Thu 4 Feb 2016
Not my town, not yet anyway, but maybe yours.
The HEROES & ICONS network has very limited availability so far, but their plans for expansion seem to be quite ambitious.
Their specialty is Old TV Series, and currently on their schedule are Black Sheep Squadron, Branded, The Cisco Kid, Combat, Hunter, Mannix, The Rebel, Wagon Train, Xena, and as they say, a whole lot more.
Thanks and a tip of the hat to Mike Tooney who let me know about this new kid in town. He also pointed out that an episode of Cimarron Strip entitled “Knife in the Darkness” is scheduled to be shown on Sunday, February 7th, at 7:30 P.M. He reviewed this episode on this blog back a while ago. You can read his comments here.
February 4th, 2016 at 6:16 pm
Steve – Wouldn’t you know it? That CIMARRON STRIP episode is scheduled opposite the Super Bowl, so for a lot of us it’ll probably be “Set DVRs to Stun.”
February 4th, 2016 at 10:50 pm
1. Mike, that is why the digital stations such as ME TV and the rest are such a disappointment to me. Every time they get a series I might be interested in they schedule it at some horrible time or it gets preempted by the local station for infomercials for some product or Jesus.
February 5th, 2016 at 12:21 am
Do you know, I have never watched a Super Bowl?
Of course growing up in Michigan I grew up as a Detroit Lions fan.
One of these days. Maybe.
February 5th, 2016 at 2:46 am
3. What kinda American are you? It is your responsibility to watch – if not for the poor needy NFL than for all those advertisers spending millions for their commercials!
Rams are done and I have little interest in the survivors, so I will be catching up on my to be watched pile at iTunes, YouTube, Hulu, Acorn, WB Archive instant, and DVDs.
February 5th, 2016 at 1:12 pm
FYI:
Up until about a year ago, H&I was MeToo, the secondary station to the MeTV mothership.
The “rebranding” came about because … who knows?
So many “back-number” stations are turning up nowadays – and they’re all making the same mistakes: stripping, marathons, unending reuse of the same shows.
What we really need is a kind of “TCM” for TV – one that would put old and rare shows in prime and even fringe time.
Of course, someone would have to put up the scratch to restore a lot of these shows …
But then, where would MeTV get the money to pay Vicki Lawrence to put her “Mama” character in every promo the station puts out these days?
(Jeez, the other weekend she even turned up in Svengoolie’s coffin …
… somebody’s gotta draw the line somewhere …)
February 5th, 2016 at 10:27 pm
5. Mike, I agree. TCM is cable’s best network and I wish there was a TV version. But for me it is too late for cable. I have moved on where I decided what I watch and when.
I am about to go to WB Archive Instant to watch another episode of ELEVENTH HOUR (1962-64) starring Wendell Corey as psychiatrist Dr Bassett and his younger partner psychologist Dr Graham played by Jack Ging. Created by Harry Julian Fink, produced by Sam Rolfe, it is a surprisingly well written drama. Meanwhile ME TV here is pre-empted by THE BETHANY EXPERIENCE (I can’t complain the ME TV station here is a religious station that at least shows PERRY MASON for the billionth time).
I keep forgetting what the schedules are and missing shows on cable, even when they have a regular time period. My family members need cable for their viewing tastes (HGTV and Food network) while except for sports I have cut the cord (figuratively).
I have changed the way I watch TV. I could use a DV-R but I find YouTube more likely to have the old shows I want to see than MeTV or cable.
February 5th, 2016 at 11:55 pm
One of the few cable channels to air old TV series is the Encore Western Channel station. Every day they air several episodes of old western TV shows without the commercials. Frankly, I still prefer the full length western films but growing up I used to watch all the western TV series.
February 6th, 2016 at 12:15 am
7. The Encore nets are good. A spin off of Starz they remain commercial free networks that respect the product and not edit them as most cable networks do. Besides Western there is also Action, Black, Classics, Family, Suspense,Spanish and basic Encore. I used to watch MAVERICK there before it was released on DVD and downloading. The action one also shows TV series. But it has been awhile since I have found anything there I want to watch that I can’t find elsewhere on my own schedule.
I don’t mean to be too hard on cable and the over the air stations.
El Rey has some great stuff to watch as well.
February 6th, 2016 at 11:25 am
We do have that channel on Fios in Brooklyn, and Jackie discovered it when scrolling through the channels a couple of weeks ago.
February 8th, 2016 at 2:08 pm
For what it’s worth, the Minneapolis paper this morning had a piece by the local TV critic alerting viewers that both Hercules and Xena will be in reruns on Heroes and Icons weekdays beginning this afternoon.
February 8th, 2016 at 9:30 pm
To continue my comments from #10: I watched the first episodes of both Hercules and Xena. They brought back memories. I had forgotten how funny those two series were.
February 16th, 2016 at 1:50 pm
FWIW, H&I isn’t a cable but a broadcast station. You can catch it over the air if you are within the radius of your local digital signals. I happen to watch it on cable (local FIOS can’t be bothered to update their channel array labels here in the Philadelphia market, and still list its channel as a TuffTV affiliate…while the the Tuff channel in the area is now one of the informercial channels which runs the local clearance of THE OFFICE repeats and Tuff primetime in those hours.
February 16th, 2016 at 1:58 pm
Thanks, Todd. I’m getting too old to keep up with all of the ways to watch movies and old TV. At one time, I could hook up my VCR so I could record and watch another channel at the same time. Now if something happens behind the TV with all the wiring there, I don’t know what I’ll do. (It’s called a “smart TV” but it doesn’t help if I’m dumber than it is smart.)
February 16th, 2016 at 1:52 pm
GetTV, another little network, one which is mostly given over to a pretty good set of films but inflated with endless commercials, has also picked up NICHOLS and some other good series for some of the weekend hours.
October 25th, 2016 at 9:12 am
love the shows so far..have tried to find a short=lived tv series of the 70’s with Bobby Sherman ..may have been spin-off from the partridge family, and after the “here come the brides” series..any chance you will be able to air?..could have been called the “bobby sherman” show
had Pat Caroll as a player too
October 25th, 2016 at 1:00 pm
Donna
The series you’re thinking of was called GETTING TOGETHER, and ran for 14 episodes in 1971-72. It was an ABC spinoff from THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY, just as you say.
Here’s Bobby Sherman singing the opening lyrics: