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 Posted:   Apr 25, 2011 - 11:31 PM   
 By:   filmusicnow   (Member)

Has anybody ever heard of the Retro Television Network? They play classic television shows from the Universal library and others (e.g., "Magnum P.I.", "Run For Your Life", "The A Team", "Crisis" [syndicated title for "The Kraft Suspense Theatre"], "Laredo", "Wagon Train", "Peter Gunn", "The Adventures Of Robin Hood").

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 25, 2011 - 11:51 PM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

My cable system offers RTV.

http://www.myretrotv.com/

 
 Posted:   Apr 26, 2011 - 12:05 AM   
 By:   Steve Johnson   (Member)

I wish I did. I have Dish Satellite and I don't think it's available.

 
 Posted:   Apr 27, 2011 - 4:50 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

My cable conglomerate doesn't offer RetroTV, but I do get Antenna, which plays lots of sitcoms, some of which don't appear on the long-since-diminished TVLand. I wish Anetnna would play dramas, but I'll just have to be happy with the fact they don't crunch the end credits and don't slap a staion ID bug in the bottom corner of the screen---yet.

I've always said that TVLand should have competition in the vintage TV show department, especially since they're really and truly awful these days.

The amount of unaired TV programs from the '50s-'70s--even '80s--is staggering. Untapped potential in these days of "unscripted" "reality" shows.

 
 Posted:   Jul 10, 2014 - 7:08 PM   
 By:   johnjohnson   (Member)

US station Retro TV has announced that the classic series of Doctor Who will launch on the channel on August 4th.

The run will see stories aired from each of the first seven Doctors, with just under 500 episodes being acquired by the channel which specialises in airing such classic TV programmes as The Lucy Show, Petticoat Junction, The Beverly Hillbillies, Highway to Heaven, Naked City and I Spy.

The Doctor Who run will begin with the very first episode of the series, An Unearthly Child, first broadcast in the UK in 1963. Two episodes will be shown back-to-back every weeknight at 8:00 PM ET/PT.

Matthew Golden, Luken’s Vice President of Production said

We’re excited to set a fixed point in time for the arrival of classic episodes of Doctor Who on Retro TV. These meticulously restored episodes will bring the history of the Doctor to the U.S. in a way that viewers have never seen before.
In addition to the weeknight schedule, a two hour encore block will air on Saturday evenings as part of Retro TV’s new Sci-Fi Saturday. Starting at 6:00 PM ET/PT, viewers can enjoy the supernatural anthology One Step Beyond, Doctor Who and Mystery Science Theater 3000.

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2014/07/launch-date-for-doctor-who-on-retro-tv.html

 
 Posted:   Jul 10, 2014 - 8:41 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

I have TVLand and Me Television. Not sure about Retro. As long as BBC America keeps the new DW series.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 10, 2014 - 8:53 PM   
 By:   dan the man   (Member)

Although I am not a big fan of DR WHO I think it is wonderful and innovative what RETRO will do [500 episodes and starting from the beginning] that's cool. nice to see they will show ONE STEP BEYOND, one of my favorite TV genre shows of all time.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 10, 2014 - 9:03 PM   
 By:   Doc Loch   (Member)

I wish Turner would create a classic television channel to match their classic movie channel. They have been dipping into TV on TCM occasionally with episodes of Screen Directors Playhouse, Johnny Carson and Dick Cavett, but it'd be nice to see a whole network that wasn't afraid of terms like "black and white" or "vintage".

 
 Posted:   Jul 11, 2014 - 5:14 AM   
 By:   ZapBrannigan   (Member)

I guess I've got it pretty good. I get MeTV (Batman, Wonder Woman, Star Trek, Adam-12, Emergency, Gilligan's Island), Antenna TV (The Partridge Family, The Patty Duke Show), and TV Land (which I haven't checked in on much).

 
 Posted:   Jul 11, 2014 - 7:14 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

I guess I've got it pretty good. I get MeTV (Batman, Wonder Woman, Star Trek, Adam-12, Emergency, Gilligan's Island), Antenna TV (The Partridge Family, The Patty Duke Show), and TV Land (which I haven't checked in on much).

MeTV is great. I find they have limited commercial breaks and the breaks are not as long as other syndicated channels.

TV Land sucks. I swear they have 8 minutes of commercials for every 5 minutes of programming. I tried to watch King of Queens on that station and its so horribly cut up it's unwatchable. I dumped them over a year ago.

 
 Posted:   Jul 11, 2014 - 8:25 AM   
 By:   MRAUDIO   (Member)

I guess I've got it pretty good. I get MeTV (Batman, Wonder Woman, Star Trek, Adam-12, Emergency, Gilligan's Island), Antenna TV (The Partridge Family, The Patty Duke Show), and TV Land (which I haven't checked in on much).

MeTV is great. I find they have limited commercial breaks and the breaks are not as long as other syndicated channels.

TV Land sucks. I swear they have 8 minutes of commercials for every 5 minutes of programming. I tried to watch King of Queens on that station and its so horribly cut up it's unwatchable. I dumped them over a year ago.


Yeah, TV Land used to be great - not any longer. ME-TV is wonderful and Antenna-TV is pretty good as well.

My Prism TV took away Retro, so that kind of sucks - I used to watch that, too...:-)

 
 Posted:   Jul 11, 2014 - 9:26 AM   
 By:   madmovyman   (Member)

My small town just added a retro station called Cozi Tv. It appears to be nationwide, but funny that I can only get it by antenna; it doesn't show up on my cable service. It programs old tv series and movies like The Avengers, Run For Your Life, The Bold Ones, McMilland and Wife, The Real McCoys, Roy Rogers, Maverick, Hopalong Cassidy, The Deputy, Make Room for Daddy and The Cisco Kid.

http://www.cozitv.com/tv-listings/

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 11, 2014 - 10:52 AM   
 By:   tex1272   (Member)

I just discoverd COZI here in Dallas as well. Enjoying seeing THE REAL McCOYS, DICK VAN DYKE, and I SPY again.

 
 Posted:   Jul 11, 2014 - 12:23 PM   
 By:   johnjohnson   (Member)

My small town just added a retro station called Cozi Tv. It appears to be nationwide, but funny that I can only get it by antenna; it doesn't show up on my cable service. It programs old tv series and movies like The Avengers, Run For Your Life, The Bold Ones, McMilland and Wife, The Real McCoys, Roy Rogers, Maverick, Hopalong Cassidy, The Deputy, Make Room for Daddy and The Cisco Kid.

http://www.cozitv.com/tv-listings/


Rewatching The Avengers on Cozi. They have just started the b/w Rigg episodes.

 
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