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Close calls....narrow escapes.....
mmb5:
It's the nation. I once had grander plans that never came to fruition.
calliaume:
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--- Quote from: PYLdude on August 10, 2021, 05:03:40 PM ---and the latter is up in the air based on what I read from the info available.
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Based on some cryptic comments Mike Berger has made both here and on his webpage, I'm convinced the syndication run of CS is around.
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The only other word I saw came from Jim MacKrell himself, and he said when Stu Shostak talked to him back in 2012 that everything was lost. Take from that whatever you like.
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Years ago I had a long conversation with Jim about this. He said he had one, count it, one Celebrity Sweepstakes episode in his collection. (I didn't ask whether it was the pilot, the final episode, or something else.) I think he was just as delighted as the rest of us when that syndicated episode popped up on YouTube a few years back. I have no reason to think anyone knows of an unseen cache, so barring discovering a pile of tapes in the backroom somewhere, it ain't happening.
(It took me a few minutes to realize this was not referring to Card Sharks.)
PYLdude:
--- Quote from: mmb5 on August 11, 2021, 06:50:23 PM ---It's the nation. I once had grander plans that never came to fruition.
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Thanks for clarifying, Mike. :)
Blanquepage:
--- Quote from: calliaume on August 11, 2021, 08:21:19 PM ---
--- Quote from: PYLdude on August 11, 2021, 04:30:39 PM ---
--- Quote from: Dbacksfan12 on August 11, 2021, 03:38:04 PM ---
--- Quote from: PYLdude on August 10, 2021, 05:03:40 PM ---and the latter is up in the air based on what I read from the info available.
--- End quote ---
Based on some cryptic comments Mike Berger has made both here and on his webpage, I'm convinced the syndication run of CS is around.
--- End quote ---
The only other word I saw came from Jim MacKrell himself, and he said when Stu Shostak talked to him back in 2012 that everything was lost. Take from that whatever you like.
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I think he was just as delighted as the rest of us when that syndicated episode popped up on YouTube a few years back. I have no reason to think anyone knows of an unseen cache, so barring discovering a pile of tapes in the backroom somewhere, it ain't happening.
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I don't have firsthand evidence, but I'm just going to put these questions out there
- Why would we keep presuming that the syndicated version of a lost network show was also wiped or lost?
- What reliable subject matter expert has ever validated the series being lost?
- Wouldn't it have been silly of them to allow the wiping of a series in which they also saw near-term syndication viability? A weekly version premiered a few short months after network
As wonderful as Jim is, I wouldn't consider the host an expert on the tape preservation status of a series. What confirmations have been provided by the David Schwartz's or other trusted artifact curators of our hobby that I may've missed?
DjohnsonCB:
And lest we forget, there were some markets that never even GOT "Whew!" when it was on CBS. Cedar Rapids IA comes to my mind.
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