Editing TGIF (TV programming block) (section)

====Special events====
On November 23, 1995, ABC scheduled a music special for ''[[The Beatles Anthology]]''. To promote the special on the previous Friday (November 17), the respective opening theme songs for all of the ''TGIF'' sitcoms were replaced with [[The Beatles|Beatles]] songs, regardless of the individual shows' plot with the exception of ''Boy Meets World'', which used a song by [[The Monkees]] as its theme that week (as the episode featured a guest appearance by the group's members).

On May 9, 1997, ''TGIF'' aired special episodes of two series (one on its regular lineup and another normally scheduled on Sundays) as part of ABC's "3D Week", a week-long event (running from May 6 to May 12) intended to promote the two-part miniseries ''[[20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997 miniseries)|20,000 Leagues Under the Sea]]'' (which aired on May 11 and 12) featuring special episodes of ABC shows incorporating [[3D television|3D effects]] viewable with the aid of [[3-D glasses|special glasses]] available at [[Wendy's]] restaurants. (''Boy Meets World'', ''Sabrina, the Teenage Witch'' and ''Step by Step'', the latter of which ironically was preempted, did not feature episodes utilizing the 3D gimmick.) Hosted by Brandon Call and [[Jason Marsden]] (as their ''Step by Step'' characters J.T. Lambert and Rich Halke), it featured the eighth season finale of ''Family Matters'' ("A Pirate's Life For Me", also the last new episode to air on ABC due to the show's planned move to CBS for the 1997–98 season) and a new episode of ''[[America's Funniest Home Videos|America’s Funniest Home Videos]]'' at 9:30&nbsp;p.m. ET, which was original host Bob Saget's penultimate episode and featured appearances by most of his former ''Full House'' castmates, sans the [[Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen|Olsen Twins]]. (Saget's final episode as host, the $100,000 eighth season finale, aired nine days later on May 18.)

On May 16, 1997, the block aired an hour-long [[Magic (supernatural)|magic]] special, ''All-Star TGIF Magic'' (which aired in place of ''Family Matters'' and ''Boy Meets World'' in the 8:00&nbsp;p.m. ET slot that week), coinciding with the May 19 airing of the special ''[[David Blaine]]: Street Magic'' (the first of several magic specials featuring Blaine—who co-hosted that night's block with Call, as his ''Step by Step'' character—that ABC aired into the 2000s). The special, hosted by [[Caroline Rhea]] (who played [[Hilda Spellman]] on ''Sabrina'' at the time), featured current and past ''TGIF'' stars performing magic acts including Bronson Pinchot (of ''Perfect Strangers'' and, at the time of the special's broadcast, ''Step by Step''), [[Jodie Sweetin]] (of ''Full House''), Ben Savage (of ''Boy Meets World''), Raven-Symoné (of ''Hangin' with Mr. Cooper''),  Tia and Tamera Mowry (of ''Sister, Sister'', which by then was airing on The WB) and Jason Marsden (of ''Step by Step''); along with appearances by [[Donna D'Errico|Donna D' Errico]], [[Jonathan Lipnicki]] and R&B group [[All-4-One]].

On November 7, 1997, all four ''TGIF'' shows that night had a storyline (TGIF Time Machine, "Time Goes Insane Friday") in which Salem from ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996 TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' (voiced by [[Nick Bakay]]) caused the characters in each show to travel back to a different point in time – the result of the [[warlock]]-turned-[[anthropomorphism|anthropomorphic]] cat having swallowed a "time ball". On an episode of ''Boy Meets World'' aired the previous week (October 31), [[Melissa Joan Hart]] made a second cameo, as an aside, due to the episode in question ("The Witches of Pennbrook") featuring a plot involving a coven of witches—led by a character played by former ''Full House'' co-star [[Candace Cameron Bure]]—being thwarted from taking the soul of supporting main character Jack Hunter (played by [[Matthew Lawrence]]); the cameo featured fellow main character Eric Matthews ([[Will Friedle]]) describing the event and swearing off witches, not realizing that Sabrina is one.

Musical group [[Hanson (band)|Hanson]] hosted ''TGIF'' on November 28, 1997 (during Thanksgiving weekend) as a tie-in to their half-hour music special ''Meet Hanson''. Between each show and leading up to the special's 9:30&nbsp;p.m. ET broadcast, segments showed the group in the studio, "commanding" the shows to come on, and at one point even incorporating ''TGIF'' into their mega-hit song "[[MMMBop]]".