History OutOfOrder / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/DontTrustTheBInApartment23'' suffered from this in season 2, which had six episodes filmed with season 1 aired at random points. It's particularly noticeable regarding two plotlines, James in ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' and June getting a job.

* ''Series/{{Tracker}}'' held over the two part episode "Fever of the Hunt", which originally was the 12th and 13th episode, until near the end of the series, so it could be used for Sweeps Week.

* In the ''Series/DonkeyHodie'' episode "A Big Favor For Grampy; A Fair Way To Bounce", which was the second to air, Purple Panda's spaceship, which was introduced in the second segment of the first episode in production order, "Planet Purple Party", is mentioned.
** According to [[https://twitter.com/DAbruzzoTweets/status/1468324552338022411?s=20 a tweet]] by Stephanie D'Abruzzo, "Planet Purple Party" was the first segment filmed. However, "The Waiting Game", which was filmed second, is the first segment in the episode where this segment appears.

* In the United States and UK, ''Series/BabylonFive'' aired in largely chronological order, although even then there were some minor ordering problems ("Day of the Dead" being the most obvious, though that episode [[ContinuitySnarl would likely cause problems no matter where it was put]]). But that's not the order the episodes were ''filmed'' — usually, to keep costs down, if a set was needed for several episodes they'd film them all at once. A few countries aired the heavily arc-based show based on production order. Unlike ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', the [=DVD=]s follow the US broadcast order.
** The ''Babylon 5'' spinoff ''Series/{{Crusade}}'' was aired in a seemingly random order determined by ExecutiveMeddling. Plot continuity be damned. The [=DVDs=] include them in broadcast order, rather than what WordOfGod has said to be the proper order. Since this happened during production, there is actually ''no'' order that really makes sense.

** One of the show's original pilots "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was aired as the third episode, and the cast and setting had notable differences from the series proper, including the episodes that aired before it, and InUniverse, the pilot took place about a year before the main series. The uniforms were a bit different, with the engineering crew wearing beige instead of [[RedShirt red]], and there was a different Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Piper, instead of series mainstay [[TheMcCoy Dr. McCoy]].

** The last two episodes of the show to air ''Helicopter'' and ''Dance Contest'' were filled with many continuity errors due to being produced before the intended finale, "Really Big Shrimp". In these episodes, Josh refers to Mindy as [[spoiler:his ex-girlfriend]] despite them [[spoiler:getting back together]]. The Premiere Theatre [[spoiler:completely intact]] despite ''Really Big Shrimp'' ending with [[spoiler:burning down in a fire]]. As well as Josh wearing his [[spoiler:red vest]] despite being awarded with the [[spoiler:gold vest]].

* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' has been a victim of this twice. The fourth season premiere, "Megan's Revenge", wasn't shown until the back end of the season, despite clips from it being shown in promos AND the opening. Possibly even more egregious was the last regular episode broadcast, "Dance Contest". The reason it was delayed was so it could be aired in Creator/TeenNick's dancing episode marathon. The poor planning? Josh calls Mindy his [[spoiler:ex-girlfriend]] despite being aired a month after the finale "Really Big Shrimp" when [[spoiler:they got back together!]]

* In the ''Series/DonkeyHodie'' episode "A Big Favor For Grampy; A Fair Way To Bounce", which was the second to air, Purple Panda's spaceship, which was introduced in the second segment of the first aired episode, "Planet Purple Party", is mentioned.

** One of the show's original pilots "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was aired as the third episode, and had the cast and setting had notable differences from the series proper, including the episodes that aired before it, and InUniverse, the pilot took place about a year before the main series. The uniforms were a bit different, with the engineering crew wearing beige instead of [[RedShirt red]], and a different Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Piper, instead of series mainstay [[TheMcCoy Dr. McCoy]].

* Every TV broadcaster showed the 26 episodes of ''Series/{{UFO}}'' in different order, due to the then highly-localized nature of the ITV "network" in Britain (fortunately there were no multi-episode plotlines in this sci-fi series).

* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': The first season episode "Boot" was meant to air after "Defensive Action", the episode where Harm is promoted to Lieutenant Commander. Due to being aired sooner, Harm gets a one-episode promotion before being promptly demoted again without anyone noticing.