I sure do. Recently, on Nick At Nite, there has been 3 hours of Full House. Full House also airs on TBS. On A&E, all they seem to air is Duck Dynasty and Storage Wars. Seinfeld and Friends seem to air on every station known to mankind. That '70s Show airs 2 hours a day on ABC Family and has aired on every station known to mankind for the last several years.

There are a lot of shows that seem to get stuck in a vault and never see the light of day. A lot of these shows I have not seen in YEARS. Those shows IMO that are stuck in a vault are The Hogan Family, Blossom, The Love Boat, Bionic Woman, Laverne And Shirley, California Dreams, USA High, Malibu CA, L.A. Law, Head Of The Class, Gimme A Break, The Wild Wild West, Melrose Place, and Hazel. What are some shows you have not seen in a very long time?

I sure do. Recently, on Nick At Nite, there has been 3 hours of Full House. Full House also airs on TBS. On A&E, all they seem to air is Duck Dynasty and Storage Wars. Seinfeld and Friends seem to air on every station known to mankind. That '70s Show airs 2 hours a day on ABC Family and has aired on every station known to mankind for the last several years.

There are a lot of shows that seem to get stuck in a vault and never see the light of day. A lot of these shows I have not seen in YEARS. Those shows IMO that are stuck in a vault are The Hogan Family, Blossom, The Love Boat, Bionic Woman, Laverne And Shirley, California Dreams, USA High, Malibu CA, L.A. Law, Head Of The Class, Gimme A Break, The Wild Wild West, Melrose Place, and Hazel. What are some shows you have not seen in a very long time?

Trapper John, M.D., for one (FX used to have it). They also used to have Hart to Hart (I've seen the first two seasons worth from the DVD releases, and that's it).

I certainly miss it! Back in the day you could always find something to watch is what I've heard from people, and now we have virtually nothing interesting to pick from!

Hazel airs weekdays at 11:00AM and 11:30AM on Antenna TV.

The sad fact of the matter is it's a lot cheaper for stations to air marathons of one show than to air 100 different shows as long as the numbers are still good enough for advertisers.

Hazel airs weekdays at 11:00AM and 11:30AM on Antenna TV.
Thanks to my DVD player, "Hazel" can air anytime I want her to! But I do wish more common networks aired a wide variety of the classics instead of just picking a select few and running them into the ground.

Thanks to my DVD player, "Hazel" can air anytime I want her to! But I do wish more common networks aired a wide variety of the classics instead of just picking a select few and running them into the ground.

I don't miss the ;lack of variety on Cable (Or OTA) TV. I threw my hands up a little over seven years ago. My DVD Collection covers the entire spectrum of what's being, or was once was shown on TV. No such thing as "Lack of Variety" at my house.

METV is showing the old programs I used to watch as a kid, but now I don't want to see them. I am depraved enough to watch Extreme Couponing marathons, even though I know the show was exposed as being fake.

I'm with Regulus, as soon as my absolute favorites were available on DVD, I bought them up. Only a small select few of my favorites are not on TV.

Now I just watch for the news, and live sports.

I'm with Regulus, as soon as my absolute favorites were available on DVD, I bought them up. Only a small select few of my favorites are not on TV.

Now I just watch for the news, and live sports.

I don't watch the news, too depressing, and WAY too much politics. :mad: :angryfire

Recently, on Nick At Nite, there has been 3 hours of Full House. Full House also airs on TBS.

I know! That's awesome!:) :cool: (Of course, I LOVE Full House, so I'm definitely cool with marathons on that show.)
But I certainly wouldn't mind other shows moved around to make room for some other classics that haven't been on the air in a long time.

I've said this before but it seems like there was a lot more variety on stations back in the old days. I dont know what can be done about it.

I remember USA Network having pro wrestling, boxing, cartoons, game shows back in the mid-80s. Wish it was like that again.

I Do because during the 1980s & the 1990s; USA Network, ESPN, BET, Univision, Discovery Channel, TNN, MTV, TBS, TNT, HBO, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, A&E, E!**, GSN*, CBN/Family Channel, TLC & Lifetime have more variety.

*= debuted in 1994
**= started as MovieTime in 1987

When Cable TV came to my town in 1980 one of the things I looked forward to was more variety. The number of channels one could watch went from eight to twenty eight (This included the three "Movie Channels (That's HBO, Showtime and The Movie Channel for those of you in Rio Linda!).:crazy: :lol: :happyface 25 years later and the variety was gone. :( When they started doing marathons I thought it was "cute", if your favorite show was being "marathoned" you could knock yourself out (You still had to wade through all the commercials), unfortunately if a show wasn't your cup of tea too bad, as the show that was on was your only choice for the day. Today I could "marathon" a show on DVD if it's in my library, but I like variety, so I simply don't do it. I guess I'm a little "Old Fashioned", but I wear this like a badge! :cheers:

I sure do. Recently, on Nick At Nite, there has been 3 hours of Full House. Full House also airs on TBS. On A&E, all they seem to air is Duck Dynasty and Storage Wars. Seinfeld and Friends seem to air on every station known to mankind. That '70s Show airs 2 hours a day on ABC Family and has aired on every station known to mankind for the last several years.

There are a lot of shows that seem to get stuck in a vault and never see the light of day. A lot of these shows I have not seen in YEARS. Those shows IMO that are stuck in a vault are The Hogan Family, Blossom, The Love Boat, Bionic Woman, Laverne And Shirley, California Dreams, USA High, Malibu CA, L.A. Law, Head Of The Class, Gimme A Break, The Wild Wild West, Melrose Place, and Hazel. What are some shows you have not seen in a very long time?

The Hogan Family, Head of the Class, Gimme a Break and Hazel are on Antenna TV. Blossom used to air on The Hub and Discovery Family, but no more. Laverne and Shirley airs on Logo, albeit heavily butchered for more commercials. Bionic Woman is on Cozi TV. The Love Boat airs on Me-TV.

Honestly, I don't miss the variety because I've come to not expect it anymore. I just have select few shows that I watch and the rest of the time I watch my DVD collection.

I sooooo do!

Many cable shows had many types of shows and it also had creativity!

Today...all they care about is money and getting rich! Cable stations got TOO corporate! If it makes money, flaunt it! If it doesn't...ditch it!

Count me in as one of those that misses variety too.

Count me in as one of those that misses variety too.me too

I sure do. Recently, on Nick At Nite, there has been 3 hours of Full House. Full House also airs on TBS. On A&E, all they seem to air is Duck Dynasty and Storage Wars. Seinfeld and Friends seem to air on every station known to mankind. That '70s Show airs 2 hours a day on ABC Family and has aired on every station known to mankind for the last several years.

There are a lot of shows that seem to get stuck in a vault and never see the light of day. A lot of these shows I have not seen in YEARS. Those shows IMO that are stuck in a vault are The Hogan Family, Blossom, The Love Boat, Bionic Woman, Laverne And Shirley, California Dreams, USA High, Malibu CA, L.A. Law, Head Of The Class, Gimme A Break, The Wild Wild West, Melrose Place, and Hazel. What are some shows you have not seen in a very long time?

I totally agree with this, but I understand why it is done this way. I have lots of shows on DVD but sometimes I still just don't feel like bothering with it and just watch shows on cable. The main thing that angers me is how TVLand shows 2 episodes of a show in a 90 minute time frame.

This thread was started in 2014, and since then, it's gotten worse. Back then they probably didn't have 4 hour blocks of the same show. I just counted shows on TV Land, and not counting overnight and infomercials (don't you love paying heavy cable rates for 2 hours of infomercials, by the way? And, yes, I've read all the posts about people who have cut the cord) you have 5 or 6 shows. Now think about that: 18 hours filled with 5 or 6 shows.

Laff is a little better: 9 shows, but still not much variety for a whole day.

I miss way back when, when USA had many of the great 80s games (Pyramid, PYL, Scrabble, et al.); now it's nowhere near that, and practically all Law and Order!

I remember when USA showed That Girl. Now THAT's a long time ago!

This thread was started in 2014, and since then, it's gotten worse. Back then they probably didn't have 4 hour blocks of the same show. I just counted shows on TV Land, and not counting overnight and infomercials (don't you love paying heavy cable rates for 2 hours of infomercials, by the way? And, yes, I've read all the posts about people who have cut the cord) you have 5 or 6 shows. Now think about that: 18 hours filled with 5 or 6 shows.

Laff is a little better: 9 shows, but still not much variety for a whole day.

I can see why they do this,with cordcutting it means less people are watching tv so it's more cost effective to run shows in marathons hoping you will pick up the casual channel surfer who will see oh "Friends" or "Golden Girls" etc " I love tis episode. and just keep the channel on as background noise. For the lesser known shows I think they figure a channel surfer would change the channel and the people who want to see it badly are just gonna binge or watch a dvd of it.