Original Syndication of TOS

[cooleddie74]

TOS was one of the highest rated daytime or weekend shows on our local ABC affiliate(WSET-13)for much of my childhood until it was yanked and eventually moved to our Fox station once that network got up and running.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Our broadcast came from L.A., and at least the way I remember it, it was before June, 1970. The show went off in June, 1969; plenty of time to syndicate by then.

Hi Jeri..I remember those LA broadcasts as well...Do you remember all of those old LA station? KHJ Channel 9...KTTV 11...KCOP 13...KTLA 5? I lived here in san diego and could barely get them, but I did....Of course KABC 7/KNXT 2/KNBC 7 and...yep...KPBS c15

Rob

 

[Jeri]

Hi Jeri..I remember those LA broadcasts as well...Do you remember all of those old LA station? KHJ Channel 9...KTTV 11...KCOP 13...KTLA 5? I lived here in san diego and could barely get them, but I did....Of course KABC 7/KNXT 2/KNBC 7 and...yep...KPBS c15...

Robert, I was absolutely AGOG at all the TV channels when we moved to L.A. in 1962! It was a kids' show paradise in the afternoons. Do you remember Beachcomber Bill?

Beachcomber Bill- Los Angeles-based kiddie show who appeared on BEACHCOMBER BILL broadcast on KCOP Channel 13. As his name implied Beachcomber Bill dressed in a casual beach outfit and liked to draw pictures for the studio audience. "March of the Baby Elephants" was the show's theme song.

He had a wild-boar puppet which he always used to say had just returned from an engagement in "Mondo Cane." (Apparently, Bill moved away to NYC in 1964.)

I heard that KHJ changed hands and now Tribune owns former Gene Autry's KTLA. I wonder what will happen to it in Tribune's Chapter 11 reorganization.

 

[JFE]

Thanks for all your responses. My mother remembers watching Trek reruns in Philadelphia in the early 1970s and I'm trying to pinpoint when that might have been. It seems the show went into syndication very quickly. I remember there being a big deal about the debut of the animated series when we lived in Chicago in the mid-70s. Can anyone recall seeing it in Philly, though?

 

[Outpost4]

I think we watched it from an L.A. station all that fall/winter/spring of '69-'70 before we moved to the east coast. I remember watching it while we ate supper on the kitchen TV in that house.

That would be KCOP 13... based on some LA Times research. :-)

They started airing repeats on 9/22/69 with WNMHGB.

I thought this was the case but I couldn't remember for certain. I grew up in Los Angeles. I do remember going to college in the San Francisco Bay area in '71 and seeing different syndication cuts than I was used to in Los Angeles. I just couldn't be sure of the time frame.

Thanks for doing the research, NicholasM79.

 

[euphorik]

I'm wondering if anyone knows in what year TOS was initially syndicated in the 1970s or where I could easily obtain this kind of info for the show. I believe the reruns first aired in Philadelphia around 1970-71. Not sure though.
Thanks.

in new york city, according to the new york times, star trek began (presumably with "where no man has gone before") in syndicated reruns on wednesday, september 10, 1969. on channel 11, at 6:30PM. the actual first appearance of syndicated reruns is going to vary market by market, i'd think.

if you're really interested in tracking down the original philly airdate, check your local public library's newspaper microfilm collection, should be pretty easy to track down that way. if you're no longer in the area, try emailing the reference department of the philapdelpha public library, someone can probably look it up for you.

 

[JFE]

I finally got to the library to check out old Philadelphia papers. Learned that Star Trek debuted in syndication in Philly on Channel 48 on Sunday, September 14, 1969, at 6 pm. By the following year, the reruns were running weeknights at 6 pm. That must have been something to see those early reruns before the movies or even the animated series had come along. I first got into the show in the mid-1980s when our local PBS station would run 3 back-to-back episodes every Saturday night.

 

[ClassicTVMan81]

Pardon me for responding to this old post, but I want to chime in and say that my local station KPTV 12 first broadcast Star Trek reruns starting on 9/29/1969.

~Ben

 

[1001001]

Welcome to the forum.

You must have had to dig deep for this one. 6 years old!

Generally speaking, we ask that people don't bump threads that have been inactive for over 6 months.

Thanks.



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