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Just curious: Did YOUR area get this show in syndication way back when?

posted 7 years ago by shango7200
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I am in the NYC tri-state are we absolutely did NOT get Night Gallery in the "reductive" syndication package! Ever on any station.
And I'm talking decades with no local stations showing this in syndication. NEVER!

So my question is: what STATE are you in and did YOU get the choppy syndicated package EVER ? If you did; WHEN?
One of my friends in Washington D.C. got the shakey syndication package on a local network in the mid-1980s as I recall.

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[–] Jennie_Portrait 7 years ago

I am in the NYC Tri-State Area too. I never even knew about the choppy syndication package. In fact, I never even saw Night Gallery until MeTV.

My sister, who is older than me, used to stay at night during its initial run and tell me the stories the next morning (I was 6 and terrified).

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[–] shango7200 7 years ago

If you are watching this on ME TV - you are watching an abridged version-- butchered (chopped) for syndication decades ago. You are also getting a heathy dose of ....GARY COLLINS the most bland boring actor since Bill Bixby.
BUY the DVD sets ! Get them while they are cheap. Shows like this go "out of print" and then sellers on eBay try to get like $100.00 for one season!
Buy the DVDs- watch them & then give them to your sister for Christmas !

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[–] Jennie_Portrait 7 years ago

I've seen the actual version of the show on Hulu. The syndicated version is awful. It's all the added material that is just dreadful (Including the 6th Sense episodes). The worst-- absolute worst-- is Logda's Heads. What were they thinking?

Gary Collins was a nice looking but dreadful actor. Don't agree with you at all about Bill Bixby. I loved him in the Courtship of Eddie's father. Lovely series. I'd love to see that again.
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[–] Tresix 7 years ago

I've seen it in both its original format and in syndication. I remember when "The Sixth Sense" was its own separate series. Don't really remember if I watched it or not, not a fan of it coupled with "Night Gallery".

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[–] jwalsh67 7 years ago

I remember watching Night Gallery in syndication back in the mid-80's. I was in the Boston area.

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[–] Poisoned_Dragon1964 7 years ago

I live in Texas. 'Night Gallery' started airing in syndicated form from 1974 on our local independent station (KTVT Channel 11) for at least a decade, in various time slots. After that, the series changed hands, airing on different channels (the number of channels to choose from grew throughout the 80s and 90s).

I was only ten or eleven when these syndicated episodes started airing, and they were the only versions of the 'Night Gallery' that I knew or remembered, since I don't remember ever seeing them in their original form - subject-matter-wise, it was the sort of thing my parents would have kept me from watching on its original run.

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[–] sleepingtiger (712) 7 years ago

I'm from Michigan-----I remember first catching Night Gallery on late-night Saturdays around 12:30 just before the 1:00 Saturday night scary movie showing on WKBD Channel 50 in the Detroit metro area around 1980 (now the CW Channel 50) and then on WXON Channel 20 (which became the WB in the '90s, now it's WMYD Channel MyNetwork20) on weekends---Saturdays afternoons, specifically---around the mid-'80s. It was one of the many horror-oriented things I'd get to watch on Fridays and Saturdays---along with Channel 50's Creature Feature at 3 p.m. Saturdays, the Chiller Movie feature (not sure if that's what it was called, but something close to it) at 12:00 noon on Channel 20 (also on Saturdays) and Scream Theater on Friday nights, which came on about 1:00 or 1:30 on ABC Channel 7. Didn't know that the show was actually an hour long, because I only saw it in the half-hour format it was presented in. I was too young to have seen it in its original format--enjoyed it just the same though, lol.