"I Love Lucy" on Hallmark Channel

[glc]

How "restored" (for lack of a better word) are the episodes they're airing? The reason why I'm asking is that this morning they ran the episode where they left for California. It included the entire scene where all four (in the car) sang "California, Here I Come". I don't recall seeing that scene when other channels have showed that episode in recent years.

 

[vjm]

How "restored" (for lack of a better word) are the episodes they're airing? The reason why I'm asking is that this morning they ran the episode where they left for California. It included the entire scene where all four (in the car) sang "California, Here I Come". I don't recall seeing that scene when other channels have showed that episode in recent years.

Even though it's the same show, each network that runs it edits it their own way.

You gotta understand that when it was originally shown, there was about 25-26 minutes of actual show with about 4 minutes or so worth of commercials.

Nowadays, you get 21-22 minutes of show, with the rest being ads...and they'll even snip out credits to squeeze 1 more ad in there.

 

[FredLeonard]

I saw the episode several weeks ago on a local station and it did include "California, Here I Come."

VJM is right: Everybody edits it their own way, and some show a lot more respect for the original program than others. Some even seem to let computers do the editing and cut out in the middle of things, possibly at some designated time. It even seems like if they sell if a few more spots, they cut out more.

Then there's the practice of windowing - they show the closing credits in one window, while they play the opening of the next show in another window (and even a promo crawl in another).

 

[Braves2005]

Hallmark's picture quality of I Love Lucy looks like the syndicated prints from back in the 1970's than it does anything else but at least the episodes haven't been edited all to pieces like TV Land has done with I Love Lucy although TV Land's I Love Lucy has better picture quality but a ton load of edits. The first part of an episode where Lucy gets gas at the service station and come to find out that they are in Bent Ford, Tennessee where Tennessee Ernie Ford lives there is completely cut out on TV Land switching over to where Lucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel are in the sheriff's office in Bent Ford.

 

[cd637299]

I can only see Lucy via MeTV.

The added commercial time means 3 things that can happen to a classic TV show as shown now:

(1) Edit some dialogue that won't affect the plot;
(2) Time-compress the audio, making the characters talk faster (if anyone ever saw ION's short-lived Green Acres run, they'll tell you---made GA sound like Dobie Gillis);
(3) Run the show as a 35-40 minute show.

Otherwise, original DVDs are the only other option.

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[FredLeonard]

I can only see Lucy via MeTV.

The added commercial time means 3 things that can happen to a classic TV show as shown now:

(1) Edit some dialogue that won't affect the plot;
(2) Time-compress the audio, making the characters talk faster (if anyone ever saw ION's short-lived Green Acres run, they'll tell you---made GA sound like Dobie Gillis);
(3) Run the show as a 35-40 minute show.

Otherwise, original DVDs are the only other option.

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TVLand often does option three. Only problem is they don't accurately reflect this in the online schedules. So, it's impossible to Tivo their shows - you get the end of the previous show and the beginning of the show you want. Not the whole show. As a result, I don't watch TV land. No loss. They have stopped showing "classic TV" and now show fairly recent, mediocre TV.

 

[anotherguyTN]

I can only see Lucy via MeTV.

The added commercial time means 3 things that can happen to a classic TV show as shown now:

(1) Edit some dialogue that won't affect the plot;
(2) Time-compress the audio, making the characters talk faster (if anyone ever saw ION's short-lived Green Acres run, they'll tell you---made GA sound like Dobie Gillis);
(3) Run the show as a 35-40 minute show.

Otherwise, original DVDs are the only other option.

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Too many times I think TV Land does both options 1 and 3. They show an edited episode and still overload it with ads to where it runs 35 to 40 minutes. And that also applies to newer shows that were already shorter than the older ones.

 

[azumanga]

Hallmark's picture quality of I Love Lucy looks like the syndicated prints from back in the 1970's than it does anything else but at least the episodes haven't been edited all to pieces like TV Land ...

If so, I wonder if they actually used syndicated prints from the 1970s. In the mid-2000s, I caught the end to "My Three Sons" on Hallmark which had the late-1970s Viacom "Purple V of Doom" closing, which by that time was almost all but extinct. Someone also mentioned that one of the episodes on Hallmark had an even earlier early-1970s Viacom "pinball" closing ("Vi", "A" and "Com" sliding into view with bells ringing each time), which until now was all but gone.

 

[Braves2005]

Hallmark's picture quality of I Love Lucy looks like the syndicated prints from back in the 1970's than it does anything else but at least the episodes haven't been edited all to pieces like TV Land ...

If so, I wonder if they actually used syndicated prints from the 1970s. In the mid-2000s, I caught the end to "My Three Sons" on Hallmark which had the late-1970s Viacom "Purple V of Doom" closing, which by that time was almost all but extinct. Someone also mentioned that one of the episodes on Hallmark had an even earlier early-1970s Viacom "pinball" closing ("Vi", "A" and "Com" sliding into view with bells ringing each time), which until now was all but gone.

I remember when I watched I Love Lucy on TBS around 1984 when we first got cable, I saw the Viacom Purple V of Doom at the end of the show. Before that, when I saw I Love Lucy on the San Antonio station (KENS-5) they didn't have that as they would go straight to a commercial after the announcer said "I Love Lucy Is A Desilu Production". But I do wonder when they first syndicated the show in 1967 was there a CBS Films logo or did they go to a commercial after the announcer.

 

[BD Sullivan]

I can only see Lucy via MeTV.

The added commercial time means 3 things that can happen to a classic TV show as shown now:

(1) Edit some dialogue that won't affect the plot;
(2) Time-compress the audio, making the characters talk faster (if anyone ever saw ION's short-lived Green Acres run, they'll tell you---made GA sound like Dobie Gillis);
(3) Run the show as a 35-40 minute show.

Otherwise, original DVDs are the only other option.

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When the Hub showed Batman for a few years, they definitely used #2 (at least for the opening credits), but they cut out little if any of the shows, since I saw scenes I hadn't seen in decades.