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MeTV Adds Flintstones, Barnaby Jones in September

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Classic TV diginet MeTV is bringing the classic 1960s animated comedy The Flintstones back to broadcast television.

MeTV will air back-to-back episodes of the stone-age sitcom from 6-7PM Eastern starting September 30, 59 years to the day of it’s original ABC primetime premiere in 1960.

Other additions to the MeTV fall schedule include the Buddy Ebsen detective series Barnaby Jones, Bat Masterson, Carol Burnett & Friends, Highway Patrol and the original Twilight Zone.

Departing the schedule are The Carol Burnett Show, Mama’s Family, Night Gallery, The New Twilight Zone and the MeTV original series Collector’s Call.

Please note the schedule below is effective September 2 and does not include The Flintstones, which won’t premiere until September 30. We’ll keep you posted of any additional changes.

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MeTV Launches Full Fall Lineup Tomorrow

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Classic TV diginet is unveiling their complete fall schedule Monday, several weeks after adding T.J. Hooker and Hawaii Five-0 to their early fringe lineup.

Here’s a look at the new schedule:

Weekdays (all times Eastern)
5:00AM Highway Patrol (starts 9/5, replaces Our Miss Brooks)
5:30AM The Donna Reed Show
6:00AM The Facts of Life (replaces Mister Ed, which moves back to This TV)
6:30AM The Brady Bunch (replaces I Love Lucy)
7:00AM The Beverly Hillbillies (replaces Petticoat Junction)
7:30AM My Three Sons
8:00AM Leave It To Beaver (replaces My Three Sons)
8:30AM Leave It To Beaver
9:00AM Perry Mason
10:00AM Matlock
11:00AM Diagnosis Murder (replaces Remington Steele)
12:00N The Big Valley
1:00PM Gunsmoke
1:30PM Gunsmoke
2:00PM Bonanza
3:00PM The Rifleman
3:30PM The Rifleman
4:00PM Wagon Train (replaces The Beverly Hillbillies and Leave It to Beaver)
5:00PM T.J. Hooker (replaces The Brady Bunch and Gilligan’s Island)
6:00PM Hawaii Five-0 (replaces Happy Days and The Andy Griffith Show/The Odd Couple)
7:00PM M*A*S*H
7:30PM M*A*S*H
8:00PM The Andy Griffith Show (some markets air Gomer Pyle USMC)
8:30PM The Andy Griffith Show (some markets air Gomer Pyle USMC)
9:00PM Mama’s Family
9:30PM ALF
10:00PM Hogan’s Heroes
10:30PM Hogan’s Heroes
11:00PM Carol Burnett & Friends
11:30PM Perry Mason
12:30AM The Twilight Zone
1:00AM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1:30AM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
2:00AM Mannix
3:00AM Cannon (replaces Ironside, which moves to Cozi TV)
4:00AM 77 Sunset Strip

Weekend changes include a shuffling of the Saturday primetime lineup, which has classic horror movie host Svengoolie moving from 10PM to 8PM Eastern.

New additions to the weekend lineup: ALF, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Facts of Life, The Fugitive, The Lucy Show, Mama’s Family, Peter Gunn, Petticoat Junction, Touched by an Angel and The Untouchables.

You can check out the complete MeTV Fall 2017 schedule here.

Antenna TV Announces Summer Changes

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Classic TV diginet Antenna TV is shifting around their program schedule effective Monday July 17. Here are the weekday changes:

4PM The Partridge Family (replaces Good Times)
4:30 The Partridge Family (replaces Good Times)
5PM Three’s Company (replaces Sanford & Son)
5:30 Three’s Company (replaces Sanford & Son)
6PM Good Times (replaces All in the Family)
6:30 Good Times (replaces All in the Family)
8PM Sanford & Son (replaces 227)
8:30 Sanford & Son (replaces 227)
9PM All in the Family (replaces Three’s Company)
9:30 All in the Family (replaces Three’s Company)
12M Family Ties (M-Th/replaces Becker)
12:30 Family Ties (M-Th/replaces Becker)
3AM 227 (replaces What’s Happening!!)
3:30 227 (M-Th/replaces What’s Happening!!)
3:30 Burns and Allen (F/replaces The Addams Family)
4AM Becker (M-Th/replaces Mr. Belvedere)
4AM Burns and Allen (F/replaces The Addams Family)
4:30 Becker (M-Th/replaces Mr. Belvedere)
4:30 Burns and Allen (F/replaces The Addams Family)

Antenna TV is also tweaking their weekend schedule, including about 1/3 of their Sunday lineup.

Leaving the Antenna TV schedule are The Addams Family, Circus Boy, Dear John and What’s Happening!!

For more information, please visit Antenna TV’s website.

FETV Drops COZI, Launches New Classic Lineup

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Cable-satellite network FETV (Family Entertainment Television) has ended their relationship with broadcast diginet COZI-TV and unveiled a new lineup of classic TV programming.

FETV had been simulcasting a significant amount of COZI programming, mostly on weekdays, since 2014. According to FETV General Manager Bill Airy, the license agreement with NBCUniversal-owned COZI expired and is not being renewed.

Here’s a look at the new FETV schedule, which launched in late June:

Weekdays (All times Eastern)
5AM The Roy Rogers Show
5:30 The Roy Rogers Show
6AM The Lone Ranger
6:30 The Lone Ranger
7-9AM Religious Programming
9AM The Roy Rogers Show
9:30 Lassie
10AM Father Knows Best (starts end of July)
10:30 Father Knows Best (starts end of July)
11AM Hazel
11:30 Hazel
12N Bewitched
12:30 Bewitched
1PM The Flying Nun
1:30 The Flying Nun
2PM One Day at a Time
2:30 One Day at a Time
3PM Designing Women
3:30 Designing Women
4PM Perry Mason
5PM Matlock
6PM The Roy Rogers Show
6:30 The Roy Rogers Show
7PM The Lone Ranger
7:30 The Lone Ranger
8PM Perry Mason
9PM Matlock
10PM T.J. Hooker
11PM Hart to Hart
12M Maude (Sun-Th)/The Lone Ranger (F)
12:30 Maude (Sun-Th)/The Lone Ranger (F)
1AM Barney Miller (Sun-Th)/The Roy Rogers Show (F)
1:30 Barney Miller (Sun-Th)/The Roy Rogers Show (F)
2AM Sergeant Preston of The Yukon (Sun-Th)/Lassie (F)
2:30 Sergeant Preston of The Yukon (Sun-Th)/Lassie (F)
3AM Lassie (Sun -Th)/Paid Programming (F)
3:30 Lassie (Sun-Th)/Paid Programming (F)
4AM The Lone Ranger (Sun-Th)/Paid Programming (F)
4:30 The Lone Ranger (Sun-Th)/Paid Programming (F)

FETV’s Saturday schedule is mostly classic TV, highlighted by a 7-hour block of The Lone Ranger from 11AM-6PM. Sundays are nearly all religious programming, although they are airing back-to-back episodes of Perry Mason and Matlock from 1-5PM.

FETV is a programming service of LeSEA Broadcasting Corporation of South Bend, Indiana. It’s available on AT&T U-verse (Channel 578), DirecTV (Channel 323) and Dish Network (Channel 82). For more information on FETV, please visit their Facebook page.

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A reminder that COZI-TV is available for free on over-the-air broadcast stations reaching over 60% of the United States. To find an affiliate near you, check out the COZI-TV website.

MeTV Plans Groovy Summer of Me

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Classic TV diginet has announced their annual “Summer of Me” program schedule, featuring a new afternoon sitcom block (reminds me of Superstation WTBS in the 1980s) and the addition of such far-out series as ALF, Battlestar Galactica and The Outer Limits. Barry Williams (a.k.a. Greg Brady) is the official face of The Summer of Me and will be featured in promos and interstitial segments.

Here’s a look at the new lineup:

Weekdays (all times Eastern)
5:00AM Our Miss Brooks
5:30AM The Donna Reed Show
6:00AM Mister Ed
6:30AM I Love Lucy
7:00AM Petticoat Junction (replaces The Brady Bunch)
7:30AM My Three Sons (starts with the original B&W episodes, replaces The Beverly Hillbillies)
8:00AM My Three Sons (replaces Leave It To Beaver)
8:30AM Leave It To Beaver
9:00AM Perry Mason
10:00AM Matlock
11:00AM Remington Steele (replaces Diagnosis Murder)
12:00N The Big Valley
1:00PM Gunsmoke
1:30PM Gunsmoke
2:00PM Bonanza
3:00PM The Rifleman
3:30PM The Rifleman
4:00PM The Beverly Hillbillies (replaces CHiPs)
4:30PM Leave It To Beaver (replaces CHiPs)
5:00PM The Brady Bunch (replaces MacGyver)
5:30PM Gilligan’s Island (replaces MacGyver)
6:00PM Happy Days (replaces Mama’s Family)
6:30PM The Andy Griffith Show (the color episodes, some markets will air The Odd Couple)
7:00PM M*A*S*H
7:30PM M*A*S*H
8:00PM The Andy Griffith Show (some markets air Mayberry R.F.D.)
8:30PM The Andy Griffith Show (some markets air Mayberry R.F.D.)
9:00PM Mama’s Family (replaces MacGyver)
9:30PM ALF (replaces MacGyver)
10:00PM Hogan’s Heroes
10:30PM Hogan’s Heroes
11:00PM Carol Burnett & Friends
11:30PM Perry Mason
12:30AM The Twilight Zone
1:00AM Alfred Hitchcock Presents (replaces The Alfred Hitchcock Hour)
1:30AM Alfred Hitchcock Presents (replaces The Alfred Hitchcock Hour)
2:00AM Mannix
3:00AM Ironside
4:00AM 77 Sunset Strip

There are only a handful of changes to the weekend lineup. Battlestar Galactica replaces The Incredible Hulk (7PM Saturdays), while a double-run of The Outer Limits takes over the horizontal and vertical Sunday 1-3AM slot (replacing Land of The Giants and The Time Tunnel) and a double-run of Swamp Thing overpowers Planet of The Apes (5AM Sundays).

Other weekend moves include the addition of back-to-back episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show (2-3PM Sundays) and Rhoda 3-4PM Sundays) and a realigned block of Car 54 Where Are You?, The Phil Silvers Show and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (Mondays 3-5AM).

What’s Here: ALF, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Battlestar Galactica, My Three Sons, Petticoat Junction, Remington Steele, Rhoda, Swamp Thing

What’s Outta Here: CHiPs, Diagnosis Murder, The Incredible Hulk, Land of the Giants, Laverne & Shirley, MacGyver, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Planet of The Apes, The Time Tunnel

The new lineup premieres on Memorial Day, Monday May 29.

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

Tuned In: Antenna TV and Cozi Fall Program Changes

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Classic TV diginets Antenna TV and Cozi TV are shifting their lineups for fall, adding some shows and pulling a few others.

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Antenna TV is unveiling a pair of sitcoms: The Addams Family (moving over from ThisTV) and Wings. Father Knows Best returns to the schedule, while Mister Ed gallops back to competitor MeTV.

Cozi-TV-LogoNBC-owned Cozi TV is dipping into the NBC archives for a trio of new entries on their fall lineup: Frasier, Little House on the Prairie and Quincy M.E.

For more info on the fall changes, visit the Antenna TV and CoziTV websites.