The local station here is showing the color episodes, and I'm amazed at how poor the picture quality is vs. the episodes shown on NAN and TVLand. Anyone else notice this?

I remember seeing TAGS and RFD reruns locally here in the 80s, and was surprised that RFD shows looked so much better than the TAGS color shows, even though they were only done a short time apart. It looks like the station is still running the old prints. Or is it possible that only NAN has access to the better prints?

Well, it seems a bit darker> I too am on the TAGS color episodes on my syndicated network.

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In my town they show the colored episodes as black and white episodes. I guess it makes it cheaper to show it that way.

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Weird! One of our local cable stations here shows "Davey & Goliath" (remember the religious stop-motion show?) in black-and-white, even though the show was originally done in color. I bet cheaper B&W films of color shows were distributed in the 60s to stations that weren't yet capable of broadcasting in color, and some of those prints are still lying around. Just a guess, though.

I know that in Phoenix, Arizona, CBS affiliate KPHO still occasionally runs TAGS, but usually late at night.
For most of the 70's, 80's and part of the 90's, they ran it every weekday at 12:30PM. It was a lunch hour habit for many who lived in Phoenix back then.
Anyway, they chose to continue running their 16mm film prints of the show, even when video copies became available.
The quality of the film prints isn't as good as what TBS was showing in the 90's, and what "TV Land" shows now.
But there is an advantage to the older film prints:
you do get to see the shows with less editing.
On TBS, the tag was almost always cut out.
"TV Land" does a lot of what I'd call "snippet editing", cutting only a line of two of dialogue but frequently throughout a show.
Guess they are afraid of offending viewers!