Looks like TOS is back on channel 52 in DFW. Sundays @10PM.
Why is TOS no longer in syndication in the US?
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TOS is on weeknights on one of the local channels here in the Detroit area.
EDIT: oops, didn't see the other post when I wrote this
EDIT: oops, didn't see the other post when I wrote this
I have all three seasons on DVD. I only had them for about a year before I bought the remastered set. I will sell them at a reasonable price if you are interested.
These were once called "The 79 Jewels". It was just a few years ago when Sci-Fi was running all of the episodes uncut with introductions by the cast and little extras. They expanded it to an hour and a half and had plenty of time for commercials. Now they don't run them at all.
Syfy used to be a mediocre channel, but now their programming is just terrible. Maybe we could start a new channel called The Good Sci-Fi channel, or simply "Real Science Fiction" and run all of the Twilight Zones, All of the Trek series (except Voyager - that's Gilligan's Island in Space, not Trek), Both the BSG series, The Outer Limits, real sci-fi movies like 2001, Forbidden Planet, This Island Earth, Star Wars and a host of other TV Shows and Movies I could think of.
I thought the TOS-R would bring some new interest in them, but the interest seems to be dying. Twilight Zone is older than Trek and had cheesier special effects (when they had special effects), but it still gets aired (though not as much in the last 5 years or so). People love it because of the great writing. That's why people love Trek too. I don't think the twenty-somethings have even seen classic Trek. I think the kids don't like it because they didn't shake the camera until everything was a blur. Perhaps they could attach a paint shaker to their TV's and then watch Trek the way they think it should be. Along with the paint shaker, there could also be a light that could either shine on the screen or directly into your eyes to make it feel more "real". Hey, I think I'm on to something here. Now if we could just figure out a way to dumb down the stories for modern audiences. I know, we could just cut out 3/4 of the dialoge and replace them with some extra CG fight scenes for no apparent reason. Throw in a Crap, I mean Rap music score and I think we could have a winner! Now let's just throw in a flat, undeveloped arch villian. For a plot device, let's just throw in some sort of extremely danagerous stuff that could destroy the universe with just a drop and then carry several hundred gallons of it around. And whatever we do, we won't want to explain what the stuff is, how it came to be, how it was discovered and how it was originally tested. That would require too much dialogue. Gotta get back to more camera shaking and fight scenes. Oh, wait a minute, now that I think about this, it seems like there was a movie that came out recently with all these qualities that younger audiences just adored......
Syfy used to be a mediocre channel, but now their programming is just terrible. Maybe we could start a new channel called The Good Sci-Fi channel, or simply "Real Science Fiction" and run all of the Twilight Zones, All of the Trek series (except Voyager - that's Gilligan's Island in Space, not Trek), Both the BSG series, The Outer Limits, real sci-fi movies like 2001, Forbidden Planet, This Island Earth, Star Wars and a host of other TV Shows and Movies I could think of.
I thought the TOS-R would bring some new interest in them, but the interest seems to be dying. Twilight Zone is older than Trek and had cheesier special effects (when they had special effects), but it still gets aired (though not as much in the last 5 years or so). People love it because of the great writing. That's why people love Trek too. I don't think the twenty-somethings have even seen classic Trek. I think the kids don't like it because they didn't shake the camera until everything was a blur. Perhaps they could attach a paint shaker to their TV's and then watch Trek the way they think it should be. Along with the paint shaker, there could also be a light that could either shine on the screen or directly into your eyes to make it feel more "real". Hey, I think I'm on to something here. Now if we could just figure out a way to dumb down the stories for modern audiences. I know, we could just cut out 3/4 of the dialoge and replace them with some extra CG fight scenes for no apparent reason. Throw in a Crap, I mean Rap music score and I think we could have a winner! Now let's just throw in a flat, undeveloped arch villian. For a plot device, let's just throw in some sort of extremely danagerous stuff that could destroy the universe with just a drop and then carry several hundred gallons of it around. And whatever we do, we won't want to explain what the stuff is, how it came to be, how it was discovered and how it was originally tested. That would require too much dialogue. Gotta get back to more camera shaking and fight scenes. Oh, wait a minute, now that I think about this, it seems like there was a movie that came out recently with all these qualities that younger audiences just adored......
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Great comments! I agree.
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Your point was lost somewhere over the Sea of Japan. There were no survivors.
SciFi may have been running the episodes in their entirety, but I wouldn't call them "uncut" when they were breaking to commercials in the middle of frakking lines, never mind in the middle of scenes. That was enough to turn me off of watching them on that misbegotten channel.
So Sarek of Vulcan can work a M*A*S*H reference into a TOS thread.
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I do good work.
Well, I should have said TOS-R not TOS, is back on the air here in Dallas.
Just FYI - it was back in 1997 that teh Sci-Fi channel did this - more than just 'a few years' (and before you go questioning my age, I'm 47; but yeah 13 years is a stretch)
Hey, I still have trouble thinking of Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors" as an old record.
You got screwed. I got all that for half that price.
EDIT: never mind. i just noticed you said "the not-all-in one-set" which I assume means NOT last years' A&E release, which it what I got for half what you paid.
As to the question, I would imagine it's because everybody either has TOS on DVD, or VHS by now so they can watch it that way.
That's what I do (on DVD).
I think youtube.com/shows has almost the entire series run. But yeah, you'd think that Syfy or something would have it. I wonder if the relatively short amount of total episodes for the show has something to do with it, when a lot of other shows have well over a hundred episodes.
Still a series that holds up as a classic 40+ years later.
Still a series that holds up as a classic 40+ years later.
That is probably why Star Trek is not on TV so much any more. It's not that it's a bad show, or that new shows are better, but it's a 40-year-old show and one that's very well explored. Everything that can be said has been said over the years (not that we hardcore don't still find things but I digress...).
The same could be said for Twilight Zone, the Dick van Dyke Show, Perry Mason and The Honeymooners, all of which are still found on TV. Plenty of room for Star Trek; in fact, right now I'm sponsoring TNG on the midnight showing, but I made it clear to our local FOX affiliate that I'd rather be sponsoring TOS.
^^ Where I live Star Trek is shown as is Twilight Zone, Honeymooners, Perry Mason and Dick Van Dyke are not. The point is they are all old and so are not really in hot demand. Yeah, they may be shown somewhere, but they aren't probably going to be the bread-and-butter of a lot of channels.
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