Disappointed that MeTV Removed PJ From Lineup

[biffbronson]

Currently they're still on Season 3 with Gunilla Hutton; I think the Season 4 eps with Meredith MacRae as Billie Jo will be appearing soon.

[jehobden]

Originally Posted by jehobden

When I've seen My Three Sons on Me-TV before, I've only seen the same Season 6-10 episodes that have been in syndication. Nick-at-Nite did show the other 7 seasons in the past, but for now I've had to satisfy my occasion desire to see these mostly-unseen seasons on You Tube, where there are a few episodes, some even with commercial bumpers.

In the 5 years since I last visited this thread, MeTv has started rerunning the entire 12 seasons of MY THREE SONS at 6:30 AM ET weekdays. Currently the reruns are in Season 11, I think for the 3rd time since 2017. The episodes from Seasons 1 & 2 look good, probably taken from the DVD copies, but Season 3 episodes don't look as good, and at least one of them has the wrong closing credits attached. (The episode where Tim Matheson [then Matthisen] appeared doesn't credit him but instead has the closing of another episode.)

[stevea]

Originally Posted by jehobden

In the 5 years since I last visited this thread, MeTv has started rerunning the entire 12 seasons of MY THREE SONS at 6:30 AM ET weekdays. Currently the reruns are in Season 11, I think for the 3rd time since 2017. The episodes from Seasons 1 & 2 look good, probably taken from the DVD copies, but Season 3 episodes don't look as good, and at least one of them has the wrong closing credits attached. (The episode where Tim Matheson [then Matthisen] appeared doesn't credit him but instead has the closing of another episode.)

Suffice it to say, My Three Sons is a mess. Seasons three thru five and the last half of season 11 and all of 12 have never been remastered to videotape, so they're not even mastered to 1990s standards. Seasons one and two were remastered for DVD, but the soundtracks were changed due to perceived music rights issues (no other sitcoms of the era had these so-called problems with Capitol library music, and they all used it). Seasons 6 thru 8 are plagued by time-compressed credits.

For 1990s or 80s tape masters, season 10 looks pretty good, and season 9 is a close second.

In the DVD era the whole series should have been remastered from the original 35mm masters. A few years back seasons three thru five were released on DVD--but no real effort was made to find original sources.