For the last few days ME TV has been promoting a "BIG" announcement concerning a fall premiere to be made during the "Night Gallery" episode this Thursday night. Kind of a odd time for a major announcement to be made. Anyone figure out or know what this is?
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ME TV's "BIG" NEWS
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Hmm. I'm guessing it's just an announcement that "The Twilight Zone" is coming off hiatus. Given that it's being done in it's old time slot.
Maybe they're bringing back Remington Steele, since it did so well the last time. 
71dude said:
They already show The Big Valley afternoons.
Considering the timeslot the announcement is coming - most likely it's DARK SHADOWS (1255 episodes) which as been in the works for sometime according to reports.
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mysticnitekatt said:
The original "Dark Shadows" actually consists of 1225 episodes.
Mario500 said:
With one of those episodes having only selected bits of video due to a screwup, forcing the syndicators to have Lara Parker (aka Angelique) narrate and reminisce about the show.
I've read that the episodes from the first year (pre-Barnabas) were erased, so the syndicated package begins with episode 210. (This is the first episode on Netflix, which goes to episode 370, and skips #290 completely; maybe that was the missing one. At any rate, the syndicated package should include all those episodes on Netflix, plus the remaining ones afterward, but there is no way to get the complete series.BD Sullivan said:
Incorrect. When the show was on the Sci Fi Channel (pre-SyFy), they started at the actual beginning. There are networks that don't want to bother with the pre-Barnabas episodes, but that hardly makes sense to eliminate between 15-20% of the total episodes.onairb said:
BD Sullivan said:
As far as I know, SyFy had shown the entire series, including one episode where they only had the audio, relying only on stills to provide the graphics. Including that stopgap, I believe the entire series exists, including the first color episode (which, alas, exists only as a black and white kinnie).
azumanga said:
They did show the whole series a few times. That first color episode does exist in its original form, though it didn't happen until August of '67. There are a number of episodes in which only a kinescope exists.
The Big announcement was the new fall schedule, which I'll post here:
metvnetwork.com/files/Me-TV_Network_Q4_2013_Eff_9-2-13_EP.pdf
No "Dark Shadows", but they are getting "Gilligan's Island", "F Troop", and "Wanted Dead or Alive" (weeknights), and "The Love Boat" (Sundays).
They're taking a page from Antenna TV and having a block of different sitcoms every night at 10 (such as Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, Dick Van Dyke "Rhoda" and "Taxi")
They also are doing kind of a cop/detecive block on Sunday afternoons, with "Remington Steele", "Rockford Files", "Kojak" and the like.
They'll still do their long standing western block on Saturday afternoons, "Svengoolie" Saturday nights, and the "Brady Bunch" Brunch on Sundays.
metvnetwork.com/files/Me-TV_Network_Q4_2013_Eff_9-2-13_EP.pdf
No "Dark Shadows", but they are getting "Gilligan's Island", "F Troop", and "Wanted Dead or Alive" (weeknights), and "The Love Boat" (Sundays).
They're taking a page from Antenna TV and having a block of different sitcoms every night at 10 (such as Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, Dick Van Dyke "Rhoda" and "Taxi")
They also are doing kind of a cop/detecive block on Sunday afternoons, with "Remington Steele", "Rockford Files", "Kojak" and the like.
They'll still do their long standing western block on Saturday afternoons, "Svengoolie" Saturday nights, and the "Brady Bunch" Brunch on Sundays.
I'm glad they're bringing back Taxi, but I very likely won't be able to see it because the sorry way WBBJ in Jackson, TN only carries it for filler.
After reading that schedule, I think they should call it 'MEH-TV.' Their prime time lineup is still too beholden to MTM programming, even if they are trying to mix things up a bit. It's a little too much like the old 'Nick at Nite Block Party' schedule. And, after being one of the few channels that hadn't adopted a 'Monday-Thursday' weeknight schedule, now they're going in another direction on Fridays, with old 'TV movies'(just how old, I wonder? "ABC Movie of the Week" stuff?) Seems to me they could have either finally dropped Svengoolie and used Saturday as a 'movie night'..or just put Svengoolie on at midnight either on Friday or Saturday.(I think it's time to swap time slots with 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' and 'Get Smart').
ME-TV continues to waste some good shows in the worst time slots, and is still burning other shows to a crisp in the evenings.
ME-TV continues to waste some good shows in the worst time slots, and is still burning other shows to a crisp in the evenings.
onairb said:
I agree. There's minimal change, with a lot of time shifts for a few shows. They're bringing back The Untouchables in place of Kojak, which replaced The Untouchables a year ago.
I'm somewhat surprised they're keeping Naked City (even if it is on late Sunday night/early Monday morning) since the final episode will air a week from Sunday/Monday. In that final episode is an early TV appearance by Dustin Hoffman.
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