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="Edgy DC":2i3y7snu]WOR = Mets[/quote:2i3y7snu]
That's a <a href="http://cranepoolforum.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=10658">different thread</a>.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Dec 03 2008 10:44 AM
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That link took me directly to backpack girl
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Edgy DC
Dec 03 2008 10:46 AM
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="Willets Point":2m2pn8bz]="Edgy DC":2m2pn8bz]WOR = Mets[/quote:2m2pn8bz]
That's a <a href="http://cranepoolforum.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=10658">different thread</a>.[/quote:2m2pn8bz]
Down with WPIX is what I'm saying.
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HahnSolo
Dec 03 2008 12:00 PM
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Watch the Odd Couple at 11, followed by Prisoner Cell Block H at 11:30.
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Benjamin Grimm
Dec 03 2008 12:08 PM
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When I think of Channel 11, I don't think of the Yankees at all. (Because I never watched them.) On Channel 11 I mainly watched <i>The Odd Couple</i> and <I>The Honeymooners</i>.
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Willets Point
Dec 03 2008 12:47 PM
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="Benjamin Grimm":11l2je6j] On Channel 11 I mainly watched <i>The Odd Couple</i> and <I>The Honeymooners</i>.[/quote:11l2je6j]
If you stayed up later after those show, <i>Star Trek</i> was on!
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Benjamin Grimm
Dec 03 2008 01:05 PM
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Did Star Trek eventually move to a different station?
I remember when I was in college, <i>Star Trek</i> would start at 11 and halfway through, at 11:30, we'd switch to <i>The Honeymooners</i>. That would have been around 1982 or 1983. Anyone have a vintage TV Guide collection that they can refer to?
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SteveJRogers
Dec 03 2008 01:32 PM
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| ="Benjamin Grimm"]Did Star Trek eventually move to a different station?
I remember when I was in college, <i>Star Trek</i> would start at 11 and halfway through, at 11:30, we'd switch to <i>The Honeymooners</i>. That would have been around 1982 or 1983. Anyone have a vintage TV Guide collection that they can refer to? |
Pretty much. First Sci-Fi picked up the rights to the entire TOS package, this is including the reuns for Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, both Voyager and Enterprise were UPN Network programing, and now I think Spike TV has them if I'm not mistaken, as well as CBS.
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G-Fafif
Dec 03 2008 01:44 PM
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There was no Sci-Fi Channel in 1983.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Dec 03 2008 01:50 PM
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Channel 11 as I recall it was a very New York-y channel back in the day, probably in part because oof its association with the Daily News. The Yule Log, for instance, didn't make sense to us coddled suburban kids but was almost normal for people living in small city apartments without fireplaces. They played movies at night and black-and-white shows from the 40s. They had that no-nonsense editorial guy talking about city council and stuff. The news was really newspapery and bland.
The re-runs I remember before the Odd Couple Era were Mod Squad and Adam-12.
Then came the Odd Couple, which definitely fit channel 11's white urban feel but made it a tiny bit more contemporary. Their kid shows were also NY-bred. The Magic Garden. What local channel produces its own shows anymore?
At some point, Channel 11 felt they needed to be more "exciting" and the programming got worse. The Yankee broadcasts were pretty bad. The TV-Pix video game thing was a joke. The whole 11 Alive thing, it was just like, why. They obviously wanted to cop the whole Channel 5 vibe but they didn't have Bugs Bunny man. Instead, they went with the whole Gary Marshall thing and gave us Happy Days reruns.
At some point they lost all identity as a "local" entity.
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G-Fafif
Dec 03 2008 02:01 PM
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WPIX ran a [url=http://tv.trb.com/extras/wpix/tvclassics/index.html:4bca3vcn]60th anniversary salute to itself[/url:4bca3vcn] several months ago. It was shoddy as hell but definitely brought into high relief everything JCL says. I was shocked when they devoted a segment to "Happy Days," as if it were a signature program of the channel.
To me, Channel 11 was, in addition to what has been cited here, "The Twilight Zone"; "Popeye"; "Magilla Gorilla" and Jerry Girard's one-liners. I never could quite forgive the MFY connection, but it's not like Channel 9 had anything worth watching when the Mets weren't holding sway ("Bowling For Dollars" notwithstanding). For years, however, I thought the "Gone With The Wind" theme was known as "The Million-Dollar Movie" theme.
ETA: "Abbott & Costello," of course, also synonymous with Channel 11.
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themetfairy
Dec 03 2008 02:15 PM
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I watch the Channel 11 News at 10 primarily for Mr. G's weather. Other than that, I have no reason to watch the channel (especially since freakin' Comcast moved Channel 11 to Channel 254 a while ago).
When I think of the Channel 11 of my youth, it's all The Odd Couple and The Yule Log. Even though I was a suburban kid, the house where I grew up didn't have a fireplace (what can I say? My parents are insane....), so The Yule Log was as close as I got to one.
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Benjamin Grimm
Dec 03 2008 02:22 PM
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The only rerun I remember ever watching on Channel 9 was <i>The Dick Van Dyke Show</i>. I think otherwise they ran old westerns, like <i>Gunsmoke</i> and <I>Bonanza</i>.
It was always a rarity to watch WOR when the Mets weren't on.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Dec 03 2008 02:24 PM
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Channel 9 was Mets and wrestling. That's it.
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themetfairy
Dec 03 2008 02:32 PM
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="John Cougar Lunchbucket":ujp0he09]Channel 9 was Mets and wrestling. That's it.[/quote:ujp0he09]
And Joe Franklin.
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G-Fafif
Dec 03 2008 02:32 PM
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The Joe Franklin Show was always a hard watch.
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metirish
Dec 03 2008 02:35 PM
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I watch Channel 11 for Kaiti's Tong.
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Benjamin Grimm
Dec 03 2008 02:37 PM
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When I was at NYU my friend's sister was going to be on Joe Franklin's show. (She was a local nightclub singer who had cut her first album.) I called the show to find out what night the interview would air and Joe himself answered the phone. He ended up giving me the wrong night. Well, not the wrong night, but it was a misleading answer. She was going to be on Wednesday, but he told me Thursday because the show aired after midnight and, technically, was on on Thursday. My friend ended up missing his sister's appearance because he tuned in one night too late.
Frankly, though, as I think back on it, it was his sister's responsibility to tell him what night to watch the show. I probably shouldn't have needed to get involved.
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Edgy DC
Dec 03 2008 03:08 PM
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George Foster, long after it became clear he wasn't in the eighties the player from the seventies the Mets hoped he could continue to be, appeared on the Joe Franklin show.
Joe: I don't know all that much about baseball, ladies and gentlemen, but I know that this man here is one of the all-time greats. Truly we are honored to have him with us.
George: Well, thank you. You're being very kind.
Joe: So, Pete Rose's hit record. You think you can break it?
George: Um, no. That may be unbreakable.
Joe: I don't know. Folks wouldn't count you out.
George: Well, um... I just wanted to come on with my wife Sheila here and talk about our line of <i>Get Metsmerized!</i> merchandise....
Only interview from him that I ever sat through in toto. It was so surreal that, if Joe had keeled over and died in the middle, I wouldn't have been shocked. That he still lives on 24 years later, that's kind of shocking, but good for him.
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