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* The writer of ''[[The Curious Case of Benjamin Button]]'' also adapted ''[[Forrest Gump]]''. [http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1897317 Comparisons have been made.]
* Ever thrifty, [[Roger Corman]] managed to film what was essentially the same script ''three times'': When making ''Beast from Haunted Cave'', he simply had writer Charles B. Griffith [[Same Story, Different Names|rewrite his own script]] for the heist thriler ''Naked Paradise'' and add a monster. He then had Griffith rewrite ''that'' script into a comedy, which he filmed as ''Creature from the Haunted Sea''.
* The ending of ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'' was basically the ending of ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]''. And the first half of ''Nemesis'' was basically the first half of ''[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country|Star Trek VI the Undiscovered Country]]''.
* Not only was ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture]]'''s plot based on the script for the cancelled ''Phase II'' pilot, but it bore a striking similarity to an episode from the original series, "The Changeling".
* ''[[Phantom of the Paradise]]'' has so many striking similarities with ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'' (even though it could have only been inspired by the stage version of Rocky - RHPS was still filming when Phantom hit theaters) that some fans consider it part of the same series. Likewise, Rocky's bastard-sequel ''[[Shock Treatment]]'' has a number of striking similarities to Phantom; possibly a case of Richard O'Brien subtly reclaiming his own work.
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== Literature ==
* [[Douglas Adams]]' novel ''[[Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]]'' reused several key concepts from "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S17 E6/E06 Shada|Shada]]", a story he had written for ''[[Doctor Who]]'' but which had been unfinished due to strike action (and elements of "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S17 E2/E02 City of Death|City of Death]]", which ''was'' broadcast). Another Adams novel, ''Life, the Universe, and Everything'', began its life as a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' screenplay called ''The Krikketmen''. It shows, as the [[Gotta Catch Em All]] plot is a very different sort of animal from its predecessors.
* [[Agatha Christie]] did this several times. The Poirot short story ''Yellow Iris'' became the Colonel Race novel ''Sparkling Cyanide''; the Poirot novellas ''Murder in the Mews'' and ''Dead Man's Mirror'' (which were published together) were based on the Poirot short stories "The Market Basing Mystery" and "The Second Gong", respectively; the Poirot novel ''The Blue Train'' uses the same device as the Poirot short story "The Plymouth Express"; and two Poirot stories, "Problem at Pollensa Bay" and "The Regatta Mystery", were later rewritten to be about Mr Parker Pyne. Note that Poirot, Race and Pyne all exist in [[Canon Welding|the same universe]].
* When Robert E. Howard's ''By This Axe I Rule!'', a short story featuring his barbarian king Kull of Atlantis, was rejected by ''Weird Tales'', he changed its setting and replaced Kull with a new protagonist he had been toying with -- Conan of Cimmeria -- and it became "The Phoenix on the Sword", the first of nearly two dozen stories starring the character.
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*** The above paragraph was recycled from the [[Broken Aesop]] entry.
* In its last two seasons, ''[[MacGyver]]'' started recycling material from its earlier seasons, but with more emphasis on the Aesop than on the story itself.
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S13 E6/E06 The Seeds of Doom|The Seeds of Doom]]" (by Robert Banks Stewart) was recycled from ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' "Man-Eater of Surrey Green" (Stewart had written for ''The Avengers'', but not that episode, which was by Philip Levene). "The Seeds of Doom" feels wrong for a ''Doctor Who'' story in many ways, since it follows the ''Avengers'' formula. For example, the (Fourth) Doctor casually jumps on top of a bad guy and punches him out.
** Also the story "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S32 E9/E09 Night Terrors|Night Terrors]]". A child in an everyday contemporary Earth environment turns out to be an alien whose reality-warping powers cause his fears to threaten his family and neighbours. [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/NS/S2 /E11 Fear Her|When did we see that before?]]
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' reused several of the films they riffed on during their initial season on a local UHF station after going national. Several host segment sketches were also remade later.
* ''[[Charmed]]'' did a lot of these in the final season.
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** A [[Cutaway Gag]] in one episode shows Peter drinking the communion wine at church and then cracking a joke about how Jesus Christ was wasted everyday. About two seasons later in a different episode, the gag is reused, but [[DVD Commentary]] states that the reuse of the gag was purely by accident.
* It's probably just a coincidence, but the last part of "Arise, Serpentor, Arise"! (''[[G.I. Joe]]'') and the entire episode of "Atlantis Arise!" (''[[The Transformers (animation)|The Transformers]]'') have a few similarites: the villians of the series attack [[Washington DC]], are defeated by the heroes, and the treacherous character voiced by [[Chris Latta]] saves his leader (receiving no gratitude for doing so). Of course, Cobra don't ally themselves with mer-creatures, and the Decepticons don't create a new leader, but even so...
* A few recent episodes of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' seem to have recycled plots from other Nicktoons. "Toy Store of Doom", for example, has essentially the same plot as the ''[[Rugrats]]'' episode "Toy Palace" (they get locked in the toy store after it closes for the night and are afraid the toys will attack them), while "Banned in Bikini Bottom" (Krabby Patties are outlawed and Mr. Krabs starts selling them at SpongeBob's house secretly) is similar to the ''[[Cat DogCatDog]]'' episode "Just Say CatDog Sent Ya," in which Farburg Burger Bones are banned from Nearburg and [[Cat DogCatDog]] stars selling them at a speakeasy in an underground cellar.
** "Picture Day" was a recycled script from the ''[[Recess]]'' episode "One Stayed Clean".
* Many cartoons made by ''[[The Pink Panther (animation)|The Pink Panther]]'' studio ([[DePatie-Freleng Enterprises]]) are recycled from old ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' scripts. Of course the studio was mostly made up of old Warner animators.
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