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MTM! WKRP! Newhart! Starting tonite on American Life

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Legend City

While TVLand becomes TVBland, American Life puts on good shows.

Great to hear, and you can watch WKRP with the original music, not the bastardized version on the DVD.
 
Legend City said:
you can watch WKRP with the original music, not the bastardized version on the DVD.
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...or the (presumably the same) bastardised version that was on Nick-at-Nite.

I wonder how American Life was able to pull this one off, considering that they don't have the coverage or deep pockets like Nick-at-Nite.
 
Is it Newhart's 70's or 80's show?

I'll be very like to watch ALN in prime time more now regardless of the fact the Moonies own it.
 
Both!

The 80's Newhart, the first season was pretty bad, filmed on videotape and with a boring girl and the very unfunny neighbor.

And everyone's favorite "Hi Bob" version from the 70's.

Until Peter Scolari and the other woman and Larry and Darryl and Darryl came on board, the show didn't find its way.

As for WKRP, its great to see it on air again, tonite was the pilot with a different Mother Carlson.
 
From what I found out looking at the schedule the pilot episodes for all four shows were shown tonight. That would have been a great night to record them all, but it was too late for anything other than the second run of The Bob Newhart Show. :(
 
Legend City said:
As for WKRP, its great to see it on air again, tonite was the pilot with a different Mother Carlson.
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Of course, Sylvia Sidney played the Big Guy's mom on the WKRP pilot, but Carol Bruce played her when the show went to series.
 
As wonderful as this line-up is, it seems "American Life" did almost no promotion about the adding of these shows, while they started announcing the addition of St. Elsewhere/Hill Street Blues/L.A. Law weeks before they began.

BTW for fans of "77 Sunset Strip", it was moved up to 8pm on Monday night and repeats at 1am eastern.
 
Now I've got two nights of TV I can actually look forward to and enjoy, but what happened to Surfside 6 and Bourbon Street Beat?
 
"Surfside 6" & Burbon Street Beat" don't seem to be on their schedule any longer.

"Hawaiian Eye" also appears to be gone...dang it!
 
did WKRP have the original music or the generic kind? i need to know because i would like to see if comcast would get this channel on our cable and i would love to see episodes of the original 'KRP with music intact
 
Boy, do I wish DirecTV had American Life TV. With
its faults it still seems to have TVLand beaten (it
sounds like you're not subjected to Gunsmoke or
Bonanza everytime you turn on that channel).

Re "Bourbon Street Beat" and "Surfside 6," "Bourbon"
lasted only one season (1959-60) and "Surfside" (despite
the fact that it's quite well-remembered by baby boomers),
only two (1960-62), so American Life probably ran out of
episodes pretty quickly. "Hawaiian Eye" went four seasons
(1959-63), and "77 Sunset Strip" six (1958-64, although you
might want to pass on the last season, when Jack Webb
took over as producer and turned Stu Bailey into a globetrotting
detective--or was it spy? Shades of turning "Burke's Law" into
"Amos Burke, Secret Agent" in the fall of 1965; the audience didn't
buy into it and the whole show was canceled in January 1966.)
 
It is in the digital tier on my cable system (Bright House Networks). :) Thanks for the heads up, as the only time I ever watched ALN was for "Flea Market Mania". Was a slow TV day....
 
Where is this channel? Is it only on cable some places? Sounds right up my alley!
 
American Life seems to be cable-only unless it's been added to Dish and DirecTV in the last five minutes.

Usually found in the digital section of one's cable system, ALN appears to have limited distribution.
 
"Hawaiian Eye" went four seasons
(1959-63), and "77 Sunset Strip" six (1958-64, although you
might want to pass on the last season, when Jack Webb
took over as producer and turned Stu Bailey into a globetrotting
detective--or was it spy?
To hear Efrem Zimbalist tell the story, Webb tried to turn his character into Joe Friday.
 
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