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

Paul Christenzen picz65 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 28 13:10:04 PDT 2011


I think the "slight connection" has stretched to the breaking point - do 
we really care who watched what, when and where? Can we please get back 
to 78's?

Is there a discography/history of Hit Of the Weeks available in "paper" 
form?

thanks, Paul
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djwein wrote:
> I grew up in Brooklyn, NY - as I recall, WNEW, WOR and especially WPIX ran
> old syndicated series all the time.  And in the morning, WCBS ran LEAVE IT
> TO BEAVER and FATHER KNOWS BEST for years.
>
> Dave Weiner
>
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> From: djwein<djwein at earthlink.net>
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>    
>> 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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