Monthly Archives: December 2016

Cozi Adds Columbo, Rockford, Emergency!

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NBC’s classic TV digital network Cozi TV is dipping into the Universal library to freshen it’s schedule for Winter 2017.

Joining the Cozi lineup in January: Alias Smith and Jones, Columbo (1970s episodes), Emergency!, McCloud, McMillan & Wife and The Rockford Files. All but Alias Smith and Jones previously aired on competitor MeTV.

Exiting the schedule are Adam-12, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Hart to Hart, Starsky and Hutch and Zorro.

The weekday lineup changes are as follows (all times Eastern):

12:00N The Rockford Files (Replacing 2x Adam-12)
1:00PM Emergency! (Replacing Hart to Hart)
6:00PM Little House On The Prairie (Replacing 2x The Munsters)
7:00PM The Munsters (Replacing Frasier)
7:30PM The Munsters (Replacing Frasier)
9:00PM Frasier (Replacing various programming)
9:30PM Frasier (Replacing various programming)

The new schedule kicks off Monday. For the complete Cozi TV Winter 2017 lineup, click here.

Antenna TV Launches Winter Lineup

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Tribune-owned classic TV diginet Antenna TV is bringing back Patty Duke (moving over from competitor MeTV), adding several sitcoms and moving Johnny Carson. The changes are all part of the network’s new schedule which launches Monday.

Joining the Antenna TV sked for the first time are 227, Becker, Good Morning World, The Joey Bishop Show, My Two Dads and What’s Happening!! Returning to the fold are The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, Circus Boy and The Patty Duke Show. Johnny Carson will now air 7 nights a week at 10PM, with the 90-minute 1970s-80s episodes airing Friday and Saturday nights.

The weekday lineup changes are as follows (all times Eastern):

6:00AM Sabrina the Teenage Witch (Replacing Mork & Mindy)
6:30AM Sabrina the Teenage Witch (Replacing Mork & Mindy)
7:00AM Mork & Mindy (Replacing Bewitched)
7:30AM Mork & Mindy (Replacing Bewitched)
8:00AM Green Acres (Replacing I Dream of Jeannie)
8:30AM Green Acres (Replacing I Dream of Jeannie)
9:00AM The Burns and Allen Show (Replacing Green Acres)
9:30AM The Burns and Allen Show (Replacing Green Acres)
10:00AM Father Knows Best (Replacing Hazel)
10:30AM Father Knows Best (Replacing Hazel)
11:00AM The Patty Duke Show (Replacing McHale’s Navy)
11:30AM The Patty Duke Show (Replacing McHale’s Navy)
12:00N Hazel (Replacing Father Knows Best)
12:00N Hazel (Replacing Father Knows Best)
1:00PM The Joey Bishop Show (Replacing Leave It to Beaver)
1:30PM The Joey Bishop Show (Replacing Leave It to Beaver)
2:00PM I Dream of Jeannie (Replacing One Day at a Time)
2:30PM I Dream of Jeannie (Replacing One Day at a Time)
3:00PM Bewitched (Replacing Three’s Company)
3:30PM Bewitched (Replacing Three’s Company)
4:00PM Good Times (Replacing Family Ties)
4:30PM Good Times (Replacing Family Ties)
5:00PM Sanford and Son (Replacing Maude)
5:30PM Sanford and Son (Replacing Maude)
6:00PM All in the Family (Replacing Sanford and Son)
6:30PM All in the Family (Replacing Sanford and Son)
7:00PM The Jeffersons (Replacing Good Times)
7:30PM The Jeffersons (Replacing Good Times)
8:00PM What’s Happening!! (M-Th)/One Day at a Time (F) (Replacing The Jeffersons)
8:30PM What’s Happening!! (M-Th)/One Day at a Time (F) (Replacing The Jeffersons)
9:00PM 227 (M-Th)/Barney Miller (F) (Replacing All in the Family)
9:30PM 227 (M-Th)/Barney Miller (F) (Replacing All in the Family)
10:00PM Johnny Carson (Replacing 2x Barney Miller)
11:00PM Wings (M-Th) (Replacing Johnny Carson)
11:30PM Wings (Replacing Johnny Carson)
12:00M Becker (Replacing Wings)
12:00AM Becker (Replacing Wings)
4:00AM Mr. Belvedere (Replacing Sabrina the Teenage Witch)
4:30AM Mr. Belvedere (Replacing Sabrina the Teenage Witch)

See the complete Winter 2017 Antenna TV schedule here.

Tuned In: Antenna TV 2017 Additions, Dick Van Dyke Gets Colorized

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News and notes from the world of classic TV:

  • Classic TV diginet Antenna TV will be adding a bunch of sitcoms to their lineup in 2017, mostly 80s and 90s fare along with a couple obscure classics from the 60s. Joining the lineup: 227, Alice, Becker, Good Morning World (1967-68 starring Ronnie Schell and a pre Laugh-In Goldie Hawn), Growing Pains, Head of the Class, The Hogan Family, The Joey Bishop Show (1961-65), Murphy Brown, My Two Dads and What’s Happening!!
  • NBC-owned classic TV digital network Cozi TV picks up a trio of NBC classics that last aired on MeTV. Getting Cozi in January: Columbo (Weekends), Emergency! (1PM Weekdays) and The Rockford Files (12N Weekdays).
  • The classic black-and-white sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show will follow in fellow B&W sitcom I Love Lucy’s footsteps. CBS will air two back-to-back episodes of DVD in color at 8PM Eastern tonight (Sunday Decemmber 11). “That’s My Boy??” and “Coast to Coast Big Mouth” were chosen by series creator and co-star Carl Reiner.
  • There have been more losses of classic TV favorites in recent weeks: actor Don Calfa (guested on Barney Miller, Kojak, Streets of San Francisco), actor Ron Glass (Barney Miller), comic actor Milt Moss (best known for saying “I can’t believe I ate that whole thing” in a classic Alka-Seltzer TV commercial), producer/network executive Grant Tinker (The Bob Newhart Show, Hill Street Blues, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, WKRP in Cincinnati), actor Fritz Weaver (guested on such classics as Hawaii Five-0, Mannix, Rawhide, The Twilight Zone) and actor Van Williams (The Green Hornet, Surfside 6).

Ponch and The Beav Are Back: MeTV Unwraps Winter Sked

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Classic TV diginet MeTV has unveiled their new winter programming schedule, highlighted by the returns of Leave It To Beaver (from competitor Antenna TV) and CHiPs, plus the MeTV debut of the 1985-92 action-adventure series MacGyver.

The weekday lineup changes are as follows (all times Eastern):

  • 7:30AM Beverly Hillbillies (Replacing Petticoat Junction)
  • 8:00AM Leave It To Beaver (Replacing Beverly Hillbillies)
  • 8:30AM Leave It To Beaver (Replacing Beverly Hillbillies)
  • 1:00PM Gunsmoke (The original half-hour episodes, replacing the 60-minute version)
  • 1:30PM Gunsmoke (The original half-hour episodes, replacing the 60-minute version)
  • 4:00PM CHiPs (Replacing Emergency!, which is moving to MeTV competitor Cozi TV)
  • 5:00PM MacGyver (Replacing Emergency!, which is moving to MeTV competitor Cozi TV)
  • 9:00PM MacGyver (Replacing Happy Days and Gilligan’s Island, which will now air weekends only)
  • 2:00AM Mannix (Replacing Kojak)
  • 3:00AM Ironside (Replacing MeTV Mystery Movie)
  • 4:00AM 77 Sunset Strip (Replacing MeTV Mystery Movie)

Weekend additions include the James Garner western Maverick (10AM Saturdays), 1989-2003 episodes of Columbo (8PM Sundays…the 1970s version moves to Cozi TV) and the cult classic horror-mystery series Kolchak: The Night Stalker (10PM Sundays). The latter stars Darren McGavin, best known by modern audiences as the dad on A Christmas Story.

Both CHiPs and MacGyver launch Monday December 19. The rest of the changes take effect January 2, 2017. Find the full schedule here.

What’s Here: 77 Sunset Strip, CHiPs, Columbo (90s), Gunsmoke (1/2 hr), Ironside, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Leave It To Beaver, MacGyver, Mannix, Maverick

What’s Outta Here: Columbo (70s), Daniel Boone, Emergency!, Kojak, MeTV Mystery Movie, Petticoat Junction