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This is a puzzle I created for a road rally / puzzle hunt a few years ago. It shouldn't be very difficult but hopefully will be a bit of fun. This is my first puzzle, so I welcome any feedback in the comments.

TWISTED TV

The creators of this season’s new television shows have clearly run out of ideas. In fact, each of the new shows pictured or described below is a copy of an existing program with the name changed by a single letter. The original shows were popular on American television and may have aired anytime from 1950 to today. Identify the twisted show title and the original.

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Team Answer

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"Twin Peaks" => "Twin Beaks", because of the double-beaks.

2

"How To Get Away With Murder" => "Cow To Get Away With Murder", because it is about a cow.

3

"The Walking Dead" => "The Walking Head". Found by ttotherat.

4

"Glee" => "Glue". Found by puzzledPig .

5

"Dukes of Hazzard" => "Nukes of Hazzard", because it is "Dukes of Hazzard" with atomic weapons(nukes).

6

"60 Minutes" = "60 Minuses". Found by ttotherat.

7

"House M.D." => "Horse M.D.". Found by ttotherat Or, alternatively, "Mr. Ed" => "Dr. Ed". Found by Rubio.

8

"The Big Bang Theory" => "The Big Band Theory". Found by puzzledPig.

9

"Mad Men" => "Mad Hen", because of the angry hen.

10

"I Love Lucy" => "I Move Lucy", because it is "I Love Lucy" with relocating.

11

"Bones" => "Boxes" . Found by ttotherat.

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"Two Broke Girls" => "Two Broke Gills" because the fish is having trouble breathing air (obviously).

Goose
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    7 could also be -> $\color{white}{\text{Dr. Ed}}$<-? (select to show spoilers) – Rubio Mar 08 '18 at 04:38
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    Since it's a team effort, you'll probably want to select the "community wiki" checkbox on the edit page. – Bass Mar 08 '18 at 07:55
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    (When your own contribution is a considerable part of an answer, as here, I don't think there's any need to CW it. QuantumTwinkie appears to have answered 6 of 12 without outside help, and acknowledged the other 6 as coming from their respective solvers; I think making this a CW answer and foregoing the rep benefit of the effort in solving those 6 would be noble, but actually unfair to QuantumTwinkie.) – Rubio Mar 08 '18 at 09:01
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    House, MD was my intended answer, but good alternate with Dr. Ed. – Pugmonkey Mar 08 '18 at 11:24
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    @QuantumTwinkie Hope you don't mind the edit. Was just fixing the spelling of Hazzard and had to do more changes so I figured I'd clean up the formatting some – Kevin Mar 08 '18 at 15:09
  • @Rubio, how did you do that? the comment box won't take HTML for me (and Markdown has no colors). – NH. Mar 08 '18 at 20:28
  • @NH. That's MathJax markdown, which does have colors. That text is written in white. – Rubio Mar 08 '18 at 20:41
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Another partial answer:

3:

The Walking Head, playing off The Walking Dead

6:

60 Minuses, playing off 60 Minutes

7:

Horse, M.D., playing off House, M.D.

11:

Boxes, playing off Bones

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Glue? (original: Glee; if you add in a love of paste it would become "glue")

Is 8:

The Big Band Theory? (original: The Big Bang Theory; Glenn Miller is associated with big band music)

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