History OlderThanTheyThink / LiveACtionTV

* ''Series/PakDePoenDeShowVan1Miljoen'' looks like a perfect candidate for WhoWantsToBeWhoWantsToBeAMillionaire , but it predates Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire by a decade.

* A television GameShow with a school theme, increasingly difficult questions themed to "grades", and {{lifelnes}}: before ''Series/AreYouSmarterThanAFifthGrader'' did it in 2007, ''Series/WinTuition'' did exactly the same in 2002.

'''Other officer:''' Twain was never on ''Deep Space 9''. [[CompletelyMissingThePoint He was on Next Generation.]]\\

* While the insignia for the evil Federation in ''Series/BlakesSeven'' looks almost like the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' Starfleet arrowhead insignia turned 45 degrees[[note]]Which has helped, in many fans' mind, to perceive the show as the "Anti-Trek"[[/note]], it should be noted that ''Blake's 7'' began in 1978, a year before Trek's movie era began. It wasn't until ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'', that the signature arrowhead insignia would gain the oval or circular background. Also, originally in TOS, the arrowhead was an insignia exclusive to the starship Enterprise, not the symbol of Starfleet [[note]]However, this detail has been quietly retconned as few viewers actually noticed in TOS that other starship officers, when seen, had different insignia on their uniforms; And in the episode ''Court Martial'', officers who were not conncected with the Enterprise appeared to be wearing the Enterprise insignia on their uniforms. Recently a document has surfaced which seems to say that the intent was always for the arrowhead to represent Starfleet, and the episodes with different insignia were, respectively, one indicating a rank of Commodore, one indicating a non-Starfleet Federation vessel, and one mistake.[[/note]]. The real inspiration for the evil Federation's insignia appears to be the "sun and spaceship" insignia from Issac Asimov's Foundation novels where it was the insignia for the crumbling Galactic Empire[[note]]Not an evil empire,per se, like the one in ''StarWars'' but an empire that had grown stagnant and soft with bureaucracy and weak leadership.[[/note]].

*** In fact, the Doctor being romantic with companions was actually not uncommon before Nathan-Turner brought it to a halt. Three had romantic feelings for Jo Grant, to the point that in ''The Green Death'' he left the party celebrating Jo's engagement to Cliff Jones to avoid ManlyTears. Four had some feelings for Sarah Jane, and later was very definitely in a relationship with Romana II (though [[RealLifeWritesThePlot that was chiefly because Tom Baker and Lalla Ward actually were an item on set]] -- their disastrous marriage, the fallout of which very negatively affected Baker's final season, may have been one of the reasons [=JNT=] put the kibosh on more Doctor-companion romance).
** Everyone knows companions were always [[ScreamingWoman screaming]], [[TheLoad ankle-twisting]] [[BrainlessBeauty bimbos]] whose functions were [[TheWatson to say "what is it, Doctor"]] and [[ParentService bend over in low-cut tops]] until the Doctor got sick of them and unceremoniously dumped them [[StrangledByTheRedString to get married to some random alien she'd swapped about two words with]], until the new series came along with innovations like 'personalities' and 'the Doctor feeling sad and lonely after the companions leave'. Everyone knows it, even though it's utterly untrue - the stereotype is formed from an AccentuateTheNegative grab-bag of the most annoying writing fumbles of the most annoying companions in their most annoying episodes, as well as a deliberate quirk of the Fourth Doctor (who acted like he didn't care when his companions left due to his generally solitary nature and general tendency to mask negative feelings behind lots of smiling). The first adult female companion on the whole show was a strong yet feminine female character who used her brain, got her hands dirty and shared one of the most profound Doctor/companion relationships with her Doctor, one that [[TookALevelInKindness set the precedent for his entire personality]] as well as did horrible damage to his mental health when she left it. And the Doctor was often shown as really upset when his companions left, the first time this happened the next episode showed him to be slightly in denial. A companion with a backstory that is revisited after their debut is also not unique to the new series; Ace did that first.

* The core format of ''Jeopardy!'' (in which the host gives the answers and the contestants provide the questions) had been used in the [[MissingEpisode lost forever]] quiz show ''Series/CBSTelevisionQuiz''.

* Two game shows with 2007 debuts, ''Series/TheSingingBee'' and ''Series/DontForgetTheLyrics'', asked for contestants to fill in missing song lyrics. This concept actually dates to the early 1960s with the game show ''Yours For a Song''. Additionally, ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' had the occasional Fill in the Blank/Next Line Please bonus category about songs from the mid-90s until the late 2000s.

* In perhaps one of the weirdest coincidences in the history of popular culture, the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' has precedence in the ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'' of all things. Creator/AugustDerleth's 1931 story ''Lair of the Star Spawn'' features gigantic light-based aliens called the Star Warriors of Orion that help the characters defeat a pair of giant {{Eldritch Abomination}}s by shooting out destructive beams of light. 35 years later, Creator/EijiTsuburaya (a man who had likely never read any Cthulhu Mythos stories) comes up with the idea for gigantic light-based alien warriors from a nebula in the Orion constellation who help humans defeat {{kaiju}} and aliens. It ultimately comes full circle in ''Series/UltramanTiga'' where the BigBad is one Lovecraft's own creations, Ghatanothoa.

* Many fans of the ''Franchise/TheMuppets'' think Kermit the Frog evolved from an earlier JimHenson creation, Wilkins, the ComedicSociopath protagonist of a series short commercials for Advertising/WilkinsCoffee. In fact, an early version of Kermit (baggier and lacking Kermit's prominent crest) was one of the characters in Henson's first successful production, ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_and_Friends Sam & Friends]]'', a sort of prototype of Series/TheMuppetShow that ran in five minute segments on Washington D.C. station WRC from 1955 to 1961.

* While the insignia for the evil Federation in ''Series/BlakesSeven'' looks almost like the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' Starfleet arrowhead insignia turned 45 degrees[[note]]Which has helped, in many fans' mind, to perceive the show as the "Anti-Trek"[[/note]], it should be noted that ''Blake's 7'' began in 1978, a year before Trek's movie era began. It wasn't until ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'', that the signature arrowhead insignia would gain the oval or circular background. Also, originally in TOS, the arrowhead was an insignia exclusive to the starship Enterprise, not the symbol of Starfleet [[note]]However, this detail has been quietly retconned as few viewers actually noticed in TOS that other starship officers, when seen, had different insignia on their uniforms; And in the episode ''Court Martial'', officers who were not conncected with the Enterprise appeared to be wearing the Enterprise insignia on their uniforms, but this was probably a money and time saving measure on the part of the studio[[/note]]. The real inspiration for the evil Federation's insignia appears to be the "sun and spaceship" insignia from Issac Asimov's Foundation novels where it was the insignia for the crumbling Galactic Empire[[note]]Not an evil empire,per se, like the one in ''StarWars'' but an empire that had grown stagnant and soft with bureaucracy and weak leadership.[[/note]].

* While the insignia for the evil Federation in ''Series/BlakesSeven'' looks almost like the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' Starfleet arrowhead insignia turned 45 degrees[[note]]Which has helped, in many fans' mind, to perceive the show as the "Anti-Trek"[[/note]], it should be noted that ''Blake's 7'' began in 1978, a year before Trek's movie era began. It wasn't until ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'', that the signature arrowhead insignia would gain the oval or circular background. Also, originally in TOS, the arrowhead was an insignia exclusive to the starship Enterprise, not the symbol of Starfleet [[note]]However, this detail has been quietly retconned as few viewers actually noticed in TOS that other starship officers, when seen, had different insignia on their uniforms; And in the episode ''Court Martial'', officers who were not conncected with the Enterprise appeared to be wearing the Enterprise insignia on their uniforms, but this was probably a money and time saving measure on the part of the studio[[/note]]. The real inspiration for the evil Federation's insignia appears to be the "sun and spaceship" insignia from Issac Asimov's Foundation novels as perfectly fits the description.

*** In fact, the Doctor being romantic with companions was actually not uncommon before Turner brought it to a halt. Three had romantic feelings for Jo Grant, to the point that in ''The Green Death'' he left the party celebrating Jo's engagement to Cliff Jones to avoid ManlyTears. Four had some feelings for Sarah Jane, and later was very definitely in a relationship with Romana II (though [[RealLifeWritesThePlot that was chiefly because Tom Baker and Lalla Ward actually were an item on set]] -- their disastrous marriage, the fallout of which very negatively affected Baker's final season, may have been one of the reasons [=JNT=] put the kibosh on more Doctor-companion romance).

** Steven Moffat's tenure was sometimes criticized as building up the Doctor into an InUniverse {{Dreaded}} MemeticBadass who can "turn an army around at the mention of his name." However, the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase third-ever Dalek story,]] released all the way back in ''1965,'' had the Daleks launch a strike team to exterminate him since he was such a threat to them, while a story from the following season, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E9TheSavages The Savages]]," has him already known as "The Traveller From Beyond Time." And this is before he even hits his first regeneration!

* For those who may not be aware, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Busters The Ghost Busters]]'' came almost a full decade before ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}''. Similarly, the [[WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters cartoon version of the 1975 live action show]] debuted before ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' (if only by a few days).

* When the series premiere of ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' first aired, some viewers immediately accused the show of ripping off the "protagonist wakes up in a hospital after a post-apocalyptic event" scene from ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater''. In fact, not only did the comic book series show this scene a full seven months before ''28 Days'' premiered in U.S. theatres in June 2003, but both of those films copied it from ''Literature/TheDayOfTheTriffids'', which was written in 1951 (more than 50 years before either of the two works in questions).

* The first {{Deconstruction}} of the HenshinHero tokusatsu genre is said by many to be ''Film/ShinKamenRiderPrologue''; however, in 1973, P Productions made TetsujinTigerSeven, a dark for the time show that has a lot of the tropes from the then new ''Franchise/KamenRider'' franchise taken to their darker extremes. The hero's [[ClarkKenting alter ego]] is seen by his friends as a DirtyCoward who runs from monsters, and this causes significant strain on his personal life. TransformationIsAFreeAction is given a beatdown too, as Tiger Seven's henshin sequence is usually done on his motorcycle. His gesticulating and inattention during his henshin sequence causes him to [[RealityEnsues lose control of his cycle and run over a young child.]] This may have been why it isn't that well remembered however.

* Rod Serling wrote ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "The Silence" without knowing that it was virtually the same story as Chekov's ''The Bet''. There is an interview with Serling in the DVD set for the series in which he explicitly explains all about it.

* While many people may believe that ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' was the first {{Edutainment}} series for kids to feature a Latino character (the whole show was even rumored to have come about when Nickelodeon executives noticed there were no shows featuring Latino characters for children), the children's series ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' featured a character named Bonita Flamingo who spoke Spanish. Before that, there was a show in the 80's that was syndicated to PBS stations called ''Series/{{Saludos}}'' that took place in an area adjusting to Latino immigrants.

** Many fans [[FandomEnragingMisconception will insist]] that the protagonist's name is "The Doctor," NOT Doctor Who. In fact, ''the first four Doctors'' were all credited as "Doctor Who," stage directions and publicity materials referred to the character as "Doctor Who" during the 1960s and 1970s,[[note]]He was sometimes referred to as "the Doctor" in some materials during the 1970s, but this was by no means universal[[/note]], and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines one story]] even has a character refer explicitly to him ''in-universe'' as "Doctor Who!"

* In perhaps one of the weirdest coincidences in the history of popular culture, the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' has precedence in the Franchise/CthulhuMythos'' of all things. Creator/AugustDerleth's 1931 story ''Lair of the Star Spawn'' features gigantic light-based aliens called the Star Warriors of Orion that help the characters defeat a pair of giant {{Eldritch Abomination}}s by shooting out destructive beams of light. 35 years later, Creator/EijiTsuburaya (a man who had likely never read any Cthulhu Mythos stories) comes up with the idea for gigantic light-based alien warriors from a nebula in the Orion constellation who help humans defeat {{kaiju}} and aliens. It ultimately comes full circle in ''Series/UltramanTiga'' where the BigBad is one Lovecraft's own creations, Ghatanothoa.

** Many fans [[FandomBerserkButton will insist]] that the protagonist's name is "The Doctor," NOT Doctor Who. In fact, ''the first four Doctors'' were all credited as "Doctor Who," stage directions and publicity materials referred to the character as "Doctor Who" during the 1960s and 1970s,[[note]] He was sometimes referred to as "the Doctor" in some materials during the 1970s, but this was by no means universal[[/note]], and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines one story]] even has a character refer explicitly to him ''in-universe'' as "Doctor Who!"

* Many fans of the ''Franchise/TheMuppets'' think Kermit the Frog evolved from an earlier JimHenson creation, Wilkins, the ComedicSociopath protagonist of a series short commercials for Advertising/WilkinsCoffee. In fact, an early version of Kermit (baggier and lacking Kermit's prominent crest) was one of the characters in Henson's first successful production, ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_and_Friends Sam & Friends]]'', a sort of prototype of {{Series/TheMuppetShow]] that ran in five minute segments on Washington D.C. station WRC from 1955 to 1961.

* ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' was often called a "ripoff" by uninformed ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' fans due to the similar design of the Dino Megazord, unaware that both series were Americanized adaptations of Japanese shows and that the ''SuperSentai'' franchise that ''Power Rangers'' is based on is a year older than the franchise to which ''Anime/GoLion'', the Japanese version of ''Voltron'', belongs. Also, both shows were made by Toei.

** A common New Who-only fan objection to the casting of Creator/PeterCapaldi as the Twelfth Doctor was that at 53, he was too old for the role -- even though the new series made it clear the Doctor is [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld far older than he appears]]. Middle-aged actors playing the Doctor were the exception, not the rule, in the original run. In addition, Twelve's grouchier, more "alien" nature (especially when set against the human companions) and the concept of his becoming warmer and more empathetic/compassionate over time was not uncommon to original series Doctors, going all the way back to the First.