Comments on: What Was the Best Late Season TV Callback to an Early Episode? https://popculturereferences.com/what-was-the-best-late-season-tv-callback-to-an-early-episode/ Brian Cronin takes a look at interesting pieces of pop culture history from the worlds of TV, film, music and more. Tue, 08 Jul 2025 06:08:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: access here https://popculturereferences.com/what-was-the-best-late-season-tv-callback-to-an-early-episode/#comment-67238 Tue, 08 Jul 2025 06:08:38 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=2958#comment-67238 … [Trackback]

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]]> By: Xander https://popculturereferences.com/what-was-the-best-late-season-tv-callback-to-an-early-episode/#comment-5632 Wed, 05 Oct 2022 18:42:14 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=2958#comment-5632 I think the final season of Angel–when they realized they weren’t being renewed–did a lot of good callbacks to previous seasons, but my favorite was when Cordelia returned and found the recording of Doyle and his “our rats are low” commercial. Given that the actor had passed away by that time, it was a nice way of fitting him into the final season without getting too cringe-worthy.

]]> By: Arran Haynes https://popculturereferences.com/what-was-the-best-late-season-tv-callback-to-an-early-episode/#comment-5626 Wed, 05 Oct 2022 13:49:55 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=2958#comment-5626 I don’t know if this qualifies as a callback, but I’ve always liked the Cheers finale when Sam adjusts the picture of Geronimo — it was a picture that the actor who played Coach had kept in his dressing room and was added to the set after his death.

Also, wasn’t there a nod to Henry Blake in the M*A*S*H finale or am I making that up?

]]> By: Kevin Woods https://popculturereferences.com/what-was-the-best-late-season-tv-callback-to-an-early-episode/#comment-5623 Wed, 05 Oct 2022 12:20:30 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=2958#comment-5623 In the 2020 season of Doctor Who the big Twist was that there were Doctors before William Hartnell, as she realised this they showed a clip of 6 previous Doctors from the episode Brain Of Morbius from 1976, possibly the longest Direct Call back in TV History

]]> By: Rob London https://popculturereferences.com/what-was-the-best-late-season-tv-callback-to-an-early-episode/#comment-5608 Tue, 04 Oct 2022 20:52:37 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=2958#comment-5608 The same guy who delivered Martin’s chair to Frasier’s apartment in the Frasier pilot comes to pick it up in the finale.

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