I e-mailed them asking about why they keep skipping those episodes of "Wings" and here's the response I got.

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Dear Viewer,

The answer to your question is actually quite complicated. When we purchase the rights to shows...some episodes have a set number of times we are allowed to air them within our total contract time. Others have a set number of times we can run them within a shorter period of time (ie: week or month). Sometimes, in order to be able to play holiday episodes at the appropriate time we hold an episode back. Other times we hold an episode back, so that we can put together a block of related shows in a special.

A further wrinkle is when we get an episode that has not "passed muster" from a technical standpoint. Occasionally it does happen that the audio or video are compromised in some way which would prevent us from airing the episode. In these cases it takes time for our technicians to make necessary repairs. We then drop the repaired episodes into the proper place in rotation as soon as is possible.

The third and final possibility is that an episode is not released by the distributor. This is rare, but it does occasionally happen, and we have no control over it.

We still list all of the episodes on our web site so that viewers have the information about the shows they love.

I do hope that this lengthy, but thorough, explanation helps you to understand that we are trying to bring you the best TV possible.

Postmaster Steve
TV Land and Nick at Nite Online

Well, that makes sense for MOST of the skipped "Wings" episodes (like during the first cycle when they skipped the "Opening Marathon" episodes), but that STILL doesn't explain why they keep skipping "Black Eye Affair"...unless for some reason there's a technical problem with that episode (which I find hard to believe being that the series isn't that old).

Thanks for sharing that info with us, Adam!

Originally posted by TVAdam
I e-mailed them asking about why they keep skipping those episodes of "Wings" and here's the response I got.

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Dear Viewer,

The answer to your question is actually quite complicated. When we purchase the rights to shows...some episodes have a set number of times we are allowed to air them within our total contract time. Others have a set number of times we can run them within a shorter period of time (ie: week or month). Sometimes, in order to be able to play holiday episodes at the appropriate time we hold an episode back. Other times we hold an episode back, so that we can put together a block of related shows in a special.

A further wrinkle is when we get an episode that has not "passed muster" from a technical standpoint. Occasionally it does happen that the audio or video are compromised in some way which would prevent us from airing the episode. In these cases it takes time for our technicians to make necessary repairs. We then drop the repaired episodes into the proper place in rotation as soon as is possible.

The third and final possibility is that an episode is not released by the distributor. This is rare, but it does occasionally happen, and we have no control over it.

We still list all of the episodes on our web site so that viewers have the information about the shows they love.

I do hope that this lengthy, but thorough, explanation helps you to understand that we are trying to bring you the best TV possible.

Postmaster Steve
TV Land and Nick at Nite Online

Ah.
Sci-Fi channel had this same problem with MST3K, but it had to do with the rights to films that Best Brains Inc. had the rights to.

I think this is more of a conspiracy than anything else.
Let's get TechTV's Conspiracies to investigate the situation!

Originally posted by TVAdam
I e-mailed them asking about why they keep skipping those episodes of "Wings" and here's the response I got.

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Dear Viewer,

The answer to your question is actually quite complicated. When we purchase the rights to shows...some episodes have a set number of times we are allowed to air them within our total contract time. Others have a set number of times we can run them within a shorter period of time (ie: week or month). Sometimes, in order to be able to play holiday episodes at the appropriate time we hold an episode back. Other times we hold an episode back, so that we can put together a block of related shows in a special.

A further wrinkle is when we get an episode that has not "passed muster" from a technical standpoint. Occasionally it does happen that the audio or video are compromised in some way which would prevent us from airing the episode. In these cases it takes time for our technicians to make necessary repairs. We then drop the repaired episodes into the proper place in rotation as soon as is possible.

The third and final possibility is that an episode is not released by the distributor. This is rare, but it does occasionally happen, and we have no control over it.

We still list all of the episodes on our web site so that viewers have the information about the shows they love.

I do hope that this lengthy, but thorough, explanation helps you to understand that we are trying to bring you the best TV possible.

Postmaster Steve
TV Land and Nick at Nite Online

I got that same response.

Originally posted by jpnoyes
I got that same response.

I got the same response back a year ago when I asked them why they keep skipping the "Herman's Peace Offensive" episode of "The Munsters". So they probably just saw the heading and automatically gave that response. It's still nice that they answered me, but that answer really doesn't help. I don't want a general shows answer, but an answer to the "Wings" episodes.

The airdate for Black Eye Affair was October 28 1993. Could this episode be a holiday themed episode. I've never seen this episode, but someone who has seen it could tell if it had a Halloween theme or if it was a regular episode.

It's been so many years since I saw it, but I don't recall it having any Holiday theme....I just remember some great "Crystal" moments as she was trying to prepare for an evening with Davis.

I cant recall seeing this episode, I am sure I did back in the days. However, I have seen references to #154 The Gift Of Life being the only Halloween episode that Wings ever made