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Syndication means sales to local stations not networks like MeTV. Different contracts could be involved.

I agree the B&W episodes were not shown as often but at least in my area I remember seeing B&W runs of Gilligan's Island, Bewitched, Wild Wild West, I Dream of Jeannie and Hazel in the early to mid 1970s. In the 1980s a local station showed the first season of The Lucy Show.

One of the Mannix DVD covers has him looking like Elvis.

Did the first season of Mannix ever run in syndication? (Syndication, not networks like TVLand or MeTV). I believe the CBS syndication bible still lists the first season as unavailable.

I have heard that stations may not have shown the first season of M:I but I don't really understand it. As far as I know there was only one syndication package for M:I. Why would a stations buy all the episodes and not show them all? In any case the local CBS station in my area picked up the...

Syndication means sales to local stations. It is not synonymous with reruns. Much of syndication is new (talk shows, game shows, entertainment news) while reruns on networks (including MeTV) is not syndication. It is quite possible different contracts are drawn up with networks than with local...

Inferior quality, whether true or not, is hardly a reason a syndicator would not release episodes. My only observations are that Mannix was handled differently in those early days of syndication. Other series that limited episodes rerun, such as Perry Mason (195/271 episodes) and Hawaii Five-0...

Bewitched often re-used scripts. The most obvious was the 2-parter from the third season with Benjamin Franklin re-written as a 2-parter with George Washington in the eighth season. Bewitched wasn't cancelled; they just didn't know what else to do (and Elizabeth Montgomery wanted to move on) so...

Don't know if this has already been mentioned, but as I was recently looking through Kmart's inexpensive DVDs I came across the Here's Lucy Best of Collection which featured 7 episodes. The first thing I thought of was the Mannix episode but thought it unlikely it would be included here but was...

I remember the syndicated airings on our local ABC affiliate. They alternated the late-night showings with uncut episodes of Hawaii Five-0 (albeit with an extra commercial break) when programs were still syndicated uncut on film (it was up to the local station whether or not snip footage)...

I noticed the "Cinnamon" song in three 3rd-season episodes: "Return to Summer Grove," "Walk with a Dead Man" and "Who Is Sylvia?" In addition I've noticed some tracks of the Mannix soundtrack used repeatedly such as "End of the Rainbow" in the episodes "A Sleep in the Deep," "Missing: Sun and...

Mission: Impossible did indeed use the western street in one of the last episodes appropriately called "The Western." (March 2, 1973)

I remember the black cat and Mannix coming on first followed by Barnaby Jones. I don't remember Mannix ever being associated with Cannon. A quick look at the schedules of both series over the years shows that the only time the two series even came on the same night were two months (July 75 -...

Perhaps because the final episode of the season/series is "Search for a Dead Man." I always watch a series on DVD in production order if possible. The original network broadcast order which everyone seems to desire and DVD packages proudly claim is usually completely arbitrary (in some cases...

I recently watched season four's "Round Trip to Nowhere." I occasionally notice a goof here or a discrepancy there in a TV episode but this episode seemed to be full of them. Don't know if these have been mentioned before but all I could find was a reference to the lamp on Joe's desk so I'll...

That's it, thanks. There is even a green-tinted still of this scene on the DVD episode menu. Apparently after finishing filming this short scene, Joe Campanella gestures to Mike Connors to leave the car "set" while the background projection is still running and they did. The projection begins to...

I recently came across an old Blooper tape which included a short Mannix scene. In it Mike Connors is driving and Joe Campanella is sitting next to him with a projection of the view of the moving car seen through the window. Not really a blooper but more of a joke they both exit the car while...

Don't know if this was answered previously but thought i would anyway. The copyright date in question is not 1966 but 1996 (MCMXCVI not MCMLXVI). These were the episodes that originally did not have a copyright notice and apparently Paramount did not copyright the episodes until 1996. A...

Never heard that before. Again from the "Bewitched Forever" book: "Irene Vernon loved playing in the sitcom...though she does not regret leaving it for a successful career in real estate."

There were also two actors portraying Darrin's father but Robert F. Simon and Roy Roberts alternated in the role depending on availability (both actors appeared with both Darrins, although Simon is usually in the earlier episodes and Roberts in the later). And the Esmerelda character replaced...

According to "Bewitched Forever" by Bewitched expert Herbie J. Pilato: 'William Asher toyed with the idea of having Endora change Darrin's facial characteristics, but, upon thinking that it would have created a wall between Endora and Samantha, the tampering attempt was aborted. "Samatha would...

Don't confuse syndication with network broadcasts. The first season was never syndicated although ABC and perhaps TVLand (networks) have shown them. The syndication package, seen on local stations, at least the ones shown in my area, were on tape (as opposed to film like the same-era...

That's not quite true. Although it was done less frequently, it was done. For example, Ironside went into syndication in 1974 while it was still on NBC. The reruns were re-named "The Raymond Burr Show." The appearance of earlier episodes in syndication may have resulted in low ratings for...