The original post: /r/television by /u/LV426acheron on 2025-08-31 01:54:31+00:00.
Are there any other examples of show that instead of getting cancelled, got retooled instead?
The one example I can think of is Good Morning, Miss Bliss. It was a sitcom centered around Miss Bliss, a junior high school teacher in Indiana.
It lasted 1 season and instead of getting cancelled, they retooled it as Saved by the Bell, which is a sitcom centered around Zack Morris and his friends in Bayside High in California.
Three of the kids from Good Morning Miss Bliss (Zack Morris, Lisa Turtle, Screech) and the principal, Mr. Belding, carried over to the new show but everything else was changed and the previous show was later retconned into being “Saved by the Bell: The Junior High Years” for re-runs.