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Shows that haven't been seen anywhere in years

MCarney said:
CBS didn't cancel "Leave it to Beaver" - the sponsor (Ralston Purina) had a deal with ABC and moved the show there.
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IIRC from what I've read, "Beaver"'s original sponsor was Remington Rand, and the show wasn't helping the sales
of their products (typewriters, electric razors, etc.). The rest of what you say is, to my knowledge, correct;
Ralston Purina made a good move in putting "Beaver" on ABC, which was more comfortable with kid-oriented sitcoms
than CBS was ("Dennis The Menace" notwithstanding).
 
Anyone know if 'the 1980's Vegas' (Robert Urich, Judy Landers, Phyllis Davis) has run in the past two years. I know it ran when it was first syndicated, even here in Jackson, Miss. briefly. I haven't seen anything of it mentioned the past twenty years.
 
BD Sullivan said:
The two dueling medical dramas from the early 60's, Ben Casey and Dr. Kildare, have been long absent from TV screens. Casey was last seen (I believe) in the mid-80's on CBN, while Kildare goes back much farther. However, the first season of Kildare is scheduled to be released on DVD in the "not-too-distant future":

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Dr-Kildare-DVDs-Planned/18140
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I just figure that medical dramas, with new diseases being discovered, and new cures for the older ones, would render these dramas as useless in reruns for the public at large.

Heck, even "ER"---where's that today?

Now us classic TV freaks, that's another story.....hence DVD sales..... :)

cd
 
liradioisbad said:
I also remember seeing Mork and Mindy years ago on Nick at Nite.

nomadcowatbk said:
Unhappily Ever After- no seasons on DVD, was it ever even syndicated in reruns?
Mr. Belvedere- first 3 seasons on DVD but I haven't seen it on any major channels in years
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Unhappily was syndicated for 1 year. I don't think there's anything close to a clamoring for people to see that now.

Mr. Belvedere is on FamilyNet. But that isn't obviously major.

Now I can't remember the last time I saw Out of this World anywhere. It did run 4 seasons, and Burt Reynolds voiced one of the main characters.
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I recently found Mr Belvedere on Youtube.
 
Another one is The Real McCoys. The last time I saw that on television was probably more than 10 years ago on the old Nashville Network.
 
Back in the '80s. TNT ran many of the old MGM TV series, including "National Velvet" and some of the Ivan Tors shows (Flipper, Daktari). I don't recall if they ran the Kildare series. I was hoping they'd get around to showing "The Lieutenant," Gene Rodenberry's pre-Trek series with Gary Lockwood and Robert Vaughn.
 
ER never did will in re-runs because it is so highly serialized. Shows with stand-alone episodes (like Law & Order) do best in syndication.

Dr. Kildare, and other dramas from the period, lost much of their syndication potential when the networks went to color broadcasting and the market for recent shows in black and white declined.
 
BD Sullivan said:
The two dueling medical dramas from the early 60's, Ben Casey and Dr. Kildare, have been long absent from TV screens. Casey was last seen (I believe) in the mid-80's on CBN, while Kildare goes back much farther. However, the first season of Kildare is scheduled to be released on DVD in the "not-too-distant future":

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Dr-Kildare-DVDs-Planned/18140
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I suspect these 2 medical dramas would seem incredibly dated, hackneyed, and melodramatic - now that we're used to more modern medical dramas like ER, Grey's Anatomy and House. I saw an episode of Medical Center a few years ago, and it was laughable compared to the more realistic plots, and graphic depictions on the current and recent medical shows. And Medical Center came along about a decade after Dr. Kildare and Ben Casey

Besides, those two shows were in black and white, considered a turn-off by many younger viewers. I think you can forget seeing them on the air again.
 
an independent station

Cincinnati has an independent, over-the-air station with a very weak signal that shows many old shows. It isn't on Time Warner Cable, though.
At my mother's house, which is on a hilltop about 15 miles from the transmitter tower, the back bedroom TV (my old bedroom) is not connected to cable. It has an antenna and digital converter and it CANNOT pick up this station. I've tried rescanning the TV a number of times.
This is the station's schedule:
http://wkrp.tv/schedule/
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet; Bionic Woman; Highway to Heaven; I Spy; Marcus Welby, M.D.; Movin' On; Naked City; Route 66 and The Saint are listed.
 
Coach- last time a saw it was on USA at 5AM about 5 years ago, first 4 seasons on DVD

its on Reelz Channel on Mondays now...started today with the pilot
10-4:30 Central time
 
mikedorb said:
Another one is The Real McCoys. The last time I saw that on television was probably more than 10 years ago on the old Nashville Network.
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RTV (retroTV) carries it.
Its on free to air or if you have a station carry it
 
Ozzie and Harriet, i'm sure it has been, probably 40 years ago but i haven't seen it since. i know its been talked about before but IF someone could break the ice and bring back the jackie gleason variety show from the 60's-70's or skelton, carol burnett, johnny carson or dean martin's show from the 60's.... i know they have to clear the music and royalties from dvd sales, but someday that has to have run its course, really there has to be a way. i wonder how re-runs of carson would do against leno and letterman?
 
Re: an independent station

skippercollector said:
Cincinnati has an independent, over-the-air station with a very weak signal that shows many old shows. It isn't on Time Warner Cable, though.
At my mother's house, which is on a hilltop about 15 miles from the transmitter tower, the back bedroom TV (my old bedroom) is not connected to cable. It has an antenna and digital converter and it CANNOT pick up this station. I've tried rescanning the TV a number of times.
This is the station's schedule:
http://wkrp.tv/schedule/
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet; Bionic Woman; Highway to Heaven; I Spy; Marcus Welby, M.D.; Movin' On; Naked City; Route 66 and The Saint are listed.
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That sounds like it's an RTV affiliate, since virtually all those shows are on the channel.
 
Captainfirst said:
I can think of two more that seem to have vanished. "The F.B.I." and "My Three Sons". The latter, I believe, was
completely pulled from syndication some years back when the current rights holder stated he was losing money on it.
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"My 3 Sons" is on every weekday morning on MeTV.
 
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