Plus so many commercials. This looks like a very good show.
shareI agree! It's probably because the station makes more money by showing commercials. I am pleasantly surprised that on some Saturday afternoon episodes, credits after the show are occasionally shown. The other reason may be that if they did show the credits, they would have to pay royalties to the cast and crew mentioned (or if deceased, to their respective estates).
shareThey run some credits in small print on the bottom of the last screen.
Surely the law does not permit not paying royalties by not running credits. If that were true, why would any small station run credits?
I was vaguely aware of the Norths from the novels and the Gracie Allen film but had no idea there was a TV show until I noticed it today on Cozi. During my lifetime crime shows have always been an hour, so it was sorta weird to see one in a half-hour format. Kinda corny and badly dated, but it's nice to see it's airing again.
Sucks about the credits though; I dunno what the rationale is behind that other than it's an excuse to jam in more commercials. Running the credits has nothing whatsoever to do with royalties, which actors were only contracted to get for a handful of reruns in the early days of TV (the cast of "Gilligan's Island" was always griping that their rerun residuals had run out by the '70s). Matter of fact, I'm not sure that they would have even had residuals in their contracts for this show -- Lucy & Desi are always credited for inventing the rerun, and "I Love Lucy" had only been on for one year when "Mr. & Mrs. North" started.
Actually there were a slew of half hour crime shows circa the 1950s era. Off the top of my head are Peter Gunn, Mike Hammer, The Lone Wolf, Mr. Lucky, Dragnet, Highway Patrol, Naked City (original) to name just a few.
I actually enjoy the half hour format very much.
Same was true for Western themed shows. A slew of them also early on were in the 30 minute format. But then in the 1960s they also evolved into the 60 minute format.