View Full Version : Question about the Penny Era of Good Times on Cable


TVFactFan
02-12-2009, 01:32 AM
Doesn't it seem like since this era is the worst of the series, no matter if you turn to TV One or TV Land it seems like it's always season 5 or 6-lol I almost never turn to one of these channels and see james evans


ONLY PENNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




Damm i hate that character

comedyfreak
02-13-2009, 12:16 AM
:rofl: :brent Just your luck.

TVFactFan
02-13-2009, 12:53 AM
:rofl: :brent Just your luck.


It seems like there are a 100 eps combined between season 5 and 6-lol

CWDogg
02-13-2009, 02:35 PM
For some reason those episodes get more play. Even when I was a kid back in the 80's those episodes stay on more. They just breeze through the James years and they just repeat the later episodes . I don't guess Norman Lear has put clauses in the syndication deals telling the networks to downplay the john Amos years

CWDogg
02-13-2009, 02:35 PM
For some reason those episodes get more play. Even when I was a kid back in the 80's those episodes stay on more. They just breeze through the James years and they just repeat the later episodes . I don't guess Norman Lear has put clauses in the syndication deals telling the networks to downplay the john Amos years

catlover79
02-13-2009, 02:55 PM
For some reason those episodes get more play. Even when I was a kid back in the 80's those episodes stay on more. They just breeze through the James years and they just repeat the later episodes . I don't guess Norman Lear has put clauses in the syndication deals telling the networks to downplay the john Amos years
In my area, it was different. WBNX-55 in Cleveland (formerly the WB affiliate, now the CW affiliate) used to show the reruns and they were the first 4 seasons, before Penny showed up. Maybe it just varies from location to location.

TVFactFan
02-13-2009, 05:03 PM
For some reason those episodes get more play. Even when I was a kid back in the 80's those episodes stay on more. They just breeze through the James years and they just repeat the later episodes . I don't guess Norman Lear has put clauses in the syndication deals telling the networks to downplay the john Amos years


You mean QUICKPLAY the Amos Era-lol

JAlanRuss72
02-13-2009, 06:06 PM
Same here. In Atlanta, GA in the early 80's the first episodes I saw of Good Times were the Penny/Keith seasons. Later, when they started re-running the John Amos-era shows I realized what a GREAT show it really was. Up to then I just thought it was ok- standard sitcom. But they always showed the Penny years more.