http://www.tvobscurities.com/2009/07/dvd-tuesday-petticoat-junction-peanuts-1960s-collection/ Keeping Obscure TV From Fading Away Forever Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:48:12 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.tvobscurities.com/2009/07/dvd-tuesday-petticoat-junction-peanuts-1960s-collection/comment-page-1/#comment-10584 Barry I. Grauman Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:08:08 +0000 http://www.tvobscurities.com/?p=3314#comment-10584 "Official", in this case, means CBS/Paramount/Viacom is FINALLY releasing the second season (1964-'65) of "PETTICOAT JUNCTION'''s black and white episodes- which they initially deemed "unsaleable" when the series first went into syndication in 1970, distributing the 1965-'70 COLOR episodes only; at that time, CBS figured, who watched monochrome when everything else was in full color? Same factor in their decision to syndicate ONLY the 1965-'72 color episodes of "MY THREE SONS", because they decided nobody wanted to watch the first five black and white seasons. "I LOVE LUCY", their "evergreen" and the biggest "cash cow" of their filmed library, was, of course, a different story... “Official”, in this case, means CBS/Paramount/Viacom is FINALLY releasing the second season (1964-’65) of “PETTICOAT JUNCTION”’s black and white episodes- which they initially deemed “unsaleable” when the series first went into syndication in 1970, distributing the 1965-’70 COLOR episodes only; at that time, CBS figured, who watched monochrome when everything else was in full color? Same factor in their decision to syndicate ONLY the 1965-’72 color episodes of “MY THREE SONS”, because they decided nobody wanted to watch the first five black and white seasons. “I LOVE LUCY”, their “evergreen” and the biggest “cash cow” of their filmed library, was, of course, a different story…

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