Michael Bayus said:
Are any of these top 40 markets?
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Major affiliates still carrying classic B&w shows
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Are any of these top 40 markets?
Yes, there are Sunday School lesson plans based on The Andy Griffith Show.
Up till about 7 - 8 years ago, WABC-TV NYC would run the b & w TV show Topper at 4:30am Sundays, unless the late Sat. night movie ran late. Sometimes Channel 7 would chop the show up to fit a 20 - 25 min. gap between the end of the movie and the start of Sunday morning shows.
I have no idea why they chose this old TV show, which was about a wealthy British man (Leo G. Carroll) who was haunted by a fun-loving couple and a St. Bernard dog who all died in a ski slope avalanche. According to Wikipedia, Topper moved into their house after their death. The show only ran two seasons on CBS from 1953 to 1955.
To show the couple are ghosts, they appear somewhat transparent on the film and their voices echo. The couple are usually seen in ski apparel, I suppose wearing what they died in. Comedy results from them teasing Topper when other people are around him who can't see or hear them. No one can figure out why Topper seems to be talking so oddly, when he's really responding to what the ghosts are saying to him.
Eventually Channel 7 retired Topper and started using another obscure old half-hour TV show, The Guns of Will Sonnett, starring Walter Brennan. This show only ran a couple of seasons, from 1967 to 1969, according to Wikipedia. This show was filmed in color, so Topper is the last black and white show to air on a major NYC network affiliate.
Until very recently, maybe just a few months ago, WPIX 11 NYC would run The Honeymooners, late nights on Saturday. But checking this week's TVGuide.com listings, I don't see The Honeymooners on the WPIX schedule. So I guess no major TV station in NYC regularly runs any b & w shows at this point. WPIX once a year would do a Honeymooners marathon on New Year's. But now that they don't even run the show once a week, I'm not sure about that tradition at this point.
I know that KPTV 12 in Portland Oregon has been running Perry Mason for decades at noon on weekdays. So Portland still has a weekday b & w show on its Fox affiliate.
Gregg
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I have no idea why they chose this old TV show, which was about a wealthy British man (Leo G. Carroll) who was haunted by a fun-loving couple and a St. Bernard dog who all died in a ski slope avalanche. According to Wikipedia, Topper moved into their house after their death. The show only ran two seasons on CBS from 1953 to 1955.
To show the couple are ghosts, they appear somewhat transparent on the film and their voices echo. The couple are usually seen in ski apparel, I suppose wearing what they died in. Comedy results from them teasing Topper when other people are around him who can't see or hear them. No one can figure out why Topper seems to be talking so oddly, when he's really responding to what the ghosts are saying to him.
Eventually Channel 7 retired Topper and started using another obscure old half-hour TV show, The Guns of Will Sonnett, starring Walter Brennan. This show only ran a couple of seasons, from 1967 to 1969, according to Wikipedia. This show was filmed in color, so Topper is the last black and white show to air on a major NYC network affiliate.
Until very recently, maybe just a few months ago, WPIX 11 NYC would run The Honeymooners, late nights on Saturday. But checking this week's TVGuide.com listings, I don't see The Honeymooners on the WPIX schedule. So I guess no major TV station in NYC regularly runs any b & w shows at this point. WPIX once a year would do a Honeymooners marathon on New Year's. But now that they don't even run the show once a week, I'm not sure about that tradition at this point.
I know that KPTV 12 in Portland Oregon has been running Perry Mason for decades at noon on weekdays. So Portland still has a weekday b & w show on its Fox affiliate.
Gregg
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^ Topper?!?!?? Wow!
What stations do run the B&W Honeymooners? ME-TV shows them in their ads, but it isn't on the schedule anywhere.
Gregg said:
Did WABC-TV show Topper from 35mm or (ugh) 16mm reduction prints?
In eastern New York... WTEN 10 (ABC) ... up until early this past winter, ran I Dream of Jeannie and The Munsters every Sunday morning at 11. Then for what I recall as being several years?-- they ran Perry Mason, nightly I think, after midnight. That stopped a couple years ago though. So at present..............nothing.
This is by no means a major market, but it is a CBS affiliate. KBNZ in Bend, Oregon, according to their current listings, runs an hour of Andy Griffith and an hour of I Love Lucy on weekday afternoons instead of more current syndicated fare. I need to actually go back to their listings to see whether they do any of this on weekends, even if it's running more classic color series, but still that seemed to surprise me.
Did a lot of indie stations run Perry Mason at noon for decades as a tradition? Thought KOFY in San Francisco did that for a while and who knows what other stations might have done this, but I might be misremembering about KOFY.
Did a lot of indie stations run Perry Mason at noon for decades as a tradition? Thought KOFY in San Francisco did that for a while and who knows what other stations might have done this, but I might be misremembering about KOFY.
KOFY still runs Perry Mason at noon. Until fairly recently, they were running it twice a day, with the first showing at 8 AM...and this was when ME-TV was still on then-KFTY in Santa Rosa, where it aired somewhere between the KOFY airings.
A few months ago, as part of the transition of ME-TV to KOFY's subchannel, KOFY dropped the morning airing of 'Mason', and ME-TV has since moved it to late nights.
A few months ago, as part of the transition of ME-TV to KOFY's subchannel, KOFY dropped the morning airing of 'Mason', and ME-TV has since moved it to late nights.
Gregg said:
During this same period WABC-TV was also airing the Chuck Connors western Branded, the first season (16 episodes) of which was filmed in B&W.
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