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Date Posted: 23:36:40 10/03/03 Fri
Author: Geoff
Author Host/IP: CPE-203-51-152-203.vic.bigpond.net.au / 203.51.152.203
Subject: Re: I miss this show
In reply to: cherie 's message, "Re: I miss this show" on 22:13:34 10/03/03 Fri

No Cherie, the show was yanked off the air about a month ago and Fox Classics has a new line up of programs that they will no doubt repeat to death. On my last count, their broadcast rights for the first four seasons (148 episodes) were screened at least seven or eight times over. I have checked the online schedule and there is nothing listed up to the end of November. My understanding also is that our free to air networks here in Australia have no intentions of screening the show in the forseeable future so I am told. But that is only relative to today. Next year could be a different story.

My only suggestion is the one I offer when people email me through the website... write your local stations... and write often! If they see there is enough interest, it may persuade their program managers to purchase the rerun rights to the series. My L.A. contact at Paramount/VIACOM still informs me that there is a moratorium on the Black and White catalogue, and that the Color episodes are the only ones being syndicated (albeit sporadically) across the United States. I wouldn't mind betting that the distribution company probably has a high price on this show because of it's nostalgia factor as a bonafide sitcom classic. And I fear that it will take one of the show's surviving stars to die before it is widely rerun again, once they see the inherent value of the property that they have. But look, keep writing your local stations, cable providers, and even network affiliates. Sooner or later the show will have to make a come back and then everyone will be pleased.

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