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4	Different from the ClassReunion, the Reunion Show is an opportunity for the surviving cast of a defunct TV show -- off the air for anywhere from 5 to 50 years -- to get back together on screen. Usually this is an "in character" story showing how things are "now", but sometimes it can be an explicit reunion of the cast in tribute to the original show.
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6	Unlike a {{Revival}} series (such as ''Still the Beaver'' and the [[Series/BradyBunchSpinOffs at-one-time-endless progression of sequels]] to ''Series/TheBradyBunch''), the Reunion Show is a one-shot event. (Sometimes, though, reunions can spawn sequels.) Oddly, "in-character" comedy reunions tend to turn serious, if not outright dramatic, while most other shows are not altered.
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8	Reunion shows are usually made to cash in on the nostalgia modern audiences can hold for an older program.
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10	Typically done as a MadeForTVMovie. Not to be confused with TheFilmOfTheSeries. Often accompanied by a {{Documentary}} with the actors out-of-character.
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17	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
18	* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}''
19	** The seventh season, ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime'', brought us a brief meeting of [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Taichi]], [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Daisuke]], [[Anime/DigimonTamers Takato]], [[Anime/DigimonFrontier Takuya]], and [[Anime/DigimonDataSquad Masaru]].
20	*** This is a bit of an odd example, more of a PanderingToTheBase CrossOver, as the "reunion" is a reunion for the fans only. Only [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Taichi]] and [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Daisuke]] ever met each other in canon; the others all exist in their own AlternateUniverse and never met each other to begin with.
21	* Much of the principal cast of ''Manga/RaveMaster'' reprised their roles for the first time in 11 years in an OVA {{Crossover}} with creator Creator/HiroMashima's later work, ''Manga/FairyTail''. Mashima additionally treated the omake on which the OVA was based as a reunion for several characters in and of itself.
22	* While the cast were continually together for yearly video games, 2008's ''Yo! The Return of Son Goku and Friends!'' was the first proper bit of ''Manga/DragonBall'' animation since the series ended in 1997. 2013's ''Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods'' is similar in this regard too, despite having the {{Recut}} ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' as a recent thing. For bonus points, both of the stories are actually reunions for the characters too set between the end of the main story and the DistantFinale.
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26	* ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' occasionally marks notable anniversaries with a story in its comic strip reuniting various characters:
27	** Issue 250's strip, "A Life of Matter and Death", brought back many of the comic's characters in a battle inside the TARDIS's mind.
28	** Issue 282's strip, "Happy Deathday", commemorating the 35th anniversary of ''Series/DoctorWho'', pitted the then-Eight Doctors against a LegionOfDoom of their greatest villains.
29	** Issue 500's strip, "The Stockbridge Showdown", had the Twelfth Doctor team up with most of the living DWM comic companions to fight one of the strip's big villains.
30	* [[ComicBook/DoctorWhoIDW IDW's]] ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTheForgotten'' was a Tenth Doctor miniseries commemorating the 45th anniversary of ''Doctor Who'', climaxing with all the Doctors facing off against the villain.
31	* [[ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan Titan's Doctor Who comics]] have sometimes had their big yearly event be a Doctor teamup:
32	** Their first, ''[[ComicBook/DoctorWhoFourDoctors Four Doctors]]'', had the revival series Doctors (War to Twelve) all make an appearance in some form.
33	** Their third, ''[[ComicBook/DoctorWhoTheLostDimension The Lost Dimension]]'', had all the Doctors make an appearance in some capacity, plus a few former guest stars.
34	* The ''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn Road Trip Special'' featured Harley with Poison Ivy and Catwoman, reuniting the main cast of the 2009-11 ''ComicBook/GothamCitySirens'' series.
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38	* The cast of ''{{Film/Matilda}}'' reenacted the film's chocolate cake, pigtail, and floating chalk scenes at a 2013 reunion party, which can be seen on the film's Blu-ray release that same year.
39	* The 1937 ''[[Film/TheLittleRascals Our Gang]]'' short "Reunion in Rhythm", which takes place at a school reunion, features cameos from four original cast members from the silent era alongside their successors.
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43	* One of the earlier examples of this would be ''Series/FatherKnowsBest'', which had a pair of reunion movies in 1977.
44	* Robert Young's other series, ''Series/MarcusWelbyMD'', also had two reunion movies, in 1984 and 1988.
45	* ''Series/GilligansIsland'' had three of these in the late '70s and early '80s (''Rescue from Gilligan's Island'', ''The Castaways on Gilligan's Island'' and ''The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island'', respectively). The ratings success of the first one led to talk of a revival series, but Sherwood Schwartz (concerned with the aging cast doing weekly comedic stunts) preferred two additional movies instead.
46	** To a lesser extent, the short-lived cartoon series ''The New Adventures of Gilligan'' and ''Gilligan's Planet'' also reunited all but one of the original cast as their characters.
47	** Another case was an episode of the forgotten 90's show ''Meego''[[note]]one of the byproducts of ''CBS Block Party'', the channel's failed rival block to ABC's ''Creator/{{TGIF}}''; the {{channel hop}}s of ''Series/FamilyMatters'' and ''Series/StepByStep'' for their final seasons were also for this purpose[[/note]], where many of the surviving ''Gilligan'' cast appeared in character. It never aired in the US, but on Creator/{{Sky}} 1 in the UK.
48	* ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'' and ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'' have both had reunion TV movies since 2000. The former was a two-hour TV-Movie titled ''Mary & Rhoda'' and only featuring those characters. The latter was instead a single half-hour episode, but it reunited the surviving cast and featured clips of those that had passed on.
49	* ''Series/TheBobNewhartShow 19th Anniversary Special'' (1991) had Bob discussing [[{{Series/Newhart}} his crazy dream about being a Vermont innkeeper]] with his friends and patients. To which Howard responds about [[Series/IDreamOfJeannie dreaming of being an astronaut down in Florida]].
50	* ''Series/HappyDays'' has had two so far, one in 1992 and one in 2005. Both were clip/interview specials.
51	** SpinOff ''Series/LaverneAndShirley'' has also had two, in 1995 and 2002. Again, both were clip/interview specials, although the latter also featured an in-character skit.
52	* A Reunion Show for ''Series/{{Dallas}}'' reached the airwaves in October of 2004.
53	** Prior to that, it had two in-universe reunion TV movies: ''J.R. Returns'' in 1996 and ''War of the Ewings'' in 1998.
54	* February 2005 saw a Reunion Show for ''Series/{{One Day at a Time\|1975}}''.
55	* ''Series/GetSmart'' did a reunion movie, ''Get Smart Again'', that was seemingly unconnected to the short-lived sequel series or the theatrical sequel movie ''The Nude Bomb''.
56	* ''Series/TheManyLovesOfDobieGillis'' did a reunion show with the exceedingly strange title, "Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis".
57	* ''Series/TheMonkees'' had ''Hey, Hey, It’s the Monkees'' in 1997, which featured all four members in their wacky, not-yet-famous TV personas 30 years later, and was written and directed by Creator/MichaelNesmith. It was humorous in that their TV show [[MediumAwareness which they “knew” they were on]], had continued running, though not been aired, after all these years. The “plot” centered around finding a decent… well, “plot” to finish off the rest of the production money for the show (whilst preparing for a gig at “The Most Prestigious Country Club In the World”).
58	* ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'' reunion movie revolved around the wedding of Enos and Daisy Duke. A second reunion movie, ''Hazzard in Hollywood'', came in 2000.
59	* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'':
60	** Almost every season from ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' onward will have at least one reunion show where the team from the previous series teamed up with that of the current one to fight a threat from their equally-EnemyMine minded villains.
61	** The most extreme case of this, however, was the ten-year MilestoneCelebration ''Forever Red'', where all the Red Rangers from all seasons prior to ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'' teamed up to stop TheRemnant of [[Series/PowerRangersZeo the Machine Empire]] from rebuilding [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Serpentera]].
62	** The fifteenth anniversary episode ''Once a Ranger'' (in ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'') features one Ranger from each of [[Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm the]] [[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder past]] [[Series/PowerRangersSPD four]] [[Series/PowerRangersMysticForce seasons]], led by ''[[Creator/JohnnyYongBosch one]]'' from the '''[[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers second]]''' season, returned to pinch-hit for the temporarily-depowered regulars.
63	** The show's 20th anniversary, ''[[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce Super Megaforce]]'', brought back various veteran Rangers played by Jason David Frank, Sean Cw Johnson, Alison [=MacInnis=], Jason Faunt, Danny Slavin, Patricia Ja Lee - plus most of the rangers of ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai''.
64	* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'':
65	** ''Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger'' and ''Series/JAKQDengekitai'' (the first two series) had a team-up movie, but annual team-ups wouldn't become a tradition until ''Series/ChourikiSentaiOhranger''; like ''Forever Red'', they had their own multi-season team-ups in the wake of ''Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger'' and ''Series/GoGoSentaiBoukenger'' (at the expense of the single-season team-up; no ''Gaoranger vs. [[Series/MiraiSentaiTimeranger Timeranger]]'' or ''Boukenger vs. [[Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger Magiranger]]'' exist. In fact, the ''Gaoranger'' team-up screwed any major ''Timeranger'' presence over!).
66	** ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' is to ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' as ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'' is to ''Kamen Rider''. For the thirty-fifth anniversary, the most notable ability of the Gokaigers is to transform into Rangers of previous years. However really ticking this box is the fact that they got at least one Ranger cameo from each of the 34 past seasons.
67	** In a rare case of a specific team coming back entirely on their own, ''Series/NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger'' had a "Ten Years Later" V-Cinema special in 2013. In 2015, ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' got the same treatment, while in 2018, ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'' got one as well, in 2021 ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' also got one. 2023 would see the cast of ''Hurricaneger'' return again for a 20th anniversary special, followed by one for ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'' in 2024.
68	** Sentai teamups are usually standalone movies, separate from the televised run. However, to celebrate the franchise's 2,000th episode (and 40th installment overall), there was a two-episode teamup between the Zyuohger and the Gokaiger, the previous milestone team.
69	* ''Franchise/KamenRider'' did teamups between the present and past seasons for a good 11 years in the Showa era shows, each one having a progressively larger cast. ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'' had a DirectToVideo team-up between its heroes and predecessor ''Series/KamenRiderAgito'', even if Agito was a FakeShemp (the thing turned out to be AllJustADream anyways). ''Series/KamenRiderDenO & [[Series/KamenRiderKiva Kiva]]: Climax Deka'' is probably the most in the spirit of the trope, featuring the full casts of both shows. The ''Film/KamenRiderZX'' TV special brought together all of the previous Rider characters, and the first ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'' movie does the same. In Decade, the original cast of a Rider show is replaced (handwaved by Decade being an AlternateUniverse traveler), but most of ''Den-O'' and ''Series/KamenRiderHibiki''[='=]s casts as well as key characters from ''Kiva'', plus those summoned by Narutaki and Kivara ([[Series/KamenRiderKabuto the Hoppers]], [[Series/KamenRider555 Kaixa]], and [[Series/KamenRiderRyuki Ohja]]) are reprisals.
70	** The '''eighth''' movie in the ''Den-O'' series is [[MilestoneCelebration the movie of the franchise's 40th year]] and thus brings all main Riders up to Series/KamenRiderOOO, with particular focus on OOO, Den-O, and [[Series/KamenRider the Double Riders]].
71	** Like ''Super Sentai'''s "Vs." series, Kamen Rider recently started a series of movies of this nature, collectively known as ''Movie Wars''.
72	** ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'' is notably the first Franchise/KamenRider series getting the "Ten Years Later" treatment in 2022.
73	** ''Series/KamenRiderZiO'', the twentieth and final Heisei series, follows a format closer to ''Gokaiger'' above where the main character can gain the power of his predecessors by earning their approval (or that of their trusted allies). Toei was able to bring back actors from all the past Heisei series except ''[[Series/KamenRiderKuuga Kuuga]]'', including about half of the protagonists, to reprise their roles.
74	* ''{{Series/Cheers}}'' had its reunion show in the form of one episode of its [[SpinOff spin-off]] ''{{Series/Frasier}}''.
75	* ''The Return of Series/TheManFromUNCLE: The Fifteen Years Later Affair''
76	* ''Series/GreenAcres'' had a reunion show in 1990 called "Return to Green Acres", which showed Oliver and Lisa still living on the farm. Most of the original cast was in it, but it was way too sappy and serious, especially when contrasted with the absurdist humor of the original series.
77	* ''Series/TheLoveBoat: A Valentine Voyage'' came several years after the show's end.
78	* ''Film/ReturnToMayberry'' (1986) successfully reunited almost the entire cast and crew of ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow''.
79	* Happens at the end of pretty much all [[RealityShow reality shows]], especially those airing on Creator/VH1.
80	* {{Christmas Episode}}s of ''Series/BluePeter'', in which the presenters do a {{Panto}} or {{Musical}} of some sort, often rope in previous presenters to round out the cast.
81	* ''Series/TheWildWildWest'' did two: ''The Wild Wild West Revisited'' and ''More Wild Wild West''.
82	* ''Series/UltramanMebius'' and its tie-in movie ''Ultraman Mebius & the Ultra Brothers'' is this for the ''Franchise/UltraSeries''. And an example within an example which involves the class from ''Series/UltramanEighty'' getting back together before their old school is closed down.
83	* ''{{Series/Seinfeld}}'' didn't have a real reunion show; however, in the series ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'', where co-creator Creator/LarryDavid plays a fictionalized version of himself, there was a storyline in which he reunited the cast (who played themselves, and themselves playing the ''Seinfeld'' characters) for a reunion show.
84	** An episode of ''WebVideo/ComediansInCarsGettingCoffee'' featured George Costanza as Jerry's guest for the episode, with a cameo appearance from Newman. Which is weird, because in another episode, [[CelebrityParadox he had on an out-of-character Michael Richards]].
85	* ''Series/GrowingPains'' had two (that [[SeriesContinuityError don't quite match up]]).
86	* ''Series/EightIsEnough'' had two reunion movies in 1987 and 1989.
87	* ''Return of Series/TheModSquad'' (1979)
88	* ''Back to Series/TheStreetsOfSanFrancisco'' (1992)
89	* ''Series/TheJimHensonHour'' had a special reunion episode with the cast of Series/SesameStreet as they celebrate the show's 20th anniversary. The episode is titled ''Sesame Street: 20 Years, And Still Counting.''
90	* ''Series/TheRockfordFiles'' had several reunion movies in the '90s.
91	* ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie: 15 Years Later'' (1985) had all the original cast save Creator/LarryHagman, who couldn't participate due to his role on ''Series/{{Dallas}}''; instead, Creator/WayneRogers served as [[TheOtherDarrin The Other Tony]]. A second reunion movie, ''I Still Dream of Jeannie'' (1991), kept Tony [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen offscreen]].
92	* ''Series/{{Friends}}'' has had numerous campaigns for a reunion WhereAreTheyNow episode for the characters. The writers have had to put down several rumours and it's the number one question the actors face. Creator/MatthewPerry for his part refuses to take part a reunion as it is a personal nightmare of his.
93	** ''Friends'' ended up having a cast reunion in 2021 (when the show moved from Creator/{{Netflix}} to Creator/{{HBO Max}}) in which the original cast revisited the set, had a joint interview with Creator/{{James Corden}}, and reminisced about the show. The reunion also featured interviews with co-creators Marta Kaufmann and David Crane, and executive producer Kevin Bright.
94	* ''Series/TheFactsOfLife''
95	* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'''s ChristmasSpecial was made 18 months after the show ended. It may not seem like a long time, but because the show dealt with teenagers, it was obvious that they were too old for the show, and Josh's actor is FormerlyFat. Making it worse was that the movie was only supposed to take place a few weeks after the GrandFinale.
96	* ''{{Series/Mash}}'' had a 20th anniversary special in which the show's producers and surviving cast members gathered to reminisce.
97	* ''Series/AlloAllo'' did a reunion show in 2007 called ''The Return of 'Allo 'Allo!''.
98	* The 1957-66 ''Franchise/PerryMason'' television series had one, in the form of ''Perry Mason Returns'' (1985), featuring returning leads Creator/RaymondBurr and Barbara Hale. And another, in the form of ''Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun'' (1986). And another, in the form of ''Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star'' (1986)... and a staggering '''27''' more {{Made For TV Movie}}s made afterwards until 1995 (with Burr dying in 1993 and paving the way for several {{Suspiciously Similar Substitute}}s for the last four, with the umbrella title rechristened ''A Perry Mason Mystery'').
99	* Raymond Burr's ''other'' well-known series, ''Series/{{Ironside 1967}}'', had one shortly before Burr's death in 1993.
100	* ''Series/TheDailyShow'' had a [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-may-14-2002/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-reunion-show reunion show]] in 2002...''reflecting on the first 10 minutes of the episode''.
101	* ''Series/{{Endurance}}'': A reunion special was held following the first endurance where the 7 teams from that season got to discuss their time on the show as well as present some clips that weren't shown during the season. They also got to vote for a guy and girl to come back as a team on endurance 2.
102	* ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' for the cast of the original Trek and arguably a re-re-union for the next five Trek movies.
103	* ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'' and ''Series/TheBionicWoman'' had three reunion movies in the late '80s and early '90s; ''Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman'', ''Bionic Showdown'' (which included some "Next Generation" bionic operatives) and ''Bionic Ever After'', (in which Steve Austin and Jamie Sommers finally got married).
104	* The XYZ Affair's video for the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IerHOrDQKW0 "All My Friends"]] is an odd example, as it serves as a reunion more of a [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} channel's]] [[TheNineties era]] than of a single show. Mike Maronna ([[Series/TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete Big Pete]]), Jason Zimbler ([[Series/ClarissaExplainsItAll Ferguson]]) and Danny Cooksey ([[Series/SaluteYourShorts Budnick]]) team up with the XYZ Affair against [[Series/DoubleDare1986 Marc Summers]], who here plays the band's irritated neighbor. Zimbler hits it off with a girl wearing a shirt reading "Ferguson is my Darling" and Summers ends the video by throwing green slime at everyone.
105	* In another Nickelodeon example, [[Series/DoubleDare1986 Marc Summers and John Harvey]] reunited on an episode of NBC Philadelphia's ''The 10! Show'' in late 2010, and the two participated in a ''Series/{{Double Dare\|1986}}''-esque challenge. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqdLjFB3xLM The interview portion is here,]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDZBl6sKvn0 the challenge portion is here.]]
106	* ''Series/TheOprahWinfreyShow'' had a few of these in its final season, including one with Oprah's former competitors, Ricki Lake, Donahue, and Sally Jessy Raphael. She also reunited with Iyanla Vanzant, who she had a falling out with after she refused to do a SpinOff show with Oprah and went to another network.
107	* "A Reunion ...", the second-season premiere of ''Series/DontTrustTheBInApartment23'', deconstructed this trope. James van der Beek, [[AdamWesting who plays himself as a regular]], regularly turns down his ''Series/DawsonsCreek'' castmates' letters requesting a reunion. June, a fan when she was a teen, tries to suggest that he do it, and succeeds ... only for Chloe to let her know that she writes the letters, so James will feel powerful by rejecting them and thus she can get him to grant any wish of hers. June is undeterred, so Chloe drugs her and then spends six hours showing him [=DVDs=] of bad reunion shows from other shows (like ''Series/TheFactsOfLife Goes to Paris'') and reveals she's been the one writing the letters. James later reconsiders, but finds out from Busy Phillips that his former castmates all still hate him for not paying his share for a final gift to the crew, and won't say no outright but won't do it, either. Undeterred, he corners [[Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle Frankie Muniz]] in the supermarket to pitch an idea for a combined reunion show, but Chloe again foils that. At the end, [[Series/SavedByTheBell Mark-Paul Gosselaar]] appears to persuade James to live in the present, and they have a VikingFuneral for ''Dawson's Creek'' in the Central Park lake.
108	* ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' had ''The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex'' in 2013. A magic spell goes awry, [[LiteralSplitPersonality splitting Alex into a good and bad Alex]] and leading the family to try and stop the bad clone from [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the world]].
109	* ''Series/SimonAndSimon'': They reunited in the 1995's TV movie ''Simon & Simon: In Trouble Again''.
110	* ''The Return of Frank Cannon'' (1980) was a reunion movie in the loosest sense of the word, as the only member of the show's cast was Creator/WilliamConrad (''{{Series/Cannon}}''). Insert fat joke here.
111	* ''Norman Stanley Fletcher: Life Beyond the Box'' brought back most of the cast of ''Series/{{Porridge}}'' and ''Going Straight'', in a retrospective of Fletch's life before and after the series.
112	* ''Series/ISpy'' got two. One was a standard made-for-TV movie titled ''I Spy Returns'' that featured Robert Culp and Creator/BillCosby reprising their TV roles in a backdoor pilot for a "next generation" spin-off that never sold. And in 1999, Culp and Cosby reunited on Cosby's sitcom - conveniently titled ''Cosby'' - for an AllJustADream episode in which Cosby's sitcom character, after watching an episode of ''I Spy'' on TV, dreams that he is Alexander Scott, sharing an adventure with Kelly Robinson (Culp).
113	* ''Series/DoctorWho'' is unique among all TV series as its reunion episodes feature the different actors who have played ''the same character''. To date there have been:
114	** "The Three Doctors" (1972-73; featuring the First, Second and Third Doctors, done to celebrate the show's 10th anniversary)
115	** "The Five Doctors" (1983; featuring the first five Doctors, plus a number of former co-stars, done to celebrate the show's 20th anniversary)
116	** "The Two Doctors" (1985, featuring the Second Doctor and popular 1960s companion character Jamie [=McCrimmon=] joining the incumbent Sixth Doctor and Peri; not done with any specific celebration in mind, the production team just wanted the chance to work with Patrick Troughton again.)
117	** "Dimensions in Time" (1993, a mini-special shown as an item during ''Series/ChildrenInNeed'' that featured the Third to Seventh Doctors and various former companions)
118	** "Time Crash" (2007 comedy minisode featuring the Fifth and Tenth Doctors)
119	** "The Day of the Doctor" (2013, featuring the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors, plus the recently introduced War Doctor, for the 50th anniversary)
120	** This list does not count additional episodes such as "Mawdryn Undead" (1983) and "School Reunion" (2006) which featured the return of individual cast members from the show's past.
121	** "Twice Upon a Time" (2017) is an odd case. While it does feature the First Doctor, his original actor William Hartnell had long since passed away. However, his replacement David Bradley had previously played Hartnell himself in ''Film/AnAdventureInSpaceAndTime'', a docudrama about the earliest days of the series.
122	** ''Doctor Who: Lockdown!'' was a series of web video one-off minisodes made during the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic in early 2020, some of which featured former series actors returning via ConsoleCameo to reprise their roles:
123	*** Most notable of these was "Farewell, Sarah Jane", which served as a reunion special for the spinoff ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' after star Elisabeth Sladen's passing cancelled it prematurely back in 2012. Main characters Luke, Clyde, and Rani returned all grown up, along with Jo Grant, Ace, and Rani's mother Gita.
124	*** "The Best of Days" reunited companions Bill Potts and Nardole from Series 10, three years after their character last appeared.
125	*** "The Descendants of Pompeii" is an odd case, as it reunited guest cast members from a single episode -- "The Fires of Pompeii" -- as the modern descendants/reincarnations of their Ancient Roman characters from that episode.
126	* ''Series/{{Cracker}}'' had the 2006 special ''A New Terror'', though only a few members of the original cast returned.
127	* ''Series/TheTonightShow with Jimmy Fallon'' has had fun with getting actors from specific shows to reprise their characters in an obviously non-canon skit. One of his first was getting Danny Tanner, Jesse Katsopolis and Joey Gladstone (Creator/BobSaget, John Stamos, & Dave Coulier respectively) from ''Series/FullHouse'' to comfort him about the opportunity to host the Tonight Show, complete with Full House's trademark SentimentalMusicCue. Another involved getting most of the cast of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' to lampoon all the memorable bits from that show.
128	* John Wesley Shipp, Vito D'Ambrosio and Creator/MarkHamill, all alumni from ''Series/TheFlash1990'', reunite for the "Tricksters" episode of ''Series/TheFlash2014''. While Shipp is already a semi-regular in the latter show (he plays Barry's father) this episode is a bit of ADayInTheLimelight for him.
129	** Although this is a zig-zag since the actors were not playing the characters from the 1990 series but alternate universe doppelgangers. The 1990 series was integrated into Arrowverse continuity via imagery appearing in a trans-dimensional episode. During the Elseworlds crossover the events of the 1990 series were canonically established to have taken place on Earth-90.
130	* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls: Their Greatest Moments'' aired on Lifetime in 2003 and featured three of the four main cast (Bea Arthur, Betty White and Rue [=McClanahan=]; Estelle Getty was too ill to participate).
131	* ''Series/{{The Odd Couple\|1970}}: Together Again'' (1993) reunited Creator/JackKlugman (Oscar) and Tony Randall (Felix) from the 1970-75 series. The movie incorporated the throat surgery that caused Klugman to lose much of his voice as a plot point for Oscar. Apart from the two leads, Creator/PennyMarshall (Myrna) and Garry Walberg ("Speed") were the only other actors from the series to appear.
132	* ''Series/MamasFamily'' has had two reunions: one in the early 90's on Creator/VickiLawrence's talk show (in which Lawrence appeared both as herself and in-character as Mama) and another made for the DVD release of the series in 2014.
133	* ''Series/{{Knots Landing}}'' had the reunion miniseries ''Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac'' in 1997.
134	* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' had a reunion special in 2020 as a charity event for the COVID-19 pandemic.
135	* ''Series/RedDwarf'' got a three-part one titled ''[[Recap/RedDwarfBackToEarth Back to Earth]]'' that revolved around the crew hallucinating that they had arrived on earth to find out that [[RefugeeFromTVLand they're fictional characters on a television show entitled]] ''[[RefugeeFromTVLand Red Dwarf]]''. Notable in that it apparently takes place after a [[{{Uninstallment}} fictional]] Series IX and Series X, which is used as an excuse to perform a SnapBack and wipe away various unpopular status quo changes and Series VIII's {{Cliffhanger}} ending without an actual explanation. Proved to be enough of a ratings success to warrant the series getting {{Uncancelled}}.
136	** ''Back to Earth'' was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally planned]] to be paired with another reunion special titled ''Red Dwarf Unplugged'' that would have had the actors performing various classic scenes in front of a studio audience. It was eventually decided that it just wasn't working, resulting in ''Back to Earth'' being stretched into a three-parter.
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141	* ''Magazine/{{Spirou}}'' : Issue #3839 from November 9th, 2011 was comprised almost exclusively of one-shot stories from long-discontinued series, all written and drawn by their original authors and artists. Those included ''Docteur Poche'' (which had its last original story published in the magazine in 1997 and its last volume released in 2000), ''L'Élan'' (last published in 1987[[note]]aside from a single strip published in a special issue in 2007[[/note]]), ''Le Gang Mazda'' (last published in 1996), ''Les Bogros'' (last published in 1989), ''Pauvre Lampil'' (last volume in 1995 and last published in 2006), ''Les Grandes Amours Contrariées'' (last published in 1981), ''Tom Carbone'' (last published in 1997[[note]]aside from a total of seven pages published in 2006, 2010 and 2011[[/note]]), ''Les Crannibales'' (last published in 2005), ''Un Papier de Broussaille'' (last published in 2003[[note]]aside from a single page published in a special non-numbered issue in 2008[[/note]]), ''Bidouille et Violette'' (last published in 1985[[note]]aside from a single one-shot story published in 2008[[/note]]), ''Puddingham Palace'' (last published in 2004), ''Les Indésirables'' (last published in 1982), ''Le Boss'' (last published in 2005 and last volume in 2007), and ''Germain et Nous'' (last published in 1992).
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144	[[folder:Radio]]
145	* ''Radio/TheGoonShow'' ended in 1960. ''The Last Goon Show of All'' was broadcast in 1972. The Goons got together one last time to record two comic songs in 1978.
146	* ''Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain'' ran sporadically from 1964 to 1973. A 25th Anniversary reunion special was broadcast in 1989.
147	* ''[[Series/{{KYTV}} Radio Active]]'' has had two since ending in 1987. The first, in 2002, was an "in character" reunion looking at what had happened to the eponymous station in the 25 years since the last series. The second, in 2016, was essentially a new recording of one of the old episodes, slightly rewritten to work around the absence of Geoffrey Perkins, who died in 2008.
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150	[[folder:Theatre]]
151	* The 1981 musical ''Bring Back Birdie'' brought back the characters of ''Theatre/ByeByeBirdie'' two decades later. Chita Rivera was the only original cast member to reprise her role, though the original librettist and songwriters signed on.
152	* The 1949 musical version of ''Theatre/GentlemenPreferBlondes'' was brought back 25 years later as ''Lorelei: Gentlemen Still Prefer Blondes'', with original star Carol Channing playing an older, widowed Lorelei Lee.
153	* When LongRunner musicals celebrate a milestone, you can expect at least one of these. The most notable one in recent memory would be the ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables:_The_Dream_Cast_in_Concert 10th]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_in_Concert:_The_25th_Anniversary 25th]] anniversary concerts. The former brought back performers from the London, Broadway and Australia productions as well as an encore featuring seventeen actors who played Valjean in international productions, and the latter reuniting the entire 1985 cast (save for David Burt) for the finale.
154	* The final show of ''Theatre/{{Rent}}''[='=]s original run featured the then-current cast performing "Seasons of Love" with the original cast as the encore.
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157	[[folder:Video Games]]
158	* ''VideoGame/DiceyDungeons'': The ''Reunion'' DLC is a PlayableEpilogue where the six contestants return to Lady Luck's dungeon since they've escaped the dungeon 2 1/2 years ago. Since then, Thief has a lucrative career as Warrior's talent agent, Warrior is promoting his new workout manual[[note]]he is barely literate[[/note]], Witch got the millions of social media followers she wanted (thus [[BrokenAesop negating]] the BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor moral), Inventor is making a miniature model of the dungeon, Robot has recently learned German and is using that to learn Korean, and Jester refuses to speak to Lady Luck as per the terms laid on the contract.
159	* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' was a Reunion Game for the voice casts of several Disney classics through the last century; most of the original cast returned (including people such as Creator/JamesWoods as Hades, and Creator/BrianBlessed as Clayton as well as the original voice of Alice and Wendy a good 50 years after the initial films came out). Some of the cast of ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' returned, as did most of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' (save Creator/RobinWilliams, who was already recast since the TV series in the 90's), ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid\|1989}}'' (save Samuel E. Wright), ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' (save Creator/JerryOrbach who had since passed away). The most no-shows were ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King\|1994}}'' with only Ernie Sabella as Pumbaa and Cheech Marin as Banzai, and ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' where the entire cast was shooting the sequels and couldn't make it (although Creator/JohnnyDepp supposedly really wanted to do it). Geoffrey Rush did come back to voice Barbossa, but only in Australian copies.
160	* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', depending on game choices made, can have this feel as familiar faces from the first two games are encountered, especially in the light-hearted "Citadel" DLC.
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163	[[folder:Web Videos]]
164	* This genre has started to crop up online, particularly ones that feature "classic" (1950-89) era actors who are either unwilling or unable or who are too elderly and frail to travel to a studio but can contribute as their old tv/film characters through the InUniverse conceit of a online video meeting with the other characters.
165	* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': While the core cast is generally the same, each campaign has different characters, so any one-off reunion specials post-campaign ending are treated as such by the characters, if not by the actors:
166	** "The Search for Grog", "The Search for Bob", and "Dalen's Closet" were all one-shots that served as reunion specials for [[WebVideo/CriticalRoleCampaignOne Vox Machina]] ([[spoiler: sans the deceased Vax in all but one case]]).
167	** "Exandria Unlimited: Kymal" reunited four of the six members of the Crowns Keepers from the first iteration of "Exandria Unlimited" (since Orym and Fearne were busy being characters in the main Bells Hell campaign).
168	** In WebVideo/CriticalRoleCampaignThree, [[spoiler: older versions of Keyleth, Percy, Vex, Pike, and Trinket from Vox Machina all play key roles in "A Desperate Call" and "A Dark Balance", only now portrayed as [=NPCs=] by Matthew Mercer. Still, the cast views it as a reunion of sorts, even while playing entirely different characters]].
169	** "The Mighty Nein Reunited" was a two-parter set six months after the end of [[WebVideo/CriticalRoleCampaignTwo Campaign 2]] (but really taking place over two years later) that saw most of the Mighty Nein come back together [[spoiler: to tie up the dangling plot thread of U'katoa.]]
170	* ''WebVideo/SMPLive'' came back for one day in 2020 as part of Michaelmcchill's Raising the Bar charity event.
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173	[[folder:Western Animation]]
174	* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures''' Spring Break Special, and later, Night Ghoulery.
175	* One could say ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''[='=] 2009 special, ''Powerpuff Girls Rule'', is a reunion of sorts as it includes virtually every main villain within the show and as well as brings back all the [=VAs=] who worked on the series.
176	** This was also the case with the 2014 special ''Dance Pantsed''.
177	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' has the crossover special with ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' in 2005. By then, the show was over, and the cast was back to reprise their roles (except T.J., who had to be done by the same kid who did him in the DTV movies).
178	* Parodied on ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' when Brain tries to stage a fake one in an attempt to TakeOverTheWorld.
179	* Similar to ''Kingdom Hearts'' above, ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' brought back many voice actors from Disney's animated features (save for those who were dead or couldn't make it).
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