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* ''The Danny Thomas Show'' (aka ''Make Room for Daddy'') jumped from ABC to CBS in 1957.
* ''[[T. J. Hooker]]'' was cancelled after four seasons by ABC, CBS picked up season five and aired the new episodes in its 11:30PM Crimetime After Primetime slot.
* ''[[Sister, Sister]]'' from [[ABC]] to [[The WB]].
* ''[[Family Matters]]'' from ABC to CBS.
* ''[[Step by Step]]'' made the ABC to CBS move at the exact same time as [[Family Matters]]. Neither lasted more than one season on the new channel.
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* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' moved from [[The WB]] to [[UPN]] after its fifth season.
* [[Johnny Test]] left WB at the end of the first season and went to Canada's Teletoon and [[Cartoon Network]] at the same time.
* ''[[Cubix Robots for Everyone|Cubix]]'' went from WB to [[
== From FOX to... ==
* ''[[Futurama]]'' is an interesting example. From [[
* ''[[Sliders]]'' from [[
* ''[[Animaniacs]]'' from [[Fox Kids]] to [[The WB]] when the latter first formed. Lampshaded in several of the earliest promotional spots for the block.
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' from [[Fox Kids]] to both ABC & Jetix (on both ABC Family & [[Toon Disney]]). Then another move, as of 2011, to both [[Nickelodeon]] & Nicktoons.
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== From PBS to... ==
* ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' from [[PBS]] to [[
* ''[[Ghostwriter]]'' from [[PBS]] to [[UPN]] to [[ABC]] to [[Nick Jr.|Noggin]] to [[The N]].
* ''[[Shining Time Station]]'' from [[PBS]] to Fox Family (now [[ABC Family]]) to [[Nick Jr.]] on [[Nickelodeon]].
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* ''[[Sixteen]]'', in America, had a brief stint on Nickelodeon, before being booted over to [[Cartoon Network]].
* ''[[Naruto]]'', from Naruto on [[Cartoon Network]] to ''Naruto Shippuden'' on [[Disney XD]]
* The ''[[Gundam]]'' franchise moved from [[Cartoon Network]] to [[Syfy]] starting with ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]].''
** This also happened in its native country of Japan. In 2002, the franchise moved their series from [[TV Asahi]] to Tokyo Broadcasting System starting with ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED]].''
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' is a rather odd example. From the second season onward, new episodes moved from [[Disney Channel]] to [[Disney XD]], however it still airs regularly on the former which still treats it as its own series and airs [[Blatant Lies|brand new]] episodes anywhere from a week to a month after its sister network.
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* Up until its seventh and final season ''[[Robot Wars (TV series)|Robot Wars]]'' had aired on [[The BBC|BBC2]], for its 7th season it moved to Channel 5.
* BBC Two's ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' was put on hold during [[Development Hell]] of [[The Movie]] but eventually after a surprise ratings success of reruns on the channel Dave - in 2009 the channel aired a three-part Easter Special ''Back to Earth'' with further episodes commissioned.
* ''[[The Goodies]]'' was dropped by the BBC in 1981 and was picked up by LWT (now ITV London).
* In Britain ''[[Monk]]'' moved terrestrially from [[BBC 2]] to [[ITV 1]].
* Unlike ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', ''[[Angel]]'' did not get shown on [[BBC 2]] but rather on [[Channel 4]]. But only the first season. [[Idiot Ball|At 6 in the evening]]. (David Fury's response to this scheduling - "Shock and disbelief are mine!" - was echoed by many fans.) The second season got bought by [[Channel Five]] and shown post-midnight; the remaining three seasons have never been shown terrestrially.
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* ''[[Trollz]]'' and the animated ''Sabrina'' both went from syndication to CBS (though this had to do with CBS'S block renter DiC needing [[An Aesop|educational]] programming for said block).
* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' moved from syndication to [[Fox Kids]] in Fall 1992, after which they added [[Biting the Hand Humor|"The Fox network executives" as a new pair of villains.]]
* The ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime franchise spent its first half-season in Fall 1998 in syndication, then was picked up by [[Kids WB]] in early 1999, where it remained until 4Kids' rights to the show ended in 2006. Then, the new episodes of the show were handed over to Cartoon Network by Pokemon USA, who had been previously running reruns of the show for years. The original series is now in reruns on Boomerang, while Cartoon Network continues to play new episodes of the current series.
** In the UK and Ireland, Pokemon was initially aired on SKYONE iup to around the Johto era, before their version of Cartoon Network picked up new episodes of the show. Since then, reruns, new episodes and the movies can be found on the CITV channel as well as [[Disney XD]]
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' started out in syndication in 1995, but only the first 65 episodes were shown before the show went into re-runs and was ultimately pulled. It was then picked up for cable by ''Turner Broadcasting'' and spent a few months being re-shown on ''[[USA Network]]'' before it was moved to ''[[Cartoon Network]]'''s ''[[Toonami]]'' action block where it found new life, and premiered 94 new episodes, and 3 movies!
* The original ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' series was in syndication for only 13 episodes in 1995 before it was canceled. It was eventually picked up by ''[[Toonami]]'' in 2001 (with an all new English dub), due to the success of Dragon Ball Z, where it ended up finishing it's 153 episode run.
* ''[[Gargoyles]]'' from syndication to ABC; [[Retool|ReTooled]] as ''Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles''. But [[Fanon Discontinuity|the fans like to think ''The Goliath Chronicles'' never happened]].
** Neither does the creator, who declared it non-canon.
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* Like ''[[Angel]]'', ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'' suffered from fragmented and censored airings (season 1 on Channel 4, season 2 on Channel 5) and moreso, with Sky One dropping the series after the first two seasons and Bravo screening the other three.
* ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'' made its British debut on [[Nickelodeon]], but only the first three seasons were shown (and were prone to being censored); it later moved to the Hallmark Channel (where seasons four and five premiered) and ultimately to E4 (which has shown all seven seasons).
* Unlike many imported series dropped by Channel 5 - and there are ''many'': ''[[That '70s Show]]'', ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'', ''[[JAG]]'', ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' and so on (basically any American series that doesn't have ''[[CSI]]'' in the title) - ''[[Charmed]]'' found another terrestrial home for its final season, moving to Channel 4.
* Both ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' and ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'' moved from Channel 5 to ITV.
* ''[[The Practice]]'' was on ITV, the BBC and [[Sky 1]].
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* The first season of ''[[Ghost Whisperer]]'' was on E4, but from season two it was shown on Living (a better fit, given that Living is known for running ghost-themed shows like ''Most Haunted'').
* ''You Don't Say!'' (NBC), ''Seven Keys'' (ABC), and ''Beat The Odds'' (syndication) all began as local shows in Los Angeles before going national.
* ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' didn't change channels, but it nearly changed ''producers'' - in 1991 Touchstone Television decided against making any more episodes for financial reasons. Warner Bros. Television said they'd step into the breach, but that plan fell apart when Beatrice Arthur announced she was quitting.
* On the other hand, when Cannon Television ran into financial problems of their own after the first few episodes of ''[[Walker, Texas Ranger]]'', [[CBS]] (with some help from Columbia Pictures Television) agreed to foot the bill thereafter.
* Similarly, the NBC episodes of ''[[Baywatch]]'' were produced by GTG Entertainment - making for a strange-but-true link between this series and ''[[Mary Tyler Moore]]'', as MTM's ex Grant Tinker was the "GT"<ref>Gannett Newspapers supplied the "G"</ref> - while the syndicated ones hailed from Tower 12 Productions/The Baywatch Production Company (and due to financial involvement from Britain's London Weekend Television thanks to [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|Brits ''and'' Germans loving David Hasselhoff]], the end credits carried the card "A Baywatch Production Company Production for LWT").
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* ''[[Rambo]]'' from Carolco Pictures to [[Lionsgate]]/TheWeinsteinCompany.
* ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]]'' from [[Paramount]] to New Line after the first 8 films. (allowing them to [[Crossover]] [[Freddy vs. Jason|with]] [[A Nightmare on Elm Street|their franchise]]])
* The ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]]'' franchise went from Compass International for the first film to Universal Pictures for the second and third films, to Galaxy International for the fourth and fifth films, and finally to Dimension for the sixth, seventh, and eighth films (working with Mirimax for the eighth). The current DVD distributors are Anchor Bay for films 1, 4-5, Universal Home Video for films 2 and 3, and Dimension/Lionsgate for films 6-8.
* Walter Lantz, who made ''[[Woody Woodpecker]]'' jumped ship from [[Universal]] Pictures to [[United Artists]] in 1947. Lantz then briefly shut down his studio in 1949. The studio reopened in 1951 and went back to Universal as his distributor.
* ''[[Hellraiser]]'' from New World to Dimension.
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