Long time NBC News anchors: Chet Huntley and David Brinkley – October 29, 1956 – July 31, 1970 - the opening - signature tune was Beethoven Sym #9 - Mvmt #2 or 3 (can't recall right now). Five nights a week for 14 years. (Channel 4 in NYC)
It isn't just that. We have a treasury of great American musicals which have either never been filmed, never been filmed properly, or are overdue for remakes. There are exceptions. The Music Man, as portrayed by Robert Preston, can't be matched. ( Didn't some network do a version of The Music Man with Matthew Broderick a few years ago? I'd never have watched it. ) And I always hated West Side Story, so I had zero interest in the recent Spielberg movie.
This is a corollary to my complaint that the broadcast networks, especially NBC and CBS, have hundreds of hours of great early television in their vaults. It's amazing that any of it is on YouTube. But why no Bell Telephone Hour or Hallmark Hall of Fame from NBC? Why no Playhouse 90 from CBS? Or any of the other many hours of live ( on tape or kinescope ) theater on TV?
Maybe these things are available to subscribers, and I don't know about them.
Long time NBC News anchors: Chet Huntley and David Brinkley – October 29, 1956 – July 31, 1970 - the opening - signature tune was Beethoven Sym #9 - Mvmt #2 or 3 (can't recall right now). Five nights a week for 14 years. (Channel 4 in NYC)
(Just here from El Gato!)
Oh my! Thank you!
It isn't just that. We have a treasury of great American musicals which have either never been filmed, never been filmed properly, or are overdue for remakes. There are exceptions. The Music Man, as portrayed by Robert Preston, can't be matched. ( Didn't some network do a version of The Music Man with Matthew Broderick a few years ago? I'd never have watched it. ) And I always hated West Side Story, so I had zero interest in the recent Spielberg movie.
This is a corollary to my complaint that the broadcast networks, especially NBC and CBS, have hundreds of hours of great early television in their vaults. It's amazing that any of it is on YouTube. But why no Bell Telephone Hour or Hallmark Hall of Fame from NBC? Why no Playhouse 90 from CBS? Or any of the other many hours of live ( on tape or kinescope ) theater on TV?
Maybe these things are available to subscribers, and I don't know about them.