Television
- In 2004, Coronation Street retconned the Baldwin family after Mike Baldwin's nephew Danny and wife Frankie moved to the area from Essex, with their two sons Jamie and Warren. Mike had been portrayed as an only child prior to this moment, with his father appearing in the program between 1980 and 1982 to confirm the notion.
- The Young and the Restless retconned the background story of its character Cane Ashby several times. After he appeared as son of Jill Abbott, who was switched after his birth, this turned out to be a lie after Maria Arena Bell took over the position as head writer from Lynn Marie Latham. Cane then appeared as someone without a family, who took over the life of Jill's real son in order to have love and stability in his life. Cane's background hit a turn again in 2011, when he turned out to be the son of an Australian mobster, who Cane gave up to the authorities for his crimes.
- Another infamous retcon storyline on The Young and the Restless involves Phillip Chancellor, who returned from the dead in in 2009, after dying in a car accident in 1989. In storyline, Phillip apparently faked his death after he couldn't deal with his homosexuality and the ongoing fights in his family.
- First of the Summer Wine, the prequel to the long-running British sitcom Last of the Summer Wine, retconned the character Seymour Utterthwaite as a pre-World War II friend of the other central characters. Seymour had been introduced into later series of Last of the Summer Wine and was previously unknown to the stalwart characters, Compo and Clegg.
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