VoyForums

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, [8], 9, 10 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 14:23:38 07/10/12 Tue
Author: Joe H.
Subject: Re: 1972 Syndication Question
In reply to: DAN 's message, "Re: 1972 Syndication Question" on 17:02:49 07/08/12 Sun

August 29th, 1972 was the earliest start of the re-runs on a daily basis eh?

Re: http://ponderosascenery.homestead.com/files/syndication.html

"Less than a month later, NBC in New York cancelled the series, on Friday, November 3, 1972. The crew was notified by Richard Collins over the weekend. Mitch Vogel was delivered a telegram while unloading groceries in his driveway by a messenger. No one from NBC contacted him directly. The cast was told by network executives on Monday, the 6th. They candidly told them the last day of shooting would end on Wednesday, the 8th. The cast had been paid their salaries in June, so the network executives didn't think this short notice would matter to them."

And THEN just over two months later the original goes off the air from the Sunday night broadcasts?

This is a first (and last?), like when, if ever, has any other TV show gone into syndication BEFORE the original series ends?

That's quite the collection there Dan. I remember back in the 1960s when TV GUIDE was only 15-cents, right? when I used to work for $1.00 an hour in a neighbor's garden and had a BOSTON GLOBE paper route, shoveled snow, raked leaves, and the minimum wage during the summer was: $1.50 an hour on the time clock, and with a dollar bill at McDonald's you could buy a hamburger, french fries and a Coca Cola for that AND get change back!

- - Joe

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

[> [> [> Re: 1972 Syndication Question -- DAN, 09:22:43 07/14/12 Sat [1]

August 29, 1972 is the earliest non-network syndication run that I know of? A few other shows besides Bonanza were syndicated while they were still in production.

I know in Sept 1961 CBS began re-running the first six seasons of the half hour episodes of Gunsmoke, calling it, "Marshall Dillon." CBS aired it until Sept 1964.
It ran on Tuesdays at 7:30 PM.

Then about Jan of 1965 the half hours went into national syndication still under the "Marshall Dillon" title.

Fury which ran from 1954 till 1960 is another show that started re-running their earlier shows under the title "Brave Stallion" in 1959.

When Fury ended, NBC started re-runs on Saturdays at 11 AM from July 1960 until Aug 1966.
And the Brave Stallion syndicted episodes were still being shown until 1964. In NYC anyway.

Yes, TVG was a bargain. I started saving them in Sept 1957. My father bought the TVGs and when I saw the advertisements for Shock Theater, I began saving them after the week ended.

I think the 15 cent price from the first issue in 1953 was raised to 25 cents in the 70s. I'd have to check thru the guides to find out exactly when.

I started working at 11 yrs old delivering groceries. The store owner would pay me 25 cents per delivery and the customers would tip me anywhere between 10 and 25 cents.
I usualy made about 5 deliveries a day excluding Sundays.

So I might end up with about 8 to 10 bucks a week, which bought me quite a bit back in the 1960s.


[ Edit | View ]


[ Contact Forum Admin ]

Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.