COZI TV will be adding "My Favorite Martian" to its weekly schedule starting April 6th at 7:30 PM EDT. The first show will be the pilot.

http://www.cozitv.com/video/The-Martians-Are-Coming/cozi-tv/298312261

The problem is, that in many markets, (for instance in NYC and L.A,) NBC pre-empts COZI programming at that time for local news.

This also happens at 12 midnight for "The Avengers" which is pre-empted for infomercials in some markets.

Cozi TV tends to broadcast deeply edited versions of its shows, cutting dialogue in the middle of scenes for extra commercial time, so it remains to be seen whether that policy will continue with "Martian".

The lousy Washington D.C. Cozi channel pre-empts one of the 2 Danny Thomas shows every single night with a repeat of their lousy lib news that was on just an hour earlier on their regular NBC channel. What a waste of COZI valuable programming time.:(

COZI updated their schedule. MFM will air on Saturdays & Sundays at 9:30AM EDT and they will run a marathon of the 1st 8 episodes this Sunday April 12th starting at 1 PM EDT

No surprise, really. Just like it does with "The Dick Van Dyke Show" Cozi is broadcasting the deeply edited versions of MFM with lines of dialogue seamlessly snipped within scenes, short-changing the viewer, as some bits of charm and humor are now missing. And Cozi still doesn't show the closing credits.

These are the same edited episodes that TV Land aired a decade ago.

Which begs the question, does Hulu or other TV services on line stream edited or complete MFM episodes?

If not, then watching MFM dvds may be the way to go.

One good note, Cozi got a corrected version of "A Loaf of Bread ...& Peaches" without the audio damage at the end of last scene.
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I am very very happy COZI is running the show, but personally I don't watch as I would much prefer watching the DVD sets that are available, there you get the complete episodes, no commercials, shows are not sped up, it's just a joy watching it on DVD, at MY own time preference, without the never ending commercials of today's broadcasts. The DVD sets are more than worth their money in the pleasure they provide and the frustrations avoided with modern commercial TV.

and of COURSE they show it in that weird way, like they do with all their shows:mad: :mad:

This policy is so unfair to new viewers, particularly kids, who have never seen the show and are not aware of how much humor has been cut.

Back in the day, MFM reruns were edited for commercial time by dropping the tag scene at the end or cutting one scene in the show. Sometimes the stations would restore the missing scene the next time they aired that episode. That policy spared most of the humor and dialogue in the story.

Now they can digitally cut moments of dialogue within a scene and edit the transition music and add fake scene dissolving in the film to the extent that the average viewer has no idea how much is being cut.

I suspect these current cuts were done to take out even more screen time than in the 1980s. Would be interesting to time measure exactly how much is being cut and complain to COZI and the distributer about it and ask to return to the old policy for all their rerun programming. I doubt that this would change anything, but at least let them be aware that viewers know this is happening.

Recently COZI aired the color Season 3 Jesse James episode, with L. Q. Jones as Frank James. This was Episode 86 overall, of the 107 total. The next thing we know, they're right back to airing black & white eps from previous seasons...!

So I have no idea what's going on there -- was that just a fill-in? Why air the episodes in a disjointed order?