* Warp drive of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fame already occurs in Creator/FredricBrown's stories from the 1940s (the warp/fabric image of space-time probably dates back even earlier, from the first efforts to explain relativity to people who don't know about tensors).
* Dr. [=McCoy=]'s famous line [[ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder "I'm a doctor, not a _____!"]] from ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' actually originates in the 1933 film ''Film/TheKennelMurderCase'', where a coroner insists repeatedly "I'm a doctor, not a ____!" (reporter, detective, etc.).
* The Borg's famous line "Resistance is futile" in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' was used earlier in ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''Series/LostInSpace'', and probably other sci-fi. (The variant "Resistance is useless" was used by the Vogon guard in ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.)
** The ''Doctor Who'' comparison is even more apt as the Borg's philosophy and methodology is identical to that of the Cybermen, introduced in ''Doctor Who'' more than 20 years before the Borg first appeared on TV.
* In the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise, the [[StrangeSalute Vulcan salute]], and its accompanying farewells, "Peace and long life" and "Live long and prosper", are both derived from Jewish benediction services. (This was confirmed by Leonard Nimoy when he hosted a retrospective on Star Trek in the early 1980s.)
** (Cf. Deuteronomy 5:32-33)
* Think ''Star Trek'' was the first show to be saved by a [[http://fanlore.org/wiki/History_of_Star_Trek_Fan_Campaigns massive letter campaign]] from its fans, engineered by its executive producer? Beginning in 1949, ''Mama'' (based on the popular novel ''Mama's Bank Account'' and the film ''Film/IRememberMama'') was a Friday night tradition for millions of families for six years. It was cancelled in 1955 because the sponsor, Maxwell House, didn't think enough viewers were buying their coffee. Producer Carol Irwin urged viewers to write letters and postcards to "save ''Mama''", and save it they did, for one more season (in a "death slot" of 5 p.m. Sundays), allowing 26 episodes to be [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikrM5zjA2d8 filmed and preserved]].
* One episode of ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'' had as its plot the possibility of the entire premise of the show being an illusion, causing complaints from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' fans that it was stealing from the latter's episode "Normal Again". Or from ''Series/RedDwarf''[==]'s "Back To Reality", or from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''[==]'s "Frame of Mind". Or ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}''. As it happens, the plot (CuckooNest) is actually among TheOldestOnesInTheBook, with classic examples such as Ambrose Bierce's 1890 story "Literature/AnOccurrenceAtOwlCreekBridge", or Chuang Tzu's tale of the man who dreamed he was a butterfly.
* ''Series/{{Dickensian}}'': This isn't the first contemporary Creator/CharlesDickens crossover work of fiction where Inspector Bucket investigates the death of one of the partners of Scrooge and Marley. The 2007 Magazine/ElleryQueensMysteryMagazine story "Humbug" (which is also collected in ''Literature/NaughtyNineTalesOfChristmasCrime''), features Scrooge dying after it turns out that the events of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' were all just a dream after he was secretly drugged with opium, and Bucket is assigned to find out who is responsible.
* The concept of a virtual reality called "The Matrix" was used earlier in ''Series/DoctorWho'' in the 1976 serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin The Deadly Assassin]]", twenty three years before its better-known movie namesake. The concept was first used in ''Simulacron 3'', a novel by Daniel F. Galouye, written in 1964.
** And even that is just a high-tech version of [[OlderThanFeudalism Plato's allegory of the cave.]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' gets this a ''lot'':
** In-fandom, when new series fans gush over the genius of some ideas and concepts without realising many of then existed in the old series. So horror elements written by Creator/RobertHolmes (half of which he borrowed from old horror movies anyway) and later reused by Creator/RussellTDavies or Creator/StevenMoffat are seen as their "genius" -- even if the writers have themselves, and to their credit, frequently acknowledged that some of these elements are tributes to the writers whose stories they grew up with (there are very few cases of Davies or Moffat blatantly taking credit for major characters or concepts that originated in the original series; media that refers to Davies as the "creator" of ''Doctor Who'' are simply clueless). Of course, the most extreme example of this is when new series fans preface their fanfics with "Doctor Who belongs to Russell T Davies and/or Steven Moffat"...
** The inverse is also true; if you want to base your criticism of some plot point on the claim that nothing like it would ever have happened in the original series, you'd better make ''damn'' sure it didn't. It's worse than that, for some fans of the new series. Upon being informed that there was a show prior to 2005, they will balk and call you a liar, and dismiss the evidence as being made up.
** Or, alternately, they will actually stick to the opinion held by some diehard fans of the classic series that the 1963-89 and 2005-present series are completely different shows, even though rock-solid connections were established within the first few weeks of the revival.
** The reintroduction of the Cybermen in the new ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "Rise of the Cybermen" prompted some claims that the monsters were a rip-off of ''Franchise/StarTrek'''s Borg -- in fact, ''Series/DoctorWho'' fans had been making exactly the opposite claim ever since the Borg were first introduced more than 20 years after the Cybermen first appeared in the 1966 story "The Tenth Planet".
--->''Doctor Who'': "You belong to us. You will be like us."
--->''Star Trek'': "You will become like us. You will service us."
--->''Doctor Who'': "Resistance is Useless" (September 1967)
--->''Star Trek'': "Resistance is futile."
** The idea of the Doctor's history being changed leading to a chaotic world is key to both "Turn Left" and "The Name of the Doctor". Sounds like a great and original idea? Actually it was used in the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic "Time and Time Again", made to celebrate the 30th anniversary in 1993. Here the Black Guardian prevents the Doctor from leaving Gallifrey, leading to various creatures fighting over Earth. A similar concept was broached for the aborted 30th anniversary TV special ''The Dark Dimension'', in which the Fourth Doctor didn't regenerate at the end of "Logopolis", and ''Three'' having his regeneration altered was a major plot point in a StoryArc of the Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures novels.
*** "The Name of the Doctor" gets a lot of this. It also takes elements from the ExpandedUniverse novels ''Timewyrm: Revelation'' and ''The Room with No Doors'' (Virgin New Adventures) and ''Alien Bodies'' and ''Unnatural History'' (Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures). In fact, ''Timewyrm: Revelation'' has inspired a lot of other stories.
** The episode "Dalek" was widely credited with making the Daleks scary again after a fairly lengthy period of having undergone VillainDecay; in particular, it demonstrated that the Daleks could actually fly, in reaction to the standard joke of the best way of defeating Daleks being to climb a flight of stairs. In fact, several of the elements that "Dalek" apparently "introduced" to the Daleks originated in the 1988 serial "Remembrance of the Daleks". And the [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/remembrancedaleks/detail.shtml Doctor Who Website page]] for "Remembrance of the Daleks" says it is a myth that the Daleks first ''flew'' here. Though they don't mention it there, in the '''second''' Dalek appearance, though this was in a comic, they flew using transpolar discs. Additionally, a sequence in 1985's "Revelation of the Daleks" was intended to show a Dalek levitating, but the execution doesn't make it clear, and 1965's "The Chase" ''implies'' the Daleks have some way of getting up stairs when they are seen on both levels of the ''Marie Celeste'', although this could just have been a plot hole nobody thought to address.
** A lot of other elements of New Who came from the ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'', such as an artificial duplicate of a companion living for centuries and a time rift in a major city (''Unnatural History'').
*** The murderous snow and killer, razor-toothed snowmen controlled by a collective intelligence from "The Snowmen" are almost identical to murderous snow and killer, razor-toothed snowmen controlled by a collective intelligence battled by Susan Foreman and her school friends in the Telos novella ''Time and Relative'' (the primary difference being that the book's snowmen originate from Earth itself and the story is much BloodierAndGorier).
*** An episode was planned for Series 1 where Rose was going to discover her entire life had been manipulated to make her the perfect companion, a plot point originally done with Sam (as a FixFic on DependingOnTheWriter misery) in the Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures.
*** The GooGooGodlike CreepyChild going around asking people if they are its mother in "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances" is (by Moffat's admission) based on the GooGooGodlike CreepyChild going around asking people if they are its father in the audio "The Holy Terror".
*** The Twelfth Doctor risking all of time and space just to [[spoiler: save a companion from a fixed-point death]] in the Series 9 finale "Hell Bent" is similar to events in the Eighth Doctor's first StoryArc in the Big Finish audio dramas. The key differences are that Eight 1) [[spoiler: saved Charley from her original fate -- which she didn't know -- as soon as he met her, whereas Twelve was insane with grief and rage over losing a long-term companion in Clara]] and 2) [[spoiler: Eight actually managed to get away with this and keep traveling with Charley, though there was a '''huge''' price to pay]].
*** Four New Who stories are adaptations of works from the expanded universe: "Dalek" (the Big Finish audio story "Jubilee"), "Human Nature / The Family of Blood" (the Virgin New Adventures book Human Nature), "The Lodger" (a Tenth Doctor [[Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine DWM comic]] of the same name), and "The Star Beast" (a Fourth Doctor DWM comic of the same name, from back when they were ''Doctor Who Weekly'').
*** Finally, the destruction of Gallifrey and the Time Lords by the Doctor's hand in a war that got waaaaaay out of hand, '''''the''''' biggest event that takes place between the old and new series, first happened midway through the run of the Eighth Doctor Adventures. The difference is that in the novels [[spoiler: it lasted the rest of the run]].
** A ''Doctor Who'' story where HumansAreTheRealMonsters? Sounds like something from New Who? That was done in the first story featuring a meeting between humans and aliens (not counting the main characters), the seventh story "The Sensorites".
** The running gag where the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors constantly get {{Accidental Engagement}}s to various historical figures (Queen Elizabeth I, Marilyn Monroe, etc...) - oversexualisation of a character happy to live with NoHuggingNoKissing for decades, or just an homage to the moment in the original series where the ''First'' Doctor gets accidentally engaged to an Aztec woman? And in "Seasons of Fear" the Eighth Doctor mentions getting accidentally engaged to Edith Swan-Neck.
** On a related note, the Doctor as a sexual being is something that has been around long before the movie. As mentioned above, the First Doctor had a romantic subplot in "The Aztecs" and his first companion was his granddaughter. The Third and Fourth Doctors had quite a bit of ship tease with their companions as well; ironically, behind the scenes, their production teams had started taking the view that sexuality wasn't part of the Doctor's character (e.g. Creator/TerranceDicks erasing Susan from his accounts of the Doctor's origin and suggesting that the Doctor and Susan calling each other granddaughter and grandfather was simply them using titles of affection, director Michael E. Briant handling the Doctor and Leela's relationship to avoid any sign of sexual interest on the Doctor's part, etc.). Creator/JohnNathanTurner made the Doctor's asexuality official when he became producer and became worried that the [[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers British tabloids]] would go wild with tales of "hanky-panky in the TARDIS" either in-universe or in RealLife (mainly due to the fact that for the first time the incumbent Doctor, 29-year-old Creator/PeterDavison, was much closer in age to his female companions), incurring the wrath of the BBC, which by that point was already looking at axing the show altogether after complaints by MoralGuardians due to violence. This snowballed into Five [[NoHuggingNoKissing being informally forbidden to even touch Tegan or Nyssa platonically under most circumstances]][[note]]Come ''The Twin Dilemma'', and many thought the rule should have been extended to Six and Peri[[/note]]. The fandom and the Expanded Universe just ran with it.
*** In fact, the Doctor being romantic with companions was actually not uncommon before Nathan-Turner brought it to a halt . Two had some HoYay with Jamie, Three possibly 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[[note]] Many fans interpret him as being more of a ParentalSubstitute--there's plenty of AlternateCharacterInterpretation available[[/note]]. Four had some ShipTease with Sarah Jane, and later had huge amounts 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 [[StepfordSmiler 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 2011 episode ''The Doctor's Wife'' is widely praised for its innovation in giving the TARDIS a mind and for taking the Doctor wherever he "needs" to be to sort out trouble. In reality, the TARDIS being sentient is one of the show's earliest concepts (''The Edge of Destruction'', its third serial) and the notion that it instinctively "knows" where to take the Doctor has been around at least as long as the 1966 story, ''The Ark''. In this story, the TARDIS returns to the same location 700 years later, and it's implied it chose to return.
** The conceit that the Doctor can be no better or even ''worse'' than his enemies due to various combinations of manipulating others -- even companions -- secrecy, his inconsistent moral code, and [[PragmaticHero pragmatic heroism]] is frequently explored in the new series, but it dates back at least as far as the final two seasons of the original run with the Seventh Doctor, and went on to be explored in much greater depth in the Virgin New Adventures novels that followed.
** A common New Who-only fan objection to the casting of Creator/PeterCapaldi as the Twelfth Doctor was that at 55, 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.
** While Creator/JodieWhittaker's Thirteenth Doctor is the first canonical female Doctor, several non-canon works have had female Doctors. There was a female Third Doctor in the alternate universe audio ''Exile'', and Joanna Lumley played the Doctor (who was also comically the Thirteenth Doctor) in ''The Curse of Fatal Death''. On a related note, some people seem to think Moffat is the first showrunner to consider the possibility of sex changing during regeneration. While he is the first to make it canon, several females have been considered for the role over the years and one of the original creators, Sydney Newman, proposed the idea in the 80's. ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' had a nice bit of gentle ExactWords snark about this trope when it honoured the first female Doctor[[note]]or at least the first they'd found at the time[[/note]] - one Pauline Greaves, who played a cross-cast "Dr Who" in a children's revue in ''1965'' - before going on to welcome Whittaker.
** Many fans [[FandomEnragingMisconception will insist]] that the protagonist's name is "The Doctor," NOT Doctor Who. In fact, ''the first four Doctors'' ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and the Ninth]]) 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!"
** Steven Moffat's tenure was sometimes criticized as building up the Doctor into an InUniverse [[TheDreaded 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!
** Despite the fulminations of some British newspaper columnists, the series openly tackling political issues didn't start with the Thirteenth Doctor's era; it has a long tradition of such stories including, among others, the First Doctor's "Planet of Giants", the Seventh Doctor's "Remembrance of the Daleks" and "The Happiness Patrol", the Ninth Doctor's "Aliens of London"/"World War Three", and a good chunk of the Third Doctor's era. Nor is the general direction of the series' politics, leaning socially liberal or progressive, new to Thirteen's era either.
** Inverted in the case of the sonic screwdriver: It's nowadays one of the most recognizable objects in the show, associated with the Doctor in the same way as the TARDIS, K9, and the Daleks, and everyone knows it's used for pretty much everything the plot needs it to. In fact, it didn't have its first appearance until four years into the show, and did ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, undoing screws using sound waves. It didn't properly become a multipurpose tool until the Third Doctor's era, at which point it got much more usage.
* You still see people claiming that ''Series/WKRPInCincinnati'' was inspired by the 1978 film ''FM''. In fact, the ''WKRP'' pilot was filmed months before ''FM'' was released.
* A beautiful, intellectually unremarkable young woman befriends and comes to rely on a group of brilliant-but-awkward geniuses who work at a university, one of which develops a crush on her. ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', right? Wrong -- it's a movie called ''Film/BallOfFire'', released in 1941 and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck.
* Much has been made of how innovative the format of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' was when it first debuted, but there were two obscure earlier shows that had essentially the same structure: ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_and_Trial Arrest and Trial]]'' (1963-64) and ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_D.A._(1971_TV_series) The D.A.]]'' (1970-71).
** The title ''Law and Order'' had already been used for a 1976 MadeForTVMovie with an AllStarCast (Creator/DarrenMcGavin, Creator/KeirDullea, Creator/SuzannePleshette, Creator/TeriGarr), but it has no connection to the later series. However, check out the plot synopsis: "Three generations of New York City cops are the focal point of this saga revolving primarily around the Deputy Chief of Public Affairs caught up in the politics and intrigue of the department, the discovery that his father had been on the take, and the news that his youngest son is having second thoughts about carrying on the family tradition"--so, basically ''Series/BlueBloods'' in TheSeventies.
* The middle section of ''Series/BabylonFive'' -- the part with Nightwatch and the [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour Ministry of Truth]] -- has been accused of being an AuthorTract against the War on Terror and the presidency of George W. Bush in general, even though the last episode was originally broadcast before the war and the presidency. (However, J Michael Straczynski did not let the parallels go un-noticed in DVD commentaries recorded during the second Bush's presidency.)
* One forum poster on ''Website/TelevisionWithoutPity'' compared the ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' episode "Echoes" to the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "The Naked Now". That show was itself a WholePlotReference to the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Naked Time".
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbFH4PIhxz8 Oh my God]], ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbFH4PIhxz8 they]]'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbFH4PIhxz8 killed Kenny!]] It could just be a coincidence... One of the catchphrases of ''Radio/TheGoonShow'' was "You dirty rotten swine you! You deaded me!".
* In-universe example from ''Series/{{Dexter}}''. When the Bay Harbor Butcher sent a manifesto to a newspaper, Batista noticed a literary reference:
-->'''Batista:''' "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."\\
'''Masuka:''' He's a [[Franchise/StarTrek Trekker]]! That shit's straight from ''Deep Space 9''.\\
'''Batista:''' What? ''Creator/MarkTwain'' said that. It's one of his most famous quotes.\\
'''Other officer:''' Twain was never on ''Deep Space 9''. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint He was on Next Generation.]]\\
'''Batista:''' He didn't say it on ''Star Trek''.\\
'''Other officer:''' Okay, so what's it from?\\
'''Lundy:''' ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court''.
* An in-universe example comes up in ''Series/FullHouse'' when Stephanie watches a performance by a Creator/MarilynMonroe impersonator. Stephanie's assessment: "Boy, does she ever rip Music/{{Madonna}} off!"
* In 1969, a new comedy sketch show debuted that completely tore apart the format of traditional sketch comedy, replacing conventional sketches with sketches that simply stopped mid flow, sketches that ran into each other and a whole lot of silliness. It is Creator/SpikeMilligan's ''Q'' series, which preceded ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' by a few months (to be fair, the Monty Python team were working on their show at roughly the same time). The Pythons acknowledged ''The Goon Show'' as a major influence, so it's unsurprising that ''Flying Circus'' would bear similarities to another work of Milligan's.
** ''Q5'' started just as Python had been given their show but didn't really have a concrete idea of how they were going to accomplish what they wanted with it. It's mentioned in interviews and in Creator/MichaelPalin's diary that there was at least one conversation between them about how they'd seen ''Q5'' and thought, "That's what we were going to do, isn't it?"
** Comedians Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson had been doing this sort of thing for years when they brought it onto the Broadway stage in 1938 with ''{{Theatre/Hellzapoppin}}''. There was also a [[Film/{{Hellzapoppin}} 1941 film version]].
** And even Olsen and Johnson's absurd comedy borrowed a lot from Creator/TheMarxBrothers who pioneered it in 1929. Not to mention Creator/BusterKeaton's often surreal comedy in the 1920s.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eDaSvRO9xA "Four Yorkshiremen"]] did not originate with Monty Python. It was from ''Series/AtLastThe1948Show'', and the original performers were John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and Creator/MartyFeldman. Tim Brooke-Taylor, known from ''Series/TheGoodies'', has said that people refuse to believe he co-wrote the sketch. (He tries to tell that to young people nowadays, and they don't believe him.)
* ''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 ''Franchise/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.
** Although Toei does acknowledge that the Dino Megazord's design (technically the Daizyujin from ''Zyuranger'') was made as a homage to ''Voltron'' (''Go Lion''). [[http://www.toeihero.net/archive/rgl/omoide/main.html Source in Japanese]].
** It's also common for fans of ''Power Rangers'' to later discover ''Voltron'' and mistake it for an animated ripoff of the former.
** Some ''Power Rangers'' fans who later discover Super Sentai accuse the latter of being ripoffs of the former.
** If you saw ''Series/MaskedRider'' and thought it was a ''Power Rangers'' ripoff, you should know that ''Kamen Rider'' is four years older than its sister series, ''Franchise/SuperSentai''. Undoubtedly its debut was met with the usual cynicism: "Oh, so they took ''Kamen Rider,'' made some stupid ripoff where there's [[FiveManBand five of them]] in [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience silly rainbow colors]] so they can [[MerchandiseDriven sell more toys]], then made it LighterAndSofter so kids will watch? {{Toku}} is ruined! ItWillNeverCatchOn!"
** Calling ''any'' HenshinHero related property a ripoff of PR, as if the {{Toku}} genre wasn't, well, a genre (and as if we haven't been hearing the word "ComicBook/{{Shazam}}!" since TheForties). Most notoriously happens to the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'', which is especially stupid because ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'' is the UrExample!
** As for a team of heroes with colour-coded uniforms and code names (red [[TheHero Hero]], blue [[TheLancer Lancer]], and green [[TheSmartGuy Smart Guy]]) who use high-tech weapons and vehicles to battle an invading alien empire? Try ''Series/CaptainScarletAndTheMysterons'' out for size.
** The concept of the SixthRanger was popularized by the Green Ranger Tommy Oliver in the original ''MMPR'' (and his ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' counterpart, Dragon Ranger Burai), but the idea of additional Rangers added to an already established team extends before ''MMPR''[=/=]''Zyuranger'' as far back as Big One, Sokichi Banba, from ''Series/JAKQDengekitai'', the ''second'' Super Sentai series.
** ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'' and ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' are notable for being the first of their respective series to have a female Red Ranger in Kaoru[=/=]Lauren Shiba. This, however, is only true if one looks at the main cast of the ''Power Rangers'' series and limits their scope to PR and ''Super Sentai''. In ''Power Rangers'', the first ever female Red Ranger portrayed is Charlie, from the A-Squad of Space Patrol Delta in ''Series/PowerRangersSPD''. Even Charlie's appearance, however, was predated by ''Series/{{Voicelugger}}'' protagonist Akiko Homura, AKA: Voicelugger Ruby. Before even ''Voicelugger'', however, ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger'' featured the first female character as the leader of a Ranger team: Tsuruhime, AKA Ninja White.
* With the ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' TV adaptation airing in the midst of the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' craze, many believed ''Vampire Diaries'' stole most of its elements from ''Twilight''. The ''Vampire Diaries'' books were published in the nineties. It is not an unreasonable suspicion, however, that the popularity of ''Twilight'' had something to do with the ''Vampire Diaries'' being adapted for TV. The TV show is virtually InNameOnly in relation to the books in any case, and many changes did undeniably make it more similar to Twilight (though those things being unchanged would have encouraged even more comparisons to Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer).
* The Sookie Stackhouse books were written a couple years before the ''Twilight'' novels, and ''Series/TrueBlood'' premiered about two months before the first ''Twilight'' movie. Although it is likely that the popularity of ''Twilight'' did have something to do with the timing of the adaptation.
* There are those who think TV series based upon vampire culture is a recent innovation, but ''True Blood'' and ''Vampire Diaries'' are only recent examples of the genre. For example, there was ''Series/KindredTheEmbraced'' in 1996, ''Series/{{Moonlight}}'', and ''Series/ForeverKnight'', to name a few, not to mention, of course, the Buffy/Angel franchise. And before any of the above was ''Series/DarkShadows'' -- not [[Film/DarkShadows a stupid film]] starring Creator/JohnnyDepp, but a 1960s soap opera that featured a vampire named Barnabas Collins as its dark and brooding protagonist. It was revived decades later in the 1990s.
* Some people are now accusing the series ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' of being a rip-off of ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} from the movie ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. This is despite the fact that ''Arrow'' is based off ComicBook/GreenArrow, a comic book character who predates Hawkeye by over two decades (and who arguably ''Hawkeye'' was influenced by). And was a regular on the same channel's previous superhero show ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', by the by.
* Alan Alda's depiction of Hawkeye Pierce in the TV version of ''Series/{{Mash}}'' borrows heavily from [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Groucho Marx]], to which a nod was made in the first-season episode "Yankee Doodle Doctor". By way of sabotaging an attempt by Army brass to propagandize the 4077th's "heroic doctors", Pierce plays Groucho in the [[ShowWithinTheShow Movie Within The Show]], and Trapper John plays Harpo.
* When the Canadian show ''Ed's Late Night Party'' aired for a short time in the US on G4, many viewers criticized Ed the Sock for ripping off [[Creator/ConanOBrien Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.]] Ed the Sock had actually been around on various Canadian programs since the early-90's and was possibly an inspiration for Triumph. This led to Ed resenting Triumph, and NBC insisting that the character shouldn't be anywhere near Conan's show when it taped a few episode in Toronto. Ed the Sock was scheduled to appear on Creator/ConanOBrien but cancelled at the last minute. Three months later Triumph appeared on the show.
* In-universe example in ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace''. Max has claimed his name is Tom Sawyer so his girlfriend doesn't know he's related to Alex.
-->'''Alex''': That is such an obvious lie. It's the name from the Music/{{Rush|Band}} song.\\
'''Harper''': And the classic ''book''.\\
'''Alex''': Wow. That song was good, I didn't know they made a book out of it.
* Rod Serling wrote ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "The Silence" without knowing that it was virtually the same story as Creator/AntonChekhov's ''The Bet''. There is an interview with Serling in the DVD set for the series in which he explicitly explains all about it.
* 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). And yeah, Filmation's ''Ghostbusters'' was based on a 1975 live show!
** Explained in-depth [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/2854-Two-Many-Busters here]].
** The classic Disney cartoon ''WesternAnimation/LonesomeGhosts'', in which Mickey, Donald, and Goofy portray ghost-hunters ''decades'' before either the TV show or the movie. The little known Creator/DisneyChannel original series ''DTV'' even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] this fact by running a video in which scenes from that cartoon are shown with the Ray Parker Jr. theme song from the movie playing in the background.
* 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 question).
* The 1949 book ''Earth Abides'' begins with a similar instance. The main character, Isherwood Smith, is bitten by a rattlesnake and rendered insensate but immune to the apocalyptic plague that begins the story. When he recovers, he has no idea of what happened and is confused to find deserted towns, only piecing the story together through newspapers.
** If the "immune to apocalyptic plague" plotline sounds familiar, don't be surprised; in his nonfiction book ''Danse Macabre'', Stephen King cited ''Earth Abides'' as an inspiration for ''The Stand''.
* On ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'', one episode had the "unlikely location for a FilmNoir" be a gas station. It's been done with ''two'' [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_Me_Deadly gas]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_the_Past stations.]]
* The practice of following an episode with [[OnTheNext a preview that shows clips from the next episode]] didn't start in the '80s or '90s. Some film serials did the same thing at least as far back as the '40s.
* Creator/JonStewart occasionally does a nasally, weasely voice on ''Series/TheDailyShow'' that many young viewers associate with his show (for an in-television example, Britta Perry does so on an episode of ''Series/{{Community}}''). However, older viewers will recognize it as a reference to a Creator/JohnnyCarson voice / character, one that [[Series/TheTonightShowStarringJohnnyCarson Johnny often went to]] when a joke fell flat ("Whoa, bomb-o!"). But here's the kicker: even older viewers will know that Johnny's voice was originally a reference to Creator/JackieGleason's Reginald Van Gleason III character ("Mmmboy are you fat!", as mentioned in an episode of ''Series/TheSopranos'').
* Everybody knows about the "Dick in a Box" sketch on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', right? Well, ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'' episode "The Dog and Pony Show" [[http://youtu.be/S75TA5qWl20 did the same thing]] almost a decade prior.
* The motive and method of the BigBad in the ''Series/HawaiiFive0''/''Series/NCISLosAngeles'' {{crossover}} was to [[spoiler:save the planet by [[DepopulationBomb killing off much of humanity with an engineered plague]]]]. Creator/TomClancy came up with the same idea in the [[Literature/RainbowSix book]] and [[VideoGame/RainbowSix video game]] ''Rainbow Six''.
* Years ago, there was a critically acclaimed British mini-series about the Julio-Claudian dynasty of Roman emperors, shot entirely on studio sets, with a script drawn from such classical sources as Tacitus and Suetonius and featuring a cast composed largely of classically trained stage actors, with particular attention paid to the lame, stammering Claudius' unexpected rise to power. The series was... [[Creator/{{Granada}} Granada Television's]] ''Series/TheCaesars'', which preceded the more famous [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] adaptation of ''Series/IClaudius'' by eight years. (Of course, [[Literature/IClaudius the books by Robert Graves]] from which ''I, Claudius'' was adapted were older still, and may have influenced the scripts of ''The Caesars''.)
* Season one of ''Series/TwentyFour'' introduced us to the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique, where Jack threatens to shove a towel down a terrorist's throat until it began to digest before pulling it out. A similar scene played out in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' where a cross was used to burn out a vampire's throat. The actual "technique" is probably OlderThanDirt.
* Ever since the mid-1980s, ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' and ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' have been fixtures on nighttime syndicated television — two LongRunner game shows that are often paired with each other, extremely well-known, and not going away anytime soon. However, both of them are older than they let on.
** The Creator/AlexTrebek-hosted ''Jeopardy!'' began in 1984 as a revival of a show that originally aired from 1964 to 1974 with Art Fleming as host; Fleming also helmed a short-lived revival in 1978-79. (The 1960s version is spoofed in Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "I Lost on Jeopardy", which predated Trebek's version by a few months.)
** ''Wheel'' was continuous. It began in 1975 as a daytime show for Creator/{{NBC}} hosted by Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford — current host Pat Sajak took over in 1981, and Vanna White almost exactly a year later. Pat and Vanna made the leap to nighttime in 1983, hosting both daytime and nighttime until Pat stepped down from daytime in 1989. Daytime ultimately fizzled out in 1991 after two host changes and two {{channel hop}}s, but nighttime is still locked firmly in place with Pat and Vanna. In ''Wheel'''s case, it doesn't help that the show constantly references what ''nighttime'' season it's on, and that Chuck Woolery would become more famous for his later work on ''Series/LoveConnection'', ''Series/{{Scrabble}}'', and ''Series/{{Lingo}}''.
** ''Wheel'' also has one specific element that's OlderThanTheyThink; namely, the Prize Puzzle, which awards a prize to the contestant who solves it. This was introduced in 2003, but a previous version of it was used for a few weeks in fall 1997.
* For most of the 2000s, ''Series/{{Lingo}}'' was a fixture on Creator/{{GSN}}, and arguably its most successful original game show. It was a revival of a little-known 1980s show that died off because its financially-troubled parent company wasn't able to pay contestants their winnings. Then in 2022 the internet game VideoGame/{{Wordle}} became a viral sensation, and many people pointed out that it was almost identical in concept to ''Lingo''.
* ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' began in 1972 as a heavily-souped up revival of the 1950s edition hosted by Creator/BillCullen. The 1950s incarnation was far simpler, but still based around bidding on prizes.
** The CatchPhrase "Come on down!" was popularized on the 1972 show but actually started when the show did a ChannelHop from NBC to ABC. A celebrity was employed to play for people in the studio audience whose names were in a hopper on cards. When a name was drawn, Bill Cullen entreated that person to "come on down" to a waiting area on stage to see if the celebrity would win for them.
* 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 ''CBS Television Quiz''.
* ''Series/TicTacDough'' is most known through its 1978-85 version, which spawned Thom [=McKee=], once the biggest winner in American game show history (as Ken Jennings was to the aforementioned ''Jeopardy!''). It was a revival of a 1950s game show, one of the casualties of the quiz show scandals.
* If you say ''Series/MatchGame'' to an average television fan, they will most likely think of questions pertaining to Dumb Dora, the snarky interactions of panelists Brett Somers and Creator/CharlesNelsonReilly, every third question having the answer "boobs", and a bright orange shag carpet set for the ultimate in TheSeventies appeal. ''That'' was a revival of a 1960s show which, while more subdued and formal, still relied on trying to answer fill-in-the-blank questions.
* A menacing but bumbling character who utters "D'oh!" as a CatchPhrase when frustrated. [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]], right? No, Skipper from ''Series/GilligansIsland'' 20 years earlier.
** Even older than that, actually. Dan Castellaneta based the noise (rendered in scripts as simply "(annoyed grunt)") on an actor from old Creator/LaurelAndHardy films, the latest of which was from 1940.
* Many people think that ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' is a [[{{Gorn}} cheap ripoff]] of ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', when actually Lexx aired 2 years earlier (albeit not on American TV).
* An in-universe example in ''Series/SleepyHollow'': It turns out Ichabod doesn't need the term John Doe explained to him because it originated in England long before his time. It may go back as far as the 14th Century.
* ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' has an in-universe example. Carter mentions the telephone as a modern convenience that time traveler Trevor Grant would miss if he went back to the 1940s. Grant points out that it was invented in 1876.
* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' and ''Series/TheWorstWitch'' both look like they were greenlit because of Harry Potter, right? Wrong. Not only is the source material much older, ''Sabrina'' had been running for almost a year when the first book came out, and ''The Worst Witch'' was already in production before the first book was released in North America. The latter predates Harry Potter as a book series by 23 years.
** ''Sabrina'' has been accused of ripping off ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' and ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'' many times. However, the source comic predates both series by several years.
* 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 [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome lose control of his cycle and run over a young child.]] This may have been why it isn't that well remembered, however.
* BuffySpeak is as old as time itself, not a recent phenomenon of the [[Creator/JossWhedon Whedonverse]].
* ''Series/PakDePoenDeShowVan1Miljoen'' looks like a perfect candidate for WhoWantsToBeWhoWantsToBeAMillionaire, but it predates Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire by a decade.
* InUniverse on ''Series/{{Community}}'' when Troy and Shirley think that ''Film/CantBuyMeLove'' (1987) was a remake of ''Film/LoveDontCostAThing'' (2003).
-->'''Troy:''' ''Can't Buy Me Love'' was the remake for white audiences.
-->'''Shirley:''' That's so uncomfortable when they do that, I can't believe they didn't insult anyone.
* Quiz: What was the first ''Series/LazyTown'' episode to feature clones of Robbie Rotten? No, not "Robbie's Dream Team"; it was actually "Who's Who"[[note]]The one where Robbie creates an evil clone of Stephanie[[/note]], which predates ''Dream Team'' by nearly one and a half years.
* Many fans of the ''Franchise/TheMuppets'' think Kermit the Frog evolved from an earlier Creator/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.
* In perhaps one of the freakiest coincidences in the history of popular culture, the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' has precedence in the ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'' of all things. In 1931, Creator/AugustDerleth wrote a mythos story called ''Lair of the Star Spawn'', which featured 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 (who probably wasn't familiar with any Cthulhu Mythos stories) comes up with ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'', a show about a gigantic light-based alien warrior who uses beam attacks, comes from a nebula in the Orion constellation, and help humans defeat giant monsters. It ultimately comes full circle in ''Series/UltramanTiga'' where the BigBad is one Lovecraft's own creations, Ghatanothoa.
* A television GameShow with a school theme, increasingly difficult questions themed to "grades", and {{lifelines}}: before ''Series/AreYouSmarterThanAFifthGrader'' did it in 2007, ''Series/WinTuition'' did exactly the same in 2002.
* Two game shows with 2007 debuts, ''The Singing Bee'' and ''Series/DontForgetTheLyrics'', ask 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.
* 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), this was pioneered by ''Series/SesameStreet'' with two female Latina characters named Maria and Rosita, with the first of these debuting in 1971.
* 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 ''Franchise/StarWars'' but an empire that had grown stagnant and soft with bureaucracy and weak leadership.[[/note]]
* The brief flashes of scenes from the forthcoming episode of Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 was, according to Ronald Moore, cribbed from Series/Space1999. However both are simply special cases of something far older. Starting in the 1970s TV shows would, for some inexplicable reason, have mini-trailers for the upcoming episode ''right before the episode'', often prefaced with "This week on n". The original series had these, in fact!
* A lot of people assume that ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' is the first series in the ''Degrassi'' franchise, when it was actually a reboot of the late 80s/early 90s series ''Series/DegrassiJuniorHigh''/''Series/DegrassiHigh''. This is an obvious case of SequelDisplacement however. While the originals were popular in Canada, it was TNG's huge popularity in the United States that resulted in the latter overshadowing everything else.
** Likewise, some people will assume ''Degrassi Junior High'' is the original Degrassi, when in actual fact the franchise began in 1980 with ''Series/TheKidsOfDegrassiStreet''.
** The Next Generation episode "Accidents Will Happen" is often lauded for its tackling of abortion, but it's seldom acknowledged that they actually [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_New_Start_(Degrassi_High) tackled the subject once before]], in 1989.
* People thought that the first {{Creator/ABSCBN}}/Dreamscape Entertainment child/values-oriented teleserye that was released on odd number of years is ''{{Series/May Bukas Pa}}'' as the trailers of child-oriented teleseryes following this such as ''Honesto'' first state ''May Bukas Pa'', but actually the trend of releasing child/values-oriented teleseryes on odd number of years was started in 2005 with ''Mga Anghel na Walang Langit ''featuring the original Goin' Bulilit members Carl John Barrameda, Nikki Bagaporo, Miles Ocampo, Sharlene San Pedro and John Manalo, and the late Johnny Delgado and was aired from May 9, 2005 to February 24, 2006. ''Mga Anghel na Walang Langit'' was followed by ''Princess Sarah'' in 2007, also featuring Sharlene San Pedro and was aired from November 12 to December 21, 2007. Thus, ''May Bukas Pa'' is actually the third teleserye in the lineup of child/values-oriented teleseryes of ABS-CBN/Dreamscape Entertainment that were released on odd number of years, after ''Mga Anghel na Walang Langit'' and ''Princess Sarah''.
* A 2021 [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/abc-nbc-scheduling-first-year-comedies-1235057943/ article]] in ''The Hollywood Reporter'' discussed the trend of "hybrid scheduling", where a network has a much-hyped special airing of a pilot for a new show, then holds off for a few weeks or months before starting the series run in its regular timeslot. The article claimed that ''Series/{{Glee}}'' "pioneered the idea" in 2009, but two classic shows debuted exactly that way at the end of TheEighties--''Series/TheWonderYears'' premiered on January 31, 1988 on Creator/{{ABC}} after the Super Bowl, but didn't settle into its timeslot until March, while ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' aired its first episode on Creator/{{Fox}} as a ChristmasSpecial on December 17, 1989, before launching the regular series on January 14, 1990.
* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978'': The show is frequently mocked as a ''Franchise/StarWars'' ripoff even on this page, but the original script was written almost a decade before Creator/GeorgeLucas began developing his famous franchise.
* Because of Creator/JonStewart's famed "stop hurting America" appearance on CNN's ''Crossfire'' in 2004, a lot of people now seem to assume it was a show specifically created as a vehicle for conservative pundit Tucker Carlson. In fact, it debuted in 1982 as a SoundToScreenAdaptation of a "left vs. right" Washington, D.C. talk radio show that was co-hosted by liberal Tom Braden (who was also the RealLife inspiration for ''Series/EightIsEnough'') and conservative Pat Buchanan, and went through a bunch of other co-hosts over the years. The iteration Stewart appeared on was a widely-loathed reboot to make the show YoungerAndHipper, pairing Carlson and former UsefulNotes/BillClinton adviser Paul Begala, which included the incongruous addition of a studio audience. It was already limping along in the ratings when Stewart made his scathing appearance, and was canceled a few months later.
* Actor Creator/MichaelBJordan's role in the film ''Film/{{Creed|2015}}'', about Apollo Creed's son being trained by Rocky Balboa made him a star in Hollywood. But this isn't the first time he played this role. In an episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'', a younger Jordan plays a promising boxing prospect being trained by an ex boxing champion. But unlike Balboa in ''Creed'', this trainer is an EvilMentor who'll do anything to make his favorite prospect a champion in his image, [[spoiler: including murdering two of his friends using his signature, vicious body attack he was known for, because he felt they were a distraction to his prospect's career.]]
* From 1977-83, [[Creator/AmericanBroadcastingCompany ABC]] and Creator/{{CBS}} aired select UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball games from the NCAA's lower profile divisions (I-AA, II, III) on a very limited regional basis (usually on just the affiliates in the home markets of the teams playing), as a ContractualObligationProject, since the NCAA (which controlled all regular season college football TV rights at the time) mandated these games as part of the package. A 1984 Supreme Court decision stripped the NCAA's monopoly over TV rights, which ended these telecasts. But looking back, the concept of a major TV network producing and packaging niche sporting events under their branding, for focused distribution to a small audience, makes these games a clear ancestor of Creator/{{ESPN}}3 and ESPN+.
* Many fans of the Southeastern Conference cried foul when, after replacing its longtime SEC college football package with games from the Big Ten Conference, CBS announced they would move [[https://youtu.be/4iXhs9x-7yk the iconic theme music]] over to those games. In fact, not only did the theme predate the SEC deal, it wasn’t even composed specifically for college football; it debuted on the network’s broadcast of Super Bowl XXI in 1987, but was moved to their college football package that fall, as it was deemed to fit those games better. It wasn’t until CBS partnered with the SEC in 1996 that the theme became synonymous with the conference.

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