Watched "Greg Get's Grounded" in Syndication Today. Guess What? - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Jack1000 · 01-28-2007, 09:02 PM

The fill in squares were gone!

(Or at the very least, my station went to a commercial just before they would have appeared had they been included!) Barry's ad-libbed lines, "Won't be eating this tonight, and he was in 34th place too." were included. As you know, TV Land omits those final lines.

Let me just answer what I know:

1.) For years, syndication showed fill-in squares for this episode. The Brady Bunch has been a nationally syndicated property since the early 70's even when the last two seasons were still going through their original run.

2.) When TV Land acquired the rights to the show in the Summer of 1998, they got the show from Paramount and Paramount did their own edits to fill a syndicated under 22 minute slot. The episode (along with Love and the Older Man) had the squares so:

What happened to the squares? Paramount obviously had them archived because they gave the rights to TV Land. They would also have the 16mm/35mm back up prints so if they got damaged (very unlikely) Paramount could have used the back up fill-in squares.

Jack

EricR · 01-29-2007, 04:27 PM

Weird...try to catch the Hawaii episodes on that channel when you can, Jack. And see if the Pass the Tabu is cut.

Lee G · 02-07-2007, 04:49 PM

I mentioned this in the other thread- On the DVD, the fill in squares are in the right place for GREG GETS GROUNDED. What remains to be known is whether there is a tag sequence for the episode that was left off the DVD. On the DVD's, THE HONEYMOON and GREG GETS GROUNDED are the only episodes that are like this. Fill in squares, then closing credits. There is no tag sequence. It's a little hard to imagine that they would make 2 episodes out of 117 without a tag scene, so I tend to believe that there are tags for these episodes but they were left off the DVD's. I should have more info on THE HONEYMOON in a few days.

01-28-2007, 09:02 PM	#1
Jack1000 Member Senior Member Join Date: Dec 05, 2001 Posts: 2,055	Watched "Greg Get's Grounded" in Syndication Today. Guess What? The fill in squares were gone! (Or at the very least, my station went to a commercial just before they would have appeared had they been included!) Barry's ad-libbed lines, "Won't be eating this tonight, and he was in 34th place too." were included. As you know, TV Land omits those final lines. Let me just answer what I know: 1.) For years, syndication showed fill-in squares for this episode. The Brady Bunch has been a nationally syndicated property since the early 70's even when the last two seasons were still going through their original run. 2.) When TV Land acquired the rights to the show in the Summer of 1998, they got the show from Paramount and Paramount did their own edits to fill a syndicated under 22 minute slot. The episode (along with Love and the Older Man) had the squares so: What happened to the squares? Paramount obviously had them archived because they gave the rights to TV Land. They would also have the 16mm/35mm back up prints so if they got damaged (very unlikely) Paramount could have used the back up fill-in squares. Jack

01-29-2007, 04:27 PM	#2
EricR Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Mar 10, 2005 Posts: 66	Weird...try to catch the Hawaii episodes on that channel when you can, Jack. And see if the Pass the Tabu is cut.

02-07-2007, 04:49 PM	#3
Lee G Member Forum Regular Join Date: Jun 24, 2004 Posts: 850	I mentioned this in the other thread- On the DVD, the fill in squares are in the right place for GREG GETS GROUNDED. What remains to be known is whether there is a tag sequence for the episode that was left off the DVD. On the DVD's, THE HONEYMOON and GREG GETS GROUNDED are the only episodes that are like this. Fill in squares, then closing credits. There is no tag sequence. It's a little hard to imagine that they would make 2 episodes out of 117 without a tag scene, so I tend to believe that there are tags for these episodes but they were left off the DVD's. I should have more info on THE HONEYMOON in a few days.