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Now Airing... but why start mid=stream?


So COZI is now airing the show: thank you.

BUT Why did they start it in the middle? Why not start w/ episode 1? WTF?

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cozi mostly shows programs out of order. they seem to buy a limited amount of episodes also. that's why they show repeat after repeat....on and on....

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yeah -=- I figured something like that... only, they finally (sortof) got it right w/ Lassie.

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you will find the same thing with lassie. keep watching!

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I have been. they did a decent job getting them in order -- and showed a bunch from Tommy Rettig days. Yes, they do repeat, but not so bad as they did at the beginning.

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They do that with everything they put on. I saw a repeat of the very first Virginian program just today after having seen it exactly one week ago.

I does no good to write them, I think, since they seem to ignore it. Lso, they cut out stuff to increase the commercial time. I just found that out with a DVD of Lone Ranger episodes I got that had mare scenes in each program than what Cozi was showing.

This is where deregulation and cable TV have ruined programming, No more limits on commercials, and now you can't see hardly any of the college bowl games anymore unless you pay through the nose and then you STILL have to sit through commercials.

There ought to be a rule that allows over-air broadcasters to purchase the rights to broadcast things shown live on cable TV, since it's practically a different market now.

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OH! You are so right -- they cut out stuff for more commercials so we'ere ony getting about 17 minutes of show -- and in those days, there was 5 minutes more than there is now -- and now we're down to what -- 22 mnutes of program for every half hour? You're right.... it's all commercials with a little of the episode thrown in.

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But it's probably better than nothing since no other network shows these old shows anymore,and I had never heard of this show until cosi.

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It was a show I grew up with -- there are SO MANY terrific shows from the 50s and 60s that aren't aired... My Little Margie; The Gale Storm Show; December Bride; Love That Bob; Pete and Gladys; oh. don't get me started.

Anyway -- been taping them and watching them w/o commercials later; of course, they're deleting scenes to make way for more b.s. commercials... but you get the gist of the shows.

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Bummer, it looks like Cozi has nixed the show as of January 2016.

Bring it back!

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