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TV Shows I'd Like To See On TVLand

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Six Million Dollar Man
Bionic Woman
Incredible Hulk
Greatest American Hero(yes, I know seasons 1 & 2 are on DVD and season 3 is coming next month, but it would be fun to see this show aired again)
Moonlighting(same comment as above)
Eight Is Enough
St. Elsewhere(they aired it a few years ago, but they need to get it back)
I Spy<P ID="signature">______________
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"I Spy" currently airs on the less-distributed American Life TV network (geared primarily toward baby-boomers although my 20something self admittedly likes some of the programs).
 
Surprisingly American Life does not air on DirecTV...anyone know why?
Also, I can't believe TV Land is going to air the Jeff Foxworthy show...of all the good shows they could have put on they chose that one.


> "I Spy" currently airs on the less-distributed American Life
> TV network (geared primarily toward baby-boomers although my
> 20something self admittedly likes some of the programs).
>
 
> Six Million Dollar Man
> Bionic Woman
> Incredible Hulk
> Greatest American Hero(yes, I know seasons 1 & 2 are on DVD
> and season 3 is coming next month, but it would be fun to
> see this show aired again)
> Moonlighting(same comment as above)
> Eight Is Enough
> St. Elsewhere(they aired it a few years ago, but they need
> to get it back)
> I Spy
>

Mission: Impossible

Hawaii Five-O

The Mod Squad

....Those are three shows that I'd like to see again.

I especially miss watching The Mod Squad.--Especially those scenes where Pete, Linc, and Julie have just been informed that some teenage runaway they've been trying to locate has been brutally murdered.

Pete: Whoa! That's too much, man.

Julie: Sad. Very sad.

Linc: I really can't dig this kind of drama, you know what I'm saying? It's just too heavy for me.

--Yep! I just loved the "dialogue" of the Mod Squad. A program whose characters were extremely short on words....but they were hip. They wore them hip-looking late 60's/early 70's clothes, and they used all of them hip-sounding late 60's/early 70's words and expressions, didn't they??
 
> Also, I can't believe TV Land is going to air the Jeff
> Foxworthy show...of all the good shows they could have put
> on they chose that one.

Actually,it is Nick at Nite that is carrying The Jeff Foxworthy Show. The second season of this show was the best and why NBC cancelled it I don't even know. Haley Joel Osment portrayed one of Jeff's sons when it was on NBC.
 
"The Streets Of San Francisco"
"Baretta"
"Quincy"
"Night Court"
"Buffalo Bill" (coming soon to DVD!)
"WKRP In Cinncinati" (with original music intact, dammnit!)

And, while it's true "The Greatest American Hero" is and will be continue to be available on DVD...the original music has been cut from the show. When the show aired on Canada's Showcase network...the music was intact. Interesting.
 
As long as we're whishing...

Remember when TV Land was first launched? both TV land and Nic at Night took us all back to 1972 for one evening. They featured a whole lineup of shows from 1972 and played lots of classic early 70s commercials. I would love to see something like that again when a certain year is featured.
 
>

Allow me to cast one vote for "Barney Miller." Nick showed a marathon one night but nothing before or since. Shame on them.
 
I remember hearing that Night Court is coming to Nick at Nite or TV Land in September...can anyone confirm?


> "The Streets Of San Francisco"
> "Baretta"
> "Quincy"
> "Night Court"
> "Buffalo Bill" (coming soon to DVD!)
> "WKRP In Cinncinati" (with original music intact, dammnit!)
>
> And, while it's true "The Greatest American Hero" is and
> will be continue to be available on DVD...the original music
> has been cut from the show. When the show aired on Canada's
> Showcase network...the music was intact. Interesting.
>
 
Would a "black & white" night on TVLand be something that might work?

Run just a series of b&w shows back To back To back.

Like Game Show Network(You'll never catch me calling it -GSN- )with those
oldie-but-goodie game shows like "To Tell The Truth" and early "Price Is Right"
blocks.

Whaddah ya think?<P ID="signature">______________
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> Six Million Dollar Man
> Bionic Woman
> Incredible Hulk
> Greatest American Hero(yes, I know seasons 1 & 2 are on DVD
> and season 3 is coming next month, but it would be fun to
> see this show aired again)
> Moonlighting(same comment as above)
> Eight Is Enough
> St. Elsewhere(they aired it a few years ago, but they need
> to get it back)
> I Spy
>
Hour shows tradionally do not do well in the ratings (as the ones mentioned above) especially if they are run 7 days a week or in a marathon like TV Land does. Also, most of the shows that have been mentioned have run over & over again on other cable stations. Barney Miller mentioned below, did get a play on TV Land, and as usual they ran it into ther ground. I would like to see TV Land run more series and not run the same shows 7 days a week until you can't stand the sight of them anymore. Let's be a little bit more sparing on Leave It To Beavor, All in the Family, Sanford & Son, and Andy Griffith, so more show can run.
 
> Would a "black & white" night on TVLand be something that
> might work?
>
> Run just a series of b&w shows back To back To back.
>
> Like Game Show Network(You'll never catch me calling it
> -GSN- )with those
> oldie-but-goodie game shows like "To Tell The Truth" and
> early "Price Is Right"
> blocks.
>
> Whaddah ya think?
>

Now THAT's a good concept. TV Land can do something with black and white programming. What Game Show Network did for Late Night Black and White, surely TV Land or Nick can do the same.

How about some of those obscure shows that had sort of a successful run that aired less than four years. There are a lot of shows from the networks including the "always #3" ABC back in the 50's and 60's that needed a lot of attention. Examples of which:

Burke's Law
The Mothers In Law
Family Affair
Lucy Show/Here's Lucy
Robert Taylor's The Detectives
Room 222
Love American Style (this show has NEVER been aired in 400 forevers since the network run and the daytime version. What's up with Paramount not releasing this comedic anthology show?)
The Odd Couple
Owen Marshall: Counselor At Law
Marcus Welby, MD
Medical Center
Temperature's Rising (and the new version during the 70s)
The Real McCoys
The Flying Nun
Alias Smith & Jones
Here Come The Brides


How about this: TV specials that featured stars like Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra and other celebrities during that 50+ year era? TV Land can put an occasional weekend block around this theme.

I wonder if Good Life TV still on the air and if they still air some of the obscure programs like Combat, The FBI or Maverick?<P ID="signature">______________
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> Love American Style (this show has NEVER been aired in 400
> forevers since the network run and the daytime version.
> What's up with Paramount not releasing this comedic
> anthology show?)
>
Love American Style did run on one of the two comedy channels, either HA! or The Comedy Channel, right before they merged to become Comedy Central. In fact, after the merger, it ran non-stop for about two months before it was taken off the air, nothing but Love American Style 24 hours a day, seven days a week of two months.
 
> I wonder if Good Life TV still on the air and if they still
> air some of the obscure programs like Combat, The FBI or
> Maverick?

Yes, but they changed their name again, to American Life.

And I want Sgt. Bilko on that all black-and-white night!
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> > Love American Style (this show has NEVER been aired in 400
>
> > forevers since the network run and the daytime version.
> > What's up with Paramount not releasing this comedic
> > anthology show?)
> >
> Love American Style did run on one of the two comedy
> channels, either HA! or The Comedy Channel, right before
> they merged to become Comedy Central. In fact, after the
> merger, it ran non-stop for about two months before it was
> taken off the air, nothing but Love American Style 24 hours
> a day, seven days a week of two months.
>


I actualy remember this !! I don't think it was two months but it sure seemed like it. I know it was at least 3 weeks of non-stop Love American Style.

What was interesting about this "Love American Style" period was that HA! had Car 54, The Lucy Show, That Girl, Phyllis, Rhoda, the old b/w version of Candid Camera, Bilko, and many others. Then out of the blue came this marathon of Love American Style. I believe it stayed that way until 4/1/91 when CTV signed on, and then most if not all of these shows re-appeared on the line-up on the new channel.

Comedy Central even ran the old CPO Sharkey show for a time, even doing a marathon of it at one point.

I haven't seen that show anywhere since.
 
> Love American Style (this show has NEVER been aired in 400
> forevers since the network run and the daytime version.
> What's up with Paramount not releasing this comedic
> anthology show?)

This comedic anthology show aired in reruns in the mid-70s on WPHL-17 Philadelphia (now WB affiliated).

By the time the daytime LAS premiered in 1986, I was living in the Baltimore market, where LAS aired in the late morning. WJZ-13 Baltimore (then ABC affiliated, now a CBS O&O) and WJLA-7 Washington (ABC then and now) aired it at separate times (one station had it at 11:00, the other at 11:30, I forget which showed it earlier). I don't know when or if WPVI-6 Philadelphia aired it.

The new LAS had at least two differences with the old one. The daytime LAS

1) was taped
2) had a different opening (no fireworks or heart-shaped flag) and theme song (the new song was sung by Lou Rawls).

ixnay
 
> I remember hearing that Night Court is coming to Nick at
> Nite or TV Land in September...can anyone confirm?
>
>
> > "The Streets Of San Francisco"
> > "Baretta"
> > "Quincy"
> > "Night Court"
> > "Buffalo Bill" (coming soon to DVD!)
> > "WKRP In Cinncinati" (with original music intact,
> dammnit!)
> >
> > And, while it's true "The Greatest American Hero" is and
> > will be continue to be available on DVD...the original
> music
> > has been cut from the show. When the show aired on
> Canada's
> > Showcase network...the music was intact. Interesting.
> >
>

WKRP both versions the 70's & early 90's (they left that show unresolved. The PD Donavan played by Mykel T. Williamson was in a plane crash)
Good Times
Alice
The Jeffersons
227
Code Red
Adam 12
Emergency
Cannon
Kojak with Telly Savalas
White Shadow
Private Benjamin
The Commish
Coach
Starsky & Hutch
 
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