What's with? What is your?

[RadioStarOne]

What's with this idea of posting old TV schedule listings on the classic TV Board? Just Asking...and in the other question's department:
What's your favorite TV or movie theme song of all time? My favorite movie theme song is The Theme from Mr. Lucky Tied with A Summer Place, and who could forget Love theme from Love Story? On the TV side I would have to say I love them all, but the theme from Route 66 is a classic for me along with the theme music from Bonanza. What's your's?

 

[landtuna]

The original Hawaii 5-0 theme.

 

[Tim L]

The posting of Classic TV Schedules began several years ago on the radio board, and led to the creation of the Classic TV Board.. One person started doing it, then it just snowballed..

 

[Mario500]

Many folks are interested in how TV programs were scheduled for local stations long ago, especially when each program was broadcast for the first time.

 

[anotherguyTN]

Occasionally members have brought up possibly starting a retro TV schedules board (Something that I'd be for) but nothing has happened yet.

On the TV themes that topic has come up occasionally, but movie themes not quite as often. On movies my favorites are probably Star Wars and Huey Lewis's Power of Love from Back to the Future.

On TV shows I have a bunch (in no partuicular order):

Hawaii Five-O
Mission Impossible
Peter Gunn, although I probably have only seen it once or twice
MASH
Star Trek (Both the original series and The Next Generation)
The Twilight Zone
The Andy Griffith Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show
I Love Lucy
The Honeymooners
THe Beverly Hillbillies
Green Acres
Get Smart
WKRP
Taxi
Barney Miller
Night Court
Sanford and Son
The Jeffersons
The Red Green Show
Monty Python
Match Game
THe original Hollywood Squares
The $XX,000 Pyramid
Jeopardy (The Trebek version)
Who Wants to be a Millionaire
Deal or no Deal

I've thought of several others and edited a few times before time runs out. Who knows, I may think of more later! 

 

[anotherguyTN]

Many folks are interested in how TV programs were scheduled for local stations long ago, especially when each program was broadcast for the first time.

And also when some special or historic event happened.

 

[johnbasalla]

My favorite TV theme is the closing music to the 1961 "Alvin Show" (Alvin and the Chipmunks). Upbeat, boisterous band music with Alvin pointing out the credits a couple of times. What's really nice is that the producers allowed the credits to stay on the screen long enough for, albeit fairly fast, readers to read them. This lead to a nice long closing them of about a minute and a half.

For live action, I'd say the theme song to a show that I otherwise don't particularly like... "Car 54, Where Are You?"
Usually when I see an episode, I think that the show could and should have been better then it was.

 

[dave73]

What I also like about the classic TV schedules is what network was on each station at the time. This applies mainly to markets where they're network affiliates instead of the network O&O, though some markets have both affiliates & O&O. In a number of markets over the years, stations have changed affiliations. For markets like New York, Los Angeles, & Chicago, the top 4 networks are O&O, & don't change station.

 

[CrummyVision]

Let me weigh in on the question about schedules, as I admit it's hard for me to pick one favorite TV theme, as there are many. I'll say the theme to "Johnny Quest" just because it's got some cool horn arrangements.
I think for me, part of it is just curiosity to se what ran in other parts of the country. Part of it is also nostalgia because I get to see the sorts of things that ran on the networks or were syndicated that may not be found so easily anymore. How about interesting practices like stations that had more than one network affiliation, or PBS stations that only ran part of the day or even not at all on the weekends.

 

[Mario500]

I would like to add that TV listings from the past show reveal the programming practices of the stations. For example, one ABC station have been broadcasting "Nightline" on a delayed basis for many years while an ABC station in a TV market near by has have been broadcasting it from the live network feed on a regular basis over the same period of time*. 

*The example was based on the programming practices of WEAR-TV in Pensacola, Florida and WLOX-TV in Biloxi, Mississippi. WEAR-TV has delayed "Nightline" on a regular basis since the time period of 1983-1984.

 

[Tim L]

For me, the schedules reflect my own interest in TV History, first for my own area (Northeast Ohio) then for other parts of the country. Thats why when I do Retros, they're almost always for Cleveland, and not usually beyond 1980 (or 1975)..A lot of times the 50's and 60's schedules are new to me..

 

[Al Timiter]

Why the Old TV schedules? Some of us are geeks, some of us are nerds, some of us are scholars, some of us are simply nostalgic or a combination of any or all.

I get a real kick out of it, myself and would like to thank Bpatrick and Bluenoser, among others, who share them.

Are you complaining? Skip past them.

 

[ShawnHill1]

I personally like the retro schedules, although I don't have the chance (or time when possible) to read them all, and like the others basically laid out, it's the curiosity factor. I've lived in a few different markets over my 31 years, including adjacent ones, and I've been ever curious about certain shows airing in other cities.

Also, like Mario-500 mentioned, in those markets where the network affiliates were independently-owned, you could delve into why a certain program (particularly from the network) wasn't cleared in one market, and was cleared in others (including in an adjacent market)...the most common reason is often the network affiliate bypassing the network offering for a syndicated or locally-produced product in order to generate more advertisement dollars.

As far as favorite theme songs...I've always been partial to Star Trek: The Next Generation, Batman: The Animated Series, The Dukes of Hazzard (because it's easy to sing along with), All in the Family, The Cosby Show (particularly seasons 1, 4, 6-7, and 8), Family Feud (anything pre-1994), Dallas (all the different variations each season), and Password ('60s, Plus, and Super).

 

[jfrancispastirchak]

Back to theme songs-- one of my favorites is "More", the memorable instrumental title number of a forgettable and chaotically disjointed documentary, "Mondo Cane". "More" was conducted by Kai Winding.

 

[FRR]

Theme from The Rockford Files was great

 

[mbayus]

I like retro listings, especially the ones from the 1950s and 60s because I liked TV the way it was then better than the way it is now. You might know from reading my profile, that I was a TV baby, and it was always on. I like using the old schedules to recreate a day from back then, using my vast vintage TV collection on DVD. For example, If I know that "Go ahead and Jump" was on on Thursday October 4th 1958, (I just made up the date,) at 8: P.m, I can replay the show on Thursday October 4th at 8: P.m this year, and pretenned.

 

[bpatrick]

First, thanks, Al, for your comments. Like Tim, I'm
something of a student of TV history, although my
focus is mainly on Atlanta, Kentucky, and North Carolina.
I also like to see programming patterns in different parts
of the country (why, for example, so many daytime shows
got bumped in Ohio and not just on the Crosley/Avco stations).
Likewise, back in the days when many markets had to settle
for a secondary ABC affiliate--which ABC shows were usually
carried? And I occasionally spot a name I'm familiar with, most
notably Virgil Dominic, who appears in the Cleveland listings quite
often; he co-anchored "Pro News" on Channel 11 in Atlanta when
I was at UGA.

As for favorite themes, mine would be:

Mannix
Hill Street Blues
The Bob Newhart Show ('70s)
The Rockford Files
Route 66

 

[Tim L]

Another thought:I can safely say the retroschedules has led me to writing a couple of Blogs and become a part of several Facebook pages dealing with TV history over the last 4-5 years or so, which has been fun..

Favorite Themes (not in any order)
Hawaii 5-0 (original)
The Good Guys (Bob Denver, Herb Edelman forgotten sitcom)=Great theme though..

Make Room For Daddy
F Troop (Both seasons)
Here Come The Brides