Please help me with airdates of reruns

[Phil]

Good evening, cousins. I was hoping some of the old timers ( ) could help me "figure out my past".

I think I might have first seen DS in reruns in the ealry 70s, but have no memory of them. The show captured my imagination when NBC Channel 4 in NYC began running the reruns in the afternoon. It lasted a while, but eventually I was forced to hunt for the 3am broadcasts. This must have been somewhere around 1982 or 83, but I just don't know when exactly. Can anyone help?

Additionally, if anyone can tell me the month and year they began to rerun DS on NJN, I'd appreciate it.

 

[Midnite]

Hi!

The show captured my imagination when NBC Channel 4 in NYC began running the reruns in the afternoon. It lasted a while, but eventually I was forced to hunt for the 3am broadcasts. This must have been somewhere around 1982 or 83, but I just don't know when exactly. Can anyone help?

I think it was 1982.  The broadcast time was changed to early morning (or as MB and I would call it, late night ) by the summer of that year.

Additionally, if anyone can tell me the month and year they began to rerun DS on NJN, I'd appreciate it.

That one I know for sure, because it was around the time of the first DS Festival (held in Newark)-- that was Fall, 1983.

This is based on what I've read over the years, because I was and still am on the other coast.

[David]

I was living in NYC in April 1982, when DS reruns began on WNBC 4.
They ran the first month at 4:30PM, then switched it to 4PM for month 2.

I'll never forget the late night/early AM schedule that continued for  quite awhile after month two.
I had not yet gotten a VCR, so I had to set my alarm each night so I could get up and watch, then get back to sleep.

Mon: 3AM
Tues/Wed/Thur: 3:30AM
Fri: 4AM
Sat: 4:30AM

the schedule was quite consistent and reliable, if outrageous.

David

[Phil]

As I was 11, I was reduced to fighting to stay awake for the Friday and Saturday eps and hoping I could follow along. Discovering the color eps at 3AM was something.

Now I'm watching eps I've never seen before - halfway through 1968 (Dream Curse/Adam), and man, the shows feel nothing like those creepy-yet-so-dry early Barnabas episodes.

Thanks for the responses! It's crazy to find out that NJN started rerunning them only a year after the NBC syndication! In my memory they seemd farther apart.

[Gerard]

I remember first seeing them in reruns in the early eighties (around '82-or-so) while living in Las Vegas.  They aired at 10:30 at night and ran for maybe around a year or slightly less.  The next time was when I was living in Tucson in '87 when they aired mid-morning on whatever TV station had them.  They came on right after reruns of the '60's Australian show "Skippy, The Bush Kangaroo."

Gerard

[Gothick]

I was living in Harford County, Maryland, in the mid 70s, and I was inexpressibly THRILLED when Channel 48 out of Philly began running DS in syndication, I think at 11 p.m. weeknights, in late 1975 or Jan. 1976.

I was moving around a lot in those years but I believe that Ch. 48 was still running the show ten years later, in '86.  I believe that shortly thereafter they stopped showing it.

Best, G.

[David]

A number of PBS stations are now showing
a horror movie host show called Mr. Insomnia, or something like that.
I wonder if we could get those stations to put DS back on?

David

[Brian]

I was hoping some of the old timers ( ) could help me "figure out my past".  I think I might have first seen DS in reruns in the ealry 70s. . .

While I can't help you "figure out [your] past" with respect to the reruns, I do take great pride in being called an "old timer" since I was fortunate to have watched [most of the Barnabas+ episodes of] DS during the initial airing on ABC, that is, at least, from June, 1969 to the final episode on April 2, 1971!   I have vague memories from the late 1970s of seeing some repeated DS episodes on the local (Dayton, OH area) PBS station (but they weren't PBS back then, I think, maybe NET [was that National Educational Television?]), and, a few years later (1982?),  more repeats from an independant Cincy station (as I recall, it was during the "Julia being terrorized by Barnabas" episodes.)

Ah, the memories...