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Svengoolie's doing This Island Earth this week
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Joseph Nebus
Apr 28, 2012, 8:36:26 PM4/28/12
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Do you know of the MeTV Network? Yeah, not really. But it
exists technically and it's got reruns of classic old shows, plus
Lost In Space, and Saturdays at 10 pm it runs a Svengoolie show.
This week's movie there is This Island Earth.
Unfortunately, my local sort-of affiliate is from somewhere
in Connecticut, a mythical land where people don't know how to drive
in straight lines because no road exceeds 35 feet without turning,
so I'll have infomercials instead. But then at 2 am it picks up
with Get Smart, then for some reason Honey West and The Rogues.
Sunday nights they have Columbo.
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Andrew Morris
Apr 30, 2012, 9:23:59 PM4/30/12
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On 2012-04-28 19:36:26 -0500, Joseph Nebus said:
> Do you know of the MeTV Network? Yeah, not really. But it
> exists technically and it's got reruns of classic old shows, plus
> Lost In Space, and Saturdays at 10 pm it runs a Svengoolie show.
> This week's movie there is This Island Earth.
>
> Unfortunately, my local sort-of affiliate is from somewhere
> in Connecticut, a mythical land where people don't know how to drive
> in straight lines because no road exceeds 35 feet without turning,
> so I'll have infomercials instead. But then at 2 am it picks up
> with Get Smart, then for some reason Honey West and The Rogues.
>
> Sunday nights they have Columbo.
Not just *a* Svengoolie, but the original (well, Son Of, anyway)
> Do you know of the MeTV Network? Yeah, not really. But it
> exists technically and it's got reruns of classic old shows, plus
> Lost In Space, and Saturdays at 10 pm it runs a Svengoolie show.
> This week's movie there is This Island Earth.
>
> Unfortunately, my local sort-of affiliate is from somewhere
> in Connecticut, a mythical land where people don't know how to drive
> in straight lines because no road exceeds 35 feet without turning,
> so I'll have infomercials instead. But then at 2 am it picks up
> with Get Smart, then for some reason Honey West and The Rogues.
>
> Sunday nights they have Columbo.
Svengoolie from Chicago, Illinois. Rich Koz has been on local TV
playing that character off and on since the early 1970s. He moved onto
MeTV last year when they started really going nationwide. Evidently,
for network broadcasts, the idea was to concentrate more on the classic
Universal horror movies: Dracula, Frankenstein, and so on. Now we've
got "This Island Earth," and a couple of weeks ago, it was "Sssssss,"
which may mean the well is running dry. Not a problem: the more typical
Svengoolie movies have been things ranging from "The Blob" all the way
down to "The Eye Creatures."
Columbo is fun, too.
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Andrew "Retro-Man" Morris
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Paul Duca (tomservo56954@comcast.net)
May 1, 2012, 10:53:24 PM5/1/12
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On Apr 28, 8:36 pm, nebu...@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:
> Do you know of the MeTV Network? Yeah, not really. But it
> exists technically and it's got reruns of classic old shows, plus
> Lost In Space, and Saturdays at 10 pm it runs a Svengoolie show.
> This week's movie there is This Island Earth.
>
> Unfortunately, my local sort-of affiliate is from somewhere
> in Connecticut, a mythical land where people don't know how to drive
> in straight lines because no road exceeds 35 feet without turning,
> so I'll have infomercials instead. But then at 2 am it picks up
> with Get Smart, then for some reason Honey West and The Rogues.
>
You must be getting the feed from the Boston affiliate--I computed
> Do you know of the MeTV Network? Yeah, not really. But it
> exists technically and it's got reruns of classic old shows, plus
> Lost In Space, and Saturdays at 10 pm it runs a Svengoolie show.
> This week's movie there is This Island Earth.
>
> Unfortunately, my local sort-of affiliate is from somewhere
> in Connecticut, a mythical land where people don't know how to drive
> in straight lines because no road exceeds 35 feet without turning,
> so I'll have infomercials instead. But then at 2 am it picks up
> with Get Smart, then for some reason Honey West and The Rogues.
>
they bump 60 hours a week of the MeTV schedule for infomercials. or E/
I kids shows--they are a broadcast station and subject to FCC rules on
children's programming.
Paul Duca--the Supercharged MSTie
#56954
"He's only 10...he doesn't know HOW to have fun!"
Paul Duca (tomservo56954@comcast.net)
May 1, 2012, 11:04:43 PM5/1/12
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carrying the RTV network on its main feed--now it's on the secondary,
so you need an broadcast converter box to get it (since the cable
doesn't generally carry those ".2, .3" channels). Saturday nights this
station runs "Wolfman Mac's Drive-In Cinema", produced out of Detroit,
with a werewolf leading a cast of characters cavorting during MST-type
movies.
Sunday nights they air "Off Beat Cinema", which goes a different
route--the trio of hosts use the persona of beatnik hipsters talking
movies and other things in their coffeehouse...in fact, their segments
are in black & white. And they don't just show bad movies--their
selections have included the original NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and THE
THIRD MAN. They've been an institution in Buffalo since the mid
1990's.
Paul Duca--the Supercharged MSTie
#56954
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> Columbo is fun, too.
>
> --
> Andrew "Retro-Man" Morris
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