Shows that haven't been seen anywhere in years

[MCarney]

Regarding "Your Hit Parade", there are two books on the subject that are good reads. One is Russell Arms' autobiography, and the other is "The Lucky Strike Papers" written by Andrew Lee Fielding. His mother was Sue Bennett, who was a featured singer on the show in the early 50s. Bea Wain was only on the radio version (as were Frank Sinartra and Doris Day).

"The Galloping Gourmet" may never see the light of day on video. Graham Kerr has disavowed himself from that style of cooking since he and his wife had health issues (she had a stroke a number of years ago). They now promote healthy cooking and eating.

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

"Angel" - the CBS-TV series from the 1960-61 season starring Annie Farge & Marshall Thompson.

This show may have made it in re-runs during daytime on the network or in syndication, but I don't think it has been shown on TV for at least 50 years. I know some of the shows - complete with commercials - can be seen on-line.

 

[jwk1979]

I've reviewed past posts and believe these have not been mentioned:

Twighlight Zone

WSMV-TV Channel 4 in Nashville still airs the Twilight Zone on Sunday nights after the late news and Sunday Sports Reports. And SyFy still does the occassional "Twilight Zone" marathons over New Years and a couple of the other holidays (July 4th, etc.).

 

[Corky Marlowe]

WSMV-TV Channel 4 in Nashville still airs the Twilight Zone on Sunday nights after the late news and Sunday Sports Reports. And SyFy still does the occassional "Twilight Zone" marathons over New Years and a couple of the other holidays (July 4th, etc.).

ME-TV has it every night at 11...As far as "What's My Line?", GSN has brought it back for a couple weeks around Christmastime the past couple years. Buried in the middle of the night, of course.

 

[jfrancispastirchak]

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b] Spunky & Tadpole[/b] and Diver Dan.

Yes, I am QUOTE-ing my own post. And that's because I've discovered that nobody remember's either Spunky and Tadpole or Diver Dan, either because they were too young then, or are too old now (speaks volumes for me, eh?).

For Spunky... http://www.toontracker.com/spunky/spunktad.htm

For Diver... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diver_Dan

 

[cd637299]

I had not heard of Spunky & Tadpole as far as I remember, until seeing the ToonTracker site. I now have a copy of 1 episode. Not that it's a true classic, mind you.....

Don Messick, who is best known for voicework at Hanna-Barbera (Scooby Doo's voice being maybe his most famous), did the voice of either punky or Tadpole---not sure.

I used to be a member of www.forum.bcdb.com ..... www.bcdb.com will take one further into these animated obscurities!

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[71dude]

Angie

 

[howardm]

The Camerman
Naked City
Untouchables

 

[ixnay]

Then Came Bronson, starring Michael Parks and co-starring a Harley-Davidson Sportster. Although very sadly it only ran for one season (1969-1970) it reached the status of a cult classic, having inspired many young Baby-Boomer men to buy a Harley and explore that long, lonesome highway. Not even formally released on DVD for that matter. A shame.

TCB was before my time. When I first read about it in the mid-'70s, I though it somehow pertained to Charles Bronson.

I was corrected when I first came across its entry in the Brooks and Marsh book when the first ed. came out in 1979. ;D

ixnay

 

[ixnay]

Chico and the Man probably hasn't been seen in years, either. After the suicide of its star, Freddie Prinze, Sr., it was too painful for most folks to watch. I seem to recall that they continued with a new "Chico," but that didn't last long.

IIRC the new "Chico" was Raoul (Gabriel Melgar).

I remember NBC airing weekday reruns of Chico in the summer of '77, not long after Prinze's suicide.

ixnay

 

[cd637299]

The Camerman
Naked City
Untouchables

Naked City is on MeTV late Sunday nights, and also on RTV/Retro TV, I believe.

The Untouchables was on MeTV until very recently. Maybe they are just giving it a rest for now.

Never heard of the other one!

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[rnigma1]

"The Cameraman" - could that be the Charles Bronson series "Man With a Camera"?

 

[ssetta]

I'm gonna mention ... most episodes of Sesame Street.

There were a bunch of old episodes airing on the now defunct Noggin channel for awhile, retitled "Sesame Street Unpaved," and a few select episodes have been released on "Sesame Street Old School," and there were a couple on iTunes as well, but more than 4,300 episodes of the series have been produced at this point, and most have not aired since their original airing. I always wondered why Sesame Street episodes only ever aired once. I have a feeling that most old episodes may never be released. I have a friend who claims that he received all episodes from 1 - 3005 from someone at Sesame Workshop, and that he is not allowed to trade them with anyone, but I do not believe that is true. I do know for fact that Sesame Workshop is NOT allowed to send out tapes of episodes.

 

[jfrancispastirchak]

Then Came Bronson, starring Michael Parks and co-starring a Harley-Davidson Sportster. Although very sadly it only ran for one season (1969-1970) it reached the status of a cult classic, having inspired many young Baby-Boomer men to buy a Harley and explore that long, lonesome highway. Not even formally released on DVD for that matter. A shame.

TCB was before my time. When I first read about it in the mid-'70s, I though it somehow pertained to Charles Bronson.

I was corrected when I first came across its entry in the Brooks and Marsh book when the first ed. came out in 1979. ;D ixnay

TCB's theme song was released in my very 1st year in radio, so it's a sentimental favorite. And I too mistakingly associated TCB with Charles Bronson.

 

[HamptonRoadsMediaFan]

The Facts of Life
CHiPs

Remembered seeing CHiPs reruns on TBS when I was younger; but that was well over 12-13 years ago.

As for Facts; that show seems to have struggled massively in regards to syndication post-2000 (bounced from N@N to TV Land briefly in late 2001; wound up on Hallmark for a nanosecond; didn't appear anywhere until roughly after the Hub launched; was gradually neglected there to where it disappeared from the lineup at the beginning of the year {after about 2 months basically consigned to the graveyard shift})

 

[SixtiesGuy]

Then Came Bronson, starring Michael Parks and co-starring a Harley-Davidson Sportster. Although very sadly it only ran for one season (1969-1970) it reached the status of a cult classic, having inspired many young Baby-Boomer men to buy a Harley and explore that long, lonesome highway. Not even formally released on DVD for that matter. A shame.

TCB was before my time. When I first read about it in the mid-'70s, I though it somehow pertained to Charles Bronson.

I was corrected when I first came across its entry in the Brooks and Marsh book when the first ed. came out in 1979. ;D ixnay

TCB's theme song was released in my very 1st year in radio, so it's a sentimental favorite. And I too mistakingly associated TCB with Charles Bronson.

Jim Bronson (fiction), Charles Bronson (reality). They did share a couple of common traits: they were both men of few words who occasionally wore black woolen hats. That's about it, however.

 

[nomadcowatbk]

I'm gonna mention ... most episodes of Sesame Street.

There were a bunch of old episodes airing on the now defunct Noggin channel for awhile, retitled "Sesame Street Unpaved," and a few select episodes have been released on "Sesame Street Old School," and there were a couple on iTunes as well, but more than 4,300 episodes of the series have been produced at this point, and most have not aired since their original airing. I always wondered why Sesame Street episodes only ever aired once. I have a feeling that most old episodes may never be released. I have a friend who claims that he received all episodes from 1 - 3005 from someone at Sesame Workshop, and that he is not allowed to trade them with anyone, but I do not believe that is true. I do know for fact that Sesame Workshop is NOT allowed to send out tapes of episodes.

they've probably destroyed all copies that feature a grouchy Oscar and Cookie Monster eating cookies, they actually don't recommend the classic DVDs for kids

 

[onairb]

I'm gonna mention ... most episodes of Sesame Street.

There were a bunch of old episodes airing on the now defunct Noggin channel for awhile, retitled "Sesame Street Unpaved," and a few select episodes have been released on "Sesame Street Old School," and there were a couple on iTunes as well, but more than 4,300 episodes of the series have been produced at this point, and most have not aired since their original airing. I always wondered why Sesame Street episodes only ever aired once. I have a feeling that most old episodes may never be released. I have a friend who claims that he received all episodes from 1 - 3005 from someone at Sesame Workshop, and that he is not allowed to trade them with anyone, but I do not believe that is true. I do know for fact that Sesame Workshop is NOT allowed to send out tapes of episodes.

they've probably destroyed all copies that feature a grouchy Oscar and Cookie Monster eating cookies, they actually don't recommend the classic DVDs for kids

OK, I knew about Cookie Monster's healthy diet(although they haven't changed his name, and he'sallowed to eat cookies 'sometimes')...but what's this about Oscar no longer being a grouch? Does he still live in a garbage can...or inside a giant bottle of liquid hand soap?

 

[azumanga]

...more than 4,300 episodes of the series have been produced at this point, and most have not aired since their original airing. I always wondered why Sesame Street episodes only ever aired once.

Many of the segments within were repeated numerous times over the years, though the main segments involving Sesame Street itself were mainly seen twice -- once in first run, and again during the summer of that season. This changed when Sesame Street trimmed back their new episode schedule in recent years -- currently, they now only have 26 new shows per year, with the rest being repeats from past seasons.

 

[howardm]

Man With A Camera - Charles Bronson - correct.

Anybody yet mention Mission Impossible with Barbara Bain, Martin Landeau, & , Peter Graves & Greg Morris. Very good program for its era.