Usage of stock or archive footage in comedy

[George White]

All a matter of greed.
From: imdb, Major changes were made to most episodes for syndication. The 60-minute episodes were edited down to 30 minute packages, with major edits to some of the 30-40 minute segments of the original shows. In cases of segments that were only 15-20 minutes in length, these were padded out by adding stock footage, newly shot scenes, and footage from Hollywood movies such as Silent Running (1972) and Fahrenheit 451 (1966). Most musical cues were also replaced for syndication. In order to augment "Night Gallery"'s syndicated run, episodes of The Sixth Sense (1972) were edited down to 30 minutes, had new introductions by Rod Serling tacked on, and were added to the syndicated run of "Night Gallery."

[boki]

The US sitcom Dream On made heavy use of old TV clips to reflect the main character's inner monologue, as someone who was raised on TV as a kid.  Must have made it difficult to repeat or release, and Wikipedia tells me that only the first couple of seasons got home releases.

[George White]

JW Wayne's World 2 and immediately recognised the stock shot of Del Preston's flat from the 1992 Murder, She Wrote Tinker, Tailor, Liar, Thief.

Also, the 1977 McCloud London Bridges use a stock shot of the West End from the first ep of Randall and Hopkirk - Deceased.

[George White]

Watching the Night Gallery box set and the syndicated cuts of the eps (which were probably the ones aired in Britain) often were padded out with stock footage from other films (mainly Universal).

Stock footage of Frankenstein (1931) -the Housekeeper
Bengal Brigade used in Night Gallery - The Doll.   
Fahrenheit 451, Silent Running - The Different Ones
Curucu, Beast of the Amazon - Logoda's Heads
Colossus, the Forbin Project - Little Girl Lost
Jigsaw (1968), The House of Frankenstein - The Hands of Bogardus Weems
The Animal World - The Painted Mirror
The Birds (1963)- Big Surprise
The Sixth Sense - Coffin, Coffin in the Sky (1972 ep) - The Flipside of Satan
This Island Earth - The Camera Obscura

Night Gallery itself in its original form used
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) castle establishing shot in Quoth, the Raven  and Smile, Please.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969) - footage of Sherborne School playing Brookfield School is used to play an 1820s New England medical college.

Universal TV cheapness is also why Frankenstein (1931) appears in the Doctor Who TVM (1996).

Stock footage of Parliament from 1977's The 3000 Mile Chase recurs in Murder She Wrote - the Classic Murder. The 3000 Mile Chase also uses footage of Oakley Court from something or other to play Dublin.

[Glebe]

JW Wayne's World 2 and immediately recognised the stock shot of Del Preston's flat from the 1992 Murder, She Wrote Tinker, Tailor, Liar, Thief.

Haha, really?! Watching Knives Out again the other night, there's a bit where Ana de Armas' mum is watching M,SR dubbed in Spanish.

[George White]

Haha, really?! Watching Knives Out again the other night, there's a bit where Ana de Armas' mum is watching M,SR dubbed in Spanish.

MSW

WW2

[Glebe]

Cripes!

[superthunderstingcar]

They are clearly not the same. The man in the bowler hat is nowhere near the ladder in the second pic.

[George White]

It's cuts from the same footage, just different seconds. I used screengrabs from IMCDB.