How many series have "split up" episodes?

[skippercollector]

How many long-running TV series are there that have only some of its episodes in a syndication package? Or how many series have some of its episodes shown on one network and the rest on another? And my biggest question: Why?!
There used to be a theory that people won't watch the older black-and-white episodes, but I disagree with that, because The Andy Griffith Show, Leave it to Beaver, I Love Lucy and The Dick Van Dyke Show air everywhere all the time.
These are the ones that I know of:
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Bewitched
Bonanza
Gunsmoke
My Three Sons
Petticoat Junction
It's very annoying.
Do you think this will happen eventually for newer long-running series such as the original Law & Order or Friends?

 

[vjm]

How many long-running TV series are there that have only some of its episodes in a syndication package? Or how many series have some of its episodes shown on one network and the rest on another? And my biggest question: Why?!
There used to be a theory that people won't watch the older black-and-white episodes, but I disagree with that, because The Andy Griffith Show, Leave it to Beaver, I Love Lucy and The Dick Van Dyke Show air everywhere all the time.
These are the ones that I know of:
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Bewitched
Bonanza
Gunsmoke
My Three Sons
Petticoat Junction
It's very annoying.
Do you think this will happen eventually for newer long-running series such as the original Law & Order or Friends?

"Lassie" actually had three different syndicated packages - "Jeff's Collie", "Timmy & Lassie", and the ranger years. Even though it was all the same show, each of these different eras had enough episodes each that it could be syndicated like 3 different shows.

The episodes with Lassie traveling alone and the Holden Ranch episodes were cobbled together to make TV movies, so they don't show up in syndication.

And with newer shows, it's more common to see the show on multiple networks (splitting daytime and nighttime rights).

Shows like "Friends", "Fraiser", "Raymond", "King of Queens", etc. are examples of this.

 

[Markieo]

"The Donna Reed Show" didn't have seasons 4, 6 or 7 included when it was released in syndication.

 

[BD Sullivan]

"Make Room for Daddy" doesn't have the first four seasons included, since the fifth season starts off with his new marriage. In the first three seasons, Danny Thomas' character was married to Jean Hagen, but she left the show after that third season. The transition year that followed hasn't been seen in decades, although the final episode of that year is on the Season 5 DVD, since it sets up the new premise by Danny proposing toi his new wife.

Supposedly, there's a more sinister reason for those early seasons being ignored. Thomas was highly irritated when Hagen (who didn't get along with him) left, and removing those episodes kept her from not only residuals, but reportedly a piece of the profits, since she was believed to own a small piece of it.

 

[FredLeonard]

"Make Room for Daddy" doesn't have the first four seasons included, since the fifth season starts off with his new marriage. In the first three seasons, Danny Thomas' character was married to Jean Hagen, but she left the show after that third season. The transition year that followed hasn't been seen in decades, although the final episode of that year is on the Season 5 DVD, since it sets up the new premise by Danny proposing toi his new wife.

Supposedly, there's a more sinister reason for those early seasons being ignored. Thomas was highly irritated when Hagen (who didn't get along with him) left, and removing those episodes kept her from not only residuals, but reportedly a piece of the profits, since she was believed to own a small piece of it.

Reportedly, the show was (what we now call) a hostile work environment for Hagen. And, after "Singing In The Rain" a big step down. With her gone from the cast, the work situation was not pleasant for Sherry Jackson, either, and she left, as well. One of Marlo's employees wrote about her experiences with Marlo and reportedly she's a piece of work, too. However, Hagen did make an appearance on "The Andy Griffith Show" a few years so either feelings had cooled by then or Sheldon Leonard did not share whatever issues Danny had with Hagen. And the woman who replaced Hagen as Danny's wife looked OK and maybe was more docile to St. Danny but was clearly a marginal acting talent.

 

[BD Sullivan]

"Make Room for Daddy" doesn't have the first four seasons included, since the fifth season starts off with his new marriage. In the first three seasons, Danny Thomas' character was married to Jean Hagen, but she left the show after that third season. The transition year that followed hasn't been seen in decades, although the final episode of that year is on the Season 5 DVD, since it sets up the new premise by Danny proposing toi his new wife.

Supposedly, there's a more sinister reason for those early seasons being ignored. Thomas was highly irritated when Hagen (who didn't get along with him) left, and removing those episodes kept her from not only residuals, but reportedly a piece of the profits, since she was believed to own a small piece of it.

Reportedly, the show was (what we now call) a hostile work environment for Hagen. And, after "Singing In The Rain" a big step down. With her gone from the cast, the work situation was not pleasant for Sherry Jackson, either, and she left, as well. One of Marlo's employees wrote about her experiences with Marlo and reportedly she's a piece of work, too. However, Hagen did make an appearance on "The Andy Griffith Show" a few years so either feelings had cooled by then or Sheldon Leonard did not share whatever issues Danny had with Hagen. And the woman who replaced Hagen as Danny's wife looked OK and maybe was more docile to St. Danny but was clearly a marginal acting talent.

The woman who replaced her, Marjorie Lord, is the mother of actress Anne Archer, who I believe made her debut in a Hawaii-Five episode as an ill-fated girlfriend of Danno.

 

[Markxxx]

I think the question's answer lies in ownership rights. A lot of times we think companies own more of the rights than they do.

Also is the cost of restoring prints. If a first or last season of a show was dead in the water, why go to the cost of restoring it?

Last Christmas I got some excellent deals on TV series complete. Yes $25 for Sanford and Son is great. This can easily kill off reruns and when you price shows low enough people WANT to buy them instead of using p2p.

Then there are mysterious ones like I read on the Jack Benny fan club site that they offered to pay for the restore costs for the old shows but whoever owned the rights said, "no." (true? I don't know).

If you look elsewhere you can see people like Cher who owns the rights to several of her unsuccessful albums from the 70s and she won't let anyone touch them. for whatever reason. Let's see how fast Chaz and Elijah Blue release them once she dies... ;D

 

[Corky Marlowe]

Is this the case for the hour long episodes of "The Twilight Zone"? SyFy doesn't seem to show them on the 4th Of July and New Year's marathons anymore, and I've never seen them on Me-TV.

 

[FredLeonard]

The woman who replaced her, Marjorie Lord, is the mother of actress Anne Archer, who I believe made her debut in a Hawaii-Five episode as an ill-fated girlfriend of Danno.

A few weeks ago, Cozi ran a Lone Ranger episode which featured Marjorie Lord married to Craig Stevens, who later played Peter Gunn on NBC, opposite Danny Thomas.

A few years after that, Peter Gunn director Blake Edwards did a movie version with a very grown up Sherry Jackson (including a nude scene). Playboy also did a "pictorial feature" on Sherry and the movie.

There's a reason why Danny Thomas' shows are not seen any more (in contrast to Andy Griffith and Dick Van Dyke); they really weren't very good - especially the post Jean Hagen CBS episodes.

The Thomas show was especially hard on Rusy Hamer, who ended up working menial jobs in Louisiana and died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at 42.

 

[anotherguyTN]

Is this the case for the hour long episodes of "The Twilight Zone"? SyFy doesn't seem to show them on the 4th Of July and New Year's marathons anymore, and I've never seen them on Me-TV.

I mentioned in an earlier thread that Netflix didn't carry the hour long episodes from season 4, and now it seems they've cut back even further. Now they're only carrying the first 2 seasons.

 

[BD Sullivan]

The woman who replaced her, Marjorie Lord, is the mother of actress Anne Archer, who I believe made her debut in a Hawaii-Five episode as an ill-fated girlfriend of Danno.

The Thomas show was especially hard on Rusy Hamer, who ended up working menial jobs in Louisiana and died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at 42.

Actually, the show probably wasn't hard enough on him. Sherry Jackson has noted that he got away with murder on the set, and the producers just laughed it off. Once the show was over, he wasn't a lovable little imp anymore, and he joined the long line of child stars who couldn't adapt to the real world.