Why they do NOT carry the Black and White first two seasons of "Bewitched"?Because WGN does not know what they're missing.Just curious.

I haven't. But I'm going to!

With the exception of venues that are devoted to preserving classic TV, i.e. Nick-at-Nite...TVLand...etc., syndication of Bewitched has generally ignored the first 2 seasons. In the mid to late 70's I watched Bewitched on weekday afternoons for YEARS without ever seeing a B&W episode and had no idea that anyone besides Sandra Gould had ever played Gladys Kravitz.

For a good while after TV shows went to color in 1965/1966, there was a feeling that nobody wanted to see B&W anymore-----and for a little bit that was likely true. No excuse for it nowadays, though, as it's "classic" rather than "obsolete." In fact, I purposely bought the B&W DVD's for Seasons 1 & 2 because I wanted them as they were originally produced.

(and, yes, all you purists out there, I know the opening credits are a gray-scaled version of the 1966 color opening and that all the sponsor material is missing :lol: )

I think what happened is that the syndication package was put together during the time that the B&W eps were considered undesired and there was never any motivation to change that afterwards as it is an OLD product and they had 6 seasons worth of material to work with anyway.

I don't agree with that point of view, but you know how money-monkeys can be! Thank God that Nick and TVLand not only went after rights for the rest of the eps., but PROMOTED them--------anybody remember their "not seen since the original run" commercials??

While writing the above reply, I kept thinking this all sounded very familiar...anyone interested may also want to check out this thread:

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=272781

It is interesting they don't show the entire series - especially since they show the b/w episodes of I Dream of Jeannie...

While writing the above reply, I kept thinking this all sounded very familiar...anyone interested may also want to check out this thread:

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=272781

Do you really think WGN will respond???


Just saying

No, I don't think they'll respond.......as great a show as Bewitched was (and is), from a superstation programming perspective it's nice entertaining filler. Weren't they showing it around 10:00 on Sunday nights............don't be surprised if it suddenly comes on unscheduled while they're waiting out a Cubs rain delay!