I have some early TV Guides and looking at one from 1990, I realized E/R, the one season sitcom from '84 had reruns on Lifetime apparently. so this has me wondering what other short-lived network shows got reran on cable channels in the early 90's?

When Things Were Rotten was reran on Comedy Central.

Lifetime also aired Goodnight Beantown and Day by Day.

When Things Were Rotten was reran on Comedy Central.

Do you know when they aired this?

I've also heard over the years they aired The Charmings before they were called "Comedy Central". No idea if this is true.

Besides just curiosity, this would be good to know because better quality copies of these shows may be out there that means.

I remember seeing "Duet" on Lifetime many years ago. Also Odyssey (now Hallmark) aired reruns of "Sister Kate" and Comedy Central aired "Police Squad" and "Working Stiffs" several years back.

BET aired reruns of "Baby, I'm Back", "Sanford", "Thea" and "Out All Night"

Do you know when they aired this?

I've also heard over the years they aired The Charmings before they were called "Comedy Central". No idea if this is true.


1991 (FX aired "The Charmings" , not sure about Comedy Central)

Comedy Central offers dusty laughs
MEDIA MONITOR
December 02, 1991|By Steve McKerrow

Link (http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1991-12-02/features/1991336198_1_comedy-central-lucy-show-fractured-flickers)

And you thought cable networks such as Nick at Nite and TBS, or local independent stations, screen a lot of reruns. Check out some of the moldy oldie titles on the daily lineup of Comedy Central, the laugh-around-the-clock network that joined Baltimore City's United Artists Cable system today (on Channel 50).

Among sitcoms past, you can catch "Love American Style," "The Lucy Show," "That Girl," "Rhoda," "Sergeant Bilko," "C.P.O. Sharkey" or "McHale's Navy" every weekday. On weekends you can even find things more obscure, including Mel Brooks' briefly aired Robin Hood bomb, "When Things Were Rotten" (at 7:30 a.m. Saturdays) and the silent-movie clip series "Fractured Flickers" (8:30 a.m. Sundays).

Comedy Central aired CPO Sharkey in 1991

TV Land aired Joanie Loves Chachi a few times in the late 90s.

Grady and Gloria aired on TV Land in 2002

I have some early TV Guides and looking at one from 1990, I realized E/R, the one season sitcom from '84 had reruns on Lifetime apparently. so this has me wondering what other short-lived network shows got reran on cable channels in the early 90's?

Interesting note about "E/R," the one-season sitcom. Look at the credits; if they had the space, you would see George Clooney as one of the cast members...the same George Clooney who later appeared on the one-hour drama, also set in a hospital, titled "ER."

I remember back in 1990 or 91 A & E showed POLICE SQUAD
and I remember some cable channel about the same time showed GLORIA-the short-lived spin-off of ALL IN THE FAMILY-on Sunday nights.

I'll add more in this thread once I get through the guides but some more that I thought to mention:

September 9th, 1989

5:30am and 2:30pm - Check it Out! (USA)
6:30am - When Thing's Were Rotten (A&E)
6:30am - National Velvet (TNT)
7:00am - Travels of Jaimie Mcpheeters (TNT)
8:00am - Hondo (TNT)
9:00am - Land of the Giants (USA)
10:00am - Lost in Space (USA)
2:00pm - Starting From Stratch (WGN)
3:00pm - Crazy Like a Fox (local 26)
3:00pm - Bustin' Loose (USA)
3:30pm - Double Trouble (USA)

September 10th, 1989
10:30am - Slap Maxwell Story (A&E)

"Two of a Kind" (The Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen sitcom) was rerun for a while on ABC Family some years back. That show only had 22 episodes.

It seems alot of the early cable stations just wanted to fill their schedule, so they would buy up the rights to air all the syndicated and network canceled shows of the previous year.

In addition to E/R, I also recall Lifetime airing reruns of Open House (the 1-season show Duet transformed into), Easy Street (starring Loni Anderson), and Foley Square (starring Margaret Colin).

In addition to E/R, I also recall Lifetime airing reruns of Open House (the 1-season show Duet transformed into), Easy Street (starring Loni Anderson), and Foley Square (starring Margaret Colin).


I used to like Easy Street!!! ;) I haven't seen it in years!!

"Two of a Kind" (The Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen sitcom) was rerun for a while on ABC Family some years back. That show only had 22 episodes.

This was my first thought as well, and the channel was still known as Fox Family when it reran the show to death from October 1999 to November 2001 (which is when the channel became known as ABC Family and reran it about five more times after that!)