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IFleecem:
I got most of my stooges TV shorts from TBS, (last and hardest to get for some reason was "Up In Daisy's Penthouse") Also SuperStation WOR would show grainier ones but seemed more complete (same time frame- about from 1987-1995) to acquire all 190 shorts. Many cut (TBS was imfamous for this in the early morning (10 min shorts!) but they showed (what was left of them) many I have not seen since. Also here in Baltimore, Channel 54 on Sundays had a one hour Stooge show with many Shemps shown.

I Fleecem

Moe Hailstone:

--- Quote from: Tardo317 on November 08, 2007, 09:06:51 PM ---Yup, full length.  WSBK only runs commercials between the shorts.

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Now I am officially jealous.   >:D  But still, it's good to know that somewhere in the U.S. there is a place that is showing the Stooges in full length.


--- Quote from: IFleecem on November 09, 2007, 07:49:23 AM ---I got most of my stooges TV shorts from TBS, (last and hardest to get for some reason was "Up In Daisy's Penthouse") Also SuperStation WOR would show grainier ones but seemed more complete (same time frame- about from 1987-1995) to acquire all 190 shorts. Many cut (TBS was imfamous for this in the early morning (10 min shorts!) but they showed (what was left of them) many I have not seen since. Also here in Baltimore, Channel 54 on Sundays had a one hour Stooge show with many Shemps shown.

I Fleecem

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I can't imagine watching a 10 minute short.  The ones that I have on tape only have about 1 minute or so cut from the short.  You're talking a good 5 minutes or more (depending on the short) that is removed, making the story probably seem rushed or hard to follow.

ThumpTheShoes:

--- Quote from: Moe Hailstone on November 09, 2007, 03:29:30 PM ---Now I am officially jealous.   >:D  But still, it's good to know that somewhere in the U.S. there is a place that is showing the Stooges in full length.

I can't imagine watching a 10 minute short.  The ones that I have on tape only have about 1 minute or so cut from the short.  You're talking a good 5 minutes or more (depending on the short) that is removed, making the story probably seem rushed or hard to follow.

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You haven't lived 'till you've seen the truncated version of Dizzy Detectives as shown on the Family Channel and others... Right after the credits it starts on the zoom of the headline "Mysterious Burglaries Panic City." The short ends (or fades out to the next scheduled program, depending on where it was shown) when Curly shoots himself in the foot.

Weak.

-Th

Hammond Eggar:

--- Quote from: Tardo317 on November 07, 2007, 05:18:26 PM ---WSBK in Boston is currently showing the "missing 60".  I'm slowly building my missing Shemp episodes as we speak!

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Has WSBK ever aired Spooks and Pardon My Backfire as 3-D shorts?  KRRT, a station here in San Antonio, ran them one night back in the early-1990s as part of an evening of 3-D movies.  Local Diamond Shamrock gas stations supplied viewers with the glasses. [pie]

IFleecem:
Yeah, TBS would sandwich a Stooge short between early morning movies (end at 4:20am Stooges til 4:30am) as filler (as they figured) I think Little Rascals got the same treatment. But this would happen at strange times as I set my VCR timer that shorts would be started or not be on as TV Guide would have them listed (back before all of this futuristic computer stuff folks)

I especially remember The Ghost Talks with it staring about 5 minutes in after the title sequence and cutting out some middle and go to the conclusion of the story. At first you know you missed something but until you see it uncut (which takes a long time in some instances) You don't know what your missing.

And TBS must have figured the same thing.  Still at least they were shown regularly on TV.
(including the missing 60) Although as I posted on another thread some were still hard to find in any time length.   They Stooge To Conga comes to mind as a good example of this.

Enuff Fluff for now

IFleecem

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