[78-L] For old timey TV fans..slight 78RPM connection

[Michael Biel]

From: Philip Carli <Philip_Carli at pittsford.monroe.edu>
> GIDGET and THE MONKEES were syndicated on at least one LA station in the mid-70s
> (and I remember MONKEES on XETV, the independent San Diego station at the same time),

The mid-70s was 35 years ago.

> and CAR 54 was prominently featured on Nick at Nite about twelve years ago
> -- they even made some quite funny commercials about the series, like
> advertising "The Gunther Toody School of Elocution" (which consisted of
> various shots of Joe E. Ross going "Oo-oo!!"). PC

Twelve years ago.  It looks now like OTTV (Old Time TV) is just as much
in the past as OTR (Old TIme Radio) is.  And 78s.  We are losing our
heritage.

Mike (old timer) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

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From:  David Breneman [david_breneman at yahoo.com]


From: djwein <djwein at earthlink.net>


>I don't know about shows needing to have 100 episodes to make syndication
>viable. I can remember seeing many one and two-season series in syndication
>in the 60s and 70s - GIDGET, THE TIME TUNNEL, THE JETSONS, MY MOTHER THE
>CAR, CAR 54, THE INVADERS, ROOM FOR ONE MORE, THE MONKEES, and even
>DICKENS-FENSTER.


Wow, I don't think I've seen any of those shows in syndication.
I saw a couple episodes of The Time Tunnel edited into a "movie"
on TV around 1980. Also a few episodes of "Stingray" (in Super-
Marionation!) also edited into movies around 1990. You must
have lived in a much more short-run tolerant syndication market
than I did.