During the nostalgia wave of the 1970's,the TV-series cast reunion movie of the 1960's series "The Addams Family"(titled "Halloween With the Addams Family(not to be confused with the very good series episode with the same name),the 3 "Gilligan's Island"TV-movie cast reunions of the 1960's TV series,and much later on,the TV-movie cast reunion of "The Patty Duke Show"-also from the 1960's-called "The Patty Duke Show:Still Rockin' in Brooklyn Heights",were televised on DIFFERENT networks than the ones the series ORIGINALLY aired on?"The Addams Family" series aired on ABC,and the movie aired on NBC."Gilligan's Island"was a CBS show,but the movies were NBC.And "The Patty Duke Show"was an ABC show,but the movie aired on CBS.Why was this?

The networks didn't own the shows, the studios or production companies that did them owned them. They sold the reunion shows to whoever wanted to buy them and that didn't necessarily turn out to be the networks that aired them.

How many of the three "TV-movie cast reunions" done for Gilligan's Island have fallen into the public domain? Is it just one of them, now commonly available on DVD?

How many of the three "TV-movie cast reunions" done for Gilligan's Island have fallen into the public domain? Is it just one of them, now commonly available on DVD?

They are BS public domain. Anything done after 1964, under the modified copyright legislation, can be registered within 75 years after the date of publication. Whether they have been registered or not, I don't know but if someone actually cared to press the issue, they could register it tomorrow.

The networks didn't own the shows, the studios or production companies that did them owned them. They sold the reunion shows to whoever wanted to buy them and that didn't necessarily turn out to be the networks that aired them.

That's definitely very odd, in my opinion.

what's so odd about it? Makes perfect sense to me!

what's so odd about it? Makes perfect sense to me!

Yeah, it makes sense obviously. It's just sort of funny that the channel that originally aired the show, for whatever reason, would pass on the reunion movie.

That would be like having a Friends reunion on ABC, a Simpsons retrospective on NBC, and a special 15th anniversary of Millionaire on CBS. That would be weird, no?

yea, it would be strange with those shows.