The CLASSIC PBS Thread!

**vto66** · 01-29-2012 09:40 PM

I'd love to see some clips from the original (1970's) version of "Zoom."

**PTH123** · 01-31-2012 11:18 PM

But, was it the only time a cat screeching heard on "The Puzzle Place"?

**walker7** · 02-01-2012 08:08 AM

**RJermaineSchex** · 02-03-2012 07:51 PM

Yesterday and the day before, I watched on Hulu a total of *13* episodes of the original Electric Company.
(Season 1) #5, #40, #75, #128
(Season 2) #245, #249
(Season 3) #261, #290, #297
(Season 4) #416, #475
(Season 5) #91A
(Season 6) #32B

Always looking for more full episodes of this all-time classic.

**Mystic** · 02-05-2012 05:59 PM

The Lawrence Welk Show used to air on our local PBS station, but they have since pulled it. But after checking out the official Lawrence Welk site, they're still producing new compilation episodes, it's just the PBS station that's not airing anymore. So thankfully, I have YouTube so I can tune in for my weekly fix. I may not fit the demographic of their viewership, but I love Classic shows! Especially the B&W Shows!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnz1_oOVlmo
+ 1000's of more clips from the same user. (Clip: 1955 episode - White Sport Coat remix)

Square One was a show I enjoyed watching while I was growing up, I'd watch it every afternoon after coming home from school:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXp3AMgbG6k (Clip: Opening)

And here's another show I wish they'd bring back! - Ghostwriter!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS_lD9_Ur3g (Clip: Opening)

Bob Ross & The Joy of Painting was so soothing and relaxing, and really encouraged me to try out painting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HovZ4xhgohk (Clip: Opening to Series 24)

And the show that was my entire youth: Sesame Street. Unfortunately, with all of today's Politically Correctness, it just will never be the same as it was back then. I did buy the DVD Boxsets though, so I have some souvenirs of this innocent era:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laEyKDxRUd8 (Clip: 1969 Premiere Episode)

Great idea for a thread! It brings me back so many memories of growing up. Like Carmen Sandiego, Reading Rainbow, and many more that I'll be thinking all day about!

**CardSharks8689** · 02-05-2012 11:53 PM

Originally Posted by Mystic

The Lawrence Welk Show used to air on our local PBS station, but they have since pulled it. But after checking out the official Lawrence Welk site, they're still producing new compilation episodes, it's just the PBS station that's not airing anymore. So thankfully, I have YouTube so I can tune in for my weekly fix. I may not fit the demographic of their viewership, but I love Classic shows! Especially the B&W Shows!

Seeing you live in Montreal, do you get PBS from Detroit?

I remember watching The Lawrence Welk Show in syndication on Saturday nights - mainly during 2002 to 2005. I slowly lost interest in such show during the 2005-2006 season, so chances are the episodes I enjoyed seeing first in 2002 and 2003 disappeared by the fall of 2005. Not to mention that a lot of the singers/dancers with the show's original run are probably dead, or really old now.

It seems as if, like B&W shows, 1950s and 1960s shows are going the way of the dinosaur on TV, and going the way of the DVD. We'd be lucky enough to see shows from as early as 1970 on the air nowadays. But come the 2020's, Match Game will become prehistoric on GSN.

Also, I found a clip of a Reading Rainbow segment from an episode that got skipped at some point during the years that RR was on the air. It features the story The Magic School Bus Inside The Earth. I heard rumor that the episode got skipped because the story was based on a show that was airing on PBS at that time - The Magic School Bus.

Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unvLhDs3pOg

Also, I discovered a clip of an opening of a lost PBS classic from way back in the day - a Spanish show called Villa Allegre. I remember seeing reruns of such show back in the early 1980s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4CegLX-ZhM

Plus, anyone remember the PTV days, circa 1995?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dSeNBaE4KM

And who can forget the P-Pals from the mid-to-late 1990s?

"Friends": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9nRZ...endscreen&NR=1

P-Pals Bumpers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR55A...eature=related

Man, it's hard to believe the PTV and P-Pals era was nearly 20 years ago already!

**Mystic** · 02-06-2012 02:02 AM

I get KCTS9 in Seattle and WGBH2 in Boston on Bell TV.

KCTS is mostly just fund raising shows now, so you can't rely on watching a particular show at a specified time. WGBH is getting to be that way as well.

I watch The French Chef every Saturday at 12:30pm and Jacques Pepin at 12:00pm. But every two weeks it's a pledge drive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ohiUbQyDhk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7mtEoMFJ60

**walker7** · 02-06-2012 08:28 AM

**Mystic** · 02-06-2012 11:37 PM

Originally Posted by walker7

Of course, I hope that more rare vintage PBS station logos will show up over time.

WGBH Boston is probably the PBS ID that I remember the most, and they're still using the same one from the 1960's!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUWygGsyCyY

They occasionally use this more modern, yet still retro style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0mldQNwOwE

And the other station I receive is KCTS9. Here's a video promo reel of the shows that appeared in the 1980's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNBVr-lEKz4
Unfortunately any of this "good stuff" albeit disappeared after several years of funding mismanagement, and now the network is almost constantly begging for money.

**walker7** · 02-10-2012 12:31 AM

If you ever wanted to know what The Nightly Business Report was like back in the early '80s, here's a clip from early 1984.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlBlEGB9JbM
It would be more interesting to see more NBR from this era, especially a closing of the show.

A closing of Mystery! from 1984:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMyha1xihfQ

A KCET pledge drive from 1984:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFCJcL7KicU

A sign off from OEPBS from 1981:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DprZcU8NP0s

**Mystic** · 02-10-2012 06:37 PM

Here's a show that used to appear on most PBS stations. "A.M.Weather". I remember it coming on between 6:50-7:00am weekdays. ----- Opening and First part of Last Episode (Feb 1995) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYtD0EbT8iU ----- Closing Credits http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7LiXx9kA_g

**walker7** · 02-11-2012 02:09 AM

Originally Posted by Mystic

Here's a show that used to appear on most PBS stations. "A.M.Weather". I remember it coming on between 6:50-7:00am weekdays. ----- Opening and First part of Last Episode (Feb 1995) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYtD0EbT8iU ----- Closing Credits http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7LiXx9kA_g

Here's another clip from A.M. Weather, with closing, from 1986, taped from WNED-17:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV64bBvWvX8

Two more Square One TV episodes:
#504: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9G4izESmhM
#534: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVEufWudZgA

Another rare vintage PBS station logo: At the beginning of the 1977 hour-long Question Of Choices, PBS Summary Special, A: National Women's Conference, Houston, Texas, it's the '70s KERA logo, from 0:08 to 0:17:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snc3DxjLC8g
There is also a closing version at the end of the special.

**walker7** · 02-14-2012 03:24 AM

Here is a WCET auction from 1982:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS__hf6UMD4

A clip from a KTCA Festival pledge break from 1977:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4T7zEhwavA

Episode #201 of Square One TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Twy5Pmbfs4

Another rare vintage PBS station logo: This time, it's the Connecticut Public Broadcasting logo from the '70s. It isn't the early '80s metallic one. It comes from Wall Matthews: In Performance. Check it out from 0:08 to 0:15:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mq0pVY6Ntw

**RJermaineSchex** · 02-15-2012 12:00 AM

Originally Posted by RJermaineSchex

Yesterday and the day before, I watched on Hulu a total of *13* episodes of the original Electric Company.
(Season 1) #5, #40, #75, #128
(Season 2) #245, #249
(Season 3) #261, #290, #297
(Season 4) #416, #475
(Season 5) #91A
(Season 6) #32B

Always looking for more full episodes of this all-time classic.

For those interested, here is a link to Hulu, which holds all 13 of these episodes, free for viewing (albeit with commercials)
http://www.hulu.com/the-electric-company-1970s

On a side note, today (February 14, 2012) is the 74th birthday of original Electric Company cast member Lee Chamberlin. (She sure looked "redd hawt" back in the early 70's.)

**walker7** · 02-15-2012 12:33 AM

Another episode of Square One TV, this time #114:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13v84JXbEJk

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