Dallas Cowboys vs. the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Nice when you can find out an original airdate by Richard's comments. Considering that Danny White commented on being the QB because of Staubach retiring, and Richard commented on the "new time period", I'm going to tab this show's airdate as June 30, 1980 (first show to air in the 12:00pm slot).

Part two of the Feud hour is the "World Series" week of shows from nighttime in the 1980-81 season with five members of the 1980 world champion Phillies versus five members of the KC Royals.

It's too bad GSN won't pony up to pay a little more and lease FF '94. I can't believe there's anything other than money holding it back since they showed an episode for Halloween. Sat. Night would be a great hour for it since it is a newer version and they like to put newer shows for primetime. It would fit perfectly....

I was perturbed. GSN's on-air schedule listed the second episode as being a Combs episode. So, after taking the time to find some space on a tape, it turns out to be another Dawson episode. Zzzzzz. How hard is it to show the stuff that your programming schedule reflects?

I learned a long time ago never to trust GSN's on-air schedule.

I'm not convinced that they don't have rights to the series. It seems very odd to me that they would lease just one episode for a non-advertised Halloween marathon. I think the fact that the 1994-1995 season wasn't all that great in many people's opinions and the fact that each episode was an hour long is keeping them from airing it. They may just be afraid to devote an entire Feud slot to a version of the show that wasn't great.


Greg

More the former than the latter. IIRC., the winning family from the first half took on a "classic Feud" family in the second half, but I believe the show wass structured so that stations could run one or both halves standalone if they wanted.

The "classic Feud" family format was only for the first month or so of that season. After that, the winners of the first half took on the returning champions, and yes, the last champions from Combs' run(80% of them anyway) did return on the first show of that format. Stations did often run only the second half of the show, including WWOR in NYC and WCAU in Philadelphia(I believe the last couple of shows of reruns of Feud in Summer 1995 was one of the last shows WCAU aired before changing from CBS to NBC)

WPWR in Chicago only aired a half-hour of the 1994-95 shows.

And it seems to me that GSN picked up the 1994-95 "Feud"s with "TPIR" and, since they ran a few clips on a marathon a few years ago, those shows are included with the rest of the G-T library, so they continue to have the right to air them. They just have chosen not to.

Right. The reason they didn't acquire 94 Feud when GSN got the Goodson package for the first time was simply because it was still in production. The season is more than likely a part of the main library now.


Greg

BTW, the FF special was an 1983 that orignally aired on ABC. It had Pettitcoat Junction vs The Brady Bunch. It had about other shows from also Your Hit Parade & Batman. About forty tv actors.