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| ''Kidnapped'' || ''Vanished'' || Serialized story arc about a kidnapping. || ''Kidnapped'' was on [[NBC]], ''Vanished'' was on [[FOX]]. || Both got 13 episodes. ''Kidnapped'' got better reviews, but ''Vanished'' got buzz from [[Killed Off for Real|killing off its main character]], played by Gale Harold.
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| ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' || ''[[wikipedia:Fridays (TV series)|Fridays]]'' || [[Sketch Comedy]] [[Variety Show]] || [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s ''Fridays'' was a formidable duelist, to the point of getting higher ratings and arguably having higher quality than the ''SNL'' episodes it was up against. || [[The Other Wiki]] explains that when ''Fridays'' was forced into a later time slot just as ''SNL'' was successfully revamped, the newcomer faded.
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| ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' || ''The New Show'' || [[Sketch Comedy]] [[Variety Show]] || Both shows have guests and musical guests and were produced by Lorne Michaels. || ''SNL'' won, of course.
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| ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' || ''[[Mad TV]]'' || [[Sketch Comedy]] [[Variety Show]]. || The first is a classic of the genre, though there'll always be arguments of its ups and downs. The second is an attempt to imitate the sketch comedy success, a good 20 years later, and videotaped. || ''SNL''. ''[[Mad TV]]'''s cancellation in 2009 makes SNL 2-0 in battles with other-network sketch comedy.
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| ''Real People'' || ''That's Incredible!'' || ''[[America's Funniest Home Videos]]'' meets ''Ripley's Believe It Or Not!''. || [[NBC]]'s ''Real People'' debuted in 1979 and was a smash hit. [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s ''Thats Incredible'' came out next year and looked eerily similar. The similarity between these two shows was even parodied in a ''MAD Magazine'' satire titled "That's Real Incredible, People!", and by an ''SNL'' sketch called ''Real Incredible People''. NBC's original was primarily devoted to humorous real-world absurdity, a la Dave Barry's; ABC's knockoff tried to have more of a ''Ripley's Believe It or Not!'' flavor to it and quickly became a bastion of pseudoscience. || ''Real People'' lasted longer, though ''That's Incredible!'' had a later spin-off called ''Incredible Sunday''. Neither aged well at all and are both looked at as quaint and non-shocking years later.
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| ''[[The A-Team]]'' || ''High Performance'' || Action-adventure shows featuring do-gooders for hire. || Another [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] knockoff of an [[NBC]] smash hit. || ''High Performance'' died after three episodes, while ''[[The A-Team]]'' lasted five seasons, becoming a pop culture sensation and a [[Fountain of Memes]].
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| ''[[The Addams Family]]'' || ''[[The Munsters]]'' ||[[Sitcom]] about an altogether ooky [[Quirky Household|family of freaks]]. || Premiered six days apart. While the Addamses were proudly and extremely eccentric, very little was explicitly supernatural about them. The Munsters, meanwhile, were a couple of vampires, a wolf-boy and a Frankenstein's monster, and considered themselves ordinary. The Addamses were portrayed as well-to-do and WASPy, while the Munsters seemed to be more working-class and ethnic. ''[[The Addams Family]]'' generally had the odder storylines and a more macabre sense of humor, while ''[[The Munsters]]'' was played more as a traditional [[Sitcom]]. || Ended in a stalemate, since they were both canceled in the same week. Even at their ratings peaks, both had the same amount of popularity. ''The Munsters'' has done better in syndication and ''The Addams Family'' had a major revitalization because of two successful movies in the early 90's.
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| ''Man vs. Wild'' || ''[[Wild Recon]]'' || See above. || For once, ''Wild Recon'' is actually on a ''different'' network this time -- specifically, [[Animal Planet]], [[Network Decay|for some reason]]. ''Wild Recon'' is also quite a bit closer to ''Man vs. Wild'' than ''Survivorman'' was, especially after ''Man vs. Wild'''s slight [[Retool]]. || ''Wild Recon'' is a new series for 2010, so it's too early to tell, but ''Man vs. Wild'' does have the advantage of being a long-established series.
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| ''[[Wife Swap]]'' || ''Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy'' || Two polar opposite families trade spouses for several days. || [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] broadcasts ''Wife Swap'' and claims to have done it first, while [[FOX]] aired ''Trading Spouses'' a few weeks before ''[[Wife Swap]]'''s debut in what seems to be a blatant ripoff (though both appeared to rip off a ''[[Chappelle's Show]]'' skit that aired one year earlier.) || ''Wife Swap''.
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| ''[[Bewitched]]'' || ''[[I Dream of Jeannie]]'' || [[Sitcom]] in which a guy tries to live an ordinary life despite having a long-term relationship with [[Magical Girlfriend|a blonde with magical powers]]. || ''[[Bewitched]]'' had Elizabeth Montgomery, Agnes Moorehead and [[The Other Darrin]]. ''[[I Dream of Jeannie]]'' had JR Ewing and [[Ms. Fanservice|Barbara Eden in revealing clothing]]. Actually, if you like 1960s sitcoms, these are both pretty good. || Both won -- and so did viewers.
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