As mentioned in this article, Operation Prime Time was a co-operative effort by local TV stations to provide network worthy syndicated movies and series. Which of the programs do you remember (especially ones that aren't included in the above article)? Which of your local stations aired OPT? And do you think OPT was successful, or did it miss a chance to become a "fourth network" before Fox?
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Didn't OPT have something to do at least in the beginning with the Hercules/Xena package? I don't know if OPT offered enough regular series to be considered a "fourth network," though I suppose it could have evolved into one. In my area, with no indie stations, I can't remember the OPT miniseries running here; though their weekly series, if I recall correctly, were divided between two network affils and run mainly on weekends in off hours. The CBS station had ET (in the prime-access slot), Solid Gold, and Lifestyles; while the ABC affil had Star Search.
In the Bay Area, KTVU(now Fox o & o ) aired Operation Prime Time programming, in the usual slot for its nightly '8 O'Clock Movie'. I was a little young for most of it, although I definitely watched 'Yogi's First Christmas'.
The last time the OPT name was used was at the end of 1986, when Fox was barely on the air (At that point, it was just 'The Late Show' with Joan Rivers; they didn't do prime-time programming until the spring of '87).
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