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installLSC · 04-29-2013, 12:13 AM

Up until the early 90s, it was common for the broadcast networks to rerun their old sitcoms in the daytime. The funny thing is I never watched "One Day at a Time" or "Alice" in their nighttime versions, but watched them all the time when they were being rerun in daytime! I also watched a lot of "Jeffersons", "Designing Women", and "Angie" in daytime reruns. What shows do you remember from their daytime reruns?

MikeLutton · 04-29-2013, 12:44 AM

I misss those I use get up every morning and afternoon and made sure vcr was set when I was at school,espically the TBS AND WGN schedules

Ryan Chamberlain · 04-29-2013, 03:16 AM

Yep. When I was a little kid in the early 90s I watched Full House on NBC at 11am and then Perfect Strangers on ABC at 11:30am.

gidgetgrape · 04-29-2013, 04:33 PM

Oh yeah, I use to look forward to those in the summer when I was off from school. That's how I saw "Designing Women" for the first time.

treky · 10-18-2014, 01:25 AM

I remember growing up in the 60s and early 70s and watching reruns of THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW (which CBS renamed THE DICK VAN DYKE DAYTIME SHOW), THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW (renamed ANDY OF MAYBERRY), THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES, THE LUCY SHOW, HERE'S LUCY, GOMER PYLE: U.S.M.C., THE JACK BENNY SHOW, CANDID CAMERA and others on CBS, THE DONNA REED SHOW, THAT GIRL, BEWITCHED, LOVE AMERICAN STYLE among others on ABC but for some reason I can't remember NBC ever showing any.

TV_on_the_Porch · 10-18-2014, 01:54 AM

NBC did show Sanford & Son reruns in the daytime for a while in the mid 70s. And really--what other sitcom could they strip? NBC's schedule was woefully lacking in half-hour comedies at the time.

Here's Lucy was briefly run by CBS mornings in the spring of '77; the first daily go-round of Three's Company reruns was on ABC in 1981.

Mace Dolex · 10-18-2014, 02:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Ryan Chamberlain

Yep. When I was a little kid in the early 90s I watched Full House on NBC at 11am and then Perfect Strangers on ABC at 11:30am.

Yeah I clearly remember Full House being shown daytime in the Summer of '91 because that very same Fall was when FH entered daily syndication.

I always thought the idea for airing sitcoms in the early morning was a test to see if certain shows would attract an audience to then sell to independent stations.

treky · 10-18-2014, 03:42 AM

yea, now I remember when NBC reran SANFORD & SON and CHICO & THE MAN during the day. (I remember they showed S &S in the mornings but our NBC affiliate would preempt it until the afternoon) and in the early 90s THE GOLDEN GIRLS.

treky · 10-18-2014, 03:48 AM

how come the daytime reruns of THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW had the shows name change to THE DICK VAN DYKE DAYTIME SHOW and daytime reruns of THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW had the shows name change to ANDY OF MAYBERRY? Did other shows do this? If so, why? And if not why not?

BigManMike · 10-18-2014, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by treky

how come the daytime reruns of THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW had the shows name change to THE DICK VAN DYKE DAYTIME SHOW and daytime reruns of THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW had the shows name change to ANDY OF MAYBERRY? Did other shows do this? If so, why? And if not why not?

Happy Days was called Happy Days Again and Laverne and Shirley was called Laverne and Shirley and Company. I dont know why they did this.

Bonniegirl · 10-18-2014, 11:14 AM

I remember as a little girl waking up on summer vacation and watching the Lucy show, Beverly Hillbillies and Family Affair. And sometimes they ran My three sons instead of the Beverly Hillbillies.

Than as a teenager and early 20's I remember Alice and One day at a time being on in the morning.

Kasey · 10-18-2014, 11:54 AM

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Happy Days was called Happy Days Again and Laverne and Shirley was called Laverne and Shirley and Company. I dont know why they did this.

Back then, there were rules that applied when a series was syndicated but still running in prime time. Hence they could not use the same title.

I remember watching One Day at a Time and Alice reruns in the summer of 1981/82, Angie and The Facts of Life in 1984/85, The Golden Girls in 1989 and Designing Women in 1991.

Zoneboy · 10-18-2014, 12:43 PM

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Happy Days was called Happy Days Again and Laverne and Shirley was called Laverne and Shirley and Company. I dont know why they did this.

The networks thought people would get confused if daytime reruns and first-run airings used the same title so that's why the reruns used a different one. I remember when I saw my first episode of Happy Days Again, when the title came on and I saw that crap I immediately turned the channel. My first thought was that ABC obviously thought I was too dumb to know the difference.

Same thing happened around 1988 when the Charlotte Hornets joined the NBA, their name had come down to 2-3 finalists and Hornets was the most popular but there was a problem. Greensboro had a minor league baseball team with the same name and during a radio show the powers-that-be who were responsible for bringing the NBA to Charlotte were trying to tell everyone listening that some people might confuse the 2 if they took the name Hornets. They did and Greensboro changed their name to the Bats.

Tubehead · 10-19-2014, 01:53 AM

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Mace Dolex · 10-19-2014, 02:42 AM

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Originally Posted by thebigcookie

Happy Days was called Happy Days Again and Laverne and Shirley was called Laverne and Shirley and Company. I dont know why they did this.

And for CHiPs they would air as CHiPs Patrol.

Another weird thing I've read is that some syndication stations would air Knight Rider severely edited into half hour episodes.

04-29-2013, 12:13 AM	#1
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treky star trek fan Eternal Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Feb 25, 2002 Location: Conshohocken, pennsylvania Posts: 14,490	I remember growing up in the 60s and early 70s and watching reruns of THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW (which CBS renamed THE DICK VAN DYKE DAYTIME SHOW), THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW (renamed ANDY OF MAYBERRY), THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES, THE LUCY SHOW, HERE'S LUCY, GOMER PYLE: U.S.M.C., THE JACK BENNY SHOW, CANDID CAMERA and others on CBS, THE DONNA REED SHOW, THAT GIRL, BEWITCHED, LOVE AMERICAN STYLE among others on ABC but for some reason I can't remember NBC ever showing any.
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gidgetgrape Forever Gidget Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 20, 2003 Location: Texas Posts: 3,503	Oh yeah, I use to look forward to those in the summer when I was off from school. That's how I saw "Designing Women" for the first time.

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TV_on_the_Porch anything good on? Forum Regular Join Date: Oct 18, 2005 Posts: 879	NBC did show Sanford & Son reruns in the daytime for a while in the mid 70s. And really--what other sitcom could they strip? NBC's schedule was woefully lacking in half-hour comedies at the time. Here's Lucy was briefly run by CBS mornings in the spring of '77; the first daily go-round of Three's Company reruns was on ABC in 1981.

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treky star trek fan Eternal Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Feb 25, 2002 Location: Conshohocken, pennsylvania Posts: 14,490	yea, now I remember when NBC reran SANFORD & SON and CHICO & THE MAN during the day. (I remember they showed S &S in the mornings but our NBC affiliate would preempt it until the afternoon) and in the early 90s THE GOLDEN GIRLS.

10-18-2014, 03:48 AM	#9
treky star trek fan Eternal Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Feb 25, 2002 Location: Conshohocken, pennsylvania Posts: 14,490	how come the daytime reruns of THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW had the shows name change to THE DICK VAN DYKE DAYTIME SHOW and daytime reruns of THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW had the shows name change to ANDY OF MAYBERRY? Did other shows do this? If so, why? And if not why not?

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Bonniegirl AKA Hazel Horvath Forum Addict Join Date: Jul 10, 2014 Posts: 65,582	I remember as a little girl waking up on summer vacation and watching the Lucy show, Beverly Hillbillies and Family Affair. And sometimes they ran My three sons instead of the Beverly Hillbillies. Than as a teenager and early 20's I remember Alice and One day at a time being on in the morning.