View Full Version : Decades March 2018 schedule (lots of sitcoms on the regular schedule)


snowpeck
02-13-2018, 05:31 PM
Decades seems to be starting more of a regular weekday schedule next month with a lot of sitcoms on the regular lineup, many of which have just been dumped by MeTV or Antenna. The lineup starts on March 5.

7-8AM: The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show
8-9AM: Through the Decades
9-10AM: I Love Lucy
10AM: Our Miss Brooks
10:30AM: I Married Joan
11AM-12PM: The Donna Reed Show
12PM-1PM: Family Affair
1PM-2PM: Petticoat Junction
2PM-3PM: The Mary Tyler Moore Show
3PM-4PM: The Bob Newhart Show
4PM-5PM: Newhart
5PM-6PM: The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show
6PM-7PM: Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
7PM-8PM: Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
8PM-9PM: Through the Decades
9PM-10PM: The Dick Cavett Show
10PM-11PM: The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show
11PM-12AM: Through the Decades
12AM-1AM: The Best of Hollywood
1AM-2AM: The Dick Cavett Show
2AM-4AM: Movies or documentaries
4AM: The Loretta Young Show
4:30AM: Honey West
5AM: Mr. Lucky
5:30AM: Colonel March of Scotland Yard
6-7AM: The Best of Hollywood

Weekends will still be the Decades Binge.

MikeLutton
02-13-2018, 05:58 PM
diff rent strokes n facts of life will be on there to hopefully sometimes

Svenfan1234
02-13-2018, 06:00 PM
I wish I got Decades.

BigManMike
02-13-2018, 06:31 PM
diff rent strokes n facts of life will be on there to hopefully sometimes

They just had a marathon of Diff’rent Strokes this last weekend and will be having a marathon of The Facts of Life this coming weekend.

BigManMike
02-13-2018, 06:32 PM
Petticoat Junction sounds good. Hopefully the weekend binges will have more good shows.

mikey0581
02-13-2018, 06:43 PM
Thats a good schedule, I wish they would of kept Ripley's Believe it on Not, or they could of found a spot for Life with Elizabeth I was getting into that.

snowpeck
02-13-2018, 07:03 PM
Something I also noticed is that the weekday schedule from 9-5 seems to be organized by decade. It starts in the 50s with I Love Lucy and finishes in the 80s with Newhart.

Plater of Everything
02-13-2018, 09:10 PM
YES! Newhart's back!

icecream
02-14-2018, 02:01 PM
12-6PM is fantastic. I really wish I had this station, it now sounds more appealing than Me-TV.

Plater of Everything
02-14-2018, 02:47 PM
12-6PM is fantastic. I really wish I had this station, it now sounds more appealing than Me-TV.
It is, mainly because unlike MeTV, they don't have those cringey commercials like the "Hawaii 5-0 Theme with Lyrics" commercial or Mason Matlock and Me. Those commercials, in my opinion, are worse than Antenna's credit crunch

treky
02-17-2018, 12:53 AM
GREAT schedule!!!

treky
02-17-2018, 12:56 AM
It is, mainly because unlike MeTV, they don't have those cringey commercials like the "Hawaii 5-0 Theme with Lyrics" commercial or Mason Matlock and Me. Those commercials, in my opinion, are worse than Antenna's credit crunch
they probably will someday because both stations are owned by Weigel Broadcasting (they also own H & I)

BigManMike
02-17-2018, 10:11 AM
It is, mainly because unlike MeTV, they don't have those cringey commercials like the "Hawaii 5-0 Theme with Lyrics" commercial or Mason Matlock and Me. Those commercials, in my opinion, are worse than Antenna's credit crunch

I can deal with the bad commercials. The credit crunch is the worst of all.

Becca3557
02-17-2018, 09:34 PM
Some good shows during the day.....but I won’t see them unless I happen to be working at home. :( The evening shows with Dick Cavett and Ed Sullivan.... meh. They’ve already been on too long IMHO.

cnnbcbs
02-18-2018, 11:02 PM
That's cool and keeps with the theme.

TV Guy
02-18-2018, 11:15 PM
This is an admission that the “checkerboard” concept (a different schedule each day) isn’t working. People like to be able to tune in and know what show is going to be on.

Good schedule, but it is populated with castoffs from the other channels, particularly MeTV. It’s turning into a MeTV2.

I’d like to see them acquire some programs that haven’t been rerun to death on MeTV, like Eight is Enough or The Waltons.

BigManMike
02-19-2018, 07:42 AM
This is an admission that the “checkerboard” concept (a different schedule each day) isn’t working. People like to be able to tune in and know what show is going to be on.

Good schedule, but it is populated with castoffs from the other channels, particularly MeTV. It’s turning into a MeTV2.

I’d like to see them acquire some programs that haven’t been rerun to death on MeTV, like Eight is Enough or The Waltons.

The Waltons would be good

Sal
02-19-2018, 10:43 AM
Is there a link where I can see the official schedule? If this is true, it is one big improvement over what they've done before. If I can get it on KODI, then I'll have all the major US retro stations that I'll be able to watch every day (Antenna TV, MeTV, Decades) along with the ones I'm used to up here (Comedy Gold, DejaView, Yes Tv, CHCH). I'm really looking forward to it.

eng51squad51
02-19-2018, 10:58 AM
Is there a link where I can see the official schedule? If this is true, it is one big improvement over what they've done before. If I can get it on KODI, then I'll have all the major US retro stations that I'll be able to watch every day (Antenna TV, MeTV, Decades) along with the ones I'm used to up here (Comedy Gold, DejaView, Yes Tv, CHCH). I'm really looking forward to it.

go here http://www.decades.com/schedule/ then select March 5

Wiseguy2
02-20-2018, 08:15 AM
Thats a good schedule, I wish they would of kept Ripley's Believe it on Not, or they could of found a spot for Life with Elizabeth I was getting into that.

...would have...
...could have...

MrCleveland
02-20-2018, 02:14 PM
I'm glad my dad's house has better antenna reception than where I'm at...he can get Decades.

I can't wait to buy a house with my brother...maybe we can have good TV Reception.

cnnbcbs
02-23-2018, 12:35 AM
I'm glad that the Decades sked seems to skew sitcom heavy since MeTV doesn't have enough comedies and too many dramas and westerns.

biffbronson
02-23-2018, 01:21 AM
Surprising new schedule. I hope they stay with it for a long time, although a few substitutions would be okay.

I'm glad to see Loretta Young on there. Those of you who've never seen her show should give it a try, there were some compelling stories.

BigManMike
02-23-2018, 07:44 AM
I just wish they would air some of these sitcoms in the evening instead of during the day when I’m at work. They also seem to have a little too much Ed Sullivan.

biffbronson
02-23-2018, 11:00 AM
Yeah, even currently they air the same Sullivan half-hour "best of" shows within the same day, so unless there's a performance you can't get enough of, it's a bit of a time waster (once you've seen that day's shows).

I agree with a previous poster about getting Life with Elizabeth on there, when you consider how popular Betty White remains today.

snowpeck
02-23-2018, 02:33 PM
Yeah, even currently they air the same Sullivan half-hour "best of" shows within the same day, so unless there's a performance you can't get enough of, it's a bit of a time waster (once you've seen that day's shows).

I agree with a previous poster about getting Life with Elizabeth on there, when you consider how popular Betty White remains today.

The PDF version of the schedule (which I just got access to) doesn't actually list the overnight shows, it just has them as a block called "Lost TV." So those shows may rotate in and out frequently.

Coffeecup
02-25-2018, 11:40 AM
It looks like they are thinning out the On this Day in history type show. I too like the older shows -1970's for I have seen a lot of the later shows. I like decades. Can't say I miss Antenna which I lost a few months ago for other stations pick the the slack.

GordonQuid2002
02-26-2018, 06:31 AM
I don't like that new schedule because there's no more movies at 8:00 AM, and this is a huge shame, because there's rare TV movies most of the time. I seriously hope that Decades will do another TV movie month one day.