tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post3061335652766830507..comments2024-03-27T22:27:16.556-04:00Comments on It's About TV: What's on TV? Wednesday, November 19, 1975Mitchell Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-1489323870564699362017-11-19T11:38:39.403-05:002017-11-19T11:38:39.403-05:00I'll make the educated guess that you're t...I'll make the educated guess that you're the Robert Sharp who provided a sizable cache of <i>Edge Of Night</i> episodes to YouTube.<br />For this, you have the thanks of, if not a grateful nation, at least one mystery-loving fan therein.<br />I've been waving the <i>Edge</i> flag for a very long time: when I was a school kid in the '60s, my brother and I would do our homework while <i>Edge</i> was playing on CBS (Channel 2 in Chicago) at 3:30 in the afternoon. These were the days of John Larkin as Mike Karr, Larry Hagman as Ed Gibson, Mandel Kramer as Chief Bill Marceau, and if I keep naming names I'll use up the character limit.<br />(Where O Where was the VCR/DVR when we really needed it?)<br />After years of off-again-on-again, I bought my first VCR in 1981 and was able to pick up EON on ABC-Channel 7 - at 9:30 am (ugh).<br />It was 1984 when ABC pre-empted EON for two weeks in August for that summer's Olympics. Channel 7 was looking for an excuse to promote <i>AM Chicago</i> from a half-hour to an hour, so on the Friday before the preempt, they ran the next-to last show in the morning, and the cliff-hanger at 3 pm, which became the regular slot afterwards. I still remember the promos that ABC thoughtfully provided for stations who were following this procedure:<br /><br /> <b>Dick Tufeld:</b> <i>Edge Of Night</i> is moving to <i>three o'clock!</i><br /> <b>Raven (Sharon Gabet</b>): Three in the morning? Who's going to see it then?<br /> <b>Dick Tufeld</b>: That's <i>three in the afternoon!</i><br /><br /> Those were the days ...<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05527404061764217504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-37444218158745186702017-11-18T18:01:57.938-05:002017-11-18T18:01:57.938-05:00I was so lucky that my local ABC affiliate aired E...I was so lucky that my local ABC affiliate aired Edge at 3 p.m. central time and continued to do so all the way to its cancellation in 1984. Many affiliates either ran it in the morning or not at all.<br /><br />With KMSP running Dark Shadows at 3 p.m. at this point, I wonder if they aired Edge at 10 a.m. when it replaced You Don't Say?<br /><br />The 90-minute Edge of Night premiere on December 1st must have been a problem for affiliates not airing it at 3 p.m. central time since on that day the show pre-empted General Hospital and One Life to Live. Robert Sharphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10499054677623275238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-9369052192180765212017-11-17T05:42:42.542-05:002017-11-17T05:42:42.542-05:00Edge did indeed make the move to ABC, and in Topek...Edge did indeed make the move to ABC, and in Topeka, WIBW-TV kept right in step-as did my mother. Edge was one of her faves. Although she tried to get into Ryan's Hope-until KMBC decided to compete with news at noon. But she kept up with EON even when we moved from KC to Topeka in '76. And stayed right with it until it was cancelled in 1984. <br /><br />The "Afterschool Special" this time around was titled "The Shaman's Last Raid". It starred Dehl Berti as a Native American medicine man (nee doctor) determined to teach his children the traditions of the Apache nation. Based on the novel by Betty Baker.<br /><br />I think Tim Bevan would've gotten a kick out of seeing Stan and Oliver in prime access time, it showed how some stations like WCCO were willing to put different things on and still be successful.<br /><br />And hey, don't sell yourself short about living in "The World's WORST town". At least you got the pleasure of watching Dick Enberg hosting 3 for the Money-in Kansas City, WDAF-TV didn't air it, and even worse, KBMA channel 41 didn't pick it up! So I'd say consider yourself lucky, Mr. Hadley. Alexandria wasn't much, I know, but at least you did with it as best you could. I'm pretty sure KCMT could have exchanged Somerset for Edge of Night-or even $10,000 Pyramid, if they had worked at it hard enough. <br /><br />I know you might not care for David Soul, but I think he's cool. He earned that coolness credit thanks to a great record he came out with in 1976-his hit single "Don't Give Up on Us" b/w "Black Bean Soup". I've heard both sides, and feel that it gave me a new affinity not only for David, but for the show as well-and besides, Huggy Bear was my man!Ken Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15658517406339380796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-45464677584546714322017-11-17T03:33:36.727-05:002017-11-17T03:33:36.727-05:00Bits 'n' Pieces:
- If I recall correctly...Bits 'n' Pieces:<br /><br /> - If I recall correctly, this was when Carmine Infantino held the title of Publisher at DC Comics, which made being on Tom Snyder's show with Marvel's Stan Lee in the nature of a summit meeting.<br /><br /> - Apparently <i>You Don't Say</i> was doing a husband-and-wife week, with Gary Collins and Mary Ann Mobley and Mitzi McCall and Charlie Brill (both couples were frequent fliers on the game show circuit at that point).<br /><br /> - The "repurposing" of still-active series with different titles goes back to the '50s, when NBC put out the earliest <i>Dragnet</i> shows as <i>Badge 714</i>.<br />Other examples include <i>The Lineup/San Francisco Beat</i> (Screen Gems) and <i>Highway Patrol/Ten-Four!</i> (Ziv) - and a few others I can't call to mind at the moment ...<br /><br /> - In recent times, daytime dramas (OK, <i>soaps</i>) have been getting just a bit more respect from their network parents, especially the older ones.<br />I still watch <i>General Hospital</i> and (lately) <i>The Young And The Restless</i>; many of my old faves from <i>All My Children</i> and <i>One Life To Live</i> found their way onto those shows when their own venues went down.<br />Often, when flashbacks are required, GH and Y&R can reach back into their tape libraries for scenes going back as far as the '80s - and don't think the fans don't appreciate this.<br />That said, I wouldn't look for full-scale syndie revivals of any of these shows: this would involve the location and restoration of thousands of hours of video, and who's going to foot the bill for that?<br />These days, the producers flag certain key scenes for when they may be needed later on (videotape was then and is now cheaper to maintain in this way).<br />Oh, by the way: <i>Dark Shadows</i> survived because Dan Curtis owned the series outright. At the time others in the business thought he was foolish to do that; eventually it became the basis for an ongoing family fortune.<br /><br /> - I'll take a sec here to once again bring up my all-time favorite daytimer, <i>The Edge Of Night</i>.<br />In scouting out the available <i>Edge</i>s on YouTube - which go back mainly to early 1979 - I can get frustrated when one day turns up missing in the midst of one of Henry Slesar's intricate mysteries. Lately I consider it a triumph of sorts when I can find two or three unbroken months worth.<br />It was a couple of weeks after this week's issue (December 1, 1975) that Procter & Gamble moved <i>Edge</i> from CBS to ABC.<br />P&G and ABC did it up pretty well: the Monday show was a 90-minute special, which ABC re-aired in the late-night <i>Wide World Of Entertainment</i> slot (that week's TV Guide had a half-page ad marking the event, with a photo of the full cast; this is one I've been trying to get, with no luck so far).<br />For me, <i>Edge Of Night</i>'s great unsolved mystery is this:<br />How is it that Lori Loughlin, who started on EON in 1980, looks <i>exactly the same</i> in 2017?<br /><br />Ah well/oh hell ...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05527404061764217504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-58252117481389335792017-11-17T01:01:01.009-05:002017-11-17T01:01:01.009-05:00DARK SHADOWS was pretty much intact (not "wip...DARK SHADOWS was pretty much intact (not "wiped") and was a different type of soap opera, so its reruns went into syndication for a while in the 70s. I remember the spooky opening late nights on WLVI-TV in Boston around 12:30 AM when I visited my grandparents.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00483417885845331990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-72517931486858225762017-11-16T22:28:24.924-05:002017-11-16T22:28:24.924-05:00Was KTSP really airing DARK SHADOWS at 3 p.m., it&...Was KTSP really airing DARK SHADOWS at 3 p.m., it's old ABC time slot? The network cancelled the series in April, 1971. When I first saw this, I thought it must be a mistake, but it is designated as (BW), which was true of the beginning of the syndicated reruns. The syndicated package only lasted for one year. Later on, more years of the series were released.Robert Sharphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10499054677623275238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-34807154167374837262017-11-15T22:03:39.715-05:002017-11-15T22:03:39.715-05:00Grandpa Jim was KSTP pioneer Jimmy Valentine, the ...Grandpa Jim was KSTP pioneer Jimmy Valentine, the first host of a kids' TV show in MN. This was his last children's show, and it didn't last very long.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-26501139499423099612017-11-15T09:47:33.032-05:002017-11-15T09:47:33.032-05:00It's always interesting to see all of the diff...It's always interesting to see all of the different celebrities showing up in the listings (there are probably a few more that didn't make it into print).A celebrity had a lot of chances to pick up an easy paycheck,and some publicity, back in the day.<br />I recognize probably 90% of the people listed, and I'm sure most poeple at the time did too. I'm sure that if that many of today's celebrities showed up on screen, most people wouldn't have a clue about who most of them were.Dennis McKalipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04046253693398870184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-62647604761230623722017-11-14T23:36:27.508-05:002017-11-14T23:36:27.508-05:00This was a high-water year for game shows, with mo...This was a high-water year for game shows, with more than 20 game shows on tv that year. The one above that I'd most like to see is SHOWOFFS, if only to see "Grandma Walton" in a red or blue t-shirt with "Ellen" on it in a vigorous game of charades.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00483417885845331990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-71321715061992000482017-11-13T20:47:57.257-05:002017-11-13T20:47:57.257-05:00At the time he was on "Tattle Tales" Buz...At the time he was on "Tattle Tales" Buzz had just married Beverly Zile (the marriage ended in 1978). He had retired from NASA and the Air Force in the early '70s and spent a lot of time dealing with personal things, as his two autobiographies detail, and he was trying to figure out what his next act in life would be. If he didn't get to be first on the Moon, he was certainly going to do what he could with being the second. Buzz also had a run as one of the celebrity panelists on the 1976-77 version of "Break the Bank."Jodie Peelerhttp://www.garrowayatlarge.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-31020024199561127242017-11-13T16:56:47.380-05:002017-11-13T16:56:47.380-05:00Every once in a while I have to look up somebody a...Every once in a while I have to look up somebody appearing on a game show. This time it was Joe Silver on "Tattletales," who, if Wikipedia has it right, was famed for "the lowest voice in showbiz." He was playing Lee Grant's husband on her then-current show "Fay," so having both Silver and Grant on "Tattletales" would have been a nice bit of promotional synergy, even if "Fay" was on NBC and "Tattletales" on CBS. Buzz Aldrin would have been the odd man out on the panel, but I'm sure he was cool enough to handle it jabartletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12856624710742851189noreply@blogger.com