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Antenna TV Adding 6 Sitcoms in January
Classic TV diginet Antenna TV is revamping their broadcast schedule starting January 1, bringing half-a-dozen comedies to their lineup.
Joining the Antenna TV family: Designing Women (moving over from getTV), Diff’rent Strokes (coming from MeTV), The Facts of Life (also from MeTV), It’s A Living, NewsRadio and That Girl (last seen on MeTV). Leaving the schedule: Johnny Carson (the 90 minute 1972-80 episodes) and What’s Happening!!
Here’s the complete Antenna TV 1st Quarter 2020 lineup:
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December 2019 Roll Call (Updated 12/11)
We’ve lost more classic TV contributors this month. Our condolences to their families and our thanks for their contributions to classic TV:
- Actor René Auberjonois, known to classic TV fans for his role on Benson and guest shots on such 1970s staples as The Bob Newhart Show, Charlie’s Angels, Ellery Queen, Family, Night Gallery, The Rockford Files, Starsky & Hutch and Wonder Woman. He is also remembered for portraying Father Mulcahy in the original film version of M*A*S*H.
- Writer D.C. Fontana, best known for her work on the original Star Trek. She also penned episodes of such classic series as Bonanza, Dallas, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Streets of San Francisco, The Waltons and The Wild Wild West.
- Former ABC network programmer and long-time producer Leonard Goldberg, who helped bring us such 1970’s classics as Charlie’s Angels, Family, Fantasy Island, Hart to Hart, The Rookies and S.W.A.T. He also worked on movies for the small and big screen, including The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble and WarGames. His most recent project was the long-running CBS police drama Blue Bloods.
- Actor Ron Leibman, who appeared on classic TV shows like The Edge of Night, Hawk and Police Story. He created, starred in and won an Emmy for the short-lived 1978 series Kaz. Leibman also worked in film, including such titles as Norma Rae and Slaughterhouse-Five. He was married to actress Jessica Walter and previously to Alice star Linda Lavin.
- Former child actor Philip McKeon, best known for playing the titular character’s son Tommy on the 70s/80s sitcom Alice. His sister is actress Nancy McKeon (The Facts of Life).
- Puppeteer Caroll Spinney, who brought Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch to life on Sesame Street from 1969 to 2018.
- Actor Robert Walker Jr., who guested on a host of classic series including Ben Casey, Cannon, The F.B.I., Naked City, Route 66, Quincy M.E. and Star Trek. He also worked on a number of movies, among them the cult classic Easy Rider.
MeTV Launches Holiday Programming Tomorrow
Classic TV diginet MeTV kicks off their annual “A Very Merry MeTV” holiday lineup tomorrow, Sunday November 17.
MeTV will air a 3-hour block of holiday-themed shows every Sunday from 5-8PM Eastern. Tomorrow’s schedule includes Thanksgiving episodes of Diff’rent Strokes, The Love Boat, Happy Days and Mama’s Family. Other classic shows airing in the Sunday showcase include The Andy Griffith Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Bob Newhart Show, The Brady Bunch, Cheers, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Honeymooners, The Jeffersons, Laverne & Shirley, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H, The Odd Couple, Taxi and WKRP in Cincinnati.
In addition to the 3-hours on Sundays, MeTV will be running other classic holiday episodes as part of their regular lineup, along with special Christmas Eve and Christmas Day airings of The Ed Sullivan Show. Click here for the complete holiday schedule.
New Classic TV Releases on Home Video
Several complete editions of classic TV shows have been (re-)released on home video this month: Leave It To Beaver on DVD and the Japanese cult classic Ultraman on Blu-Ray. Coming in November: Charlie’s Angels on Blu-Ray. Order below and help support ClassicTVBlog.com!
Classic TV Shows A-Z On Cable/Satellite
Our crack research team was back at work, digging into the broadcast schedules of 17 cable/satellite networks to compile a listing of classic TV shows airing on a regular basis in October 2019.
Our definition of “classic” is shows that premiered in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
According to our research, there are currently 60 different series running on those 17 networks (AMC, Boomerang, FETV, GSN, Hallmark, Hallmark Drama, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, IFC, INSP, RFD-TV, Starz Encore Black, Starz Encore Westerns, Sundance TV, Syfy, TV Land, UP, WGN America):
$25,000 Pyramid (Game Show Network)
Alias Smith & Jones (INSP)
Andy Griffith Show (Sundance TV, TV Land)
Barney Miller (fetv)
Batman (IFC)
Bewitched (fetv)
Big Valley (INSP, Starz Encore Westerns)
Bonanza (INSP, TV Land)
Branded (INSP)
Card Sharks (Game Show Network)
Cheyenne (Starz Encore Westerns)
Daniel Boone (INSP)
Death Valley Days (Starz Encore Westerns)
Father Knows Best (fetv)
Flying Nun (fetv)
Good Times (Starz Encore Black)
Gunsmoke (INSP, TV Land)
Hart to Hart (fetv, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries)
Hazel (fetv)
Hee Haw (RFD TV)
High Chaparral (INSP)
Hopalong Cassidy (Starz Encore Westerns)
How The West Was Won (INSP)
I Dream of Jeannie (fetv)
I Love Lucy (Hallmark)
The Jeffersons (Starz Encore Black)
Jimmy Dean Show (RFD TV)
Laramie (Starz Encore Westerns)
Laredo (INSP)
Lassie (fetv)
Lawman (Starz Encore Westerns)
Little House on the Prairie (Hallmark Drama, UPtv)
Lone Ranger (fetv, RFD TV)
Looney Tunes (Boomerang)
Mary Tyler Moore Show (Sundance TV)
M*A*S*H (Sundance TV, TV Land, WGN America)
Match Game (Game Show Network)
Maude (fetv)
Maverick (Starz Encore Westerns)
The Monkees (fetv)
One Day At A Time (fetv)
Partridge Family (fetv)
Perry Mason (fetv)
Peter Gunn (fetv)
Pop! Goes The Country (RFD TV)
Porter Wagoner Show (RFD TV)
The Rifleman (AMC, Sundance TV)
Roy Rogers Show (fetv)
The Saint (fetv)
Sanford and Son (Starz Encore Black)
Sergeant Preston of The Yukon (fetv)
Tales of Wells Fargo (Starz Encore Westerns)
That Nashville Music (RFD TV)
The Three Stooges (AMC)
Tom & Jerry (Boomerang)
Twilight Zone (Syfy)
The Virginian (INSP, Starz Encore Westerns)
The Waltons (Hallmark Drama, INSP)
Wanted: Dead or Alive (INSP)
Wild Wild West (fetv)
Classic TV Shows A-Z On Broadcast TV
Our crack research team dug into the broadcast schedules of a dozen over-the-air digital broadcast networks to compile a listing of classic TV shows airing on a regular basis in October 2019.
Our definition of “classic” is shows that premiered in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
According to our research, there are currently 168 different series running on those dozen OTA channels (Antenna TV, Buzzr, Charge!, Comet, Cozi TV, Decades, GetTV, Grit, Heroes & Icons, MeTV, Retro TV, This TV):
Program (OTA Network)
Abbott & Costello Show (Decades)
Adam-12 (Cozi TV)
Addams Family (This TV)
Adventures of Annie Oakley (Retro TV)
Adventures of Kit Carson (Retro TV)
Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (Retro TV)
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Retro TV)
Adventures of Superman (Heroes & Icons)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (MeTV)
Alice (Antenna TV)
All In The Family (getTV)
Andy Griffith Show (MeTV)
Archie Bunker’s Place (Antenna TV)
The Avengers (This TV)
The Barkleys (Retro TV)
Barnaby Jones (MeTV)
Barney Miller (Antenna TV)
Batman (Heroes & Icons)
Bat Masterson (MeTV, This TV)
Benson (Antenna TV)
Beverly Hillbillies (MeTV, Retro TV)
Bewitched (Antenna TV)
Big Valley (MeTV)
Bob Newhart Show (Decades)
Bonanza (MeTV)
Brady Bunch (MeTV)
Branded (Heroes & Icons)
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (MeTV)
Burns and Allen (Antenna TV)
Cannon (MeTV)
Card Sharks (Buzzr)
Carol Burnett & Friends (MeTV)
Charlie’s Angels (MeTV)
Cheyenne (Heroes & Icons)
CHiPs (Charge!)
Cimarron Strip (Heroes & Icons)
Columbo 60s/70s (Cozi TV)
Dan August (getTV)
Daniel Boone (Heroes & Icons)
Dark Shadows (Decades)
Death Valley Days (Grit)
Dennis the Menace (Antenna TV)
Dick Cavett Show (Decades)
Dick Van Dyke Show (MeTV)
Diff’rent Strokes (MeTV)
The Doctors (Retro TV)
Dolly! (getTV)
Donna Reed Show (Decades)
Dragnet (Cozi TV)
Ed Sullivan Show (Decades)
Emergency! (Cozi TV)
Facts of Life (MeTV)
Family Affair (Decades)
Family Feud (Buzzr)
Father Knows Best (Antenna TV)
The Flintstones (MeTV)
Four Star Playhouse (Retro TV)
Gilligan’s Island (MeTV)
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (MeTV)
Good Times (getTV)
Green Acres (MeTV)
Green Hornet (Heroes & Icons)
Gunsmoke (MeTV)
Hart to Hart (Cozi TV)
Have Gun, Will Travel (Heroes & Icons, MeTV)
Hazel (Antenna TV)
High Chaparral (Heroes & Icons)
Highway Patrol (MeTV, This TV)
Hogan’s Heroes (MeTV)
Hondo (getTV)
Honeymooners Lost Episodes (Decades)
The Houndcats (Retro TV)
How The West Was Won (getTV)
I Dream of Jeannie (Antenna TV)
I Love Lucy (Decades)
I Married Joan (Retro TV)
The Invaders (MeTV)
Iron Horse (Heroes & Icons)
Ironside (Cozi TV)
Jack Benny Program (Antenna TV)
The Jeffersons (Decades, MeTV)
Jerry Lewis Show (Retro TV)
Joey Bishop Show (Antenna TV, Retro TV)
Johnny Carson (Antenna TV)
Kojak (Cozi TV)
Lancer (Heroes & Icons)
Land of the Giants (MeTV)
Laramie (Grit)
Laredo (getTV)
Lassie (Cozi TV)
Leave it to Beaver (MeTV)
Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp (Grit)
Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (getTV)
Little House on the Prairie (Cozi TV)
Lone Ranger (Cozi TV, Retro TV)
Lost in Space (MeTV)
Lotsa Luck (Antenna TV)
Love Boat (MeTV)
Lucy Show (Decades, Retro TV)
Mackenzie’s Raiders (This TV)
Make Room for Daddy (Cozi TV)
Mannix (MeTV)
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (Decades)
Mary Tyler Moore Show (Decades)
M*A*S*H (MeTV)
Maude (Antenna TV)
Match Game (Buzzr)
Match Game PM (Buzzr)
Maverick (Heroes & Icons, MeTV)
McCloud (Cozi TV)
McHale’s Navy (Antenna TV)
McMillan & Wife (Cozi TV)
The Millionaire (Decades)
Mister Ed (This TV)
Mod Squad (Decades)
Mork & Mindy (Antenna TV)
My Favorite Martian (Cozi TV)
My Three Sons (MeTV)
Naked City (Retro TV)
Now You See It (Buzzr)
One Step Beyond (Retro TV)
The Outcasts (getTV)
Outer Limits (Comet)
Partridge Family (Antenna TV)
Password (Buzzr)
Password Plus (Buzzr)
Patty Duke Show (This TV)
Paul Lynde Show (Antenna TV)
Perry Mason (MeTV)
Peter Gunn (MeTV)
Petticoat Junction (Decades, MeTV, Retro TV)
Planet of the Apes (MeTV)
Police Story (Heroes & Icons)
Police Surgeon (Retro TV)
The (Original) Price Is Right with Bill Cullen (Buzzr)
The Quest (getTV)
Rat Ratrol (This TV)
Rawhide (Heroes & Icons, MeTV)
Rockford Files (Cozi TV)
The Rifleman (MeTV)
The Ropers (Antenna TV)
Route 66 (Retro TV)
Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In (Decades)
The Saint (This TV)
Sanford and Son (getTV)
Sea Hunt (This TV)
Shane (getTV)
Six Million Dollar Man (Cozi TV)
Smother Brothers Comedy Hour (getTV)
Soap (Antenna TV)
Soupy Sales Show (Retro TV)
Star Trek (Heroes & Icons, MeTV)
Tattletales (Buzzr)
Three’s Company (Antenna TV)
The Three Stooges (MeTV)
The Time Tunnel (MeTV)
Thriller (MeTV)
To Tell the Truth (Buzzr)
Trackdown (MeTV)
Twilight Zone (MeTV)
Voyage to the Bottom of The Sea (MeTV)
Wagon Train (MeTV)
Wanted: Dead or Alive (Heroes & Icons, MeTV)
Welcome Back, Kotter (Antenna TV)
What’s Happening!! (Antenna TV)
What’s My Line? (Buzzr)
Wonder Woman (MeTV)
Zane Grey Theatre (Grit)
MeTV Adds Flintstones, Barnaby Jones in September
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.
MeTV Fall 2019 ScheduleMeTV Launches Full Fall Lineup Tomorrow
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
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.