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Author Topic: UNCUT Television Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 07-17-2002 09:25 AM                     After running a network print of a classic TV show the other night, my friends and I had an idea. OK. Probably the beer talking, but here goes. How about a channel on cable / satellite that runs nothing but truly uncut/unedited old TV shows? My friends have seen the syndicated version of the show that we saw in the past here. Everybody agreed that the show is more complete and entertaining when unchopped. The show we watched seemed much longer than the 26 minutes that it was. Plus it flows more smoothly!! This is yet another way to get these old negatives out of the vaults, and up on our TV screens again. Any other suggestions??  |  IP: Logged Matthew Bailey Master Film Handler Posts: 461 From: Port Arthur,TX Registered: Sep 2000 posted 07-17-2002 06:35 PM                     Not that I know of,but I found some Price Is Right & other game show bloopers on the net.  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 07-17-2002 07:48 PM                     Sorry, I should have been more specific. When I said uncut, I ment uncut, like when the shows first ran on the networks. Here in the USA, when a show goes into rerun heaven, or syndication, scenes are snipped here and there to get more commercial time during the show. Now, when we see shows from the early 1960's, for example, some are cut by as much as five minutes! Believe me, it really hurts the continuity of shows such as "The Andy Griffith Show," and "I Love Lucy," (from the '50's,) among others... I just would like a chance to see shows the way the producers ment them to be just one more time without being digitally compressed. I've seen the gameshow bloopers that you speak of... Funny stuff.  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 07-17-2002 09:28 PM                     Possible solution: Run a two hour timeblock with three sitcoms back to back (40 minutes each). That way they can run unedited (for time) AND provide the amount of commericals for four shows for the price of three.  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 07-18-2002 01:39 PM                     I'd like to see old TV shows run EXACTLY as they were first broadcast, including commercials and everything. If someone were to start a new network now though I wouldn't care what they showed as long as there was NO ONSCREEN LOGO!!!  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 07-18-2002 02:43 PM                     Right on, Jesse! This is what I had in mind, though, I doubt that advertisers would let their ads play again. The cigarette companies ran ads back in the 50's telling us that the young hip Americans smoked Phillip Morris! The ad I speak of was in a medical show where the main charactor died after coughing his lungs out. Just let us see the shows untouched by the snip police.  |  IP: Logged

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