[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Aug 5 2003, 10:51 AM\'] [quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Aug 5 2003, 10:40 AM\'] [quote name=\'TPIRkid79\' date=\'Aug 5 2003, 07:22 AM\'] I remember once seeing Triple Threat with Jim Lange on a Saturday. Then I once saw a BET version. [/quote]
Yeah, when the Lange Triple Threat debuted in the San Francisco market (I can't speak for the rest of the country), it ran as a strip for one week to introduce people to the show, and then took up its regular weekend time slot. Then, of course, because it sucked, it got canned, and BET decided to resurrect it as original programming, giving the subject matter a more Urban / R&B theme, with Spencer Christian at the helm. [/quote]
WWOR in NY ran it in daytime for one week in early 1989. WPXI aired Threat early in the run IIRC, and then WWOR took it over. WPHL aired Threat on weekend late nights in Philly, but did not air the "test" week as a strip. [/quote]
I remember watching the Lange version, but not having a single clue what it was about. I do remember it aired in Norfolk on Sunday afternoons on WVEC, no strip. I vividly remember the BET version, esp. the very catchy theme song.