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Retro TV now airing reruns of soap "The Doctors"

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easttxtv

(as opposed to the syndie medical info show)

http://www.welovesoaps.net/2014/09/the-doctors-debuts-on-retro-tv-with-2.html
http://www.myretrotv.com/news/retro-tv-announces-launch-date-for-the-doctors

It airs starting today at 12p ET (11a CT), with 2 weekday back-to-back eps (starting off from 1967-era shows). The Doctors is the latest US daytime soap to be aired regularly in reruns (non-same-day) in the US, after Another World, Dark Shadows, The Edge of Night, Ryan's Hope, and Search For Tomorrow.

Interesting that Retro TV is airing The Doctors in the same time slot(s) that the show was last aired in while still on NBC. And, with that slot comes the same soap competition that those last NBC airings had: The Young & the Restless.
 
Now all we need is for a competing nostalgia channel to start rerunning (again) "Ryan's Hope," the third show in the 12:30 slot at the time "Search For Tomorrow" moved to NBC and "The Doctors" moved to 12. (I was rather unhappy when SoapNet pulled "RH," which was one of my favorites in first-run and still think was the best-written and best-acted soap, if not the most popular, that I've seen.) Unfortunately, ABC made a major mistake by moving "RH" to 12 and putting "Loving" at 12:30 ("Loving" had Agnes Nixon's name on it, and with her track record with "All My Children" and "One Life To Live," ABC tended to give her favorable treatment). The loss of so many ABC affiliates on the East Coast doomed "RH," just as I'm sure NBC suffered too many affiliate losses with "The Doctors" in the same timeslot.

Side note: when I was in high school in Alabama, my mom and I went with my dad to Mobile and there, while we were out by the pool, my mom (who was a "Doctors" fan) met a woman who had met Gerald Gordon (Nick Bellini) in an elevator in New York. I think that must have been the highlight of that woman's life; she recalled that on seeing him she practically screamed, "You're Nick Bellini!". Also, it was at one time a matter of pride here in North Carolina that James Pritchett (Dr. Matt Powers) is a native Tar Heel.

Good to have it back.
 
easttxtv said:
Interesting that Retro TV is airing The Doctors in the same time slot(s) that the show was last aired in while still on NBC. And, with that slot comes the same soap competition that those last NBC airings had: The Young & the Restless.
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Except in Los Angeles, where KFLA/8.3 runs the eastern feed of Retro, so The Doctors airs at 9:00am.
 
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