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Mark J. Cuccia · 10-19-2000, 11:28 AM

I know that TV-Land had shown a handful of episodes of "Our Miss Brooks" and "December Bride" - it was in Summer 1999. And I think they also showed a few select episodes back in Sept 1998 during the Emmies.

TV-LAND/Nick/etc. are owned by Viacom/CBS/Paramount - and both "Brooks" and "December Bride" were CBS/Desilu Productions when filmed in the early 1950's (also being aired over the CBS Television Network; both also had productions/runs in the 1950's on the CBS Radio Network - "Brooks" actually starting on CBS Radio in the late 1940's and its radio version ending in 1957 a year AFTER the filmed TV version ceased production in 1956!)

CBS spun-off Viacom (to comply with new federal regulations) in 1970; Lucy sold Desilu Productions to Paramount Pictures in 1967; Viacom buys out Paramount about three(?) years ago, and now CBS merges with Viacom/Paramount (FULL CIRCLE! :-) so I would assume that TV-Land/Nick will eventually rerun "Our Miss Brooks" and "December Bride".

Phil Silvers / "Sgt Bilko" / "You'll Never Get Rich" was also a series produced and owned by CBS Television when filmed in the 1950's (not simply airing over the CBS-TV Network), and the reruns were syndicated by CBS-Film-Sales=>Viacom, which has all now come full circle as CBS/Viacom/Paramount, which also owning TV-Land/Nick, I'd guess that Nick or TV-Land will probably air reruns "Sgt.Bilko" again.

I assume you are aware that TV-Land started running the "Bub" (Black & White) ABC-TV-aired, early 1960's "My Three Sons" about a month ago - during "twice-as-nice" mornings, two back-to-back episodes, Mon-Fri mornings (when they aren't doing a "Charile's Angels 24/7) 8-to-9 am (7-to-8 am Central).

The other series you mention... I recognize all of them, especially the "Screen Gems / Columbia Pictures" ones (Donna, Dennis, FKB, Hazel), and I remember CBN/Family and Nick running them back in the 1980's.

BTW, Father Knows Best with Robert Young doing the voice of Jim Anderson had a radio production run on NBC Radio from 1949-54. All of the other main characters' voices were NOT done by the TV actors of 1954-60 though.

Nick also reran most of the "CBS" years (1957-1964, but only up to 1962 was seen on Nick) of Make Room for Daddy (Danny Thomas) in the late 1980's/early 1990's... Nick also reran Car-54 back then as well!

I would hope that the ABC (1953-1957) years of Make Room for Daddy (w/Jean Hagan as Margaret Williams) would be rerun on Nick or TV Land or somewhere... and I wish that Columbia-Pictures-TV would release the remaining 100 "non-syndicated" episodes of Donna Reed...

I'm thankful for inexpensive videotape (since the 1980's) and the home VCR technology (since the 1970's)! As I now can watch all of the (syndicated) episodes of these and other series ANY TIME I WANT to!

I'm surprised that you didn't mention Ozzie and Harriet in your list... it is yet ANOTHER classic family sitcom from that 1950's/early 60's timeframe along with Donna, Beaver, Hazel, Andy Griffith, My 3 Sons, etc.

I don't know who the current distributor is though - Filmways->Orion hasn't syndicated the reruns since the mid/late 1980's, when Disney Channel and the Nelson Estate contracted to rerun the 200 syndicated episodes, and then the additional 100 "missing adventures" episodes.

Somewhere I think I heard that all 435 episodes are supposedly now available for rerun by whoever the current syndicator is.

I don't know of any specific local station or cable network presently rerunning Ozzie and Harriet, but about two years ago, a local New Orleans "low power" TV station was rerunning it.

I have made some posts about "Ozzie and Harriet" to its own message board... I finally came across information that has allowed me to complete my log of ALL 435 episode titles, and matched up with their original ABC-TV airdates. (The early years, 1952/53 through 1955/56 have always been the most difficult to get documented episode title and original ABC network air dates for)...

So, I've transcribed my complete list of 435 O&H episode titles with original ABC-TV airdates into an ASCII .txt file, and I've posted it to the "Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" message board, and also made some additional posts there of other bits/pieces of Ozzie & Harriet, both the TV version, as well as an "overall summary" of the ten radio seasons of Ozzie & Harriet (1944/45->1953/54), and I also found my handwritten list of the 24 episode titles of (first-run syndicated) 1973/74 "Ozzie's Girls" and transcribed it as .txt and also posted that to the "Adv.of Ozzie & Harriet" message board... (My posts there are actually under two different threads).

Mark J. Cuccia
mcuccia@tulane.edu

10-19-2000, 11:28 AM	#2
Mark J. Cuccia Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Oct 16, 2000 Location: New Orleans LA Posts: 25	I know that TV-Land had shown a handful of episodes of "Our Miss Brooks" and "December Bride" - it was in Summer 1999. And I think they also showed a few select episodes back in Sept 1998 during the Emmies. TV-LAND/Nick/etc. are owned by Viacom/CBS/Paramount - and both "Brooks" and "December Bride" were CBS/Desilu Productions when filmed in the early 1950's (also being aired over the CBS Television Network; both also had productions/runs in the 1950's on the CBS Radio Network - "Brooks" actually starting on CBS Radio in the late 1940's and its radio version ending in 1957 a year AFTER the filmed TV version ceased production in 1956!) CBS spun-off Viacom (to comply with new federal regulations) in 1970; Lucy sold Desilu Productions to Paramount Pictures in 1967; Viacom buys out Paramount about three(?) years ago, and now CBS merges with Viacom/Paramount (FULL CIRCLE! :-) so I would assume that TV-Land/Nick will eventually rerun "Our Miss Brooks" and "December Bride". Phil Silvers / "Sgt Bilko" / "You'll Never Get Rich" was also a series produced and owned by CBS Television when filmed in the 1950's (not simply airing over the CBS-TV Network), and the reruns were syndicated by CBS-Film-Sales=>Viacom, which has all now come full circle as CBS/Viacom/Paramount, which also owning TV-Land/Nick, I'd guess that Nick or TV-Land will probably air reruns "Sgt.Bilko" again. I assume you are aware that TV-Land started running the "Bub" (Black & White) ABC-TV-aired, early 1960's "My Three Sons" about a month ago - during "twice-as-nice" mornings, two back-to-back episodes, Mon-Fri mornings (when they aren't doing a "Charile's Angels 24/7) 8-to-9 am (7-to-8 am Central). The other series you mention... I recognize all of them, especially the "Screen Gems / Columbia Pictures" ones (Donna, Dennis, FKB, Hazel), and I remember CBN/Family and Nick running them back in the 1980's. BTW, Father Knows Best with Robert Young doing the voice of Jim Anderson had a radio production run on NBC Radio from 1949-54. All of the other main characters' voices were NOT done by the TV actors of 1954-60 though. Nick also reran most of the "CBS" years (1957-1964, but only up to 1962 was seen on Nick) of Make Room for Daddy (Danny Thomas) in the late 1980's/early 1990's... Nick also reran Car-54 back then as well! I would hope that the ABC (1953-1957) years of Make Room for Daddy (w/Jean Hagan as Margaret Williams) would be rerun on Nick or TV Land or somewhere... and I wish that Columbia-Pictures-TV would release the remaining 100 "non-syndicated" episodes of Donna Reed... I'm thankful for inexpensive videotape (since the 1980's) and the home VCR technology (since the 1970's)! As I now can watch all of the (syndicated) episodes of these and other series ANY TIME I WANT to! I'm surprised that you didn't mention Ozzie and Harriet in your list... it is yet ANOTHER classic family sitcom from that 1950's/early 60's timeframe along with Donna, Beaver, Hazel, Andy Griffith, My 3 Sons, etc. I don't know who the current distributor is though - Filmways->Orion hasn't syndicated the reruns since the mid/late 1980's, when Disney Channel and the Nelson Estate contracted to rerun the 200 syndicated episodes, and then the additional 100 "missing adventures" episodes. Somewhere I think I heard that all 435 episodes are supposedly now available for rerun by whoever the current syndicator is. I don't know of any specific local station or cable network presently rerunning Ozzie and Harriet, but about two years ago, a local New Orleans "low power" TV station was rerunning it. I have made some posts about "Ozzie and Harriet" to its own message board... I finally came across information that has allowed me to complete my log of ALL 435 episode titles, and matched up with their original ABC-TV airdates. (The early years, 1952/53 through 1955/56 have always been the most difficult to get documented episode title and original ABC network air dates for)... So, I've transcribed my complete list of 435 O&H episode titles with original ABC-TV airdates into an ASCII .txt file, and I've posted it to the "Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" message board, and also made some additional posts there of other bits/pieces of Ozzie & Harriet, both the TV version, as well as an "overall summary" of the ten radio seasons of Ozzie & Harriet (1944/45->1953/54), and I also found my handwritten list of the 24 episode titles of (first-run syndicated) 1973/74 "Ozzie's Girls" and transcribed it as .txt and also posted that to the "Adv.of Ozzie & Harriet" message board... (My posts there are actually under two different threads). Mark J. Cuccia mcuccia@tulane.edu