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Lost In Space comes to American Life TV!

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Don62

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Clicking through my DVR channel guide and I notice ALTV is going to air Lost In Space Thursday night, Sept. 6.

http://www.goodtv.com/programs.php?programid=LT

It's the pilot ep. where that dastardly Dr. Smith sneaks aboard the spacecraft as a stowaway!

You bet I've set it up to record.

The other night I saw the pilot for the Bob Newhart Show. Boy, did Emily look different (and younger). Must have been her hairstyle. The pilot plot was about the Hartley's wanting to adopt a baby.
 
I wish Directv would pick up Goodlife too! Hell, I wish all the cable systems would drop TV Bland and get Goodlife!
 
We had it on Warner Cable up until last year and they dropped it. Now that Comcast is in charge, I wish they would pick up the ball and run it. Wishful thinking on my part!
 
Chuck Tiller said:
We had it on Warner Cable up until last year and they dropped it. Now that Comcast is in charge, I wish they would pick up the ball and run it. Wishful thinking on my part!
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Comcast is so terrible in the area of Connecticut I live in (and Tele-Media before them was no prize, either!) I actually spent $400 to have a tree taken out so I could get my DirecTV installed. When I called Comcast about any sort of discount for those going from sat to tv and telling them up front I didn't want their bundle (as I didn't want to get cut-off by their unpublized bandwidth limit on their cable internet) they offered a $10 discount for two months and then the "regular" price was $10 short of the bundle. I told them to cram it.

Hey, It's Com-Crapstic
 
I also saw in the listings that Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Land of the Giants will also be on ALN on Thursday nights. Is this new for them as well?

If they do like they did with Mary Tyler Moore, WKRP, and both Bob Newhart shows, ALN showed the pilots or first episodes for all of them on the first night, but I didn't find out until it was too late. If they do the same thing for Thursday night it will definitely be a night worth recording.

Actually, there was an earlier pilot for Lost in Space that was in black & white and didn't include Dr. Smith in the cast. I can remember seeing it on TV once, and it may have been on the first DVD set.

I just wish that ALN would show expand their lineup of classic TV shows and show episodes of these shows more than once a week in most cases. They should cut back on the talk/information shows and infomercials during the rest of the day, and on the overkill of Combat! and The FBI.

Even with all this though, ALN has a better lineup of classic TV than anyone other than possibly RTN, which I can't get except over the web (when it works).
 
I agree. They show way too much FBI. While it's a good show, I don't need 5-6 episodes in one evening.

I notice there aren't many commercials airing during the shows, just PIs (per-inquiries). I hope this channel gets wider distribution and does well.
 
Looking forward to Time Tunnel and Giants, I've never seen them.

AM Life is great, but the commercials are all for the nearly dead.
 
I recall watching Land of the Giants when I was a child. I should have set the DVR to tape it as well. Oh, well, there's next time.

I'm just excited to see Lost In Space again and watch that heavy, that evil Dr. Smith.

Smith ranked almost as bad as Frank Burns, of MASH. Though on Lost In Space, the writers softened Dr. Smith up some, while Frank Burns remained as repulsive ever.

My favorite character on the show? The robot, of course. I wanted one just like him when I was a kid. That character, little did I know at the time, was played by three actors. One did his voice, one moved his arms, and another walked him around, according to something I read online.
 
Legend City said:
AM Life is great, but the commercials are all for the nearly dead.
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The scariest ad I've seen on ALN was for the Hoveround, with the users "wheelchair dancing" to the tune of the Beach Boys song I Get Around. :eek: I'm not ready for THAT yet!!! :p
 
anotherguy said:
Legend City said:
AM Life is great, but the commercials are all for the nearly dead.
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The scariest ad I've seen on ALN was for the Hoveround, with the users "wheelchair dancing" to the tune of the Beach Boys song I Get Around. :eek: I'm not ready for THAT yet!!! :p
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Yeah, a great rocker like that one - perhaps the BB's hardest rocker ever ( a No. 1 hit during the Year of the Beatles ) doesn't sit too well with that geriatric commercial.
 
I would like to see the American Life Channel or even Retro Network TV on my cable system but it looks like that's possibly never going to happen at all.

I would like to see shows like The FBI, Lost In Space, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, Land Of The Giants, Time Tunnel, Mary Tyler Moore, WKRP, both Bob Newhart shows, 77 Sunset Strip, etc. since some of these like The FBI, 77 Sunset Strip, and Hawaiian Eye I have never seen before except for some snippets on YouTube.

It would be great to have other shows in the FOX/Warner Brothers library that American Life can show like Remington Steele and Scarecrow and Mrs. King.
 
Don62 said:
anotherguy said:
Legend City said:
AM Life is great, but the commercials are all for the nearly dead.
Click to expand...

The scariest ad I've seen on ALN was for the Hoveround, with the users "wheelchair dancing" to the tune of the Beach Boys song I Get Around. :eek: I'm not ready for THAT yet!!! :p
Click to expand...
Yeah, a great rocker like that one - perhaps the BB's hardest rocker ever ( a No. 1 hit during the Year of the Beatles ) doesn't sit too well with that geriatric commercial.
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I agree, I want to check my pulse every few minutes. ;) But I will gladly put up with those commercials, since there's going to be commercials on any channel anyway, then to not have these shows on. Anyway that's what the DVR is for, record and skip through. 8)
 
Pilot for Lost in Space is great! Cheezy as hell, but well done, and Dr. Smith was evil, not some simpering weenie.


Land of Giants is good, but I missed Time Tunnel
 
According to this article in "Multichannel News"...
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AmericanLife TV Network is joining the video-on-demand party, offering up 20 hours of programming per month to any of TVN Entertainment’s more than 100 cable affiliates free of charge.

Programs on the nostalgia-centric digital network’s new on-demand service fall into four categories:
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“Classic TV” will feature such shows as Combat!, The Color Honeymooners and Mission: Impossible (in January).

http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6474363.html
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(You'll have to scroll down to the fifth story for the article.)
 
I'd definitely like to see Charter get that in my area, assuming that they would include their current Monday and Thursday night lineups. Turkeys Away On Demand? YES!!! 8)
 
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