel to a cruise ship.
* In its second season to accommodate its full-time move to Creator/NickJr, ''Series/TheWubbulousWorldOfDrSeuss'' abandoned its half-hour story, replaced the Cat's voice with a less gravelly alternative, and became more of a ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues''-style kids show. [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks Season 1 has been viewed as superior]] by [=DMHFan=] of Muppet Central.
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