Oh wow, MeTV actually ran a public-domain episode of Daniel Boone instead of getting it from Fox. I wonder why.
Also, it would seem The Big Valley was published before 1978 without a copyright notice...that would explain why MeTV's prints have a Simpsons-esque copyright card tacked on after the Four Star logo.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
Animation is central to the brand they want to put forth. It's much easier to make it distinctive than live-action, which is why you've never seen 101 Dalmatians: The Series turn up on Hub Network scheduled in the middle of the afternoon
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
I think things work differently in the UK than they do in the US
American TV is really kind of crap, the cable channels here tend to focus on mini-marathons of shows that aren't more than five years old (barring long runners like SpongeBob, which, once Nickelodeon's crown jewel, has become a disease slowly killing the channel)
Even Boomerang is moving away from the Hanna-Barbera back catalog it was created to be a "retirement home" for
Heh, someone mentioned Kate & Allie on a blog I follow. I still ship those two, and the lovey-dovey theme song that totally makes it sound like they're dating sure doesn't help.
Okay, dammit, it seems that march/fanfare Real People used as its theme song is stock music of some sort. I just heard that exact same track in the Albert Brooks film in the middle of the first episode of Saturday Night Live (which NBC is rerunning at the moment). Now I'm wondering where it came from...being that was 1975, it'd have had to be APM, Capitol or DeWolfe. I don't think Bruton existed yet.
I only know about this thing because Eric S. posted the tail end of the credits on his YouTube channel. This is so totally an unsold pilot, it hurts; the plot screams "Love Boat ripoff".
When I was little, I was used to Merrie Melodies shorts playing "Merrily We Roll Along" twice because of the AAP logo. i have to wonder if the post-1948 LT/MMs even circulated back then; it seems just about everyone had the AAP/UAA (pre-1948) ones, but the later ones and the made-for-TV stuff from the 1970s/1980s was confined to CBS and ABC for a long time.
WB selling off any of their cartoons in the first place is the sort of thing that would never happen today, but in those days Bugs Bunny and the other Looney Tune stars were not considered "brands"
I know WB needed the money (Paramount sold off its library too and they were even more desperate; it is a testament to their continual punishment for being even meaner than the other studios that they've never managed to grab it back from the 50 owners MCA/Universal has had over the years) but still
Speaking of MCA...it seems like MCA released some utter crap back in the 1980s, when they first started doing first-run. It seems like a lot of their schedule was bad CanCon sitcoms, bad American sitcoms that just happened to be CanCon-ish, shitty remakes of past glories (a Dragnet revival and The Munsters Today), or weird game shows (one of which, Puttin' On the Hits, seemed like it was trying its best to compete with Solid Gold and Star Search).
Hmmm, interesting....I'd half-forgotten about this. The original theme for The Magical World of Disney was based on "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" from Cinderella, not the usual "When You Wish Upon a Star" (which was only used at the end). It seems some prints of the 1988-1990 intro use the 1986 Disney Sunday Movie theme instead.
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Wasn't sure whether to put this here or in my thread, but:
The first song in that training video, after the logo, was everywhere at one point in the late 1980s/early 1990s; I particularly remember a swimming pool company that advertised on Richmond TV that used it in their ads.
Turns out it's clean enough to Shazam. XD It's "Shooting Stars" from Network Music.
Oh wow, I was just watching the Wednesday's Child segment on WRC, and it turns out they are still using parts of Working for You...in this case, a snatch of the long News4 Today close, probably my favorite cut in the package. ^_^
Okay, I recognise the terminals the "Disney Channel Operators" are using. Those are the Hazeltine/Esprit terminals CableData DDP/SQL used to use...that was the cable billing system everyone used back in the day. When my mom was working dispatch at Jones back in the 1990s, that was what she used.
The parents had it on MeTV last night, and I noticed that their prints of Black Sheep Squadron have the 1997 Universal Worldwide Television logo on them, instead of one of the 1975-1991 logos.
Universal almost never retags anything from the Revue or MCA eras, so this was a bit of a shock.
Watching older episodes of Law & Order is weird because you can tell who some of their sponsors were. All the computers were IBMs, and the phones make AT&T Merlin/Partner rings.
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