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Last I looked, that show was getting tons of exposure on Me. I much prefer when they do Binges for shows that they have the rights to but don't have in one of their channels' regular line-ups, like Dark Shadows and The Green Hornet. Where's our Honey West Binge, already?

And since I don't get Me anymore, I wouldn't mind if they got around to a Batman Binge....
 
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(Hurry up and watch it before the Beatles' lawyers yank it!)
 
The Old Mixer said:
Last I looked, that show was getting tons of exposure on Me. I much prefer when they do Binges for shows that they have the rights to but don't have in one of their channels' regular line-ups, like Dark Shadows and The Green Hornet. Where's our Honey West Binge, already?

And since I don't get Me anymore, I wouldn't mind if they got around to a Batman Binge....
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agreed. you'd think they would at least put Dark Shadows on at midnight or something.
 
The Old Mixer said:
Last I looked, that show was getting tons of exposure on Me.
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I forgot about that. I barely watch Me at all anymore.

I much prefer when they do Binges for shows that they have the rights to but don't have in one of their channels' regular line-ups, like Dark Shadows and The Green Hornet. Where's our Honey West Binge, already?
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Ah, Anne Francis. :adore: I've got the Honey West DVD set. It's a really nice show, although it has absolutely nothing in common with the novels.

Mr. Adventure said:
I get MeTV and MyTV, if they make a YourTV I could complete the set.
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But not TheirTV. They can have that.
 
The one on film, no, that's from the film Let It Be, which was filmed in early '69, months before the Abbey Road sessions...but, IIRC, the actual last Beatles recording session was three of them (minus John) recording or polishing up the studio version of "I Me Mine" in early '70 for the Let It Be album.
 
Kor said:
I was going to get "The Time Tunnel" on DVD from a used book store, but they keep the discs behind the counter, and they had somehow gotten them mixed up with a Dracula show from a few years ago. So I'm still waiting for them to call me when they find the right discs. :rolleyes:

Kor
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Buy them at Amazon.
 
May 21-22 on Decades:

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HIjol said:
Loved "MeTV"...

...wonder what the viewers born in the '90s-'00s will watch as the "MeTV"- type shows, when they get older???
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Most likely these shows:

  1. Mad Men
  2. How I Met Your Mother
  3. Breaking Bad
  4. The Big Bang Theory
  5. Community
  6. Battlestar Galactica (2004 series)
Everything else from the 1990's-2000's.
 
On Monday (05/09), Decades is doing a superhero-themed day, including the Wonder Woman pilots and episodes of The Green Hornet, Batman, and Adventures of Superman.
 
Nice schedule. Too bad I'm working. Looks like they're also showing the second season premiere of Wonder Woman, when the show's time period was changed to the 70s.
 
OurTV!
Each generation gets their own selections of iconic and masterful shows, matching their generation.

Our TV Baby Boomers!!!
Our TV Generation X!!!
Our TV Millennials!!!
Our TV Generation Alpha!!! (still young-ish, but they will find something to air!)


(Howdja like to be the Program Director for THOSE lineups!?!?...sell the house, sell the kids, sell the dog, I'm never leaving the screening room!)

Plus, multiple sub-channels, each costing a mere $6!
 
^Is there a web link for this?

Alas, Roger C. Carmel disappeared from The Mothers-in-Law while I slept, to be replaced by Mel from Dick Van Dyke....
 
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The Old Mixer said:
^Is there a web link for this?

Alas, Roger C. Carmel disappeared from The Mothers-in-Law while I slept, to be replaced by Mel from Dick Van Dyke....
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There's a reason why he left The Mothers-in-Law according to Joel Eisner:

I have a story about The Mothers in Law I thought you might like. As you know having read my Batbook, Roger C. Carmel played Colonel Gumm in the Green Hornet crossover episode. I had the opportunity to meet with Roger over lunch at Musso and Franks in L.A. back in the summer of 1985.

We discussed parts of his career including The Mothers in Law. Roger had a career in NY TV prior to moving to LA in the early 1960's. When the first season ended, Desi Arnaz told the entire cast that the show had a five year guarantee but there was no money to give the promised raises. Now the part that most people were not aware of was that Desi Arnaz was taking four salaries from the series - producer, creator, writer and director (he wrote and directed several episodes). So, Roger knowing Arnaz was in fact legally stealing from the show, pushed back and in fact quit the show.

Unable or unwilling to give the cast their raises, Arnaz hired Richard Deacon (whom Roger referred to as that poor schmuck who always sold himself short). When the show was cancelled, Roger said Kaye Ballard called him and told him that he was right and they all should have held Arnaz to their contract raises.

Here is the clincher. When I told Roger that during the second season, Arnaz joined the cast as an out of work bullfighter, Roger smiled and said that Cuban SOB, no wonder their wasn't any money for raises, he planned on taking a fifth salary as an actor!

Not long after the show was cancelled, Roger signed a long term contract to provide the voice of Smokey the Bear in PSA's for the forestry service, a job he kept until the day he died. So he was never in need of money, as many sources claimed.
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Why Roger Carmel quit The Mothers-In-Law
 
What's the next Binge in line, you ask? Well, if you put Decades on at 8 a.m. on Sunday, May 29, you can catch this:

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