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Post by vahan on Jun 9, 2021 11:03:41 GMT -5
Assuming they started with December 29, 1986 on December 16, 1991, and their reruns of the 1987 episodes ended in October 1992, I wonder what happened originally? Were they absent for two months due to Iran Contra?
Also, I'm confused about when their reruns of the 1984 episodes started with October 15. It was either October 12 or 19, 1992. Though I did notice that from October 1992 to April 1993, the skipping of the Spelling format, each week corresponded with the original NBC airdates by almost exactly eight years.
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Post by splinkynip on Jun 9, 2021 11:12:27 GMT -5
Reruns on USA you're referring to?
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Post by vahan on Jun 9, 2021 11:12:41 GMT -5
Reruns on USA you're referring to? Yes.
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Post by aaaa on Jun 9, 2021 12:33:59 GMT -5
Assuming they started with December 29, 1986 on December 16, 1991, and their reruns of the 1987 episodes ended in October 1992, I wonder what happened originally? Were they absent for two months due to Iran Contra? Also, I'm confused about when their reruns of the 1984 episodes started with October 15. It was either October 12 or 19, 1992. Though I did notice that from October 1992 to April 1993, the skipping of the Spelling format, each week corresponded with the original NBC airdates by almost exactly eight years. Perhaps they didn't air the episodes from August or early September 1987 where Chuck references the time change(although IIRC going from 34 year old memory Charlie Tuna did it most of the time coming out of commercial breaks, and I linked to a while back of a Facebook clip of a partial episode from this time period where CHarlie T. does that), but they aired the March 1989 episodes in 1995 where Chuck himself mentioned the time change. I don't think any game shows in daytime other than Pyramid went into reruns for Irangate(other than TPIR which would have been in reruns anyway). The Iran-Contra hearings ran in daytime for roughly five weeks(early July-early August), and after about two weeks, IIRC, each network took turns airing them. All told, Scrabble would have faced about 15-17 at most total preemptions for the hearings. Note that CBS aired Card SHarks, TPIR, and sometimes Pyramid in the afternoons during this period between 12:30-2:30PM EST. I don't remember airing game shows instead of soaps in the afternoon back then.
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Post by vahan on Jun 9, 2021 14:36:54 GMT -5
What about the 1984 episodes? Did they start those on October 12 or 19? Finally, when USA moved to 1988 in May 1994, I wonder if any weeks were skipped? I know there was a brief break in reruns between February and April 1995, and I also know that during the final month of the USA game show block, Scrabble was seen twice a day.
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Post by vahan on Jun 11, 2021 17:39:41 GMT -5
I think this was how the final weeks of reruns on USA were like. It ended with 27 weeks and 132 episodes remaining (no show on Thanksgiving Day '89, Christmas Day '89, and New Year's Day '90. The Wimbledon and French Open preemptions were possibly the same as on Classic Concentration, which aired on NBC at 10:30 a.m., after Scrabble, from March 27, 1989 to March 23, 1990.):
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