TV Land on New Year's Day (Jan 1, 2002) TENTATIVE

[Pavan]

The following is on New Year's Day ONLY (Jan 1, 2002)
Subject to change:

6:00AM Mannix - Episode: To the Swiftest Death. Description: A racer's wife hires Mannix to probe his death.
7:00AM Happy Days - Episode: All the Way.
Description: Potsie sets Richie up with a ``fast'' girl.
7:30AM Laverne & Shirley - Episode: The Society Party. Description: The roommates wear stolen gowns to a posh party.
8:00AM Get Smart - Episode: Mr. Big.
Description: KAOS' Mr. Big threatens to destroy all cities.
8:30AM Hogan's Heroes - Episode: The Informer. Description: Hogan's men discover an enemy spy in their midst.
9:00AM F Troop - Episode: Scourge of the West. Description: A fake Indian attack is ordered to help Parmenter's image.
9:30AM The Dick Van Dyke Show - Episode: The Sick Boy and the Sitter. Description: Rob talks Laura into leaving Ritchie with a sitter.
10:00AM Leave it to Beaver - Episode: Child Care. Description: Ward arranges a baby-sitting job for the boys.
10:30AM I Love Lucy - TBA
11:00AM The Andy Griffith Show - Episode: The New Housekeeper. Description: Opie wants a new housekeeper.
11:30AM The Beverly Hillbillies - Episode: The Clampetts Strike Oil. Description: A hillbilly family strikes oil on its land.
12:00PM Gunsmoke - Episode: Snap Decision
Description: Matt resigns after killing a prisoner.
1:00PM Mannix - Episode: To the Swiftest Death. Description: A racer's wife hires Mannix to probe his death.
2:00PM The Rockford Files - TBA
3:00PM The A-Team - TBA
4:00PM All in the Family Episode: Meet the Bunkers. Description: The Bunkers celebrate their wedding anniversary.
4:30PM Maude - Episode: Maude's Problem.
Description: Maude resents Carol's psychoanalysis; guest Ed Begley Jr.
5:00PM Happy Days - Episode: All the Way
Description: Potsie sets Richie up with a ``fast'' girl.
5:30PM Laverne & Shirley - Episode: The Society Party.
Description: The roommates wear stolen gowns to a posh party.
6:00PM The Beverly Hillbillies - Episode: The Clampetts Strike Oil
Description: A hillbilly family strikes oil on its land.
6:30PM Leave it to Beaver - Episode: Child Care. Description: Ward arranges a baby-sitting job for the boys.
7:00PM I Love Lucy - TBA
7:30PM I Love Lucy - TBA
8:00PM The Love Boat - Episode: Captain & Lady; One If By Land; Centerfold. Description: Stubing's ex-wife comes with her new husband.
9:00PM I Love Lucy - TBA
9:30PM The Munsters - Episode: Munster Masquerade. Description: The Munsters meet the family of Marilyn's beau.
10:00PM The Andy Griffith Show - Episode: The New Housekeeper. Description: Opie wants a new housekeeper.
10:30PM The Beverly Hillbillies - Episode: The Clampetts Strike Oil. Description: A hillbilly family strikes oil on its land.
11:00PM Donna Reed Show - Episode: Weekend Trip. Description: Donna and Alex try to arrange a family weekend.
11:30PM Father Knows Best - Episode: Bud Takes Up the Dance. Description: Hesitant Bud prepares to attend his first dance.
12:00AM The Rockford Files - TBA
1:00AM Barney Miller - Episode: Ramon
Description: A teen-age drug addict grabs Fish's gun.
1:30AM The Odd Couple - Episode: The Laundry Orgy. Description: A double date falls on the roommates' poker night.
2:00AM Get Smart - Episode: Mr. Big
Description: KAOS' Mr. Big threatens to destroy all cities.
2:30AM Hogan's Heroes - Episode: The Informer
Description: Hogan's men discover an enemy spy in their midst.
3:00AM-6:00AM TBA

Paid Programming ends New Years Eve!
BUT remember this is VERY tentative!!

[Sean Snow]

OMG That is so cool! I really hope all those shows get added regulary, I guess Hallmark's "Happy Days" contract was up (They said it had low ratings.), and maybe (Or it might be just temp-like Revenge of the 80s shows) Viacom bought it. Thanks for posting that! http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[PPatters]

What is it with TVLand lately? We've got the new schedule and the New Years marathon, albeit they're tentative. AND, we've got the Christmas Marathon! I am just so happy. This is wonderful. I'm going to have to buy SO MANY TAPES, though :-)

[D&R]

I take it the theme of the day is the first episode. Correct?

[LucyFan]

I love TV Land. It is definitly my favorite channel. I am so glad "Happy Days," and "Laverne & Shirley" will now be on TV Land. Both of them are my favorite shows :-)
WOW! TV Land is getting better and better and better every year. lol :-)

[dawsongirl]

Originally posted by D&R:
I take it the theme of the day is the first episode. Correct?

Looks that way, doesn't it? Except why so many Lucy showings? The pilot and the first episode I guess.

[PPatters]

Maybe it's more than just first episodes, maybe it's television firsts. (First episodes of series would be included, but even more. A television first would be like when Lucy got pregnant on the show when she got prenant with Little Ricky, and the first episode that featured Little Ricky.)

[Pavan]

New Years Day Event-1st Episodes
Spend the first day of the year with TV Land watching some of televisions first. Tune in Tuesday, January 1 from 6:00am-6:00am for back-to-back premiere episodes of your favorite shows from the past. The line up will include The Donna Reed Show, Father Knows Best, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley and a special encore presentation of the I Love Lucy pilot.

[Pavan]

It¡¯s the first of January, the first of 2002, the first day of the new diet and the first day of your new exercise program. TV Land celebrates all of these firsts with a full 24 hours of first episodes. All day long, get reacquainted with how all of your favorite shows began.
Remember Fonzie before the leather jacket? Don¡¯t miss the story about a man named Jed. What were George and Weezie like they day they started movin¡¯ on up? All these questions as well as countless others will be answered during TV Land's New Years Day celebration.


6am Mannix
#1 To the Swiftest Death
A race car driver is killed in an event in which Mannix is also a competitor. The driver's widow hires the private detective to investigate possible foul play. Ellen Kovak leads Mannix on an investigation that uncovers some bizarre clues -- but her late husband¡¯s business associates insist that Mannix call off the investigation.
Guest Stars: Hugh Beaumont, Peter Haskell, Jill Ireland

7am Happy Days
#1 All the Way
Potsie meets Richie at the Arnold's Drive-in and tells him that he has fixed Richie up for a date with Mary Lou Milligan, who has a supposed "reputation". Warning Richie not to be his usual immature self, Potsie slips him a Mickey Spillane book and advises him to read "the good parts" to Mary Lou while on their date. Richie seems to have it made when Mary Lou accepts and suggests Richie keep her company during her baby-sitting job.

7:30am Laverne and Shirley
#1 The Society Party
Laverne and Shirley, working on the bottle-capping line of Shotz Brewery, are thrilled when Tad Shotz, nephew of the owner, invites Shirley to a fancy dinner party. Shirley won¡¯t accept unless Laverne can go with her - so they both receive invitations, but don¡¯t have dresses suitable for the occasion. Lenny and Squiggy offer to rent gowns from ¡°an uncle¡¯s wax museum¡± to help them out.
Guest Star: Henry Winkler

8am Get Smart
#1 Mr. Big
Smart must prevent Mr. Big from destroying The country's major cities if he does not receive 100 million dollars in ransom. Mr. Big, who has captured professor Dante, plans to make good his threat with Dante's InThermo, a doomsday machine.

8:30am Hogan¡¯s Heroes
#1 The Informer
Col. Robert Hogan and his men discover a German spy in the midst of their elaborate underground operation.

9am F-Troop
#1 Scourge the West
Sgt. O'Rourke and Corp. Agarn order the Indians to fake an attack on the Fort in order to make Parmenter look good for Lieut. Hawkes.

9:30am The Dick Van Dyke Show
#1 The Sick Boy and the Sitter
Comedy writer Rob Petrie talks wife Laura into leaving their "sick" son Richie with a baby sitter while they attend a big party.

10am Leave it to Beaver
#1 Beaver Gets Spelled
Beaver's new teacher, Miss Canfield hands him a note after school. The other kids convince him that a note home means he's getting kicked out of school. Beaver hides the note and Miss Canfield finds it the next day. Wally types a reply from Mrs Ward Cleaver assuring the teacher that Beaver has been punished for his wrongdoings at school. Miss Canfield calls home to find out why Beaver was punished as a result of her request that he play Smokey Bear in the Fire Prevention Pageant.

10:30am I Love Lucy Pilot
In this rarely seen pilot episode, we are introduced to Ricky and Lucy Ricardo. Ricky is a Cuban bandleader trying to get his big break. Ricky's wife, Lucy, a homemaker, has an insatiable thirst to join Ricky in "show business" despite her lack of talent. In this episode, Lucy is desperately pestering Ricky to allow her to do something in his audition for his own television show. While Ricky refuses Lucy cannot resist when one of Ricky's guests, Pepito the magician, is injured as a result of her own clumsiness. With Pepito unable to perform, Lucy decides to surprise Ricky on stage with a comedy act of her own.

11am The Andy Griffith Show
#1 The New Housekeeper
Andy Taylor¡¯s son, Opie, demands that their new housekeeper be fired after the old one leaves to get married.

11:30am The Beverly Hillbillies
#1 The Clampett¡¯s Strike Oil
A proud hillbilly family reluctantly exchanges a one-room mountain cabin for 25 million dollars and a 35 room mansion in Beverly Hills.

12pm Gunsmoke
#1 Snap Decision
Matt Dillion, disturbed over being forced to kill a prisoner, turns in his badge.
Guest Star: Claude Aikens

1pm Mannix
#1 To the Swiftest Death
A race car driver is killed in an event in which Mannix is also a competitor. The driver's widow hires the private detective to investigate possible foul play. Ellen Kovak leads Mannix on an investigation that uncovers some bizarre clues -- but her late husband¡¯s business associates insist that Mannix call off the investigation.
Guest Stars: Hugh Beaumont, Peter Haskell, Jill Ireland

2pm The Rockford Files
#1 The Kirkoff Case
An heir to a family fortune hires Rockford to find the slayers of his parents, although police consider the heir the prime suspect.

3pm The A-Team
#1 Mexican Slayride Part 1
The A Team takes on an assignment to locate a journalist who has been captured by bandits in a remote Mexican village. Amy Amanda Allen is a beautiful young journalist who has decided to defy her newspaper's orders by trying to locate Al Massey, a colleague who has disappeared in Mexico during an assignment.

4pm All in the Family
#1 Meet the Bunkers
It¡¯s a busy day, it¡¯s the day of Edith¡¯s and Archie¡¯s wedding anniversary and Edith somehow gets Archie to go to church. Meanwhile Gloria and his son-in- law, Michael Stivic throw a surprise anniversary party which, of course, turns into their signature raucous debate.

4:30pm Maude
#1 Maude¡¯s Problem
Maude fights a psychiatrist who is treating her daughter, as she sees her daughter's need for treatment as a criticism of her mothering.

5pm Happy Days
#1 All the Way
Potsie meets Richie at the Arnold's Drive-in and tells him that he has fixed Richie up for a date with Mary Lou Milligan, who has a supposed "reputation". Warning Richie not to be his usual immature self, Potsie slips him a Mickey Spillane book and advises him to read "the good parts" to Mary Lou while on their date. Richie seems to have it made when Mary Lou accepts and suggests Richie keep her company during her baby-sitting job.

5:30pm Laverne and Shirley
#1 The Society Party
Laverne and Shirley, working on the bottle-capping line of Shotz Brewery, are thrilled when Tad Shotz, nephew of the owner, invites Shirley to a fancy dinner party. Shirley won¡¯t accept unless Laverne can go with her - so they both receive invitations, but don¡¯t have dresses suitable for the occasion. Lenny and Squiggy offer to rent gowns from ¡°an uncle¡¯s wax museum¡± to help them out.
Guest Star: Henry Winkler

6pm The Beverly Hillbillies
#1 The Clampett¡¯s Strike Oil
A proud hillbilly family reluctantly exchanges a one-room mountain cabin for 25 million dollars and a 35 room mansion in Beverly Hills.

6:30pm Leave it to Beaver
#1 Beaver Gets Spelled
Beavers new teacher, Miss Canfield hands him a note after school. The other kids convince him that a note home means he's getting kicked out of school. Beaver hides the note and Miss Canfield finds it the next day. Wally types a reply from Mrs Ward Cleaver assuring the teacher that Beaver has been punished for his wrongdoings at school. Miss Canfield calls home to find out why Beaver was punished as a result of her request that he play Smokey Bear in the Fire Prevention Pageant.

7pm I Love Lucy Pilot
In this rarely seen pilot episode, we are introduced to Ricky and Lucy Ricardo. Ricky is a Cuban bandleader trying to get his big break. Ricky's wife, Lucy, a homemaker, has an insatiable thirst to join Ricky in "show business" despite her lack of talent. In this episode, Lucy is desperately pestering Ricky to allow her to do something in his audition for his own television show. While Ricky refuses Lucy cannot resist when one of Ricky's guests, Pepito the magician, is injured as a result of her own clumsiness. With Pepito unable to perform, Lucy decides to surprise Ricky on stage with a comedy act of her own.

7:30pm I Love Lucy
#1 The Girls Want to Go to A Nightclub
To celebrate the Mertzes' wedding anniversary, Fred and Ricky want to go to a prize fight, but the girls want to get dressed up and go to a nightclub. Lucy threatens to find two other escorts if their husbands won't take them. This is just fine with Fred, but Ricky worries, so they find two other girls and go to the same nightclub to watch their wives.

8pm The Love Boat
#1 Captain & The Lady/ One if by Land/ Centerfold
In "The Captain and the Lady," Bonnie Franklin appears as Capt. Stubing's infuriatingly sarcastic ex-wife who creates havoc aboard the Pacific Princess when she arrives for a cruise with her present spouse (Robert Symonds), the captain's boss. "One If By Land" stars Jimmie Walker and Brenda Sykes as a couple who have been living together in unwedded bliss, until the young lady decides that matrimony is a "must." To forget her unhitchable man, she escapes aboard the luxury ship where she befriends fun-loving Suzanne Somers, who helps her acquire a new outlook on life. "Centerfold" finds Ms. Meredith Baxter-Birney as a girl who once posed in the nude for a photographer. Now engaged to a political candidate (Shelly Novack), she is horrified to learn that the picture is the centerfold of a current magazine. She sets out to recover all copies aboard ship before her future husband sees the centerfold picture.

9pm I Love Lucy
#1 The Girls Want to Go to A Nightclub
To celebrate the Mertzes' wedding anniversary, Fred and Ricky want to go to a prize fight, but the girls want to get dressed up and go to a nightclub. Lucy threatens to find two other escorts if their husbands won't take them. This is just fine with Fred, but Ricky worries, so they find two other girls and go to the same nightclub to watch their wives.

9:30pm The Munsters
#1 Munster Masquerade
Herman, Lily, and Grandpa attend a costume party given by the parents of Marilyn's latest boyfriend.

10pm The Andy Griffith Show
#1 The New Housekeeper
Andy Taylor¡¯s son, Opie, demands that their new housekeeper be fired after the old one leaves to get married.

10:30p.m. The Beverly Hillbillies
#1 The Clampett¡¯s Strike Oil
A proud hillbilly family reluctantly exchanges a one-room mountain cabin for 25 million dollars and a 35 room mansion in Beverly Hills.

11pm The Donna Reed Show
#1 Weekend Trip
In order to spend more time with the family, Alex attempts to pack up Donna and the kids for a weekend get away. Unfortunately, do to some unforeseen circumstances, a trip away is impossible but they are able to spend and undisturbed weekend at home.

11:30pm Father Knows Best
#1 Bud Takes up the Dance
A quiet evening at home is rudely dispelled when Bud reluctantly gets ready to attend his first dance. Making matters worse is the news that his parents plan to attend the school dance, and horrified by the prospect, Bud retires into voluntary confinement. To add to his woes is his date, Marcia, rumored as a teenage menace, and affectionately labeled "dynamite" in Bud's circle.

12am The Rockford Files
#1 The Kirkoff Case
An heir to a family fortune hires Rockford to find the slayers of his parents, although police consider the heir the prime suspect.

1am Barney Miller
#1 Ramon
A routine day for Capt. Miller. It starts with his wife Elizabeth complaining about the unsafe conditions in the city. For this reason, she tries to talk to Barney into quitting his job and moving to a quieter, more rural area to start a chicken ranch. Meanwhile at the police station, Fish and Chano have picked up a teenage drug addict as a mugging suspect. During the booking, the addict, Ramon Santcs gets Fish's gun and is holding the squad at bay.

1:30am The Odd Couple
#1 The Laundry Orgy
Oscar and Felix conspire to break up a poker game so they can go out with the Pigeon sisters. Oscar is amazed when Felix suggests they take the girls downstairs to do the laundry.

2am Get Smart
#1 Mr. Big
Smart must prevent Mr. Big from destroying The country's major cities if he does not receive 100 million dollars in ransom. Mr. Big, who has captured professor Dante, plans to make good his threat with Dante's InThermo, a doomsday machine.

2:30am Hogan¡¯s Heroes
#1 The Informer
Col. Robert Hogan and his men discover a German spy in the midst of their elaborate underground operation.

3am All in the Family
#1 Meet the Bunkers
It¡¯s a busy day, it¡¯s the day of Edith¡¯s and Archie¡¯s wedding anniversary and Edith somehow gets Archie to go to church. Meanwhile Gloria and his son-in- law, Michael Stivic throw a surprise anniversary party which, of course, turns into their signature raucous debate.

3:30am Taxi
#1 Like Father, Like Daughter
A pay telephone goes out of order and the cabbies are able to place calls anywhere in the world for free. Alex reaches his seventeen-year-old daughter, Cathy who lives with his ex-wife in Brazil. He learns that Cathy is traveling in Portugal to go to college and she will be changing planes in Miami the next day. All the cabbies volunteer to take turns driving and race to try and make it in Miami in time.

4am The Mary Tyler Moore
#1 Love is All Around
Mary Richards says goodbye to a four-year romance and hello to a new career as an associate producer at WJM, a small television station in Minneapolis. Her ex-boyfriend shows up at her apartment, but it is apparent their romance is over.

4:30am The Honeymooners
#1 TV or Not TV
When Alice begs for a television set, Ralph and Ed agree to split the cost and share the set. But their friendship is jeopardized when they can't agree on a program to watch.

5am Charlie¡¯s Angels
#1 Hell Ride
Sabrina pretends to be a race car driver as the girls go undercover to investigate a conspiracy surrounding the death of a female racer.

[dpgsk8]

Awright! Many thanks to pavanbadal and marmalade!

:wave:
:crazy:

[TV Guy]

This is a good schedule, but what would be really great would be if TV Land showed the original pilots for these series, instead of just the first episodes. In many cases, the pilots of these series aren't in the syndication package and aren't shown that often (similar to "I Love Lucy"). For instance:

"Happy Days" - the pilot is an episode of "Love, American Style" ("Love and the Happy Days").

"Laverne and Shirley" - show the never-aired 15 minute pilot "presentation" where the girls live in an apartment that looks suspciously like Fonzie's from "Happy Days" (it was filmed on the same set).

"Dick Van Dyke" - show "Head of the Family", the pilot with Carl Reiner as Rob Petrie.

"Leave it to Beaver" - show the "It's a Small World" pilot with different actors playing Ward and Wally.

"Andy Griffith" - show the pilot that aired as part of "The Danny Thomas Show", where Danny stops in Mayberry and meets Andy.

"Rockford Files" - show the original pilot movie with Robert Donley (instead of Noah Beery) as Rocky.

"All in the Family" - show the "Those Were the Days" pilot with different actors as the prototypes for Gloria and Mike. (There's a second pilot with another set of actors as the daughter and son-in-law, but it's believed lost).

"Maude" - show the "Maude" episode of "All in the Family" where Lucy and Archie go to Maude's to attend Carol's wedding (Marcia Rodd plays Carol, instead of Adrienne Barbeau).

"Love Boat" - show any one of the three pilot movies that preceded the series (one of them has an entirely different crew!).

"The Munsters" - there were several 15-minute pilot "presentations" that were made before the series (one of them is in color!).

"Barney Miller" - show the original "Life and Times of Barney Miller" pilot, with Abby Dalton as Barney's wife.

"The Honeymooners" - show some skits from Jackie Gleason's old "Cavalcade of Stars" show, where the skits originated (Disney Channel aired a special comprised of these skits a few years ago).

"Charlie's Angels" - show the original pilot movie.

So you can see, there are a lot of missed opportunities here. Too bad there aren't some hard-core TV addicts running TV Land.

[dpgsk8]

Pilots sound cool! Someday.....:rolleyes:

[JT]

And the maybe the three Three's Company pilots.....

[dawsongirl]

Originally posted by TV Guy
"Andy Griffith" - show the pilot that aired as part of "The Danny Thomas Show", where Danny stops in Mayberry and meets Andy.


I remember seeing that I think during NAN's 10th anniversary week. It was funny!

[DarleneIllyria]

A schedule for pilots only would be a great idea. I'd love to see the All in the Family and Leave it to Beaver pilots!

[lukes42]

I don't think the Leave It To Beaver pilot has ever been aired, has it? If it has, it has been years, if not 40 years since it did air. Different actors played the parts of Ward and Wally in the pilot, and Eddie Haskell wasn't even a character in the pilot! Just someone similar to Eddie's personality. :)

[TV Guy]

The "Beaver" pilot didn't air as part of the original series, but for some strange reason, it was included as part of the "New Leave it to Beaver" syndication package. Harry Shearer, from "The Simpsons" and "Spinal Tap", plays the Eddie Haskell prototype. Weird.

[TV Guy]

I'm going to pick on TV Land some more -- they're showing what they claim is episode #1 of "Mannix" right now, and it's an episode from the second season! Ridiculous.

[Sean Snow]

Yeah, I noticed that about "Mannix"...but wasn't the 1st season under a different title? I've read that the first season didn't make it into the "Mannix" syndication package because he works for an organization in the first season.

[TV Guy]

The TV Land site (or some other site) used to claim for a while that the series was called "Intertect" (which was the name of the agency Mannix worked for) during the first season. This is incorrect -- the series was always called "Mannix". I'm sure the reason these episodes weren't originally rerun was because of the format difference, but to me, that's not a good enough reason not to rerun them now, or to not show one of them during "First Episodes Day" on TV Land.

Then again, I don't work for TV Land, so what do I know? :)

[snowpeck]

The first (the real first) episode was aired on TV Land's launch night, and apparently, the first season was a separate syndication package which TV Land no longer has.

[Sean Snow]

And they also claim that they have the first episode of "Gunsmoke", but they only show some of the color-hour ones, and not the b&W ones, which some of them I've read are in half hours, and it would be easier to show some of the half-hours to give 'some variety' to the schedule instead of replaying the same episodes over and over again. And if I'm not mistake, they have shown one episode. Same for "Dragnet", I believed that until recently they owned the original "Dragnet (1950s)" and "Dragnet (1960s)"..all they showed was the "Dragnet (1960s)" episodes, but I think they showed a Christmas episode of the original...I don't know if thats right or wrong lol

TV Land at one time had the "My Three Sons" Color Package. If you go on the 'Internet Archive', you can find the old Nick-at-Nite/TV Land site. On it it has "My Three Sons" listed, and it lists the first color episode (In which the oldest son gets married and moves away...Ernie replaced him, I forget his name lol) when in fact the first episode was in black & white w/ Bud and called "Chip Off the Old Block"....I think they then lost the color package because it couldn't have been on that long...maybe a year? And then later acquired the Black & White episodes and showed them before they left the network too.

[snowpeck]

TV Land has every color episode of Gunsmoke and, in fact, the episode they claimed was the first episode was merely the first COLOR episode. TV Land used to have the Marshall Dillon package of Gunsmoke which was the 6 years worth that were 30 minutes. TV Land never had full rights to 60 minute black and white eps, although 2 or 3 episodes slipped into a Gunsmoke Vertivision a few years ago, which I thankfully have on tape.

Neither Tv Land nor Nick at Nite has ever had rights to the 50s version of Dragnet.

[TV Guy]

If TV Land doesn't have the rights to the true first episodes of "Mannix" and "Gunsmoke", then, to me, they shouldn't be airing "faux" first episodes as part of their marathon. It seems a little dishonest IMHO.

[TV Favorites]

LOL...they should have called it the "First episodes that we have" marathon!

Anyway, TV Land never had the rights to the '50's Dragnet. I remember Diane Robina (back when they had "Meet the Veep" on NAN's AOL area) saying that those episodes had fallen into the Public Domain, which made it difficult to air them.

Also, I don't believe TV Land had the rights to the "Intertect" episodes of "Mannix" save for limited rights on the actual first episode.

[TV Guy]

Originally posted by TV Favorites
LOL...they should have called it the "First episodes that we have" marathon!

:lol:

The Nostalgia Network (which is now Goodlife TV) used to run the 50s "Dragnet" 7 or 8 years ago. I'm sure that once something is in the public domain, it's more difficult to get a decent print of it, which is probably why N@N/TV Land wouldn't air it. I know that there was an "Emergency" episode TV Land wouldn't air because a good copy wasn't available.

[Sean Snow]

LOL What is public domain?

[TV Guy]

"Public Domain" means that no one owns the copyright any more, and anyone is free to use it. Copyrights on all kinds of media can be renewed for only so long, and then the works fall into the public domain. Sometimes, the copyright holders don't even bother to renew even once, which happened with the movie "It's a Wonderful Life". It fell into the public domain, and all kinds of stations started showing it, and all kinds of companies began releasing it on video, because they didn't have to pay a dime to secure the rights. Then, a few years ago, Republic Pictures bought the rights to the original story and original music, and began enforcing their copyright. Since almost no one wanted to air the movie without its music or dialogue (Comedy Central did do a spoof with new dialogue and the original images), all the extra airings and VHS copies disappeared.

Some older episodes of series we're familiar with are already in the public domain, for one reason or another. You can buy public domain episodes of "Beverly Hillbillies" and "Andy Griffith" (from various distributors) to name two. The prints are usually pretty lousy (CBS isn't going to give out their good prints for free), and are usually missing the theme music, since the music isn't in the public domain.

The character of Mickey Mouse is going to fall into the public domain within the next 10 years, I believe, and the Looney Tunes characters will start to shortly thereafter. It should be interesting to see what happens.

I'm by no means an expert in this area. Does anyone have more details on how long a copyright can be renewed for (I thought it was around 75 years), and whether the copyright laws differ for movies, books, music, etc.?

[TV Guy]

The US Copyright office has a good site, http://www.loc.gov/copyright/, which explains how the copyrights work.

[Sean Snow]

Thanks for clearing it up TV Guy! It seems a lot of AIN Shows are under public domain, cause I've been thinking why would they pay money for it if they're not going to air it. I think most of these shows are under Public Domain:

"Love that Bob/The Bob Cummings Show"
"I Married Joan"
"the Many Loves of Dobie Gillis"
"I Spy"
"Life With Elizabeth"

Also, are "The Dick Van Dyke Show" & "The Lucy Show" in public domain? Just wondering! :D

Also, I have another question. At the end of episodes of "Leave it to Beaver" and "Welcome Back Kotter", it doesn't display the logo of the company that owns it (like Paramount at the end of "happy Days" and "Laverne and Shirley" or Columbia-Tristar)...do you know why this is?

[snowpeck]

No but I do know that Kotter is owned by AOL Time Warner and Beaver by The Program Exchange.

[munstercity]

As far as Mannix is concerened, TV land did in fact run the pilot over the last few years and not the one they ran on New Years.
It's really ridiculous that they won't aquire the first season and other episodes here in the US, but yet TV Land Canada is running THE ENTIRE SERIES of Mannix, and uncut I may add.
Also I don't believe they have all the color episodes of Gunsmoke as they seem to skip over some of the same episodes everytime.
I am really dissapointed in TV land between butchering their shows, not running all the episodes and not giving shows a chance. Rememember McHales navy, lasted about 2 months and then yanked. How about Its a living, yanked after 2 weeks.
If TV Land thinks their current lineup is tv satisfaction, they are sadly mistaken.

Last not but not least, running the pilot episode of the A team on New years was great, but c'mon, a 2 part episode and you only run one part that day. How absurd, waking up programming department or hire someone who can do a better job!

[TV Guy]

Originally posted by Sean Feeney Snow
Also, are "The Dick Van Dyke Show" & "The Lucy Show" in public domain? Just wondering! :D

Also, I have another question. At the end of episodes of "Leave it to Beaver" and "Welcome Back Kotter", it doesn't display the logo of the company that owns it (like Paramount at the end of "happy Days" and "Laverne and Shirley" or Columbia-Tristar)...do you know why this is?

At least some episodes of DVD and TLS are in the public domain, and have been released by several different distributors (poor quality, as if someone taped them off a fuzzy UHF station). I don't know if it's just certain episodes, or all episodes, or why the copyrights weren't renewed.

Someone mentioned how "Beaver" is distributed by the Program Exchange. From what I've read, The Program Exchange is a third-party syndicator that major studios (and some small studios) "subcontract" their older series to. Some of the major studios want their in-house syndication arms to only handle newer, "big-ticket" series. For awhile, Paramount was letting the Program Exchange handle "Happy Days", "Laverne & Shirley", and "The Brady Bunch". Columbia was letting them handle "Bewitched" and "Jeannie". The contracts with Program Exchange came to an end, and all of these series are now handled again by their original studio.

As I understand it, "Beaver" is still owned by Universal Studios, it's original studio, but they've hired The Program Exchange to handle domestic distribution. And Universal doesn't seem particularly concerned with updated logos on their series. This is definitely unlike Paramount and Columbia, which try to put their updated logos on even older series. Some of the later Beaver episodes still have the "Revue" logo on them -- this is what Universal's TV arm was called in the 50s and 60s, the same way that Columbia's TV arm was called Screen Gems.