A few years back in Jackson. TN there was a restaurant called Gunther Toody's (From Car 54 Where Are You) that had a 50's diner theme and had TVs scattered through the restaurant showing old black & white shows from the 50's and 60's, probably in no particular order though. But for some reason restaurants with a 50's theme haven't lasted long in Jackson (Unless you count Steak & Shake) and it went out in a couple of years. Now it's a Mexican restaurant (Something that almost never fails here) and appears to be doing well.
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Shows that haven't been seen anywhere in years
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The fifties themed places always seem like a good idea to the owners that put them up..but almost always fail..had a few come and go here in Gallatin over the years..the demo that grew up in that era just no longer get out..or have passed on..but the 60's era crowd is still very much alive and active..at least my circle of friends here in town..We had a place we hung out at back then Called the Tastee Freez...granted not that many places in the mid 60's to hang at..but this place had the best food..and pizza in town..and people my age (62) still talk about the place and food almost daily..the owners were wonderful people..and treated all us kids like family..the building is still here...not really big enough for my concept...maybe 700 sq feet..but then after a football game it somehow could handle over a hunded or more kids..at once..
deltas69 said:
You'd have to do deals with the studios for public performance of each of those shows. That could get very expensive.
deltas69 said:OUCH !!! ??? Didn't think of that..guess the price of beer and pizza just doubled..
At least.
What you could do, though, would be to decorate the place with autographed pictures from the stars of those shows and some 1950s and 60s era TV sets. If sports bars can arrange to have ESPN and FOX Sports playing all day, maybe you can do a similar deal for Me-TV, Antenna and RTV on big screens in your place. And you could have themed door prizes each night where you give away the DVDs.
There's continued expense in the last two, but likely much less than public performance licensing.
I recall in the 1980's (before SoapNet was created), one bar publicized that they were showing the previous week of General Hospital (or perhaps some other show), but that died quickly when the ABC legal eagles went into action.michael hagerty said:
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Long thread, but I wonder if anyone has mentioned a filmed series that was in production for 18 years, yet hardly ever seen anymore*:
Death Valley Days
*It may be due to the sponsor (40 Mule Team Borax) prominently in the opening & closing. Was checking this one on YouTube the other day, and the theme pretty much was the same throughout the run, with tweaks to update it during the years.
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Death Valley Days
*It may be due to the sponsor (40 Mule Team Borax) prominently in the opening & closing. Was checking this one on YouTube the other day, and the theme pretty much was the same throughout the run, with tweaks to update it during the years.
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http://www.westernsontheweb.com/?page_id=7752 a lot of Death Valley Days here as well a great old westerns from the 50's to 70's..clik on a series and choose from the drop down menu..then scroll down to watch..some are presented in two or more segments..
When CBS Scene opened in Foxboro, MA (overlooking Gillette Stadium) they made a big deal about being able to watch classic CBS shows at your table. They are now a sports bar and there's no mention of classic TV on their web site. I haven't been in there myself so I don't know if that's totally gone.
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Death Valley Days also had a long run on radio. The Old Ranger, the host-narrator, also pops up on The Lone Ranger, Hopalong Cassidy and other westerns being shown on the Oldies subchannels. In the 60s they replaced the Old Ranger (Stanley Andrews) with Ronald Reagan (after GE dropped him). When Ronnie ran for governor of California, they had Robert Taylor cover Ronnie's opens and closes for showing in California (the rest of the country still saw Ronnie until he took office).
MCarney said:
FOX Sports opened a sports bar in Scottsdale, Arizona. Lasted a few years, then gone.
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I consider myself a classic TV fan, but I had not ever seen this show before until YouTube came along.
The theme and the background music sure doesn't fit the motif! Makes it campy!
Wikipedia sez it ran 2 years in syndication.
See for yourself.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDX4jYqBm3w
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The theme and the background music sure doesn't fit the motif! Makes it campy!
Wikipedia sez it ran 2 years in syndication.
See for yourself.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDX4jYqBm3w
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michael hagerty said:
Yeah, the theme restaurant concept pretty much ran its course (Planet Hollywood, anyone?), though the Hard Rock Cafe still goes on.
TNN showed the Real McCoys around 2000. Chico and the Man was on TV Land around the late 90s.
Most of the Hollywood Squares (daytime version) and a lot of the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson from the 60s and 70s were destroyed by NBC in the late 70s. An executive thought he could keep his job longer if he lowered expenses for NBC and decided to stop storing and cooling old videotapes of tv shows and had them destroyed.
Anyone remember Love On a Rooftop, Coronet Blue, He and She, Arnie, Bill Dana, Littlest Hobo, McKeever and the Colonel, Gigantor or What's New tv shows from the 60s?
Most of the Hollywood Squares (daytime version) and a lot of the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson from the 60s and 70s were destroyed by NBC in the late 70s. An executive thought he could keep his job longer if he lowered expenses for NBC and decided to stop storing and cooling old videotapes of tv shows and had them destroyed.
Anyone remember Love On a Rooftop, Coronet Blue, He and She, Arnie, Bill Dana, Littlest Hobo, McKeever and the Colonel, Gigantor or What's New tv shows from the 60s?
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cd637299 said:
What show is that?
stevations said:
GSN showed some of the Peter Marshall-hosted "Squares" episodes (I suspect from the syndicated access version in the '70s and early '80s) but quickly went back to the Tom Bergeron shows. "Love On A Rooftop" and "He And She," I believe, could have been monster hits had they come along in the early '70s, when people were ready for sitcoms about believable people; "Arnie" started with an improbable but not impossible premise: blue-collar worker is promoted to the executive tier of his company, but for some reason didn't know where to go with it, walking a line between realism and slapstick that pleased very few people. "Coronet Blue" could, conceivably, have lasted as long as "The Fugitive" with the Michael Alden character taking years to find out who he really was; the problem was that CBS had no faith in the show, played it off in the summer of 1967 (to terrific ratings), then couldn't get Frank Converse back because he'd gone to ABC to do "NYPD." I, and I suppose many of the show's fans, wished he'd come back to film one last episode that tied everything up. (I'd also like to know if Robert Goulet's character, David March, on "Blue Light," survived World War II, but Goulet is no longer with us so there can never be a resolution episode.)
I may have mentioned it before but I wish somebody would put Peter Falk's "Trials Of O'Brien" on DVD. Daniel J. O'Brien is similar to, but not exactly like, Columbo (he looks like a slob in the office but is always neatly dressed for court; he gambles and, unlike Columbo, is divorced and 'way behind on his alimony payments); the dialogue is literate, even funny at times (unlike "Perry Mason" or "The Defenders" this is one lawyer show not to be taken completely seriously). And I could look at Joanna Barnes (O'Brien's ex-wife) all day. This is another example of a show with the makings of a classic that was much too ahead of its time.
On the other end of the scale is Burl Ives' 1965 sitcom disaster "O.K. Crackerby," which I can understand why it hasn't been seen. The premise, IIRC, is that Crackerby, an oil tycoon from Oklahoma, wants his kids to fit into cultured society, so he hires a recent Harvard grad, St. John Quincy (pronounced Sin-jin Quin-zy), to tutor them. Nothing much ever happens, and I wouldn't be surprised if Ives wiped it out of his mind after ABC canceled it.
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FredLeonard said:
Shotgun Slade. The jazz score (in a Western!) makes it a bit bizarre!
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stevations said:
It wasn't just the Tonight Show, stevations. The whole "wiping" was done by many (see Wikipedia on Wiping). Most game shows are gone for good, due to it----nobody had ever dreamed of a GSN in the 60s & 70s. Imagine what GSN would have been if these shows were kept. (At least Goodson-Todman knew to keep a lot of their stuff.)
The late Shari Lewis lamented that her great 1960-63 series on Saturday morning was a victim of wiping, as well. I have seen parts of it on YouTube, and frankly was surprised that any have surfaced.
The company that "Arnie" worked for always got a laugh out of my dad: The Continental Flange Co. (That mighta been the only real joke on "Arnie.")
By "What's New," do you mean that series shown on all NET stations in the 60s? I remember seeing the opening (animated fife & drum band), but the premise of the show is totally out of my mind now. Can you, or anyone else, tell me more about it?
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