Anyone else remember this?
Programs regularly scheduled at this time have been cancled in order that we may bring you todays Senate procedings.
UGGGGGHHHH! No Gilligans Island! :mad: Being denied my daily dose of Ginger is how I came to despise Richard Nixon at the tender age of 11
I used to be seriously pissed off by the words “We now return you to your regularly scheduled program, already in progress”. Damnit! Show the program from the beginning! However, since 95% of what I watch now is DVR’d, I’m equally screwed either way.
There was one segment of the Twilight Zone ('80s incarnation) which I never saw the end of, because the f—ing TV station interrupted with a breaking news story about some Redskins player getting knee surgery or something. :still mad:
I hated Jimmy Carter. I was only 6 when he left office, but I hated him just the same, with all the hatred that an indignant 6 year old girl can muster. Because he once interrupted The Muppet Show.
On another note, remember all the screaming and wailing and complaining that went on when all the networks pre-empted the soap operas to broadcast the Iran-Contra hearings?
Even Archie Bunker was shown as being upset by President “Milhouse” because, after multiple other frustrations and setbacks, Archie’s local news station opinion interview was reduced to practically nothing by a Nixon blurb.
IIRC there might still have been a smallish segment of the interview left, but RMN was followed up by talking heads interpretting (or trying to, at least) what Ol’ Tricky said.
True Blue Jack
I remember the WaterGate interuption also. I believe they had the nerve to interupt Captain Kangeroo one morning among other shows.
The hearing were in 1973.
My previous post maybe should have been directed to your OP, as this one is.
Getting back to the real world…
(Such as it is… :rolleyes: )
It seems that the original broadcast of the first Batman episode was cut out, at least in a large part, by the latest news of a space shot. (This was early 1966, so it was pre-Apollo 11. I don’t know whether it would also simply be pre-Apollo, placing it within the intermediate Gemini program, after the Mercury program.)
Several fans were upset, anticipating a very entertaining debut.
One may think, what crybabies. Boo hoo. Isn’t history-in-the-making more important?
But I’ve seen the sentiment defended in fan media.
It wasn’t just the pre-empting of a series premier that would eventually be shown again anyway. It was the fact that the lengthy footage shown had absolutely nothing new to add to what had already been broadcast!
True Blue Jack