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* ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'' was briefly revived in the 1980s as ''The Bradys''. It violated the usual rule by transforming from a [[Half-Hour Comedy]] to a [[Dramatic Hour Long]], and suffered in the ratings for it; in an attempt to rescue the show, the producers tried to turn it back into a comedy by arbitrarily inserting a [[Laugh Track]] into the existing dramatic plot line!

* On the other side of the pond, ''[[Are You Being Served?|Are You Being Served]]'' was briefly revived, reuniting the department store clerks as the caretakers of an inn into which their pensions had been invested in ''Grace and Favor'' (aired in the US as ''Are You Being Served Again''. Many of the cast members have speculated that had the show originally aired under that title, it might have succeeded, as it appears that most of the audience did not realize the show was a revival).

* A revival of ''[[Blake's ~~Seven~~|Blakes Seven]] '' set years after the original with Avon as [[The Obi-Wan]] was announced in 2003, but appears to have been scrapped.

* A revival of ''[[Blake's 7|Blakes Seven]] '' set years after the original with Avon as [[The Obi-Wan]] was announced in 2003, but appears to have been scrapped.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' Revived under the same title in 2005, it not only kept the old series in continuity, it * also* kept events from the made for TV movie that tried but didn't manage to revive the series a number of years earlier. It even put the long break in as a plot point. "During" the missing period (on the Doctor's personal timeline, anyway), the Last Great Time War happened, rendering the Doctor the [[Last of His Kind]] (and regenerating him offscreen into [[Christopher Eccleston]]). The show squeezes the mystery of what precisely happened for all the drama and suspense they can.

** The revival engaged in a few [[Retcon|retcons]] concerning the original series, but then ''[[Doctor Who]]'' tended towards [[Broad Strokes]] continuity for much of its run.

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* In 1997, ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' was revived as ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters]]'', with Egon heading a new team. The original Ghostbusters returned for its first season finale.

** And, on that note, 1986's ''[[Filmation's Ghostbusters|Filmations Ghostbusters]]'' was a revival of 1975's live-action series ''The Ghost Busters''--here, Jake and Eddie were the sons of the originals (Kong and Spenser, respectively).

* ''[[Transformers]]'' does this constantly - in fact, whenever Hasbro feels like making more money. At first there was ''[[Beast Wars]]'', which took place in the same continuity as ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' and as such fully fits the defnition of a revival, but after that Hasbro decided to go the way of [[Alternate Universe|Alternate Universes]] with ''[[Transformers Robots in Disguise]]'', the [[Unicron Trilogy]], [[Michael Bay]]'s [[Transformers (film)|movies]], and ''[[Transformers Animated]]''.

* ''[[Transformers]]'' does this constantly - in fact, whenever Hasbro feels like making more money. At first there was ''[[Beast Wars]]'', which took place in the same continuity as ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' and as such fully fits the defnition of a revival, but after that Hasbro decided to go the way of [[Alternate Universe|Alternate Universes]] with ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'', the [[Unicron Trilogy]], [[Michael Bay]]'s [[Transformers (film)|movies]], and ''[[Transformers Animated]]''.

** This only applies to the Transformers fiction though. The toyline as a whole has never had a break from production at any time since it began in the 80s.

* Also from Hasbro are the ''[[My Little Pony]]'' cartoons. Less frequent than ''Transformers'', but nonetheless they've had three or four different cartoons. ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' has experienced a massive explosion in popularity, due in no small part to the fact that the creative director is [[Lauren Faust]] of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' and ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'' fame<ref>Who apparently didn't particularly care for the original cartoons, and was a little skeptical when her bosses told her this is what they wanted her to be doing</ref>, who bent over backwards to make the show enjoyable for parents as well as the actual target demographic.