Cartoons which moved from network to syndication and vice versa

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Are there any cartoons that started off as a network show, and then moved to syndication, while still showing new episodes? Or has the opposite ever happened (show starts off in syndication, but moves to a network and shows new episodes). I cant think of any times this has happened (save for jetsons), but i could be wrong.
 
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (80's series) would probably be the biggest and best example.

Two seasons began in syndication, then moved to CBS where it went into premieres. It even had one season specifically for its cable syndication (The Vacation in Europe episodes for its USA Cartoon Express run).

Also I'm not sure if this counts as what you describe, but Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, Aladdin, Hercules, and 101 Dalmatians had their ABC premiere episodes going on while syndication was still premiering new stuff for some areas.
 
The Mask started off on CBS for S1, then moved into weekday syndication for S2 while simultaneously airing new episodes on CBS.

Beetlejuice is another example. After two seasons on ABC, it got 65 new episodes on Fox kids in addition to a final 8 episode season on ABC the same year.
 
The "Jumanji" animated series aired its first 2 seasons on UPN Kids from 1995 to 1997, (it did air on UPN in the 97-98 season, but it was reruns) and aired its third season on the syndicated BKN Kids Block in 1998.
 
Sailor Moon and Dragonball Z both made their debuts in syndication before moving to Cartoon Network with *new* episodes, although SM made a brief stop on USA's Action Extreme Team beforehand.

Superfriends also had a few exclusive to syndication eps (The 7 minute shorts) that aired in other countries, but never got aired on ABC.

Snorks moved from NBC to syndication with new episodes, as did Gummi Bears (although Gummi Bears made a pit stop on ABC inbetween).

Super Mario Bros moved from syndication to NBC's Saturday Morning lineup.

Dennis the Menace aired it's first season in syndication, then aired a 2nd season of new eps on CBS two years later.

Care Bears had one season on ABC, then moved into syndication with new eps along with the DIC produced episodes.
 
The Lion King's Timon and Pumbaa was in syndication for new weekday episodes and CBS for new Saturday Morning episodes from 1995 to 1997, and back in syndication in 1998.

Sabrina: TAS was in Syndication and ABC (when Disney bought DiC) in 1999 and 2000.
 
Disney never bought DiC separately. It was part of the package when they bought DiC's parent company at the time, Capital Cities/ABC. DiC was a minor studio at Disney, even causing Greg Weisman to leave the company after hearing the studio would be producing what would be the final season of Gargoyles, The Goliath Chronicles, which moved from syndication to ABC.

Hey, I added to the conversation!

Anyway, long story short, DiC became independent in the 21st century after Andy Heyward and a group of investors bought the studio, the library, and recently, international rights to those series. Strangely, for at least a period of a year, the two studios that were always synonymous with each other, DiC and Saban Entertainment, were both units of Disney.
 
Don't know if this counts, but in 1963, "Quick Draw McGraw" moved from syndication to CBS Saturday Morning and ran for three seasons until 1966, though no new episodes were produced.
 
This might *technically* count, but Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog was originally developed for ABC, but they rejected the series, so it was instead produced for weekday syndication, and we got Sonic SATAM in it's place, and the rest is history.
 
Wow. I just learned something new today.
So that means for a brief period of time, Disney owned what was possibly the largest library of children's programming in the world.
 
And that might also explain why EVERY Dic produced show except for Sabrina vanished off of Toon Disney's schedule after 2001.

Wish Kid, Wizard of Oz, New Archies, The Littles, Sonic the Hedgehog, etc, and every other show all vanished all around the same time.
 
No. Disney came and still is at a very close second (with Disney's own output, and The Fox Kids/Saban library, and others), to the more #1 superior Time Warner library, with the Warner Bros. Cartoons, the DC Animated Output, the Warner Bros. Animation library, the pre-1986 MGM cartoons (except the Pink Panther and Ant And The Aardvark), Hanna-Barbera's library, Ruby-Spears, and The Cartoon Network Studios/Williams Street library.

Fox was at third until 2001, when they (and Saban) sold its library (except the two Power Rangers movies, odd) to Disney. Now, they're fifth with the Fox prime time animated output, and some classic toons.

Viacom is third with Nickelodeon/MTV's animated output.

CBS is fouth with Terry Toons, and other cartoons, like Duckman and etc.
 
Does that one really count? It's not so much a move to a network, as a new series was produced for network TV. That is, SMBSS and the 2 follow ups are sepperate productions.

That said, a lot of DIC shows popped up in network runs from time to time. inspector Gadget has a brief run in 1992 on CBS. I think Cops was renamed Cybercops, and it aired reruns in a network run for a time.
 
I think it would. All three shows were produced by Dic, and they seem to share continuity (at least SMBSS and SMB3, barring the voice cast change). I'll bet that had SMB been picked up by USA's Cartoon Express, all three shows would have been aired back to back.
 
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