Hey, Bob! You're beginning to discover the joys and sorrows of looking through old TV listings using internet newspaper archives.
RabbiBob wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2019 6:16 am
I looked around through newspaper archives last night and a little this morning and the only regional newspaper in the archive for Bangor didn't run TV listings for the day time, they only ran the evening listings. I was hoping they had a Saturday special listing edition like my town did, which was usually an insert (I was a paperboy back in 1988) but those things rarely get scanned.
Many papers had a big weekly TV listing insert on Sunday, although some papers published them on Saturday or even Friday depending on the city.
RabbiBob wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2019 6:16 amI'll roll it around in my head for a bit longer. I can't remember where my VHS tapes went, I gave a ton of to my nephew that had episodes recorded and would have had the station bumpers.
Oh well...
I hope your nephew still has those tapes. It would be cool to see
Galaxy Rangers as people originally watched it, with vintage station IDs and ads. (Side note: as much as I love the Koch/eOne DVDs for going above and beyond on extras, it would have been nice if they'd included the series' ad bumpers as well.)
RabbiBob wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2019 6:16 amDenver:
HOW DOES DENVER NOT HAVE ANY PAPERS IN THE GOOGLE NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
I figured that would have been an easy search... but nothing.
Some big cities have papers in the online archives, some don't. Denver is one of the cities where it's hard to find coverage; Dallas is another. The good news is that suburban and small town papers will often have big city TV listings. The bad news is that sometimes these listings are incomplete. For example, there's a Montana paper (I forget which one) that used to list Denver's network affiliates and major indie KWGN, but not KDVR (or KTVD after it signed on).
(Another side note: Newspapers.com, the largest and most comprehensive of the archives, has recently complicated matters with a lovely new "feature" called Publisher Extra, which means that if you have a free trial or even a basic subscription it's basically worthless because now you have to pay
an additional fee to access pretty much anything! Argghh!
)
RabbiBob wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2019 6:16 amBack in November I was standing outside of the Denver Post, but you weren't here yet
Yeah, we could have stormed the building together. "Just give us your old TV listings and nobody gets hurt."
Where are Doc and his tweakers when you need them?
RabbiBob wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2019 6:16 am
Mark Lungo wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 7:54 pm
Also: I wonder what it was like watching
Galaxy Rangers on a network affiliate on the weekend instead of an independent station on weekdays. Did they even run all 65 episodes?
At 12, the only thought I remember was that it was cool that I could watch it on Saturday as well.
You got it six days a week? How? Did you get WSBK Boston on cable? They were quite the regional superstation back in the day.
RabbiBob wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2019 6:16 am
The show came and went away, never returned that I was aware of and mathematically there isn't enough time to have run the full series, even if it stayed around for two full quarters.
Oh well, at least kids in Maine got to see
some of the episodes. Better than nothing! And now,the entire series is easily available. Hooray for modern technology!