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"Wagon Train" marathon, New Years Day on Encore Westerns

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Is this going to be the REAL Wagon Train (Black and White with Ward Bond)? If it is, I'll pay the extra $10 for the package that includes Encore. If it's not, forget it.
 
MattParker said:
Is this going to be the REAL Wagon Train (Black and White with Ward Bond)? If it is, I'll pay the extra $10 for the package that includes Encore. If it's not, forget it.
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Chances are it is -- the Encore channels are usually very good with showing complete runs of classic TV series.
 
This could be good, I used to watch that show all the time. Wow a way long time ago!
 
I opened my wallet (OK, I'm getting the first three months free). My Tivo has been recording all night. I just watched episode one with Ernest Borgnine guest starring (first episode of Wagon Train - last episode of ER). It appears that Encore is showing episodes in order from the beginning of the series.

And over on IFC is The Larry Sanders Show marathon.

So far, a great New Year's for classic TV.
 
$ 5 a month for me. Excellent prints. It's a lot of fun watching the scenes with Ward Bond -Robert Horton/Frank McGrath/Terry Wilson. Just great character acting.

Question: I noticed at the end credits it's a Revue/ MCA production. Seems to me that Revue was a side arm of Universal, similar to Screen Gems to Columbia. MCA was a talent agency that owned Universal at the time. Correct?

Also watching Have Gun Will Travel & the B & W episodes of Gunsmoke. I wasn't old enough back in the day to stay up and watch those shows, so they are a treat for me.
 
therealjm12 said:
Question: I noticed at the end credits it's a Revue/ MCA production. Seems to me that Revue was a side arm of Universal, similar to Screen Gems to Columbia. MCA was a talent agency that owned Universal at the time. Correct?
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MattParker said:
At this point in time (1957) MCA owned Revue. They had not yet acquired Universal.
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And after MCA's acquisition of Universal, they converted Revue into Universal Television, more or less connecting it directly into the studio, instead of operating it as a sideline (like what Columbia did with Screen Gems).
 
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