OK The First Antenna TV It's A Living Airings thread review

[TeeVeeCloset]

Episode one just ended, now i have the pilot from three sources, TV Land, Logo, and now Antenna.

Afraid I wasn't too impressed with any major differences, first for some reason the first season always appears a bit dark or cheap looking. There was a slight flicker in between fast scene changes, notice in the opening credits.....its from the digital transfer, yet that doesn't happen on the logo airings.

Antenna stuck with the normal 3 commercial breaks, but there were definitely longer than when they air alice and archie bunkers place.

I have to wait for tomorrow night, episode 2 for better comparisons, yes the constant logo interruptions are annoying and take the episode to barely 19 minutes....but that is with newly created credits.

When all is said and done, i believe the antenna versions will only be about 90 seconds longer than logo.

Since only the first two seasons ran on ABC before syndication, the network versions should be longer than even the syndication ones.

Before Antenna went into their compression credits it was nice to hear the complete voice-over "IAL was taped in front of a live studio audience" voiced by susan sullivan.

[boechsner]

I tuned it tonight. This reminds me of January 2001, when TV Land began airing It's a Living for the one fateful week on the Twice is Nice Afternoon lasting from 1/1/01-1/5/01.

Yes, tonight's episode was a syndication edit. There was no new scenes but nothing missing from the TV Land print. It was essentially the same syndication print that has been used for years.

My big concern is the quality. I noticed the flicker with scene changes. The pilot for this show has always seemed to be at little lower quality level and a bit darker. I too will be watching to see if the next episodes improve.

I have a bad feeling we will only be getting syndication prints on Antenna TV. The sad part of all this ...my VHS recording from TV Land is better video quality than Antenna TV.

[TeeVeeCloset]

Originally Posted by boechsner

I tuned it tonight. This reminds me of January 2001, when TV Land began airing It's a Living for the one fateful week on the Twice is Nice Afternoon lasting from 1/1/01-1/5/01.

Yes, tonight's episode was a syndication edit. There was no new scenes but nothing missing from the TV Land print. It was essentially the same syndication print that has been used for years.

My big concern is the quality. I noticed the flicker with scene changes. The pilot for this show has always seemed to be at little lower quality level and a bit darker. I too will be watching to see if the next episodes improve.

I have a bad feeling we will only be getting syndication prints on Antenna TV. The sad part of all this ...my VHS recording from TV Land is better video quality than Antenna TV.

GREAT POST! Not because you agreed with me, but also understood and saw exactly what i saw, that slight flicker, very annoying! I knew it wasn't my equipment as im recording at least the first two seasons on digital tape (A TV industry format) quality is like dvd, then i edit out the commercials and go direct to dvd. It is in real time, so very time consuming, but i did it with 80 episodes from logo, but it was easy because they aired 4 hours a day in a row.

BTW....Logo seems to have stopped airing the series in order, so glad my logo project is over.

And yes I totally agree as i did tape that one week from TV land on VHS, transferred to DVD now, and yes believe it looked better on TV land, i think it again is because they transferred it to digital which can cause a flicker between dissolves.

[1960'sTVfan]

I'm not recording It's A Living from Antenna TV but I recorded the Joey Bishop episodes and those turned out very well. Didn't need to record season 2 because I have the DVD set Questar released several years ago.

[AngieTribeca]

That is sort of sad to hear. I have been looking to upgrade my old recordings of this show but now it looks like I may just stick to what I have. I have recordings from TV Land as well as many local station syndicated reruns from the 80s and 90s and they are all very watchable considering how old the recordings are.

I never planned on recording the show when it started on Logo because they are notorious for butchering their shows for commercials and ad space. The quality looks decent but I was not going to waste my time for barely 20 minute episodes.

I was excited when I heard about the show coming to Antenna because they don't butcher their shows like other networks. The credit crunch is annoying but overall their shows are aired as sent by their distributors.

The quality just isn't that good. It reminds me of how Me-TV aired Mama's Family but alot worse. Mama had that filmized look but still looked better than what It's A Living currently looks like on Antenna.

[i29u]

I get Antenna TV only on a part-time basis- and I don't get the channel when It's A Living is on.

Is Antenna cutting some of Sonny's songs, just as Logo does? For example, on Logo, the song "Light My Fire" is missing from the episode "Up On The Roof," nearly all of "I Got You (I Feel Good)" is missing from "Fallen Idol," and the theme to "Oklahoma!" is missing from "Super-Mom." There could be others I've missed. These songs were intact in syndicated reruns in the late 1980's.

[boechsner]

Originally Posted by i29u

I get Antenna TV only on a part-time basis- and I don't get the channel when It's A Living is on.

Is Antenna cutting some of Sonny's songs, just as Logo does? For example, on Logo, the song "Light My Fire" is missing from the episode "Up On The Roof," nearly all of "I Got You (I Feel Good)" is missing from "Fallen Idol," and the theme to "Oklahoma!" is missing from "Super-Mom." There could be others I've missed. These songs were intact in syndicated reruns in the late 1980's.

I believe they are the same edits as Logo. The only difference is Logo throws in an extra commercial break.

Up on the Roof has yet to air but the other songs you mentioned were edited out.