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Retro Television Channel

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oldiesfan2

It looks as if RTV has changed the shows they air. These are all gone from my local affiliate:

Marcus Welby, M.D.
Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Suspense Theater
A-Team
Knight Rider
Ironside
Airwolf
Kojak
Adam-12
Dragnet
Emergency!
McHale's Navy
Leave It To Beaver
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

among many others. All of those shows and any references to them are gone from their website and the "Shows" page is blank.

The schedule now has I Spy, Bill Cosby Show, Daniel Boone, Starsky & Hutch, The Saint, Cold Case Files, Da Vinci's Inquest, Police Story, Zorro, Route 66, "Movin' On" (?), Robin Hood, Celebrity Kitchen, and some other stuff. Weekends have a lot of stuff that doesn't even have to do with classic TV. A show entitled Steel Dreams (a show about vehicle fabrication), Road Classics (a show about old cars), The Great Outdoorsman, Little Miracles (a show about families with sick children), "Intelligence", "Comedy Shop", and Distant Roads (a show about culture).
 
Looks as if they may be scuffling financially and some of these look like brokered shows.
(car fabrication from some auto parts chain, oil, wax, etc. Miracle children from some
health care of pharma company, etc.) Either that or they just don't have any idea why
people watch their channel.
 
"Movin' On"--as is the Claud Atkins "Route 66 in a semi" series? Wow.

Only 45 episodes of those...they will burn through those pretty quickly. However, I would guess it's a frugal pick up for the channel.
 
DaVinci's Inquest is from the CBC from about 5 or so years ago. It was shot in Vancouver. But unlike many shows done in Vancouver that try to pretend the setting is a location in the U.S. (21 Jump Street, X Files) they discuss Vancouver, its neighborhoods and politics, quite specifically.

It's a very good show. DaVinci is the city Coroner or Medical Examiner, so he visits all fatal crime scenes. He's a former cop, he has his quirks and he's friends with the homicide detectives in Vancouver. In NYC it still runs late Sunday nights (around 1:30am) on Channel 7 WABC-TV.


Gregg
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