KTLA Goes Retro!

[ercjncpr]

If you live in Los Angeles or can receive KTLA on satellite, you're in for a short lived treat(times are Pacific Standard Time):

Friday Nov 23rd
11pm to 12 midnight The Jack Benny Show
12midnight to 1am The Honeymooners

Saturday Nov 24th
10:30pm to 11:30pm Peter Gunn

No station in LA has shown 1950s shows in an awfully long time (save for an occasional tribute or retrospective). Although this may be a Thanksgiving stunt, one can only hope that these get a good enough tune in to encourage them to try it again.

 

[ShawnHill1]

I think the last time KTLA showed The Honeymooners was about 10 years ago, and it was recently on KDOC here locally within the last year. Also, I think at one point, KTTV ran I Love Lucy reruns against The Honeymooners late nights in the early 90s.

 

[Tim-In-Houston]

KTTV is still showing I Love Lucy during the noon hour. Prior to that I think it aired from 10:00 - 11:00am.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Now if someone could only discover--still existing and in good shape--
the 35mm negatives to all the episodes of The Lineup, a 50s cop show
based in San Francisco, and put it out on DVD. (Yeah, like that'll ever
happen.) It aired for five seasons as a half-hour then wound up its run
with a half-season of one-hour shows (and partially recast).

Last night, TCM ran a 1958 feature version of the show (same title).
The film print was absolutely pristine and the location shots around
the Bay Area were simply amazing. The United DC-6B flying over
the Golden Gate was worth the price of admission alone, not to
mention the "freeway to nowhere."

 

[ShawnHill1]

KTTV is still showing I Love Lucy during the noon hour. Prior to that I think it aired from 10:00 - 11:00am.

They indeed do, as well as sister station KCOP showing an hour from 9-10am weekdays. KTTV plays a glut of episodes on weekend afternoons, the amount of showing is dependent on whether they're showing a sporting event from the network (normally a two-hour block, sometimes three hours).

Speaking of KTLA, according to a post on the L.A. TV board, as ercjncpr indicated, they're going the retro route the entire Thanksgiving weekend, starting at 11pm (Pacific time) Friday the 23rd.

http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,85656.msg640464.html#msg640464

 

[ceejay]

....... wonder if they could dig up some Beany and Cecil and maybr Space Patrol from the early fifties! Beany and Cecil were still puppets back then.

My after school buddies.

 

[Tim L]

Monday November 26:

No Space Patrol, but:

4:30am - Time for Beany (7:30 AM ET)

 

[anotherguyTN]

Will this be on satellite anywhere or on the web? That will be my only chance of seeing it.

 

[ercjncpr]

KTTV is still showing I Love Lucy during the noon hour. Prior to that I think it aired from 10:00 - 11:00am.

They indeed do, as well as sister station KCOP showing an hour from 9-10am weekdays. KTTV plays a glut of episodes on weekend afternoons, the amount of showing is dependent on whether they're showing a sporting event from the network (normally a two-hour block, sometimes three hours).

Speaking of KTLA, according to a post on the L.A. TV board, as ercjncpr indicated, they're going the retro route the entire Thanksgiving weekend, starting at 11pm (Pacific time) Friday the 23rd.

http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,85656.msg640464.html#msg640464

Sorry, I got so excited by what I did find, that I forgot to look at the rest of the schedule. I can only hope that they get good enough ratings to take a hint and schedule some more. After all they do have an auxilliary digital channel 5.5 that is not doing anything right now.