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moax429 4th Jan 2022		TV The Statler Brothers Show (1991 - 1998)	George Slv: I found out TNN evolved into what's now the Paramount Network. Here's an article on Wikipedia explaining how ViacomCBS slowly phased out TNN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Network
moax429 13th Dec 2021		TV The Statler Brothers Show (1991 - 1998)	CBS directly purchased TNN's parent company, Gaylord Broadcasting, GeorgeSlv (prior to their merger with Viacom), then folded the network and turned it into into Spike. I don't know what the network's name is now. From what I heard, CBS locked away all the TNN tapes - including The Statler Brothers Show - in their vaults. Bluegrass artist David Holt, who had his own show on TNN called Fire on the Mountain during the mid-to-late '80's, recently expressed his displeasure regarding how ViacomCBS assumed ownership of his series. Very brassy, I'd say.
moax429 13th Dec 2021		TV The Statler Brothers Show (1991 - 1998)	GeorgeSlv: You can thank (sarcastically speaking) ViacomCBS for that. When TNN folded, their assets were purchased by CBS in the late 90's, and then locked away. Shame. I liked The Statler Brothers Show, too; it seemed reminiscent of of those old C&W shows my folks used to watch in the 60's (including those on CBC like Tommy Hunter; at that time, I was only a kid - I was born in April 1962 - and my family and I lived in the Detroit suburb of Warren, Michigan, from 1964 to 1971. We could receive CKLW (now CBET), Channel 9, a CBC affiliate from Windsor, Ontario).
moax429 7th Dec 2021		TV Faithville (1993 - 2008)	Located and uploaded opening title screen.
moax429 4th Nov 2021		TV Paul Sand In Friends & Lovers (1974 - 1975)	Another MTM snoozefest, much like the two Newhart "comedies." The humor was extremely dumb, and after about the first 10 or so minutes I wanted to doze off. (How could my folks stand this show? There was also Emergency on NBC in the interim after All in the Family and before Mary Tyler Moore (I don't remember what ABC had on Saturday nights at that time, but I'm sure it would have been far superior to Friends and Lovers). I guess my mom and dad were too lazy to get up and change the channel.) Since Disney/ABC - which bought out 20th Century Fox in 2018, which in turn bought out MTM Enterprises 20 years before - is now stuck with the dubious honor of owning Friends and Lovers, I can only hope Disney either loses the film elements or - better yet - burns them. Then this exercise in ennui would be lost forever. (20th Century Fox Television is now 20th Television under Disney's aegis.)
moax429 1st May 2017		TV Here's Lucy (1968 - 1974)	Even funnier than The Lucy Show. I'm looking forward to buying the entire series box set of Here's Lucy once I get all major bills paid off (it runs about $150).
moax429 12th Apr 2017		TV That's My Mama (1974 - 1975)	I remember That's My Mama was one of the first shows from Columbia Pictures Television in 1974, after they had changed their name from Screen Gems. Hard to believe Sony owns this program and most of the other Screen Gems/Columbia Pictures Television shows now.
moax429 6th Mar 2017		TV Remington Steele (1982 - 1987)	One reason this show filmed in Ireland is because (the late, great) Mary Tyler Moore's production company - who made this show - bought a film studio in Dublin, Ireland in 1986.
moax429 3rd Feb 2017		TV Going Bananas (1984)	23skidoo: Yes, it was shot on videotape. I didn't think "wiping" was still prevalent into the 80's. And I thought when Warner Bros. took control of Going Bananas - that is, once they purchased Turner Entertainment Co., which last owned Hanna-Barbera - the show would have been safely locked away in their vaults. I can only hope a miracle happens that the other episodes of this show will be located if they are indeed "lost."
moax429 1st Feb 2017		TV Going Bananas (1984)	Located and uploaded opening title screen. I was surprised to discover at lostmediawikia.com that not too many episodes of Going Bananas are surviving, and a few that are are dubbed into Portugese. Funny, considering Warner Bros. now owns Going Bananas (when they bought Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1998, Warner Bros. supposedly inherited this show), and that it's of fairly recent vintage. Let's hope Warners might have some archival prints of the show in their vaults.
moax429 16th Dec 2016		TV The Alvin Show (1961 - 1962)	Located and uploaded opening title screen.
moax429 22nd Nov 2016		TV Amanda's (1983)	I liked Amanda's much better than Fawlty Towers. One episode I remember and couldn't stop laughing about was when Amanda and her crew were auditioning acts for an upcoming talent show, and one of the acts was a dancing chicken (Amanda commented, "Her splits remind me of Ann-Margret"). Then the night of the talent show a customer orders chicken fricassee, and Amanda and her workers wonder where the star disappeared to. The customer eventually finds a drumstick in his chicken fricassee with a legwarmer on it! I can only hope CBS (who now owns Viacom, who produced Amanda's), Shout! Factory, or some other DVD label might release a DVD box set of this series. Maybe one or all three of the remaining episodes of Amanda's ABC neglected to air will have some even funnier moments.
moax429 20th Oct 2016		TV Thicke Of The Night (1983 - 1984)	Agreed, 23skidoo.
moax429 19th Oct 2016		TV Thicke Of The Night (1983 - 1984)	And now Ted Turner has the dubious honor of owning the tapes of this show.
moax429 14th Oct 2016		TV The Last Resort [US] (1979 - 1980)	It's not hard to understand why this series only lasted about six months. It stunk!
moax429 12th Oct 2016		TV Westwind (1975 - 1976)	Thanks!
moax429 8th Oct 2016		TV Westwind (1975 - 1976)	One of my favorite shows when I was 14. Pity it isn't currently available on DVD or in syndicated reruns (because of the limited number of shows made in this series). 23skidoo, is there a title screen for Westwind you know of? I had trouble finding one. Thanks.
moax429 2nd Oct 2016		TV Mulligan Stew (1972)	Remembered watching this in 5th grade in elementary school in Lansing, Michigan (I had no idea there were local connections); the class also received copies of the accompanying comic book. Saw Mulligan Stew one last time in 1979 (episode #5 only) when we lived in the Chicago suburb of Glenwood, Illinois; it aired on PBS affiliate WTTW, channel 11 in Chicago. Sure wish this would be released on DVD. I also understand the young actress who played Micki (or was it Maggie?) is, sadly, no longer with us.
moax429 2nd Oct 2016		TV Runaround (1972 - 1973)	23skidoo: I was the one who submitted the notes. But if you say Winchell's estate would likely not have any copies, then thanks for elucidating. (I always thought the stars of a show got a copy of a tape for themselves, much like Jackie Gleason got kinescopes of the "lost" Honeymooners episodes after they first aired in the 50's. Only Gleason was smart to have kept all the copies he owned of those "lost" episodes in his own refrigerated vault until he decided to release them in the summer of 1985.)
moax429 1st Oct 2016		TV Runaround (1972 - 1973)	I can only hope Paul Winchell's estate owns all 13 episodes of Runaround and contract with MGM, Shout! Factory or some other DVD label and put them all on DVD. I distinctly remember this show - I was only 10 when it premiered - and seeing it again would bring back some pleasant, untapped memories. I especially enjoyed Runaround because I also remember writing to the TV question-and-answer column of the Lansing (Michigan) State Journal in January 1973, asking them if they knew if the show would return that fall. To which they replied they weren't sure - it was too soon to know at that time since no information from NBC was available yet - but that Runaround "had fairly good ratings and we'd say it's a good bet to be back." Wrong! That fall, NBC replaced Runaround with Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, which ran for two years. (And to be sure, I got some ribbing from my classmates in school about my letter in the paper - but hey, it was worth a shot, and I had my 15 minutes of fame.)