Two-Part Episodes on 2 Different Series

[bencasey]

Now I don't mean crossovers, as in characters guest starring on another series. Let's list the shows that ran with part one on one series and then part two on another.


Dr. Kildare - The Eleventh Hour
Ben Casey - Breaking Point
The Doctors and the Nurses - For the People
Felony Squad - Judd for the Defense
Ironside - The Bold Ones (Doctors)
Marcus Welby MD - Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law
The Practice - Ally McBeal
Homicide - Law and Order
Six Million Dollar Man - Bionic Woman

I'm sure there must be others but those on the ones I know of off the top of my head. The problems come with syndication. Universal is smart so they put the Owen Marshalls and Bold Ones in the Ironside and Marcus Welbypackages.
The ones where one series is syndicated (such as Ben Casey) and the other rarely seen create a bit of a problem.

[balzac]

"The Practice" and "Boston Public" also did this. It was both a "cross over" and a story line being carried across the two shows. I can't recall if it was literally "part one and two." But it was more than just a cross-over. I think the episodes in question were structured so that they made enough sense independent of each other, but there was enough information in both shows that it was better to catch both.

[JamieC]

Green Hornet/Batman

[sadie]

CSI/Without a Trace


Sadie

[Bogey]

Would the Millenium series that was canceled finishing up on the X-Files count, though seperated by a large chunk of time?

[93curr]

'Buffy' and 'Angel' had a few:

Buffy - 'The Harsh Light Of Day' was continued on Angel - 'In The Dark'

Buffy - 'Fool For Love' and Angel - 'Darla' don't continue, but they do share some of the same scenes, seen from diffeent characters' point of view.

There were a number of other episodes where characters moved back and forth between shows, not directly as two-parters, but enough that they needed to show clips from the other show on the "previously on" tags to make sense to casual viewers.

Angel - 'Home' leads into Buffy - 'End Of Days'

[bencasey]

Green Hornet/Batman

Batman never appeared on the Green Hornet.

[lasvidfil]

Homicide/Law & Order

[JoelDF]

Usually it's L&O first, then followed with the second part on Homicide. At least when TNT airs their syndicated L&O part 1, they always follow with the Homicide part 2 - even though they never air Homicide on it's own.

There's also...

Crossing Jordan/Las Vagas.

And,

Magnum P.I./Murder She Wrote.

[JamieC]

Batman never appeared on the Green Hornet.

Right! I remembered it as a crossover. I verified my silliness myself. If you'll excuse me I'm having STUPID tattooed on my forehead. Shoving myself into Colonel Gumm's perfidious perforation machine.:help:

[charlie W]

Magnum P.I./Simon & Simon

[guy incognito]

IIRC, there was once a "Happy Days"/"Laverne & Shirley" two-parter.

NBC once had its entire Thursday-night sitcom lineup involved in a common story arc involving a power blackout in NYC.

[Dillydipper]

ER & West Wing

Hey, here's an interesting little resource that goes a bit deeper into the "crossover" subject...

http://poobala.com/crossoverlist.html

[RexKramer]

There was a very loose one between "X-Files" and "Picket Fences." The networks weren't crazy about cross-pollinating, so the character appearances were cut at the last minute. The core of the plotlines was of, IIRC, animals giving birth to humans, and "Picket Fences" referred to FBI agents in a nearby town.

There was a hurricane night on one network (I think it involved "The Golden Girls" and whatever shows were on that network that night).

Mark

[8tracks]

The Practice - Ally McBeal
I think Ally McBeal led into The Practice and Fox affiliates were pi$$ed.

I remember a Charlie's Angles / VEGA$ two-parter.

[AndrewS]

Not exactly what the thread topic is about, but...

I just watched the first season of a weekly pair of intertwined British series, Moving Wallpaper and Echo Beach. Moving Wallpaper was the comedic fictional account of the behind the scenes production of Echo Beach. Echo Beach was a typical trashy soap set in Cornwall. I thought the combination was really well done, particularly Moving Wallpaper, and look forward to another season of each show. I don't think the ratings were too high, so that may be wishful thinking.

Fans of Eastenders would recognize Martine McCutcheon (Tiffany) in Echo Beach as well as a small role by Johnny Briggs aka Michael Baldwin from Corry.

[Dillydipper]

Hey, what about the THREE-PARTER "asskickin' crossover between The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and Late Night With Conan O'Brien a couple of months ago! :D

[Chip TRG]

Hey, what about the THREE-PARTER "asskickin' crossover between The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and Late Night With Conan O'Brien a couple of months ago! :D

I never got to see the Late Night episode...what did I miss from the "final round"?

[Dillydipper]

Oh my...the best part! A jolly fracas, complete with slo-mo, breakaway bottles, stair-tossing, and Irish jigging (Colbert). Pants were peed, milk was passed through noses, yuk-yuks were professed. An outstanding example of network time-wasting!