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seventies_sitcoms · 06-20-2005, 04:37 PM

Was Amos and Andy ever syndicated it's original run? I have never seen this show before. Is it any good? Was this show ever considered racist?

Also, I saw a few episodes of a TV show called "Beulah." Does anybody remember that? I'm sure that will never be on TV again although it was entertaining from what I saw of it.

treky · 07-15-2005, 02:36 AM

"Amos & Andy" was pulled from the air in 1966 &, sadly,

hasn't been seen on TV since, because some people consider it "racist".

Although, I just found out recently, it's availible on VHS and DVD and has been for years. And I'm glad. I've heard their radio show, and it's REALLY funny!

Lamont · 07-17-2005, 08:21 AM

There is a documentary on Amos and Andy that airs on cable every few months, on TRIO and sometimes on BET--- I think its called ANATOMY OF A CONTROVERSY, it features rare interviews and is really cool, i forgot to tape it last time... it often airs during Black History Month so check it out next time!

Munsters#1 · 07-17-2005, 08:38 AM

It airs sometimes on my local channel, but the episodes are not remastered and look really shotty.

Vince 887 · 08-28-2005, 01:10 AM

I heard the Thanksgiving radio program which I thought was funny...I also liked Rochester from the Jack Benny show...I don't see where the stereotyping is.... the weren't any racial remarks that I'm aware of.

TV Knowledge Fan · 04-10-2006, 03:55 PM

....1966 when CBS Films, Inc. (the syndication arm of CBS) withdrew all 78 episodes of the show from syndication [along with a few other "forgotten" series, including "MAMA" and "MY FAVORITE HUSBAND"], officially claiming that some of their black & white inventory weren't being watched in the age of color [of course, we all know the real "color" reason as to why "THE AMOS 'N' ANDY SHOW" was pulled off the market]...but that didn't stop them from syndicating "I LOVE LUCY" the following year!

Scoobiedoo30 · 04-14-2006, 09:00 PM

I really do not think that Amos and Andy was on in Syndicated.

Mr. Television · 04-14-2006, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by agmfox8@yahoo.com

I really do not think that Amos and Andy was on in Syndicated.

It was syndicated until 1966.

TV Knowledge Fan · 04-19-2006, 04:35 PM

...from the fall of 1953 until the summer of 1966. In fact, WCBS-TV in New York was the first station to show it locally in New York for a few years. Eventually, WPIX-TV in N.Y. got the rights to it, and ran it until the early '60s.

lilhave · 04-27-2006, 04:46 PM

Yes it ran on WCBS-TV on friday nights at 8;30,, the sponsor being Blatz beer, the "beer that made Milwaukee famous? I have the entire series and still look at them, priceless stuff. The first episode was "the rare coin", and still one of my favorites. At the beginning of the shows, Gosden and Corell came on stage and thanked the loyal listeners for the almost 25 years of loyalty and then asked the audience to close their eyes and think of what they thought the Kingfish would look like. He we searched all over the states to find Tim Moore and here he is. Moore came out, thumbs in the lapels and said Holy Mackeral". Everyone cheered. He then brought out Spencer Williams, who played Andrew H. Brown and had that look of bewilderment. Great show. Only item I missed was a character who was in the radio show, called Shorty the barber. Always gave me a laugh.

FDR would not give his fireside chats when Amos & Andy was on as he said, he knew who they would listen to. I have on cd in mp3 format from 1967-1975 interviews by a Richard Lampowrski with at the time old time radio stores still alive. Of the 50 one is with Charles Corell, talking of the old days.

Harvey

TV Knowledge Fan · 04-27-2006, 06:45 PM

....."THE AMOS 'N' ANDY SHOW" was on the full CBS-TV network THURSDAY nights at 8:30pm(et) from June 1951 through June of '53 {WCBS-TV was the flagship New York affiliate that carried the show there, and later showed the syndicated repeats locally for a few years afterward}...and it was indeed sponsored by Blatz Beer ["Milwaukee's Finest Beer"]...their jingle at the time went like this (as performed acapella on the show during the commercials by the Jeff Alexander Chorus):

"I'm from Milwaukee, and I oughta know,
It's BLATZ, BLATZ, BLATZ, BLATZ, wherever you go!
BLATZ is the name you will always hear,
BLATZ is Milwaukee's finest beer!!!"

(SCHLITZ was "The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous"...and it eventually outsold Blatz, which is no longer in business!)

I saw "The Rare Coin"...it was just as good as the original radio version [almost all of the TV scripts were adapted from the radio show]. That special opening was "kinescoped"- it was taken from a closed-circuit broadcast that Gosden & Correll had made especially for CBS, introducing the TV cast to a live audience before they saw the actual epsiode on film; their reactions on
seeing it became the "laugh track" used in the finished episode the network aired.

lilhave · 04-27-2006, 07:07 PM

I remembered a good part of it but then again, you get old and poof. Wonderful cast with maybe the excption of Alvin Childress as Amos. Small part and could have been played by many. When the show first aired on radio it was supposed to feature Amos but the Kingfish eventually took over. At the time I don't believe anyone thought of it as a racist show, nor did the stars as they happy to have work but when you look at it now, it appears to be somewhat different. The dialect is of the uneducated. Kingfish never worked a day in his life, Andy was basically dumb, Calhoun was a shyster lawyer, Lightin! was a Stepid Fethit character, and the women? Sapphire was a shrew and her mother was a meddlesome sort. Amos was the only one with a job and a certain degree of common sense. Still a very funny show, never to be repeated.

Harvey

Zoneboy · 04-28-2006, 11:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lilhave

Yes it ran on WCBS-TV on friday nights at 8;30,, the sponsor being Blatz beer, the "beer that made Milwaukee famous? I have the entire series and still look at them, priceless stuff.

Harvey

Are you saying that you have every episode produced (78) or every episode currently available? (72) To the very best of my knowledge, nobody outside of CBS has all 78.

Mikado · 04-29-2006, 01:58 AM

Id never watch it anyway....ive heard parts of the old radio show and they made me wince!!!

Zoneboy · 04-29-2006, 02:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mikado

Id never watch it anyway....ive heard parts of the old radio show and they made me wince!!!

What was it about the radio show that made you wince? If you're passing judgment on the tv series based on what little you've heard from the radio program then you're really missing out.

07-15-2005, 02:36 AM	#2
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07-17-2005, 08:21 AM	#3
Lamont Lamont says Smile! Forum Veteran Join Date: May 28, 2005 Location: Deep in the Heart of Nowhere Posts: 5,217	AMOS AND ANDY documentary airs sometimes... There is a documentary on Amos and Andy that airs on cable every few months, on TRIO and sometimes on BET--- I think its called ANATOMY OF A CONTROVERSY, it features rare interviews and is really cool, i forgot to tape it last time... it often airs during Black History Month so check it out next time!

07-17-2005, 08:38 AM	#4
Munsters#1 Member Senior Member Join Date: Jun 29, 2004 Posts: 2,928	It airs sometimes on my local channel, but the episodes are not remastered and look really shotty.
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04-10-2006, 03:55 PM	#6
TV Knowledge Fan Member Senior Member Join Date: Mar 29, 2006 Location: Long Branch, N.J. Posts: 2,577	It was indeed... ....1966 when CBS Films, Inc. (the syndication arm of CBS) withdrew all 78 episodes of the show from syndication [along with a few other "forgotten" series, including "MAMA" and "MY FAVORITE HUSBAND"], officially claiming that some of their black & white inventory weren't being watched in the age of color [of course, we all know the real "color" reason as to why "THE AMOS 'N' ANDY SHOW" was pulled off the market]...but that didn't stop them from syndicating "I LOVE LUCY" the following year!

04-14-2006, 09:00 PM	#7
Scoobiedoo30 Member Forum Superstar Join Date: Jun 27, 2002 Location: KENNER, LOUISIANA Posts: 27,654	When was The Last Time This was on Televison I really do not think that Amos and Andy was on in Syndicated.
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06-20-2005, 04:37 PM	#1
seventies_sitcoms * Senior Member Join Date: Jan 09, 2005 Posts: 2,243	When was the last time this was on television? Was Amos and Andy ever syndicated it's original run? I have never seen this show before. Is it any good? Was this show ever considered racist? Also, I saw a few episodes of a TV show called "Beulah." Does anybody remember that? I'm sure that will never be on TV again although it was entertaining from what I saw of it.

08-28-2005, 01:10 AM	#5
Vince 887 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jul 29, 2005 Posts: 110	I heard the Thanksgiving radio program which I thought was funny...I also liked Rochester from the Jack Benny show...I don't see where the stereotyping is.... the weren't any racial remarks that I'm aware of.

04-19-2006, 04:35 PM	#9
TV Knowledge Fan Member Senior Member Join Date: Mar 29, 2006 Location: Long Branch, N.J. Posts: 2,577	CBS syndicated the show... ...from the fall of 1953 until the summer of 1966. In fact, WCBS-TV in New York was the first station to show it locally in New York for a few years. Eventually, WPIX-TV in N.Y. got the rights to it, and ran it until the early '60s.

04-27-2006, 04:46 PM	#10
lilhave Member Senior Member Join Date: Jul 03, 2004 Location: N.Y.C. Posts: 2,294	Yes it ran on WCBS-TV on friday nights at 8;30,, the sponsor being Blatz beer, the "beer that made Milwaukee famous? I have the entire series and still look at them, priceless stuff. The first episode was "the rare coin", and still one of my favorites. At the beginning of the shows, Gosden and Corell came on stage and thanked the loyal listeners for the almost 25 years of loyalty and then asked the audience to close their eyes and think of what they thought the Kingfish would look like. He we searched all over the states to find Tim Moore and here he is. Moore came out, thumbs in the lapels and said Holy Mackeral". Everyone cheered. He then brought out Spencer Williams, who played Andrew H. Brown and had that look of bewilderment. Great show. Only item I missed was a character who was in the radio show, called Shorty the barber. Always gave me a laugh. FDR would not give his fireside chats when Amos & Andy was on as he said, he knew who they would listen to. I have on cd in mp3 format from 1967-1975 interviews by a Richard Lampowrski with at the time old time radio stores still alive. Of the 50 one is with Charles Corell, talking of the old days. Harvey

04-27-2006, 06:45 PM	#11
TV Knowledge Fan Member Senior Member Join Date: Mar 29, 2006 Location: Long Branch, N.J. Posts: 2,577	Actually, 'lilhave'... ....."THE AMOS 'N' ANDY SHOW" was on the full CBS-TV network THURSDAY nights at 8:30pm(et) from June 1951 through June of '53 {WCBS-TV was the flagship New York affiliate that carried the show there, and later showed the syndicated repeats locally for a few years afterward}...and it was indeed sponsored by Blatz Beer ["Milwaukee's Finest Beer"]...their jingle at the time went like this (as performed acapella on the show during the commercials by the Jeff Alexander Chorus): "I'm from Milwaukee, and I oughta know, It's BLATZ, BLATZ, BLATZ, BLATZ, wherever you go! BLATZ is the name you will always hear, BLATZ is Milwaukee's finest beer!!!" (SCHLITZ was "The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous"...and it eventually outsold Blatz, which is no longer in business!) I saw "The Rare Coin"...it was just as good as the original radio version [almost all of the TV scripts were adapted from the radio show]. That special opening was "kinescoped"- it was taken from a closed-circuit broadcast that Gosden & Correll had made especially for CBS, introducing the TV cast to a live audience before they saw the actual epsiode on film; their reactions on seeing it became the "laugh track" used in the finished episode the network aired.

04-27-2006, 07:07 PM	#12
lilhave Member Senior Member Join Date: Jul 03, 2004 Location: N.Y.C. Posts: 2,294	I remembered a good part of it but then again, you get old and poof. Wonderful cast with maybe the excption of Alvin Childress as Amos. Small part and could have been played by many. When the show first aired on radio it was supposed to feature Amos but the Kingfish eventually took over. At the time I don't believe anyone thought of it as a racist show, nor did the stars as they happy to have work but when you look at it now, it appears to be somewhat different. The dialect is of the uneducated. Kingfish never worked a day in his life, Andy was basically dumb, Calhoun was a shyster lawyer, Lightin! was a Stepid Fethit character, and the women? Sapphire was a shrew and her mother was a meddlesome sort. Amos was the only one with a job and a certain degree of common sense. Still a very funny show, never to be repeated. Harvey

04-29-2006, 01:58 AM	#14
Mikado Main st bridge Forum Superstar Join Date: Jul 06, 2005 Posts: 25,880	Id never watch it anyway....ive heard parts of the old radio show and they made me wince!!!