Two Great Space Coaster questions

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I’m 41 and I don’t remember seeing any episodes. I checked out the opening on YouTube and it doesn’t seem familiar, so I’m curious about two things.

  1. Was it shown on broadcast or cable TV?

  2. What network was it on?

Thanks.

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I’m 44 and I remember it; I think it ran in syndication on local channels.

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Wikipedia says it was filmed in New York. Did you see it there or another state?

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I’m roughly the same age, remember it from my childhood. I grew up in South Florida.
We didn’t have cable television in my house back then, and I’m fairly certain I watched it at home. So I’d go with something over the air.

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38, and I remember seeing it on TV in California, but I couldn’t tell you what channel or time.

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Ah, the greatest show ever produced… It was “first run syndication” meaning we never had an original network, just whatever local stations bought the show. Want to know what station played it when you were a kid? Check here: http://tgscoaster.com/misc/tv-stations/

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Of course Gary Gnu gknows all about it!

Here in the Detroit area it aired weekday mornings on channel 50 (WKBD, independent at the time, later Fox, then UPN, now CW).

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I can’t find the answer on line, and even Wikipedia which usually tells which network a show is on doesn’t say.

Edit: TBG must have posted while I was typing. OK, independent station makes sense. They use to have those in the 80’s. Thank you.

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Gary’s link doesn’t answer your question?

You can see a few full episodes in Vimeo, by the way. I think for $1 each.

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39, Chicago. Saw it on broadcast TV on I believe Channel 32/WFLD (which is the Fox affiliate, but not at that time, AFAIR).

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  1. I saw it on broadcast TV, but I can’t recall the channel.

I remember two things about it. The big white guy with red hair and Gary Gnu talking about Olivia Gnu-ton-John.

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:o I somehow missed that post too. Sorry garygnu.

Wikipedia says Jim Martin is trying to digitize the episodes but it’s very expensive. It also says, “Presently, there are also legal issues that are preventing the series from being released publicly for home entertainment.” So it can’t be released on DVD, but it can be streamed. Interesting.

Edit: Looking at the links I was either asleep while it was on, or getting ready for school.

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Yeah, just looked it up here (great resource for Chicagoans digging up television history here), and it was aired on Channel 32 (WFLD) in Chicago.

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In NY/NJ it was on WPIX Channel 11 in the mornings. Loved that show as a kid.

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Wow! I would have sworn it was a PBS show (like Zoom or 3-2-1 Contact)…

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42 here and it was on an independent station in Salt Lake City that later wound up as the Fox station (channel 13)

I remember that freaky ass gorilla thing. And all the cheesy music numbers the teens would do. And that big evil dude M.T. Promises.

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Not on a major network or cable.
It always seemed to be a UHF channel. Same ones that ran Warner Brothers cartoons after school.

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The Wikipedia entry does say that it was broadcast first-run syndication, which means that there is no specific network it ran on. It could have conceivably run on an independent station, or on a network to fill time during non network hours. Going by the responses, and my general sense of what The Great Space Coaster was like I wouldn’t be surprised if it was mostly run after school on independent UHF channels.

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According to the link garygnu provided it was on in the mornings in most places.

In my case, when I lived in West Sacramento,
KRBK-TV 6:00 am Monday to Friday

And then in Salem, OR,
KPTV-TV 7:00 am Monday to Friday

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45 here. I saw it early in the morning before school on a UHF channel, WPGH channel 53 in Pittsburgh.