[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Jan 6 2005, 05:53 PM\'][quote name=\'DjohnsonCB\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 09:39 PM\'][quote name=\'byrd62\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 07:35 PM\'][quote name=\'DjohnsonCB\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 05:15 PM\']Richard Crenna and Patty Duke once starred in a sitcom called "It Takes Two", and there was an episode of "NBC Action Theatre" in the early '70s titled "Double Jeopardy". By coincidence, one of the actors in the drama was a pre-$otC Jack Kelly, and the series was hosted by Art Fleming, who said he "liked the title of tonight's episode."
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Wasn't that the series that recycled old episodes of
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater from the summer of 1972?
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Yes, it was. NBC did a number of these recycled Bob Hope theatre packages in Summer 1972, all hosted by game show hosts. First off, I got the title of this one wrong; it was actually called "NBC Adventure Theatre", with Ed McMahon as a substitute host. Jack Kelly hosted "NBC Comedy Playhouse" which repeated the more lighthearted Hope stories, and Peter Marshall hosted "NBC Action Playhouse".
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And "Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater" ran in syndication as "Theater of Stars," with no on-camera host, which probably meant that the actual dramas ran without any editing. Even though Universal produced the series (with Hope Enterprises), NBC owned the syndication rights to the show, thanks to Hope's long connection with the network, and Paramount now owns the syndication rights due to the 1971 FCC rulings that also led to prime access.
ObGameShow: And we all know which genre came to dominate prime access, don't we? (Besides nature shows.)
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I think the package must have been split up somehow because I've seen some of those Bob Hope shows under the title "Universal Star Time." They used to run on CBN in the early '80s. In the early '90's, Nostalgia used to run "Theater of the Stars," which was a mixture of the Hope shows and old "Matinee Theater" dramas from the '50's.