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* ''Series/TheToyCastle'' originated as a 1992 special based on ''Literature/TheSteadfastTinSoldier'', which had some design differences between it and the 2000 series:
** In the special, the Soldier has a false leg, as he was built without one of his tin legs (like in the original fairy tale). In the series, both of his legs are intact.
** In the special, the Goblin had swirly black markings on his face, a large nose, and sunken, CreepyBlueEyes. In the series, his facial markings are gone, safe for a mole on his cheek, a smaller nose, smaller, darker eyes[[note]]these can be explained via TheOtherDarrin, as in the special, he was played by the blue-eyed Louis-Michel Charest wearing a prosthetic nose, while in the special, he's played by the black-eyed Yosuke Mino without any facial prosthetics[[/note]], and grew out some shaggy white hair.
** In the special, the Soldier has a false leg, as he was built without one of his tin legs (like in the original fairy tale). In the series, both of his legs are intact.
** In the special, the Goblin had swirly black markings on his face, a large nose, and sunken, CreepyBlueEyes. In the series, his facial markings are gone, safe for a mole on his cheek, a smaller nose, smaller, darker eyes[[note]]these can be explained via TheOtherDarrin, as in the special, he was played by the blue-eyed Louis-Michel Charest wearing a prosthetic nose, while in the special, he's played by the black-eyed Yosuke Mino without any facial prosthetics[[/note]], and grew out some shaggy white hair.
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** Speaking of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', Dr. Lilith Sternin was known for just how pale she is, when in her first ever appearance she had a much healthier looking complexion.
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* Frasier Crane's long hair in the first two seasons of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' (which he'd had throughout most of his time on ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' came off as this for people who watched ''Frasier'' first.
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* Frasier Crane's long hair in the first two seasons of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' (which he'd had throughout most of his time on ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' ''Series/{{Cheers}}'') came off as this for people who watched ''Frasier'' first.
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* Frasier's long hair in the first two seasons of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' came off as this for people who watched ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' first.
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* Frasier's Frasier Crane's long hair in the first two seasons of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' (which he'd had throughout most of his time on ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' came off as this for people who watched ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' ''Frasier'' first.
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* ''Series/Babylon5'': The pilot movie "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS01E00TheGathering The Gathering]]", had more extreme prosthetic make-up for the major alien ambassadors, Delenn and G'Kar, than what was used in the ongoing series, which toned it down partly to make repeated applications more practical and partly because executives had expressed concerns that the pilot designs were too alien. In Delenn's case, there was an additional consideration; Delenn, portrayed by a female actor, was intended originally to be a male (or at least ambiguous) alien, but the attempt to convey this effectively in the pilot resulted in too many problems, so the idea was dropped and in the ongoing series she's unambiguously female, with her facial features mostly being the actor's own.
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* In ''Series/RaumschiffGameStar'', the eponymous starship crew's iconic "garbageman" uniforms didn't make an appearance until the second season. Ditto the bad guys' black hooded cloaks.
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* In ''Series/RaumschiffGameStar'', the eponymous starship crew's iconic "garbageman" uniforms didn't make an appearance until pilot episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', Rajesh Koothrappali wore a red baseball cap. And in the second season. Ditto original unaired pilot (which was drastically different than the bad guys' black hooded cloaks.televised pilot) Leonard and Sheldon were dressed in even more unflattering clothes that made them look more like middle-aged men.
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* The uniforms in both pilot episodes of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' were different, both from each other, and from those in the regular episodes. The original version cropped up in a couple of instances in the first season, notably in "Charlie X" and "The Menagerie" (though the latter was due to incorporating nearly the entirety of the first pilot, "The Cage", through visual records).
* For their first appearance on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', the Trill had noticeably more forehead prosthetics and lacked facial spots. After Terry Farrell was cast on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', the producers decided they didn't want her under heavy makeup, and altered the makeup to spots down her forehead.
** ''TNG'' also had several major changes across seasons 1 and 2, a lot of it coming about during the filming of the pilot as the production staff decided to refine their visions of the cast upon seeing some concepts translate poorly from paper to actor. Most famously, Picard was supposed to have a hairpiece, since Creator/PatrickStewart was naturally bald and the vision for his character was one with blonde hair. One use of the hairpiece proved it was a completely ridiculous-looking implement and Picard looked far more epic as a chrome dome.
** The one-piece spandex outfits the ''Enterprise'' crew wore in the first two seasons were replaced because the actors complained they were uncomfortable and a chiropractor warned that the cast members risked permanent skeletal injury because they were ''that'' tight-fitting. The cast switched to a two-piece wool uniform redesign used for the remainder of the series, save "All Good Things...", which reverted back to the spandex outfits for continuity preservation when it featured scenes set in the time period of the pilot episode. The original design also appeared in a few other episodes when continuity called for its use[[note]]"Identity Crisis" had Geordi revisiting an away mission from his previous assignment on the ''Victory'', re-creating it on the holodeck with appropriate uniforms, including his younger self wearing red as he did in season 1; "Violations" had Beverly revisiting the memory of Picard showing her the dead body of her husband Jack from about ten years before the first season; and "Second Chances" saw the rescue of a transporter duplicate of Riker, who had been stranded when he was a lieutenant on the ''Potemkin'' eight years earlier, or roughly three years before season 1[[/note]].
** The first season also attempted to update the female miniskirt uniform of the Original Series by having a short-sleeved unisex "skant" variant of the uniform. (Both the Original Series and season 1 TNG costumes were designed by William Ware Theiss.) None of the main cast ever wore the skant after the pilot, and none of the ''male'' main cast ever wore it at all, so it was gradually phased out at the end of season 1 (only appearing again in season 2 via StockFootage).
** Riker originally went clean-shaven, until concerns were raised that he came off as a flat clone of Kirk by being a dashing young-looking action-oriented guy. [[GrowingTheBeard He grew a beard the following season, and his character became more divergent and subdued.]] (Creator/JonathanFrakes had previously sported a beard in the first two ''[[Series/NorthAndSouthUS North and South]]'' miniseries.)
** Geordi was going to have a mullet, but the consensus was it looked really goofy and perhaps a little flamboyant paired with his visor (think Music/{{Prince}} meets ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}) , so he got a snazzy flat-top haircut.
** When Worf took over [[ActorLeavesCharacterDies Tasha's]] duties as security chief, his uniform changed from red to yellow, and the non-standard Klingon sash he wore with his uniform was changed from gold to silver to keep it from blending in with the new color scheme.
** Leonard [=McCoy=]'s cameo in the pilot was going to feature him in an active role, a little older than his appearances in the original series, before the setting was changed to feature the new ''Enterprise'' crew far into the future since his time and he appeared as a crusty centenarian with his identity left ambiguous to the new crew.
** Troi wore a severe-looking, civilian jumpsuit made of grey denim and had an intricate, complicated updo involving numerous braids and hair jewels to obliquely emphasize her alien qualities as a half-Betazoid and to emphasize her psychological role as counselor. She also had a European accent that apparently is among one of the burrs of the Betazed homeworld. Starting in Season 2 Troi changed into a much more flattering and gentle looking maroon jumpsuit with a dark collar [[note]] joined by a lavender-coloured variation and a turquoise dress in Season 3 to add variety to her wardrobe[[/note]] and let her hair down in a mass of curls with jeweled hairbands emphasizing her role as TheEmpath, and cementing her as the show's resident MsFanservice. The look was revised again in the last couple of seasons and the movies where she changed into the standard uniform, ditched the hair ornaments and opted for simpler, more natural, free-flowing hair that was also lighter in colour. She also lost all touches of the accent, indicating how she had become more human-like rather than alien and fully integrated with the crew, as well as her taking her role as Starfleet Officer more seriously. These changes, along with the huge changes in her makeup (from very pale skin and deep red lips early on to a softer, more neutral palette later on) are big enough that it almost makes early Troi and Troi from the movies look like two completely different characters.
*** In the PilotMovie "Encounter at Farpoint", Troi wore the first-season skant and had her hair down in a very [[TheEighties Eighties]] perm. Many, including Marina Sirtis herself, felt that Troi looked like a "space cheerleader", which led to her first-season "severe" look. The original look returned in "All Good Things..." for the past scenes for continuity purposes. Sirtis also came to prefer the standard duty uniform after Troi was made to wear it by Captain Jellico in the season 6 two-parter "Chain of Command", and her casual outfits were relegated to informal off-duty use for the remainder of the series.
* The first two seasons of ''Series/RedDwarf'' have Rimmer in a khaki Space Corps uniform and Lister in a stained, shabby version of the same uniform, as opposed to Lister's leathers and Rimmer's shiny outfits in later seasons. The Space Corps uniform itself is changed [[RetCon retroactively]] in flashbacks, though the original uniforms appear as {{Mythology Gag}}s in Series XII.
* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
** Throughout the first season there was a noticeable variation in Ernie's sweater. Rather than being strictly red and blue striped, it also had orange, yellow, and pink stripes in it as well.
** Many Muppets had different designs early on and even throughout the years their designs have evolved. The [[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Character_Variants Muppet Wiki]] has several pages dedicated to explaining the various designs. For example, Kermit originally wasn't a frog, he was a CartoonCreature until 1969, when ''Sesame Street'' first aired. Big Bird originally had fewer feathers on his head, and the character that would become Cookie Monster had teeth prior to appearing on ''Sesame Street''. Rosita was originally a fruit bat but became a generic "monster" later. Zoot's skin kept [[FlipFlopOfGod switching from blue to green and back]] until the creators ultimately settled on blue.
* ''Series/HogansHeroes''. In the first two color episodes, [=LeBeau=] wears a navy blue sweater over his fatigues, rather than his usual red one. He may or may not have also worn it in the black-and-white pilot episode, as it is hard to determine, though it does appear to be a rather dark sweater.
* ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' had a different look for Fran's head crest in the first couple of episodes.
* For their first appearance on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', the Trill had noticeably more forehead prosthetics and lacked facial spots. After Terry Farrell was cast on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', the producers decided they didn't want her under heavy makeup, and altered the makeup to spots down her forehead.
** ''TNG'' also had several major changes across seasons 1 and 2, a lot of it coming about during the filming of the pilot as the production staff decided to refine their visions of the cast upon seeing some concepts translate poorly from paper to actor. Most famously, Picard was supposed to have a hairpiece, since Creator/PatrickStewart was naturally bald and the vision for his character was one with blonde hair. One use of the hairpiece proved it was a completely ridiculous-looking implement and Picard looked far more epic as a chrome dome.
** The one-piece spandex outfits the ''Enterprise'' crew wore in the first two seasons were replaced because the actors complained they were uncomfortable and a chiropractor warned that the cast members risked permanent skeletal injury because they were ''that'' tight-fitting. The cast switched to a two-piece wool uniform redesign used for the remainder of the series, save "All Good Things...", which reverted back to the spandex outfits for continuity preservation when it featured scenes set in the time period of the pilot episode. The original design also appeared in a few other episodes when continuity called for its use[[note]]"Identity Crisis" had Geordi revisiting an away mission from his previous assignment on the ''Victory'', re-creating it on the holodeck with appropriate uniforms, including his younger self wearing red as he did in season 1; "Violations" had Beverly revisiting the memory of Picard showing her the dead body of her husband Jack from about ten years before the first season; and "Second Chances" saw the rescue of a transporter duplicate of Riker, who had been stranded when he was a lieutenant on the ''Potemkin'' eight years earlier, or roughly three years before season 1[[/note]].
** The first season also attempted to update the female miniskirt uniform of the Original Series by having a short-sleeved unisex "skant" variant of the uniform. (Both the Original Series and season 1 TNG costumes were designed by William Ware Theiss.) None of the main cast ever wore the skant after the pilot, and none of the ''male'' main cast ever wore it at all, so it was gradually phased out at the end of season 1 (only appearing again in season 2 via StockFootage).
** Riker originally went clean-shaven, until concerns were raised that he came off as a flat clone of Kirk by being a dashing young-looking action-oriented guy. [[GrowingTheBeard He grew a beard the following season, and his character became more divergent and subdued.]] (Creator/JonathanFrakes had previously sported a beard in the first two ''[[Series/NorthAndSouthUS North and South]]'' miniseries.)
** Geordi was going to have a mullet, but the consensus was it looked really goofy and perhaps a little flamboyant paired with his visor (think Music/{{Prince}} meets ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}) , so he got a snazzy flat-top haircut.
** When Worf took over [[ActorLeavesCharacterDies Tasha's]] duties as security chief, his uniform changed from red to yellow, and the non-standard Klingon sash he wore with his uniform was changed from gold to silver to keep it from blending in with the new color scheme.
** Leonard [=McCoy=]'s cameo in the pilot was going to feature him in an active role, a little older than his appearances in the original series, before the setting was changed to feature the new ''Enterprise'' crew far into the future since his time and he appeared as a crusty centenarian with his identity left ambiguous to the new crew.
** Troi wore a severe-looking, civilian jumpsuit made of grey denim and had an intricate, complicated updo involving numerous braids and hair jewels to obliquely emphasize her alien qualities as a half-Betazoid and to emphasize her psychological role as counselor. She also had a European accent that apparently is among one of the burrs of the Betazed homeworld. Starting in Season 2 Troi changed into a much more flattering and gentle looking maroon jumpsuit with a dark collar [[note]] joined by a lavender-coloured variation and a turquoise dress in Season 3 to add variety to her wardrobe[[/note]] and let her hair down in a mass of curls with jeweled hairbands emphasizing her role as TheEmpath, and cementing her as the show's resident MsFanservice. The look was revised again in the last couple of seasons and the movies where she changed into the standard uniform, ditched the hair ornaments and opted for simpler, more natural, free-flowing hair that was also lighter in colour. She also lost all touches of the accent, indicating how she had become more human-like rather than alien and fully integrated with the crew, as well as her taking her role as Starfleet Officer more seriously. These changes, along with the huge changes in her makeup (from very pale skin and deep red lips early on to a softer, more neutral palette later on) are big enough that it almost makes early Troi and Troi from the movies look like two completely different characters.
*** In the PilotMovie "Encounter at Farpoint", Troi wore the first-season skant and had her hair down in a very [[TheEighties Eighties]] perm. Many, including Marina Sirtis herself, felt that Troi looked like a "space cheerleader", which led to her first-season "severe" look. The original look returned in "All Good Things..." for the past scenes for continuity purposes. Sirtis also came to prefer the standard duty uniform after Troi was made to wear it by Captain Jellico in the season 6 two-parter "Chain of Command", and her casual outfits were relegated to informal off-duty use for the remainder of the series.
* The first two seasons of ''Series/RedDwarf'' have Rimmer in a khaki Space Corps uniform and Lister in a stained, shabby version of the same uniform, as opposed to Lister's leathers and Rimmer's shiny outfits in later seasons. The Space Corps uniform itself is changed [[RetCon retroactively]] in flashbacks, though the original uniforms appear as {{Mythology Gag}}s in Series XII.
* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
** Throughout the first season there was a noticeable variation in Ernie's sweater. Rather than being strictly red and blue striped, it also had orange, yellow, and pink stripes in it as well.
** Many Muppets had different designs early on and even throughout the years their designs have evolved. The [[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Character_Variants Muppet Wiki]] has several pages dedicated to explaining the various designs. For example, Kermit originally wasn't a frog, he was a CartoonCreature until 1969, when ''Sesame Street'' first aired. Big Bird originally had fewer feathers on his head, and the character that would become Cookie Monster had teeth prior to appearing on ''Sesame Street''. Rosita was originally a fruit bat but became a generic "monster" later. Zoot's skin kept [[FlipFlopOfGod switching from blue to green and back]] until the creators ultimately settled on blue.
* ''Series/HogansHeroes''. In the first two color episodes, [=LeBeau=] wears a navy blue sweater over his fatigues, rather than his usual red one. He may or may not have also worn it in the black-and-white pilot episode, as it is hard to determine, though it does appear to be a rather dark sweater.
* ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' had a different look for Fran's head crest in the first couple of episodes.
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* For people who watched ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' first instead of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', Frasier's long hair in the first two seasons came off as this.
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* For Frasier's long hair in the first two seasons of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' came off as this for people who watched ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' first.
* ''Series/CrashZone'': Virgil Reality, the quirky artificial intelligence, had his virtual form redesigned in the second season--in the firstinstead of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', Frasier's long hair one he looks like a blurry splotch with a face, in the second one he's a complete floating head.
* ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' had a different look for Fran's head crest in the firsttwo seasons came off as this.couple of episodes.
* ''Series/CrashZone'': Virgil Reality, the quirky artificial intelligence, had his virtual form redesigned in the second season--in the first
* ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' had a different look for Fran's head crest in the first
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* In ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'', at the end of the second season's second episode, "Automatic for the People", Weaver, who has been impersonating a different corporate executive, gets into a car and shifts back to her usual Catherine Weaver appearance. However, she's in a very CyberPunk and [[DressedLikeADominatrix somewhat fetishistic]] brown leather and shades ensemble, when for the rest of the show she'll always "dress" in a more business-appropriate manner, even when alone.
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' had some initial trouble getting the elaborate prosthetics and make up to look right under studio lighting. Zhaan often looked washed out and grey instead of the vibrant [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe blue]] they were aiming for while D'Argo ended up looking oddly pale and fleshy. Over time they were able to adjust the make up to look closer to the intended designs. In D'Argo's case this required a pretty massive overhaul to the prosthetics at the beginning of the second season that made his skintone much warmer and darker.
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' had some initial trouble getting the elaborate prosthetics and make up to look right under studio lighting. Zhaan often looked washed out and grey instead of the vibrant [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe blue]] they were aiming for while D'Argo ended up looking oddly pale and fleshy. Over time they were able to adjust the make up to look closer to the intended designs. In D'Argo's case this required a pretty massive overhaul to the prosthetics at the beginning of the second season that made his skintone much warmer and darker.
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* In ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'', at the end of the second season's second episode, "Automatic for the People", Weaver, who has been impersonating a different corporate executive, gets into a car and shifts back to her usual Catherine Weaver appearance. However, she's in a very CyberPunk and [[DressedLikeADominatrix somewhat fetishistic]] brown leather and shades ensemble, when for the rest of the show she'll always "dress" in a more business-appropriate manner, even when alone.
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''''Series/{{Farscape}}'':
** The series had some initial trouble getting the elaborate prosthetics and make up to look right under studio lighting. Zhaan often looked washed out and grey instead of the vibrant [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe blue]] they were aiming for while D'Argo ended up looking oddly pale and fleshy. Over time they were able to adjust the make up to look closer to the intended designs. In D'Argo's case this required a pretty massive overhaul to the prosthetics at the beginning of the second season that made his skintone much warmer and darker.
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''
** The series had some initial trouble getting the elaborate prosthetics and make up to look right under studio lighting. Zhaan often looked washed out and grey instead of the vibrant [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe blue]] they were aiming for while D'Argo ended up looking oddly pale and fleshy. Over time they were able to adjust the make up to look closer to the intended designs. In D'Argo's case this required a pretty massive overhaul to the prosthetics at the beginning of the second season that made his skintone much warmer and darker.
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* Rajesh Koothrappali wore a red baseball cap in the pilot episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''. And in the original unaired pilot (which was drastically different than the televised pilot) Leonard and Sheldon were dressed in even more unflattering clothes that made them look more like middle-aged men.
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* Rajesh Koothrappali wore ''Series/HogansHeroes''. In the first two color episodes, [=LeBeau=] wears a navy blue sweater over his fatigues, rather than his usual red baseball cap one. He may or may not have also worn it in the black-and-white pilot episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''. And in the original unaired pilot (which was drastically different than the televised pilot) Leonard and Sheldon were dressed in even more unflattering clothes that made them look more like middle-aged men.episode, as it is hard to determine, though it does appear to be a rather dark sweater.
* In ''Series/RaumschiffGameStar'', the eponymous starship crew's iconic "garbageman" uniforms didn't make an appearance until the second season. Ditto the bad guys' black hooded cloaks.
* The first two seasons of ''Series/RedDwarf'' have Rimmer in a khaki Space Corps uniform and Lister in a stained, shabby version of the same uniform, as opposed to Lister's leathers and Rimmer's shiny outfits in later seasons. The Space Corps uniform itself is changed [[RetCon retroactively]] in flashbacks, though the original uniforms appear as {{Mythology Gag}}s in Series XII.
* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
** Throughout the first season there was a noticeable variation in Ernie's sweater. Rather than being strictly red and blue striped, it also had orange, yellow, and pink stripes in it as well.
** Many Muppets had different designs early on and even throughout the years their designs have evolved. The [[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Character_Variants Muppet Wiki]] has several pages dedicated to explaining the various designs. For example, Kermit originally wasn't a frog, he was a CartoonCreature until 1969, when ''Sesame Street'' first aired. Big Bird originally had fewer feathers on his head, and the character that would become Cookie Monster had teeth prior to appearing on ''Sesame Street''. Rosita was originally a fruit bat but became a generic "monster" later. Zoot's skin kept [[FlipFlopOfGod switching from blue to green and back]] until the creators ultimately settled on blue.
* The uniforms in both pilot episodes of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' were different, both from each other, and from those in the regular episodes. The original version cropped up in a couple of instances in the first season, notably in "Charlie X" and "The Menagerie" (though the latter was due to incorporating nearly the entirety of the first pilot, "The Cage", through visual records).
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
** For their first appearance on ''TNG'', the Trill had noticeably more forehead prosthetics and lacked facial spots. After Terry Farrell was cast on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', the producers decided they didn't want her under heavy makeup, and altered the makeup to spots down her forehead.
** ''TNG'' also had several major changes across seasons 1 and 2, a lot of it coming about during the filming of the pilot as the production staff decided to refine their visions of the cast upon seeing some concepts translate poorly from paper to actor. Most famously, Picard was supposed to have a hairpiece, since Creator/PatrickStewart was naturally bald and the vision for his character was one with blonde hair. One use of the hairpiece proved it was a completely ridiculous-looking implement and Picard looked far more epic as a chrome dome.
** The one-piece spandex outfits the ''Enterprise'' crew wore in the first two seasons were replaced because the actors complained they were uncomfortable and a chiropractor warned that the cast members risked permanent skeletal injury because they were ''that'' tight-fitting. The cast switched to a two-piece wool uniform redesign used for the remainder of the series, save "All Good Things...", which reverted back to the spandex outfits for continuity preservation when it featured scenes set in the time period of the pilot episode. The original design also appeared in a few other episodes when continuity called for its use[[note]]"Identity Crisis" had Geordi revisiting an away mission from his previous assignment on the ''Victory'', re-creating it on the holodeck with appropriate uniforms, including his younger self wearing red as he did in season 1; "Violations" had Beverly revisiting the memory of Picard showing her the dead body of her husband Jack from about ten years before the first season; and "Second Chances" saw the rescue of a transporter duplicate of Riker, who had been stranded when he was a lieutenant on the ''Potemkin'' eight years earlier, or roughly three years before season 1[[/note]].
** The first season also attempted to update the female miniskirt uniform of the Original Series by having a short-sleeved unisex "skant" variant of the uniform. (Both the Original Series and season 1 TNG costumes were designed by William Ware Theiss.) None of the main cast ever wore the skant after the pilot, and none of the ''male'' main cast ever wore it at all, so it was gradually phased out at the end of season 1 (only appearing again in season 2 via StockFootage).
** Riker originally went clean-shaven, until concerns were raised that he came off as a flat clone of Kirk by being a dashing young-looking action-oriented guy. [[GrowingTheBeard He grew a beard the following season, and his character became more divergent and subdued.]] (Creator/JonathanFrakes had previously sported a beard in the first two ''[[Series/NorthAndSouthUS North and South]]'' miniseries.)
** Geordi was going to have a mullet, but the consensus was it looked really goofy and perhaps a little flamboyant paired with his visor (think Music/{{Prince}} meets ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}) , so he got a snazzy flat-top haircut.
** When Worf took over [[ActorLeavesCharacterDies Tasha's]] duties as security chief, his uniform changed from red to yellow, and the non-standard Klingon sash he wore with his uniform was changed from gold to silver to keep it from blending in with the new color scheme.
** Leonard [=McCoy=]'s cameo in the pilot was going to feature him in an active role, a little older than his appearances in the original series, before the setting was changed to feature the new ''Enterprise'' crew far into the future since his time and he appeared as a crusty centenarian with his identity left ambiguous to the new crew.
** Troi wore a severe-looking, civilian jumpsuit made of grey denim and had an intricate, complicated updo involving numerous braids and hair jewels to obliquely emphasize her alien qualities as a half-Betazoid and to emphasize her psychological role as counselor. She also had a European accent that apparently is among one of the burrs of the Betazed homeworld. Starting in Season 2 Troi changed into a much more flattering and gentle looking maroon jumpsuit with a dark collar [[note]] joined by a lavender-coloured variation and a turquoise dress in Season 3 to add variety to her wardrobe[[/note]] and let her hair down in a mass of curls with jeweled hairbands emphasizing her role as TheEmpath, and cementing her as the show's resident MsFanservice. The look was revised again in the last couple of seasons and the movies where she changed into the standard uniform, ditched the hair ornaments and opted for simpler, more natural, free-flowing hair that was also lighter in colour. She also lost all touches of the accent, indicating how she had become more human-like rather than alien and fully integrated with the crew, as well as her taking her role as Starfleet Officer more seriously. These changes, along with the huge changes in her makeup (from very pale skin and deep red lips early on to a softer, more neutral palette later on) are big enough that it almost makes early Troi and Troi from the movies look like two completely different characters.
*** In the PilotMovie "Encounter at Farpoint", Troi wore the first-season skant and had her hair down in a very [[TheEighties Eighties]] perm. Many, including Marina Sirtis herself, felt that Troi looked like a "space cheerleader", which led to her first-season "severe" look. The original look returned in "All Good Things..." for the past scenes for continuity purposes. Sirtis also came to prefer the standard duty uniform after Troi was made to wear it by Captain Jellico in the season 6 two-parter "Chain of Command", and her casual outfits were relegated to informal off-duty use for the remainder of the series.
* The first two seasons of ''Series/RedDwarf'' have Rimmer in a khaki Space Corps uniform and Lister in a stained, shabby version of the same uniform, as opposed to Lister's leathers and Rimmer's shiny outfits in later seasons. The Space Corps uniform itself is changed [[RetCon retroactively]] in flashbacks, though the original uniforms appear as {{Mythology Gag}}s in Series XII.
* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
** Throughout the first season there was a noticeable variation in Ernie's sweater. Rather than being strictly red and blue striped, it also had orange, yellow, and pink stripes in it as well.
** Many Muppets had different designs early on and even throughout the years their designs have evolved. The [[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Character_Variants Muppet Wiki]] has several pages dedicated to explaining the various designs. For example, Kermit originally wasn't a frog, he was a CartoonCreature until 1969, when ''Sesame Street'' first aired. Big Bird originally had fewer feathers on his head, and the character that would become Cookie Monster had teeth prior to appearing on ''Sesame Street''. Rosita was originally a fruit bat but became a generic "monster" later. Zoot's skin kept [[FlipFlopOfGod switching from blue to green and back]] until the creators ultimately settled on blue.
* The uniforms in both pilot episodes of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' were different, both from each other, and from those in the regular episodes. The original version cropped up in a couple of instances in the first season, notably in "Charlie X" and "The Menagerie" (though the latter was due to incorporating nearly the entirety of the first pilot, "The Cage", through visual records).
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
** For their first appearance on ''TNG'', the Trill had noticeably more forehead prosthetics and lacked facial spots. After Terry Farrell was cast on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', the producers decided they didn't want her under heavy makeup, and altered the makeup to spots down her forehead.
** ''TNG'' also had several major changes across seasons 1 and 2, a lot of it coming about during the filming of the pilot as the production staff decided to refine their visions of the cast upon seeing some concepts translate poorly from paper to actor. Most famously, Picard was supposed to have a hairpiece, since Creator/PatrickStewart was naturally bald and the vision for his character was one with blonde hair. One use of the hairpiece proved it was a completely ridiculous-looking implement and Picard looked far more epic as a chrome dome.
** The one-piece spandex outfits the ''Enterprise'' crew wore in the first two seasons were replaced because the actors complained they were uncomfortable and a chiropractor warned that the cast members risked permanent skeletal injury because they were ''that'' tight-fitting. The cast switched to a two-piece wool uniform redesign used for the remainder of the series, save "All Good Things...", which reverted back to the spandex outfits for continuity preservation when it featured scenes set in the time period of the pilot episode. The original design also appeared in a few other episodes when continuity called for its use[[note]]"Identity Crisis" had Geordi revisiting an away mission from his previous assignment on the ''Victory'', re-creating it on the holodeck with appropriate uniforms, including his younger self wearing red as he did in season 1; "Violations" had Beverly revisiting the memory of Picard showing her the dead body of her husband Jack from about ten years before the first season; and "Second Chances" saw the rescue of a transporter duplicate of Riker, who had been stranded when he was a lieutenant on the ''Potemkin'' eight years earlier, or roughly three years before season 1[[/note]].
** The first season also attempted to update the female miniskirt uniform of the Original Series by having a short-sleeved unisex "skant" variant of the uniform. (Both the Original Series and season 1 TNG costumes were designed by William Ware Theiss.) None of the main cast ever wore the skant after the pilot, and none of the ''male'' main cast ever wore it at all, so it was gradually phased out at the end of season 1 (only appearing again in season 2 via StockFootage).
** Riker originally went clean-shaven, until concerns were raised that he came off as a flat clone of Kirk by being a dashing young-looking action-oriented guy. [[GrowingTheBeard He grew a beard the following season, and his character became more divergent and subdued.]] (Creator/JonathanFrakes had previously sported a beard in the first two ''[[Series/NorthAndSouthUS North and South]]'' miniseries.)
** Geordi was going to have a mullet, but the consensus was it looked really goofy and perhaps a little flamboyant paired with his visor (think Music/{{Prince}} meets ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}) , so he got a snazzy flat-top haircut.
** When Worf took over [[ActorLeavesCharacterDies Tasha's]] duties as security chief, his uniform changed from red to yellow, and the non-standard Klingon sash he wore with his uniform was changed from gold to silver to keep it from blending in with the new color scheme.
** Leonard [=McCoy=]'s cameo in the pilot was going to feature him in an active role, a little older than his appearances in the original series, before the setting was changed to feature the new ''Enterprise'' crew far into the future since his time and he appeared as a crusty centenarian with his identity left ambiguous to the new crew.
** Troi wore a severe-looking, civilian jumpsuit made of grey denim and had an intricate, complicated updo involving numerous braids and hair jewels to obliquely emphasize her alien qualities as a half-Betazoid and to emphasize her psychological role as counselor. She also had a European accent that apparently is among one of the burrs of the Betazed homeworld. Starting in Season 2 Troi changed into a much more flattering and gentle looking maroon jumpsuit with a dark collar [[note]] joined by a lavender-coloured variation and a turquoise dress in Season 3 to add variety to her wardrobe[[/note]] and let her hair down in a mass of curls with jeweled hairbands emphasizing her role as TheEmpath, and cementing her as the show's resident MsFanservice. The look was revised again in the last couple of seasons and the movies where she changed into the standard uniform, ditched the hair ornaments and opted for simpler, more natural, free-flowing hair that was also lighter in colour. She also lost all touches of the accent, indicating how she had become more human-like rather than alien and fully integrated with the crew, as well as her taking her role as Starfleet Officer more seriously. These changes, along with the huge changes in her makeup (from very pale skin and deep red lips early on to a softer, more neutral palette later on) are big enough that it almost makes early Troi and Troi from the movies look like two completely different characters.
*** In the PilotMovie "Encounter at Farpoint", Troi wore the first-season skant and had her hair down in a very [[TheEighties Eighties]] perm. Many, including Marina Sirtis herself, felt that Troi looked like a "space cheerleader", which led to her first-season "severe" look. The original look returned in "All Good Things..." for the past scenes for continuity purposes. Sirtis also came to prefer the standard duty uniform after Troi was made to wear it by Captain Jellico in the season 6 two-parter "Chain of Command", and her casual outfits were relegated to informal off-duty use for the remainder of the series.
* In ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'', at the end of the second season's second episode, "Automatic for the People", Weaver, who has been impersonating a different corporate executive, gets into a car and shifts back to her usual Catherine Weaver appearance. However, she's in a very CyberPunk and [[DressedLikeADominatrix somewhat fetishistic]] brown leather and shades ensemble, when for the rest of the show she'll always "dress" in a more business-appropriate manner, even when alone.
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* Virgil Reality, the quirky artificial intelligence from ''Series/CrashZone'', had his virtual form redesigned in the second season--in the first one he looks like a blurry splotch with a face, in the second one he's a complete floating head.
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* In ''Series/RaumschiffGameStar'', the eponymous starship crew's iconic "garbageman" uniforms didn't make an appearance until the second season. Ditto the bad guys' black hooded cloaks.
* This happened on ''Series/{{Bonanza}}'' as the clothing choices of the Cartwrights got changed to Limited Wardrobe so more Stock Footage could be used.
* The uniforms in both pilot episodes of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' were different, both from each other, and from those in the regular episodes. The original version cropped up in a couple of instances in the first season, notably in "Charlie X" and "The Menagerie" (though the latter was due to incorporating nearly the entirety of the first pilot, "The Cage", through visual records).
* For their first appearance on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', the Trill had noticeably more forehead prosthetics and lacked facial spots. After Terry Farrell was cast on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', the producers decided they didn't want her under heavy makeup, and altered the makeup to spots down her forehead.
** ''TNG'' also had several major changes across seasons 1 and 2, a lot of it coming about during the filming of the pilot as the production staff decided to refine their visions of the cast upon seeing some concepts translate poorly from paper to actor. Most famously, Picard was supposed to have a hairpiece, since Creator/PatrickStewart was naturally bald and the vision for his character was one with blonde hair. One use of the hairpiece proved it was a completely ridiculous-looking implement and Picard looked far more epic as a chrome dome.
** The one-piece spandex outfits the ''Enterprise'' crew wore in the first two seasons were replaced because the actors complained they were uncomfortable and a chiropractor warned that the cast members risked permanent skeletal injury because they were ''that'' tight-fitting. The cast switched to a two-piece wool uniform redesign used for the remainder of the series, save "All Good Things...", which reverted back to the spandex outfits for continuity preservation when it featured scenes set in the time period of the pilot episode. The original design also appeared in a few other episodes when continuity called for its use[[note]]"Identity Crisis" had Geordi revisiting an away mission from his previous assignment on the ''Victory'', re-creating it on the holodeck with appropriate uniforms, including his younger self wearing red as he did in season 1; "Violations" had Beverly revisiting the memory of Picard showing her the dead body of her husband Jack from about ten years before the first season; and "Second Chances" saw the rescue of a transporter duplicate of Riker, who had been stranded when he was a lieutenant on the ''Potemkin'' eight years earlier, or roughly three years before season 1[[/note]].
** The first season also attempted to update the female miniskirt uniform of the Original Series by having a short-sleeved unisex "skant" variant of the uniform. (Both the Original Series and season 1 TNG costumes were designed by William Ware Theiss.) None of the main cast ever wore the skant after the pilot, and none of the ''male'' main cast ever wore it at all, so it was gradually phased out at the end of season 1 (only appearing again in season 2 via StockFootage).
** Riker originally went clean-shaven, until concerns were raised that he came off as a flat clone of Kirk by being a dashing young-looking action-oriented guy. [[GrowingTheBeard He grew a beard the following season, and his character became more divergent and subdued.]] (Creator/JonathanFrakes had previously sported a beard in the first two ''[[Series/NorthAndSouthUS North and South]]'' miniseries.)
** Geordi was going to have a mullet, but the consensus was it looked really goofy and perhaps a little flamboyant paired with his visor (think Music/{{Prince}} meets ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}) , so he got a snazzy flat-top haircut.
** When Worf took over [[McLeaned Tasha's]] duties as security chief, his uniform changed from red to yellow, and the non-standard Klingon sash he wore with his uniform was changed from gold to silver to keep it from blending in with the new color scheme.
** Leonard [=McCoy=]'s cameo in the pilot was going to feature him in an active role, a little older than his appearances in the original series, before the setting was changed to feature the new ''Enterprise'' crew far into the future since his time and he appeared as a crusty centenarian with his identity left ambiguous to the new crew.
** Troi wore a severe-looking, civilian jumpsuit made of grey denim and had an intricate, complicated updo involving numerous braids and hair jewels to obliquely emphasize her alien qualities as a half-Betazoid and to emphasize her psychological role as counselor. She also had a European accent that apparently is among one of the burrs of the Betazed homeworld. Starting in Season 2 Troi changed into a much more flattering and gentle looking maroon jumpsuit with a dark collar [[note]] joined by a lavender-coloured variation and a turquoise dress in Season 3 to add variety to her wardrobe[[/note]] and let her hair down in a mass of curls with jeweled hairbands emphasizing her role as TheEmpath, and cementing her as the show's resident MsFanservice. The look was revised again in the last couple of seasons and the movies where she changed into the standard uniform, ditched the hair ornaments and opted for simpler, more natural, free-flowing hair that was also lighter in colour. She also lost all touches of the accent, indicating how she had become more human-like rather than alien and fully integrated with the crew, as well as her taking her role as Starfleet Officer more seriously. These changes, along with the huge changes in her makeup (from very pale skin and deep red lips early on to a softer, more neutral palette later on) are big enough that it almost makes early Troi and Troi from the movies look like two completely different characters.
*** In the PilotMovie "Encounter at Farpoint", Troi wore the first-season skant and had her hair down in a very [[TheEighties Eighties]] perm. Many, including Marina Sirtis herself, felt that Troi looked like a "space cheerleader", which led to her first-season "severe" look. The original look returned in "All Good Things..." for the past scenes for continuity purposes. Sirtis also came to prefer the standard duty uniform after Troi was made to wear it by Captain Jellico in the season 6 two-parter "Chain of Command", and her casual outfits were relegated to informal off-duty use for the remainder of the series.
* The first two seasons of ''Series/RedDwarf'' have Rimmer in a khaki Space Corps uniform and Lister in a stained, shabby version of the same uniform, as opposed to Lister's leathers and Rimmer's shiny outfits in later seasons. The Space Corps uniform itself is changed [[RetCon retroactively]] in flashbacks, though the original uniforms appear as {{Mythology Gag}}s in Series XII.
* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
** Throughout the first season there was a noticeable variation in Ernie's sweater. Rather than being strictly red and blue striped, it also had orange, yellow, and pink stripes in it as well.
** Many Muppets had different designs early on and even throughout the years their designs have evolved. The [[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Character_Variants Muppet Wiki]] has several pages dedicated to explaining the various designs. For example, Kermit originally wasn't a frog, he was a CartoonCreature until 1969, when ''Sesame Street'' first aired. Big Bird originally had fewer feathers on his head, and the character that would become Cookie Monster had teeth prior to appearing on ''Sesame Street''. Rosita was originally a fruit bat but became a generic "monster" later. Zoot's skin kept [[FlipFlopOfGod switching from blue to green and back]] until the creators ultimately settled on blue.
* ''Series/HogansHeroes''. In the first two color episodes, [=LeBeau=] wears a navy blue sweater over his fatigues, rather than his usual red one. He may or may not have also worn it in the black-and-white pilot episode, as it is hard to determine, though it does appear to be a rather dark sweater.
* ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' had a different look for Fran's head crest in the first couple of episodes.
* The ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Phases" featured a werewolf with a fully lupine head, as opposed to the WolfMan appearance that all later appearances of werewolves in the show and its SpinOff ''Series/{{Angel}}'' would adopt.
* For people who watched ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' first instead of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', Frasier's long hair in the first two seasons came off as this.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** In the Cybermen's first appearance, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet The Tenth Planet]]", they had a mixed human/robot appearance with tinges of BodyHorror, compared to their much more purely robotic external appearance in all later stories. Even when this variant was reintroduced in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime World Enough and Time]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls The Doctor Falls]]", they had much smaller headlamps/weapons, handlebars, and chest units, as well as skin-colored surgical gloves as opposed to bare hands.
** The Daleks took three stories to achieve their classic appearance. The Dalek props in the first story, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]", lack the vertical panels attached to the "shoulder" section of their casings. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]", they have clunky looking satellite-style disc aerials on the backs of their casings, conceived [[AllThereInTheManual by the designers]] as a wireless power supply (the original Daleks had been unable to leave their city as they drew electrical life-support power from the floors). "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase The Chase]]" added the final vertical panels, conceived as solar panels for power collection. The later OriginsEpisode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis of the Daleks]]" indulged in some CosmeticallyAdvancedPrequel by depicting the in-universe earliest Daleks with the later established prop design.
* In ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'', at the end of the second season's second episode, "Automatic for the People", Weaver, who has been impersonating a different corporate executive, gets into a car and shifts back to her usual Catherine Weaver appearance. However, she's in a very CyberPunk and [[DressedLikeADominatrix somewhat fetishistic]] brown leather and shades ensemble, when for the rest of the show she'll always "dress" in a more business-appropriate manner, even when alone.
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' had some initial trouble getting the elaborate prosthetics and make up to look right under studio lighting. Zhaan often looked washed out and grey instead of the vibrant [[BlueSkinnedSpaceBabe blue]] they were aiming for while D'Argo ended up looking oddly pale and fleshy. Over time they were able to adjust the make up to look closer to the intended designs. In D'Argo's case this required a pretty massive overhaul to the prosthetics at the beginning of the second season that made his skintone much warmer and darker.
** In the first season [[BigBad Scorpius']] make-up is more opaque and lacks the shading that was added started with the second season. His leather mask was originally matte leather which was replaced with a shinier, grittier texture around the time his make-up changed.
* Rajesh Koothrappali wore a red baseball cap in the pilot episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''. And in the original unaired pilot (which was drastically different than the televised pilot) Leonard and Sheldon were dressed in even more unflattering clothes that made them look more like middle-aged men.
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''
** KTMA Tom Servo began as a small silver robot named Beeper, who couldn't talk, but beeped and whistled instead. He would quickly be replaced by Servo, who was much more like Tom, but still silver. By season 2, he had become the Tom Servo we know and love.
** KTMA Crow, Tom Servo, and Gypsy are borderline NightmareFuel.
** Joel's KTMA-era jumpsuit was bulkier, gray-ish, and covered in patches, and his hair was longer. The early Comedy Central seasons would also occasionally put him in a bright blue jumpsuit before quickly settling on his signature red one for the rest of his run.
* Early ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' costumes weren't nearly as form-fitting and often had capes or scarves.
* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'':
** [[CreepyDoll Rex]] looked different in the pilot episode than he did later in the series. Notably, his neck and head were thicker, his complexion was darker, and his mouth and eyes were larger.
** In the first season, Jade had pale skin and light brown hair. From season two onward, she got a tan and dyed her hair black.
** Other characters looked different in the pilot as well. Tori's hair was straight instead of wavy, Trina's hair is shorter, Cat's hair is curly and Robbie's afro is slightly longer.
* Virgil Reality, the quirky artificial intelligence from ''Series/CrashZone'', had his virtual form redesigned in the second season--in the first one he looks like a blurry splotch with a face, in the second one he's a complete floating head.
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* This happened on ''Series/{{Bonanza}}'' as the clothing choices of the Cartwrights got changed to Limited Wardrobe so more Stock Footage could be used.
* The uniforms in both pilot episodes of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' were different, both from each other, and from those in the regular episodes. The original version cropped up in a couple of instances in the first season, notably in "Charlie X" and "The Menagerie" (though the latter was due to incorporating nearly the entirety of the first pilot, "The Cage", through visual records).
* For their first appearance on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', the Trill had noticeably more forehead prosthetics and lacked facial spots. After Terry Farrell was cast on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', the producers decided they didn't want her under heavy makeup, and altered the makeup to spots down her forehead.
** ''TNG'' also had several major changes across seasons 1 and 2, a lot of it coming about during the filming of the pilot as the production staff decided to refine their visions of the cast upon seeing some concepts translate poorly from paper to actor. Most famously, Picard was supposed to have a hairpiece, since Creator/PatrickStewart was naturally bald and the vision for his character was one with blonde hair. One use of the hairpiece proved it was a completely ridiculous-looking implement and Picard looked far more epic as a chrome dome.
** The one-piece spandex outfits the ''Enterprise'' crew wore in the first two seasons were replaced because the actors complained they were uncomfortable and a chiropractor warned that the cast members risked permanent skeletal injury because they were ''that'' tight-fitting. The cast switched to a two-piece wool uniform redesign used for the remainder of the series, save "All Good Things...", which reverted back to the spandex outfits for continuity preservation when it featured scenes set in the time period of the pilot episode. The original design also appeared in a few other episodes when continuity called for its use[[note]]"Identity Crisis" had Geordi revisiting an away mission from his previous assignment on the ''Victory'', re-creating it on the holodeck with appropriate uniforms, including his younger self wearing red as he did in season 1; "Violations" had Beverly revisiting the memory of Picard showing her the dead body of her husband Jack from about ten years before the first season; and "Second Chances" saw the rescue of a transporter duplicate of Riker, who had been stranded when he was a lieutenant on the ''Potemkin'' eight years earlier, or roughly three years before season 1[[/note]].
** The first season also attempted to update the female miniskirt uniform of the Original Series by having a short-sleeved unisex "skant" variant of the uniform. (Both the Original Series and season 1 TNG costumes were designed by William Ware Theiss.) None of the main cast ever wore the skant after the pilot, and none of the ''male'' main cast ever wore it at all, so it was gradually phased out at the end of season 1 (only appearing again in season 2 via StockFootage).
** Riker originally went clean-shaven, until concerns were raised that he came off as a flat clone of Kirk by being a dashing young-looking action-oriented guy. [[GrowingTheBeard He grew a beard the following season, and his character became more divergent and subdued.]] (Creator/JonathanFrakes had previously sported a beard in the first two ''[[Series/NorthAndSouthUS North and South]]'' miniseries.)
** Geordi was going to have a mullet, but the consensus was it looked really goofy and perhaps a little flamboyant paired with his visor (think Music/{{Prince}} meets ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}) , so he got a snazzy flat-top haircut.
** When Worf took over [[McLeaned Tasha's]] duties as security chief, his uniform changed from red to yellow, and the non-standard Klingon sash he wore with his uniform was changed from gold to silver to keep it from blending in with the new color scheme.
** Leonard [=McCoy=]'s cameo in the pilot was going to feature him in an active role, a little older than his appearances in the original series, before the setting was changed to feature the new ''Enterprise'' crew far into the future since his time and he appeared as a crusty centenarian with his identity left ambiguous to the new crew.
** Troi wore a severe-looking, civilian jumpsuit made of grey denim and had an intricate, complicated updo involving numerous braids and hair jewels to obliquely emphasize her alien qualities as a half-Betazoid and to emphasize her psychological role as counselor. She also had a European accent that apparently is among one of the burrs of the Betazed homeworld. Starting in Season 2 Troi changed into a much more flattering and gentle looking maroon jumpsuit with a dark collar [[note]] joined by a lavender-coloured variation and a turquoise dress in Season 3 to add variety to her wardrobe[[/note]] and let her hair down in a mass of curls with jeweled hairbands emphasizing her role as TheEmpath, and cementing her as the show's resident MsFanservice. The look was revised again in the last couple of seasons and the movies where she changed into the standard uniform, ditched the hair ornaments and opted for simpler, more natural, free-flowing hair that was also lighter in colour. She also lost all touches of the accent, indicating how she had become more human-like rather than alien and fully integrated with the crew, as well as her taking her role as Starfleet Officer more seriously. These changes, along with the huge changes in her makeup (from very pale skin and deep red lips early on to a softer, more neutral palette later on) are big enough that it almost makes early Troi and Troi from the movies look like two completely different characters.
*** In the PilotMovie "Encounter at Farpoint", Troi wore the first-season skant and had her hair down in a very [[TheEighties Eighties]] perm. Many, including Marina Sirtis herself, felt that Troi looked like a "space cheerleader", which led to her first-season "severe" look. The original look returned in "All Good Things..." for the past scenes for continuity purposes. Sirtis also came to prefer the standard duty uniform after Troi was made to wear it by Captain Jellico in the season 6 two-parter "Chain of Command", and her casual outfits were relegated to informal off-duty use for the remainder of the series.
* The first two seasons of ''Series/RedDwarf'' have Rimmer in a khaki Space Corps uniform and Lister in a stained, shabby version of the same uniform, as opposed to Lister's leathers and Rimmer's shiny outfits in later seasons. The Space Corps uniform itself is changed [[RetCon retroactively]] in flashbacks, though the original uniforms appear as {{Mythology Gag}}s in Series XII.
* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
** Throughout the first season there was a noticeable variation in Ernie's sweater. Rather than being strictly red and blue striped, it also had orange, yellow, and pink stripes in it as well.
** Many Muppets had different designs early on and even throughout the years their designs have evolved. The [[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Character_Variants Muppet Wiki]] has several pages dedicated to explaining the various designs. For example, Kermit originally wasn't a frog, he was a CartoonCreature until 1969, when ''Sesame Street'' first aired. Big Bird originally had fewer feathers on his head, and the character that would become Cookie Monster had teeth prior to appearing on ''Sesame Street''. Rosita was originally a fruit bat but became a generic "monster" later. Zoot's skin kept [[FlipFlopOfGod switching from blue to green and back]] until the creators ultimately settled on blue.
* ''Series/HogansHeroes''. In the first two color episodes, [=LeBeau=] wears a navy blue sweater over his fatigues, rather than his usual red one. He may or may not have also worn it in the black-and-white pilot episode, as it is hard to determine, though it does appear to be a rather dark sweater.
* ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' had a different look for Fran's head crest in the first couple of episodes.
* The ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Phases" featured a werewolf with a fully lupine head, as opposed to the WolfMan appearance that all later appearances of werewolves in the show and its SpinOff ''Series/{{Angel}}'' would adopt.
* For people who watched ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' first instead of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', Frasier's long hair in the first two seasons came off as this.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** In the Cybermen's first appearance, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet The Tenth Planet]]", they had a mixed human/robot appearance with tinges of BodyHorror, compared to their much more purely robotic external appearance in all later stories. Even when this variant was reintroduced in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime World Enough and Time]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls The Doctor Falls]]", they had much smaller headlamps/weapons, handlebars, and chest units, as well as skin-colored surgical gloves as opposed to bare hands.
** The Daleks took three stories to achieve their classic appearance. The Dalek props in the first story, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]", lack the vertical panels attached to the "shoulder" section of their casings. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]", they have clunky looking satellite-style disc aerials on the backs of their casings, conceived [[AllThereInTheManual by the designers]] as a wireless power supply (the original Daleks had been unable to leave their city as they drew electrical life-support power from the floors). "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase The Chase]]" added the final vertical panels, conceived as solar panels for power collection. The later OriginsEpisode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis of the Daleks]]" indulged in some CosmeticallyAdvancedPrequel by depicting the in-universe earliest Daleks with the later established prop design.
* In ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'', at the end of the second season's second episode, "Automatic for the People", Weaver, who has been impersonating a different corporate executive, gets into a car and shifts back to her usual Catherine Weaver appearance. However, she's in a very CyberPunk and [[DressedLikeADominatrix somewhat fetishistic]] brown leather and shades ensemble, when for the rest of the show she'll always "dress" in a more business-appropriate manner, even when alone.
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' had some initial trouble getting the elaborate prosthetics and make up to look right under studio lighting. Zhaan often looked washed out and grey instead of the vibrant [[BlueSkinnedSpaceBabe blue]] they were aiming for while D'Argo ended up looking oddly pale and fleshy. Over time they were able to adjust the make up to look closer to the intended designs. In D'Argo's case this required a pretty massive overhaul to the prosthetics at the beginning of the second season that made his skintone much warmer and darker.
** In the first season [[BigBad Scorpius']] make-up is more opaque and lacks the shading that was added started with the second season. His leather mask was originally matte leather which was replaced with a shinier, grittier texture around the time his make-up changed.
* Rajesh Koothrappali wore a red baseball cap in the pilot episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''. And in the original unaired pilot (which was drastically different than the televised pilot) Leonard and Sheldon were dressed in even more unflattering clothes that made them look more like middle-aged men.
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''
** KTMA Tom Servo began as a small silver robot named Beeper, who couldn't talk, but beeped and whistled instead. He would quickly be replaced by Servo, who was much more like Tom, but still silver. By season 2, he had become the Tom Servo we know and love.
** KTMA Crow, Tom Servo, and Gypsy are borderline NightmareFuel.
** Joel's KTMA-era jumpsuit was bulkier, gray-ish, and covered in patches, and his hair was longer. The early Comedy Central seasons would also occasionally put him in a bright blue jumpsuit before quickly settling on his signature red one for the rest of his run.
* Early ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' costumes weren't nearly as form-fitting and often had capes or scarves.
* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'':
** [[CreepyDoll Rex]] looked different in the pilot episode than he did later in the series. Notably, his neck and head were thicker, his complexion was darker, and his mouth and eyes were larger.
** In the first season, Jade had pale skin and light brown hair. From season two onward, she got a tan and dyed her hair black.
** Other characters looked different in the pilot as well. Tori's hair was straight instead of wavy, Trina's hair is shorter, Cat's hair is curly and Robbie's afro is slightly longer.
* Virgil Reality, the quirky artificial intelligence from ''Series/CrashZone'', had his virtual form redesigned in the second season--in the first one he looks like a blurry splotch with a face, in the second one he's a complete floating head.
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