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Commercial Sitcom Reruns on PBS Station

Markxxx

Markxxx

Last night I was kind of surpised to see WYCC Channel 20 PBS in Chicago running "The Lucy Show."

I posted a question about it on the Chicago board.

Apparently it is not so unheard of.

Question is what other sit-coms or other commercially rerun shows have been shown on your local PBS affilates

I know Lawrence Welk is a common one, as where the colored episode of "The Honeymooners." (the ones with Sheila MacRae as Alice).

Other sitcoms and commerical shows
 
> Last night I was kind of surpised to see WYCC Channel 20 PBS
> in Chicago running "The Lucy Show."
>
> I posted a question about it on the Chicago board.
>
> Apparently it is not so unheard of.
>
> Question is what other sit-coms or other commercially rerun
> shows have been shown on your local PBS affilates
>
> I know Lawrence Welk is a common one, as where the colored
> episode of "The Honeymooners." (the ones with Sheila MacRae
> as Alice).
>
> Other sitcoms and commerical shows
>

Vermont Public TV ran Burns and Allen along with Jack Benny with commercials, the originals.
 
> Last night I was kind of surpised to see WYCC Channel 20 PBS
> in Chicago running "The Lucy Show."
>
> I posted a question about it on the Chicago board.
>
> Apparently it is not so unheard of.
>
> Question is what other sit-coms or other commercially rerun
> shows have been shown on your local PBS affilates
>
> I know Lawrence Welk is a common one, as where the colored
> episode of "The Honeymooners." (the ones with Sheila MacRae
> as Alice).
>
> Other sitcoms and commerical shows
>

WKNO channel 10 in Memphis ran the original Twilight Zone in the late 90's until it went exclusively to Sci-Fi. They also had a series on Saturday nights in the mid-90's called TV to Remember that carried shows from the 50's and included episodes of different series like Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, and You Bet Your Life, mostly ones that are available on public domain DVDs now.<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by ccmfan on 07/17/05 01:11 AM.</FONT></P>
 
> Question is what other sit-coms or other commercially rerun
> shows have been shown on your local PBS affilates
>
> I know Lawrence Welk is a common one, as where the colored
> episode of "The Honeymooners." (the ones with Sheila MacRae
> as Alice).

WUFT 5 in Gainesville, Fla., has shown the original Twilight Zone, as well as The Honeymooners, (The Best of) Your Show of Shows, and SCTV in the 1980s.

The PBS station in my area, WJCT 7 in Jacksonville, Fla., is currently showing Lawrence Welk.
 
> Last night I was kind of surpised to see WYCC Channel 20 PBS
> in Chicago running "The Lucy Show."
>
> I posted a question about it on the Chicago board.
>
> Apparently it is not so unheard of.
>
> Question is what other sit-coms or other commercially rerun
> shows have been shown on your local PBS affilates
>
> I know Lawrence Welk is a common one, as where the colored
> episode of "The Honeymooners." (the ones with Sheila MacRae
> as Alice).
>
> Other sitcoms and commerical shows
>
>
> The PBS station in Wilkes-Barre, PA ran "Star Trek" through the mid-to-late 80s. A friend of mine used to tape them for me. Must have been an expensive show to run, at least on a PBS budget...
 
>> Vermont Public TV ran Burns and Allen along with Jack Benny
> with commercials, the originals.
>


WNEO/WEAO 45/49 Akron/Youngstown Has run Burns and Allen and Wendy And Me (ABC 1964-65), George Burns' Followup to Burns and Allen with Connie Stevens basically playing the Gracie part though she actually played the tenant of an apartment building Burns "owned"
 
WQLN in Erie, PA airs Lawrence Welk on Saturday and Sunday nights from 7-8 PM. They also have aired Canada's Red Green Show for a long time, presently on Sunday nights at 10:30 PM. Although Red Green is presently produced by the CBC, it was produced by private broadcasters in its earlier years - first CHCH, then CFPL-TV, then Global (CIII).
 
> Other sitcoms and commerical shows on PBS statons?

From the early to mid 1980s until the early 1990s, NJN (New Jersey Network), the PBS network in New Jersey (seen on Channels 50 Montclair, NJ, 58/New Brunswick, NJ, 52/Trenton, NJ and 23/Camden, NJ) aired the 1960s drama "The Fugitive." During commerical breaks, they would show promos for other shows. Around 1990 or 1991, "The Fugitive" fled NJN.

-Mike
 
I seem to recall some PBS stations ran "The Prisoner" some years back.

Also. I believe many years ago, some ran "Victory at Sea" too.


<P ID="signature">______________
"Be seeing you..."</P><P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by CrankyYankee on 07/17/05 07:47 PM.</FONT></P>
 
> I seem to recall some PBS stations ran "The Prisoner" some
> years back.
>
> Also. I believe many years ago, some ran "Victory at Sea"
> too.
>

Iowa Public TV ran both of those, too. Also they ran SCTV the first year it was in syndication, long before it went to NBC.

The Lawrence Welk programs are on quite a few PBS stations, but it's offered by Oklahoma Public TV, edited with each program hosted by a former member of the Welk group. I guess it could be classified as a commercial program turned into a public TV offering.
 
Re: Red Green

> WQLN in Erie, PA airs Lawrence Welk on Saturday and Sunday
> nights from 7-8 PM. They also have aired Canada's Red Green
> Show for a long time, presently on Sunday nights at 10:30
> PM. Although Red Green is presently produced by the CBC, it
> was produced by private broadcasters in its earlier years -
> first CHCH, then CFPL-TV, then Global (CIII).
>

WKNO in Memphis showed Red Green once during a fund drive, supposedly claiming that they were going to start showing it on a regular basis, but once the fund drive was over it was never seen again. :-(
 
> Question is what other sit-coms or other commercially rerun
> shows have been shown on your local PBS affilates

KBYU/11 in the Salt Lake City Market still does this, carrying the following commercial reruns:

Sundays
4:30pm Little House on the Prairie TVG
5:16pm Little House on the Prairie TVG
6:02pm The Andy Griffith Show TVG, CC
6:30pm My Three Sons TVG
7:00pm Perry Mason TVG, CC

Weekdays
6:00pm Little House on the Prairie TVG
10:30pm Perry Mason TVG, CC
11:16pm The Andy Griffith Show TVG, CC
11:39pm I Love Lucy TVG, CC

Saturdays
7:00pm The Lawrence Welk Show TVG
8:00pm The Andy Griffith Show TVG, CC
8:23pm I Love Lucy TVG, CC
8:47pm My Three Sons TVG
9:13pm Perry Mason TVG, CC

One of the most unusual examples I've ever seen of commercial programs on a public TV station was on KCPQ/13 in Tacoma, WA in 1976. This was a commercial station that had been bought out of bankruptcy and converted to public TV operation. When they signed back on as a PBS station, they carried over the Saturday night wrestling show that had run on the prior commercial incarnation of the station -- and covered the commercial breaks with promos and public service announcements.

I don't think they did this for very long though. And, in any event, this station only remained as a public TV station for four years, returning to commercial operation in 1980.
 
> The Lawrence Welk programs are on quite a few PBS stations,
> but it's offered by Oklahoma Public TV, edited with each
> program hosted by a former member of the Welk group. I
> guess it could be classified as a commercial program turned
> into a public TV offering.
>

Arkansas Educational TV also runs Lawrence Welk on Saturday nights along with a host of Brit-coms.
 
...WTTW/11 Chicago ran "Dave Allen at Large" for at least ten years on Sunday nights. This wasn't the original BBC non-commercial edition, but the American Time-Life commercial edit that was first distributed in 1979 (WVTV/18 Milwaukee ran it as a weeknight strip in '79-'80)...

...more recently, I've seen the old kinescopes of Red Skelton and Tennessee Ernie Ford run on WVTV/10 Milwaukee, KDTN/2 Denton and/or KERA/13 Dallas with commercials intact...<P ID="signature">______________
King Daevid MacKenzie. How Radio is done. No brag, just fact.
WLSU, Wisconsin Public Radio, La Crosse
http://ultimajock.blogspot.com
"Fear and God do not inhabit the same space." DICK GREGORY</P>
 
My Saint Louis area PBS station KETC has shown reruns of I Spy in the past.


> Last night I was kind of surpised to see WYCC Channel 20 PBS
> in Chicago running "The Lucy Show."
>
> I posted a question about it on the Chicago board.
>
> Apparently it is not so unheard of.
>
> Question is what other sit-coms or other commercially rerun
> shows have been shown on your local PBS affilates
>
> I know Lawrence Welk is a common one, as where the colored
> episode of "The Honeymooners." (the ones with Sheila MacRae
> as Alice).
>
> Other sitcoms and commerical shows
>
 
> The Lawrence Welk programs are on quite a few PBS stations,
> but it's offered by Oklahoma Public TV, edited with each
> program hosted by a former member of the Welk group. I
> guess it could be classified as a commercial program turned
> into a public TV offering.
>

The same goes for reruns of Ed Sullivan, whose recent run of reruns has been edited for public TV.
 
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