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treky · 08-12-2011, 03:32 AM

I e-mailed Antenna TV and asked why they don't show these from the end of every episode, and they said the distributor cuts them out, not Antenna TV. They air the prints they get from them.

TV Knowledge Fan · 11-24-2011, 07:25 PM

...George and Gracie would reappear at the end of the episode (after Harry Von Zell originally said- on alternate weeks, according to who sponsored them that week- "And now, here are Carnation's 'contented' couple- George and Gracie", or, "And now, here are two members of the B.F. Goodrich family- George and Gracie...") to comment on the evening's story {with Gracie adding her own "illogical" view}, say good night, and exit. In late 1954, George decided that he and Gracie would perform a variation of one of their classic "double routines" (in front of a curtain) at the end of the show, which they did through the end of the series [in the last season, they did them after a curtain parted, dotted with the names and locations of various theaters they'd headlined in vaudeville]. Unfortunately, the "syndicated" prints currently distributed- by Sony- are "pre-edited", and most don't feature their closing remarks or "double routines". I was lucky to see them when WPIX-TV in New York showed 16mm prints of the series in the '70s and '80s...

treky · 11-25-2011, 01:44 AM

yea, I was lucky enough to see them on WPIX in the 70s and 80s too. That's why I was so dissapointed when I started watching it on ANTENNA TV again, and saw that they're cut out, because I hadn't seen the show since then.

(even though we lived in Philadelphia then, every August we used to vacation at the shore in New Jersey for a couple weeks and we used to get WPIX on the TV)

08-12-2011, 03:32 AM	#1
treky star trek fan Eternal Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Feb 25, 2002 Location: Conshohocken, pennsylvania Posts: 14,490	George & Gracies monolouges I e-mailed Antenna TV and asked why they don't show these from the end of every episode, and they said the distributor cuts them out, not Antenna TV. They air the prints they get from them.
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11-24-2011, 07:25 PM	#2
TV Knowledge Fan Member Senior Member Join Date: Mar 29, 2006 Location: Long Branch, N.J. Posts: 2,577	During the first few seasons of the series.... ...George and Gracie would reappear at the end of the episode (after Harry Von Zell originally said- on alternate weeks, according to who sponsored them that week- "And now, here are Carnation's 'contented' couple- George and Gracie", or, "And now, here are two members of the B.F. Goodrich family- George and Gracie...") to comment on the evening's story {with Gracie adding her own "illogical" view}, say good night, and exit. In late 1954, George decided that he and Gracie would perform a variation of one of their classic "double routines" (in front of a curtain) at the end of the show, which they did through the end of the series [in the last season, they did them after a curtain parted, dotted with the names and locations of various theaters they'd headlined in vaudeville]. Unfortunately, the "syndicated" prints currently distributed- by Sony- are "pre-edited", and most don't feature their closing remarks or "double routines". I was lucky to see them when WPIX-TV in New York showed 16mm prints of the series in the '70s and '80s...

11-25-2011, 01:44 AM	#3
treky star trek fan Eternal Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Feb 25, 2002 Location: Conshohocken, pennsylvania Posts: 14,490	yea, I was lucky enough to see them on WPIX in the 70s and 80s too. That's why I was so dissapointed when I started watching it on ANTENNA TV again, and saw that they're cut out, because I hadn't seen the show since then. (even though we lived in Philadelphia then, every August we used to vacation at the shore in New Jersey for a couple weeks and we used to get WPIX on the TV)