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May 16, 2012 - 10:37 AM
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filmusicnow
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So true, Neo. In the world of television, just about *everything* that represented a historical document of the age we were living in, was among the first stuff consigned to the dumpster or the equally impersonal area of tape recycling. That's why when things do surface and can be experienced again, the excitement is like that of an archeologist who just found something at a dig site. And like in archeology, you sometimes have to settle for fragments like when only a few minutes of a lost telecast resurfaces, or if only select cues from a lost score are found ("Satan Bug").
The vigor of the search and the chase for that lost material can never let up. Because while most of the time it leads to frustration, the times when it hits paydirt more than compensate.
An interesting thing is that when Ed Sullivan, Jackie Gleason and Red Skelton all were under contract to C.B.S., they received kinescope copies of their shows, which was in their contracts (though Sullivan didn't get the full rights to his shows until the mid '60s). Hence, this explains Gleason's "Lost Episodes" of "The Honeymooners".
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2NITE 
Department:
unofficially blacklisted by the networks 
during the last few decades.
