Stuck in time

[bgadow]

The amount of reruns sure has seemed to gotten worse. I hardly watch any tv anyway and when I do turn it on, darn, it's still something I've already seen! PBS (or at least Maryland Public Television) seems to have just given up. Despite a schedule of 2 weeks of pledge drive for every 3 weeks off they still have almost nothing new to show. There are some programs which have been rerun, no exaggeration, 15-20 times.

My wife leaves the TV on for company. I walked in the room the other night and couldn't believe my eyes. "What about Jim" (or whatever that crap show is called) is still running on ABC. That dribble should have been cancelled after the second episode; now it is one of their longer running shows. Who watches this stuff?

Stereofisher offers several good points. If a local station had a TV Land style lineup I would glue the knobs on my TV sets to their channel. Oftentimes I think of how I would program a station & I could easily fill up a full schedule with shows from the fifties-eighties.

Speaking of NBC taking 3 hours to show "It's a Wonderful Life"-one of my all-time favorite movies is "Airplane". I had seen it plenty of times on network television back in the eighties and it always took 2 hours. Then one Sunday afternoon one of the local stations aired it. I guess they had some time to fill, and this was before infomercials were big. They aired "Airplane" in 90 minutes with just station breaks & a few commercials.