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This thread will soon celebrate its 8th birthday. If the b&w era of TV on DVD is slowly coming to an end, "slowly" is the correct word, evidently. Maybe its time to retire it and start a new thread about b&w TV on DVD. After all, it can be argued even the era of DVD in general is slowly...

My guess is the original negatives were cut for syndication and the cut parts thrown away, so the syndicated version is all that exists now. They never dreamed there'd be home video and people talking about this series on the Internet over 60 years later. I've read other examples of what was...

To beat the dead "Our Miss Brooks" horse a little more: There were many episodes I thought were actually hilarious in the radio version which laid a deadly bomb when translated to television. I guess there are many reasons for this, most of which have been pointed out already. About a little...

LOL. Is he really that much different on "Our Miss Brooks"?! Talk about a one-note actor. Oddly enough, I like the radio series much more. It was better written and acted. Like this exchange (paraphrased): Miss Brooks: Mr. Conklin suffers from bad nervous headaches. Mrs. Davis: How long...

I watched all of them. Actually, the last season with a new format was better, although still weak. One episode that stands out in my mind is from the first season, when the other characters* think Connie needs a hobby. The last scene is everyone sitting around a table trying to get her...

If you think the cover art for "Our Miss Brooks" is bad -- wait until you see the show. When it came on MeTV I was so excited -- I had happy memories of it from childhood. Then I made a terrible mistake -- I actually watched it. Caveat emptor - especially since it's so overpriced.

The words "film" and "tape" are used nowadays (by people who don't know or care about these things) interchangeably, even when referring to a video someone makes on his smartphone. I suspect when Neil Brock uses the words, he uses them correctly. I think he's saying someone has those old...

No, they don't. I watched an episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" on MeTV last night which was sped up. It threw the comic timing off and it wasn't as funny as when viewed at the correct speed. I'm very serious about this. In comedy, timing might be the single most important thing.

Thanks, Neil! Now could you tell me how to hack into password-protected websites?

Well, then, tell us how to do it. I have 30 seconds with nothing to do right now.

It's hard to keep in mind just how old these things are getting. The executives who make these decisions didn't grow up with these shows, so they have zero nostalgic value to them, which is probably the single most important value when it comes to one's opinion of old television and movies...

About having a huge collection of TV shows being the defense in a trial: That actually happened! The great science fact and fiction writer Isaac Asimov's son was a troubled soul and Asimov didn't talk about him much in his massive autobiographies. However, he did eventually mention that his...

Yes, in one of the worst show business tragedies ever. Joan Davis lost her mother, daughter and grandchildren in one horrible night in a fire. Luckily for Joan, she had died two years earlier, or that surely would have killed her. I once read an interview with Joan Davis where she said the...

So now you get to be a pessimist, like all the sane people in the world. "There are those who scoff at the school boy, calling him frivolous and shallow. Yet it was the school boy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain't so." - Mark Twain

The CBS Syndication Bible says this for "Our Miss Brooks": "This series will be transferred into HD and have the following masters: Network 4x3 (Season 1, 32 episodes)" However, the first season had 38 episodes, so as usual, I'm confused and pessimistic. Confused -----> :huh: Pessimistic...

I recently read a book about the making of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." The book said Mary Richards was the first single, employed woman on television. After rolling my eyes and shaking my head, I reviewed the book on Amazon and I said I think that honor should go to Connie Brooks, on "Our...

I agree. I'd waste 30 minutes on It's About Time or My Mother the Car (and probably regret it bitterly), but I wouldn't waste any time at all on today's shows.

It's not really a typo, because all the shows discussed were from the 1967-68 season. It's About Time's competition for 1966-67, as far as new shows are concerned, includes Star Trek, Mission Impossible, Family Affair, The Monkees, The Invaders, That Girl, Tarzan and the beloved, immortal...

Would you say GRINDL was the worst sitcom of all time? I'd hate to think it could be worse than IT'S ABOUT TIME (also with poor Imogene Coca), THE TAMMY GRIMES SHOW or HERE'S LUCY.

So true. Vintage TV made life seem better than it really is; modern TV makes life seem worse than it really is. Of the two extremes, I'll take the first one any day. That's why I have on Me-TV and Antenna TV 95% of the time I have the television on at all. (The other 5% is to watch the news...

I'm not sure what this sentence means. But the B&W series "The Lone Ranger" is 100% appropriate to this thread and the perverted modern movie version of it is appropriate, too, to point out exactly why we prefer old B&W television as compared to the waste of time and money garbage being made today.

I just saw on Yahoo! News that "The Lone Ranger" isn't doing too well at the box office. It might lose money. How heartbreaking. And they only spent $225,000,000 on it (that would probably have paid for 100,000 episodes of the TV series.)

I'm not mad at anyone here, and never was. I appreciate the good wishes and return them. Now on with the ranting! "The Lone Ranger" is a perfect example of the difference between "then" and "now." How lucky I was to grow up in an era when we were satisfied with simple, straightforward...

I know Gary hates me, but boy do I agree with that! If you look through the TV listings up through about 1965 and compare them to now, it's like looking at two different Universes. There was some junk back then, of course, but for the most part the shows of that era were more intelligent...

No matter what it says on Wikipedia or elsewhere on the Internet, "Gunsmoke" wasn't actually renamed "Marshal Dillon" for syndication. I'm old enough to remember and I still have the old TV Guides from that era to verify my memory. When "Gunsmoke" went to an hour for the 1961-62 season, CBS...

Yes, generally in life it's best to just let things go. But then people can do whatever they want with no criticism, I guess. I know I'll become the villain here because I merely expressed an opinion in a somewhat strong way. But I stand by what I said. If he's supposed to "protect his...

That's right, instead of responding to the criticism, just attack the criticizer. You can do whatever you want, and if anyone dare complain, he's "unfriendly." Well, in my opinion, to which I'm entitled (although you don't seem to think so), I find your "I know something but I can't say what...

Am I the only one getting sick of these "I know something you don't know" messages? If you have something to say, say it. If you CAN'T say it, please don't say anything. Thanks.

I just watched three episodes of "Amos 'n' Andy" on YouTube. I found absolutely nothing degrading to anyone. It's true Andy mispronounces words, but so did Beaver Cleaver. It's true Kingfish has a lack of ethics and Andy a lack of brains, but so did many white characters on many sitcoms...

I don't think it did any more than "Sanford and Son" did. Amos was always depicted as a fine, upstanding man. There were many black doctors, judges, police, and other professionals portrayed in it. Andy was dumb and gullible, but so were Beaver Cleaver, Ralph Kramden and many other white...