35 years ago yesterday

[Jimmy Owen]

Reruns of another network\'s show on NBC daytime were not unprecedented.  \"Make Room for Daddy\" with Danny Thomas ran for five years on the daytime sked, while it was airing on CBS in prime time.  The Jean Hagen episodes from the ABC run also aired on NBC.  The Hagen episodes weren\'t included in the syndication packages. 

[aaron sica]

Years ago, thanks to Chuck Donegan, I saw a morning of WABC taped from April 1980, which started near the end of the 10:00 (a.m.) movie, and lead into the daytime rerun of \"Laverne & Shirley\" and then \"Feud\". The L&S ep was a very bad quality print and had a very odd edit in the theme....Somewhere I remember hearing that at the time, it was common for the daytime rerun to be of bad quality. Any truth to this?

[Jimmy Owen]

Years ago, thanks to Chuck Donegan, I saw a morning of WABC taped from April 1980, which started near the end of the 10:00 (a.m.) movie, and lead into the daytime rerun of \"Laverne & Shirley\" and then \"Feud\". The L&S ep was a very bad quality print and had a very odd edit in the theme....Somewhere I remember hearing that at the time, it was common for the daytime rerun to be of bad quality. Any truth to this?

On ABC, they always looked a little fuzzy.  Happy Days and Love Boat as well.

[That Don Guy]

Years ago, thanks to Chuck Donegan, I saw a morning of WABC taped from April 1980, which started near the end of the 10:00 (a.m.) movie, and lead into the daytime rerun of \"Laverne & Shirley\" and then \"Feud\". The L&S ep was a very bad quality print and had a very odd edit in the theme....Somewhere I remember hearing that at the time, it was common for the daytime rerun to be of bad quality. Any truth to this?

Correct me if I\'m wrong, but weren\'t there more commercials during the network daytime broadcast periods than in prime time?  (I remember both CBS and ABC allowing 35 minutes in late night to air repeats of 30-minute prime time shows.)  There would have to be cuts (similar to episodes in syndication) to fit the shows into the time slot.

[Ian Wallis]

 

Correct me if I\'m wrong, but weren\'t there more commercials during the network daytime broadcast periods than in prime time?  (I remember both CBS and ABC allowing 35 minutes in late night to air repeats of 30-minute prime time shows.)  There would have to be cuts (similar to episodes in syndication) to fit the shows into the time slot.

 

 

Yes, that\'s true.  They were edited for daytime reruns.