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Shows that haven't been seen anywhere in years

cd637299 said:
stevations said:
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?
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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?

cd
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"What's New" was a show fairly similar to ABC's "Discovery," although it might have several different segments per show; a typical one from 1963 shows Gertie, the Milwaukee mallard; objects in pantomime; and a visit to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. Other times it might focus on one topic, such as a 1968 biography of Marie Curie. It also sounds a bit like "Kidsworld," although that show usually had at least one profile of a celebrity who appealed to kids per show.

Re the game shows: even Mark Goodson couldn't save them all; I believe virtually the entire 1971-75 ABC version of "Password" is lost. CBS appears to have done the best job of saving its daytime games; you'll recall that "Joker's Wild" was revived in syndication in 1977 after a successful airing of reruns of the CBS shows, and "Gambit" also reran in a few markets in 1978 (and returned on NBC in 1980 as "Las Vegas Gambit").
 
^ Thank you for the info.

I wish that there was one "What's New" available to see. I do remember part of the fife/drum theme: "In, Out, and Roundabout/Here, There, and Everywhere/What's New?" We may even have watched it at school. I wonder how many episodes were produced, and what years they were in production.

Yes on the ABC Passwords. I think there is one full 1971-72 Password on YouTube that is pristine/GSN material*; there are other later ones that seem multi-gen-VCR reception, and the format was messed with (although I got a kick out of Password All Stars---when a celeb buzzed in, and arrow went up, pointing to him/her).

[* A cheesy 70s style theme as well, but I liked it.]

cd
 
I wish the folks at Fox would put "Babes" out on DVD. The late Wendie Jo Sperber did a great job in this sitcom but if it wasn't for those backlashes about the premise about overweight people it would've survive.
 
There were at least two kinescope companies in the 60's and 70's that shot film mainly for folks who were appearing on television and wanted a record of it (pre video). I think there was one in NYC and one in Hollywood.

I wonder whatever happened to those companies? And I'll bet there are attics all over the world with old kines' of stuff we think is gone forever. And a good kinescope is better than videotape, usually.

Joe
 
skippercollector said:
Thicke of the Night
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I chimed in on this one a few months ago.....there was so much hoopla surrounding its start, around 1982-83, and I could not understand it; few people even knew who Alan Thicke was at the time, and the thing was promoted to the hilt.

There were responses to my post, and sadly I forgot what was said, although I think it had something to do with the production company, and also maybe the fact that it had a 30-minute jump on Johnny Carson for the independents. Whatever, it sure didn't last long.

My apologies for not remembering the thread.

cd
 
The disadvantage to a 30-minute jump on Carson was that Thicke (or any challenger) was never going to have a gotta-see guest that hadn't appeared with Johnny first. So, when the 30 minutes are up, the channels get changed to catch Carson's monologue and the last half of Thicke goes in the dumpster.

Arsenio's going to have the same problem going on before Leno (and later Fallon), Letterman and Kimmel. But head-to-head, the challengers would do even worse.
 
Up until this afternoon, I don't think I've saw an episode of Gimme a Break in over twenty years. I certainly hadn't see it in local off-network syndication since KCOP (Los Angeles) last ran reruns in the very early 90s.

TV One just acquired the rights recently, and Gimme a Break will start airing weekdays in the coming weeks.
 
The Jackie Gleason Show
The Carol Burnett Show
Love American Style
Soap
Fridays
Newhart
The Steve Allen Show
Joanie Loves Chachi
Early SNL
Late Night with David Letterman
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Night Court
Spin City
 
Love American Style and Soap were on MeTV and Antenna TV, respectively, within the last year. In fact an episode of LAS was on just yesterday on MeTV's "Sunday Showcase".

Early Letterman shows were on the now-defunct Trio channel maybe 8-10 years ago.

Mary Hartman (at least a few episodes) were on TV Land maybe a decade ago.

Early SNL is available on Netflix streaming.

jnkiii said:
The Jackie Gleason Show
The Carol Burnett Show
Love American Style
Soap
Fridays
Newhart
The Steve Allen Show
Joanie Loves Chachi
Early SNL
Late Night with David Letterman
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Night Court
Spin City
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With the advantage of 20/20 hindsight, it's a wonder anyone
actually believed "Thicke Of The Night" was actually going to
cut Carson down to size; Alan himself said things like, "We'd
have six minutes with Martin Sheen, then twelve with a belly
dancer. I don't drink, and if there was ever a year when I
could have..." (That ability to joke about his failure probably
went a long way to being cast in what became his biggest
success, "Growing Pains.")

And yet there were NBC affiliates (I remember WMAR Baltimore,
which is ABC now, being one) that actually bought the hype and
dropped Johnny.

But then again, there were a gullible few who thought "Saturday
Night Live With Howard Cosell" was going to be the second coming
of "The Ed Sullivan Show," while a certain satire show on NBC which
took the "Saturday Night Live" name after Cosell's show was canceled
became an institution.
 
The only episodes of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" that were shown, or seem to be available are the very early ones. I'd like to see episodes from later in the first season.
 
How about hit records from TV show stars:
Johnny Angel - Shelly Fabares (Donna Reed Show)
Rumors, Cindy's Birthday - Johnny Crawford (Rifleman)
Many - Rick Nelson (Ozzie & Harriet)
Palisades Park - Writer: Chuck Barris (Dating Game)
Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb - Ed Byrnes & Connie Stevens (77 Sunset Strip)
16 Reasons - Connie Stevens (Hawaian Eye)
I Think I Love You - Partridge Family (Partridge Family)

Must be many more?
 
howardm said:
How about hit records from TV show stars:
Johnny Angel - Shelly Fabares (Donna Reed Show)
Rumors, Cindy's Birthday - Johnny Crawford (Rifleman)
Many - Rick Nelson (Ozzie & Harriet)
Palisades Park - Writer: Chuck Barris (Dating Game)
Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb - Ed Byrnes & Connie Stevens (77 Sunset Strip)
16 Reasons - Connie Stevens (Hawaian Eye)
I Think I Love You - Partridge Family (Partridge Family)

Must be many more?
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That's OT, but here was a thread from a few months ago:

http://radiodiscussions.com/smf/index.php?topic=223949.0

cd
 
Marcus Welby airs weekdays at Noon on COZI-TV.

Eeerie, Indiana was last seen on the now defunct Wam! America's Youth Network, which was Encore 7.

Soap is (or was) on Antenna TV.


Garfield & Friends. - Hasn't been on in years.

Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? - PBS game show.

Ghostwriter - PBS show. Last seen on Noggin before Noggin and CTW got divorced.
 
Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
The Midnight Special (Perfromance Clips are on youtube thou)
American Bandstand (Again clips on youtube)
Square Pegs( Some actress named Sarah Jessica Parker was on there) :D
The Equalizer
World Wide of Sports (Sort of a Pre-ESPN)
 
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