tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534649277786674175.post1133423147412426820..comments2024-02-09T07:07:16.727-08:00Comments on Book 'em, Danno!: Tuesday's Overlooked Media: Counterspy (1958)Patrick Murthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08103905929956454199noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534649277786674175.post-85111440451249691982015-07-21T16:41:56.073-07:002015-07-21T16:41:56.073-07:00Sorry, Marsh et al's volume was foolish becaus...Sorry, Marsh et al's volume was foolish because it included the syndie programs, but utterly ignored (and ignores, through the latest edition I've seen) all PBS and public broadcasting programming unless, like FIRING LINE and a few others over the decades, they also appeared on commercial television. Bob Newhart on the Philbrick series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEsQ5FNPj4gTodd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534649277786674175.post-14292047380214980622015-07-21T12:49:43.436-07:002015-07-21T12:49:43.436-07:00The Marsh book, however, at least in all the editi...The Marsh book, however, at least in all the editions I've read, is foolish enough to include syndicated programming of at least the sort that would appear in "fringe" timeslots (as they've been known at least since the 1970s, when the FCC mandated that the networks had to let the stations have 7-8p ET/PT Monday-Saturday for their own programming...which led to a boom in syndicated gameshows, "news" magazines and high-profile off-network repeats. COUNTERSPY had been network radio, but probably did seem a bit tired by 1958, after the vogue had already passed for I LED THREE LIVES and the sort. And I think the syndie original market was a touger nut to crack in 1958 than it might've been earlier, even with (or particularly with) Ziv TV's established hits, NTA and DesiLu separately and together offering further programming, and a few series still plugging along after going syndic after DuMont and Paramount Television Network packed it in in 1955. There were half-hour holes in each commercial network's primetime schedules in those years, but only so many, and not yet so many independent commercial stations (even given the handful of exclusive ex-DuMont and PTN affiliates to make them a viable further market, as the NTA Film Network would discover in those years). Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com