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05-29-2007, 01:40 PM
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Diane
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Re: Where is Mary Tyler Moore Season 5?
American Life TV has bought the entire MTM catalogue and will begin showing all series beginning in June and July. According to another board they do not edit the shows. Get your DVD recorder ready! I already have Seasons 5 and 6 unedited from TVLand in Canada, but not Season 7. Let's hope it is truly unedited.
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05-29-2007, 04:20 PM
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John
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Re: Where is Mary Tyler Moore Season 5?
How do you get that channel? Is it on any major satellite or cable carriers?
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05-29-2007, 05:51 PM
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Re: Where is Mary Tyler Moore Season 5?
AmericanLife is available on Time Warner Cable, at least where I live.
I suppose it will be a little while before we actually see season 5 if they're showing it twice a week. Can't wait to see if they are unedited, though. If so I'll definitely be recording these shows once they get to the unreleased-on-DVD episodes.
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05-29-2007, 08:11 PM
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Re: Where is Mary Tyler Moore Season 5?
Is that a commercial-free channel? Otherwise, if they're unedited, they'll be sped up, and wow, do I hate that!
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05-29-2007, 09:13 PM
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Re: Where is Mary Tyler Moore Season 5?
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Is that a commercial-free channel? Otherwise, if they're unedited, they'll be sped up, and wow, do I hate that!
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Not necessarily. They had commercials when they first aired, after all. Old shows in reruns are cut or sped up for two reasons:
1) Even for first-run shows there are more commercials per hour now then there were when years ago.
2) Most 2nd run cable and local broadcast channels buy reruns to maximize their ratings and profits. This means slipping in some extra commercials even for newer shows.
But smaller, newer cable channels tend not to sell as much ad time, and this, ironically, can let them air shows at full length without trimming or speeding them up. (Discovery HD has often runs filler between shows because they don't sell enough ad time.)
Regards,
Joe
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05-29-2007, 09:14 PM
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Re: Where is Mary Tyler Moore Season 5?
I have American Life. They have commercials and at least some of the shows they currently air are edited and/or timesped. This is the channel that used to be called "Goodlife".
From what I understand, they did not "buy" the MTM catalog; rather they just made a deal with Fox to air certain shows. They are also going to start airing Batman.
Steve
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05-29-2007, 10:21 PM
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Re: Where is Mary Tyler Moore Season 5?
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I have American Life.
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Steve, I can't tell you how jealous I am of you right now! I'd give anything to have American Life. It's got to be the best channel for classic WB detective series. I'd love to have a shot a taping some of those, because we will likely never see them on dvd or on another channel. My dvd recorder would be working overtime between that channel and TCM.
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1950's - Father Knows Best (S3-6), The Donna Reed Show (S2-8), Dennis the Menace, Mickey Mouse Club, The Rifleman, Have Gun Will Travel (S4-6), Naked City (S1), Rawhide (S4-8), Leave it to Beaver (S3-6), Ozzie & Harriet, Perry Mason (S4-9), Hawaiian Eye, The Phil Silvers Show, Lone Ranger (S4,5.5), Lassie, Fury
1960's & 70's - The Fugitive (S2-4), My Three Sons, The Patty Duke Show, Route 66 (S3-4), The Untouchables (S3-4), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (S4.5), Big Valley (S2.5-4), That Girl (S5), Flipper (S2-3), Tarzan, Petticoat Junction (S2-7), Beverly Hillbillies (S3-5), The Lucy Show, Harlem Globetrotters, Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Quincy (S3-8)
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05-30-2007, 01:11 AM
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Re: Where is Mary Tyler Moore Season 5?
We actually have a channel like that in the Chicago area. It's called METV. They have classic shows on there and on Sat and Sun. nights they run a block of All in the Family, MTM & Bob Newhart. Hopefully a channel like this will catch on in other areas as well.
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I'd take Phylis as well but want Rhoda more. I do not see how things are not relevant today in these things, Ted Baxter is timeless, my local news has a few. The comedy is still funny and the fashion is superior to our time. I think lack of TV airtime in recent years is a problem here, possibly based upon some faulty nielsen repeat ratings which probably influence the amount of in store display these series receive as well. I blame TVLand for some problems we are having with classic television exposure and expect that station to stop showing anything older than Cosby aside from MASH in the coming year. What we need for TV is a TCM spinoff devoted to classic television. This station could properly support these shows, reintroducing them to modern audiences, putting them into context and perhaps some reminders of DVD releases for these series. I am so annoyed by the lack of promotion I find for classic TV series on DVD on TV and now all I see is War at Home DVD ads, that show is being pushed too much on DVD while better shows are being neglected in advertising.
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05-30-2007, 01:31 AM
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Kristen
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Re: Where is Mary Tyler Moore Season 5?
I'm also jealous of those of you who have AmericanLife. I would LOVE to see TMTMS uncut, especially some Season 7 episodes, as I feel those were the best of the series. I'm seriously considering finding someone to tape them for me. Who knows, maybe by the time they get to S7, I'll get the channel, or we'll at least have more seasons on DVD! (What can I say, I'm an optimist! hehe)
- Kristen
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05-30-2007, 01:44 AM
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David
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Re: Where is Mary Tyler Moore Season 5?
American Life (AKA Goodlife) is a great litte network, I taped a real gem off this channel a few years ago.... the Leslie Uggams show, compelte with all the musical numbers and everything. I NEVER thought I'd see that show, but sure enough, there it was!
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05-30-2007, 01:49 AM
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Re: Where is Mary Tyler Moore Season 5?
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We actually have a channel like that in the Chicago area. It's called METV. They have classic shows on there and on Sat and Sun. nights they run a block of All in the Family, MTM & Bob Newhart.
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Well, that's nice but all those shows are available on DVD at least partially. I'm thinking more of the classic 50's and 60's shows that American Life has on their schedule. I mean just look at these series:
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Mayberry RFD
The Lone Wolf
The FBI
77 Sunset Strip
Bourbon Street Beat
Harry O
Hawaiian Eye
Surfside 6
Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Bronco
Cheyenne
Sugerfoot
Maverick
My Favorite Martian
As far as I know, only two of these shows have any season sets, and none of them are completed. To top it off I seriously doubt more than one or two of these will ever be shown again on a national network, and even that would be in some severely butchered way. Nope, this network may be our last chance at getting these series, because I'll be danged if the WB is going to release any of the ones they own! We all know better, don't we.
Gary "hopefully someone is archiving these great series - I know I'll never make the mistake of letting a classic series I love air on television without me preserving them on dvd" O.
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1950's - Father Knows Best (S3-6), The Donna Reed Show (S2-8), Dennis the Menace, Mickey Mouse Club, The Rifleman, Have Gun Will Travel (S4-6), Naked City (S1), Rawhide (S4-8), Leave it to Beaver (S3-6), Ozzie & Harriet, Perry Mason (S4-9), Hawaiian Eye, The Phil Silvers Show, Lone Ranger (S4,5.5), Lassie, Fury
1960's & 70's - The Fugitive (S2-4), My Three Sons, The Patty Duke Show, Route 66 (S3-4), The Untouchables (S3-4), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (S4.5), Big Valley (S2.5-4), That Girl (S5), Flipper (S2-3), Tarzan, Petticoat Junction (S2-7), Beverly Hillbillies (S3-5), The Lucy Show, Harlem Globetrotters, Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Quincy (S3-8)
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06-07-2007, 08:59 AM
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Jeff
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Re: Where is Mary Tyler Moore Season 5?
I am new here but found this forum when searching for info on MTM season 5 on dvd. What a great forum this is! I just have some various responses to a lot of the different posts.
1) It's funny how we have a sense of entitlement to a whole series once they start releasing seasons. But as others have said it's a business so if they don't sell well it makes sense to stop putting future seasons out. But dammit! I want seasons 5 6 and 7!
2) Maybe they should've released the series in reverse order, as this was one of the few shows that got better with age. In fact, I would suggest that those who had a good memory of the series and bought season one may have been let down and not bother with the rest. Season one, in my opinion, had very few laughs in it and had way too many dull episodes of Mary dating boring guys. Even season 2 was spotty but the show really became the show I remembered during season 3 and especially season 4.
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