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From: wanttaja@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ronald J Wanttaja)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: Yo Momma, the Car
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Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 01:33:06 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 29 01:33:06 1985
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> 
>   What I was wondering was whether there is some part of the 
> country where "My Mother, the Car" is being shown in syndication? 
> 

Gawd, I hope not :-)

Actually, I do remember the show, and my poor ten year old self liked it,
I think.

That's a good point though... there was a lot of good stuff out in the '60s,
and little of it is in syndication.  "Twilight Zone", "Outer Limits", "Bonanza",
"Gilligan's (Ugh) Island", "Lucy", etc.  The only things I can think of is
that a lot of the 60's stuff was still in black and white, and there might
have be some legal problem on residuals; they weren't included in the 
contracts back then, and later legal decisions may affect the syndication
of some of these.

One point in the 60's series favor:  back then, they didn't order 13 weeks of
a series at  a time... they ordered a full season!  In some cases, this was
35+ episodes per year!  Doesn't take long to build up a large stock for
syndication.  They should come up with an anthology scheme; "Combat"
one week, two sitcoms the next, etc.

What I wouldn't give to see episodes of "Twelve O'Clock High" again...

                                          Ron Wanttaja
					  (ssc-vax!wanttaja)

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