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I suppose that my point was that the NFL (as much as I begrudgingly defend the NFL) never put a million dollar price on it, that was the work of some sportswriter. The NFL never reneged on a bounty of $1M, they hadn't (to my knowledge) put it out there to begin with. Did MLB pay Der Bingle's...

I agree that the owner of the tape should tell the NFL to stick it, but it doesn't appear it was the NFL who ever put a million-dollar value on it - it was Sports Illustrated who came up with that figure. Maybe the owner of the tape should have contacted SI instead. As much as it pains me to...

I tried reconstructing the pilot based on the "long" version and the "short" version on the DVD set. There is definitely speed-up in the short version, when one extracts the short version from the full-length, it clocks in at 1:08, which is still a little bit short for a 90-minute timeslot...

Thanks - sorry, I skimmed over that. It seems short even for a PAL transfer/speedup but I'll go with that explanation...thanks again!

Thanks for clarifying, I was estimating. But, it doesn't seem like either of these would have been shown in the 90-minute time slot on ABC in 1968, the 1:39 version is too long obviously, and the 1:04 version is too short. According to the IMDB entry (thanks for linking), the pilot on ABC was...

Sorry if I'm missing something here, but a question for those familiar...is there a version of the original pilot on this set? The original pilot on Jan 9 1968 ran for 90 minutes, which I assume would be about 75 minutes without commercials. The versions of the pilot on this set are (I think)...

This prompted me to do a bit of research, trying to go back and find some articles I had read previously. From the 1970 newspaper archives, I ran across an article from August of 1970 - interestingly, it quoted Sheldon as saying that the idea had come up several years earlier but the Johnson...

I've seen a few of the episodes, and it's not a shock that it didn't last. It was a cute fluffy show but little interesting or funny, about all it had going for it was the attractiveness of Renne Jarrett. And I don't think the ratings were all that great, in the referenced TV Guide article...

Do any of these include the scene from “The Man from Marseilles” that was missing on the DVD set?

This show is awesome, I love Flip! just curious - I see that the 2/24/72 episode (S2, E23) was on one of the previous sets - does anyone happen to have that set and would happen to know if the episode on there was longer than the 41:14 length on the recent Time-Life set? Thanks!

Thanks everyone for the responses- I appreciate the insight! I do have to agree that it seems odd that MTM would carry that logo from 1970-73, especially given it hadn't started as BW, but I have read that on various websites (although, those places probably got their info from same place).

Thanks to all of the experts on opening and closing logos who post here. I've become curious about the CBS "presents this program in color" logo. I have read that NBC discontinued use of the NBC "in living color" peacock on 12/31/1975, but I haven't determined or read how/when CBS retired the...

I agree, even though there's not much new here that collectors don't already have, it makes sense to support the release in the hopes that it leads to future releases. With regards to the 2/1/76 episode, there were clips of the opening monologue on the VH1 Behind the Music which aired in...

After a few years, I've been getting back into this, and re-reading this thread which brought back some great nostalgic memories of...late 2014. Anyway, in digging into this a little more, I did want to share that I think I might have a plausible explanation for "The Contest" redo. I noticed...

I think there was a topic similar to this a few years ago and I wrote this same dialogue, so it may sound familiar, but I’ve been doing this sort of thing for about 11 years – part of my reason may be that I have a touch of hyperthymesia so dates and days of the week are important to me – and I...