MeTV is Running The Lucy Show

[lowesman]

Originally Posted by BigManMike

My Three Sons should have more than one episode a day with all the episodes it has.

I agree. There needs to be 2 episodes a day. And 5:30 is too early. They should take out 1 telecast of LEAVE IT TO BEAVER.

[24/7 reruns]

Originally Posted by stevea

All good points, particularly about My Three Sons. WHMB here, which had access only to seasons 6 thru 10 (and, earlier, the first half of 11), aired the episode content unedited.

Season 12--yes, those TV prints are the worst of the worst. They date back to the 1970s. They re badly chopped up, have time-compressed closing credits which eliminate the main cast (some earlier seasons' credits are also sped up, but at least they didn't cut the main cast), and the incorrect opening credits. So as now aired Ronne Troup and Dawn Lyn are not credited AT ALL! The only positive thing is that they air 379 of the 380 episodes.

I agree about the Rifleman, too. The episode content is clean, but they obviously did not access the original episodes, which would have had correct season openers and end credits with the original Four Star Productions logo.

What episode is not shown from My Three Sons?

[lowesman]

Actually all 380 episodes are shown. The reason why you think that only 379 episodes are shown is because they skipped 1 episode during 1 run-through so they could instead air the Halloween episode.

[lowesman]

Originally Posted by stevea

All good points, particularly about My Three Sons. WHMB here, which had access only to seasons 6 thru 10 (and, earlier, the first half of 11), aired the episode content unedited.

Season 12--yes, those TV prints are the worst of the worst. They date back to the 1970s. They re badly chopped up, have time-compressed closing credits which eliminate the main cast (some earlier seasons' credits are also sped up, but at least they didn't cut the main cast), and the incorrect opening credits. So as now aired Ronne Troup and Dawn Lyn are not credited AT ALL! The only positive thing is that they air 379 of the 380 episodes.

I agree about the Rifleman, too. The episode content is clean, but they obviously did not access the original episodes, which would have had correct season openers and end credits with the original Four Star Productions logo.

Actually all 380 episodes are shown. The reason why you think that 1 episode isn't shown is because they skipped 1 episode during 1 run-through so they could air the Halloween eipsode.

[Duster76]

Originally Posted by lowesman

I agree. There needs to be 2 episodes a day. And 5:30 is too early. They should take out 1 telecast of LEAVE IT TO BEAVER.

Leave It To Beaver is more popular than My Three Sons so switching out one of the Beaver episodes wouldn't make sense. Actually I thought they might switch the cartoon hour with the Beaver hour since the cartoons are so popular. I know Dragnet is popular but there are only 98 episodes, you would think the viewers would get tired of it, the entire run takes less than 10 weeks. METV could do two episodes of My Three Sons between 6am-7am or to go back to the original subject run The Lucy Show from 6:00-6:30. The first three seasons of The Lucy Show are good, the back half of the series is bad news, 84 episodes were done over the first three seasons if the network stuck with that they could get almost 17 weeks out of the run which wouldn't be too bad. One episode of Dragnet (5:30-6:00) is enough, that's something the network could consider.