NBC began airing Full House reruns in a daily daytime strip during the summer of 1991.
This was an unusual arrangement because Full House was an ABC series in its original run. NBC temporarily programmed reruns of the early seasons in daytime, giving viewers a weekday opportunity to revisit the sitcom before its broader off-network syndication launch.
The daytime run helped bridge the gap between the end of the show’s original Friday-night period and the syndicated distribution that began in the fall of 1991. Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution subsequently offered the series to local stations, where Full House became a highly recognizable repeat staple.
The network is easy to confuse with ABC because ABC commissioned and originally broadcast the series. It is also easy to associate the reruns with later cable homes such as TBS, TV Land, Nick at Nite, ABC Family, and Hallmark Channel. Those later outlets were separate from NBC’s short summer 1991 network daytime strip. NBC’s run therefore refers specifically to the early rerun window, not to the show’s original network or its later syndication history.