"Happy Days (Again)"; "Laverne & Shirley (& Company)"

[DToTheJ]

OK... I realize the reason these shows were titled as such during the start of their syndication runs in the late '70's/early '80's was to distinguish from the first-run shows on network TV. But how necessary was this? I believe these were the only series to ever use this method.

 

[Tim L]

OK... I realize the reason these shows were titled as such during the start of their syndication runs in the late '70's/early '80's was to distinguish from the first-run shows on network TV. But how necessary was this? I believe these were the only series to ever use this method.

We briefly talked about this in another recent thread. Many series over the years used alternate titles, even in daytime network runs

Badge 714 (Dragnet)
Susie (Private Secretary)
Love That Bob! (Bob Cummings Show)
The McCoys (Real McCoys)
Trailmaster (Wagon Train)
CHiPs Patrol (CHiPs)
Emergency One! (Emergency!)


I am sure there are many others..

 

[dagrudt]

Andy of Mayberry (The Andy Griffith Show)
Ponderosa (Bonanza)

 

[wbhist]

- Robert Young, Family Doctor (Marcus Welby, M.D.)
- Jim Rockford, Private Investigator (The Rockford Files)
- The Raymond Burr Show (Ironside)

 

[Hal Erickson]

Here's some more network programs that were syndicated under different titles, usually because the "orginal" was still running on-network, but not always:

-San Francisco Beat (original network title: The Line-Up)
-Follow That Man (Man Against Crime)
-Captured (Gangbusters)
-Federal Men (Treasury Men in Action)
-Jeff's Collie (Lassie)
-Brave Stallion (Fury)
-Adventures in Sherwood Forest (Adventures of Robin Hood)
-Foreign Legionaire (Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion)
-If You Had a Million (The Millionaire)
-Jet Jackson (Captain Midnight)
-Herald Playhouse (Schlitz Playhouse of Stars)
-Robert Young, Family Doctor (Marcus Welby MD)
-Emergency One! (Emergency)
-The Raymond Burr Show (Ironside)
-Jim Rockford, Private Investigator (Rockford Files)

There were even some syndicated programs that were re-syndicated under different titles either to avoid sponsor conflict or so they could be sold directly to TV stations rather than individual sponsors. The most famous example
is Death Valley Days, which was broken up into several "sub-series" with such titles as The Pioneers, Trails West,
Western Star Theater and Call of the West. And in some markets, Highway Patrol was seen on one channel under its orginal title and as "Ten-Four" on a rival channel!

 

[gr8oldies]

"University" Medical Center.(instead of just Medical Center)

If they'd have had to do that with M*A*S*H, what would they have called it? 4*0*7*7?

 

[mleach]

When "Alice" was about to enter syndication, the title was supposed to be "Mel's Diner" but series star Linda Lavin had a fit so the synidcated version of Alice..stayed well "Alice".

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

--"More Real People" (Real People) (half-hour edited versions of originally hour-long shows)
--"Three's Company, Too" (Three's Company)
--"The Ted Knight Show" (Too Close for Comfort)

 

[radioman148]

Wasn't a morning version of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" on the air while the show was still in production?

 

[ixnay]

That syndicated Banana Splits whose mention mleach inexplicably edited out (bad boy, mleach) was called The Banana Splits and Friends Show (at least the eps that aired on WKBS-48 Philadelphia [COL Burlington, NJ] in the mid-'70s). It lasted 1/2 hr.

Some eps featured Splits skits ("Hey Fleagle, get the mail!" I sometimes mutter to myself as I cross the front yard to my mailbox sometimes*), shorts of Danger Island, Three Musketeers, Arabian Knights, etc. Other eps might have Fleagle introducing eps of The Adventures of Gulliver, The Adventures of Huck Finn, Atom Ant (plus Precious Pupp and Hillbilly Bears), or Secret Squirrel (plus Winnie Witch and Squiddly Diddly**).

I've seen the Brady ep filmed at Kings Island***, but I had no idea Partridge visited there too. Then again I was more of a Brady than a Partridge devotee. The sight of Alice running frantically across the park with Mike's blueprints, giving them in the nick of time to save his business deal, will stay with me forever, as will the lame version of the William Tell Overture that accompanied it.

Back to the Splits: I always thought the amusement park scenes were filmed at Six Flags Over Texas.

*I've never had a visit from the Sour Grapes Bunch, though.
**In kindergarten I had a Atom/Secret lunchbox.
*** Didn't Drooper of the Splits appear for +/- two seconds in that episode?
ixnay

 

[mleach]

That syndicated Banana Splits whose mention mleach inexplicably edited out (bad boy, mleach) was called The Banana Splits and Friends Show (at least the eps that aired on WKBS-48 Philadelphia [COL Burlington, NJ] in the mid-'70s). It lasted 1/2 hr.

Some eps featured Splits skits ("Hey Fleagle, get the mail!" I sometimes mutter to myself as I cross the front yard to my mailbox sometimes*), shorts of Danger Island, Three Musketeers, Arabian Knights, etc. Other eps might have Fleagle introducing eps of The Adventures of Gulliver, The Adventures of Huck Finn, Atom Ant (plus Precious Pupp and Hillbilly Bears), or Secret Squirrel (plus Winnie Witch and Squiddly Diddly**).

I've seen the Brady ep filmed at Kings Island***, but I had no idea Partridge visited there too. Then again I was more of a Brady than a Partridge devotee. The sight of Alice running frantically across the park with Mike's blueprints, giving them in the nick of time to save his business deal, will stay with me forever, as will the lame version of the William Tell Overture that accompanied it.

Back to the Splits: I always thought the amusement park scenes were filmed at Six Flags Over Texas.

*I've never had a visit from the Sour Grapes Bunch, though.
**In kindergarten I had a Atom/Secret lunchbox.
*** Didn't Drooper of the Splits appear for +/- two seconds in that episode?
ixnay

LOL...shorty after I had posted that info about The Banana Splits, I went back and quickly re-read the part ( actually 2 lines ) about the show in the book about the history of Cincinatti's Coney Island Park written by Charles Jacques. The more I read it, the more I got the impression from Jacques that Hanna-Barbara was planning on doing a new version of the Banana Splits..but alas..they didn't.

According to a number of theme park related sites..only the train scene at the end during the credits was shot at Six Flags over Texas while the rest, including the entire opening was shot at Coney Island Cincinatti.Now the segments themselves..I don't know..maybe those were shot at Six Flags over Texas and other amusement parks and places..I know one show the Splits did was shot at Denver's Elitch Gardens while another one I can remember was shot along the streets of San Francisco as well as Fishersman's Wharf.

Taft Broadcasting would close Coney Island on Labor Day 1971 due to constant flooding ( flooding so high it just about topped the ferris wheel )..however most of the rides and employees would move to Taft's new theme park that being Kings Island which opened the next year..in 1972.

 

[ixnay]

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That syndicated Banana Splits whose mention mleach inexplicably edited out (bad boy, mleach) was called The Banana Splits and Friends Show (at least the eps that aired on WKBS-48 Philadelphia [COL Burlington, NJ] in the mid-'70s). It lasted 1/2 hr.

Some eps featured Splits skits ("Hey Fleagle, get the mail!" I sometimes mutter to myself as I cross the front yard to my mailbox sometimes*), shorts of Danger Island, Three Musketeers, Arabian Knights, etc. Other eps might have Fleagle introducing eps of The Adventures of Gulliver, The Adventures of Huck Finn, Atom Ant (plus Precious Pupp and Hillbilly Bears), or Secret Squirrel (plus Winnie Witch and Squiddly Diddly**).

I've seen the Brady ep filmed at Kings Island***, but I had no idea Partridge visited there too. Then again I was more of a Brady than a Partridge devotee. The sight of Alice running frantically across the park with Mike's blueprints, giving them in the nick of time to save his business deal, will stay with me forever, as will the lame version of the William Tell Overture that accompanied it.

Back to the Splits: I always thought the amusement park scenes were filmed at Six Flags Over Texas.

*I've never had a visit from the Sour Grapes Bunch, though.
**In kindergarten I had a Atom/Secret lunchbox.
*** Didn't Drooper of the Splits appear for +/- two seconds in that episode?
ixnay

LOL...shorty after I had posted that info about The Banana Splits, I went back and quickly re-read the part ( actually 2 lines ) about the show in the book about the history of Cincinatti's Coney Island Park written by Charles Jacques. The more I read it, the more I got the impression from Jacques that Hanna-Barbara was planning on doing a new version of the Banana Splits..but alas..they didn't.

According to a number of theme park related sites..only the train scene at the end during the credits was shot at Six Flags over Texas while the rest, including the entire opening was shot at Coney Island Cincinatti.Now the segments themselves..I don't know..maybe those were shot at Six Flags over Texas and other amusement parks and places..I know one show the Splits did was shot at Denver's Elitch Gardens while another one I can remember was shot along the streets of San Francisco as well as Fishersman's Wharf.

Taft Broadcasting would close Coney Island on Labor Day 1971 due to constant flooding ( flooding so high it just about topped the ferris wheel )..however most of the rides and employees would move to Taft's new theme park that being Kings Island which opened the next year..in 1972.

So THAT explains the sudden disappearance of your Splits spiel. If I seemed snitty, I apologize. Good job rechecking your research, mleach.

ixnay

 

[firepoint525]

Tacking on "& Company" to Laverne and Shirley makes it Laverne and Shirley and Company, which in my mind conjures up memories of Shirley and Company, the disco group who had the minor hit "Shame, Shame, Shame" in the '70s. Did the producers of the show not realize this connection? Or maybe they did, and just tried to use it to their advantage.

 

[kirkiefan]

Still more...

1950s:
If You Only Had A Million (The Millionaire)
Sergeant Bilko (The Phil Silvers Show)
Katie (The Ann Southern Show)

1960s:
The King and Odie (King Leonardo and His Short Subjects)
The Rocky Show (Rocky and His Freinds)
Uncle Waldo's Cartoon Show (Hoppity Hooper)
The Dick Van Dyke Daytime Show (The Dick Van Dyke Show)
The Phyllis Diller Show (The Pruitts of Southampton)
Karen (part of 90 Bristol Court program block)
Harris Against The World (part of 90 Bristol Court program block)
Tom Dick and Mary (part of 90 Bristol Court program block)
TW3 (That Was The Week That Was)

1970s:
McMillan and Wife (part of NBC Mystery Movie)
McCloud (part of NBC Mystery Movie)
Columbo (part of NBC Mystery Movie)

 

[Toledo Eleven]

And then there's the half-hour episodes of "Gunsmoke", first shown as repeats on CBS and then syndicated as "Marshal Dillon."

 

[Yeziknoradio]

Yes but "Happy days again" makes it sound like it's years later...
(which would have been very interesting to watch...)

 

[Stanislav]

Yes but "Happy days again" makes it sound like it's years later...
(which would have been very interesting to watch...)

It does kind of sound like a sequel, doesn't it? Like What's Happening Now or The Munsters Today. (The less said about the latter, the better...)

 

[John Murphy]

Don't forget "Timmie and Lassie" ("Lassie") and "Brave Stallion" ("Fury")!

 

[Yeziknoradio]

Yes but "Happy days again" makes it sound like it's years later...
(which would have been very interesting to watch...)

It does kind of sound like a sequel, doesn't it? Like What's Happening Now or The Munsters Today. (The less said about the latter, the better...)

I believe they had a reunion, but fell short of putting together a modern happy days (again).

Same with Laverne and Shirley.

 

[gr8oldies]

Yeah I remember the Happy Days reunion. They had both "Chucks".