Posted on 01/13/2014 9:45:30 AM PST by Borges
I have always wondered, with the gillion channels now available on a modern cable package, is there really NO ROOM for some Honeymooner re-runs??? REALLY?!?!?!
That make sense.
14.1 is a Spanish channel, I think it has commercials, I never watch it. Right now it appears to be a sort of Oprah type tell all your sleazy secrets show.
14.2 is showing an American movie. It’s saying ‘Bounce’ in the lower right. I think it has commercials too, and must just be a low grade channel, as I never find anything of interest on it. Oh, wait, I watched Seinfeld there one time I think.
The channel I was asking about 14.3 shows about a half dozen different movies over and over. Jane Russell stars in one, to give a time frame to the year. She’s an awful actress BTW!
but can it core an apple?
wpix has em saturday and sunday....metv has em saturday nights
RIP.
This is a bit more about what you’re remembering, which you might find of interest:
http://www.tvobscurities.com/spotlight/youre-in-the-picture-the-jackie-gleason-show/
Honeymooners set the mold for all sorts of TV shows, characters, etc.
It’s a shame Amos & Andy got shunted - it’s no more racist than “good times” and twenty times funnier.
A very good find,thanks.
Thanks for the pix—I was wondering what it looked like.
All that is missing is some stone June Taylor dancers.
So tell us, since you clearly know so much. I wasn’t there or anywhere when the Honeymooners was on prime TV, that as you insist wasn’t free, because as you wholly original thought informs us “there is no free lunch”. If someone was there in 1955, owned a TV, so let’s subtract the price of the TV set from the equation, but did not watch it, then would he find additional cash in this pocket, because TV was not free? And let us say that he used generic laundry detergent which didn’t advertise, or made his own, didn’t smoke cigarettes, etc, would The Honeymooners not be free for him? We’ve got to carry our Captain Obvious philosophical treatise to their logical conclusion. Yes, TV was free in 1955, and everyone already understands that advertising paid for it, and that GASP! TV sets cost money. The broadcasts over the air were still free to receive.
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