Expanding from Lucyfan's Create your own dream network thread I've started mine. I'm calling it TRIBUTE TV. It would have a fluid schedule changing monthly. Each month would be feature actor's appearances on shows they starred in mainly. There would be other shows scattered within the week, mostly on the weekends. Those programs will be cartoons on Saturday morning and the corresponding TV show in the evening with
American Bandstand and Wide World of Sports sandwiched between. Those show would highlight special performances and events. There would be a weekday documentary show similar to Through The Decades as well.

So if this were to happen I would start it in January and for this month alone it would focus on one actor. Betty White. She was born in January. She may have had the longest career in TV. In addition to the listing of a potential schedule there would also be commercials that featured Betty White for products and services that still exist. All programs would run uncut.

Well here's the January schedule. For January 28 the programing will be preempted for historical , as it happened, coverage of the U.S. Space Shuttle Challenger explosion which happened in 1986. 74 seconds into its flight killing seven persons, including Christa McAuliffe, a teacher who was to be the first ordinary citizen in space.

February will feature actor's from The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Let me know what you think about this.

MONDAY-FRIDAY (January)
6AM – Life With Elizabeth
7AM – A Date With the Angels
8AM – The Match Game (1962-69)
9AM – You Don’t Say
10AM – To Tell The Truth
11AM Password, Password Plus, Super Password
12PM Pyramid ($10,000, $25,000, $100,000)
1PM Hollywood Squares
2PM Match Game
3PM Tattletales
4PM The Liars Club
5PM Betty White’s Off Their Rocker
6PM TRIBUTE REMEMBERS (Original Series highlighting events during the years in the months theme. This months focuses on events connected to Betty White and the events in the years she was active on TV, 1945-2019)
7PM – TRIBUTE at the Movies (Featuring movies with Betty White)
9PM – Mary Tyler Moore Show
11PM – Hot In Cleveland
1AM – Life With Elizabeth
2AM – A Date With the Angels
3AM – The Match Game (1962-69)
4AM – You Don’t Say
5AM – To Tell The Truth

SATURDAY (January)
6AM – Lassies Rescue Rangers
7AM – Top Cat
8AM – Help! It’s the Hair Bear Bunch!
9AM – C.B. Bears
10AM – Pound Puppies (guest voice-Betty White)
11AM – TRIBUTE Cartoon Special (featuring the voice of Betty White)
12PM – American Bandstand
2PM – Wide World of Sports
4PM - TRIBUTE at the Movies (Featuring movies with Betty White)
6PM- Lassie
7PM- Phil Silvers Show (Sgt. Bilko)
8PM – Hogan’s Heroes
9PM – Charlie’s Angels
10PM – The Pet Set (Host – Betty White)
11AM – TRIBUTE Sitcoms Revisited ( Guest Starring Betty White)
12AM – TRIBUTE Cartoon Special (featuring the voice of Betty White)
1AM – Pound Puppies (guest voice-Betty White)
2AM – C.B. Bears
3AM – Help! It’s the Hair Bear Bunch!
4AM – Top Cat
5AM – Lassies Rescue Rangers

SUNDAY (January)
6AM – The Betty White Show (1954)
7AM – Mama’s Family
8AM – The Betty White Show (1977)
9AM – Maybe This Time
10AM – Call My Bluff
11AM – Make the Connection
12PM – Get the Message
1PM – Word Play
2PM – Chain Reaction
3PM – Go
4PM – Just Men
5PM – Body Language
6PM – Golden Palace
8PM – Boston Legal
10PM - TRIBUTE Sitcoms Revisited ( Guest Starring Betty White)
12AM – The Betty White Show (1954)
1AM – Mama’s Family
2AM – The Betty White Show (1977)
3AM – Maybe This Time
4AM – Golden Palace
5AM – Boston Legal

I posted this schedule idea a while ago. I wonder if anyone had comments or suggestions. Obviously this schedule will never happen. But it was fun for me to research the TV history of Betty White. I haven't started the follow-up schedule featuring The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. I may do that sometime.

Maybe one day or a weekend of Betty White would make for a stronger schedule overall?

Agreed it won't happen, but just a few comments. Some 1960s game shows are mostly gone for good, supposedly, due to the expense, at the time, of archiving and buying new videotapes. Many Hollywood Squares, Match Game (NBC, 1960s), probably You Don't Say episodes are examples. (Newer episodes of long-running game shows were archived.)

Maybe one day or a weekend of Betty White would make for a stronger schedule overall?

I see your point. Maybe create a streaming channel, hypothetically speaking of course.

Agreed it won't happen, but just a few comments. Some 1960s game shows are mostly gone for good, supposedly, due to the expense, at the time, of archiving and buying new videotapes. Many Hollywood Squares, Match Game (NBC, 1960s), probably You Don't Say episodes are examples. (Newer episodes of long-running game shows were archived.)

I'm sure at the time no one ever thought there would be any interest in those old gameshows to the point that 2 channels/stations would be created specifically for gameshows.

I'm sure at the time no one ever thought there would be any interest in those old gameshows to the point that 2 channels/stations would be created specifically for gameshows.

The nearly 900 episodes of the original primetime What's My Line? were kept by Goodson-Todman on kinescope (relatively few are missing). The very early episodes from around 1950 were not kept by CBS until Goodson-Todman found out. Similarly, the later-starting game shows To Tell The Truth and I've Got a Secret were also preserved on kinescope.

The nearly 900 episodes of the original primetime What's My Line? were kept by Goodson-Todman on kinescope (relatively few are missing). The very early episodes from around 1950 were not kept by CBS until Goodson-Todman found out. Similarly, the later-starting game shows To Tell The Truth and I've Got a Secret were also preserved on kinescope.

We're fortunate to have access to those via YouTube. Lots of history there.

Here’s the schedule for my dream network called “Flashback TV”, with a bit of a realistic approach:


All times are central

WEEKDAYS:

05:00am Father Knows Best
05:30am Love, American Style
06:00am I Love Lucy
06:30am The Dick Van Dyke Show
07:00am Good Times
07:30am Good Times
08:00am Gilligan’s Island
08:30am One Day at a Time
09:00am The Rifleman
09:30am The Rifleman
10:00am Emergency!
11:00am Hawaii Five-O
12:00pm Murder, She Wrote
01:00pm Gunsmoke
02:00pm The Roy Rogers Show
02:30pm The Roy Rogers Show
03:00pm Batman
03:30pm Batman
04:00pm Hill Street Blues
05:00pm I Dream of Jeannie
05:30pm Bewitched
06:00pm The Cosby Show
06:30pm The Cosby Show
07:00pm The Mary Tyler Moore Show
07:30pm Alice
08:00pm Sanford and Son
08:30pm Married…With Children
09:00pm Good Times
09:30pm Good Times
10:00pm The Golden Girls
10:30pm Cheers
11:00pm Martin
11:30pm Martin
12:00am The Twilight Zone
12:30am The Twilight Zone
01:00am Marcus Welby, M.D.
02:00am Hart to Hart
03:00am The F.B.I.
04:00am Night Court
04:30am The Rat Patrol

SATURDAYS:

05:00am Maude
05:30am Maude
06:00am I Love Lucy
06:30am I Love Lucy
07:00am The Jack Benny Program
07:30am The Jack Benny Program
08:00am The Burns and Allen Show
08:30am The Burns and Allen Show
09:00am Gomer Pyle, USMC
09:30am Gomer Pyle, USMC
10:00am The Flintstones
10:30am The Flintstones
11:00am The Jetsons
11:30am The Jetsons
12:00pm Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
12:30pm Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
01:00pm Gunsmoke
02:00pm The Roy Rogers Show
02:30pm The Roy Rogers Show
03:00pm Daniel Boone
04:00pm The Big Valley
05:00pm The Wild, Wild West
06:00pm Fantasy Island
07:00pm The Addams Family
07:30pm The Munsters
08:00pm The Mary Tyler Moore Show
08:30pm Rhoda
09:00pm Soap
09:30pm Benson
10:00pm The Honeymooners
10:30pm Get Smart
11:00pm Mama’s Family
11:30pm Mama’s Family
12:00am Mama’s Family
12:30am Mama’s Family
01:00am Mama’s Family
01:30am Mama’s Family
02:00am Soap
02:30am Benson
03:00am Peter Gunn
03:30am Peter Gunn
04:00am Mission: Impossible

SUNDAYS:

05:00am M*A*S*H
05:30am M*A*S*H
06:00am M*A*S*H
06:30am M*A*S*H
07:00am The Waltons
08:00am Religious Programming
11:00am McHale’s Navy
11:30am McHale’s Navy
12:00pm The Partridge Family
12:30pm The Partridge Family
01:00pm Petticoat Junction
01:30pm Petticoat Junction
02:00pm The Beverly Hillbillies
02:30pm The Beverly Hillbillies
03:00pm Charlie’s Angels
04:00pm Hawaii Five-O
05:00pm Kojak
06:00pm The Rockford Files
07:00pm Columbo
09:00pm All in the Family
09:30pm All in the Family
10:00pm Maude
10:30pm Maude
11:00pm Happy Days
11:30pm Laverne & Shirley
12:00am Cannon
01:00am The Fugitive
02:00am The Untouchables
03:00am Combat!
04:00am Perry Mason

Here’s the schedule for my dream network called “Flashback TV”, with a bit of a realistic approach:


All times are central

WEEKDAYS:

05:00am Father Knows Best
05:30am Love, American Style
06:00am I Love Lucy
06:30am The Dick Van Dyke Show
07:00am Good Times
07:30am Good Times
08:00am Gilligan’s Island
08:30am One Day at a Time
09:00am The Rifleman
09:30am The Rifleman
10:00am Emergency!
11:00am Hawaii Five-O
12:00pm Murder, She Wrote
01:00pm Gunsmoke
02:00pm The Roy Rogers Show
02:30pm The Roy Rogers Show
03:00pm Batman
03:30pm Batman
04:00pm Hill Street Blues
05:00pm I Dream of Jeannie
05:30pm Bewitched
06:00pm The Cosby Show
06:30pm The Cosby Show
07:00pm The Mary Tyler Moore Show
07:30pm Alice
08:00pm Sanford and Son
08:30pm Married…With Children
09:00pm Good Times
09:30pm Good Times
10:00pm The Golden Girls
10:30pm Cheers
11:00pm Martin
11:30pm Martin
12:00am The Twilight Zone
12:30am The Twilight Zone
01:00am Marcus Welby, M.D.
02:00am Hart to Hart
03:00am The F.B.I.
04:00am Night Court
04:30am The Rat Patrol

SATURDAYS:

05:00am Maude
05:30am Maude
06:00am I Love Lucy
06:30am I Love Lucy
07:00am The Jack Benny Program
07:30am The Jack Benny Program
08:00am The Burns and Allen Show
08:30am The Burns and Allen Show
09:00am Gomer Pyle, USMC
09:30am Gomer Pyle, USMC
10:00am The Flintstones
10:30am The Flintstones
11:00am The Jetsons
11:30am The Jetsons
12:00pm Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
12:30pm Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
01:00pm Gunsmoke
02:00pm The Roy Rogers Show
02:30pm The Roy Rogers Show
03:00pm Daniel Boone
04:00pm The Big Valley
05:00pm The Wild, Wild West
06:00pm Fantasy Island
07:00pm The Addams Family
07:30pm The Munsters
08:00pm The Mary Tyler Moore Show
08:30pm Rhoda
09:00pm Soap
09:30pm Benson
10:00pm The Honeymooners
10:30pm Get Smart
11:00pm Mama’s Family
11:30pm Mama’s Family
12:00am Mama’s Family
12:30am Mama’s Family
01:00am Mama’s Family
01:30am Mama’s Family
02:00am Soap
02:30am Benson
03:00am Peter Gunn
03:30am Peter Gunn
04:00am Mission: Impossible

SUNDAYS:

05:00am M*A*S*H
05:30am M*A*S*H
06:00am M*A*S*H
06:30am M*A*S*H
07:00am The Waltons
08:00am Religious Programming
11:00am McHale’s Navy
11:30am McHale’s Navy
12:00pm The Partridge Family
12:30pm The Partridge Family
01:00pm Petticoat Junction
01:30pm Petticoat Junction
02:00pm The Beverly Hillbillies
02:30pm The Beverly Hillbillies
03:00pm Charlie’s Angels
04:00pm Hawaii Five-O
05:00pm Kojak
06:00pm The Rockford Files
07:00pm Columbo
09:00pm All in the Family
09:30pm All in the Family
10:00pm Maude
10:30pm Maude
11:00pm Happy Days
11:30pm Laverne & Shirley
12:00am Cannon
01:00am The Fugitive
02:00am The Untouchables
03:00am Combat!
04:00am Perry Mason

Yes yours is more realistic, actually generic. How many other schedules on these boards look like that? I was thinking of something that really hasn't been thought of or done. Plus it runs on a revolving theme. So sure there may never be anything like it in the real world. But since it's a "Dream" schedule it doesn't have to.

TVLegend, can you finish your Memory Central and Memorable Land schedules please?