Vote for the Next Television Obscurities Article

It’s that time again. The polls have opened and it’s your duty to vote for the first of the two new articles I’ll be writing in June of 2009. This month I’m writing three, one on SEARCH, another on unsold pilots, and a third I haven’t decided upon at the moment. Here are June’s choices:

Broadcast Twice a Week (Or More) – When ABC debuted Peyton Place in September of 1964, broadcasting the half-hour drama twice a week, nobody had any idea how popular it, or the idea of airing a program more than once a week, would become. ABC soon expanded Peyton Place to three nights a week and considered a spin-off. CBS experimented with Our Private World, a prime time spin-off of soap opera As the World Turns. NBC expanded Dr. Kildare to twice a week; ABC did the same with Shindig. Oh, and then there was Batman.

Save Our Show Campaigns Prior to Star Trek – Everyone knows how Star Trek was saved from cancellation by fan letters. The very first example of viewers successfully staging a “save our show” campaign may have occured in 1951, however, with a CBS kid’s show. It wasn’t just network shows that elicited responses from viewers. In 1959, viewers wrote to station WNTA en masse in support of The Play of the Week.

Writing to the Networks in the Sixties – Learn all about how ABC, CBS and NBC handled viewer mail in the 1960s. Who was writing, what did they want and what did the networks think?

“Nancy” – This sitcom ran for all of 17 episodes during the 1970-1971 season. Renne Jarrett starred as Nancy Smith, the daughter of the President of the United States of America who, in the first episode, falls for Adam Hudson, a veterinarian. The two are forced to carry on their romance under the watchful eyes of Nancy’s ever-present guardian, Adam’s uncle, secret service agents and the news media. The series was created by Sidney Sheldon.


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3 Replies to “Vote for the Next Television Obscurities Article”

  1. Broadcast Twice a Week (Or More) for me though it’s all good! Has their been other shows aired in prime time (since Batman) more than once a week ?

  2. I would like to see how the networks responded to viewer mail.

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