I've haven't seen St. Elsewhere in syndication in a long time. Little House On the Prairie has always been on whether in syndication or on cable. When was the last time that St. Elsewhere was on a cable channel?
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Why don't we see certain shows in syndication?
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This was a top-rated sitcom in Canada in the early 2000's (very funny, and a very clean show for a comedy of
recent vintage).
It ran in syndication on WGN for about a year and a half, and since leaving WGN has not been
running anywhere in the United States that I'm aware of.
This was a top-rated sitcom in Canada in the early 2000's (very funny, and a very clean show for a comedy of
recent vintage).
It ran in syndication on WGN for about a year and a half, and since leaving WGN has not been
running anywhere in the United States that I'm aware of.
I remember seeing it a couple of years ago somewhere... just can't remember the channel. Might have been American Life TV or a channel like that. They were in the middle of the Peter/rapist gets shot storyline and I watched an episode or two but had so much else on my DVR that I didn't record any. At the time I discovered it I was hoping it would stay on so I could cycle around and watch some episodes from the beginning as I've never seen much of the first season but they took it off before I could do that.
I saw St. Elsewhere and China Beach on that channel... American Life TV was the channel. They also had a few good shows too on there.
CBS Eye on People had a few shows in reruns that you don't see anymore- On Scene: Emergency Response, Real People, That's Incredible and Fame, Fortune and Romance that i really liked. Those were the shows i remember them having. The first three shows survived the ownership change to Discovery in 99, but DTV(where i watched that channel) replaced it with Discovery Heath. My C-Band dish had that channel too. That was one of my favorite channels, along with the Game Show Network and the movie channels back then on DTV.
That supposedly was the reason that The Fugitive fell off the map for a huge period of time--since everyone knew how things turned out. Yet when A&E began showing it in 1990, it lasted for more than three-and-a-half years. Ironically, they took it off just about the same time as the Harrison Ford movie of the same name was released.
It was on Me-TV briefly a four or five summers ago, and no other network has aired the show since. Of course, ABC (again) tried a similar series a few years ago, and I don't think it lasted five episodes. As an aside, the only recent Bosom Buddies-related material I've seen was Adult Swim's parody series in which they re-created the opening credits of certain 80s shows. The parody had Adam Scott and Paul Rudd as Kip and Henry, and even featured Tom Hanks, Peter Scolari and Billy Joel as cameos in the skit...quite funny, actually.
Just For Laugh Gags was renewed for a 3RD PPI & Tribune which comes on FOX17 at 2:30AM.
They sure did but Real People was very very VERY dated. Between the studio audience talking about President Carter and the Iran hostages and Skip Stevenson and Sarah Purcell talking about the same thing and the stories such as the one about fat women being disco dancers and old folks who were into rock music.....even though I liked it I can easily see why Real People hasn't been seen on the rerun circuit well with the exception of CBS Eye On People.
hamster, i agree about Real People being dated- some of the reruns i watched on some channels back then were dated too. I have found Little House to be really dated, and The Waltons too.
I think I asked the following question when this site was radio-info.com but I forget the answer. What was the opening music to Real People? I liked that theme. So martial. Wiki's article on RP doesn't say what title the song was. I like to call that song "March of the Real People". 
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DECADES has recently brought Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In back to the airwaves.
That show is EXTREMELY dated. Anybody much younger than me is not going to recognize
most of the actors, or get most of the jokes.
That show is EXTREMELY dated. Anybody much younger than me is not going to recognize
most of the actors, or get most of the jokes.
Some stations ran Cobsy show reruns two times a day (in some cases back to back). That's why the Audience was burned out on The Cobsy Show when it aired twice a day beside the newer episodes still airing on NBC.
It was probably less about audience burn-out and more about recoupment. After paying these prices, I wouldn't blame the station for running the show twice a day.
Notice that, in my original post, seven of the 11 stations mentioned were Big Three affiliates in Top-50 markets. They all spent a lot of dough for a show they could run only once per day, in the late afternoon before the evening news block. But they wanted to experience the "Cosby advantage" as Viacom's ads in the trades called it. I know in Philadelphia (Bill Cosby's hometown) WCAU-TV ran the show at 5:00, so they were expecting strong numbers from Cosby to lead into the news at 5:30 and 6:00.
WCVB-TV in Boston ran Cosby on weekends, with three episodes on Saturday night and two on Sunday night. They purchased the program despite having no room for it during the week (I think they were running a combo of Donahue and Oprah from 4 to 6.)
So, I wonder who had more at stake in this situation? The Big Three affiliates or the Fox stations/independents (WWOR, KCOP, WFLD, KPHO and WTTG)?
Notice that, in my original post, seven of the 11 stations mentioned were Big Three affiliates in Top-50 markets. They all spent a lot of dough for a show they could run only once per day, in the late afternoon before the evening news block. But they wanted to experience the "Cosby advantage" as Viacom's ads in the trades called it. I know in Philadelphia (Bill Cosby's hometown) WCAU-TV ran the show at 5:00, so they were expecting strong numbers from Cosby to lead into the news at 5:30 and 6:00.
WCVB-TV in Boston ran Cosby on weekends, with three episodes on Saturday night and two on Sunday night. They purchased the program despite having no room for it during the week (I think they were running a combo of Donahue and Oprah from 4 to 6.)
So, I wonder who had more at stake in this situation? The Big Three affiliates or the Fox stations/independents (WWOR, KCOP, WFLD, KPHO and WTTG)?
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FRIDAYS was on Hulu recently and that show was dated as well. Musical acts like The Cars, Tom Petty and Pat Benatar and guests like William Shatner and Andy Kaufman and tons of Reagan and Carter jokes I kept thinking who in the world under 45 would be watching ??
Going back to Real People....you know that show could work today but an updated version since afterall the stuff people share on sites like Facebook isn't much different than what would be shown on Real People. OF course talking about the new version of Real People. Many of their stories from the old version such as Sarah Purcell doing a story about a man in Nome, Alaska putting an American flag on Russian soil or John Barbour and his story about a small handful people who have rats as pets which was unusual say in 1981 but in 2017 nobody would care.
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WYFF/4 had Cosby too, after the soap opera Santa Barbara. This was around the time that Santa Barbara was getting some good publicity(Emmy wins in 89, 90 and 91) so it seemed to be a good fit at that time. I think that was around the time that General Hospital went into a period of decline too wasn't it? The interesting thing is that WYFF didn't clear Santa Barbara during it's first two years(84-85), but started airing Santa Barbara when it was just about to start get really good(about January of 86) But WYFF also felt they were getting beat by *both* General Hospital and Guiding Light, why not take a network soap, instead of losing money with a syndicated show anyways?
KREM in Spokane picked up The Cosby Show, Cheers and Night Court in the fall of '88 and ran them from 6:30-8 pm Monday through Friday. It must have been successful for them, because the lineup remained unchained for four seasons. Then in '92, they picked up both Murphy Brown and Designing Women — neither of which lasted long — bumping The Cosby Show and Night Court from their primetime access slots. Only Cheers (then in its final season) remained.
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