Still airing on late-night TV in NY?
When I was a teen back in the 80s, this show was a staple of after hours syndication in New York. On many nights WPIX would air two episodes consecutively. Anybody know if it's still on?
share Nope, they've replaced the late-night "Odd Couple/Honeymooners" showings
with such "classics" as "According to Jim," "Adventures of Old Christine,"
"Family Guy," and other more recent shows.
I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!
Hmm...another sad signifier that I'm getting older. That OC/Honeymooners bloc was essential viewing for me in the early to mid-80s! I was in New York briefly during the summer of '06, and they were still running OC, albeit at 4 A.M.! I live in California now, and you can't find either show on TV. A few years ago, a station called KDOC was airing "The Honeymooners" on weeknights, part of a set including "The Brady Bunch", "The Twilight Zone", "The Partridge Family", and others, but they dropped it. When Tony Randall died, TV Land aired an epiosde of OC, but they never added the series to its roster. Guess one just has to buy the DVDs nowadays. It seems that the only pre-1980s show you can watch without cable is "I Love Lucy".
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I have DirecTV and sometimes shut off the television because I can't find anything to watch on 400 channels.
When I was around 10 years old in the early 80's I think I could have survived with one channel - WPIX Ch. 11 in NYC. In the summer every night it was The Yankees Game followed by The Odd Couple, The Honeymooners, Star Trek and then The Twilight Zone.
Never cared for "Star Trek", but I worship "The Twilight Zone"! Hell, if not for late-night syndication, I'd never have discovered the show!
shareI discovered The Twilight Zone on WGN out of Chicago many years ago. TZ was on around lunchtime during the summer, when I was home from school. I also remember catching Rhoda and several other good shows on that station during the summer. I believe WGN also broadcast I Love Lucy, The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick van Dyke Show, Bewitched, and I Dream of Jeannie. Of course, WGN stopped offering these shows long ago, but luckily channels such as TV Land, MeTV, and Antenna TV have picked them up.
share>>>When I was around 10 years old in the early 80's I think I could have survived with one channel - WPIX Ch. 11 in NYC. In the summer every night it was The Yankees Game followed by The Odd Couple, The Honeymooners, Star Trek and then The Twilight Zone.<<<
That's the exact line-up I will always remember. It was like that for many years until Cheers changed everything.
Oh man, the greatness that was WPIX Ch. 11 in NYC! I grew up in northern New Jersey-- suburban NYC-- and those late-night reruns were staples of my life. You cited four absolutely classic shows that I first saw and fell in love with on good old channel 11. And as much as I watched channel 11, that's how much I *never* watched channel 9!
I loved Channel 11, too. And Channel 5 when it was still a "local"!
Anyway, The Odd Couple is currently showing up on ME TV on Verizon Fios in New Jersey on Channel 19 at 9:30 PM.
Right on! Living in northern NJ, this was my staple late night summer line up as well. Not a big sports fan though, so it drove me nuts when the Yankees ran long and pushed the other shows back, because staying up for the Zone was tough enough!
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