Me-TV adding missing episodes to its library

[ShawnHill1]

Me-TV just announced that starting in November, it'll add missing episodes (and entire seasons) to shows in its programming library that it previously didn't have rights to. Among the following shows:

• Hawaii Five-O (seasons 8-12, plus cliff-hanger episodes featuring the Five-O squad battling arch-nemesis Wo Fat)
• The Bob Newhart Show (season 6)
• Petticoat Junction (seasons 1 and 2 [AKA the Black-and-white years])
• Cannon (season 5, plus missing episodes from seasons 2 and 4)
• Emergency! (two-part episodes that didn't previously air on Me, likely to be shown on Saturday nights)

There's one other notable show in its library that wasn't listed--My Three Sons. They haven't announced anything regarding airing the black-and-white episodes (seasons 1-5), but I would imagine that's coming in the future. However, that's all they have for now.

 

[Thomps2525]

Oh boy! We'll finally get a chance to re-watch the Petticoat Junction episodes that featured the original cast. During the first two seasons, Bobbie Jo Bradley was played by Pat Woodell and Billie Jo Bradley was played by Jeannine Riley (who would later co-star on Hee Haw). In 1965, Woodell was replaced by Lori Saunders and Riley was replaced by Gunilla Hutton (who would later co-star on Hee Haw). Beginning in 1966, a third actress played Billie Jo: Meredith MacRae (who, surprisingly, did not later co-star on Hee Haw).

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Speaking of MeTV...
They've recently burned through the last ('62-'63) season of Leave It To Beaver (the one with the jazzier theme and the open where the Cleavers go for a ride in Ward's new--and shrunken--'62 Plymouth), and have returned to season one.

In the several (season one) episodes I've noticed, they begin with the open, followed by the episode's short set up tease (voice-over by Ward). But didn't these early shows actually begin with the tease, followed by the open?

 

[dave73]

Me-TV just announced that starting in November, it'll add missing episodes (and entire seasons) to shows in its programming library that it previously didn't have rights to. Among the following shows:

• Hawaii Five-O (seasons 8-12, plus cliff-hanger episodes featuring the Five-O squad battling arch-nemesis Wo Fat)
• The Bob Newhart Show (season 6)
• Petticoat Junction (seasons 1 and 2 [AKA the Black-and-white years])
• Cannon (season 5, plus missing episodes from seasons 2 and 4)
• Emergency! (two-part episodes that didn't previously air on Me, likely to be shown on Saturday nights)

There's one other notable show in its library that wasn't listed--My Three Sons. They haven't announced anything regarding airing the black-and-white episodes (seasons 1-5), but I would imagine that's coming in the future. However, that's all they have for now.

I wonder for the Petticoat Junction episodes from seasons 1 & 2, if they're the episodes that are fully intact, or the public domain episodes. Seasons 1 & 2 are in the public domain, & likely have the theme songs taken out, like what was done with the 55 episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies that are in the public domain.

For My Three Sons, I don't remember the last time I saw the black & white episodes on TV. I know they were shown on MeTV when it was just in Chicago. I don't remember if Weigel aired those episodes on MeToo in Chicago, which is now the Chicago MeTV.

Too bad the ownership of Green Acres got separated from the other Filmways shows, since MGM owns the rights to that show, but CBS owns the rights to Petticoat Junction & Beverly Hillbillies. Weigel still holds the Chicago rights to Green Acres, & airs it on MeToo, while Tribune has the national rights, & moving it to Antenna TV from This TV next month.

 

[Markxxx]

For the love of God won't someone please bring back Mama's Family. Even on DVD....LOL

 

[Braves2005]

The Bob Newhart Show in syndication has always shown season 6 to my knowledge (Nick at Nite, WGN, TBS, FamilyNet/Rural TV, local stations) so why didn't the syndicators let Me-TV have that season unless that season wasn't remastered.

 

[potnoodle]

For the love of God won't someone please bring back Mama's Family. Even on DVD....LOL

Time Life released the entire series (available only on through their website) as well as Seasons 1 and 2 in stores in September. FYI, these episodes are for the most part unedited and come with a ton of special features.

 

[visaman]

Yes, the first few episodes had a teaser, that practice had stopped midway through season 1.

 

[onairb]

Yes, the first few episodes had a teaser, that practice had stopped midway through season 1.

Were those teasers edited out of the syndicated run in the '70s and '80s? I'm not sure I saw them until I caught some season 1 episodes on Netflix.(Nick at Nite may have kept them, as well, but I haven't watched much 'LITB' since it left syndication.)

 

[onairb]

The Bob Newhart Show in syndication has always shown season 6 to my knowledge (Nick at Nite, WGN, TBS, FamilyNet/Rural TV, local stations) so why didn't the syndicators let Me-TV have that season unless that season wasn't remastered.

I recall seeing the final episode on Nick at Nite(not as big a deal as the 'Newhart' finale in 1990, although it left the Hartleys in a situation that was ignored in the 1991 anniversary special, even though that show contained a number of references to Bob's 'Vermont innkeeper' dream).

 

[bpatrick]

I thought that on the last episode of "The Bob Newhart Show" in 1978, Bob
and Emily were about to move to Oregon. Yet the "Newhart" finale apparently
had them back in Chicago. What gives? Did Bob Hartley not like Oregon or what?

I can see how "Newhart" would be on RFD-TV (or whatever it was called before),
if only for the rustic characters like Larry, Darryl, and Darryl. But the '70s "Bob
Newhart Show" doesn't seem to be a good fit for that channel. But I'll take the
show wherever I can find it; it was my favorite of the CBS Saturday-night block
in the '70s.

 

[bpatrick]

I thought that on the last episode of "The Bob Newhart Show" in 1978, Bob
and Emily were about to move to Oregon. Yet the "Newhart" finale apparently
had them back in Chicago. What gives? Did Bob Hartley not like Oregon or what?

I can see how "Newhart" would be on RFD-TV (or whatever it was called before),
if only for the rustic characters like Larry, Darryl, and Darryl. But the '70s "Bob
Newhart Show" doesn't seem to be a good fit for that channel. But I'll take the
show wherever I can find it; it was my favorite of the CBS Saturday-night block
in the '70s.

 

[onairb2014]

Since the ratings for 'The Bob Newhart Show' were terrible in its final season, that last episode got nowhere near the attention of the 'Newhart' finale. I think the producers/writers of the special were smart to ignore that move to Oregon...although they could have just dismissed it as another of Bob's dreams!