The Belles and Jolenes can be shown on some other channel, perhaps one that shows the Shemps from The Three Stooges, and the Shelley Hacks from Charlie’s Angels.

Again: Only show the Flos!

They're going to show all of them

I enjoy all the episodes. Flo is my favorite but Jolene & Belle are very underrated.

No I want to see them all. I liked Jolene.

The Flo eps have all been available on DVD for years. Seasons 7-9 are the most wanted for a lot of viewers.

Yes! All the Seasons are great!! :) Antenna better show all of then! I'm sure they will!! ;)

#OnlyShowTheFlos

The Belles and Jolenes can be shown on some other channel, perhaps one that shows the Shemps from The Three Stooges, and the Shelley Hacks from Charlie’s Angels.

Again: Only show the Flos!

Everyone is entitled to their option, but they pay for the rerun rights to the COMPLETE SERIES (several runs in fact) and they will be airings the COMPLETE SERIES...

That's how TV syndication works...

...no one is forcing you to watch episodes you personally don't like.

Everyone is entitled to their option, but they pay for the rerun rights to the COMPLETE SERIES (several runs in fact) and they will be airings the COMPLETE SERIES...

That's how TV syndication works...

...no one is forcing you to watch episodes you personally don't like.

Actually, syndicators will sometimes split up packages and only show the most popular episodes. The first three years of Make Room for Daddy have been absent from syndication for years because the later episodes, with Danny’s second wife, are more well-known. More recently, the original broadcast syndication package of “Designing Women” only included the first five years with the original cast. Later on, another package on cable included the full series.

Currently, MeTV only shows the more popular, B&W episodes of “The Andy Griffith Show”, even though they only have the rights to the whole series.

That’s how TV syndication works...

#ShowOnlyTheFlos

Actually, syndicators will sometimes split up packages and only show the most popular episodes. The first three years of Make Room for Daddy have been absent from syndication for years because the later episodes, with Danny’s second wife, are more well-known. More recently, the original broadcast syndication package of “Designing Women” only included the first five years with the original cast. Later on, another package on cable included the full series.

That’s how TV syndication works...

#ShowOnlyTheFlos
The reason the first 3 seasons of MRFD is never syndicated is because Danny Thomas never wanted those episodes to be seen again so they were never seen with the rest. Occasionally a long running series that has 300 plus episodes will only syndicate so many. Alice has never fell in that group. Most series that have 200 episodes or less syndicate them all.

See my example of “Designing Women” above, as well as “Andy Griffith” on MeTV (they show only 159 episodes of the 249 episodes of the series). It can happen.

That said, I do think Antenna will show them all. They are showing one tonight from the post-Flo era. But I think the show would play better in reruns if they only used the episodes with original cast.

#ShowOnlyTheFlos

I liked them all ! From start to finish!! ;) I liked Flo, but also Jolene and even Belle was OK. ;) But as for me, my favorite characters are Mel and Vera anyway! As a matter of fact, I think some of the later eps were the funniest! I think Mel got funnier as the series went on! :D

And if they only showed the Flo eps., we would never get to see Vera's adorable Hubby Elliott!:)

I liked them all ! From start to finish!! ;) I liked Flo, but also Jolene and even Belle was OK. ;) But as for me, my favorite characters are Mel and Vera anyway! As a matter of fact, I think some of the later eps were the funniest! I think Mel got funnier as the series went on! :D

And if they only showed the Flo eps., we would never get to see Vera's adorable Hubby Elliott!:)


Let's just hope the show completes a full cycle lol

The Flo seasons are best, but really, they're only 3 2/3 seasons of a 9 season show. That's like demanding them stop airing Facts Of Life once it moves out of Eastland which was 4 seasons out of 9.

Alice does go downhill in the later seasons but it had more to do with age than anything else as the show still did well throughout the Belle seasons and into the Jolene years. After 1982-1983, it just started to lose something largely due to having run it's course, many sitcoms end up going downhill and showing their age 7-8 years into their run. But those who claim Alice wasn't still entertaining in 1980-1982 or trying to compare them to the post-Barney episodes of Andy Griffith are being too harsh.

Flo is my fave, but i want all the episodes, I feel cheated when it's incomplete. Just like I hate it when networks always skip over The Carol Burnett Show's season 11 just b/c Korman is missing.

I don't understand why people are so affronted by the post-Belle episodes anyways. This isn't like the post-Shirley episodes of Laverne And Shirley, but a better analogy would be the post-Chrissy episodes of Three's Company (hell, not even that when you consider TC ended 3 1/2 seasons after Chrissy was written out, Alice lasted more than five seasons without Flo). TC, like Alice with Flo, was at it's peak in those early seasons with Chrissy, but the show remained a smash with Cindy into the years with Terri, much like Alice was stil a top 10 staple throughout the Belle run and stayed in the top 10 even with Jolene. The show's ratings eventually dropped and began to show it's age, but it had nothing to do with Polly Holliday who had been gone for quite a while by that point anyways. Neither Belle nor Jolene were ever as memorable as Flo but both characters did fine and the show was still entertaining and I'd want all nine years on DVD as opposed to those who think the show abruptly ends in February 1980 in the middle of season 4.

I agree completely. I get why Flo remains a fan favorite but Belle and Jolene were not bad at all and Lavin, Tayback and Howland were such pros the quality only dipped due to age, lack of new ideas from the writers, etc. in Season 7. I haven't seen many of the S8 and S9 episodes and am looking forward to those on DVD and I bet they are a lot better than what passes for comedy these days on the Big 3.

I watched the four Alice episodes Antenna TV ran tonight. I didn't like the George Burns episode that much but the other three were fun. :)

It wasn’t the actors or even characters that caused the show’s decline. The show just grew stale. I didn’t care anything about the characters performing in a talent show. The episode with the robot waitress was just absurd. The same thing happened on Dukes of Hazzard. A robot Sheriff was just too much.

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