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Little Rascals on ME-TV

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eggsdannythomas

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SO we wake up on Sunday morning to watch "Our Gang" and much to my dissapointment ME-TV showed the colorized versions.

Now we all know that colorization was a big flop and people hated it when it was introduced in the eighties. The only time you might see a colorized flick is occasionaly on one of Turner's networks. Terrible Ted cannot admit defeat, but why would ME-TV go with colorized Rascals?

Could it be that these are the only versions available? Ironically my wife's favorite Little Rascals episode was on, Darla and Alfalfa put on some type of musical, and it looked like crap.

First "Mad About You" and now this? C'mon ME-TV, show the B/W versions!

P.S. I noticed SONY has released the Stooges on DVD with Colorized and B/W versions on the same disc. Why? For 20 years people have hated colorization, it's never gonna catch on. I'm sure they think younger kids wont watch Black and White shows -- I got news for them, with all the choices kids have nowadays, the last thing they'll watch is the Stooges and Our Gang, Black and white OR color.
 
> The only time you might see a colorized flick is occasionaly on one
> of Turner's networks. Terrible Ted cannot admit defeat

A bit off topic, but Ted Turner hasn't been associated with the networks that carry his name for several years now. He was forced out shortly after the disastrous AOL Time-Warner merger.
 
> SO we wake up on Sunday morning to watch "Our Gang" and much
> to my dissapointment ME-TV showed the colorized versions.
>
> Now we all know that colorization was a big flop and people
> hated it when it was introduced in the eighties. The only
> time you might see a colorized flick is occasionaly on one
> of Turner's networks. Terrible Ted cannot admit defeat, but
> why would ME-TV go with colorized Rascals?
>
> Could it be that these are the only versions available?
> Ironically my wife's favorite Little Rascals episode was on,
> Darla and Alfalfa put on some type of musical, and it looked
> like crap.
>
> First "Mad About You" and now this? C'mon ME-TV, show the
> B/W versions!
>
> P.S. I noticed SONY has released the Stooges on DVD with
> Colorized and B/W versions on the same disc. Why? For 20
> years people have hated colorization, it's never gonna catch
> on. I'm sure they think younger kids wont watch Black and
> White shows -- I got news for them, with all the choices
> kids have nowadays, the last thing they'll watch is the
> Stooges and Our Gang, Black and white OR color.
>


Too funny.. I just posted something about this on the Classic TV board. For some reason I never minded colorized versions but I think you lose a lot of the "feel of the period" with the colorized versions.

Then again, the newer younger viewers would most likely never have seen the B&W versions so they wouldn't know the difference.<P ID="signature">______________
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Little Rascals on ME-TV - Edited or Not?

What prints are they running? King World prints that were sliced up back in 1971? or the prints edited like they were for AMC? Were some of the edited gags brought back on the colorozed prints?
 
Re: Little Rascals on ME-TV - Edited or Not?

> What prints are they running? King World prints that were
> sliced up back in 1971? or the prints edited like they were
> for AMC? Were some of the edited gags brought back on the
> colorozed prints?
>

Couldn't tell you, the colorized versions suck so bad, I just flipped to ESPN until the Stooges came on.
 
Re: Little Rascals on ME-TV - Edited or Not?

> > What prints are they running? King World prints that were
> > sliced up back in 1971? or the prints edited like they
> were
> > for AMC? Were some of the edited gags brought back on the
> > colorozed prints?
> >
>
> Couldn't tell you, the colorized versions suck so bad, I
> just flipped to ESPN until the Stooges came on.
>
You could turn the color off on your TV...

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