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

[Darrell Lehman]

I'm late to this discussion but both Gidget and The Monkees are 
currently (or were a couple weeks ago) being broadcast on Retro TV or 
one of the "new" digital people.  I can find out for sure if anybody cares

Michael Biel wrote:
> 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
>
> ________________________________________
> 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.
>
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