Boy Meets World - Syndication

Syndication

Disney-ABC Domestic Television (sister company to Touchstone Television, now ABC Studios) currently handles the syndication rights to the series.

Boy Meets World reruns began airing in off-network syndication from September 8, 1997 and ran until September 2000. During the latter month, Disney Channel assumed syndication rights (leaving season 7 as the only season that did not air on off-network syndication), with the series running on the cable channel until 2007. To the consternation of some longtime fans of the show, Disney Channel edited many episodes that contained scenes with suggestive content deemed inappropriate for the channel's target audience of 7-14 year olds. All 158 episodes aired during the series' initial run on the Disney Channel, however due to the adult subject matter and complaints from parents, Disney Channel omitted three episodes from later airings: season five's "If You Can't Be with the One You Love..." (due to its depictions of underage drinking) and "Prom-ises, Prom-ises" (whose main storyline involves Cory and Topanga contemplating losing their virginity on the night of their prom), and season six's "The Truth About Honesty" (due to its sexual references).

ABC Family has aired Boy Meets World from 2004 to August 2007 and again since April 1, 2010. Though the network in a way inherited the syndication rights to the show from Disney Channel, the episode prints broadcast by ABC Family differed from those seen on Disney Channel and in broadcast syndication as it incorporated scenes cut from the Disney Channel broadcasts (though small portions of certain scenes from episodes during the earlier seasons were cut due to time constraints) and featured the three episodes that Disney chose not to air, incorporated each season's corresponding opening title sequence, and restored the placement of the teaser scenes during the season one episodes to running before the opening titles in the manner that they were shown in the original ABC telecasts (instead of having the cast and creators' names shown during the teasers). The series also began airing on MTV2 in November 2011.

Internationally, reruns of the series have been broadcast on ABC Spark, the Canadian version of ABC Family, since the network debuted in March 2012. In Brazil, the show was aired by SBT (terrestrial television) and Disney Channel Brazil (cable television) to the year 2005.