Retro: NY Metro Area; Friday, July 6, 1979

[harrisburgpatv2]

Thanks, hburgpa! Despite being a teenager and tv fanatic in '79, I've never heard of this show. No wonder I couldn't find it. I was Googling "Bedtime Stories the comedy" and getting something much more recent. This looks like it was one of the biggest bombs in game show history. I wonder how many markets cleared it (or few as the case might be)?

You're welcome! I can tell you in also doing some google searches I came across an ad for it for WNEW-TV 5 in NYC, so I know it at least ran there. I'll have to look at some of my old TVG's...

 

[onairb]

Except for one thing - the syndicated version wouldn't premiere until that September (not counting "Match Game PM", which was already running on WABC). I've seen this listing before and have always wondered what exactly was running in the slot - old MG'79 episodes, or did they happen to be able to get a jump start on the syndicated version?

I could have sworn that somewhere I'd read about an afternoon syndicated version that aired around 1977.

 

[harrisburgpatv2]

I could have sworn that somewhere I'd read about an afternoon syndicated version that aired around 1977.

Perhaps in some parts of the country MG PM may have aired earlier in the afternoon, but in 77, besides MG PM, MG '77 was the only other MG in town. MG '77 *did* air in the afternoon in '77 @ 3:30pm (EST), but, in the move some say was the beginning of the end for it, moved it to 11:00am in November.