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The writing staff changed as well as the focus. When the show was on ABC and following “Three’s Company”, the network wanted a lot of focus on the girls and Monroe so that the show would be compatible with its lead-in. But the girls‘ roles became smaller in the first-run syndicated episodes, to...

Don Fedderson basically copied ”Family Affair” from “My Three Sons.” Both of them focused on a single man (Fred MacMurray, Brian Keith) raising three kids with the help of another older single man (William Frawley/Demarest, Sebastian Cabot). Fedderson tried it again with “To Rome With Love”...

Paramount made 90-minute versions of both the Hawaii and Grand Canyon episodes for syndication years ago, in case the station wanted to run those in their movie slots. Those versions did not have the squares at the end of each “part”. My theory is that whenever Paramount made the current episode...

The Love Boat had three pilot movies with varying casts. Unlike the pilots for TC and AITF, they all aired before the regular series began.

Nanny and the Professor ran on Laff a month or two ago on Saturday mornings. The prints look awful. Too bad, because it’s such a charming little show thanks to its two leads, Juliet Mills and Richard Long.

I’m not even convinced that the pilot was shot in B&W. I know it’s always shown in B&W in reruns. But the opening credits for the pilot are just a grayscale version of the season 1 color credits, and the closing credits include a “Color by Metrocolor” credit.

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NBC bought The Doctors and took over production from Colgate Palmolive in late 1980. So Colgate did not have the episodes in its archive to provide for Retro. I’m a bit skeptical that those episodes are indeed lost because videotape wiping had stopped in the early 80s. I wonder if they really...

I believe they start with the color episodes from 1967,

Frances Bavier was never a full time cast member on RFD. From what I could tell, she appeared in about two thirds of the episodes from the first two seasons, and her credit was removed from the intro for the episodes in which she didn’t appear. During season 1, I don’t recall them mentioning her...

The distributor of Bewitched and Jeannie in the 1980s moved the theme song and episode credits before the cold open. That was clearly a deliberate choice, and they moved it back to how it was originally aired in the 1990s. With Bonanza, I’m not old enough to remember that season when it...

Has anyone watched season 14 from the new sets yet? It always has bugged me that in syndication, they started with the theme song, followed by the cold open (opening scene) when I’m guessing it was in reverse as originally aired (like all the other seasons).

Interesting. My guess is that in the rush to edit out the bumper they mistakenly took out the screams too. I remember that episode when it aired and thinking how unusual it was to have a bumper and then a ”tag” scene at the end. The Paramount shows produced for ABC (Happy Days, Laverne &...

Even Seinfeld wasn’t immune to this syndrome, with Kramer getting a round of applause when he appeared. I’ve always hated this trope and am surprised when a quality show like Seinfeld allowed it.

I also disliked the first two seasons as a kid, and now think that those are the only episodes worth watching.

Mayberry RFD was not a CBS production. Andy Griffith and his production partners produced it independently and contracted with Telepictures to distribute it in syndication. For the original Andy Griffith Show, I don’t know if CBS had an ownership stake or just got distribution rights to the...

Starting with the fourth season, the show was titled “The Danny Thomas Show” for its primetime run. When the show went into daytime reruns, it was titled “Make Room for Daddy”, even the post-Hagen episodes that had originally run as “The Danny Thomas Show”. And that’s the title that was used in...

Jean Hagen was definitely a better actress than Marjorie Lord. She and Danny didn’t enjoy working with each other though, and now in retrospect, their chemistry seemed off. And Hagen’s departure led to Sherry Jackson’s departure; Jackson said Hagen was her best friend on the set and she didn’t...

Frawley had a soft spot for the boys, especially Stan Livingston (Chip) who has said that Frawley was his surrogate grandfather. Stan tells a story about how he wanted a surfboard for his birthday - not one of the mass produced ones from a department store, but a handmade one from one of the...

Comedy has always repeated better than drama. Back in the heyday of strip syndication, getting to 100 episodes of a popular comedy was considered a goldmine. Historically, the most successful off-network shows in syndication have been 30 min sitcoms.

That eighth episode of that season is the first where Reed is credited in the intro, and the theme was extended to accommodate her credit. Sounds like they mistakenly attached the video from the previous episodes of the season, while leaving in the extended theme. Human error.

I doubt it’s the music. Even 40 years ago, the show didn’t do well in syndication. Prinze’s death really cast a pall over the show, and many people back then just didn’t want to be reminded of it. Plus, it’s not like the show was a classic or anything. So it faded quickly from memory. Every 10...

I was reading on another board suggestions from people who wanted to make MeTV “better.” And their idea was to load it up with all kinds of obscure series and get rid of staples like MASH and Hogan’s Heroes. And someone else rightly pointed out that MeTV is in the business of making money. And...

She appeared in the opening titles for the 10th and 11th seasons. For season 10, she was credited in every episode that season, whether she appeared or not. She pretty much left the show during season 11 and was only credited in the opening titles that year for the handful of episodes in which...

Don DeFore was disappointed to be released from “Hazel” after season 4, after co-star Whitney Blake declined to sign for a fifth season when the show moved from NBC to CBS. DeFore and Blake were replaced with cheaper actors, and the show ended a year later.

I catch the show on Antenna TV here and there. Do they ever explain why Burt and Peter haven’t spoken to each other for years? Burt seems so overjoyed when Peter shows up but did they acknowledge any estrangement?

LOL. Jacqueline Scott only appeared in a handful of “The Fugitive” episodes, but they were generally good ones, especially when she got to shoot daggers at Lt Gerard.

It likely would have been in color, as almost all NBC primetime shows were in 1965-66. That would have seemed so odd.

IIRC correctly, the Gloria pilot, which airs as an episode of ABP, is completely different from the first aired episode of Gloria. The pilot features Carroll O’Connor in the first scene, and also has a different actor playing the younger male veterinarian.

I was watching this on Decades a while back. Typical Screen Gems show in that they re-used sets from their other shows. The problem is that most of the other Screen Gems shows were sitcoms. So there was this episode with Jodie Foster as a psychic little girl. It was trying to be creepy but it...