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

[David Lennick]

Anyone noticed that we never did identify the slight 78RPM connection in my 
original post, which was about I'm Dickens, He's Fenster? Come on, students.

dl

On 10/28/2011 4:10 PM, Paul Christenzen wrote:
> 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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Subject: Re: [78-L] For old timey TV fans..slight 78RPM connection
>>
>>
>> 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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