PERFECT STRANGERS ON NICK ON JULY 14TH, 1 DAY MARATHON!!!

[Pavan]

Annual Summertime Event to Include a Bonus Night as Party Crasher
Fridays
Features a Different Sitcom Every Week

NEW YORK, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Once again, viewers can enjoy
their air
conditioned living rooms all summer long as Nick at Nite pre-empts
its
entire
primetime line-up to bring back It's a Block, Block, Block Party
Summer -- the
network's refreshing programming event in which six episodes of the
same show
are featured, back-to-back, from 9:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. (ET/PT).
Beginning
on Sunday, July 2 through Friday, September 1 Block, Block, Block
Party Summer
will I Love Lucy Sundays; The Andy Griffith Show Mondays;
Gilligan's
Island Tuesdays; Beverly Hillbillies Wednesdays and Brady Bunch
Thursdays.
As a bonus, Nick at Nite will add a new element to its annual
summertime
event with Party Crasher Fridays which celebrates a different sitcom
every Friday with its own three-hour block. While many Nick at Nite
favorites
-- such as Bewitched, Happy Days and The Jeffersons -- will crash the
Block
Party, other series not regularly available in the Place for TV Hits
will
also take over a Friday such as Head of the Class (July 7), Perfect
Strangers
(July 14) and My Favorite Martian (August 11).
"We think this year's Block Party Summer will go swimmingly as
Nick at
Nite offers a getaway from the broadcast networks' primetime reruns,"
explains
Jim Burns, Senior Vice President of Nick at Nite Programming and
Creative.
"After beating the heat during the brutal months of July and August,
viewers
can kick off their sandals, relax by the soothing glow of their
television and
enjoy some of refreshing sitcoms from the past forty years."

LUCY SUNDAYS
The only way to cure the Sunday night blues and gear up for
another week
of work is to engross yourself in the misadventures of everyone's
favorite
red-head, Lucy Ricardo.
One of television's most enduring and treasured sitcoms, I Love
Lucy
follows the life of Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball), a wacky Manhattan
housewife
whose antics and schemes make life difficult for her sometimes
hot-headed
husband and nightclub band leader, Ricky (Desi Arnaz). Residing just
downstairs are the Ricardo's best friends and landlords, Fred Mertz
(William
Frawley), and his wife, Ethel (Vivian Vance), Lucy's partner in
mischief.

ANDY GRIFFITH MONDAYS
It's like having a virtual summer home in the mountains complete
with a
neighborhood where everyone knows your name, as the town of Mayberry
takes
over Nick at Nite every Monday night.
The Andy Griffith Show revolves around the town of Mayberry, North
Carolina where the widowed Sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) keeps
peace at
home and at work. The other Mayberry folks include: Andy's wiry
partner, and
cousin, Deputy Barney Fife (Don Knotts), who often locks himself in
the jail
cell; Andy's Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier), who acts as combination
housekeeper
and foster mom to Andy's son, Opie (Ronny Howard); Gomer Pyle (Jim
Nabors), a
gas station attendant; Floyd Lawson (Howard McNear), the town barber;
Otis
Campbell (Hal Smith), the town drunk who lets himself in and out of
jail each
day; Goober Pyle (George Lindsay), Gomer's cousin; Helen Crump (Anita
Corsaut), Andy's girlfriend and Opie's teacher; and Thelma Lou (Betty
Lynn),
Barney's girlfriend. TV Land has acquired the rights to this
highly-rated and
enduring sitcom and will air all 274 episodes of the series.

GILLIGAN'S ISLAND TUESDAYS
The original survivors -- the castaways of Gilligan's Island --
show that
living on a private oasis isn't as bad as it's made out to be ...
unless you
really hate coconuts. Tune into Nick at Nite on Tuesdays for Sherwood
Schwartz' creation, inspired by Robinson Crusoe.
The S.S. Minnow crew of two -- the bumbling, Gilligan (Bob
Denver)
and
the Skipper, Jonas Grumby (Alan Hale, Jr.) -- get their passengers to
safety
and then spend the next four years trying to get themselves off of
the
island.
The other survivors include: Thurston Howell III (Jim Backus) and his
wife Lovey (Natalie Schafer), who are worth millions of dollars;
Ginger Grant
(Tina Louise), a Hollywood movie star; Mary Anne Summers (Dawn
Wells),
an
all-American girl from Kansas; and the Professor Roy Hinkley (Russell
Johnson), a scientist.

BEVERLY HILLBILLIES WEDNESDAYS
Half-way through the week, the living seems easy so kick up your
heels
every Wednesday to get a healthy-helping of The Beverly Hillbilies'
concrete
swimming holes, possum pies and Granny's melodic, "JED!!!!"
This fish-out-of-water sitcom follows the Hillbilly Clampett
family who
move from the Ozarks to Beverly Hills, California after they discover
oil in their backyard and strike it rich. Jed (Buddy Ebsen), a
widower
with daughter -- Elly May (Donna Douglas) and nephew Jethro Bodine
(Max Baer,
Jr) -- lives in a luxurious mansion with the ever-feisty Granny
(Irene
Ryan).
Their money is safe and sound at Drysdale's Commerce Bank, which is
run by Mr.
Drysdale (Raymond Bailey) and his assistant, Jane Hathaway (Nancy
Kulp).

BRADY BUNCH THURSDAYS
A signature show from the original, "Must See TV," The Brady
Bunch
is a
must see every Thursday. Six episodes of the country's favorite
bunch, offer
groovy vibes, out-of-sight fashion and one swell housekeeper.
The Brady Bunch shows the lighter side of life when two families
-- one
made up of all females, and the other made up of all males -- come
together to
form the Brady Bunch. The show follows the lives of Mike (Robert
Reed)
and
Carol Brady (Florence Henderson) and their six off-spring: Greg
(Barry
Williams); Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Peter (Christopher Knight);
Jan
(Eve
Plumb); Bobby (Mike Lookinland); and Cindy (Susan Olsen). Mike and
Carol
juggle the busy lives of their "blended" family as they encounter
everything
from dating issues to stardom as a singing group. They are joined in
their
efforts by Alice (Ann B. Davis), the family's live-in housekeeper,
who
helps
keep things in ship shape.

PARTY CRASHER FRIDAYS
Sometimes the greatest thing to happen to a party is a surprise
party
crasher who brings friends along. Every Friday, viewers will be
treated to a
different sitcom ... kind of like an end-of-the-week happy-hour
celebration
with a smorgasbord of options to chose from.
The schedule for Party Crasher Fridays is as follows (all dates
are
Fridays from 9:00pm to 12:00am ET/PT):

July 7 Head of the Class
This sitcom from 1986, is the opposite of Welcome
Back Kotter
as Howard Hessman stars as Charlie Moore, a
substitute
teacher in charge with an overachieving class of
honor
students. Also features Robin Givens, Brian
Robbins,
Rain
Pryor, Daniel J. Schneider among others as the
students.

July 14 Perfect Strangers
Also from 1986, Larry Appleton (Mark Linn-Baker)
welcomes his
cousin, Balki (Bronson Pinchot) -- a young shepherd
from the
Mediterranean island, Mypos -- into his Chicago home.
Misadventures ensue as the two try to get along with
their
new living situation despite their cultural
differences.

The other Party Crasher Fridays include:

July 21 The Jeffersons
July 28 Bewitched
August 4 I Dream of Jeannie
August 11 My Favorite Martian
August 18 Happy Days
August 25 Rugrats

Fans can access all of their favorite Nick at Nite show
information, play
games and learn where their favorite classic TV stars are now by
logging onto
Nick-at-nite.com.

[IGNTBone]

This is GREAT!

After several months of speculation and hope, we finally have a confirmed airdate! I know USA Network hosted PS a little while ago, but I still feel it's been ages since I've seen this great show. My Friday nights were built around this early TGIF staple on ABC. Now I'm halfway through college, and can now enjoy it all over again, if only for one evening.

It seems logical that Head of the Class and PS would eventually have their own back to back hour on Nick At Nite, and I hope this indeed happens, but I will be looking forward to Friday, July, 14th, right after my weekly dose of ECW on TNN! Geez, before this, I hardly felt "old" at only 20 years of age! Sorry for the rant...I'm just too excited!
Later...

Tony Yannuzzi
IGNWrestling.com